The Best (and Worst) Dressed Men at the 2010 Emmy Awards

We know he wins the Emmy every year for House, but this award? This he really deserves. We're suckers for midnight-blue tuxedos featuring a shawl collar — and so are women — but wear one like this from Brunello Cucinelli with a deep V and what looks like a mohair-wool blend, and wear the hell out of it, and you're winning anything formal.

A great Prada tux, a great pleated white shirt, and a tie-to-collar ratio only outdone by his hair — the star of Glee knows his proportions. Take notes, particularly, on making sure your bow tie covers your entire collar. There's nothing worse than a collar popping out the bottom.

This guy has another great Prada tuxedo. He's got hair that, for once, is not flopping around like Jim from The Office. And he's got a collar that fits perfectly. But that collar is really, really wide, and that collar is behind a bow tie that is a real, real problem. Unless you're a groomsman, which he kind of is, and in which case, dress like this.

A fat man in velvet, in Los Angeles, in August? That's saying you don't give a damn, which he probably doesn't, but still: there are standards, and a weird navy-blue shirt is not among them. Unless you're trying out for True Blood.

Mad Men's Harry Crane needs his costume designer back: All this shiny stuff? That's eveningwear, not formalwear. You can't wear a suit like this and walk around in the California sun. And you can't wear a suit like this and sit down in a crowded theater full of good-looking people. You can't wear a suit like this.

Say what you will about how he fit in that nice Armani tux — a bit long in the leg, way loose with the tie — but the man has fantastic hair. Windswept hair. Hair that doesn't looked overstyled or like he used too product but polished nonetheless. Hair like you just got laid in the limo, which is really impressive hair.

His knot was a little, well, little; his collar a little, well, curled. But for his return to NBC, Conan brought out the trimmer, and looking good from the neck-up is looking good when you're on cable these days.

Orange: good when you're short, good everywhere this fall, great for getting our attention when we will never, ever watch an episode of Glee.

He's got perfect timing on The Office, and here he's got the details just right: the covered-placket shirt, the nice big lapel — the whole fit is precise, and all those exacting standards start with the tie. Even if he didn't know who made it.

Even if you knew who made it, because he wears Dolce & Gabbana on The Soup every week, and quite well at that. But as the de facto leader of the skinny-peak-lapel-and-necktie crowd, we wouldn't mind if Joel took one giant leap for adulthood and added a bit of fabric to the tie next awards season.

Let's see here: a two-tone lapel on top of a killer gray tux? It's all very modern, in a good way — the sharp Calvin Klein suit is very well cut, and you get a pass if you're Neil Patrick Harris anyway — but it would be great if that black lapel went all the way around.

Usually we're all for gray formalwear — and it doesn't get much better than Brunello Cucinelli, but you should really only mess with one big variable at once. The Modern Family co-star? He messed with four. So take this, add a thicker notch or peak collar, and you're standing out just fine.

The Glee creator might very well be laughing all the way to the bank, but something tells us he was at least giggling when he got dressed for tonight — hence the velvet bow tie. The man clearly had fun when choosing his turquoise shawl dinner jacket from Tom Ford and it gave him justified confidence to go blue. We just wish he hadn't been hiding behind those turquoise mirrored sunglasses, too.

It's small, but a small collar looks good on a guy with tight-cropped hair and a few years on him — especially when you're wearing Burberry, and especially when you tie a long tie well, compared to all the other drunken knots going on out there on Sunday night.

A shawl needs to stand out against the rest of your jacket — the whole thing, not the weird button hole in the lapel. The only thing standing out about the True Blood star in Alexander McQueen was a perfect shirt collar, and it should've been the entire package.

There's not much you can do when you're Hurley, but you could get a suit that fits. Hate to say it, but our man could actually take a few notes from Dom Deluise. Or at least...

This kind of shawl-lapel dinner jacket with classic black tux pants? That's how you say "I'm not wearing a tux" without taking things too far. It's not a look most can pull off (and even Robinson could've used a slightly bigger bow tie), but on a big man with big swagger? Aces.

We know you've been to hell and back on Lost, mate, but you wear a tie.

There's nothing — nothing — wrong with Brooks Brothers, but you've got to clean up things around the neck. A wide, loose collar like that and you can see the whole thing behind your tie. And you've also got us not looking at the wife, which, in Parker's case, should be the point.

There were two things distracting us while Christina Hendricks was talking about Esquire on the red carpet with Ryan Seacrest, and they were not her husband's trimmed shawl collar or the studs on a shirt that showed he cares. And for that we thank him. And Brooks Brothers.