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I have read several threads about fashionmaxxing, but I fear they are all too focused on specific niches. Therefore, first of all I will provide a few simple general rules, then I will explore a niche that has been seldom debated in this forum: the formal dress.
Fashion isn't only fast-changing (yet with cyclical patterns: now teens fashion is back to the mid Nineties, with high waist baggy jeans, rock and metal t-shirts, etc.), but also deeply segmented. It is useless to advise somebody about how to dress, if we don't know how old is he and what kind of people and places he frequents. Then, moreover, different situations require different dress-codes (school, club, pub, work, etc.).
So, how to dress? If you are not NT, the answer is simple: copy. "Steal his style" is not only a meme, it is lifefuel for tasteless or asocial people who are unable to understand the rules, hidden on plainsight, of fashion. So, early in each fashion season, go to a place that probably you will attend or you would like to attend in the near future, check the most popular guys with a physical complexion similar to yours (not exactly the same, but if you are thin avoid tight t-shirts for example), and replicate their apparell. How to replicate it? If you are a richcell just buy the same clothes, instead if you are a poorcell you can resort to Zara (H&M is cheaper but frankly the quality is very low) for basic clothes, given that what really is important are accessories, shoes and, in winter, overcoats. And for these latter things you can resort to replicas: you can check the subs on Reddit about this topic. It is vital, anyway, never to get spotted (unless you belong to a social environment where people brag about their replicas), and therefore:
- never buy from not trusted sellers;
- also trusted sellers are specialized on one or a few brands or even a few clothes/shoes;
- some brands are way too difficult to be accurately replicated: the LV and the G of Gucci are not that easy to be copied, and it is rather easy to spot the glass of a replica watch;
- avoid clothes clearly too expensive for your social and economic status, not only because you will be called out, but also because you will look like an idiot who spends 80% of his poorcel wage in clothes;
- never never never try to become a betabux: you must not dress to make foids think that they can get expensive gifts from you;
- brands are like a price tag: do you really want to make everybody know that you spend/waste 300 USD for a t-shirt? It is tasteless and you look like an aspiring beta provider. Here where I live (a town in Northern Italy) only African drug dealers wear clothes with their (fake) brands in full view (like some Gucci, Prada or LV tasteless clothes), if you are an ethnic and wish to go to Italy or anywhere in Western Europe avoid looking like them (unless you are going after drug addicted foids, of course).
After the University, anyway, what really matters is how you dress on your workplace (no, life does not end at 20 and you can be happy also much later). If you are lucky enough, you will work in a formal environment. And I say "lucky" for these reasons:
- the few formal jobs are usually in rather profitable sectors, where maybe you start as an apprentice slave, but then you may raise to high income (i.e.: lawyers; chartered accountants; corporate, private and investment bankers, etc.);
- these jobs usually give a rather good social status;
- dressing formally is wayyyyy easier than casually (avoid the casual Friday if you can!) and, on the long run, much less expensive, because this kind of dresses follow decade-long small changes in shape, nothing comparable to fast-fashion;
- the dress has been conceived by tailors in order to create a V-shape and make your physique appear more masculine;
- you just need at least 5 dresses (10 is better, but more is useless), a similar number of white, light blue, light-blue-and-white shirts, two or three pair of shoes, one or two (black and brown) belts, or some suspenders (only made in silk and with buttonholes, never clips!), and a shitton of neckties. Be careful: trousers get usured much more than jackets, you might ask if you can buy two trousers with one jacket (it is almost never allowed and you must check that the pattern and color are the same), and cuffs and collars of shirts are usured quite easily. For cuffs, avoid watches with edges or metal bracelets (like the usual Rolex Datejust...), for the collar just shave your neck every day.
I am a framecel, wristcel, and a lot of other -cel, but on the job I have a good status and I have got laid with some foids (also much much younger than me) just because of this. And formal dresses helped my shitty body a lot.
Long story short: how to dress formally? You are lucky: just read "Dressing the Man" by Alan Flusser. It is the bible for this niche and for upper class "casual" (shirts, polos and chinos, with penny loafers) fashion. It is 20 years old but its rules are still the same. Avoid the ridicule striped or blue shirts with white collar and cuffs (and use cufflinks only in very formal occasions and if you have large wrists, if you are a wristcel avoid cufflinks!), but besides this, there is little in this book that shouldn't be followed religiously, provided you have managed to reach a good job or social status. If you are a poorcell you can download the pdf of the book from internet, of course.
