Style Guide

Fold it face down (don't roll it), pack it flat on top, and hang it the moment you arrive. Shower steam and a quick collar-and-cuff touch-up handle the rest. And the fabric matters most.

Work a baking soda (or hydrogen peroxide and dish soap) paste into the underarms, wait 30–60 minutes, wash, and air-dry until the stain is gone. Skip chlorine bleach. Plus how to stop yellowing for good.

Most Thanksgiving dinners call for smart casual: a collared shirt, a sweater or quarter zip, chinos or dark jeans and clean leather shoes. Five outfits by setting, plus what to skip.

Dress one step nicer than a normal workday: a collared shirt and sweater for casual parties, a blazer for office parties, a dark suit for cocktail or festive. Five outfits and what to skip.

A dress shirt size like 16 34/35 means a 16-inch neck and a 34-35 inch sleeve. Here's how to measure yourself, how letter sizes compare, and what to do when you're between sizes.

Men should wear a dark suit, white dress shirt, dark plain tie and dark polished shoes to a funeral. Here's what to wear without a suit, in hot weather, and when the family asks for something different.

The quarter zip is business casual when worn over a collared shirt. The flannel works as an overshirt layer. Where each one lands, by setting.

Why whites yellow and grey, the laundry routine that prevents it, and how to revive a shirt that has already gone.

Belt matches the shoes. Socks match the trousers. The two rules, a quick-reference table, and where patterned socks fit.

The pattern-scale rule that makes mixing work, combinations that never fail, and where a tie should end.

Shoulders, collar, chest, sleeve and waist — the five places a dress shirt either fits or doesn't, plus what a tailor can and can't fix.

If your shirts gap at the chest or strangle you at the collar, the problem is the cut, not the size. How to diagnose it and what to buy instead.