- Mass Market Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Riverhead (TRD) (Feb 22 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1573227633
- ISBN-13: 978-1573227636
- Product Dimensions: 14.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 154 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,308,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
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.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
About the Author
Scott Omelianuk, formerly a style editor of GQ, is the executive editor of Esquire. Ted Allen is a contributing editor to Esquire.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Useless,
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This review is from: Things a Man Should Know About Style (Hardcover)
A couple of oneliners on each page, such as : "Don't wear suspenders"One good oneliner that should have been on the cover : "Don't spend money on this book!"
1.0 out of 5 stars
Haven't we had enough of the Dry Man?,
By SophOfReview "red_angel_14" (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Things A Man Should Know About Style (Mass Market Paperback)
This book merely reiterates the arcane belief that male fashion should be defined by a repression of all creativity. This is a sexist belief that I strongly believe we need to leave behind with the Twentieth-Century.Anthropologists are beginning to realize how our world would be a much safer place if only men felt more free to express themselves and their feelings. I don't think that it would take a genius to realize how the limited-expressiveness in male "fashion" is related to the limited-expressiveness of male life in-general in this society. In an age when men are *finally* beginning to break free of this fashion slavery, the last thing we need is a booklet full of conservative rants deisgned to turn-back the clock, disguised as fashion advice. Unfortunately, such backward rants are all this book provides.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pithy style,
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This review is from: Things A Man Should Know About Style (Mass Market Paperback)
First things first: this is not a book you'll "read" at least in the traditional sense. The text is arranged in short sentences and not paragraphs...think of this book as more of quick pointers from your impeccibly dressed gay friend than a long examination of style.For those not in the know, Ted Allen is one of the Fab 5 on Bravo's "Queer Eyes for the Straight Guy". On the show he's the Food & Wine guy. Fun little book!
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