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Fashion for Men: The Primer on Looking

Amazing

by Chase AmanteSunday, 14 April 2013

Guys have been asking for a hile on here for a pie!e on fashion for men" So # guess that makesthis one a long time !oming"

$ashion%s important" &o important' #t%s pretty important" #t%s not make or break always""" but

you kno the saying( clothes make the man"

)hat you ear doesn%t *ust define you as !ool, se+y, or stylish" It also subconsciously affectshow other people feel toward you
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)ear !lothes that make you look amaing, and people illfeellike you%re amaing" )ear!lothes that make you look different, and people ill vie you as different -good or bad as thatmay be."

)ear !lothes that make you look ordinary, on the other hand, and people ill vie you as *ust

that( ordinary" /oring" ot parti!ularly noteorthy"

hey%ll hardly even noti!e you"

And thus, e have our fo!us on fashion(getting noticed, in a positive ay" /ut not like hat edis!ussed in the arti!le on peacocking""" the trulyfashionable man pi!ks !lothes that fit him soell people don%t even see the individual !lothing items all that mu!h"

#nstead, they *ust look at the man himself and say o"

# !hose the ord e+!ellent for the heading here be!ause e+!ellen!e is hat you ant to strivefor and put the emphasis on in your on assembling of your fashion and style"

$ashion is an art form" #t%s making yourself appear more beautiful, more poerful, more puttogether, and more !ompetent" #t%s making yourself stand out from the !rod in attra!tive,noti!eable, and, ideally,subtleays" #t%s also about !ontrast and highlighting some aspe!ts overothers"

An e+treme e+ample of ho fashion impa!ts per!eption is to think of someone from a rebelliousyouth sub!ulture the punks of the 150s, the goths of the 10s and early 2000s, the emos andhipsters of the late 2000s and early 2010s" hen take them and !ontrast them ith, say, an urbangentleman, a business elite, or a trendy !elebrity" And take all of those people and !ompare themith someone ho spends all of his or her time at the bea!h, tanning and surfing and hitting thegym and drinking at bea!h bars"

here are some personality differen!es you no doubt see hen you pi!ture these people6 but thebiggest difference in your mind!s eye are the fashion differences "
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he punk 7 goth 7 emo has dark !lothes, ith lots of ippers, !hains, and pier!ings, a!!ented bysometimes !olorful hair -pink or green, say, or bright red." he urban gentleman or business elitesports ellfitting !lothes !learly made of high 8uality materials" he bea!h fre8uenter is earsloosefitting, breey !lothing tshirts, shorts, and sandals designed to sho of his or her body,hi!h is in shape, tanned, and as mu!h a part of his fashion identity as the arti!les of !lothing

orn"

"hich brings us to our first lesson on fashion:hen you set out to put together a good lookfor yourself,you need to have a certain image in mind"

$ashion !an be a ay of e+pressing yourself""" but usually, it%s a ay of labelingyourself"

)e%ll !ome ba!k to fashion identities in a little bit" $or no though, hat # ant to start ith arethose elements of fashion universal to all styles"

The Power of #ed

9ou may have heard the advi!e that if you ant tobe more attra!tive, ear something red" 9ou%veprobably had the e+perien!e of alking don thestreet and having your eye suddenly !aught by somegirl earing a bright red dress or shirt or *a!ket"

)ell, there%s resear!h on red, too" he resear!h asdone first on the oman in red, finding a notable

in!rease in a oman%s se+ appeal to men henearing red"

hen they did the resear!h on men%s se+ualattra!tiveness to omen hile earing red(

In many nonhuman species of vertebrates,females are attracted to red on maleconspecifics. Red is also a signal of male statusin many nonhuman vertebrate species, andfemales show a mating preference for high-status males. These redattraction and redstatus links have been found even when red isdisplayed on males artificially. In the presentresearch, we document parallels betweenhuman and nonhuman females response to male red. !pecifically, in a series of "e#periments we demonstrate that women perceive men to be more attractiveand sexually desirable when seen on a red background and in red


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clothing, and we additionally show that status perceptions areresponsible for this red effect. The influence of red appears to be specific towomens romantic attraction to men$Red did not influence mens perceptionsof other men, nor did it influence womens perceptions of mens overalllikability, agreeableness, or extraversion.%articipants showed no awareness

that the research focused on the influence of color. These findings indicate that colornot only has aesthetic value but can carry meaning and impact psychological

functioning in subtle, important, and provocative ways.&

hat%s from :ed, :ank, and :oman!e in )omen ;ieing +perimental ?sy!hology in 2010" he main points of interest from the study(


