They come a-runnin' just as fast as they can,
'Cause every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.
— ZZ Top, "Sharp Dressed Man"
You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good.
"Clothes make the man" is this guy's motto. Impeccably groomed but never a slave to fashion, the
Sharp Dressed Man is quite simply a guy dressed to the nines, over whom the ladies in the audience will
undoubtedly swoon.
See also
Dressed To Kill for added lethality,
Man Of Wealth And Taste for more evil.
Examples
Trope Namer
Anime & Manga
- Lupin III and Jigen Daisuke
- Being set in 1930's Gangsterland, what were the chances that Baccano! wouldn't abuse
this◊ trope◊ like a horribly addictive drug?
- Giovanni
- Shota example: Makube Rokuro from Tezuka's Vampires. He keeps the look as he gets older and is an expy in stuff like Black Jack.
- On that note, Dr. Black Jack
- (Besides being one of the only guys on the show) Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Mask has 4 different girls after him on Sailor Moon, and even when not in Tuxedo Mask form he wears well-tailored jackets.
- Alucard from Hellsing, whose outfit is like the awesome love child of Trigun's Vash the Stampede (lampshaded by the author himself in his end-of-tankobon notes) and Carmen Sandiego.
Film
Live Action TV
- Stephen Colbert - the character, not the actor - tries to invoke this trope with his snappy suits and would-be cavalier attitude, but fangirls seem to prefer to classify him as the woobie.
- Barney Stinson of How I Met Your Mother.
- He even wears suit pajamas in case easy women come by in the middle of the night.
- Kyle Barker in Living Single.
- Neal Caffrey in White Collar.
- Face from The A Team is always impeccably dressed, a characteristics of most of actor Dirk Benedict's characters.
- Pierce Brosnan's titular character from Remington Steele.
- Spoofed with Cat in Red Dwarf who goes to absurd lengths to protect his clothes, even above protecting himself and others from physical harm.
- Most of the male cast of Jeeves And Wooster, though in Bertie's case only by Jeeves' best efforts.
Professional Wrestling
- Ur-Example is Ric Flair, especially during his title reigns in the 80's and as leader of the Four Horsemen. He still manages to look every bit as put-together and "Slick Ric" now, though.
- And the rest of the Horsemen aren't too shabby themselves, especially during their WCW reformation, walking around in tuxedos.
- Evolution, as befits an Expy of the Four Horsemen and including Ric Flair.
Video Games
Web Original
