Men's Style Manual - Video Book Review - Daniel Peres & DETAILS Clothes Guide For Men
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, I'm going to be doing a video book review of Details Men's Style Manual.
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Well, here's the book.
As you can see, it's not the largest book, although it's substantial and thick.
It has some well over 274 pages.
This is written by Daniel Peres, although he did get a lot of help from the editors
over at Detail Men's Magazine.
If you're not familiar with that men's magazine, it's good.
It's not on par with Esquire or even GQ, but I would say Details does a pretty good job.
And for the money you spend, if you're just starting out, you may want to invest actually
in that magazine.
It's only going to cost you probably $10 to $20 to subscribe for the info in there, but
I would advise this book over the magazine and the reason being is in a nutshell, this
book takes the best information that they've put out over the years and brings it into
one place, and you can thumb through it.
Overall, I'm giving this five out of five stars.
For the money that you pay for this book, it is well worth it.
The information is solid.
I like the layout.
It's more casual than many of the other books I've seen out there.
So if you've got Gentleman or Dressing the Man or The Elegant Man, any of those other
books I've reviewed, this one is going to be a step down when it comes to formality,
but that's great because not all of us is wearing a suit every single day.
So what are the things I really love about this book?
Three things come to mind.
One, I love the magazine layout, so I love its use and its breakout.
It's got images.
It has pictures, very short articles.
They cover a lot of ground and they do it very quickly and entertaining.
You feel like this is a book that you could sit down for five minutes and grab a number
of useful nuggets from.
The other one is going to be the relaxed style, so I really like how there's a more casual
focus of this book, and this is great because not all of us wear a suit every day.
When I'm saying "relaxed", it's more towards I think the man who's wearing polos, sweaters,
maybe wears a sports jacket once a week, if that.
And so, for many of you guys out there who have been clamoring for more casual books,
this is a great one to get into.
Another one is the interviews.
They've got a lot of interviews throughout the book, so it kind of breaks up the style
information and it brings some pretty solid knowledge.
This book was published in 2007, so it's only going to be about five years old, the information,
so it's very relevant, very modern.
There are only a few things I disagreed with, but overall, for 275 pages of solid information,
you really can't go wrong with this book.
Where were a few places that I thought they could improve upon?
Well, it's hard to knock them for it, but I felt that a lot of the information is pretty
shallow, so just as they're starting to get into it, they move on to another point.
This is probably because they had so much they wanted to cover, and the weight and the
style of the book, so it's hard to knock it for that, but if you're used to The Elegant
Man or Gentleman where they just really go into the detail with entire pages of text
and history, you're not going to see it in this book.
This book is, again, more of a very easy reader.
It relies more on images and graphs and pictures, so not necessarily a bad thing, but you have
to point that out.
The other thing is going to be that it is relaxed.
They do briefly cover black tie and suit wearing, but you're going to find that if you're looking
for something higher end, it's not going to be in this book.
Overall, again, five out of five stars.
I think it's a great book, well worth your money.
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This has been Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye-bye.