Considering the appalling state of dress in the current world, it may sometimes be warranted that women lend a helping hand to the men who struggle with clothing and looking good. However, as was so brilliantly phrased by Nicholas Antongiavanni:
There has never been a well-dressed man who was dressed by women; for their tastes diverge from ours; and though they may recognize what looks good when they see it on you, they cannot recognize it in stores, being by their nature drawn to the latest fashions, the quality of which was given above.
This holds very true and is precisely the reason why I obtain my clothes by consulting mainly myself and not others, especially not women. Women's opinions may be interesting to hear, but in the context of men's clothing, especially if the man himself knows even a bit about the subject, should be discarded. I'll venture a guess that this is also the reason why the tailors who cut for men have always been men.
Now, I guess at this point I have to also point out that the above mainly works for men's clothing, not the adolescent male fashion nonsense and other similar areas. But again, these areas are of no real interest in this discussion, considering that stylish men know better than that.
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