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What the Well Dressed Man Is Wearing is not the usual guide from a style consultant; although it does advise on various makers and their different styles and their overall value for money. It also has an historical angle but, equally, it is not a museum catalogue. There is nothing exactly to compare with this book. For example, do you know another book which gives exhaustive, reasoned advice on tie, shirt and waistcoat combos for white and black tie evening dress (including tropical weight DJ) and what to wear to events such as Royal Ascot and even Cowes week; tells you what Cary Grant’s tailor used to do to the shoulders of his coats; where and why Fred Astaire danced in Savile Row and the exact circumstances in which Nelson lost his right eye? It will also tell you relative thicknesses of animal hairs used in cloth; what happened to the last looms that made silk hatter’s plush used for black silk toppers and how to avoid a ‘wedgie’.
This book will tell you these things and more – things that you will love to know but would never look up for yourself. The information is researched, comprehensive and useful in relation to clothes and some of it is just intensely fascinating and, in the best traditions of any miscellany, of no earthly use whatsoever! This book is illustrated and will appeal to a wide audience comprising all those with an interest in men’s dress . The intention is that even the well-informed will find something new and readers may well include: public schoolboys, University students, young professionals (maybe even some older ones) Some women also find it amusing and diverting. It will almost certainly start banter in all those places where the recondite and the utterly frivolous traditionally rub shoulders and it is a book which no one with an interest in the subject matter will wish to be without.
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