For our Summer Style Guide, we here at The Piedmont Virginian wanted to find the best apparel to meet the demands of summer, and to do it in style! To help us in the search for high quality, fashionable apparel, we enlisted Highcliffe Clothiers to pass along their sartorial advice.
They gave us blouses and boat shoes, bathing suits and sports coats: everything to get you from the shore to the soirée and everything else in between.
The clothing at Highcliffe is at once nostalgic and quirky and totally captures the essence of Middleburg, or as owner and tailor Mark Metzger would say, it’s “classical and traditional and fun and eclectic.”
Mark opened the first Highcliffe in Washington, D.C. in 1995. The store has received notable accolades, most recently its third consecutive “Best of Virginia Award” from Virginia Living.
Highcliffe’s focus is and has always been to incorporate elements of the hunt country so firmly engrained in the area’s history without getting locked in the past. This vision allows Highcliffe to make something truly unique that fits the needs of each and every customer. “No one wants to see something tired,” Mark says, and if tired is what you’re looking for, Highcliffe is not the right place to look.
Without further ado, feast your eyes on The Piedmont Virginian’s Summer Style Guide
- MEN’S BATHING SUITS FROM SEAWARD & STEARN ($149)
- BOATERS BY HENRY THE HATTER ($65)
- CUSTOM SPORTS SHIRT BY HIGHCLIFFE CLOTHIERS ($175); BOAT SHOES BY RANCOURT & CO. ($250); SHORTS BY DUCK HEAD ($95); NEEDLEPOINT BELT BY SMATHERS & BRANSON ($165)
- [FROM L TO R] NISSE LAURUS TANK ($195); JULIE BROWN “GRACE” DRESS ($229); SOUTHERN PROPER SEERSUCKER SCALLOP DRESS ($175); SOUTHERN PROPER AINSLEY BLOUSE ($95)
- [CLOCKWISE FROM CENTER] MEN’S SUEDE DRIVING MOCCASINS BY RANCOURT & CO. ($295); MEN’S DRIVING LOAFERS BY SWIMS ($159); MEN’S BOAT SHOES BY RANCOURT & CO. ($250); MEN’S LACED DRIVING MOCCASINS BY SWIMS ($159); LADIES’ FLATS BY SOUTHERN PROPER ($95); LADIES’ DRIVING MOCCASIN BY SWIMS ($159); LADIES’ FLAT BY SOUTHERN PROPER ($95); LADIES’ LACED DRIVING MOCCASIN BY SWIMS ($159)
- SOCKS BY DAPPER CLASSICS ($24); SMART TURNOUT SIGNATURE WATCH ($199); WALLET BY SMATHERS & BRANSON ($115); LACES ($8); SILK KNOT CUFFLINKS ($8)
- CRITTENDEN LINEN SPORTS COAT ($495); TANGERINE LINEN PANTS FROM SEAWARD & STEARN ($195); LINEN SHIRT FROM ROBERT TALBOT ($195); POCKET SQUARE BY SEAWARD & STEARN ($75)
- CUSTOM-TAILORED SPORTS COAT BY HIGHCLIFFE CLOTHIERS ($2,995); CUSTOM-TAILORED DRESS SHIRT BY HIGHCLIFFE CLOTHIERS (STARTING AT $135); FLORAL TIE BY TRUMBULL RHODES ($69)
Highcliffe Clothiers is located at
112 W. Washington Street in Middleburg.
More information is available at their website.
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