Paul Stuart is an ultra-beautiful menswear store with locations in New York and Chicago. Years ago, they had an advertisement in the program for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, which I reproduce here in it's entirety. These people are wise:
The Elements of Style
It’s easy to say what style is not. It is not, for example, fashion. (see below) But when a friend asked us, the other day, to say what it is, the only answer we felt sure of was: our bread and butter. Perhaps because that answer was true, our inability to define the word rankled. So at last, prompted by some half-remembered sentences, we reached for our copy of The Elements of Style.
This useful little book was written by William Strunk, Jr., and ... View the Post