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Straight answers about personal styling: costs, services, and what you actually get.

·Outfits

Simple Outfits for Men: Seven Basics, and Only Five Work

The seven pieces every list of simple outfits opens with make twelve combinations, and five of them hold. Swap two and all twelve do, for $302. Plus the willpower argument for dressing simply, which returned an effect size of 0.04 across 23 labs.

·Occasion

Date Night Outfit for Men: What 546 Real First Dates Wore

Across 546 filmed first dates people wore measurably more black than an hour earlier, and no more blue at all. In a survey of 6,646 singles the top turn-off was not a garment but a wrinkle. Three complete looks for drinks, dinner and daytime, six garments between them, from $808.

·Outfits

How to Put an Outfit Together: 108 Combinations, 24 That Work

Six menswear guides read in full, and five teach a colour rule while two teach formality. So here is a published twelve-piece core wardrobe at real prices, and every outfit it makes: 108 possible, 24 that hold up, and none removed by the colour rules.