Monday, October 1, 2012

MENS STYLE.... EXACTLY!


 
Style is an all pervading sense of presence and intent!  However one chooses to express style, (or not express it), a distinct statement is being made about who and what a person is or is trying to be!  Style is so very personal it cannot be truly understood by anyone but the stylist who creates it whether that person is the one who selects the look, walk, scent, and attitude accompanying the clothing or an external stylist who coaches the host or model in how to wear a particular look.  Yes it is really that deep! 
 
Men's style is uniquely and happily very different from that of women... Men  have a swagger, a machismo, a bravado, a je ne sais quoi... whereas women do not... at least not in the same sense as do males... Women have a delicacy and prominence like a flower but men have a robustness and boldness like a mountain! 
 



For instance… let’s look at a man’s walk… I very much like to study a gentleman’s style of walking… that is, when I encounter those gentlemen who still cultivate a distinct walk, stride, pimp or strut!  Whilst a man’s walk is a decidedly deliberate expression and admittedly affected it nonetheless tells a great deal about him. Now there are obvious things we can deduce by the manner of a man’s stride such as if he is afflicted with some physical complication or if he is tired or in a great hurry… But at the end of the day this reveals nothing about the nature of the man, his passions, his spirit, the very philosophy of his manhood… The bolder the walk the more character the man tends to have… or at least so it would seem… The confidence and graciousness with which a gentleman walks through a crowd is unmistakably marked by those who admire such things as part of the manly arts cultivated over many, many years… Two decades ago I began collecting men’s walking sticks and canes for that distinct purpose… to cultivate a comfortable and characterizing walk.  Every day I watch my stride attempting to design one that is easy and distinguished. 

 
 
 
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D. Vollin


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