5 Style Tips For Men
5 Style Tips For Men
If you don’t care how you look, you’re never going to look good. You can put on the best clothes in the world and you’ll still look like a kid dressing up for a school play. Attitude is everything, in style and in life.
1. Practice wearing your best
The average guy doesn’t have a lot of ready-made excuses to wear a suit and tie.
Unless you’re a lawyer or a banker, that’s an outfit that’s mostly reserved for special occasions.
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Get in the habit of wearing your best clothes as a matter of routine, and it’ll take a lot of the mystery (and the mental resistance) out of dressing well.
It’s easy to get into mental paralysis with good wool jackets and slacks. They’re expensive, they’re a little harder to maintain than cotton shirts and jeans, and they make us feel more out of place. Try to teach yourself that they’re just clothes — clothes that look good on you.
2. Interchangeable clothing
The more of your existing wardrobe a new item goes well with, the more use you’re going to get out of it. That’s a principle that’s guided my style (and my style advice) for years.
3. Know your environment
Different situations call for different clothes. I love my worsted wool suits, but they’re not the right choice every time! A good dresser keeps his environment in mind — both the physical and the social aspects of it.
Physically, you want to be comfortable. That means lighter clothes in warm weather, thicker layers in cold, and a good fit all the time. Changing your wardrobe seasonally adds a little expensive when you’re first building it, but over time you’ll end up saving wear and tear (and sweat damage) as you spread your usage out over more weather-appropriate options.
4. Know your “why”
This is a lot like my rule about knowing your history. Fashion doesn’t have a lot of fixed yes-or-no rules. And the few that it does have can be broken stylishly (and have been).
But you need to know what you’re doing, and why. Otherwise, you just end up looking silly. I think “fedora guys” are a great example of why this rule is important. You probably know them — guys, who own one black fedora and wear it with everything.
5. Clothing that will be in style years from now
I like to focus on a “timeless style,” both in my personal life and in my advice to other men. Certain looks are always going to be dependable. Men might not wear suits as much today as they did in our grandfathers’ time, but the suits our grandfathers wore would still mostly pass muster today.
That’s a goal worth striving for: having clothing that your grandchildren could wear fifty years from now without looking out of place. I always urge men to focus on pieces that are both classic and associated specifically with men: suits, blazers, sports jackets, and trousers, both dress and casual.
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