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As A Man, Finding A Personal Style Should Be Simple
What will I wear? It seems like a simple question and, to an extent, it is. However, the clothes we choose and wear out into the world are part of the masks and costumes that represent who we are on the inside, or at least, they should be.
Women are encouraged to play with trends no matter the results – clothing is unfairly portrayed as the exclusive playground of women. Mini-skirts, leggings, and ever changing styles and colors are the headaches of women. For men to be overtly on trend or extremely fashion forward, that mantle mostly resides in the realm of celebrity.
As teenagers, boys have their choice of costume to use to declare what they are into. From aligning with bands like Death Cab for Cutie with jean skinny styles or blasting Jay-Z with oversized jeans strapped underneath their buts with belts. Extreme? Sure, but also part of the teenage experience. Outside of being a performer, it becomes more difficult for adult men to carve out their identities in an understated way.
Using the past to influence the present is the best way for men to carve out their sartorial identity in a fashionable way without the calculation inherent in many outfits. There are timeless pieces to include in any mans closet from crisp dress shirts and slacks to jeans. Across time periods, the underlying component to making clothes timeless is their fit. Tailoring and knowing the proportions of your own body is the most important part of finding the right clothing.
Like Kathryn and Audrey Hepburn being held aloft as female style icons, there are a number of inspirations from the past that men can acquire ideas from. The reason that the Hepburn women remain stylish to this day was because they found clothing that worked for them and their bodies without falling prey to any strange fashions of the day. The leather brown boots of Johnny Depp or the impeccable suits of Cary Grant all work to add to the sum total of these men’s parts.
Trying to keep up with the times is anathema to being truly stylish- attitude coupled with clothing that is so neat as to be almost invisible is what separates men from boys and is incredibly seductive to women.
Keeping the lines of your clothing simple and tailored will act like a blank canvas that needs barely any accessory aside from the banal like a men’s sport watch, scarf, or ring. Men should settle into their adulthood without dealing with the cacophony of fashion trends dictating how they represent themselves to the world.