When looking at men’s formal wear you need to follow some simple basic guidelines to get an instant classic look which projects a sense of style. Getting the right look with men’s formal wear is not difficult, if you follow the image guidelines below.

When looking at men’s formal wear you need to follow some simple basic guidelines to get an instant classic look which projects a sense of style.

Getting the right look with men’s formal wear is not difficult, if you follow the image guidelines below.

Your suit

In men’s formal wear let’s start with choosing a formal suit.

1. Style

Changes, but you can’t go wrong with a single-breasted, solid color suit in black, grey or navy blue and always remember a single-breasted suit will make you look slimmer and sleeker in appearance.

In men’s formal wear a stylish suit can conjure up a number of images, all of them positive.

A suit can make you look powerful, mature, conservative, or sexy. Remember, most women love men in suits!

2. Fabrics and Patterns

Wool is always a safe option when buying a suit. It looks good and wears well.

Worsted wools are lightweight for spring and summer. Gabardine wools are heavier for winter. Wool Crepes are lightweight with softer finishes. Flannel wools are heaviest. Patterns for interview suits are limited to solids, stripes (pinstripe, chalk stripe, beaded-stripe, multistripe), Glen plaids, and checks (hounds-tooth, windowpane, and herringbone).

Picking The Right Shirt

Generally men with narrow faces can choose collars that are wider, to help broaden their faces; conversely, men with wider faces should choose collars that are narrower, to help lengthen their faces.

Ties

Suits come in basic styles and colors, but ties let you show your individuality within a formal look.

If you want to make a bold statement wear a patterned tie with a patterned shirt, make sure that the color schemes are the same and that the patterns go in the same direction.

Finally, don’t forget the Length: It should hit the top of your belt buckle and the deal width of ties is between 3 and 4 inches.

Men’s Formal Wear Combining Tie’s Shirts & Suits

When choosing a jacket-shirt-and-tie trio, match its level of color contrast to your personal colouring.

Your colouring consists of your complexion and hair color.

If you’re coloring is high-contrast i.e. dark hair and light skin, or vice versa–your jacket, tie, and shirt combo should be high contrast, too. But if your hair-hide contrast is softer and lighter i.e. you’re blond or gray-haired with pale skin, or dark-skinned with dark hair–you should go for lower-contrast clothes.

Two different scales For Balance When you’re combining two like patterns in the jacket-shirt-tie triangle, they should be of different gauges.

If your suit has pinstripes 3/4 inch apart, your tie should have significantly broader or thinner bands. If your suit is a striped one (with lines more than an inch apart), your shirt’s stripes should be narrower and closer together.

If you wear two different designs within the lapel triangle–say, a checked shirt and a striped tie, or a striped suit and repeating-medallion tie–they should be different scales in size If your shirt has a narrow stripe, your tie needs a wider stripe i.e. pair large with small.

De Emphasize

Choose clothes that de-emphasize your extremes.

If you’re short, look for strong vertical elements: pinstriped suits, two-button jackets. If you’re very thin, choose a jacket with wider shoulders. If you have a heavier build then Wear darker colors and go monotone from top to bottom.

Watches

The first thing to look for in a man’s watch is a large face, as these designs are generally accepted by everyone as looking stylish.

Get a nice belt

Don’t forget your belt you want quality, a good quality belt doesn’t have to be expensive and is money well spent.

Your belt color should be coordinated with your footwear – black with black, brown with brown.

Shoes

Black is the traditional safe color for work but Brown or ox blood colors can also look stylish.

You can also use a variety of styles including loafers, wingtips, round-toe, or the trendier pointy-tipped shoe.

Shoes are no place to economize on quality. For men, shoes are the final detail and are one of the areas all women notice.

Men’s formal wear can really make a great impression if worn in the right way.

Image consultants can help you in terms of recommending items for your wardrobe and providing a personal shopper service.

By sacha tarkovsky Published: 11/29/2006

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Beer guts, stubby legs, second heads. It’s hard hiding our body problems at the office-or at the gym, where we wear next to nothing. Fortunately, fashion can help.