How to dress formally without speding too much? For shirts, the Chinese are more than enough (Italian good brands: Carrel, Mattabisch, Xacus, Barba, etc.). For dresses it is much more difficult. The only suggestion I can give you is to buy them if ever you will come on vacation or for job to Italy. Not only top brands cost a fraction than in US stores (I mean: their price is a fourth or a fifth!), but you might go directly to their factory stores. Unlike some "fashion brands" in these cases the quality is real, it is not the usual garbage that becomes gold only because an Italian or French faggot has placed his name to it.
While quality for middle class dresses has declined sharply in the last decade, some brands are still very good: Canali, Corneliani, Loro Piana, Zegna, Raffaele Caruso, Belvest (it produced the dresses by Burberry until a few years ago), Cantarelli, Boglioli, etc. I don't like Armani much (both for the style and the quality), but if you really wish to wear a brand that even an ignorat foid knows, go for it. Top class dresses are too expensive, at their price you can get masterpieces from tailors, but if ever you wish to wear them they are: Brioni, Attolini, Kiton.
Just to start, buy a dark grey and a blue dress, so you will get three apparells with two dresses (you may, in more casual situations, mix the grey trousers with the blue jacket, but never the opposite). Then add pinstripes (but avoid the "gangster look"!) or other shades of blue and grey. Avoid other colors, especially brown (unless you are an old-fashioned communist or you live in a country where this colour is acceptable), but during the summer maybe a light brown/sand might be good (just copy the people around you, anyway). Remember that, in theory, grey is the color of morning and afternoon dresses, blue of night or cerimony dresses. The dresses for cerimony, usually, don't have lapels at the end of their trousers, and lapels should be proportioned to your body tipe (the taller and bigger you are, the higher the lapels).
The best brand of neckties is Marinella, but also Hermes is very good (it all depends on the country you live). If you cannot affor them, buy silk neckties which resemble them. Avoid overly complicated ties, for example I always use the "nodo Nicky" (I don't remember its English name): . If you are short, simple ties are a problem because the necktie would be too long; in fact, its tip should never go under your belt and the smaller leg must not be longer than the larger. If you wear a shirt with a thick fabric you might insert the smaller leg into it, but if it gets out you will look like a clown. It is better either to use a more complex node (the half Windsor) or, if you are a richcell, to have your tailor shorten the necktie.
There are millions of other little details which make a man well dressed in a formal way, but, I repeat, even an autist can learn most of them by reading Flusser's book. Formal dressing is like classical architecture: if you follow rules, you can't do wrong (and if you are a genious you can break them, but, remember, you are here because you are not a genious! nor a Chad... ).
Fashion isn't only fast-changing (yet with cyclical patterns: now teens fashion is back to the mid Nineties, with high waist baggy jeans, rock and metal t-shirts, etc.), but also deeply segmented. It is useless to advise somebody about how to dress, if we don't know how old is he and what kind of people and places he frequents. Then, moreover, different situations require different dress-codes (school, club, pub, work, etc.).
So, how to dress? If you are not NT, the answer is simple: copy. "Steal his style" is not only a meme, it is lifefuel for tasteless or asocial people who are unable to understand the rules, hidden on plainsight, of fashion. So, early in each fashion season, go to a place that probably you will attend or you would like to attend in the near future, check the most popular guys with a physical complexion similar to yours (not exactly the same, but if you are thin avoid tight t-shirts for example), and replicate their apparell. How to replicate it? If you are a richcell just buy the same clothes, instead if you are a poorcell you can resort to Zara (H&M is cheaper but frankly the quality is very low) for basic clothes, given that what really is important are accessories, shoes and, in winter, overcoats. And for these latter things you can resort to replicas: you can check the subs on Reddit about this topic. It is vital, anyway, never to get spotted (unless you belong to a social environment where people brag about their replicas), and therefore:
- never buy from not trusted sellers;
- also trusted sellers are specialized on one or a few brands or even a few clothes/shoes;
- some brands are way too difficult to be accurately replicated: the LV and the G of Gucci are not that easy to be copied, and it is rather easy to spot the glass of a replica watch;
- avoid clothes clearly too expensive for your social and economic status, not only because you will be called out, but also because you will look like an idiot who spends 80% of his poorcel wage in clothes;
- never never never try to become a betabux: you must not dress to make foids think that they can get expensive gifts from you;
- brands are like a price tag: do you really want to make everybody know that you spend/waste 300 USD for a t-shirt? It is tasteless and you look like an aspiring beta provider. Here where I live (a town in Northern Italy) only African drug dealers wear clothes with their (fake) brands in full view (like some Gucci, Prada or LV tasteless clothes), if you are an ethnic and wish to go to Italy or anywhere in Western Europe avoid looking like them (unless you are going after drug addicted foids, of course).
