My Grandfather Is the Most Powerful Dandy I Know

I prefer to write in my grandfather’s shirt. I’m wearing it now, a blue-and-white-striped Brooks Brothers button-up he passed down to me as a teen. It’s one of several garments I have of his, among them a Christian Dior dress shirt, a broadcloth button-down from Barneys New York’s private label, and a pale pink tie with a diagonal stripe pattern by Oscar de la Renta. I cherish them because they’re his; they express his style. And when I wear that shirt I feel most at home, so to…