Emmanuel Quist
Are you the type who likes to check all the dos and don’ts of dressing before you step out? It gets tedious when I so desperately want to wear a particular type of shoe but realize that it doesn’t quite match the color of my belt. Ow and I sooo love my loafers, but fashion rules say I can’t wear them with a suit or a shirt and tire.
Well, guess what? Research into the globally accepted rules of men’s dressing reveals that half of these rules don’t really apply in today’s era of fashion. Below are some of the heavyweights of men’s dressing rules that have been declared outmoded, unnecessary, or simply a lie.
- Belt-Holed Trousers Do Not Necessarily Need A Belt
Wearing Trousers Without Belt
Though belts have increasingly become an accessory of taste and fashion statement, they were originally invented solely for a functional purpose- to hold men’s trousers in place and hold pouches for little equipment. Once your pants are tight enough, as is mostly the case today, you do not need a belt. Even if your trousers has got belt holes or not.
Relieving your mind of the pressure to keep this fashion rule, frees you up to the opportunities of experimenting with other fashion accessories to go with your trousers- ranging from suspenders to adjusters. Depending on how formal or casual you aim to look, you can omit any form of belt altogether, or use a colorful tie to add a little kink to your image.
2. You Don’t Always Need To Wear Socks With Your Shoes
Sometimes it’s just much cooler to wear your shoes without socks. But the fashion police will just not allow you to. Truth is, it is archaic to insist on socks especially when the season makes a turn for the warmer. Like belts, socks were introduced for functional purposes mainly, and you can feel free to use them as such. Go ahead and rock those gorgeous loafers without socks, just as they were intended to be worn.
3. No Need To Match Your Belt With Your Shoes
The key phrase in men’s fashion in the 70s was ‘Colour Matching ‘. Guess what? The key phrase in men’s fashion today is ‘ Colour Blending’.
This is perhaps the most famous fashion rule for men of all time. Well, break it! And do it in the most colorful way possible.
4. Black and Brown or Black and Blue Can Go Together
Expanding on the point made above, rules on color matches are outdated as far as men’s fashion is concerned-popular one being that Balck and brown as well as black and blue do not go together.
Fashion today is creativity inspired. And creativity is borne comes from experimentation. By all means, be creative with your blue pants and black shoes or vice versa. Thankfully, clothing comes in different sub shades of colors and hues. So perhaps black pants will blend beautifully with navy blue or dark blue shoes much better than a brighter shade, and vice versa. Whichever way, color rules are the easiest men’s fashion rules to discard.
5. Erase fitting rules
On the face of it, the rule that requires plus-sized men to stick to thinner clothes that are supposed to make them look a few pounds thinner makes sense. But it doesn’t really. Likewise, the rule that encourages underweight and lunky men to wear slightly more loose clothes makes sense on the face of it, but doesn’t yield the desired results.
A plus-sized man who wears a tight fitted actually looks more overweight with tugging shirts and pants busting out of their seams. While an underweight man in loose clothes is just an eyesore.
The best advice here is just to pick out clothes that accommodate the eccentricities of your body size and shape. Your attempt to use your clothes to do the job of physical or weight regulation will only make you look worse.
As a disroptive, my advice for you is to stand tall in your and confidence with your fashion style and decision, making your personality do the choosing and your creativity do the styling.
Go Disrupt The Rules!