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Wearing red may subtly enhance a mans sense of his status or power in agiven situation, which in turn could influence his thoughts, feelings, andactions in that situation.Thus, a man in a red tie may give a more confidentbusiness presentation, a man wearing a red football 4ersey may play moreaggressively )see 2ttrill, 5resty, /ill, 0 6arton, +7, and a man wearing a red

shirt on a date may be more forward and assertive. In fact, in many instances,red likely e#erts an influence on self-perception and other-perception in 4oint fashion.8or e#ample, the red shirt that Tiger 'oods typically adorns on the final day of golftournaments likely provides him with a confidence-boosting reminder of his alphastatus in the golf world as it simultaneously reminds his competitors that they areprobably facing another long day on the course. Interestingly, the results of ourresearch suggest that Tiger 'oods choice of apparel may make the ladies in the

gallery swoon, as well as the competitors on the course wilt.&

he resear!hers here are spe!ulating that not only does earing red make you more attra!tiveand !onfer higher status, but knoing that you%re earing red may make youfeelmore attra!tive

and higher status leading you to actmore attra!tive, more assertive, and higher status, and thusupping the boost you re!eive"

/a!k to that old adage" If you want to be more attracti$e% wear something red

&ou 'hould (e "earing 'ize )'mall*

he signature of &ip&op !ulture has long been baggy !lothing, a des!endant of prison!ulture, here men had belts removed upon being arrested -so they ouldn%t hang

themselves., and ended up having their pants sliding don past their aists" #n the ghettos of the10s and 150s, here an urban bla!k !ulture ravaged by !ra!k !o!aine sa a large portion ofits men going into and out of prison, a stint in the lo!kup be!ame something of a rite of passage,and baggy !lothing a signal that you ere hard and a real man"

As often happens ith fads and trends beginning among the loer so!ioe!onomi! !lasses, thisbegan to migrate up to the middle and upper !lasses as !ool, too -dating as another of thesetrends that began, in the 100s and 110s, ith the poor and migrated up."

he only problem as, as hard as baggy !lothes made a guy appear, they didn't make himlook GOOD"

hey didn%t make him se+y"

#n fa!t, hile they did make him tough, they also made him rather non-sexual"


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)hi!h is all ell and good if your main purpose in ho you sele!t your !lothing is to impressother men""" but if you!d instead rather be dressing yourself to be impressi$e to women% youneed to dress a little differently"

After # graduated from !ollege, # de!ided to sele!t some tighterfitting !lothes and try them out"

#%d been earing large, loose, baggy tshirts and *eans for 8uite a hile, but # realied # asdressing to impress men, not women""" and # realied, )ait a minute" )ho careshat randommen on the street think about me' # ant the )@ to look at me and say %)hoaB%

he first fe days of earing sie small tshirts and tightfitting *eans, # found the !lothes a littleun!omfortable""" but there as no denying # looked good" # still had a big gut then # hadn%t spentmu!h time investigating weight lossyet but the instant I was wearing better+fitting clothes Istarted getting compliments:

)hoa, Chase, you got ripped!

amn dude, you lookgood!

Chase, your arms look a lot biggerB

#%d been !on!ealing my form in baggy !lothing, # realied, and doing so in very unflatteringays" >ven though my neer, smaller, tighterfitting !lothing shoed !learly that # had a guy, noone noti!ed that""" #%ve sin!e realied that people *ust assumeyou have a big gut if you earbaggy !lothing anyay" ;ery similar to the style of !lothing popular among omen in the early2010s and satiried as tit !urtains by a blogger named


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o doubt you%ve heard of !olor !oordination hen it !omes to sele!ting !lothing" And this isimportant you ant your(

Shoes

/elt

)at!h

@ther a!!essories

""" to mat!h, no doubt" In fact% if you can purchase shoes% a belt% and a watch of similardesign% color% and material% you can create a $ery /integrated/ look that people will not be

able to 0uite put a finger on% but will ,ust know that they like

/ut really, in the grand s!heme of things, this is a smaller, more subtle detail" #t%s orth gettingdon, but there%s an even bigger differen!e you don'thear about all that often(

Contrast"

)hat%s !ontrast'

Contrast is earing !lothing items that stand out from one another, ithout !roding ea!h otherout" Che!k these e+amples out(

>a!h of these men looks very good in hat he%s earing, be!ause of the kinds of !ontrast goingon(

