Quick quiz, gentlemen, what's the most attractive body type? Body type number one, the triangle.
Body type number two, the inverted triangle. Body type number three, the rectangle. Body
type number four, the oval. Body type number five, the trapezoid.
Now, I'm going to reveal the answer here in the next couple of minutes, but no matter
what the answer is, you've got a particular body type today and you've got to dress
for it. Well, gentlemen, that's what this video is all about, how you can dress best
for your particular body type. Now, before I get into how to dress for each
of the five body types, gentlemen, I want to lay out three ground rules. Rule number
one, dress for the body that you have today. So, that may be great in two months or in
a year that you will have lost all that weight you want to lose or may be gain that muscle
and you'll have the ideal body at that time. But, you can't walk around naked right now,
gentlemen, you have to dress for the body you have. So, that interview that big event
that you've got coming up, that date that you want to go in, you've still got to dress
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foundation point number two is that your body shape will determine the type of clothing
that you want to wear. Don't fall into trends. So, there's a trend awhile back about skinny
tights, skinny lapels, basically skinny suits, all these stuff.
If you are a triangle-shaped guy, if you are an oval-shaped guy, that is just going to
make you look like a clown. It doesn't matter if it somewhat fit you, it's not going to
fit your body type. Proportion is key here, gentlemen. And so, you've got to understand
that for your body type there are going to be items that are just going to work better
for you. Foundation point number three is to seek the
norm. When you're wearing clothing, what you want to do no matter what your body type
is is you want to basically have it better balance you so that you can go towards the
norm body type in your society. And, that goes back to the question at the very beginning,
the answer is what body type is most attractive? Well, it depends on where you live and what
is the norm body type. So, the body type in India, the body type
in Germany, the body type in Italy, the body type in the United States or in Mexico it
changes it depends. Here in the United States, people are going to be more muscular. That�s
what we put on the pedestal, a lot of guys go to the gym. India, they're going to be
a bit thinner. Japan, they're going to be a bit thinner, so over there maybe the rectangle.
In the United States it's going to be more than trapezoid.
Interesting though is because as obesity becomes more common, it becomes something viewed as
actually more attractive believe it or not. The point is is you don't want to whenever
you're if you are really built yourself up, you're a bodybuilder don't put on
a jacket that has a lot of shoulder pads. It's basically will make you look like a
cartoon and that's not what we're looking for. What we're looking to do is go towards
the norm in your society. So, the first body type I'm going to talk
about, gentlemen is the triangular body type. This can happen early on in life, it can also
happen a lot later. It could happen with weight gain, but basically what we see is the hips
and the stomach area starts to widen out. The shoulders were naturally may be sloped
or they simply you don't work out you don't take care of that area and so, they start
to slope down, you start to hunch over a bit. This is something that you've got to build
up the shoulders. If you can build up the shoulders, all of a sudden this is going to
transform this body type more into a square and the square is much more masculine than
a triangle. The issue with the triangle, again, it goes
back to the shoulders. Weak shoulders are viewed as not masculine so you want to throw
on sports jacket, thrown on jackets wear casual suits, throw on blazers, but also bring in
denim jackets, bring in other a leather jacket. Always think how I kind of in a sense
build up this area, can I work casual button up shirt that have epaulettes that may be
have the double pockets that have a little bit of embroidery design. So, the chest area
the shoulder area, you're looking to add a bit of weight to it, even sweaters can come
in and help out with this. Now, when it comes to the hips, what you want
to do, don't wear anything baggy in the hips. So, you're going to want to wear things
closer in and around here. You also are going to want to make sure the proportion of your
shoes. You don't want to go with anything super large. Everything down here is as large
as you want it to be, so you want to wear possibly more delicate dress shoes, things
that aren't going to look smaller even though maybe you've got size 12 feet.
The next body type I want to talk about is the inverted triangle. This is the bodybuilder,
this is the guy that spends time in the gym and has really built up his upper body. Now,
the problem with this, many people are going to say, well, I would love that body and love
his problems. Well, try going to a tailor, I can tell you this is one of the most difficult
bodies to tailor a clothing to and a lot of the stuff he puts on, it actually makes his
upper body look even bigger and his lower body therefore becomes disproportional and
this is what we want to avoid. So, the guy with this build, he wants to build
up his lower body. He's going to do this by focusing on shoes that make his feet look
a little bit bigger. So, he wants to look at boots, he wants to look at maybe textured
shoes or suede. He wants to look at contrast, so something maybe that's got a contrasting
leather to it, something that draws a little bit more attention to his footwear.
