It’s time to get sexy.

This fall, it's more about bits and pieces of menswear incorporated into a very feminine look.

What: Blue pinstripe shirtdress

Jason Trotzuk approaches his work like a painter or a sculptor.

A nice dinner date is the classic idea for February 14. And as New York menswear writer and designer Alan Flusser once told me, “If you walk into a restaurant and you’re not known and you want to get a good table, a suit and tie will go much further down that road than any other form of dressing.”

Cognito: Modern Wisdom for Dining and Social Etiquette is a trendy-looking, tastefully packaged deck of protocol cards just in time for the fast-approaching festive season’s endless parties and its endorsement of good will among men and women. It landed on my desk soon after Peter MacKay’s recent fuddle duddle and Norman Spector’s follow-up comment on a Vancouver radio station.

Leave it to two ambitious young Vancouver companies created by people who came from somewhere else to identify a niche that needed filling and do something about it, with impressive results.

To any guys out there who still think that carrying a purse is effeminate: the 20th century just called and wants its fanny pack back.

Fashion walks the streets, and guys eager for a more of-the-moment look might want to check out one street in particular””Main Street””where the mainstream and marginal mix it up.

Men who want to be part of the eye candy come Pride Day can check out a number of stores in and adjacent to the West End that are stocked with all the current trends in gay apparel.

Many years ago, the comedian Bill Cosby said, “Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.”

According to Raif Adelberg, the Sex Pistols were the first boy band.

Tiger of Sweden is marking new territory. The Scandinavian design house first flexed its muscles during the inaugural season of B.C. Fashion Week last year. It was back at BCFW with a vengeance on April 6 when its fall/winter 2006/'07 collection roared down the runway at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. Those in the packed auditorium were lucky to get a first glimpse of what has to be one the slickest, sexiest, and smartest menswear lines to come along in a while. Burberry and Duffer of St.

Back in the day, when Glyn Roberts was a young man in Manchester, England, he joined a semiprofessional local soccer team, except of course they call it football over there. At the time, he was a stylist for Vidal Sassoon and everyone else on the team was a plumber, bricklayer, or mechanic.

Let's be honest; I like men," says Graham Bingham, a likable man himself. The co-owner of Momentum Advanced Grooming Solutions (1237 Burrard Street), which he runs with his partner in life and work, Robert Graham, is sitting in a stylish black-leather chair in the cleanly designed shop. The atmosphere is relaxed and manly, with a subtle barbershop ambience. A selective mix of skin care, shaving, fragrance, and men's makeup products is displayed on well-lit, uncluttered shelves.