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At NELSON WADE, our clients often ask us for style guidelines on which necktie would look appropriate with their new custom dress shirts. The matching of your custom dress shirt and tie could be one of the keys for a working professional to dress for success today.

For men who are always on the go, let’s look at some basic guidelines to make the necktie selection easy and quick. In today’s mens fashion there are no strict rules for matching colors, so don’t get buried down with how neckties look

Over the years we’ve seen many variations in buttons on suit jackets and sport coats. As of late, the most popular has been the 3 button version. Several years prior, we even saw 4 buttons in the marketplace. In retrospect, that look was probably best reserved for 6′ 8″ basketball players. For the rest of us mere mortals, the only thing missing from our 4 button sign-board look alike suit jackets was the message “Eat at Joe’s” printed on the front and the back. By now you’ve noticed the shift ba

After much time and energy pouring over design ideas, tweaking and re-tweaking the site we are now unveiling our 2010 site makeover of Man of The Hour Magazine. So drop on by and check it out. manofthehourmagazine.com

Compared with fabric and brand, fitness of the suit is more important. Without a right size, no matter how high the grade is, the suit would never fits well. How to choose your right suit?

To choose a right suit, you would better try on it personally. Otherwise, it is difficult to find a suit fits well. Here are some tips on how to examine the fitness of your suit:

1. With arms at sides, the distance between each sleeve and first-web space on the same side is about 2cm. The sleeves can not reach y

Photo via Men of the Cloth Site

Whether you’re wearing it or just staring (don’t worry, we won’t tell), everyone loves a good suit. But a glimpse of the artistry behind suit tailoring is as rare as a cobalt-blue three-piece bespoke outfit from Savile Row. The soon-to-be-released documentary Men of the Cloth, however, gets behind the scenes (or seams) of this time-honored craft by following three Italian custom tailoring gurus at the peak of their powers.

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