Contrast of the !olor of !lothing items against other !lothing items

Contrast of the !olor of !lothing items against his skin !olor


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he man in the first photograph, for instan!e, looks darkly !harming be!ause of the !ontrast ofhis allbla!k !lothing ith his hite skin !olor" A darker skinned man earing the same allbla!koutfit doesn%t look nearly as good, hoever6 nor does this man look 8uite as good if he ears anallhite outfit" &oever, if a bla!k man puts on an allbla!k outfit like this and adds in a brighthite tie, or if a hite man puts on an allhite outfit and adds a bla!k tie or bla!k buttons, it !an

look very good, be!ause of the !ontrast"

he man in the fourth photograph has !ontrast primarily beteen the !lothing items he has on6this outfit looks e8ually good hether his skin is pale hite or dark bla!k in tone, or anyhere inbeteen" he light gray outer shirt offsets the bright pink tshirt underneath, and the lightness ofthe top !olors are balan!ed out by the dark !olor of his *eans"

In selecting clothing% en$ironmental considerations are also important$or instan!e, if you%llbe meeting omen in a !roded bar, night!lub, or party, the fourth look probably isn%t a good!hoi!e be!ause omen ill likely mostly *ust see your upper torso and higher, hi!h means theyon%t see the !ontrast the dark *eans provide" #f you !over up the model%s *eans ith your hand

and only look at him from the aist up, his style be!omes de!idedly less appealing -be!ausethere%s markedly less !ontrast."

here are other s!enarios in hi!h a oman may not be able to see ho your loer body stylemat!hes up ith and !ontrasts against your upper body style6 e"g", in a !lassroom setting hereeveryone is sitting don6 in a !afeteria6 at a !onferen!e for ork or in a meeting6 in a !rodedtrain6 any kind of so!ial fun!tion here people are sitting don or pa!ked in tightly together"That means that generally% unless you!re primarily meeting women on the street during

day game% you want to stick to making sure you ha$e enough contrast on your upper torso

that you look good regardless what your pants or ,eans look like

Several more e+amples of !ontrast(
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#n both e+amples, the model on the left is earing !lothing ith little !ontrast, hile the modelon the right is earing !lothing ith !lear !ontrast" 9our emotion on !omparing the modelsusually *ust feels like the man on the right is the sharper, more poerful, !ooler man"

he reason hy is !ontrast"

Always "ear a -oat

# spent time in os Angeles ith a fashionable friend of mine some years ba!k, and # noti!ed thateven though it as 8uite arm outside, every time e ent out he had a !oat on"

# alays ear a !oat, he remarked hen # asked him about it" # thought about it, and # realied

hy"

#f you s!an ba!k up over the images of men above !onsidered fashionable, you%ll note thatevery single one of them has multiple layers" 9ou canbe fashionable ith only one layer ofupper body !lothing on, but it%s hard, and you *ust don%t get the same level of !ool and esteemthat you do ith a se!ond layer on"


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he outer layer doesn%t haveto be a !oat" &ou can often get away with ha$ing a light t+shirton as layer 12% and a light button+down shirt left unbuttoned and open with the slee$es

rolled up as layer 13""" this ay, you !an still look very fashionable even in arm eather"

Another ay of doing multiple layers that%s been in vogue the past !ouple of de!ades among the

more elltodo -but seems to be on its ay out. is earing a dress shirt or polo shit as layer H1,and a seater loosely tied around the ne!k and draped over the ba!k, shoulders, and !hest aslayer H2"

)hat%s important to note is, the forms this takes may change with time% but the principleremains the same: wearing multiple layers allows you to be more interesting% more

fashionable% and show more contrast in your look"

#f you ant to look good, alays ear a !oat -or another shirt. on top of your bottomlayer shirt"

he first se!tion of this post as fo!used on overall universal elements of fashion that alaysapply and alays ill" he e+a!t details of fashion ill !hange ith time someday, suits and tshirts alike ill be anti8uated pie!es of !lothing that no one but people making movies that areperiod pie!es ill ear anymore"

/ut red ill still be se+ually stimulating and !onfer status upon its earer, ellfitting !lothingill still look better than poorly fitting attire, multiple layers ill still allo you to a!!omplishmore fashionably than a single layer ill, and !ontrast ill still be king"

