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GQ, Details, Esquire. pros and cons

post #1 of 26
10/8/07 at 8:13pm
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Hi, I was wondering from all these mens fashion magazines out there like GQ, Esquire, Details, etc. What are the pros and cons to all these.

and if you were to subscribe to one of them, which one would it be?

thanks
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post #2 of 26
10/8/07 at 8:19pm
I like Details the most out the three.

You can use them for ideas but dont follow their advice for verbatim especially in terms of the quality of certain goods. They dont know wtf they are talking about some of the time. Nobody here really prescribes to the advice given in those magazines, peoples preferences might over lap but I dont think theyare explicitly taken from those magazines
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post #3 of 26
10/8/07 at 8:34pm
they push big names a lot which gets a little sycophantic IMO...especially GQ...but I still read it for idea's and stuff
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post #4 of 26
10/8/07 at 8:50pm
I subscribe to GQ and Esquire. Both are more readable some months than others, but I guess that's the nature of the beast. GQ has had some good issues lately -- I really enjoyed the current one, and not only because they included Marcello Mastroianni on the best-dressed list.

I don't care for Details, which thinks it's much more clever than it really is. Long ago, they more openly targeted a gay audience, but now they try to have their cake and eat it too, with the tiresome "Gay or ..." feature every issue, even as the cover screams with headlines for straight guys. It feels more than a little phony.
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post #5 of 26
10/8/07 at 9:39pm
Details has articles I actually like to read. I appreciate that they arent too long and don't take themselves too seriously. The fashion features are good too.
GQ I like because of all the little blurbs in the first half of the magazine. Fun to browse through less so to actually read.
Esquire I don't find interesting at all. I had a 1 year subscription and by the final months I had lost interest.
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post #6 of 26
10/8/07 at 9:42pm
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do you think its even worth the money subscribing to it? I feel like it would be a waste of money, since everything is online now
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post #7 of 26
10/8/07 at 10:05pm
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Originally Posted by DocHolliday View Post
I don't care for Details, which thinks it's much more clever than it really is. Long ago, they more openly targeted a gay audience, but now they try to have their cake and eat it too, with the tiresome "Gay or ..." feature every issue, even as the cover screams with headlines for straight guys. It feels more than a little phony.


Agreed, but the overall written content in Details is a lot more fun than GQ or Esquire, both of which have barely changed in the last 10 years (the same themes are repeated over and over).

If you're under 40, subscribe to Details (it's cheap). Web browsing doesn't fit on a coffee table (or by the toilet).
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post #8 of 26
10/8/07 at 10:57pm
I subscribe to all three. GQ is my overall favorite. Details has some of the funniest articles (as a poster said above, they don't take themselves too seriously). Esquire seems to have turned into an anti-Iraq war magazine and only seems to be too left leaning/political these days. That being said, a subscription to all three is still cheaper than buying off the newstand.
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post #9 of 26
10/8/07 at 11:13pm
I subscribe to GQ, Esquire and Details as well as British GQ and British Esquire. You save a lot of money by subscribing and they all give great deals to extend your subscription, MUCH cheaper than newstand prices although the British editions aren't much of a savings. I like parts of each one. And, each one seems to delight and dissapoint me over time. The good and the bad of each publication seems to come in waves.....
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post #10 of 26
10/8/07 at 11:58pm
Pro's: They're all relatively cheap to subscribe to

Cons: the accumulate quickly on the coffeetable and soon i have a 4 foot stack of magazines

I like GQ and Details much more than Esquire which is a complete bore. Altho their annual "Big Black Book" is quite good, this current one no exception. I used to love details in the early 90s then it completely hit a brick wall mid 90s-early 2000s, but in the past couple years it's gotten much better, being interchangeable with GQ in its content and format.

of course none of them hold a candle to British GQ and Arena
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post #11 of 26
10/9/07 at 1:04am
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Originally Posted by greg_atlanta View Post
Agreed, but the overall written content in Details is a lot more fun than GQ or Esquire, both of which have barely changed in the last 10 years (the same themes are repeated over and over).

If you're under 40, subscribe to Details (it's cheap). Web browsing doesn't fit on a coffee table (or by the toilet).

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Originally Posted by DocHolliday View Post
I subscribe to GQ and Esquire. Both are more readable some months than others, but I guess that's the nature of the beast. GQ has had some good issues lately -- I really enjoyed the current one, and not only because they included Marcello Mastroianni on the best-dressed list.

I don't care for Details, which thinks it's much more clever than it really is. Long ago, they more openly targeted a gay audience, but now they try to have their cake and eat it too, with the tiresome "Gay or ..." feature every issue, even as the cover screams with headlines for straight guys. It feels more than a little phony.

I subscribe to GQ and Details, and have subscribed to Esquire in the past. Details is too cutefor it's own good. The gay-pandering gets tiresome, particularly with the almost typical gay fashion spread every month(usually the last one, with the beautiful boys)then the gay or straight question. Then the yearly Brad Pitt issue......give me a break! Esquire just seems old to me--that leaves GQ, and I'm biased towards that magazine...I've been reading it since 1978---AFAIC, it's the only one that matters.
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post #12 of 26
10/9/07 at 1:25am
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Details is too cutefor it's own good.

This is a good way of putting it. It confuses cute with clever.
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post #13 of 26
10/9/07 at 2:23am
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Pro's: They're all relatively cheap to subscribe to

Cons: the accumulate quickly on the coffeetable and soon i have a 4 foot stack of magazines

I like GQ and Details much more than Esquire which is a complete bore. Altho their annual "Big Black Book" is quite good, this current one no exception. I used to love details in the early 90s then it completely hit a brick wall mid 90s-early 2000s, but in the past couple years it's gotten much better, being interchangeable with GQ in its content and format.

of course none of them hold a candle to British GQ and Arena

+1 on Arena
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post #14 of 26
10/9/07 at 3:38am
I subscribe to gq, mens style (which is an Australian publication I believe), men's health and am waiting on my subscription of esquire to start... I may have to look into Details though...

I am particularly fond of Mens Style, its got a nice big glossy feel, good features ... but similarly with the other mags they are always pushing the big names in fashion which can be a bit of a bore...speaking of which does anyone know of any magazines that are a little more 'SF' ?
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post #15 of 26
10/9/07 at 3:50am
Umm...I subscribe to Men's Vogue.

Laugh all you want, but I think it's what GQ used to be 10+ years ago. Now, the British GQ is a different story, but it's a bit too expensive for a toilet reader.
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