A nerd's guide to men's style

The typical style guide for men addresses, among other things, matching tie knot to body shape to shirt collar and suit cut, but might those of us who still refer to YouTube videos to knot faux Windsors have something else to offer? I try five tips; you decide.

1. A man can do basic math and common formulas in his head: He can add and subtract four digit numbers mentally while hiding any physical, especially facial, signs of mental anguish. Calculating a 20 percent tip requires only moving the decimal to the right one place and doubling the number; this must be done with confidence and a corresponding adjustment up for good service.
2. A man knows his subjects from objects but isn’t fussy enough to correct subject complements and relative pronouns: “Her,” is a weak response to “who just called?”; the correct answer is her name or “she did”. Worse might be responding to “Who is calling?” with “I,” short for “I am” or worst of all, ‘It is I.” Yes, the verb “be” properly links to a subject-case pronoun (”It is I”), and “who” further confuses subject and object (”it is I, who is calling”), but a man studies grammar well enough to not be studious about it.
3. A man knows the outlines of forms of address: First off, a man never inappropriately uses honorifics on himself, such as esquire or honorable. A man is accorded status by others and makes correction via indirect methods or casual conversation, perhaps by using correct forms of address with another party. Second, a man knows titles even where he disregards their significance. For example, Anglican priests are addressed as “The Reverend,” bishops as “The Right Reverend,” and archbishops as “The Most Reverend.” Should a man use such terms as ironic respect, he should be even more certain in the titles’ correctness.
4. With suitable purpose, a man may punch up or down: Potshots are the purview of the comedian or chump; whereas a man serves criticism within his domain to all credible sources with empathy. Through durable principles, a man reframes disagreement as authenticity.
5. A man is never fully dressed without cash: Where the above fails, tipping suffices.