This is an edition of the weekly newsletter Pattern Grading, GQ global style director Noah Johnson’s no-holds-barred view on contemporary menswear, the culture of fashion, and how to get dressed now.

The thermometer is dropping and the days are impossibly dark and windy, but you still have to get out of the house and go to work, school, and run errands. These are the days of the year when your ...

Okay, I admit that we're prob not wearing as much denim as we did pre-pandemic, but speaking from experience, putting jeans on is a simple way to "dress up"—if you can even call it that—these days ...