Dress Him Up: A Tailored Collection of Bespoke Fiction (Paperback or Softback)

Dress Him Up is a companion collection to the acclaimed Dress You Up, offering another stylish yet soulful take on how what we wear reflects who we are. In these eleven sharply tailored stories, fashion becomes a thread that binds personal history, desire, memory, and transformation. You won't find superficial tales of suiting here-this Tailored Collection of Bespoke Fiction explores masculinity, vulnerability, identity, and power through garments that conceal, reveal, and reshape the men (and boys) who wear them. Whether it's a gold silk jacket, a club tie, or a pair of difficult shoes, each story reveals how fashion marks pivotal moments in a life. Edited by Brian Centrone (Salon Style, Southern Gothic) and illustrated by Miguel Carranza, Dress Him Up is as poignant as it is polished-a literary wardrobe that will linger long after the final fitting.

Brian Centrone is a writer, editor, and fashion historian specializing in menswear and pop culture. He is the editor of Salon Style: Fiction, Poetry & Art, as well as the co-editor of Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South. His fashion research has appeared in Threads magazine, the FIDM Museum Blog, the FIT Fashion History Timeline, and the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design (forthcoming). He is the author of the novel An Ordinary Boy and two short story collections, I Voted for Biddy Schumacher: Mismatched Tales from the Mind of Brian Centrone and Erotica.