SNOK! Approved: Esquire's Best Dressed Real Man in America

My unrelenting love for everything Esquire is no secret. And as of his victory on the Today show this morning, neither is my immediate adoration of the new 2009 Best Dressed Man, 22-year-old Columbia student Dan Trepanier. It seemed to me that living in Cambridge meant a sea of awkward, too-short-pants wearing, Jansport toting Harvard kids. Throw in a butt-length ponytail and an obscenely oversized tee (preferably with a wolf scene on the front or a math joke on the back) and you've got your MIT kid.

So imagine my surprise when this morning I learned Esquire had not chosen a 30-something "entrepreneur," but a college kid. Not to mention he's an aspiring fashion designer, a self-proclaimed momma's boy, and a fellow fashion blogger (MensStyleBlog.Blogspot.com). The charmingly un-hip Trepanier sported jeans, cuffed just a touch at the ankle a la Thom Browne, a striped rugby shirt over his standard shirt and tie, a perfectly tailored tweed blazer, and of course a little white pocket square. He looked like a young, American Nick Sullivan (Esquire's fashion director). If only more men would have such an enthusiasm for developing their personal style, the world would just, well, be full of men with an enthusiasm for developing their personal style. Would it be so bad?