When I was 10 and rode my bike into the single tree on my front yard, my bestfriend at the time told me to man up, which I guess meant stop crying because I wasn’t getting a bandaid or a juicepack.

But here, it’s about re-appropriating the phrase to cross a boundary that said fashion is a woman’s world and us men are just here to visit and if we’re lucky, wear tasseled penny loafers. So Man.. whatever way you want, put on a Marc Jacob’s polka dot shirt, and repeat after me ‘I am a strong, independent man with a great collection of button downs.’

Email – jamie@manupstyle.com