The rest of this article will be de$oted to the specific things you can do with clothing and

accessories to impro$e your look right now/e!ause fashions !hange as the years ear on,this part of the post may not be as relevant if you%re reading it in 2023 as it is if you%re reading itin 2013, or it may not be as relevant if you%re living in a vastly different !ulture ith verydifferent fashion e+pe!tations than hat e have in the )est right no"

hat said, the fo!us here is on a!!enting your style in attra!tive ays, and even if spe!ifi!e+amples seem not to apply, there%s likely some ay you !an find a similar tist on a similar!lothing item to make it ork in a ay that that%s attra!tive, trendy, and stylish"


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Abo$e+the+4eck Fashion: Limit to Facial 5air% 5airstyles

epending on hether you%re part of a sub!ulture -or not., you may be around people ho get

pier!ings sometimes lotsof pier!ings and even tattoos, or other forms of modifi!ations fortheir fa!e"


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Cool a!!essories like these !an help hen you%re neer to meeting omen and your vibe is notdon ell enough yet you%re not smoothenough, edgyenough, or se7yenough yet"

The more powerful your presence gets% though% the more you want to dial down the

accessorieshey be!ome unieldy tools for !ommuni!ating !oolness you yourself are far

better at it than any a!!essory !an possibly be"

hese days, my rule is pi!k @> a!!essory"


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A bla!k !oat7parka ith a furlined hood and a aistsash from Dni8lo

# also have some really !ool leather *a!kets from a leather store, and a beautiful tailormade!ashmere over!oat" # still like to ear these out sometimes, but red !oat from Guess and the !oatith the furlined hood from Dni8lo are my favorites, simply be!ause # *ust get better responses

hen #%m earing either the red patterned !oat, or the furlined !oat"

he !oat ith the furlined hood looks similar to the image on the right, e+!ept ith a bla!kmaterial ith a matted finish rather than the plain -and boring. surfa!e of the !oat in the image"

he red patterned !oat from Guess # !an%t find an e+ample of on the #nternet there as only oneof it hen # pur!hased it in 200, and no others in the store, and # haven%t seen another sin!e, outand about or on the net"

#f you%re thinking you ouldn%t be able to pull this off though, here%re a fe e+amples of mensporting red !oats and blaers and looking good(

/e!ause understatement is key in fashion, you%ll usually ant a darker red than a brighter one a!oat !loser to the tone of the se!ond or third images above is ideal -the fourth image is a little toobright for my tastes, and the first one%s going to be a little diffi!ult to pull off in most situations."

#f you !an find a red7burgundy patterned *a!ket like hat # found at Guess in 200, that might beyour best bet for a stylish outer layer you !an ear in any none+treme -not too hot, not too !old.

eather" &oever, those are hard to !ome by"

This also makes for a point worth emphasizing + the article of clothing in my possession I

get the best reactions from women out of + that red patterned coat + is done in a style and

color it!s $ery difficult to findSo, don%t assume that *ust be!ause you don%t see somethingeveryhere you look that means it doesn%t look good and isn%t attra!tive or fashionable"


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he best fashion is some mi+ture of understated, popular, and uni8ue or un!ommon, all rolled upinto one"

8ippers% (uttons% and (uckles

his one%s something of a fad built on top of a larger trend" he fad hat%s !urrent in the 2010s is ippers, buttons, and bu!kles"

he larger trend, though the one that%s universal to human fashion throughout the ages isclothing that!s more complicated than it needs to be% in attracti$e+looking ways "

)hy do human beings find !lothing that%s slightly more !ompli!ated than it needs to be attra!tiveand appealing'


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have an item on ith e+tra ippers, buttons, and bu!kles -not to mention shoulder straps, as in the!oat on the right above."

The e7ception:if you are naturally very good looking, go ith a plainerlooking !oat" his is todistra!t less attention from your fa!e, hi!h is naturally providing you ith a style advantage"

#f you%re not very good looking by nature e"g", moderately goodlooking or less go ithippers, buttons, and bu!kles to a!!entuate your looks and fashion"

'hirts

# ear buttondon shirts henever # ant to look good, and anytime # plan to meet girls"he only e+!eptions to this rule are the gymand the beach"

#%ve e+perimented ith tshirts, longsleeved tshirts, polo shirts, and the like, and #%ve *ust found

that # get a armer re!eption from omen in a buttondon" he tshirt as layer H1, buttondonshirt as layer H2 on top of the tshirt usually orks okay too"

early all of my going out dress shirts !ome from Guess" # find the buttondons at Guess are!onsistently and !onsiderably !ooler and trendier than the things you%ll find at other stores -like>+press, hi!h is hat pretty mu!h every guy everyhere you go ho%s trying to be trendy isearing, and you don%t stand out at allearing." hey%re no more e+pensive than hat you%ll findat >+press or Aber!rombie or anyhere else, either"

'car$es

A s!arf is a great attentiongetter and a great a!!ent to nearly any look" he fad in 2013 is /#Gand often C@@:$D s!arves, but #%m pretty !onfident you !an e+pe!t this one to pass pretty8ui!k and e%ll be ba!k to standardsied s!arves by ne+t year -standardsied s!arves are stillattra!tive and appealing, too, despite the bigness trend."

