Daunting task.
I’ll need and expect guidance!

Hear hear.belimad wrote:Thanks Michael.
Daunting task.
I’ll need and expect guidance!
As I wrote above: "Your clothing needs to fit you. It needs to be appropriate for the use you intend for it." So let the tailor do the work to fit you. Choose the proper cut and cloth for the use you intend. That's it. You just used up .5 percent of the 1 percent I afforded you. You have an additional .5 percent. That does not leave room for sickly Sartorial obsessive compulsive disorders of any kind. And not only will you learn to look better but by escaping the talons of E-salesmen on the blogs and forums, who seek to profit from your illness, you will put money back into your bank account as well! Win win win!, but in my heart I cannot break away from fit and how stuff needs to fit.
You are correct in what you say about the need to learn to dress.alden wrote:
Ridiculous, right? And yet most of you, and most certainly all of you who daily consult forums, and blogs in search of style spend 99 percent of your time in wasteful and passionate attachment to clothes.
Your clothing needs to fit you. It needs to be appropriate for the use you intend for it. That should occupy 1 percent of your attention and leave 99 percent available to you to learn to dress.
alden wrote:Ok, I will be posting a new thread on the Art of Dressing for all of you who are interested.
But let me proceed as follows. Can you imagine a violin virtuoso who spends 99 percent of his time worrying about the brand or bow of his instrument; a great painter who focuses 99 percent of his creative work shopping for brushes; a legendary sculptor who spends 99 percent of his waking hours in contemplation of his chisel? And in each case only 1 percent of concentration on how to bow, brush or sculpt?
Ridiculous, right? And yet most of you, and most certainly all of you who daily consult forums, and blogs in search of style spend 99 percent of your time in wasteful and passionate attachment to clothes.
Your clothing needs to fit you. It needs to be appropriate for the use you intend for it. That should occupy 1 percent of your attention and leave 99 percent available to you to learn to dress.
That is great news. You have an abundance of energy and time with which to improve yourself the minute you can break the clothing crutch and start to be more like Heifetz, Rembrandt and Michelangelo.
Until you make the break from the clothing addiction there is very little I or anyone else can do for you. And you will remain soldered into the context and contest of general ugliness that dominates the Fashion/Clothing net space.
That is the first hurdle that few of you will pass, but for those of you that do, I will be posting my first lesson with a group of suggested (and obligatory) reading materials none of which come from anywhere near the publications you know, those you will find in most Men’s shops but rightly belong in a round bowl in the Men’s room.
Stay tuned.
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