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Natural Men’s Wearing

Written on September 12, 2008 – 5:08 am | by dodo

You are the man who calls for textures, tweeds, informality and a blended look.

The Natural man is usually of sturdy or athletic build. Your face may be craggy with irregular features, or perhaps you have a square jaw and wide-set eyes or simply a rugged and outdoorsy look. You might have freckles, and your hair is rarely glossy. Your stride is easy and you have a down-to-earth look about you. The Natural is an informal dresser who is rarely comfortable all dressed up and gets the most compliments in jeans and sweaters. You look best in casual, relaxed clothing and in the colours from your palette that are closest to nature, especially the browns, greens and blues. Your hair is loose and wavy, or short, straight and layered — casual rather than overly controlled, and always with the dry look. You’re the man who can wear a beard or moustache well.

Business clothes

A two-piece suit is better for you than a three-piece, which looks overly formal and stuffy on you. Your suit should be fuller cut, with a relaxed shoulder. If you are athletic but thin, you will have to buy a slimmer cut suit, but it should not be tapered too much at the waist. You would never wear trendy cuts in suits.

Your best suits for work are solid flannels in a medium colour, or perhaps a subtle check, tweed, or other pattern. Dark solids may look severe on you, and pinstripes are definitely too formal and stiff. (You can survive in the business world without owning a pinstripe!) At most you would wear a subtle chalk stripe, preferably in colours without much contrast.

Your best fabrics are heavyish with some texture and always a matt (non- shiny) finish or a nap: flannel, corduroy, and looser weaves. Nothing shiny, fancy or too formal.

Dressy leisure wear

If your work environment allows for slacks and jackets, so much the better. You are better looking in a jacket than in a suit. Think texture. A corduroy jacket or a heavy wool, tweed or check are your best looks. A camel jacket is ideal for you if you are an Autumn or Spring. Your best dress-up attire is leisure wear whenever possible, and you can be quite natty in a country tweed with leather patches on the elbows, and perhaps a polo neck instead of a shirt and tie. Patch pockets and topstitching really are your look.

Shirts

You are best in cotton for work and for social occasions except when the event calls for formal attire. Button-down collars are great for you. Checks and plaids are your best patterns. Subtle, blended, broad stripes are all right, but no severe or formal hairline stripes.

Ties

You go for less sharp contrast in your coat, shirt and tie combinations. The monochromatic look — using colours from the same family in varying degrees of intensity — is ideal for the Natural. Your best tie patterns are tartans or plaids and checks or wide stripes in muted colours, creating a blended look. Ties with square designs are better than rounds or ovals. No dots for you — they’re too formal. Paisleys are sophisticated yet natural, especially in the warm palettes, and are a good dress look for the Natural man. Texture and matt finishes are also good. Ribbed knits, woods, rough-weave linen (in summer), and non-shiny silks are best.

Shoes

Shoes for the Natural are dressy pull-ons for business and more casual ones for leisure wear. You may wear a textured leather shoe with a heavy sole and topstitching, with your tweed jacket. Your shoes have a widish toe rather than a pointed or very rounded one.

Casual wear

Casual wear is your thing. You may prefer to wear the colours closest to nature in your palette, and you definitely wear natural fabrics such as linen looks and cotton. Wear khakis, cords, and jeans with turtlenecks, check flannel shirts, button-downs or short-sleeved cottons and T-shirts for warm weather. As usual for you, plaids, checks and solids in rough fabrics are best. Your sweaters are crewnecks or bulky, textured pullovers. No Fair Isle or fancy patterns. Non-shiny leather is best for boots, belts or any accessories.

Coats

You may not want a coat because they are so formal, and you can wear your trenchcoat almost anywhere now, anyway. If you do want a wool topcoat, choose a double- or single-breasted camel coat if you’re a warm season, or a single- breasted beige or blue if you’re a cool season. Shaggy furs suit you well, as do non- shiny leathers such as sheepskin. Your trenchcoat is either the single-breasted simple one with raglan sleeves or a traditional military trench with epaulettes and heavy trim. If you are a thin and lanky Natural, forget the trimmings; they’ll overwhelm you.

Jewellery

If any, it would be heavy and masculine — but probably you don’t wear any. Your watch should not be too thin, and could have a leather strap rather than a metal band.

Formal

A dinner suit is your least favourite item of clothing. Choose a simple pleated shirt in the colour of your season. For other social occasions, the Natural man can always dress in sportier attire than the Dramatic or Classic man. On you, a beautiful jacket, wool slacks, a shirt, and a tie look dressy. For weddings, funerals, and formal affairs, wear your suit in a medium colour rather than a dark one.

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