Jeans

Another part of clothing you should already have in your closet: jeans. Versatility in use makes up lack of its versatility in material. As you probably know, it's comfortable and durable piece of casual clothing. Everyone should own a pair or two of dark, fitting jeans. It's not very expensive, and there are various types of styles so everybody can find his favorite.

     Fit it right. One more time, this is the most important rule. Even the bes looking or the most expensive panst will look really bad when they are not suitable for your body. Things that you should keep in mind are waist size, lenght and width of the leg. Waist should fit you snuggly, not to let your pants drop, however when it crumbles too much after putting on a belt, then its too big. Remember, if you feel any discomfort while breathing, it means they are propably too tight. Fit is supposed to make you look better but at the same time it should give you the comfort you need. Next thing to consider, length of the leg, can be easily adjusted to your height by a tailor or even yourself, if you  know how to use a needle and thread. It's quite easy to find the right measure: just take your shoes off and stand flat on the ground. Material by the soles should barely touch the ground. Leg cut is the most important factor here, because it changes overall look of your posture and whole outfit. Too loose will make you look shorter than you are and give the impression of a person that is not interested in looking good. Too tight could be uncomfortable and ruin your casual, manly elegance. It's difficult to find perfect pants for your figure, because most of the pants "off the rack" nowadays is created to fit average size. Most of my own pants had to be narrowed by a tailor. There are 5 types of cuts:

1. Bootcut - fitting in the waist and thighs. but a bit loose on the bottom to wear over high shoes.

2. Relaxed fit - a bit looser in leg than regulars. I would avoid this type as it makes you look shorter, bulkier and doesn't match mordern man's elegance.

3. Regular - Straight line from top to bottom. Propably most common type cause of the comfort it leaves, however not recommended by myself.  They tend to look acceptable only on heavier guys, average and skinny should stay with more fitted pants.

4. Slim fit - like regular but with narrowed leg under the knee. they make you look tall, slender and stylish, whan the material is just touching your skin.

5. Skinny fit - a bit more brave choice, as the material here is tight aroung your body, leaving no comfortable space and exposing details of your figure.

     Pants are supposed to create straight lines along your legs, which make you look taller and slim. That means, throwing away all those old fashioned cargo pants. You don't want any pockets to break those lines, because that would make you look more bulky, short and give a bad influence on overall appearance. Other varieties that I reccomend to avoid are strange types of jeans wash, like acid or disression of the material. It's really the opposite of a modern  anddrapper look.

     For the beginning you might consider buying one pair of dark indigo jeans and one pair in dark grey, both slim fitting of course.

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T-shirts

     You have a few T-shirts in your wardrobe, don't you? It might be one of the most popular element of male clothing. Just go on the street in a sunny day and see for yourself how many people wear it. Reason for its popularity comes from a fact that this is a very simple and versatile way of casual dressing. However, even so simple clothing has a few rules you should follow.

     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.

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