We took a week off, but here’s the next feature in our guest blogger series. There’s no shortage of classic menswear based blogs out there right now, but for our money Start With Typewriters is one of the best. SWT’s approach is decidedly light-hearted, going against the po-faced grain that’s gaining popularity.

Another reason we like Start With Typewriters is their ‘wear and tear’ series, where they take a look at what happens when you’ve used a product for a year or so. So, with that in mind, we felt it only right to ask them to do a special wear and tear for us. Read their review of the Quoddy boat shoes after the leap.

Here’s the second half of our guest blogger feature. This time The Blue Hour takes a look around Present, Tricker’s, Grenson and Folk. Enjoy the imagery and we look forward to seeing some of these up on your tumblr.

There’s been an explosion of beautiful blogs since we launched and we felt that it’s time we open up our borders and work with some of our favourite ones – which is why we created this new guest blogger feature. Every Wednesday for this month will showcase one of our favourite blogs doing what they do best. They’ll be some you know and some you don’t, but each one is a personal favourite of ours.

First up is The Blue Hour. Created by Brian Ferry, The Blue Hour showcases beautiful photography of whatever takes his fancy. We especially like Ferry’s ability to – and forgive the flowery prose – make the mundane beautiful.  To showcase his talents, we asked Brian to take a tour of some of our favourite stores in London.

The first half includes stops at Shop at Bluebird, B Store and Albam, which you can see after the leap.