G. Bruce Boyer, the author of True Style: The History & Principles of Classic Menswear (Basic Books) will be visiting Nick Hilton, 221 Witherspoon Street, on Saturday, October 31, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mr. Boyer has been called the “Robert Caro of the cufflink, the Boswell of the bow tie” and “the Raymond Chandler of menswear journalism.”

Mr. Boyer will be meeting and greeting customers, speaking casually about his life and work, and signing free copies of True Style. The event is in conjunction with an appearance by Nick Hilton’s premier fabric supplier, Gladson, Ltd.

According to Jeffrey Felner, New York Journal of Books, “G. Bruce Boyer has, in essence, created an encyclopedia of men’s fashion and style …. True Style is the most comprehensive and all-encompassing volume on the topic of men’s fashion that has ever passed in front of these eyes …. Besides the advice, the wonderful and knowledgeable narrative, Mr. Boyer offers the reader the history, an aspect of fashion and style that is so often overlooked within this genre of books.”
The Wall Street Journal comments, “Where fashion was once dictated from the top down, it now rises from the street up. But as G. Bruce Boyer shows in True Style, islands of elegance still survive …. [A] cheerful attempt to define the underlying principles for dressing well, while at the same time providing some of the history behind what we wear.”

Maxims from Mr. Boyer include:

“There’s nothing right or wrong about style. Like a poem, it simply is.” 

“Style is the art of bending fashion to personality.”

“Style and taste are particular sorts of intelligence.”

and “The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.”

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