Some e+amples of men earing -standardsied. s!arves(
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A s!arf is an item you !an add to any outfit to instantly make it trendy" #f you%re earing it in

party 7 bar 7 !lub situations, be prepared to have omen ask if they !an borro your s!arf -andfor some of them to try and make off ith it." $or some reason, nothing stirs up kleptomania!altenden!ies in party girls8uite like s!arves do"

(elts

$or belts, # prefer a smooth !lasp bu!kle, rather than the standardissue bu!kle you see on mostbelts" Anything ith the standard holeandtooth look *ust strikes me as e+traordinarily plain andunoriginal looking"

his is the only kind of belt you ill usually find me earing(
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#t used to be ne+t to impossible to find belts ith !lasps like these, but # guess they%re be!omingmore popular be!ause it%s less diffi!ult to find them no than it used to be"

A look like this is *ust !leaner, more attra!tive, and more elegant than the holeandtooth lookyou%ll find on J of belts, in my personal opinion" 9ou%ll also tend to get a bun!h of

!ompliments on it -provided your belt is shoing, that is., but that%s almost beside the point6 it%s*ust ni!er to ear"

-hunky9(locky "atches

# often don%t ear a at!h at all, simply be!ause # don%t like the feel of having something onmy rist" #t%s vaguely un!omfortable, and it tends to !at!h on things"

&oever, hen # do ear at!hes, my preferen!e is for blo!ky or !hunky at!hes, like theone on the right from iesel -that%s my preferred model, the K1114." he !hunky7blo!ky at!hfa!e style strikes me as more modern, attra!tive, and attentiongrabbing than the more traditional!ir!ular at!h style !ommon ith most at!hes"

#t also tends to get a lot of attention, and you%ll get a lot of 8uestions about it" Commonly it%s,hat%s a really !ool at!h""" # haven%t seen a at!h like that before" )hat kind is it 7 here didyou get it'


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)hen # as younger, # used to be a fan of earing :ole+es -ell""" !ounterfeit :ole+es6 # didn%thave the funds for real:ole+es but # did on a !ouple of very !onvin!ing fakes., and those geta lot of attention too, but it feels very mu!h like you%re tryingfor attention" )ith an attra!tivebutun!ommonlooking at!h from an unre!ognied brand, you instantly have a ay of being!ool, fashionable, and uni8ue, ithout having to pay top dollar to look that ay"

eans

&ere again #%m a fan of iesel(

# *ust like the !ut and fit of these *eans they%re very ell made" #%ve oned rue :eligions, and

still ear a pair no and again, but they tend to strike me as more feminine than anything else,hereas iesel has a more mas!uline feel to it"

hat might *ust be superstition # had a lu!ky pair of iesels that #%d end up taking girls to bedin almost every other time # ore them hen # as still fairly ne to pi!kup, though that pair gotstolen out of the ash one night in Southern California, by some !lothing thief ho # !an onlyhope, out of sheer spite, isn%t getting the same mileage out of them that # got"


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"hate$er kind of ,eans you buy, make sure they fit very ell" #f you go to a higherend *eanstore, they%ll fre8uently have spe!ialists on hand ho are great at helping you pi!k out *eans thatill look good on you and be ellfitting"

A good pair of *eans !an set you ba!k about L200" /ut, one good pair is really all you need if

you ash it on!e a eek, you%ll be fine"

@h, and, ith tightfitting *eans, you%ll generally find you%re a lotmore !omfortable hen youskip the underear" #t also makes things a lot, shall e say, easierhen you%ve got a ne girlyou%re rounding home plate ith" he less there is to take off, the better off you are"

