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Men and style : essays, interviews, and considerations / David Coggins ; with a foreword by Glenn O'Brien.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coggins, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men's clothing.
- Grooming for men.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abrams, 2016.
- Summary:
- David Coggins explores the history of men s style and learns from some of the most notable tastemakers in the industry and beyond. Its essays and interviews discuss the lessons men learned from their fathers, the mistakes they made as young men, and how they emerged to become better men.
- Contents:
- Foreword: The exquisite propriety of men
- Introduction: Higher learning
- Beginnings
- The power of clothes
- Youthful exuberance: onward and upward
- How did you dress as a boy?
- Certain advantages
- Rituals of court
- How did your father dress?
- Fathers and grandfathers
- Considerations: Gregory Peck
- Ties and the meaning of things
- Did your father have rules?
- Do you have rules?
- Did you wear a uniform?
- The case for imperfection
- There goes the neighborhood: the unending pursuit of authenticity
- In college
- Considerations: Gay Talese
- Men of style
- Some inheritance.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781613122372
- 1613122373
- OCLC:
- 961457418
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