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"If it's male elegance and sophistication you aspire to, DRESSING THE MAN will suit you perfectly."--Art Cooper, Editor in Chief, GQ
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"Dressing the Man" is the definitive guide to what men need to know in order to dress well and look stylish without becoming fashion victims.
Alan Flusser's name is synonymous with taste and style. With his new book, he combines his encyclopedic knowledge of men's clothes with his signature wit and elegance to address the fundamental paradox of modern men's fashion: Why, after men today have spent more money on clothes than in any other period of history, are there fewer well-dressed men than at any time ever before?
According to Flusser, dressing well is not all that difficult, the real challenge lies in being able to acquire the right personalized instruction. Dressing well pivots on two pillars -- proportion and color. Flusser believes that "Permanent Fashionability," both his promise and goal for the reader, starts by being accountable to a personal set of physical trademarks and not to any kind of random, seasonally served-up collection of fashion flashes.
Unlike fashion, which is obliged to change each season, the face's shape, the neck's height, the shoulder's width, the arm's length, the torso's structure, and the foot's size remain fairly constant over time. Once a man learns how to adapt the fundamentals of permanent fashion to his physique and complexion, he's halfway home.
Taking the reader through each major clothing classification step-by-step, this user-friendly guide helps you apply your own specifics to a series of dressing options, from business casual and formalwear to pattern-on-pattern coordination, or how to choose the most flattering clothing silhouette for your body type and shirt collar for your face.
A man's physical traits represent his individual road map, and the quickest route toward forging an enduring style of dress is through exposure to the legendary practitioners of this rare masculine art. Flusser has assembled the largest andmost diverse collection of stylishly mantled men ever found in one book. Many never-before-seen vintage photographs from the era of Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, and Fred Astaire are employed to help illustrate the range and diversity of authentic men's fashion. "Dressing the Man"'s sheer magnitude of options will enable the reader to expand both the grammar and verbiage of his permanent-fashion vocabulary.
For those men hoping to find sartorial fulfillment somewhere down the road, tethering their journey to the mind-set of permanent fashion will deliver them earlier rather than later in life.
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74 of 76 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The author knows his stuff. It's a good book and very detailed.
However, I found it heavy going, very much like reading a Haines car manual! Not a great deal of pictures, of which a majority are very old black & white shots of years gone by. I also found the wordage difficult to get along with.
It is very American and aimed at the US market. I found myself wondering if what I was reading relevant to me as a man in the UK. The 'how you should dress for work' section was so very 'American man goes to work'. Smart suits aside, nobody in England would dress for work in the ways described. It goes on about Ivy League cues etc. In essence it was classic style as we know it today came out of the US.
In summary I would compare it to 'Gentlemen - A timeless fashion', which I also have. Dressing the man has more historical detail, is hard going and aimed at the US reader/dresser. Gentlemen - A timeless fashion is better for how do I dress myself in a classic English way and why, with tons more pictures which help with a shopping list in your mind, it is also serves a handy easy reference. In my opinion Dressing the man does not offer good value for money compared to the other titles on the market; However that said the author knows his stuff but gets bogged down with history and nitty gritty and never really gets around to the hear and now.
However, I found it heavy going, very much like reading a Haines car manual! Not a great deal of pictures, of which a majority are very old black & white shots of years gone by. I also found the wordage difficult to get along with.
It is very American and aimed at the US market. I found myself wondering if what I was reading relevant to me as a man in the UK. The 'how you should dress for work' section was so very 'American man goes to work'. Smart suits aside, nobody in England would dress for work in the ways described. It goes on about Ivy League cues etc. In essence it was classic style as we know it today came out of the US.
In summary I would compare it to 'Gentlemen - A timeless fashion', which I also have. Dressing the man has more historical detail, is hard going and aimed at the US reader/dresser. Gentlemen - A timeless fashion is better for how do I dress myself in a classic English way and why, with tons more pictures which help with a shopping list in your mind, it is also serves a handy easy reference. In my opinion Dressing the man does not offer good value for money compared to the other titles on the market; However that said the author knows his stuff but gets bogged down with history and nitty gritty and never really gets around to the hear and now.
88 of 92 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Flusser's magnum opus exceeds Bernhard Roetzel's superb work "Gentleman: A Timeless Classic" as the simply the most comprehensive and authoritatve text on classic male dress. The chapters on proportion, colour and pattern deal with really important issues that Roetzel just misses out completely. The chapter on smart casual addresses an area that is very important to the modern office, but sorely neglected by other authors. The only other work I know of that addressed these fundamentals to anywhere near this level of detail is Spensor's "Style Directions for Men," but her work is hampered by an overly-compartmentalised approach and very poor samples of clothing (the photos have been extracted from a cheap mail order catalogue). I would strongly recommend this book along with "Style and the Man" (then you'll know what and how to wear things AND where to find them). Roetzel's book is definitely worth having as well, but it has been overtaken. A smaller, but highly informative work is Karlen and Sulavik's "Indispensible Guide," but that just doesn't have the kind of colour photos, intricate detail and historical background that "Dressing the Man" does. I recommend this book to any gent who wants to know more about classic style and dress.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A beautiful book well thought out and illustrated. If you buy the book for it's pictures alone you'll not be disappointed. I would agree with a previous reviewer that it's not 100% on the money for the English reader, a bit too American in focus. Other than that a first rate book and very interesting even if ,like me, you're a bit of a slob!
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Permanent fashion bible
This book has been of good valuable to me as it explains sartorial details and - history, making the reader able to decide for himself what he will wear. Read more
Published 28 days ago by Ville Johan Witt
Your one-stop source for inspiration in dressing
This is definitely a great book. It is full of color pictures, historical notes, side-to side comparisons, examples and so on. Read more
Published 10 months ago by etoile_montante
Great and informative book
That is the best complement to "The Gentleman". A very informative book on male fashion.
Published on 19 Jun 2009 by L. M. Viqueira
If you have the slightest interest in what to wear,buy it. A Bible!
It's truly a dressing BIBLE.
I'm not dealing with chlothes or have any other interest than being nicely dressed. Read more
I'm not dealing with chlothes or have any other interest than being nicely dressed. Read more
Published on 14 Feb 2009 by docM
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