He’s an avid motorcyclist, drives a Yamaha Scrambler 950cc, and attends warehouse parties on weekends. Marco lives in Los Angeles and works as a research analyst for Twitter. Their dress habits are a reflection of those differences. Both men are tremendously stylish and about the same age. The second is Marco Martinez, a motorcyclist, tech analyst, and champion of berets. I want to talk about two people whose style I’ve admired online as a way to discuss the broader idea of “dressing the man.” The first is Mitchell Moss, the author behind the excellent blog Menswear Musings.
Style is fundamentally about social language, and clothing is deeply connected to identity. People who are overly prescriptive about style often fail to consider that there are many lifestyles and identities nowadays. Men from dramatically different backgrounds, locations, lifestyles, age groups, and other demographic dimensions argue about how others should dress. This is one of the problems that runs through nearly every online discussion about men’s style. And how could they? Fashion writers assume that readers will figure this part out for themselves.
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It covers everything from tailoring to casualwear, but even the book’s editors don’t discuss how to dress for one’s personality. Esquire’s Handbook of Style is one of the best primers on men’s style. For all the books written on fashion, few, if any, actually talk about how to dress for the more intangible dimensions of a person’s life.
In other words, it’s not about dressing the totality of a man, but just his physical form.
The book is actually about how to dress the body, not necessarily a person’s identity or lifestyle. All of these books revolve around the idea that you can dress in a relatively timeless and flattering way if you pay attention to some ideas about fit, proportions, and color.Īs a title, Dressing the Man suggests more than what you’ll find in the book. His other books have similar-sounding titles: Making the Man, Clothes and the Man, and Style and the Man. The book repeats the same ideas that Flusser has been promoting since the early 1980s. It was published in 2002, about a decade after Levi’s promoted the idea of Casual Friday to help sell their line of downmarket chinos, and a few years before the hashtag menswear movement, which ultimately died around 2015. Alan Flusser’s Dressing the Man is widely considered to be the single best book on how to wear tailored clothing.
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