Start here What's This About A suit size is a chest number and a length letter. A 40R is a jacket for roughly a 40-inch chest in a regular length, sold, under what Oliver Wicks calls the industry standard, with trousers six inches smaller at the waist. You need four numbers, chest,...

Start here What's This About A buzz cut is hair clipped to one short length all over, or to one length on top with the sides taken a guard shorter, and the whole decision is a number: a number 1 (an eighth of an inch) shows scalp, a number 2 (a quarter...

Start here What's This About Hair goes grey when the follicle stops making melanin, and many men find the grey strands feel coarser and drier than the pigmented ones did, so three adjustments usually help more than a decision about dye: a cut with visible structure, a product with a little shine...

Start here What’s This About: With an hourglass outline you can choose to show the defined waist or to wear a straighter line over it, and both are legitimate styles. This page compares the two approaches garment by garment, such as: – belts, rise and tucking at the waist – softer or...

Start here What’s This About: Dressing for business in winter is mostly about layers you can add and remove, so you stay warm outside and comfortable in a heated office while still meeting your dress code. This guide covers the practical choices, such as: – warmer suit and trouser cloths, such as...

Start here What's This About: Cufflinks are put on in four moves: fold the cuff back so the buttonholes line up, pinch the two layers together with the edges meeting (the kissing fold), push the cufflink through the aligned holes from the outside of the wrist, and turn the back to lock...

Start here What's This About: Suspenders (braces, in British English) hang trousers from the shoulders instead of gripping them at the waist, so they want a trouser that sits at the natural waist with a little room in the waistband; that part is mechanical. Most of the rest is convention. Button-on braces,...

Start here What's This About: Growing a beard is a matter of not shaving for twelve weeks and doing five small tasks while you wait: wash the beard and the skin under it, use the right leave-on product for your skin type rather than the same oil as everyone else, brush it...

Start here What's This About: The care label on the garment decides, and everything on this page comes after reading all of it. A care label is several separate instructions, not one verdict: the washtub says whether and how it may be washed, the circle says what a professional cleaner may do...

Start here What's This About: A dress shirt is ironed slightly damp, at the heat its own care label allows, in one order that stops each pressed section being creased again by the next: collar first (underside, then outside), then the cuffs (inside, then outside, never over the buttons), then the sleeves,...