Best Dressed Monk

I love their unique selection of men’s dress shirts. You’re guaranteed to find something you haven’t seen before. Love it.

I happened by BestDressedMonk while visiting friends in Montecito recently.
BDM is a cool but friendly place.
BDM’s styling is unique in that it’s somewhat stark, a bit severe, but, personally, I loved it.
If you like lots of exquisitely made dark solid blacks, bright whites, navy blue, and khaki sports clothes, this is your kind of place.
Nary a print or plaid to be seen, but a tasty selection of BDM originals, including jeans, shirts, long sleeved henleys tee shirts, jackets, etc.
This fashionable menswear is somewhat monastic in tone.
But in a good way.
These are the sports clothes that some exiled prince might wear in an Italian monastery whilst doing penance for crimes against God Knows What.
But I digress.
On my first visit, I scored a long black nicely fitted 100% cotton pitch black henley tee shirt ($ 57 marked down from $ 97).
When Abbé liked the look of the tee, I stopped by the next day to see if they had some black jeans, they did: Moleskin denims with an extra zip pocket (reg $ 225, on sale for $ 135).
And then I fell for a snap collar wool/​cotton windbreaker (reg $ 395, on sale for $ 237).
Apparently the BestDressedMonk concept began in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Scotland.
Somehow it got transplanted in sunny, super affluent Montecito.
It’s a strange concept, but like the clothes, it all works.