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The --worst-- books on fashion, style and etiquette?

post #1 of 17
10/23/09 at 4:06pm
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I'd place a strong vote for -and warning against- this one: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Gentlem...sr_1_1?ie=UTF8 Not only is it next to useless content-wise it is also written in an unbearably nerdy and quirky style: faulty and unnecessarily complicated syntax and the authors' pathetic attempts to be witty and youthful, yet knowledgeable and 'gentlemanly' is as embarrassing as it is annoying. Post your warnings here!
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post #2 of 17
10/23/09 at 4:22pm
Askmen.com style book looked pretty worthless when I looked it over.
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post #3 of 17
10/23/09 at 6:27pm
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Just remembered something else for the German speakers: I found the long-winded and somehow constipated ramblings by Gräfin Sybille von Schönfeld about all the tedious aspects of daily life and the most boring aspects of being a host or eating at a restaurant to be worth of warning, too. Unless one suffers from insomnia. (But even then a valium and a bottle of champagne are more enjoyable).
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post #4 of 17
10/23/09 at 6:48pm
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Originally Posted by Jerome View Post
I'd place a strong vote for -and warning against- this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Gentlem...sr_1_1?ie=UTF8

Not only is it next to useless content-wise it is also written in an unbearably nerdy and quirky style: faulty and unnecessarily complicated syntax and the authors' pathetic attempts to be witty and youthful, yet knowledgeable and 'gentlemanly' is as embarrassing as it is annoying.

Post your warnings here!

It was written by a dude named Phinneas. 'Nuf said.
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post #5 of 17
10/23/09 at 7:51pm
This book is worse...

http://www.amazon.com/Suit-Machiavel...6338238&sr=1-1

Just kidding.
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post #6 of 17
10/23/09 at 9:31pm
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This book is worse...

http://www.amazon.com/Suit-Machiavel...6338238&sr=1-1

Just kidding.

Uh Uh. This one is worse.

.29???

http://www.amazon.com/Mens-Clothing-...6344246&sr=1-2
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post #7 of 17
10/23/09 at 11:32pm
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Originally Posted by Jerome View Post
I'd place a strong vote for -and warning against- this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Gentlem...sr_1_1?ie=UTF8

Not only is it next to useless content-wise it is also written in an unbearably nerdy and quirky style: faulty and unnecessarily complicated syntax and the authors' pathetic attempts to be witty and youthful, yet knowledgeable and 'gentlemanly' is as embarrassing as it is annoying.

Post your warnings here!

I have that book too, and agree.
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post #8 of 17
10/23/09 at 11:45pm
http://www.amazon.com/Suit-Machiavel...6352296&sr=1-1

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post #9 of 17
10/23/09 at 11:50pm
What if Men's Image Consultant wrote a book?
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post #10 of 17
10/23/09 at 11:54pm
The one in the OP is pretty bad. But I recently received and skimmed through this and it's a major pile of warm dogpoo

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post #11 of 17
10/24/09 at 12:37am
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What if Men's Image Consultant wrote a book?

Dude...

The one Nordstrom is selling really isn't that bad.
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post #12 of 17
10/26/09 at 6:46pm
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I have that book too, and agree.
It was the second book that I ever threw away after buying it (myself)...I didn't want it to get into the wrong hands...or rather: into any hands. gdl203: 'History of Men's Fashion' actually seems to be quite good or rather interesting (and I have a pretty good intuition pertaining to books etc.)...why did you think that it was bad? That Machiavelli suit book was by a poster here AFAICR (Marcus Antonius?)...looked interesting, too- he had a thread about it somewhere as far as I can recall...(where I recommended to him that Dante would have been an even cooler reference...)- anyway, I might even buy that some time..
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post #13 of 17
10/26/09 at 6:53pm
Who are these blind Philistines designing book covers these days?
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post #14 of 17
10/26/09 at 10:07pm
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post #15 of 17
10/26/09 at 10:34pm
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gdl203: 'History of Men's Fashion' actually seems to be quite good or rather interesting (and I have a pretty good intuition pertaining to books etc.)...why did you think that it was bad?
It's just a collection of pompous and totally outdated "rules" about what men should (and especially should not) wear. I could have written it myself as a parody. An eye-rolling read throughout.

Manton's book is actually a great read. You should definitely get a copy.
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