Things a Man Should Know About Style

by Scott; Allen Omelianuk, Ted Allen

There are many areas of life in which you are a master - brilliant, confident, assured. But when it comes to dressing well and comporting yourself with style, what you don't know could fill a book. This is the book. It is an amusing and pleasureable book. It might even yield a quote or two for cocktail parties. It is arranged as simple nuggets of truth, lore, exhortation and caution which respond, talk to and feed off each other. The book does not pretend to comprise the be-all and end-all in matter of sartorial. Rather it offers basic guidelines, rules of the road; some of which may even been broken, so long as you know what your doing. Which you don't. Though you will. The perfect gift for the sartorially- challenged man in your life, even if that man is yourself.

Genres: Nonfiction, Lifestyle

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1999

Reviews

[Kale Mosley · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best styles are timeless. This book gives the guidelines to what those timeless styles are.

You won’t agree with all of it. There will be “no-no’s” you simply refuse to give up. That’s okay. For example, I consider that every man should have a single Hawaiian shirt, and a shirt for each of his favorite sports teams- in those teams’ colors.

Simply realize that exercising your exceptions must be the exception— to be done sparingly, wisely, and with full understanding of the ramifications. For me, the Kansas City Chiefs mean more to me than my fashion image— but only 16 Sundays per year. Okay, 19 Sundays this year.

Strongly recommend this book.

[Spencer · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my sense of humor -- mostly mean spirited and listing 'rules of fashion.' But I could see this being a really good gift for an older professional type of person.

[DoctorM · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick, fun, dryly amusing. And...good advice. Fourteen years later, much of the advice is still dead on point. Not a bad little primer for thinking about style and what it means.