Problem: You’re short.

Solution: Long pants and solid-colored shirts in lighter shades. An absence of distracting colors and patterns takes the focus off your body, allowing you to appear taller. Avoid horizontal stripes-they’ll make you look stocky.

Biggest mistake: A black-and-red striped T-shirt and black shorts.

Problem: Skinny legs.

Solution: Cotton shorts that end mid-thigh. Shorts that are too long or too short emphasize your toothpicks.

Biggest mistake: Baggy Bermudas.

Problem: You’re very tall.

Solution: Horizontal stripes. Best bet: A multi-colored, long-sleeved rugby shirt. It’ll emphasize the width of your body, not the height. For the lower body, stick with long pants.

Biggest mistake: A tank top and short shorts. You’ll be all body and no clothes.

Problem: Narrow shoulders.

Solution: Light-colored, short-sleeved T-shirts with raglan sleeves. (The sleeves extend in one piece to the neckline.) They enhance shoulder width. Baseball shirts will create the illusion that your shoulders are bigger than they actually are. Dark shorts or long pants also help-they narrow the hips and broaden the shoulders.

Biggest mistake: A tank top, unless you are deliberately going in for the undernourished look.

Problem: Beer belly.

Solution: Dark colors. They are slimming. Stick with black, dark blue and deep shades of grey for shirts, in lightweight materials that wick moisture. Choose shorts two shades lighter than your shirt; the lighter hue will draw people’s attention down and away from your gut. Shorts with white vertical side stripes will make you look even leaner.

Biggest mistake: A white, tight-fitting warm-up suit-unless you’re planning on singing Staying Alive.

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Outfitting Matthew Tullis used to be a tall order.

At 6 foot 7 inches tall, he frequented the big and tall dress shirt departments of local retailers in West Jordan, Utah, just outside of Salt Lake City. But even when the size seemed right, the look was all wrong.

"I’d go to Nordstrom’s or some other store and tell the clerk my neck size and sleeve length, 16 and a half neck and 37 sleeve, and I’d always have trouble with the shirt. I’m a thin person, and the shirts weren’t made for people like me, so either the sleeves were too short or the neck was too big. And the shirt was always baggy in the body. I began to think that bad fit was just par for the course," shrugs Matthew. "It got to the point where I really didn’t care. I wasn’t very picky."

As a church leader and a father of three, though, Matthew felt an increasing need to ensure his appearance matched his growing responsibilities.

"I’ve never been very worried about what other people think, but in this case it came down to something bigger than me; my religion. When it had to do with my church calling, I felt it was important to look my best and to set a good example," explains Matthew.

Desperate for a better answer, he turned to the Internet. Somewhere out there, he reasoned, had to be well-priced, good looking shirts for big and tall men who were more tall than big. The option of custom-made clothing never occurred to him. It sounded too expensive and difficult.

When he stumbled upon Best Custom Shirt, the made-to-order option seemed so affordable it was almost too good to be true.

"I think the terms I put in the search engine were something like, ‘cheapest, nicest dress shirt’ or something similar. I don’t remember how many links it returned, but one of them was Best Custom Shirt. When l looked it at the site, I thought the prices were really good. So I immediately compared them against five other online stores that had big and tall men’s shirts," says Matthew.

Matthew shared the news with his wife, who did her own online comparison shopping. The result, says Matthew, was that she was happy, too.

"She enjoyed the fact that she didn’t have to go buy them. And when she looked at the price, she thought I should go ahead and do it. Frankly, at that point I was sick and tired of spending so much time comparing everything. I figured I would just order the shirts and see what happened," recalls Matthew.

Matthew’s first custom shirt arrived within days. He enjoyed the look and feel, but still wasn’t totally satisfied with the fit. So he called a customer service expert and described the problem.

