Pocket Square
The History of the Pocket Square
The origin of the pocket square goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Wealthy Greeks carried around perfumed hankies as early as 500 B.C. English and French noblemen carried perfumed and embroidered hankies in order to cover their noses from the stench of the streets and other people.
In the early 1900s, a dapper gentleman would never leave the house without a pocket square tucked neatly into his suits breast pocket. Yet by the latter half of that century, the pocket square began to go the way of the hat. Its high time we bring both back.