'neakers

# used to ear big !hunky hite ike sneakers, and girls hatedthem" #%d have girlfriends

ith even *ust ordinary fashion senses ridi!uling my footear" #t asn%t even like # hadanything espe!ially different""" they ere your standard pair of basketball sneakers"

hey *ust didn%t look all that stylish"

hese days, # only buy sneakers from Camper, hi!h has fashionable sneakers in the style ofthe one on the right"

ot only do Campers look good, but they%re thin enough that if you buy a dark!olored pair, you!an often get aay ith them in pla!e of dress shoes if you ork in an offi!e that%s rela+edenough"

And on top of that, they sure are !omfortable"

-owboy (oots

othing says style like a good oldfashioned pair of !oboy boots(


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he above are the sort of boots # like best the shape, look, and material -distressed leather.,although # usually buy bron, *ust be!ause bron orks ith more !olors"

Coboy boots offer you a fe advantages(

hey stand out, giving you something !ool and different to ear on your feet, hi!h is an

area that most men ear unoriginal 7 standard dress shoes, at best hey look tough, manly, and griled, far more than dress shoes hi!h make a fella

look like a prissy businessman and sneakers hi!h make a guy look like an overgronkid" o one ears !oboy boots but manly men

hey add a fe in!hes of height to you and height isan attra!tion trigger" #t !an be

over!ome ith a variety of things, but there%s no denying that adding in!hes to yourheight adds a little bit to your attra!tiveness, no matter howtall -or not. you are

# usually get mine from Aldo they%re the best shop #%ve found for !onsistently !ool !oboyboots but feel free to shop around"

Tailors


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9ou on%t ant to visit the tailor hen you%re *ust starting out ith getting your fashion sensedon, but on!e you kno hat kind of !lothes you ant to ear and ho you ant to look, #very mu!h advise finding a good tailor and either(

1" &aving your storebought !lothes tailored to pre!isely hug your frame, or

2" &aving !ustom !lothes made for you from s!rat!h"

hat se!ond option !an be pri!ey, hi!h is hy # don%t suggest you have it done until you knoe+a!tly hat kind of !lothing you ant -and on%t have !ompletely !hanged styles in si+months." # also don%t suggest this if you !an%t afford it it !ertainly adds to the look, but if youhaven%t handled your finan!es to the point here you !an easily pay for !ustom !lothes, don%t gointo debt *ust to get these" here are plenty of things in the store you !an find that ill fit youreasonably -or sometimes even really. ell"

Fashion for Men "rap ;p

$ashion%s one of those things that most men neverlearn about be!ause most men aren%t e+posed to it"9ou%ll get hints about looking fashionable here andthere, and there are images of fashionable men allaround you on ;, in the movies, in print, andonline, but if you%re not paying !lose attention tohat they%re earing, you on%t learn a hole lotabout ho to dress yourself any better"

)orse, be!ause fashion is an a!8uired taste you%renot born knoing that s!arves are great a!!essories6fashion is different at every era in every !iviliationa!ross the globe it takes time and e+posure to!urrent fashion to understand hat looks good andhat doesn%t"

)hile in China on!e, # pur!hased a very !ool allbla!k traditional Chinese *a!ket" #t as a big hit on!e# got it ba!k to the States -everybody anted tokno here #%d gotten it6 the anser Shanghai

ould either get me big smiles or blank stares.6 #%danted a Chinese !oat like that ever sin!e at!hingChris u!ker sport on inRush Hour 2" #t *ust lookedbad ass"

Anyay, # lost that *a!ket in a bar hen # set it on the ba!k of a barstool some years later andsomeone made off ith it, by a!!ident or not, and # bought another one in China a little hile


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later" hat one # took to a tailor to have it taken in a bit so it%d better hug my frame6 but thepeople there told me it looked terrible that ay"

he tradition in China as for the sides to be straight up and don6 that looked good to theChinese"

o me, it *ust made me look fat" /ut they refused to take it in6 they ere *ust looking out for me,they said they didn%t ant me to look bad"

$ashion is a big adventure" 9ou%ll !ombine a lot of different, interesting pie!es from all over thepla!e, and some of them ill ork ell together, and some of them on%t" 9ou%ll get feedba!kfrom people and refine your style as you go" 9ou might realie that a treasured item really isn%tall that flattering on you, and end up setting it aside" 9ou might dis!over that the style of !lothingyou on!e said you%d never ear looks great on you, and you !ome to like it a good deal"

9ou don%t need to make fashion the !enter of your life to get good at it" 9ou *ust have to be a

little interested in making yourself more fashionable, more !aptivating, and more uni8ue, andpay attention to the things people tell you about you hen you%re out and about"

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