Keep it chic! Keep it simple! Man can get away with a suitcase containing just one tie for a business trip, if he

chooses the right one. So says CHIC SIMPLE, a new pocket book, which is set to

become the businessman’s guide for choosing and wearing shirts, ties and tie-pins.

Written by a team of top US fashion writers, the book’s message is that man

should stop accumulating clothes, and simplify his life by sticking to a few things

which are absolutely right.

The secret in taking one tie lies in choosing a tie with several subtle colours in its

background. Choose your shirts to pick out different shades from that tie and it

looks new each time.

The second rule for travelling light is to make sure your shirts fit the occasion.

Blue stripe is traditionally a city classic, meaning that the wearer has conservative

values. But thin, close stripes look formal and businesslike; wide stripes more

casual, and a too dark colour can look gangster like. If you’ve got it all wrong,

don’t panic. This is first aid you can do if you’ve packed a shirt or a tie you feel is

too informal. Just add a collar-bar (a simple pin fastened to both sides of the collar

and underneath the top of your tie). Or buy a new tie. After all, even CHIC

SIMPLE admits that man cannot live by one tie alone.

Mark the sentences True(T) or False(F):

1. CHIC SIMPLE is a pocket book for all people who want to be stylish.

2. Man should buy many clothes to look fashionable.

3. On a business trip a man should take only one tie with several colours.

4. CHIC SIMPLE says that you should never buy a shirt to fit a specific

occasion.

5. Blue colour in shirt stripes mean the owner’s modern values.

6. A man should choose trousers with one of the tie shades.

7. Shirts of dark colours are considered being gangster like. ​