Manstyle: The GQ guide to fashion, fitness, and grooming by Peter Carlsen - 1977

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1977. First printing. Very good in a very good jacket.. From the twentieth century's best decade and the gentleman's most quarterly publication comes this first edition - the scarce simultaneous hardcover issue - of the Manguide to Manfashion. Any good guide to style ought to be a handbook of hell and a descent into madness all in one, and where GQ's rather staid copy sometimes fails, the photography and the polyester blends of MANSTYLE never, ever do. Once, a man kept his waistline where he kept his waist, or several latitudes higher; once, he boasted a mustache above his tennis whites and a sea-captain's beard above his double-breasted dinner jacket and evening flares; once, he wore seventeen different vests in seventeen different beiges in a single night; once, he unbuttoned his shirt down to his navel, to be alluring, and masked his eyebrows beneath a thicket of feathered hair, to be mysterious. Once, it was 1977. 11'' x 8.5''. Original full brown cloth. In… Read More