russellsmith.ca Men's Style

Men's Style:The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress is a personal and knowledgeable compendium of tasteful advice for the thinking man on how to dress and shop for clothes in a world of conflicting fashion imperatives. This sophisticated and witty book by the popular Globe and Mail fashion columnist combines nuggets of history and the sociology of masculine attire with a practical and supremely useful guide to achieving an elegant and affordable wardrobe for work and play.In chapters and amusing sidebars on shoes, suits, shirts and ties, formal and casual wear, underwear and swimsuits, cufflinks and watches, coats, hats, and scarves, Russell Smith steers a confident course between the hazards of blandness and vulgarity to articulate a philosophy of dress that can take you anywhere. He tells you what the rules are for looking the part at the office, a formal function, or the hippest party, and when you can toss those rules aside.Men's Style is supplemented throughout with fifty black-and-white illustrations and diagrams by illustrator Edwin Fotheringham.

His restless intellectualism, his muscular prose and his signature wit make him the auteur de mode for the club crowd and fashion literati alike...Men's Style abounds with captivating and original insights...Whimsically illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, Men's Style is both a practical guide for the elegant man and a cultural survey of fashion and trends. It is even more entertaining as a collection of Smith's seductive prose and his often hilarious observations about the urban landscape. Beau Brummell would be proud.

The Globe and Mail

It is the book for the guy that walks into a party, surveys the room and knows that he's in the Advanced Class because an underlying intelligence has informed his sartorial point of view -- that a sartorial philosphy unites his haircut to his shoes. That's Smith's world, and it can be yours, too.

Sir

Flippantly brilliant.

Flare

Personal, knowledgeable and full of tasteful advice.

Scoop