"I told him this was my first custom-made shirt and it seemed to pull across the back when I touched my elbows together in front. I didn’t know how much more space it needed, but they put me in touch with Janine and she told me how she thought the shirt could be changed. She also talked to me about some of the other little things I might like," says Matthew.

New York Designer Janine Giorgenti, owner of Best Custom Shirt. Com, spent time helping Matthew define his own preferences, tastes he was previously unaware of. Working together, they pinned down the particular look Matthew sought for his shirt’s collar and buttons.

Ten days after Matthew’s initial Internet foray, he was the proud owner of four handsome, well-made, crisp white shirts – precision-tailored to his proportions. These big-and-tall men’s dress shirts were big on style, but, even better, these were the first shirts he worn that genuinely fit his frame. Suddenly, all the little discomforts he’d taken for granted with standard men’s dress shirts vanished. No longer did he have to contend with a baggy chest, too- short sleeves or ugly collars that just didn’t lay right.

"Now, if I raise my hands right above my head, the shirt doesn’t pull, so I’m glad about that. And some of the other options, like a collar without any buttons, made me really happy," says Matthew.

He credits extraordinary customer service for his extraordinary results.

"The people I dealt with were very good, very nice, and very easy to work with," smiles Matthew.

He now feels the shirts help him to do his best work. When he presides over church group meetings, he looks and feels like the leader and role model he is. He never has to worry whether his polished appearance will disappear when he takes his jacket off.

Now that he’s a made-to-order shirt fan, Matthew ready to take on another challenge: color.

"This time, I just wanted white shirts. Now that I have all the white shirts I need, I’d like to add some cool colors. I love blue and may even want to get a maroon shirt. And I’m thinking about custom-made slacks, too," remarks Matthew.

The ease of caring for his custom shirts makes them all the more appealing. Matthew finds the garments look just as good after machine washing as when they first arrived. His over-the-counter dress shirts never stood up as well.

As a newly-savvy shirt buyer, Matthew intends to approach garment purchases with a more exacting eye. He also plans to apply the same high standards to dress-up clothing for his three sons; six-year-old Landan, three-year-old Dalin, and Alex, who’s just a year old. All, he laughs, are destined to inherit their father’s hard-to-fit stature and build.

"They’ll be big and tall like me," smiles Matthew. "I like to look good and I’m sure they’ll want to look good, too…in shirts that really fit."

About The Author

For two decades, Janine Giorgenti has dedicated her life’s work to developing cutting edge techniques, for creating a professional image. She is a pioneering top clothing designer, image and wardrobe consultant as well as a dynamic speaker.

As a recognized expert in color psychology and a seasoned Seventh Avenue designer, Janine helps clients substantially improve their professional appearance. Her scientific approach to image enhancement applies the innovations of the world’s greatest clothing experts to each individual’s wardrobe.

Many clients credit her counsel with helping them win promotions, close deals, land new jobs, perform better in the business world and build general self-confidence. Her clients include sport figures, celebrities and Fortune 500 executives from American Express, Deloitte &Touch, Citicorp, MetLife, Marriott and Morgan Stanley, among others.

Janine Giorgenti reaches thousands through her ‘ Dress for Success’ seminars, TV and Radio appearances, while her acclaimed ‘Image Empowerment’ audio series’ empower countless more people. Her makeovers are featured on local and regional television programs, and her advice was recently the centerpiece of a McKinsey & Company women’s website series on ‘business casual’.

Janine is a fourth generation designer who trained at New York’s renowned Fashion Institute of Technology. She was a fashion consultant for Saks 5th Ave, Anne Taylor, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s. Janine’s original creations have been featured in The New York Times Fashion of the Times centerfold, as well in Vogue magazine.

Janine is committed to giving back to the community, often providing custom clothing and organizing fashion shows as fundraising events for nonprofits that include The American Heart Association, A Cure for Breast Cancer, Arthritis foundation, The United Way, and the Special Olympics for Handicapped Kids.

Her advice is frequently sought by major national newspapers and magazines, and will soon be collected into a book, co-authored with award-winning television producer and journalist Sue Treiman.

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