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The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style
by Nicholas Antongiavanni
from Collins Business
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Sartorial Must-Have 
Nicholas Antongiavanni's THE SUIT is one of the most informative, interesting, and entertaining, volumes pertaining to the art of male dressing that I have ever read. Written cleverly in the style of Machiavelli's classic tome THE PRINCE, Antongiovanni discusses body types and how they affect fit, suit detailing and construction, as well as fabric quality, coloration, cut and tailoring of garments, and level of formality as it pertains to solid and patterned suits. He thoroughly evaluates "ready-made,"... more info
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For "Suits" needing great info about suits - shoe - shirts
IF your world is about C level persons: C level execs, clients not customers, colleagues not co-workers or continental (global) not county executives - and you wear suits 3-4 days every week - this is a must have book.
It can give you an edge in boardroom presentations and when meeting "serious suits" for the first time (job interviews).....IF you apply the first 70 pages to your next suit purchase. I own many heavy and expensive "how to dress" books - used to sell suits and still learned much from... more info
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A funny, sophisticated and indispensable guide.
The Suit by Nicholas Antongiavanni is a parody of Machiavelli's The Prince. It not the type of parody which ridicules, but rather it is the type that uses the tone and design of a previous work as inspiration to create a new work of art. I've read this little book twice now, and I think it might take a college level course to unearth all the literary devices used by the author to imitate The Prince. I keep discovering more clever references each time I read The Suit, and it is amusing and astonishing to... more info
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Flawed gem: very informative but not well written 
If you want to learn specifically about men's formal clothing (suits, ties, shoes, etc), this book pack plenty of good info. Unfortunately, there are no pictures, so it is often hard to imagine what the author is describing. Therefore, this should not be your first or only book about men's style. Alan Flusser's books are better introductions to this field.
Given that I already knew quite a bit about this topic, I was impressed how much new and interesting things I discovered in this book. For example,... more info
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