If you follow us on Twitter you’ll know that a happy, regular diversion is What Elle Wears, a weekly dose of what fashion magazine editors wear to work. But reading the Wall Street Journal online their feature Office Style photographs and interviews those outside of the fashion industries on their everyday uniform. The quips on the interviewees own style are the best.

For some reason Brooklyn Academy of Music is my favourite feature. Perhaps because it’s acronym is BAM. Wearing a bracelet made by a friend, designer Pat Morin talks about the business as nonprofit forcing employees to ‘get creative’ with their purchases.

Although the Warby Parker specs might be ‘on trend’ it’s Sarah Mischner’s description of her personal style that is so warming ‘eccentric grandma meets folk festival’.

I love that as soon as you see Nick Sullivan you know without a doubt that he’s Esquire’s Fashion Director, sharp and well put together whilst making it all look effortless. Dang. Plus, he’s wearing Dockers’ Alpha Khakis which we carry in store! I’ll let him do the talking on tailoring.

“When I first got [to the U.S.], I was really shocked how men like to wear roomier clothes,” said Mr. Sullivan. “Often you see a guy when it’s not hot, it’s in the winter, and they’re wearing a suit that is patently too big for them. Tailoring is supposed to flatter the body, it’s not supposed to envelope it or conceal it.” Mr. Sullivan shuns hoodies. “I don’t want to be responsible for putting them in the magazine.” His picks for staple wardrobe items: a slimming pair of khakis; a jacket (“unlined, whether it’s wool or cotton, single-breasted, it doesn’t matter.”); and a pair of good shoes.

The team at Esquire I loved because they encapsulate all that I associate with working for a magazine in New York. From Anna Peele’s working wardrobe of a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress to the loose-fitting lux monochromatic fabrics of Lydia Woolever’s high street outfit.

Kelly Troester wears a dress by Dries Van Noten which I too loved due to the photographic prints, but Kelly deals with prints and print-making so used her expertise to try and identify the source. It’s this kind of back story that makes such a series so wonderful, because we often buy something for a great reason than because we simply like it.

And sometimes it’s just about one detail; the turban (Chloe Nash, fab.com), the ‘one-of-a-kind bandana tie made by his seamstress’ (Matt Repicky, Robert Rodriguez), Wendy Clurman’s sequin jacket and interior designer Madeleine Deschamps’ ‘necklace from Monoprix’.