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The Style Guy |  | Author: Glenn O'Brien
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 687687
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 268
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0345427270
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.142
EAN: 9780345427274
ASIN: 0345427270
Publication Date: May 2, 2000
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Product Description
"Style isn't fashion.
Fashion is about what everybody's doing, what everybody's wearing.
Style is about what you're doing, what you're wearing."
As the no-nonsense columnist for Details magazine, Glenn O'Brien has helped thousands of guys naturally develop their own unique sense of style. Now he can help you. Here is practical, down-to-earth advice on dress, manners, sex, grooming, and dating--including cigar and cell-phone etiquette, tips on ordering wine in restaurants, and the cold, hard facts on cutoff jeans, ribbed tank tops, black shoes with white socks, and the age-old conundrum: boxers or briefs.
What's the difference between a ticket pocket and a fob pocket? A raconteur and a loudmouth?
Does slipping a maitre d' a tip like they do in the movies get you a better table?
How do you tell your date that she has spinach in her teeth?
What's the best thing to say to someone when you've prematurely ejaculated?
What do you wear with a brown suit?
If guys (and their girlfriends) are wondering about it, then O'Brien has the answers. Having style was never so easy!
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 Made a Good Gift October 12, 2009
Citizen John (Washington, DC)
This is a nice gift to give a young man with a sense of humor. Glenn O'Brien has a type of humor that is easy to get used to and he's put together a "manners" book for young men.
The Wit and Wisdom of Glenn O'Brien January 11, 2009
Robert Cannon (New York, NY USA)
A wonderful collection of wisdom from GQ's Style Guy, Glenn O'Brien. The book is a collection/selection of wit and wisdom from his column in GQ. If you are a regular reader of Mr. O'Brien's column you may find the book redundant. However, if this is your first exposure to the Style Guy, or if you are an avid fan, then it's worth the price of admission.
Essentially Mr. O'Brien offers commentary, reflections and advice on style issues, tailoring, grooming and matters of the heart. It's not a book about fashion, as Mr. O'Brien goes to some pains to explain, it's about style. Mr. O'Brien advocates that you develop your own personal style, whatever you define that as being.
 GQ no more January 15, 2007
dcreader (Washington DC area)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The beginning of the end of GQ was the exit of Art Cooper, et al and their replacement by a new generation of editors of whom O'Brien is one.
Richman and
It's not so much that O'Brien is terrible, but when you compare the writing in this book with that of Cooper and the old GQ, you see what style really is, and how far the magazine has fallen into the realm of boys magazines, e.g., Maxim.
America could really use a real men's magazine again.
Come On, O'Brien's Great November 8, 2004
Jim 'n Em (Law-Law Land)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have had this book for a while, but I feel obligated to defend it when I see these other poor reviews.
I must admit to being a big fan of "The Style Guy" and that I always flip to his column while I stand in line in the store, GQ in hand. But I'm a fan because of his wit and sense; he's good.
This book is valuable because it does offer practical advice for business or business casual and will be helpful to any young guy starting out.
If you would enjoy a fairly literate book with pretty conservative but contemporary views on style then you would like this. If you are more interested in a Tom Ford worldview than you might want to look elsewhere, but I would have no idea where.
 A Bore December 12, 2003
3 out of 21 found this review helpful
O'Brien's columns for GQ are useless, this book is ever more so. Sarcasm and acting like a smart-ass are his trademarks. Both are absolutely boring from such a witless person.
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