| It's always great to mix trendy pieces
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| | five-inch lapels!) were sold.
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| with more classic looks to give you the
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| | Unlike many looks with roots in the past,
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| perfect look that always looks
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| | this one is a study in jarring contrasts.
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| up-to-date. Color is big for men this
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| | It has both the edge and cheek of early
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| season (I love colored interesting shirts
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| | 80's New York, when Day-Glo color fueled
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| of all kinds), as are relaxed chic looks
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| | the New Wave scene, and the ease and
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| (like relaxed suits), etc.
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| | entitlement of an early 70's Republican
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| Accessories that are hot are really
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| | enclave in Palm Springs.
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| simple: well kept shoes. It's one of the
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| | "The roots are in that country club
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| first things people notice, so always
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| | thing," said Joe Zee, the editor of the
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| make sure the shoes are right and clean.
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| | men's wear magazine Vitals. "The edge is
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| Here's something I like to do. Instead of
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| | in its conservative aspect." Striped
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| looking at celebs, I check out various
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| | shirts and plaid jackets can play into a
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| magazines and advertising and check out
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| | conservative look, but solid colors, Mr.
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| different looks I like (for You GQ,
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| | Zee suggested, are bolder. "Men are more
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| Cargo) and then get shopping!
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| | used to pattern," he said. "So a pink
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| If you are wondering why some of today's
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| | striped shirt is easier for a lot of guys
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| most sophisticated men's stores - Polo
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| | than an all-pink shirt. That's a more
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| Ralph Lauren, Bergdorf Goodman Men,
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| | specific fashion statement."
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| Barneys New York - are stocked with
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| | No sector has taken up the call to color
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| enough hard-core color to resemble the
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| | more than the hip-hop world, in which
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| team uniform section of a sporting goods
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| | dandies like Usher, Farnsworth Bentley
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| shop, well, perhaps that's fitting. Color
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| | and Andre 3000 of OutKast (hard at work
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| has become practically a contact sport.
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| | on a fashion line called Benjamin) will
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| Mens wear Bright New Look In the last few
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| | wear, and combine, the splashiest of
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| seasons, many men have developed a major
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| | colors. "You have urban rappers from
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| passion for sharply tailored suits and
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| | Nelly to Puffy saying, 'I can wear this
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| brightly patterned dress shirts, snapping
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| | without being a sissy,' " Mr. Zee said.
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| up $200 Etros by the half-dozen. But this
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| | Chris Chambers, a dapper vice president
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| spring, in the eternal game of
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| | for publicity at BMG Music, feels the
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| one-upmanship known as fashion, the look
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| | pull. "There's definitely a mixture of an
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| has been taken to a new extreme. Solidly
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| | urban thing with classic country club."
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| colored pants, sweaters and blazers - in
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| | he said. "I'll wear the pink Ralph Lauren
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| tangerine, lemon, viridian, magenta,
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| | blazer but maybe not with the white
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| royal blue - have raised the stakes, and
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| | slacks they show. I'll wear it with some
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| some men are, to retailers' surprise,
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| | Evisu jeans and a cool sneaker."
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| taking the bet.
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| | Still, it takes guts. "I think a solid
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| Retailers report that traditional
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| | bold color looks fresh, but you have to
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| two-button cotton sport coats and pinwale
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| | have a level of confidence for it," Mr.
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| corduroys struck by a lightning bolt of
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| | Chambers said. What makes the look less
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| color have become some of the hottest
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| | brash and more appealing, he said, is its
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| sellers of the season. And in a rare
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| | history as the onetime uniform of
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| meeting of minds, old-school retailers
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| | 19th-hole golfers everywhere.
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| like Paul Stuart are sharing a design
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| | Ross Geisel, a Manhattan fund-raiser, has
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| aesthetic with edge-of-fashion lines like
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| | taken a shine to color because of its
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| Burberry Prorsum and Duckier Brown.
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| | associations with a life of gentlemanly
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| "The first thing that blew out of Barneys
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| | ease. "I can get away with wearing it to
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| was all the color," said Daniel Silver, a
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| | work, and then if you go out afterward,
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| partner in Duckier Brown. "When we were
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| | you don't look like you came from the
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| designing it we were thinking: 'It's so
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| | office," Mr. Geisel said.
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| bright. Are guys really going to buy
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| | Another reason he likes extreme color is
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| this?' But they have. It's like someone
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| | that there are so few rules about wearing
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| knocked down the wall between his and
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| | it. That, he maintains, makes it easier,
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| hers closets."
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| | not harder to dress. "It doesn't matter
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| The trend has obvious appeal to men who
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| | what you do," he said. "I have a loud
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| want an easy new way to express a bold
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| | pink shirt on today with a corduroy
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| streak. But it has an august precedent as
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| | chocolate brown blazer. I can wear it
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| well, in the late, great NBC peacock,
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| | spring, summer or fall, with any shoe I
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| Johnny Carson. In 1973, when country
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| | want."
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| clubs swarmed with pants and blazers of
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| | Even with his outlaw attitude, he said
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| every hue, Carson's own fashion line was
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| | the style reminds him of his father's
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| the best-selling men's tailored clothing
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| | country-club clothes. But the concept of
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| line in the country, according to Homi
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| | Johnny Carson as a symbol of style is
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| Patel, the chief executive of Hartmarx,
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| | lost on him. "All I remember is Carnac,"
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| which owns the line. In 1973 alone,
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| | he said.
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| 80,000 electric blue sport coats (with
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