If A Man Owns One Suit What Color And Style Should It Be_ Men's Fashion Advice
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
And today I'm going to be talking about "If you own a one suit, what color and style should
it be?"
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So, the question is, if a man owns one suit, what color and style should it be?
So the man ñ somebody is asking me this question.
I know that this is going to be their only suit, their go-to suit, the suit that theyíre
going to wear to funerals, suit that theyíre going to wear to graduations, weddings, any
big events and they donít seem to wear it often.
This is usually a man that maybe heís got a uniform that he normally wears or, you know,
he works more with his hands and so heís not going to have suits in a normal rotation.
In this case, you want to go with a solid navy or a solid charcoal.
Either way youíre going to be fine.
If youíre younger, letís say youíre 18 years old, 19 years old, I would go towards
charcoal.
If youíre over 40 or 50, maybe ñ and youíve actually still got your hair, you know, the
color is still in good deep brown, then you could with the navy.
It will actually make you look a little bit younger.
If youíre starting to gray though, youíre going to want to go with the charcoal as a
little bit of off-white in the charcoal.
Itís going to work well with the gray.
And charcoal in general actually ages a man, so for the younger man, itís not going to
make them look like heís 16 or something.
Okay.
So weíve determined that weíre going to go with the solid.
Why not a stripe?
Well, stripes connotate business and theyíre not as virtual, theyíre harder to match and
they should not be a manís first suit.
In addition, anything that goes into black is going to be to start from a contrast, anything
that goes into light gray, tan, kaki, all of these other off colors, dark olive green,
those arenít for the first suit.
And just, you know, even if you can get it for free, itís just not going to work when
youíve got to attend to a funeral, you know, a green suit just ñ it is at least showing
some respect but at the same time you want to wear a darker, more somber - just muted
color.
If youíre going to a wedding, the great thing is that you can actually take that charcoal
suit or take that navy and spice it up with a little bit of a more colorful shirt.
So, you can wear it with a light blue.
And all of a sudden, youíre going to introduce some color and some feeling into that.
Okay.
So, we have agreed solid charcoal, solid navy.
Now, letís talk about the style.
So, the style of the suit, you want to go with either a two or three button.
You donít want to go with the one button thatís for black tie tuxedos.
Four buttons, thatís for basketball players who donít know how to dress.
I mean, seriously, three button is the most you ever want to go on a suit, just donít
get a four-button suit.
Single breasted.
Now, you could go double breasted but itís not nearly going to be ñ itís going to be
harder to find one, first off.
And the other thing is double breasted.
Itís more formal.
Itís not nearly as versatile.
Go with a single-breasted suit.
The vents, and these are the ñ in the back of the jacket.
These are the slits.
If you can find double vents, thatís what you want to go with.
However, most off the rack suits are going to be single vent.
So thatís perfectly fine.
Itís actually a bit less expensive to manufacture.
I like double vents because to me, they are sign of a quality jacket.
Not a determining factor in a quality jacket but a sign that this is a better-than-average
quality jacket.
All right.
So letís talk about your trousers.
If youíre in shape, if you take good care of your body, youíd go with flat fronts.
Perfectly fine.
If youíre a bit heavier, a bit overweight, youíre going to want something that gives
you a little bit more room.
Ideally, youíre going to want to wear your trousers higher and wear them with suspenders.
Now, I know 95% of you will never do that.
So, what you need to wear are trousers that have room in them.
You do not want to split those trousers, especially if youíre going a year between wearing them.
So go with a double-plait, go with at least one plait because worse case, youíre just
going to blow open the plaits instead of ripping the back of the trousers.
Now, the cuffs at the bottom, if you go with double-plaits, you need to cuff the bottom.
If youíre a taller man, cuff the bottom.
If youíre wearing a flat front, normally you should not cuff the bottom, although thereís,
you know, is a bit of a contradiction there.
If youíre a very tall man with flat fronts, should you cuff the bottom?
You know, I wouldnít cuff them.
Itís up to you.
Itís usually a style thing.
I mean, there are little rules for that, but ñ Iím not going
to ñ the last thing that you want to focus on with the suit, which I donít think I talk
about much in the article.
But itís the fit.
Make sure the suit fits you.
If this is the only suit you want, youíre wearing it, and this is a big occasion.
You want to look nice.
If youíre going to be walking your little girl down aisle, you want that suit to be
ready for it to fit you properly.
And you can oftentimes take this to a tailor.
And for $50 to $100, he can take that suit from looking sloppy to looking sharp, or he
can tell you that youíre going to need to buy another suit.
And in that case, youíre going to at least be professional to tell you this before the
big day.
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