Our favourite designer + List of guidelines

[Willsw]

http://men.style.com/details/feature...d=content_5752

And he's wearing socks.

 

[grimslade]

Originally Posted by Willsw

http://men.style.com/details/feature...d=content_5752

And he's wearing socks.

White ones. With black wing tips and shorts. Ugh.

 

[Tarmac]

Wow before I read this he seemed somewhat mysterious and intriguing, now he seems like a 100% tool. For each item I would either say "that's obvious" or "you are wrong" FOLLOW THE RULES: THOM BROWNE The definitive designer of slim suits shares his ten guidelines for dressing like a gentleman. 1. I don’t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else. 2. Good champagne—good, not expensive—has been my cocktail of choice for as long as I can remember. I like them all—Bollinger, Taittinger, and others. I also collect champagne coupes; I have more than 10. They’re one of the few things that I collect. 3. Chariots of Fire, Death in Venice, North by Northwest, and The Thomas Crown Affair are some of my favorite films—and they’re all particularly inspiring for menswear. I watch movies all the time but I don’t like to go to the theater. It’s just too much. 4. Guys shouldn’t spend a lot of money on a haircut. I go to Chelsea Barbers in New York, where I pay about $30. The price went up, but I’m very loyal to the woman there. 5. It’s sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that’s really skinny. 6. When it comes to shoes, you don’t really need more than a few pairs of wing tips or oxfords. They’re classics. And I wear only black shoes in the city. Brown ones are for the country. 7. Men don’t know enough about being courteous toward women. You should get into a cab before a woman so she doesn’t have to slide across the seat. And you should always go first into a revolving door so she doesn’t have to push—unless it’s moving, then let her go first. 8. Seersucker and khaki suits are the key to looking put-together in the summer. I also wear shorts year-round. And I would never say never, but I don’t wear sandals. With shorts, it’s wing tips and tennis socks. 9. I like menswear from the late fifties and early sixties. It’s the uniformity and the lack of choice from that era that I respond to. It’s also the last time that there was such a distinct American style. Now it’s all jumbled up and homogenized. 10. I love white linen sheets, but they need to be ironed, so that limits my use of them. Otherwise, I like really good, starched white cotton sheets. They have to be white.