Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Tom G Wears: Master of the Closet

Clothes... the last of the old school inventions. We keep warm in them, we stay cool in them, we express our personal taste in them, flaunt our status in them, hide our nudity in them. Some of us become ourselves when we get dressed... some of us get dressed to become someone else. Some people hate thinking about clothes. Some obsessively ponder every day's costume. Some are fashionable, some are not. Some spend big, some spend very little. Some...

Shut-up and get to the friggin' thing!

Getting dressed is a hard business for most of us. Especially when it comes to proper shirts... you know, the kind with buttons. These days, everything is small. Small collars, small cuffs, low waistlines, and skinny legs.

Tiny collars and Renaissance fair pants are all good-n-dandy if you have the build for it. But most men... MEN... aren't build for it. and more over, some of us simply don't look good in it. If there's three C's to getting suited and booted it's this: Cut, Color, and Comfort.

Cut: A garment should be shaped to flatter your figure. Big head = big collar, Big hips = longer jacket, and I could go on. Think balance.

Color: Does the color(s) of a garment look right on you? Do you feel right in them? Those with a pink complexion probably won't look good in red for the reason that there's no cool color to counterbalance his complexion. But then again, perhaps blue or green just isn't his/her color. Does it feel right? Does it look right? Think balance.

Comfort: The biggie. Probably the most important. If you don't feel right in a garment, you won't move right in the a garment, and then you're not in control of the garment. And no matter how stylish it may be, you'll know that you're not in control. I, for one, hate low-rise pants. There are few things worse than feeling as if your ass is going to pop out of your pants every time you sit down. And so, I do not wear them. Even if it means women see me as less of a spry, Swedish sex machine.

In short: Your clothes need to work for you. You need to be the master of your closet, whatever that closet looks like. And make no mistake, just because you might master the closet, doesn't mean that you're IN the closet.

I'll be banging-out a series of these designed to help the fellows be a little happier about getting dressed, and even help the ladies do a better job of dressing their fellows. I hope you'll check them out, lay some feedback on me, and share them. I hope to teach you a thing or two, and maybe send you away with a good chuckle.