Matching Leather & Matching Metals In Menswear - Men's Clothing Accessories Matching Tips
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style.
Today, we're going to be talking about matching metals and matching leathers in menswear.
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Okay, this is the question, "Hello, Antonio!
I've got an interesting question.
It's a simple rule that your belt should match your dress shoes.
However, I'm wondering about your dress watch.
If I'm wearing brown dress shoes and a brown belt with a silver buckle, should my watch
have a brown band and silver rim?
What if I wear a watch with a gold rim or a black band?
Maybe I'm paying too much attention to detail.
Thank you very much.
Raymond."
All right, Raymond, I've got some bad news for you.
If all of your metals and all of your leathers do not match exactly, one year from the date
that you wear this outfit, you will turn to dust.
Sorry to deliver this news to you, man.
All right.
Seriously, so you are paying a little bit too -- I mean, the general rule is leathers
match leather.
Metals match metals, but there are exceptions to that rule.
And probably the one I can think of for most men is you simply don't have enough metals
and enough leathers to make sure that you match it exactly, especially when it comes
to items like a watch.
You've got a favorite watch.
You've got one that you just love to wear, your only really nice dress watch perhaps,
and it doesn’t match your belt or your shoes.
In that case, wear it.
It's a very small detail, something that if you get fit, fabric, and style, which I harp
on all the time, if you get those right, this is going to be a small thing.
If you understand that those are the rules but you decide to break it anyway because
that watch has sentimental value to you, all the more power to it.
That takes me to the second thing, is that you've got an item that has sentimental value
such as a wedding ring.
My wedding ring is silver.
Now, most of the metals I wear is silver.
I'm not a big fan of yellow gold, so I keep everything silver, keep it simple, but most
men, their wedding rings are gold.
And if they like silver and everything else is silver, of course they're always going
to have that mismatched, but it's a small detail.
It's a sentimental detail and on that case, you can bend and break the rules.
The other one is going to be how small is the item.
I'll leave that as last because I was going to say visibility, but it really comes down
to how small it is and is it even visible.
So in this case, this is very small.
Now, if I'm wearing a huge ring, let's say I'm a Texas A&M Aggie and I've got the huge
ring -- well, ask an Aggie to see those rings -- those things are just huge.
At any case, he'll want to be a little bit more tuned to that ring matching some of them
out just because of its visibility.
Now, when it comes to buckles, if you're wearing a suit all of the time and you've always got
your jacket on, technically no one's ever going to see that buckle.
So let's say you're wearing a pair of monk strap dress shoes and they've got a silver
buckle on them and your belt has a gold buckle.
Well, keep your jacket on and all of a sudden, because it's invisible, no one's going to
know.
Now, if you're the kind of guy and you take your jacket off quite a bit, then you're going
to have a mismatched metal.
Now, the same thing with leathers, again, those same things are going to apply.
You want to try to match your leathers, but you don't have to match them exactly, and
this really applies to browns because browns, there are so many different shades.
And if you try to get your shoes to match your leathers, your leather shoes to match
your leather belt exactly, you're going to be hard-pressed especially if you condition
or you polish your shoes quite a bit because over time, they're going to change in color.
A quick tip though is if you're out buying a new pair of shoes, make sure to get a belt
especially if you're looking at browns, light colored browns especially.
Find something when you're out buying the shoes, when you have the shoes with you that
matches, purchase it, take it home.
You're going to be good to go.
Blacks, that's why it's so easy, and again, white-blacks are in the realm of -- every
man should have black shoes and a black belt.
They're the most conservative, the most simple, and they're also the easiest to match, of
course.
All right, Raymond, hopefully that answered your question.
And you will not turn to dust.
You'll turn to stone actually.
Take care.
I'll see you in the next video.