The Self-Employed Man

Be your own boss and still pay the bills: clients, pricing, taxes, tools and time for your family.

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Skin after fifty is a barrier problem before it's a wrinkle problem

Turn the shower down, fix the cleanser, and understand the one cheap prescription that actually changes skin. Everything else is optional.

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How to buy a cowboy hat, crease it right and wear it right

Measure your head, pick a crease you can live with for ten years, and learn the handful of rules that separate a hat from a costume.

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

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Build your fall outfits around the layer you take off at noon

A 38-degree morning and a 70-degree afternoon are one outfit, not two. Start with what you'll be standing in at lunch and add backward from there.

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Adult acne isn't teenage acne and it won't take teenage advice

Why it lands on your jaw at 34, what actually works on the drugstore shelf, and the point where you stop experimenting and book a dermatologist.

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Theater Nights and Gallery Openings Need Different Clothes

One room keeps you seated in the dark for two hours. The other keeps you standing on concrete with a glass in your hand. Dress for the right one.

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Stop Dressing Like the Year You Peaked

Boot-cut jeans are a date stamp. At fifty-five, authority comes from fit, restraint and about four garments you probably don't own yet.

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Pay the tailor before you buy the fifth cardigan

Most of a capsule wardrobe is arithmetic and a tape measure. The rest is knowing which fabrics quit on you by March.

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

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Ride slower, pack smarter, and keep half your wardrobe at the office. The rumpled part of bike commuting is fixable.

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Chelsea, chukka or work boot, and what each one goes with

Your pant hem decides which boot you can wear, and most men get that order backwards. Start with a tape measure.

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Build me a revision plan that I will actually stick to

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Going gray takes three years, unless you cut it off

The grow-out math nobody does before they start, what to ask your colorist for by name, and why silver hair is really a texture problem.

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Wear a Trench Coat Without Looking Like a Detective

The coat isn't the problem. The length, the belt buckle and whatever you've got on underneath usually are.

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What to wear to the bid meeting when you work with your hands

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Brittle nails, ridges and the six months it takes to fix them

Vertical ridges are usually just age. Horizontal ones are a date stamp. And the gloves under your sink matter more than any supplement you can buy.

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What Your Face Stops Doing At Thirty, Fifty And Seventy

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

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The clothes worth buying in your twenties, in the right order

Your body's still moving, your budget's thin, and the trend cycle is loud. Buy for your calendar, fix the fit, and the rest sorts itself out.

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