From the monthly archives:

January 2009

A Man’s Style in Relation to His Body Type

by Antonio

Men come in all shapes and sizes, and for every man there are fabrics and styles that best compliment his individual body type. A tall man in an overcoat wants to look regal, not like a giant. A short man in a suit wants to look professional, not like a kid wearing his older [...]

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Lessons in Manliness: Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Brett & Kate McKay

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Chris Hutcheson.
The Victorian Era (c.1837-1901) was a period of great prosperity for Britain. With the British Empire at its height, British explorers were spreading across the globe in an attempt to gain knowledge of distant lands and bring glory to themselves and the empire. In [...]

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Weblog Awards Update: AoM Behind

by Brett & Kate McKay

So today is the last day to vote for the Weblog Awards and right now Art of Manliness is behind by 600 votes. Voting ends at 5PM EST, so please take 3 seconds and give AoM another vote. We really appreciate it.

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Being Your Own Man

by Brett & Kate McKay

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
-All quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance
When you’re eight years old, you’re pretty much oblivious to the opinions of others. You can wear a superhero cape to the grocery store, pretend to be a pirate at a party, and declare that your aunt’s blouse is ugly, all [...]

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The Art of Manliness Weekly Roundup: Vote For AoM Edition

by Brett & Kate McKay

Well, this week was full of victorious triumphs and devastating defeats. The big victory of the week is that we turned in our final manuscript of the Art of Manliness book. It feels really good to get that bad boy done. Look for it to hit bookstores this fall.
The defeat came from my beloved OU [...]

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Throw a Classy Bachelor Party

by Brett & Kate McKay

If you are selected to be your friend’s best man in his wedding, you have several important responsibilities to fulfill. The first is to plan a bachelor’s party for your buddy. When most people hear “bachelor party,” they think keg stands and g-strings.
In today’s article, we discuss the honorable origins of the bachelor party [...]

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So You Want My Job: Nuclear Engineer

by Brett

Today we return to our “So You Want My Job” series, in which we interview men who are employed in desirable man jobs and ask them about the reality of their work and for advice on how men can finally become what they always wanted to be when they grew up.
For this installment, we [...]

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The Best and Worst Magazines for Men

by Brett & Kate McKay

One of the reasons I started the Art of Manliness website was because of the dearth of quality men’s magazines out there. None of them really took the idea of manliness and what it meant to be a man seriously, and they were filled with the same, tired articles on how to bed the ladies [...]

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Please Vote The Art of Manliness for Best Culture Blog of 2008!

by Brett & Kate McKay

Hey gang. We are happy to announce that The Art of Manliness is a finalist in the 2008 Weblog Awards. The Weblog Awards is, according to the site, “the largest blog competition on the web.” Voting starts today and we would definitely appreciate your help. The Art of Manliness is up for “Best Culture Blog [...]

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Bartitsu: The Martial Art of Gentlemen

by Brett & Kate McKay

Image from The Journal of Manly Arts
Before Randy Couture and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, there was Edward William Barton-Wright and bartitsu. Bartitsu was probably the first instance of what we know today as mixed martial arts. Mr. Barton combined elements of boxing, jujitsu, cane fighting, and french kick boxing in order to create a self [...]

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Manvotional: True and False Manliness

by Brett

While we often think that the difficulty in defining manliness is a modern problem, if one looks through books of the the early 20th and 19th century, you will find that authors of that period also had a hard time nailing down exactly what manliness meant. Manliness is one of those [...]

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Your Grandpa’s Diet Plan

by Brett & Kate McKay

With the New Year upon us, many men across the country are making resolutions for how they want to change in 2009. A good portion of men are likely making a commitment to get healthy and lose weight. These men certainly have a lot of information at their fingertips to help them accomplish this goal. [...]

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The Best of Art of Manliness 2008

by Brett & Kate McKay

It’s been an awesomely manly year here at The Art of Manliness. When we launched the site a year ago on January 4, 2008, we didn’t think the AoM community would get this big, this fast. In just a year, AoM has grown to almost 25K subscribers. The growth of the site has been driven [...]

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