The TEOTWAWKI Tuxedo: Formal Survival Attire

Written from one person's point of view, this book goes in-depth about not only what to wear in a TEOTWAWKI situation, but more importly how to wear your gear. Of course, i have to stress one person's point of view, as there are as many different ideas as there are people to point them out. Nonetheless, the book is a useful resource, especially if you have little of no familiarity with military web gear, past or present. the author points out many pros and cons of numerous systems, and shares his own experiences. He makes one really great point that I personally agree with - all the supplies in the world can't help if you don't have them with you, and the only way to ensure that is to wear them on your person - and that takes planning. Overall, I'd recommend this book to anyone just starting out as a "prepper", and for those who may want to update or revise their own gear.

Like any honest survivalist wannabe, I don't wanna ever use anything I've stocked or any of my gear - I like my modern comforts and entertainments! That being said, Joe Nobody provides some really great, practical and thought out advice - with some twists that no one else has ever really stated before. After reading the first chapter, I actually stopped what I was doing and put on the gear I'd been accumulating - and discovered the exact same flaws - I'm glad I didn't discover this too late. I made changes based off this information, and really am pleased as hell that I was able to take information from someone else and make improvments to my own situation.

More like 2.75 due to presentation issues. As many reviewers have noted here, this is novice level, very basic information that Joe is presenting but, you've got to start somewhere, and this information is about one of the foundations upon which much else depends. The material that Joe is trying to lay out for readers is indeed useful and valuable and, if the SHTF, may even be critical and lifesaving, but for a slight work of just 73 pages which is devoted to teaching us about and familiarizing us with equipment that we -most of us--presumably have not seen or are familiar with--and which relies on several drawings and quite a few pictures (28 to be exact) to do the familiarization and teaching, it seems obvious to me that it is imperative that the pictures in question must be very clear and crisp. Unfortunately, just as with Joe Nobody's prior work, "Holding Your Ground," while the line drawings used are of excellent quality, many of the pictures here in "Tuxedo" are again very muddy, sometimes out of focus, and unclear, and about as far removed from "crisp" as possible. Message to "Joe"--it can't cost much, hire someone to take some decent pictures, and the effectiveness of your books will be massively improved, and if the problem is with the printing of what are already decent pictures, then get someone new to do your printing. I note, too, that there are several, increasingly annoying instances where the number of the picture we are referred to in the text is incorrect. Look, there are less than thirty pictures involved in the entirety of "Tuxedo," how hard can it be to make sure that the text, when referring readers to this or that picture to clarify something, is referring us to the correct picture? The fixes are obvious, better quality pictures and/or printing, more attention to detail, and better proofreading are needed for "Tuxedo" to live up to its true potential.

This is a guide more for the "Novice Prepper" in selecting and using Mollie gear. It is a very good guide in the selection of Mollie equipment and usage, however it over looked the older Alice system which still is very good kit. Most of his opinions are valid and useful, with most reviews mine have there faults too in especially when it comes to equipment as mine is a mix and match of what I find useful or practical.

pictures could greatly be improved, but they get the point across. This is another valuable book to read from Joe Nobody. I am not related to Joe Nobody, even if i wish i was (he has some nice kit i wouldnt mind trying out!) this book goes well with the others. if you think you will get a full spectrum overview of everything having to do with survivalism you need to also get the other books in the series (holding your ground, without rule of law, homeschool shootist, and the fiction series holding their own) looking forward to any future offerings from Joe Nobody

I was a big fan of the Holding their Own series by the author. I thought this would be a great resource. The book is thin and a little on the general side. Also, throughout the book handgun magazines are incorrectly referred to as “clips” which might seem minor to some but is a big letdown to have a very armature mistake made by someone that is a subject matter expert.

I can't really recommend this book. Even at the most basic level this book is lacking. Not enough information. It reads more like an introduction to a book. I have the author's other books Without Rule of Law, The Home Schooled Shootist and Holding Your Ground. Although they all commonly have few and poor pictures, the illustrations for diagrams and such are clear. And I do like these others very much, though the Home Shootist's "extra" 26 pages that is just health info was very disappointing. Save it for more illustrations, charts etcetera related to the immediate topic at hand, please.

Well written & informative. I left the army with Alice in the 80's. After this book, I dumped Alice & took up with Molly. I'm in the process of changing over everything to the Molly system. She's tighter, better ballanced & more comfortable. I believe with Molly I will "stay longer, penetrate deeper & pack a heavier load". Oh, I've all ready done that with Alice? Oh well,never mind. Good update on the NVG & available sights, too.