Start here What's This About Measuring yourself for clothes takes a soft tape, a mirror and, for some measurements, a helper. The chest goes around the fullest part with the tape across the shoulder blades, the natural waist where your torso creases...

Start here What's This About Lace Oxfords with straight bar lacing, which shows neat horizontal bars and hides the verticals inside, and use straight or criss-cross lacing on Derbies, Derby brogues and boots as you prefer. This guide answers the questions men...

Start here What's This About Wear new leather shoes indoors for short spells, lengthen the sessions over a few weeks, use thicker socks and shoe trees, and keep heat, water and freezing tricks away from good leather. This guide answers the questions...

Start here What's This About Wrap a soft tape measure around your head where the hat will sit, across the middle of the forehead and about 1/8 inch above the ears, then match that measurement to the maker's own size chart and...

Start here What's This About Start with your trouser waist size plus 2 inches, then check the maker's own size chart, because brands measure belts to different holes. This guide answers the questions men ask when they order a belt online, such...

Start here What's This About Dry clean a suit only when it needs it, which the tailors in this guide put at about three times a year at most, and keep it fresh in between by airing, brushing, steaming and spot cleaning....

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...