You're going to have to put in some serious work.

The initial impetus for the post came while I was glancing over the fashion advice that Details had in its October issue. Coupled with the editorial advertisements, there are some really strong ideas kicking around for men's style this season. Here's the clincher...

... if you don't make six figures it'll be tough to pull off a lot of what they're creating as an image for your closet. I guess you can't hate on them too much-- markets are markets.

Forever, the standard response to the problem of finding clothes at a reasonable price has been the thrift store. I don't know if you read this article that was in the Times earlier this month, but the writing is on the wall for either a sharp downturn in the quality of goods you're likely to find in city stores, or a hike in the price of the items that you're relying on to make your wardrobe.

So either put in the work, get paid more and perform a line by line assimilation of you're closest fashion mag, or start hitting thrift stores outside of NYC-- it's where your go-to boutique is getting their clothes.

I'm not going to give you the name/address of where I did my shopping today, but Fall is taken care of-- four pants, three shirts, three sweaters and a windbreaker-- for $56.