Manners to menswear: Tips to upgrade your style

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<i>It's a year to take stock -- especially of ourselves. Make what you project your project with our tips on what's trending and what's never out of style. -- The Image staff</i>

"Life in Color"

( Chronicle Books )

It's a year to take stock -- especially of ourselves. Make what you project your project with our tips on what's trending and what's never out of style. -- The Image staff

STYLE

Find the right color palette for you and stick to it.

In a time of reduced resources, we all need a strategy for looking great. Don't go into the mall or your closet blind; find out if the blue for you is teal, sky, sapphire or ice using style consultants Jesse Garza and Joe Lupo's new "Life in Color" book (see accompanying story).

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