Fashion can sometimes be a complicated business that, if you’re not completely au fait with its weird ways of working, can seem a bit impenetrable. So wouldn’t it be useful to have a guide to tell you the key components of, for example, putting together a great evening look? We think that shoes are a really important part of any man’s evening style. You want a pair that go with everything, so try classic black leather in either lace-ups or slip on style.
Add to this great start with a brilliant sweater. We particularly love knitted V neck sweaters as they’re really versatile and available in pretty much any color imaginable so you could always buy a few and then mix and match depending where you’re going. You can also choose to get fine knit V necks that are great for evenings in spring or fall, as well as thicker knitted options that are perfect for keeping you warm and stylish in winter. They look good over either t shirt or dress shirt.
You can add instant sophistication to your outfit with a decent pair of pants. We particularly recommend a pair of chinos, which are great for any formal occasion. Likewise, dark denim jeans are equally great for slightly more casual evenings or for men who don’t like to be too smart about things. Dark colors probably work best here as it means they can be worn with pretty much any other outfit combination and going for classic styles means they’ll always look fashionable.
For a really fantastic jacket option for evening, you could try one of the classic styles of leather jacket available. You have loads of options here and can choose from jackets with zips or buttons as well as blazers, bomber jackets and more. If you get a good leather jacket, it will last for decades, so it’s a good financial investment as well as a sure hit in terms of style. Traditional black leather is best, so try and keep things simple.
One last thing to complete your evening style is a couple of well-chosen accessories that can add instant sophistication to any outfit. For those chilly evenings, try adding a scarf for a great touch. For a cool masculine look, try a scarf with subtle stripes in a versatile color so you know it’ll go with what you’re wearing. You could also get yourself a decent watch with either a metal or leather strap, as this will add a touch of class to any look as well as being extremely versatile.
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Fashion Hats Can Be Worn With Style
Be an original, what does that mean? Being an original is taking something old, outdated or from a celebrity and creating a new style of your own. For example you can view music videos of Michael Jackson and notice that he uses hats that fits and matches his outfit. For example if he was wearing a black & white suit with his white socks and black loafer shoes; he wore a black “gangsta” hat to complete his unique image and use that hat to deliver a message to the audience.
You can do the same when you dress for any event. For example: When going to a conference, you can wear a stylish hat that matches your personality and delivers a message to your peers, friends or family.
Also, make sure the hats and outfit are color coordinated, meaning the colors to your hat matches your outfit. Ladies, big overdecorated “fancy” hats should be worn only for special events with a simple and plain outfit. You would say, what is a simple and plain outfit? What is a “fancy” hat?
A “fancy” hat is made of man-made materials usually tightly woven with a large bow on the side, or multiple bows in pink, pastel green, yellow and possibly red. Therefore if you desire to wear a hat like this make sure your outfit is plain. A plain outfit can be a basic black dress, or muted green dresses, these dresses have no prints or designs on the fabric; which can bring the whole outfit together when wearing a “fancy” hat.
Fashion Style Tips for Women – Accessorizing
On the catwalks this season some distinct and varied styles are apparent. The hardness of the rock look, the futuristic metallic look and the contrasting feminine look are all hot this season and provide women with a wide range of choice to suit their own styles and still be fashionable. Not only are these looks up to date and fresh for 2008, but they carry with them classic retro style with the trends of the season are all reminiscent of the 80s: the rock bands animal print, the neon colours and metallics of the punks and the romantic ruffles and lace.
The great thing about this season is that accessories are huge leaving people free to keep their existing wardrobe and buy only a few small items to refresh it. Whatever accessory you are comfortable wearing is the one to go for because the list of fashionable items it endless: jewellery, hats, scarves, wraps, watches, belts, gloves, bandanas, headbands, gloves, boots, bags and hair ties with jewels.
The key to accessorising is to draw attention to your best features. In the colder months when low cut tops are left in the wardrobe, the eye can still be drawn to cleavage by wearing a V-shaped medium length necklace, or layering several different lengths of necklace. Large natural beads such as wooden or stone beads are great for earthy autumn. Or contrast away from earthy naturals with mettalics. To enlarge the bust line go for a jewelled necklace.
Earrings draw attention to your face, long dangly earrings accentuate the length of your neck. Bracelets complete an outfit. Belts highlight curvaceous hips and a great pair knee high boots elongate the legs. A chocker creates a sexy collar bone. Work with your own body and place jewellery where it will draw the eye.
For the rock look a flash of animal print on a belt or a scarf, black nail polish or skull earrings. The skull motif, again on a scarf or belt has the same effect. Don’t wear all these things at once and end up looking like a nightmare, the rock look is strong enough to come through with one or two small pieces.
The metallic look is perhaps easiest to achieve with jewellery, choose a colour which suits you and your existing wardrobe from gold, silver, bronze and copper. There are many bags and shoes in these colours available at the moment. For a bold statement red and gold is great, a cooler look silver and purple, have fun and mix your colours.
In contrast to these two harder looks the romantic look is about feminine softness. You can mix in the strong colours from the rock look but with ruffles or lace of embroidery. A large loose ribbon bow, oversized bag or sexy feminine boots. Long leather gloves also appear this season.
Jewellery that is big this season feature pearls, metallics, naturals (eg, wood, shell), heart shapes, discs, hoops, exaggerated facets on stones, bold colours and large natural statements such as butterflies and bold florals.
Most importantly have fun. You can always take something and make your own statement with it. Wear a long necklace as a belt, a scarf round your wrist, brooches as a chocker on a ribbon. Contrast fine jewellery with casual clothes.
Always remember that a small statement offset with neutrals is more effective than many bold statements which will clash and be confusing. Less is more.