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Title: Esquire's Things a Man Should Know About Style by Scott Omelianuk, Ted Allen ISBN: 1-57322-763-3 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (22 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Pithy style
Comment: 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!

Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining, dogmatic (ha), and moderately useful
Comment: This book should never take the place of a truly useful guide to timeless men's style like, say, Alan Flusser's "Clothes & the Man." But for summarizing the things a man shouldn't do, getting him to actually start thinking about style, or saying things that really need to be said ("No level of fitness justifies wearing a tank top in public" [p. 80].), this little guide is a pretty good way to get started.

Perhaps in keeping with the entertaining bulldog photos that break up the text, some of the declarations are somewhat too dogmatic: No cowboy boots, no Hawaiian shirts, no pleated khakis. In fact, there's some room for discussion on most of these issues (what if you live in Hawaii?). But frankly, so many men need so much help dressing properly that if they need absolute rules to live by, so be it.

On the whole, this is a very entertaining little book. If men turn to magazines like Esquire for their style guidance, then I wish a handy primer like this one all success in imparting a few guiding principles. But the most useful principle of all may be the one they print about a dozen pages from the end: "Never trust a fashion magazine."

Rating: 4
Summary: :-)
Comment: and again:144 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.43 x 5.76 x 5.50

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