City Style

Tailoring, sneakers and the smart-casual line nobody explains properly.

Your Nose And Your Cheeks Don't Want The Same Thing

If your forehead shines by noon while your cheeks flake, you don't need two routines. You need one routine applied two different ways.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The questions to ask your surgeon before you sign anything

You get about fifteen minutes in that room. Spend them on the things that actually change your recovery, your bill and your calendar.

Ask BRO

Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

Ask it

GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

What a tailor can fix, and what no tailor can

Hems and waist seams are cheap and change everything. Shoulders, rise and armholes are where your money goes to die.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

PartnerCancerDefying.com

Grooming5 min read

Fine Hair Looks Fuller With A Blunter Cut And Less Product

Most thin-hair advice sells you a shampoo. The actual fix is three inches of length, a blunt line and ninety seconds with a dryer.

Poll

How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What general, a spinal and sedation actually feel like

The anesthesiologist meets you minutes before surgery and asks a dozen questions. Know the answers, and know what you're choosing between.

GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Undershirts, underwear and socks do most of the work

The layer nobody sees is the one that decides whether you're comfortable at 4 p.m. Fix it for less than the price of one good shirt.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

PartnerCoconut.com

GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Buy The Motor, Not The Attachment Count

A 22-piece kit and a bare clipper both cut hair. Only one of them is still cutting hair in year four.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

When a video doctor visit works and when it wastes your day

Telehealth is great for the decisions that hang on your story, and useless for the ones that hang on somebody's hands.

GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Build a whole wardrobe for two thousand dollars in twelve months

Take the tailoring money off the top, buy coats in February, and stop shopping for clothes you already own.

Ask BRO

Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

Ask it

GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Beard oil, balm and wash, and which one you can skip

Two of the three earn their shelf space. The third depends on how long your beard is, and nobody selling it's going to tell you that.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

PartnerDelicious.com

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

A CBC is three tests stapled together

Red cells, white cells and platelets each answer a different question, and one of them will lie to you if you ran ten miles yesterday.

Poll

Where does your best time with your kids happen?

GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The rise is why your pants keep sliding under your belly

Fix the waistband first, then the shirt hem, and a midsection stops running the whole outfit.

GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The Beard Itch Peaks Around Day Ten, Then It Quits

Ninety seconds a morning and three cheap things fix the worst month of growing a beard. Most men quit right before it ends.

PartnerWhackAWoke.com

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

How to choose between urgent care, the ER and waiting for Monday

A working parent's triage system for 9 p.m. injuries and 3 a.m. fevers, including the stuff urgent care can't do and the symptoms that skip the line.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

Style6 min

Your trouser hem is probably an inch off, and it shows

Grooming5 min

Shine By Noon Is A Product Problem, Not A Washing Problem

Ask BRO

What should I wear to this?

Ask it

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Read the prescription label before you leave the parking lot

The sig line, the fill date and the warning stickers tell you most of what the doctor didn't have time to say. Ninety seconds, in the car.

GermProof.com — An invisible germ barrier on your skin for hours

PartnerGermProof.com

Style5 min read

Build a whole wardrobe for five hundred dollars, line by line

Eleven purchases, one tailoring budget, and the order to buy them in if you only have a hundred bucks this month.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

Older articles

Older City Style stories