Your cocktail shaker can be smooth chrome or hammered aluminum. It must both conduct cold and look sophisticated at the same time.

There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don't droop, because droopy socks that show calf are worse than short socks that do the same.

Never, never, never should the pocket square be of the same pattern as your ties. You are not 'Reverend Ike.'

Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashing when clad in this swashbuckling style.

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brothers.