dapperQs have unique needs and challenges when it comes to finding clothes that fit. Every year, our website is inundated with “fit” questions, especially with respect to business attire and formalwear. In response, our contributors have posted how-to videos, fit tips, and interviews with designers,...

In the last installment of “Queering the Workplace,” we explored the practical aspects of wearing men’s fashion in the workplace, including specific examples of what to wear on top.  In this third installment, we’ll explore additional items in most any dapperQ’s work wardrobe – pants,...

Over the past ten days, more than 800 of you have taken the time to watch dapperQ’s first how-to video “How to Measure For a Man’s Shirt.” I’ve gotten some great feedback.  Gabi told me it gave her and her partner more of a vocabulary to discuss fit.  And Bo – one...

The comments are beginning to flow (blame sunshine for the glacial pace?) on my Top 10 Challenges for dapperQ’s list, and fortunately, one of the first from epinard states: Love this. Can you add as one of your challenges “little money”? I’m broke! Thrift stores work I am learning to sew...

As promised, dapperQ wedding candidate #D-4689 (just kidding, it was Robin and she is guinea pig number uno) and I had her custom fit at MySuitNY.com last Friday. We went through the full selection process but, after Robin’s (apparently terrific) pop saw her sartorial quandary as portrayed in...

Yesterday’s Washington Post featured a great article article entitled, “Same-sex weddings open the door to finding the right male attire for women,” which prominently featured two dapperQ’s we are assisting in the search for their wedding suit. Robin Cloud is quoted as telling...

According to Wikipedia, bespoke is “a British English term employed in a variety of applications to mean an item custom-made to the buyer’s specification. While applied to many items now, from computer software to luxury car appointments, the term historically was only applied to tailored...

GQ’s current coverage of Fashion Week here in NYC offers countless examples of looks that dapperQ’s could rock.  But you know what, we can’t. And I’m gonna tell you just a few reasons why. Number one, most of us have curves.  We aren’t built like pre-pubescent boys. ...