: :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. 0nce 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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Dated and irrelevant
If you're an American who aspires to dress like a 1940s matinee idol then this book is for you. If not, probably best to look elsewhere.
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Well done!
Reading, Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion, will help separate you from the wannabes. The book introduces several subtle fashion strategies you never would've noticed had you not read the book. Although it's short on color matching it made up for it with concrete style directions. I'm satisfied with the book and recommend buying it to anyone truly interested in the art of dressing well. Be warned - despite the title this book concentrates on style creation - those interested in the changing winds of fashion may want to look elsewhere.
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Good basic book
This was a good basic book but not detailed like I had expected. A focus on coordination was there and yet things like tying different tie knots were omitted. Good but not great.
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Not what I'd hoped
Wasn't what I'd hoped. I love the idea of advice about color and proportion grounded in a timeless sensibility about proportion and color theory; something that doesn't swing with fashion. I was hoping for basically a long list of body types and skin collerations and advice on what to wear. The book has some interesting advice, but a lot more pseudo-history than out-an-out handbook.
The descriptions of skin contrast are very vague, which means that I could fit into anyone of a few different categories. Since these have different advice (all of which is also very vague), I wasn't sure what the implications were for me. The pictures help a little, but not much. Many more pictures, at least three of each body-type and coloration, would have made these concepts much clearer.
Also, the images taken for the book will be dated very soon. It would have been better if he stuck to more stock imagery (of which there is some, but mostly in black and white, which is not helpful for choosing colors.
Can't say I recommend the book, but neither do I have a preferred alternative.
