Having grown up in the midwest, he moved to a town just outside of Nashville a few years ago, where he and his wife raise two young sons. I haven’t read through it from start to finish, but I have already learnt interesting things I had no idea from before.

He wears his sport coats with slim-straight jeans , some of which are from shockingly affordable brands such as American Eagle (the blue-washed jeans are AE; the white jeans are from Sid Mashburn). He’s long abandoned the “dapper” look, and no longer tries to dress like a character in a French New Wave film.Unless you’ve grown up in an environment where such sartorial knowledge was a natural part of your education, this book does provide an insight into sartorial sophistication most of us really have no idea about. I’ve since bought two more pairs of Needles pants — a pair of velvet climbing pants with a dark brown paisley pattern, and then a pair of faux-leather, python-embossed pants.

It's not-it is more for the man who dresses in a suit regularly or is a consultant or in a position in which he needs to understand the importance of clothing. All these things talk about the things you need in your wardrobe, but they don’t talk about the journey. So, each of the chapters-and I like how he really gets down to talking about things like proportion and color, things that a lot of men don't even understand. Since Mitchell lives in a small town and works in a business casual environment, he likes to dress down his tailoring.Written by the acclaimed menswear critic Alan Flusser, Dressing the Man moves away from trends and focuses on helping you create a timeless wardrobe that will look as stylish today as it will five, 10 or even 30 years from now.

Alan Flusser’s Dressing the Man is widely considered to be the single best book on how to wear tailored clothing. So, he wants you to focus on something like how a jacket should fit and how you could tell if something's a bit tight here in the midsection. It was published in 2002, about a decade after Levi’s promoted the idea of Casual Friday to help sell their line of downmarket chinos, and a few years before the hashtag menswear movement, which ultimately died around 2015. With the way men dress nowadays and for the majority, for the larger population, I think probably a much larger section on business casual, and perhaps breaking that out and talking about how we can mix-would've been better. Overall I give it my highest recommendation and although not perfect – it is one of the finest reference texts available for your library.Pages are clean, and unmarked; Unclipped pictorial dust jacket in VERY GOOD condition with minimal shelf wear at edges; small tear at upper front corner. All of these books revolve around the idea that you can dress in a relatively timeless and flattering way if you pay attention to some ideas about fit, proportions, and color.