Alright guys. Thanks to all of you who entered by liking my Facebook page last week. There were a lot of good, classic idols mentioned but the winner was James O who said,

Love the blog, man. My style idol is probably my best friend. Since high school he just has seemed to always ‘get it’ and I’ve found that I could look decent just by emulating him more often than not.

Lucky is the man who has people in his life he can look up to. So congrats James. Shoot me an email and I’ll get you hooked up with either a consultation or your evaluations.

Don’t worry if you didn’t win though. There are still three more weeks and three separate ways you can win either a Basic Consultation or five Style Evaluations for free.

This week we’re moving on to Twitter. You can follow @MasculineStyle to get updates on new posts, daily links to oldies but goodies from the blog, and random thoughts and musings. I’m much more active on Twitter than I am on Facebook so you’ll see a lot more from me and it’s easier to engage in conversation as well.

So, to enter this week you need to follow @MasculineStyle, include me in a tweet and then tell me what article of clothing you think is most important in a man’s style game using the hashtag #styleessentials. Just like last week, I’ll go through and choose one lucky winner.

If you don’t have a Twitter account, sign up or hang tight because there will be other options available in the upcoming weeks.

PS. Have you gotten your Style Evaluation? It’s a great way to know the strengths and weaknesses of your current wardrobe.

Like:

• The sweater. Thicker gauges of knitting were originally used in workwear. Think of fishermen and dock workers. Having a history in physical labor means they also end up looking a lot more masculine. Compare this kind of sweater gauge to something that’s finer like you’d see in a V-neck. The V ends up looking more refined and dandy.
• The collar. Meant to keep the neck warm, it also serves the purpose of framing the face better and keeping people focused on you instead of your clothes.
• The sweater color. A good neutral gray can be worn with anything.
• The pants color. Fall is the time for warmer colors and a camel coloring looks much better than a normal khaki this time of year.

Fence:

• The boots. They look like they could be a cheap pair of Sketcher, or they could be a much nicer pair that’s just been beat to hell.
• The leather waist tabs. I like waist tabs in my dress pants and I can’t decide if this leather version looks tacky and overplayed or cool.

Don’t Like:

• The snapped pocket flap. While I understand the functionality of it – it makes the pants look like American Eagle cargoes.
• The pant length. Way too long. Work pants shouldn’t be hemmed as short as your dress pants, but these just look sloppy.

PS. Don’t forget to head over to my Facebook page, Like it, and leave a comment telling me who your style idol is to be entered to win either a Basic Consultation or five Style Evaluations.

Just a heads up

There are a lot of pictures that are missing in posts older than July. This happened after I deleted my wordpress.com blog because it was better cached and taking a lot of my search engine traffic. Unfortunately, this means I have to go back through each post individually and re-attach the pictures so they’ll show up correctly. I’m doing this as quickly as I can, but there are a lot of posts and it may take a week or two before everything is back to normal.