In past posts I’ve addressed two major, albeit subtle, aspects of how individual men can look their best – knowing their contrast type and maximizing patterns according to build and proportions. After having those two as a foundation you can take it a step further by maximizing patterns according to your contrast type. Before outlining all three of these [...]
This is a guest post from my good friend Remy Sheppard. To read more of his stuff, check out remysheppard.com Tanner was gracious enough to allow me to write a guest post for his blog. With that in mind I don’t want to waste your time with something that won’t be useful for you. Instead, [...]
I’ve received a few requests to give a synopsis of what will be the upcoming and final posts of the Staples series. Understandably, there are frustrations that this has taken me more than a year to complete. The initial objective was to fire them all out quickly. However, I realized that it takes a lot [...]
Most men in the Western world have a weird, binary relationship with their clothing. They essentially see something as either dressed up or dressed down. We’ve already started to tackle this a bit talking about High/Low and how you can incorporate different elements of high style and low style together to create a unique look that is [...]
Read the intro to the series, the Rugged Man, the Refined Man, and the Rakish Man. Now that I’ve outlined the three archetypes of masculine style, it’s fairly easy to see the similarities and differences between their strengths and weaknesses. The average man is going to have different percentages of all three of these archetypes with only the [...]
A few months ago I started a consultation with a client who had a very unique problem – his feet measure in at 11.5 EEE. For comparison’s sake, the average size foot of a man in the US is 10.5 C (if you’re unaware, the letter measurement is for the width of your feet). Needless [...]
Read the intro to the series, the Rugged Man, and the Refined Man. The Rake is a man who is socially masculine. He influences individual people to his will by means of his attitude, his charisma, and his disdain for following the rules of society and being beholden to another man. While he is capable [...]
One of the more difficult aspects of dressing well is learning to balance timeless style with current trends. You have to incorporate both in order for your clothing to be as effective as you want it to be. For the most part, other men will respond favorably to your timelessness while women will take note [...]
Read the intro to the series here and the Rugged post here. The Refined Man is one who is financially and influentially masculine. He bends the world of men to his will by means of his connections, his money, and his political/social power. He is capable of mixing both direct and subtle elements to accomplish his ends [...]
As trustworthy, neutral, and classic as solid materials are, men like to embrace a bit of pattern in our wardrobe. From something as humble as a striped t-shirt to a gun-club sport coat, patterns span the spectrum of formality of men’s clothing and have been with us almost since the beginning. But did you know [...]