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

Break isn't a style opinion, it's a measurement. Get the back hem and the leg opening right and the front takes care of itself.

GuideStyleDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

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.

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GuideStyleTobias Reed23 Sept 20266 min

Short men should buy for the shoulders and hem the rest

Height isn't the problem. Rise, hem, jacket length and a tailor who picks up the phone are the whole fight.

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Cheap clothes give themselves away in four places

Fix the shoulder, the shine, the hem and the buttons, and nobody can tell what you paid. Everything else is just marketing.

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GuideStyleTobias Reed23 Sept 20266 min

How to dress well when you're built big

Buy for the widest part, pay a tailor for the rest, and stop letting a low rise ruin every pair of pants you own.

GuideStyleTobias Reed23 Sept 20265 min

How to shop the thrift rack without bringing home junk

The shoulder seam decides it, elastane is already dead, and a $6 jacket with a $60 tailoring bill is still a bargain.

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GuideStyleTobias Reed23 Sept 20266 min

Teach your son to dress while he still lets you

The lessons a boy actually needs, roughly in the order he needs them, from the shoulder seam at nine to the tailor at seventeen.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

GuideStyleDean Shaw22 Sept 20266 min

The suit you can still wear in fifteen years

What to look for on the rack, what to fix at the tailor, and the small habits that decide whether a suit lasts a decade or two seasons.

$Buy less and better only works if you do the math$

GuideStyleRay Okonkwo22 Sept 20266 min

Buy less and better only works if you do the math

Cost per wear is the right idea and most people calculate it wrong. Put the alterations, the cleaning and the honest wear count in, and the answer changes.

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GuideStyleTobias Reed22 Sept 20266 min

What to wear the first time you meet her parents

Dark trousers, a solid collared shirt, leather shoes that match your belt. Then the fixes that make the whole thing work.

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GuideStyleTobias Reed22 Sept 20265 min

Dressing Your Age Without Dressing Like You Quit

The things that make a man look older aren't the clothes themselves. They're condition, fit and proportion — and all three are fixable this weekend.

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GuideStyleTobias Reed22 Sept 20265 min

Ten garments that get you through almost any week

A small wardrobe only works if every piece fits. Here's the list, the fit checks that matter, and what a tailor can actually fix.

GuideStyleTobias Reed22 Sept 20265 min

The checks that tell you a garment actually fits

Shoulders, armholes, rise, break — the specific things to look at in the mirror, and the ones a tailor can never fix.

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GuideStyleTobias Reed22 Sept 20265 min

What men are actually wearing right now, and what to skip

Trousers got wider, jackets got shorter, brown took over from black. The practical version of this season, with the alterations that make it work.

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Is your money actually in order?

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

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What to wear to a wedding, a funeral and an interview

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A work wardrobe for $500, and $80 of it goes to the tailor

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Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Turn it inside out before you spend the money

The fabric content, the seam allowance and the shoulder seam tell you whether a piece survives three winters. The price tag tells you almost nothing.

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How to stop disappearing in your own clothes after forty

Low contrast and a soft shoulder line are what read as invisible, and neither one has anything to do with your body.

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