Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion

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Since Mitchell lives in a small town and works in a business casual environment, he likes to dress down his tailoring. 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 fact, he's even got [Laughs] almost kind the kind of a centerfold pullout but it's more in fabrics than it is on [Laughs] what normally you would see on a…on a centerfold. He wears his sport coats with slim-straight jeans , some of which are from shockingly affordable brands such as American Eagle (the blue-washed jeans are AE; the white jeans are from Sid Mashburn). He wears trackpants of his own these days — the famous butterfly embroidered, retro-striped trackpants from Needles.

All these things talk about the things you need in your wardrobe, but they don’t talk about the journey. He’s an avid motorcyclist, drives a Yamaha Scrambler 950cc, and attends warehouse parties on weekends. I'm a former Marine Corps Officer with a BA in Evolutionary Biology and Philosophy (Cornell College 98') and an MBA from The University Of Texas at Austin (07'). You can see some of his dance videos on Instagram (warning: they will make you want to get up and dance, so only watch in a clutter-free, open space). But when a friend gave me these shirts, I tried them on with a tweed sport coat and thought, ‘wow, this is sweet!For those men hoping to find sartorial fulfillment somewhere down the road, tethering their journey to the mind-set of permanent fashion will deliver them earlier rather than later in life. I tried those cropped, no-break pants and super short jackets, and I just didn’t like how they looked on me. Actually, I've got probably three copies of the book-one for my office, one-well, I like being able to hand out a copy to someone that-a good friend that perhaps needs it. So, he lays a very solid case as it-and this takes me to the other thing I love about this-a lot of pictures. Nowadays, Marco still loves dancing, but he does so in a way that blends various forms — breaking, waacking, and his new obsession, house.

So, where it's come from, where it's at now and a little bit of a prediction on, you know, where it's going to go, which if-with the way he talks about it. So, he wants you to focus on something like how a jacket should fit and how you could tell if something's a bit tight here in the midsection.I’ve since bought two more pairs of Needles pants — a pair of velvet climbing pants with a dark brown paisley pattern, and then a pair of faux-leather, python-embossed pants.

Sturdy black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine with tiny bit of rubbing to corners and spine corners. And the difference, he's very clear, is that style is about knowing your body type, about knowing what colors suit you, what clothing styles suit you. And if you’re serious about menswear, it’s the book that won’t even make it onto your bookshelf, because you’ll never be able to put it down. The thing I love most about Mitchell’s style is that it’s so at home for someone of his background, age, and environment.And everything he talks about, you know, is timeless fashion in which he's very clear…is not the same.