Your First Step in Men's Fashion
So you've finally realised you were born without the Fashion
gene. You walk down the streets, oblivious to why there would be the need for
more than one men's fashion retailer. The word accessories sends shivers down
your spine... You think only women need to own more than two pairs of shoes and
foam and a razorblade are the only toiletries you need...
Then before you know you wake up and it's the 21st Century.
Shavers are electric, shirts come in "fitted", "tailored"
and "regular", guys who look like girls walk arm-in-arm with beautiful
women and what's worst, the majority of the male population seems to have woken
up clued up on it all and you haven't.
You feel stuck in a nightmare. You need some new attire.
With cold sweat still dripping down your forehead, you
venture to the uncharted territories of the City Centre shopping district,
where window after window, faceless plastic men try to lure you in with empty
promises of a slick new look.
You give in to the Sirens' call. With your heart kicking in
your throat, you enter the dragon's den. As you negotiate your way through the
isles like a brave warrior in a shiny armour fighting through the dark hordes
of the Underworld, you finally get to the Mens' section - and this is when you
realise this isn't going to be quite as easy as slaying a dragon: All items
come with labels with numbers and letters. To make your life misery someone has
decided to make them come in all sorts of different sizes and shapes!
You decide to brave the jeans.
"Relaxed fit", "Boot Cut",
"Straight", "Skinny Leg".
"Straight", you decide, is the shape that least
threatens your masculinity - now it's just a matter of picking a number: 28
sounds like a good score, and it's the age Susan, the girls in High-School you
had that immense crush on, would be now.
Knowing all too well fitting rooms are only for girls, you
proudly make your way to the checkout, grabbing a white shirt on your way.
Since for some reason they don't make shirts in a 28, the right number sure
must be Susan's age back in High School: a 15 will fit just perfect.
With your head high, you stroll back home already savouring
all the compliments you are going to get from your friends and colleagues, only
to find out when you finally try them on that the clothes you so proudly
marched home with, would barely fit Susan's slender frame.
You've just wasted another $100. So how do you avoid this
from happening again? How do you find clothes that you'll end up wearing?
First, you should understand what makes clothes work on you.
If you could choose one and only one quality in an item of clothing - before
you even consider colour, fabric, pattern or style - that one, essential
quality is FIT.
Remember, things like colour, style and pattern are subject
to the volatile nature of Fashion and individual taste, while the only absolute
constant is FIT.
Whether brown or paisley or pinstripes look good is all a
matter of WHO and WHEN - that is, personal taste and current trend in Fashion.
That is what you would call "subjective judgement". If they fit or
not is objective. They either do or they don't.
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