2017 Early Spring: Enhance Your Style with Texture

Your clothes should never be boring.

We are all guilty of it — finding yourself in a men’s clothing store and getting convinced that whatever the fashion trend of the moment is, would look great on you. And worse, every time you put that thing on, you end up feeling like you stand out as a bit of a spectacle. For guys, there’s sort of an unspoken rule: most of us just want stuff that lasts and is enduring well beyond the the trend d'jour. We aspire to embody something “classic and cool,” but maybe more importantly — we just want to feel like we’re being true to ourselves and our own style & spirit. 

Empyrean Sweater

This tone looks great on and its nubby stitch across the body is super cool. It’s specially washed to showcase great color, texture and softness. 

Whitecap Sweater

If there’s one sweater to keep on hand all year long, it’s this soft, breathable knit. Sunwashed to highlight the unique waves and geometric motifs that run across it. 

Altitude Dobby

Airy and crisp this is a good looking shirt, but take a closer look and you’ll appreciate how it’s wonderfully subtle detail and texture. Those micro-dobby dots, from a distance, also form an ingenious tonal pattern that makes this shirt handsome from every angle.

Buoyant Dobby

A great rich ocean-like blue shirt make up this crisp, cool-hand shirt. But take a closer look and you'll see the intriguing geometric red and lighter blue dobby thread pattern. And to top it all off, the chambray trim make this shirt a great compliment to your own unique style.

Pointillism Shirt

Take a close look and this shirt feels like the work of an artist. A night sky filled with tiny bits of color — flip the shirt to the inside and you’ll appreciate the multi-color thread that makes this shirt a perfect transition from Winter to Spring.

Subterfuge Plaid

Why choose someone else's boring button-down, when you consider the way more fun alternative, that's a little rough around the edges, but can pass in any fancy uptown restaurant. We took a handsome bright blue plaid and gave it an off-road patina that's confident, masculine and exactly you're style.

Headwaters Sweater

There's something about being outside and near the water that inspires great things and the rich color and texture of this sweater — in aqua and sage-green with its unique stitching and pattern — remind us of just that. This one is beautiful on and a great guy’s sweater for the season and beyond. 

Portico Dobby Shirt

This shirt is airy in its construction of amazing textured pattern that evokes a cityscape bathed in sunlight. The honeycomb texture feels great and speaks to your depth of character; smart, handsome and refreshing. 

Perennial Dobby

Aptly named, this is a shirt that will like endure to become a favorite — that's because at close view you'll spy a classic men’s houndstooth, but its deep rich blue hue and texture from a patterned dobby stitch elevate this shirt to a whole new level — and the perfect example of how the elements of carbon and cobalt enhance your style.

Ensconced Plaid

If we could emulate sunlight in fabric, this might be it — threads of yellow, green and red fade in and out across this cool blue plaid woven together in a shimmering micro-weave that mutes the color to subtle perfection. A great example of how we like to wear color. 

Stones Throw Sweater

This is how we like to welcome Spring color back from a gray winter! This exceptionally soft knit has a great texture and feel, but is refreshing with it pale green and light gray marled yarns. Look close and you'll see the color, but this isn't showy — and looks great with your favorite pair of jeans and boots.

Iced Dobby Shirt

First and foremost, this shirt wears beautifully. It drapes handsomely with its soft blue tone, but made unique and interesting with its frosty white threads that run vertically and horizontally to add a depth and texture. It's a smart looking shirt that is great untucked or dressed up — whatever your mood feels like.

Left Bank Sweater

Striations of light and dark blue with faint dashes of starry white yarns create this subtle striped effect across this sophisticated melange knit. Lightweight and casual, but dresses up easily as you need it too.

Boxwood Sweater

Woodsy, earth-toned yarns create an intriguing pattern of geometric stitches. This is an easy to wear, super soft rolled knit that has subtle but equally cool contrasting edge trim. A great guy's sweater for Spring.

Arroyo Shirt-Jac

With it's side pockets and rugged indigo tones this shirt-jac reminds us a bit of a classic jean jacket — but takes things to a modern, new feel. Sink into its amazing softness and then catch your reflection — an immediate cool classic that's destined to be an old favorite.

Mistral Henley

Designing in Santa Barbara, we're often inspired by the ocean in our backyard — and this beautifully textured pullover has a rich textured pattern that reminds us of the wind dancing over the ocean — and how much we love being in the outdoors near the water.

In some ways, that frustration in stores inspired how carbon2cobalt approaches the clothing we design in our studio in California — and why we like the idea of offering our own unique styles direct to you online or through our catalog. We design clothes that we, ourselves, feel comfortable in. Classic, enduring styles that look in current now, but will also look great ten years from now.

By staying true to the elements of how a guy likes to dress, we can raise the bar from being anything but boring in how you dress. By always exploring and applying new techniques for stitching, combining fabrics or maybe just adding a little thoughtful color detail — we can take things to a welcome new level with familiar comfort. The sort of subtle detail that makes a sweater feel so good on because it’s not restrictive or bulky. A shirt that looks great with sleeves rolled up and untucked, as much as it does tucked in and with a blazer for date night. Expect compliments about your own style when you wear our clothes. After all, it’s all in the details...

Our Early Spring Collection is great to find your own style — with options to find something that represents you. Take a closer look at the details, and you’ll discover something special.

In our latest collection, we were inspired by playing with color, light and texture. Lighter weight sweaters that are great for layering, but offer more movement — and just look great on. The welcome color of the Empyrean Sweater is also washed for amazing softness, but the texture is what makes it really shine. Speaking of texture, we have to mention the lightweight but super cool pattern and texture of the Whitecap Sweater.

We were inspired with our newest shirts as well — classic button downs, but on a whole new level with unique dobby or other stitching techniques. Look no further than the Altitude Dobby for this sort of exacting intrigue. The Buoyant Dobby shirt has a pattern of geometric red and blue across its ocean of indigo and the Pointillism Shirt is a beautiful indigo blue from a distance, but up-close, you’ll notice the amazing detail and vibrant thread variations. The unique gray top-dye over the bright hue of the Subterfuge Plaid make this shirt masculine, a bit off-road, but also ready to show them all who’s boss. And that’s just the start — browse the details in the images above — and find something that speaks to your own style. Elevate your wardrobe, but be assured these are elements that will be welcome for seasons to come.

Afterall, let your clothing tell a story about you, not have them tell you who you should be. 

Shop our latest collection, right here.