Using Custom Suit Pictures to Increase Blog Traffic

Dress To Win is my new blog that covers wearing custom suits and sport coats to overcome the modern trend towards business casual and other forms of sloppy dressing.

American men actually dressed pretty well during the 30's, 40's 50's and 60's. See the AMC TV series "MAD Men" for a great example of the great business suits worn by men in the early 1960's. After the 1960's it was just one bad clothing trend after another for men; the sadly misguided hippy look, followed by the excessive polyester of the disco trend. A brief revival of suits and preppies in the 1980's could not prevent the damage of the 90's grunge look and it's odious companion "corporate casual".

Last year, I just got tired of the sloppy, half-done business casual look. Instead I've gone full bore into more a traditional business look with custom sport coats, custom shirts and ties. Since summer of 2007, I've been experimenting with this look and I've had really good results with it.

The offshoot of all my sartorial research was learning how American men were once well dressed for business in my father's day and my grandfather's time. How did it come to be that today we try to dress comfortably, with no concept and no desire to look sharp? Why am I surrounded by grown men that dress like sloppy teen age children with no style? I blame the designers and the media for the whole comfort era of dressing.

I say we are not children who need to be comfortably swaddled in baggy jeans and hoodies. No. I am a responsible adult with enough life experience and business knowledge to dress well.

This week starts a new episode in my sartorial blog, in which we use photos and links from photos to experiment with building web traffic. Given the power of photos to attract and hold readers attention, we'll learn the effect of linking keywords to photos. At the end of the experiment we'll summarize the effects in a future report.