Okay. Then, we�re moving up here, let�s look at jeans. Avoid skinny jeans, maybe go
for a straight cut. You don't need to go for a loose cut, but you want to give something
that gives a little bit of extra weight in here. When you're looking at suits, make
sure you avoid jackets that have a lot of padding. Search out jackets especially, you
know, there are certain ones may be coming out of Italy or that you can get custom-made
which are going to have no padding in here. The idea is you've already got everything
you need up here and you want to come off as simply a guy that looks like he's in
shape not a guy that, you know, comes off as this disproportionate, it looks like he's
going to fall over, you know, just because he has no weight down here in the lower body.
So, again, we're trying to avoid the cartoonish look by making your proportions in your lower
body more balanced. Now, the next body type is the rectangle body
type. For many guys this is going to be a great body type to have, but if it starts
to be an extreme rectangle where it's a thin lanky individual, it becomes a lot more
difficult. So, this is where you want to add texture.
Now, if you've got a normal build, I'm relatively 5'9". What? 170, 165 lbs, I
can tell you clothing is relatively easy to find for me. But, if I was 6'3", 180 lbs,
I would, you know, have that much leaner profile and it becomes much harder to find clothing.
He doesn't want to be wearing really thin clothing that makes him look extremely thin
and like he's malnourished here. Simply he's looking for things that are going to
add some weight and add some texture. So, for him, unlike many of the other body
types, he wants to break up that line, so he doesn't want to necessarily go for monochromatic
looks. He wants to go for an odd jacket with an odd pair of trousers and what do I mean
by that? I mean they're not made from the same fabric. You can go with jeans, you could
go with a sports jacket. That's a great look for a lot of guys.
Or if he's going to go for a shirt, he can go with one that has a little bit of build
maybe the double pockets, something that has a little bit of a contrast between the top
and the bottom. That's okay if we focus in on his mid-section a bit because he's
so thin, it's actually going to make him maybe not look so thin, he's going to keep
the eye right there at the center. The point is is we're looking for balance, we're
looking to kind of widen him out a bit and make him look more like the norm.
The next body type I want to discuss is the oval body type and we're looking to do two
things here. We're looking to stretch out the oval and we're looking to add edges.
So, let me talk about each. By stretching out the oval, I mean let's make it look
taller let's make it look leaner. We can do that with monochromatic looks.
A suit natural monochromatic look here, you've got a matching jacket with a matching pair
of trousers made from the same fabric, it allows the eyes to go up and down. When a
big man wears this, he almost always looks great. Now, what you want to avoid is a high
contrast outfits. So, light-colored shirts with the dark pair of trousers, that's a
no-no where our attention and is focused into your midsection, it just makes you look wider.
Now, when I'm when I'm talking about the edges, talking about here on the jacket
perhaps. I'm talking about shoes that draw a little bit of attention to themselves. These
are your top and bottom areas. The jacket right here, the shoulders it's going to
build them it's going to draw a line right here that's a great thing. What you don't
want is to have really soft in and around that area.
Now, with the shoes, you want our attention to focus in on the shoes. So, you can wear
a great pair of boots not only will those give you a bit of height, but they could draw
our attention. So, you can go with something with the broguing, something with the contrast
leather, something with a bit of suede in it, something with style because we're going
to focus in on there and we're going to say, wow, this guy has got style, he's large
and in charge. The next body type is a trapezoid body type.
One of the easier body types to dress unless he's extremely tall, extremely short, or
closer to an inverted triangle. But, this guy in general much of the clothing he's
going to try on is going to fit him pretty good. And that's where the problem is at
is he doesn't get many things adjusted to fit him. He tries things off the rack, he's
like, oh, this pretty good. I'm going to wear it as is, so he gets lazy.
This body type needs to take everything has to a tailor to get it perfectly adjusted.
No excuses here, this is one of the easiest body types to dress and I but I see so
many guys still screwing it up because they're wearing clothing that doesn't fit them.
They don't actually go out there follow my simple style pyramid where you focus in
on the fit, you focus in on the function basically what's the message you want to send, you
focus in on the fabric. You buy the best you can afford.
All right, gentlemen, so if you want more, go check out the support article. In the support
article, I go over each of the body types in a lot more detail than I went over them
in this video. And, let me know in the comments down below what would you have added, what
did I miss, what type of body what body type do you have and what are your tips and
tricks for dressing for that body type. Finally, gentlemen go check out Anson Belt
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