Kellogg Park sits at the center of downtown Plymouth and gives it what very few suburbs have: an actual square, with the town arranged around it rather than along a road. That produces a particular social life, and with it a category of event that men who live in strip-mall suburbs simply never encounter.
The public occasion
Something happening in or around the square, attended by people who live nearby, where you will be seen by neighbors and are expected to have made an effort without being told to. No invitation, no dress code, no host to ask.
What it calls for
A jacket. Not a suit, which overshoots almost every one of these, and not the clothes you garden in. A jacket over a shirt, worn open, is the register the square asks for and it is the single most useful garment for anyone living in a town with a middle.
How to buy one
Select suits on our floor sell as separates, so it can be bought as a jacket rather than orphaned from a suit. Signature Wool, $259 to $299, and Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, to make the collar sit flat when it’s unbuttoned, which is the whole test.
Also for Plymouth: A Cinema That Opened in the First Week of December 1941. More on style consulting, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
