Start here What's This About Brush off the dry dirt, clean leather, canvas and knit uppers with mild soap and water on a soft brush or cloth, treat suede with a dry brush and a suede cleaner, scrub the rubber soles separately,...

Start here What's This About There is no fixed line where stubble ends and a short beard begins; on this page a short beard runs from just past heavy stubble to about half an inch (about 13 mm) of even growth, and...

Start here What's This About Slicked-back hair is a top long enough to comb or push straight back from the forehead and hold there, from about two inches for a short version to four to six for the classic, over sides that...

Start here What's This About An undercut is a haircut with the sides and back clipped to one short length, a number 1 or 2 in the Book of Barbering’s standard order, and the top left long, with a visible line where...

Start here What's This About A quiff is hair swept up and back from the forehead so the height sits at the front, with the rest of the top left textured and the sides kept short; it needs three to four inches...

Start here What's This About Wash everyday jeans after roughly ten wears or when they are dirty or smell, inside out in cold water on a gentle cycle, and hang them to dry; raw denim gets fewer, gentler washes, by hand if...

Start here What's This About A crew cut is a short haircut with the sides and back tapered close and the top left slightly longer, cut so it graduates from its longest point at the front hairline to its shortest at the...

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...

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...

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...