{"id":745,"date":"2012-07-16T08:55:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=745"},"modified":"2012-07-16T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T15:55:24","slug":"menswear-books-daniel-peres-the-details-mens-style-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Menswear books: Daniel Peres, The Details Men&#8217;s Style Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m77rtqoxO41qbt7ls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"319\" \/>I confess to not quite knowing <em>Details<\/em>\u2019 place on the landscape of gentlemen\u2019s magazines. While glancing at its issues reveals a more deliberately tasteful publication than blunter, intensively airbrushed \u201clad\u2019s mags\u201d like <em>Maxim <\/em>(or its countless late imitators), it also lacks the pedigree of comparatively venerable midcentury-man staples like <em>GQ<\/em> or <em>Esquire<\/em>. Yet <em>Details<\/em> must harbor comparable aspirations to style authority, since it, like those two older brothers, has a whole book out on the subject: the <em>Details Men\u2019s Style Manual<\/em>, by the magazine\u2019s editor-in-chief Dan Peres. \u201cIn a world of skinny suits and pointy shoes, I was rather content dressing down,\u201d he writes of recently bygone days. \u201cI had adopted a uniform of jeans, sweaters, and tattered Chucks \u2014 and the occasional button-down shirt, untucked, of course. I even wore a fleece to a Versace fashion show once.\u201d So we\u2019re working from square one, then.<\/p>\n<p>The unaddressed question of how someone who inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/07\/20\/nyregion\/flying-shirttails-the-new-pennants-of-rebellion.html?pagewanted=all&amp;src=pm\" target=\"_blank\">an entire New York Times trend piece<\/a>\u00a0rose so high\u00a0in the first place does shake one\u2019s confidence in the\u00a0<em>Details<\/em>\u00a0imprimatur. But combine his history of willful disregard with the presumably high caliber of stylistic consultancy at his fingertips, and Peres looks ideal to write a beginner-level manual on men\u2019s dress. Having undergone a Damascene conversion on the road between European fashion shows, he decided to set his own house \u2014 or rather, closet \u2014 in order, and what he learned from his magazine\u2019s specialized style editors he organizes into this book\u2019s thirteen chapters. All this he explains in the introduction, which spreads fewer than 700 words across four pages in two colors and three different large fonts. It gets noisier: the two-page spread immediately following presents a list of \u201crules of style\u201d in a flurry of bolding, boxing, unconventional capitalization, and other formatting tricks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/putthison.com\/post\/27328604600\/menswear-books-daniel-peres-the-details-mens-style\">at Put This On<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess to not quite knowing Details\u2019 place on the landscape of gentlemen\u2019s magazines. While glancing at its issues reveals a more deliberately tasteful publication than blunter, intensively airbrushed \u201clad\u2019s mags\u201d like Maxim (or its countless late imitators), it also lacks the pedigree of comparatively venerable midcentury-man staples like GQ or Esquire. Yet Details must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-clothes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}