This beautiful, 128 page hardcover coffee-table book, is available on Amazon
From the linen-clad gentleman on the Riviera in 1923 to the man in slim denim and clean white sneakers walking into the twenty-first century boardroom, A-Century-of-Men’s-Styles traces the remarkable, restless, occasionally absurd, and consistently fascinating story of how men dressed across one hundred years — and why it mattered more than they would usually admit.
This is not a book just about fashion. It is a book about men: what they wanted, what they feared, what they were trying to say before they opened their mouths. The white suit said ease. The double -breasted said authority. The leather jacket said freedom. The pushed -up sleeve said Miami, 1984, and everything that came with it.
Every garment shown on these pages was worn by real men in real moments — at ballrooms and breadlines, on dance floors and trading floors, in CBGB on a Tuesday night and on the cover of Vogue on a Wednesday morning. Richly illustrated and elegantly written by Zevon, A-Century-of-Men’s-Styles moves decade by decade through the silhouettes, fabrics, and cultural collisions that produced the modern male wardrobe — from Bogart's chalk-stripe to Cobain's flannel, from the Fonz's leather jacket to Crockett's sockless loafer, from the Mohawk to the Stetson to the power tie. Each style pairs original illustrations with writing that takes the clothes — and the men wearing them — with insightful, sometimes humorous characterization. Because the way a man dresses isnever really about the clothes. It is about the particular moment in history he found himself standing in, and what he decided to show the world about himself.
