Pitti Uomo style can include a bit funnel-shaped cigar, more specifically a Toscanello cigar, a cut in half Tuscan cigar, strong, invented for dukes and rakes in the 19th Century. When visiting the large fashion fair in Florence last week, I once again spotted the distinctive cigar.
Without doubt the Toscanello fits the mature man better than the youngsters, who can look too pretentious smoking it. Worse yet, their moms wouldn’t approve.
Photos: The Journal of Style
While you’re showcasing the Toscanello, don’t forget to mention the smelly clothes, yellow teeth, bad breath and oral cancer it causes. This is part of style? No thanks.
I’m no nanny. I’m sure my readers can think for themselves. Moreover, I don’t subscribe to that polished view of style you seem to support. Interestingly, yellow teeth, a scar or other imperfections can be important components of style.
You missed my point entirely. For one, showcasing a guy with a cigar is an explicit endorsement by you, since the cigar was the very subject of the post. And as for yellow teeth being a component of style, you can’t be serious. Tobacco-stained teeth and tobacco breath, and the heightened risk of oral cancer, aren’t sexy or stylish, regardless of what continent you live on.
I don’t believe it’s fair or right to dismiss my point of view as needless “polish”; it’s basic health and common sense. And if you have any doubt, do a poll of 100 men and women, asking whether they prefer yellow or white teeth in their own mouths, and the mouths of a prospective date/spouse. I’ll bet you won’t have a single person saying that they prefer yellow teeth (unless they’re an alternative to no teeth, which based on your logic, could also be considered stylish).
LAStyleGuy
Really? We are all adults here and are entitled to choose to do what we choose to do. You might have a point – not a great one, but a point – if this blog was directed at school children, but it isn’t.
Leave adults to make their own decisions about the risk/reward payoff and tone down the Californian neo-Puritanism.
Now I am going to make myself a Negroni and contemplate whether I should improve it with the pleasurable consumption of some tobacco.
Interesting. Never heard about it before. It seems to be an attribute amongst a certain clientele at the Fair in Firenze, so it’s relevant to have it described, no? That does not implicate a moral judgement from the writer’s perspective. What if the cigar is just a trap the peacock doesn’t actually smoke? I’d rather say that not showing part of the reality because of prejudices amongst readers (and for the risk of offending) would be editing reality. Tattoos, a glass of whiskey, a slice of pork meat… could offend others. No limitations! Speech should be free. I say this as a non smoker, cheers.