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Title: Clothes and the Man: The Principles of Fine Men's Dress by Alan J. Flusser ISBN: 0394546237 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: October, 1985 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9
Rating: 5
Summary: The Bible of Fine Men's Dress
Comment: I have read this book several times with pleasure and refer to it often. (I even reached for it on my wedding day for advice on pocket squares.) Flusser combines detailed information about fabrics, tailoring, and color with his own wonderful sense of style, based on 1930s and '40s models that have remained classic. A beautiful book and well worth the price.
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic of post-Carnaby Street clothing for men
Comment: I happened to watch a re-run of Shell's Wonderful World of Golf this morning featuring a match at a country club in Belgium during the 1950's. Former King Leopold was among the thirty well-dressed people observing the play, and most of the men could have walked up Park Avenue this year and been in style.
More useful than Flusser's later book, Clothes and the Man reminds us that, ignoring the excesses of the 1970's and the general absence of style in Silicon Valley in the 90's, the well dressed man evolves slowly. We may wear driving moccasins and eschew opera pumps in the new century, but the the turned out 1920's man is recognizeable today. That's important because it's the long lives of Anderson & Sheppard suits and Cleverly shoes that makes them attainable by people of less than extraordinary means. And, at least for me, the pleasure of proper fit and great fabrics is the reason to pay attention.
Rating: 5
Summary: A timeless guide to timeless style
Comment: If I say that this book changed my life, I should immediately qualify that by noting that I first read it about the time I graduated from college and was really setting out on my own for the first time. It really defined my sense of classic men's style, and gave me an appreciation, previously lacking, for -- and an ability to recognize -- a truly well-dressed man.
Alan Flusser, a dandy to the core, makes a great case for his argument that men's style (as distinct from "men's fashion" -- yuck) changes little over the decades. The "look" that worked for Fred Astaire or Cary Grant still works today. Tab collars, rounded collars, suspenders, monk straps, French cuffs, handkerchiefs (aka "pocket squares") no tassel loafers with suits! ... the man who absorbs "the principles of fine men's dress" presented here will be well armed to do battle with a world where "dressing down" has become the sad and sorry norm.
If, as Oscar Wilde said, "A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life," Alan Flusser will help you take a great many paces down that road. Take that step now! It may even change your life too.
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Title: Dressing the Man : Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion by Alan Flusser ISBN: 0060191449 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Making the Man: The Insider's Guide to Buying Mens Clothes by Alan J. Flusser ISBN: 0671791478 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: September, 1981 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Style and the Man : How and Where to Buy the Best Mens' Clothes by Alan Flusser ISBN: 006270155X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Indispensable Guide to Classic Men's Clothing by Josh Karlen, Amy Libra, Christopher C. Sulavik, Josh Taylor ISBN: 0966184718 Publisher: Tatra Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Eminently Suitable by G. Bruce Boyer, Tony Kokinos ISBN: 0393028771 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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