Fit your size. This is single most important rule of modern man's clothing (will be covered further in one of the following posts). What does it mean? It means saying goodbye to baggy T-shirts. Yes, you heard me well. "But they are way more comfortable!" somebody can say. Believe me, you will look way better when wearing clothes designed for your size. I recently discovered that mine is one smaller than I used to wear over past few years. At the beginning it can feel a little strange, but everybody can get used to this. And the feeling you get when looking at this new, well dressed person in the mirror - priceless.
Forget printed T-shirts. I know most of you love them, because of the colorful or funny designs, but they can easily make you look more childish next to a better dressed man. If that’s the only type you have, I strongly recommend you to buy few plain colored ones. Go with black, white, grey, dark navy and generally everything toned down a bit. Plain, simple T-shirts when worn alone are expressing confidence and casual elegance. And they are also great as a base for more complicated outfits.
Understand various types of T-shirts:
- Crew neck - is propably the most common one. It's just simple, round collar that fits almost everything and is a great base for shirts, jumpers, cardigans etc.
- V-neck - takes second place in a popularity race. It's a collar in the shape the first letter implies. Every man should own at least two of them in black, grey or white. Just try to not go too deep, if It shows too much of your neck to make you feel comfortable, you should propably search for one with smaller "V".
- Y-neck - is similar to previous one, but has few buttons on the bottom of a collar. See the picture for reference. It's a pretty interesting and versatile type to wear. You could layer them with pretty much everything, including other T-shirts.
As the base of fashionable wardrobe, I reccomend you to get 3 crew necks (white, black and navy) and 3 V-necks (white, black and grey). With this set you have base for pretty much every layering you could think of and they are also great to wear by themselves.
After completing the list above, try choosing 3 more T-shirts by the color of your choice: green, orange, blue and even red - whatever feels good to you. Why suddenly those colors? Let's just say that there might be a situation somewhere in time, when you need to add to your outfit a little bit of warmness and all you need is a few inches of this color under your neck.
