No one likes to talk about it, but we all need an underlayer.
The question is, which underlayer? Not everyone is a die-hard "boxers man" or "briefs man" -- but we all have to have some opinion on it. Know your options and pick the one that's best for you.
What Is It?
Underwear in this context is the bottom layer on the lower half of your body (undershirts could also be described as "underwear," but we address them as a separate garment -- for now we're just talking about the bottom ...
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Swim Trunks
Do you have the body of Adonis -- ripped like a rocker's jeans and cut like a deck of cards?
Yes - that's fantastic. Wear whatever you want on the beach - just don't behave like that Jersey Shore character:)
Seriously though - swimsuits can be a little nerve-wracking.
And since we're going to get dragged out into the water at some point - we should know how to wear a swimsuit.
The Perils of Men's Swimwear
Time was swimwear was purely for recreation. You were unlikely to wear it ...
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Leather Jackets
Why leather jackets?
Leather jackets are pricey pieces of clothing too casual to wear with much of your dress clothing.
They don’t go with everything the way that a dark business overcoat does.
It’s hard to find one that can go with both a dressy business look and a unique casual one.
So why are they in the core wardrobe?
1. Attitude
Yeah, we’ll go ahead and put this one at the top of the list.
Attitude. Rebellion. A Bad Boy Vibe – call it what you may, but leather ...
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Habit 15 – Read The Tag
Every piece of ready-to-wear clothing you buy -- at least in the United States, and in most Western European countries -- comes with a laundry tag.
It's there for a reason.
The secret to always doing your laundry well and never shrinking or discoloring your clothes is to always read the tag.
What the Tag Means
These days most tags have written instructions rather than the old-fashioned pictographs.
If they do have the pictures, though, a little common sense will decipher all the ...
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Habit 14 – Take All Clothing To Your Tailor
This is one of the easiest habits a man can acquire. It only consists of one simple practice: make stopping at your tailor part of any shopping trip.
The hard part is usually getting into the mindset where that seems like a necessary step.
Unless you're a son of privilege or from a country with far less mass production than America and Western Europe you likely didn't grow up with regular visits to a tailor.
Most of us associate them with luxury and top-end items like bespoke ...
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Habit 13 – Brush Your Suit
If you could spend $20 to extend the life of your suits by several years, would you?
Turns out you can.
The Dire Need for Clothing Brushes
Suits and jackets are almost always worn as the outer layer. Other than an overcoat in inclement weather you don't wear much on top of a suit.
That means that the suit or jacket bears the brunt of whatever detritus settles on you from the air or from the objects you rest and brush against throughout the day.
If you looked at a suit jacket under ...
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Habit 12 – Use Manly Boxes
Clutter -- while it has a certain tradition among bachelors -- is not the friend of a gentleman.
Being organized makes it easier to find things (aka less stress), allows you to better utilize your tools, and good for your romantic prospects and the sanity of your wife or girlfriend.
Motivating yourself to organize, however, is a tough sell. Some of us manage a once-a-year "spring cleaning" or the like, but regular neatening and well-thought storage is a tough habit to build.
The easy ...
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Habit 11 – A Weekly Grooming Time
Routine grooming takes place every day: shave as needed, brush your teeth, comb your hair, and so on.
Harder to stay on top of are the tasks that don't need doing every day. They're easier to forget about and leave until they're an unsightly problem.
Giving yourself a specific day and time each week to do non-daily grooming tasks is a systematic way to make sure you're never letting them get out of hand, and never wasting time on them either.
All The Little Tasks
There's a number of ...
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Habit 10 – Schedule Your Barber Visits
Haircuts are something that it's easy to wait too long to get.
The best sign that you need a haircut is that your hair has started to look scruffy or unmanageable. But at that point it's actually too late for a haircut -- you should have gotten one before it got there, when it still looked fine. If you wait past that point you're stuck looking scruffy, potentially for several days if your barber of choice is busy.
You are reacting in this situation - vs being proactive and managing the ...
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