Clothes, Fit and Grooming: skills checklist

Clothes, Fit and Grooming: 14 skills, each with steps, a quiz and a printable checklist, covering tie knots, ironing, suit fit, shoes, buttons, stains, laundry, shaving and barber talk.

Looking put together has less to do with money than with a few small skills: a tie knot that sits right, a shirt pressed in the right order, a suit that fits at the shoulders, shoes that have seen polish this year. Most of them take ten or fifteen minutes to learn and a lifetime to benefit from, and nobody minds if you practice in front of a mirror first.

This category covers the three knots worth knowing, the four-in-hand, the Windsor and the bow tie, then ironing a dress shirt, judging suit fit and knowing what a tailor can change, polishing leather shoes, sewing on a button, getting common stains out and doing laundry without shrinking or dyeing anything. The grooming side covers shaving without razor burn, trimming a beard with a clean neckline, and the words to use with a barber so you get the cut you pictured. It ends with dress codes decoded and how to measure your own sizes.

There are no product recommendations here and no medical claims about skin or hair. When a skin problem keeps coming back, the page tells you to see a doctor.