After the University, anyway, what really matters is how you dress on your workplace (no, life does not end at 20 and you can be happy also much later). If you are lucky enough, you will work in a formal environment. And I say "lucky" for these reasons:
- the few formal jobs are usually in rather profitable sectors, where maybe you start as an apprentice slave, but then you may raise to high income (i.e.: lawyers; chartered accountants; corporate, private and investment bankers, etc.);
- these jobs usually give a rather good social status;
- dressing formally is wayyyyy easier than casually (avoid the casual Friday if you can!) and, on the long run, much less expensive, because this kind of dresses follow decade-long small changes in shape, nothing comparable to fast-fashion;
- the dress has been conceived by tailors in order to create a V-shape and make your physique appear more masculine;
- you just need at least 5 dresses (10 is better, but more is useless), a similar number of white, light blue, light-blue-and-white shirts, two or three pair of shoes, one or two (black and brown) belts, or some suspenders (only made in silk and with buttonholes, never clips!), and a shitton of neckties. Be careful: trousers get usured much more than jackets, you might ask if you can buy two trousers with one jacket (it is almost never allowed and you must check that the pattern and color are the same), and cuffs and collars of shirts are usured quite easily. For cuffs, avoid watches with edges or metal bracelets (like the usual Rolex Datejust...), for the collar just shave your neck every day.
I am a framecel, wristcel, and a lot of other -cel, but on the job I have a good status and I have got laid with some foids (also much much younger than me) just because of this. And formal dresses helped my shitty body a lot.
Long story short: how to dress formally? You are lucky: just read "Dressing the Man" by Alan Flusser. It is the bible for this niche and for upper class "casual" (shirts, polos and chinos, with penny loafers) fashion. It is 20 years old but its rules are still the same. Avoid the ridicule striped or blue shirts with white collar and cuffs (and use cufflinks only in very formal occasions and if you have large wrists, if you are a wristcel avoid cufflinks!), but besides this, there is little in this book that shouldn't be followed religiously, provided you have managed to reach a good job or social status. If you are a poorcell you can download the pdf of the book from internet, of course.
How to dress formally without speding too much? For shirts, the Chinese are more than enough (Italian good brands: Carrel, Mattabisch, Xacus, Barba, etc.). For dresses it is much more difficult. The only suggestion I can give you is to buy them if ever you will come on vacation or for job to Italy. Not only top brands cost a fraction than in US stores (I mean: their price is a fourth or a fifth!), but you might go directly to their factory stores. Unlike some "fashion brands" in these cases the quality is real, it is not the usual garbage that becomes gold only because an Italian or French faggot has placed his name to it.
While quality for middle class dresses has declined sharply in the last decade, some brands are still very good: Canali, Corneliani, Loro Piana, Zegna, Raffaele Caruso, Belvest (it produced the dresses by Burberry until a few years ago), Cantarelli, Boglioli, etc. I don't like Armani much (both for the style and the quality), but if you really wish to wear a brand that even an ignorat foid knows, go for it. Top class dresses are too expensive, at their price you can get masterpieces from tailors, but if ever you wish to wear them they are: Brioni, Attolini, Kiton.
Just to start, buy a dark grey and a blue dress, so you will get three apparells with two dresses (you may, in more casual situations, mix the grey trousers with the blue jacket, but never the opposite). Then add pinstripes (but avoid the "gangster look"!) or other shades of blue and grey. Avoid other colors, especially brown (unless you are an old-fashioned communist or you live in a country where this colour is acceptable), but during the summer maybe a light brown/sand might be good (just copy the people around you, anyway). Remember that, in theory, grey is the color of morning and afternoon dresses, blue of night or cerimony dresses. The dresses for cerimony, usually, don't have lapels at the end of their trousers, and lapels should be proportioned to your body tipe (the taller and bigger you are, the higher the lapels).
The best brand of neckties is Marinella, but also Hermes is very good (it all depends on the country you live). If you cannot affor them, buy silk neckties which resemble them. Avoid overly complicated ties, for example I always use the "nodo Nicky" (I don't remember its English name): . If you are short, simple ties are a problem because the necktie would be too long; in fact, its tip should never go under your belt and the smaller leg must not be longer than the larger. If you wear a shirt with a thick fabric you might insert the smaller leg into it, but if it gets out you will look like a clown. It is better either to use a more complex node (the half Windsor) or, if you are a richcell, to have your tailor shorten the necktie.
There are millions of other little details which make a man well dressed in a formal way, but, I repeat, even an autist can learn most of them by reading Flusser's book. Formal dressing is like classical architecture: if you follow rules, you can't do wrong (and if you are a genious you can break them, but, remember, you are here because you are not a genious! nor a Chad... ).