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Balance
Style and Masculinity
At its
core, style is about
accentuating your best physical attributes. Clothes do for men what colorful
plumage does for love-sick peacocks. The trick, of course, is to retain as much
of your cockiness as possible amid the plumage. This does not mean you should
follow every trend. You’ll have to take your time and determine the right
look for your lifestyle and your personality, while maintaining as much of
yourself as you can along the way.
Find Your Own Style
To properly balance
fashion and masculinity, you’ll need to determine which style is best for you.
Consider your age, profession and outlook. For
example, if you work in a creative field, you can push your wardrobe toward
modern, international styles that feature sleek lines, monochromatic color
palettes and trim fits. If you deal with customers or a wide array of people on
a daily basis, however, you should consider a more conservative approach.
Shop with a Female
Shopping with a
woman who knows you is perhaps
one of the most enlightening experience you’ll ever have because if a woman
loves your look so will men. First of all, a female shopping partner will
cut through all of the current trends and help you find fabrics, patterns and
colors. Second, she will insist on cuts and sizes that accentuate the very
masculine features you want to display. Without it being spoken, she will make
sure your butt looks good in jeans and your manhood is calling.
Look Overseas
Europeans are often
derided for the role style plays in their
culture. Yet, when asked, most people prefer the way European men dress to that
of slouchy-jeans-wearing, baseball-cap-adorning American men. There is, of
course, a reason for this: European men, even if they are wearing jeans, tend to
wear leather shoes instead of old
sneakers, sport coats instead of hooded sweatshirts, and generally spend more
time, money and personal effort into looking their best.
Just
Do It
At some point in our
contemporary culture, the need to express ourselves through relaxed, casual
clothing grew the notion that dressing well meant giving up your masculinity --
this could not be further from the truth. Dressing down actually emasculates you
and prevents you from living a full life.
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