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Classic Men’s Wearing

Written on September 12, 2008 – 5:05 am | by dodo

The Classic man’s looks call for simplicity, quality and moderation. Your body is of average proportions, not too tall or short, neither lanky nor extremely muscular. Your facial features are evenly proportioned and regular with no prominent features such as big nose or a very square jaw. Your face has refined features and your colouring is medium. Everything about you is sophisticated and moderate. Your demeanour is conservative, poised, slightly formal but not stuffy. Nothing you wear should be extreme in style, fabric, texture, or colour. Simplicity of line and detail suit you best. You are the traditional type, a fashion conservative. Because you do not look good in fads, gimmicks, or high-fashion clothes, or in any form of bold or extreme patterns, you must rely on fine fabric and beautifully tailored, conservative clothes. You cannot get away with rumpled or ill-fitting clothing. You must look fastidious, even if it’s not truly your nature. You look best with a relatively short, conservative hairstyle — always combed and neatly in place.

Business clothes

For business you wear two-piece suits on most days, reserving three-piece suits for important meetings or dressy occasions. You wear a traditional suit. Choose one with a relaxed, unstructured shoulder but slightly trimmer at the waist. You don’t want topstitching or any sporty or faddish details.

Because Classic represents the middle value in body type, size, and colouring, you look great in most classic patterns as long as they are moderate in scale and contrast — a subdued pinstripe or chalk stripe, for example, or a small check or medium-scaled, subtle plaid. Your season dictates your best patterns: Winters in stripes and herringbones; Summers in stripes and soft tweeds; Autumns in tweeds and small checks or plaids; Springs in plaids and checks. Solids are excellent for all.

Your best fabrics are light- to medium-weight worsteds or very thin, tightly woven flannels and tweeds with a firm finish.

Dressy sportswear

Your first jacket is a solid single-breasted blazer in a nice wool fabric. Next is a herringbone or tweed in a fairly fine texture. You do not wear heavily textured or boldly patterned fabrics well, even in leisure wear. Classic styles in wool slacks are for you — no exaggerated pleats, flared legs or trendy items. You may wear tweed or checked wool slacks for a bit of dash.

Shirts

You go for an understated look, and are best in white or solid pastel shirts (especially blue) in button-down for day and plain collars for evening or special occasions. For a natty look, you may wear a coloured shirt with a white collar. You don’t wear many patterned shirts, save an occasional subtle stripe or a white on white. Although plaids and checks are not your thing, you can wear a small check with a solid blazer for sport. In general, you’ll wear a shirt and tie rather than a turtleneck with your jacket for special events.

Ties

Your tie is also conservative, but it does not have to be dull. Small patterned ties are your best pattern, with the repeats in oval or rounded shapes. You can wear thin, evenly spaced stripes, or irregular stripes in moderate widths and traditional colours. Club ties are great, especially with a jacket, but most checks or plaids are too casual and sporty for you. A silk tie is your best fabric, though thin wools and linens (in summer) are fine, too. Either a matt or a slight sheen works well on you. A slight sheen is best as a dressy look. Never wear any loud or boldly patterned tie; there is nothing eccentric about your body, so you can’t wear eccentric clothing.

Shoes

Shoes for business are lace-ups with a medium sole and wide-cut toe. The leather can be smooth or lightly textured. If you’re the elegant type, you may wear a smooth lace-up with a rounded toe, especially for dress. For sportswear you wear your lace-ups or a dressy slip-on shoe.

Casual wear

The Classic man’s casual clothes are crisp and clean. Wool or cotton trousers, ironed blue jeans (if any) with cloth button-downs in the winter and knit shirts in the summer. Although you will probably not wear way-out colours in sports shirts, you can wear fun colours in basic reds, blues, greens, and yellows.

Coats

Your best topcoat is a single-breasted wool with simple details — no topstitching, epaulettes, etc. Your trenchcoat may be single- or double-breasted, but again with simple styling and no gimmicks. The traditional coat is your look as well.

Jewellery

Jewellery for the Classic is tasteful, refined, and minimal. A thin watch with a metal or smooth leather band works well for you. A ring is all right, but no bracelets or neck chains.

Formal

You look great in a dinner jacket because it gives you the opportunity to dress like a Dramatic but within the confines of tradition. You look better in average lapels rather than those pointing upwards towards the shoulder. Choose pleated shirts rather than ruffles. You also look great dressed up in a three-piece suit, which adds variety to your usual two-piece or business look.

Classic Prototypes

Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Roger Moore, Laurence Olivier

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