W.W.C.G.D.

One of my favorite Web logs to read is Easy & Elegant Life. Not only do I get the ideas of a well-heeled Richmond gentleman about which to muse (change your sheets Wednesdays, for a fresh mid-week boost), but there are fabulous recommendations for living more, well, elegantly.

In the latest post, Pop, the writer posts about reading Nina Garcia’s “The Little Black Book of Style,” and where men stand in relation to her tips.

Almost none of it is applicable to menswear, of course. Our trends are trends of millimeters.

I have never heard it described better.

as Mr. Robert Stuart once reminded me in this very blog “Would Cary Grant have been more elegant if… .”

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“I’m sticking with the classics, and if somebody doesn’t like it, I can deal. If you look at Cary Grant’s suits from the thirties, forties and fifties, they still look good today. That’s style, not fashion.” Glenn O’Brien, The Style Guy, quoted in “Cary Grant Style” by Richard Torregrossa.

(Emphasis mine) Here to, the ideals to which I try to hold when dressing myself can be explained no simpler, no more elegant than that. Style is as removed from fashion as farming is from cooking.

Cary Grant’s secret was this: elegance through constant editing. It’s a lesson we should all take to heart.

I know I sound like a snob, but I just thought I would share.