Men sometimes mistakenly equate “fashion statement” with ostentation, flamboyance, or runaway vanity. They should get over it, learning instead that their clothing is a form of self-expression, and any old shirt and trousers make a fashion statement whether intentional or not. Hemingway once told an interviewer that he wholeheartedly believed a man expressed his fundamental masculinity in every word, movement, gesture, and choice; smiling, he added, that he certainly included clothing among a man’s important choices.

As you consider how you will make your personal fashion statement, keep in mind that colour, texture, and tailoring number among the most powerful signifiers of your taste and self-esteem. The old jokes about a man feeling confident enough to wear a pink oxford cloth shirt provoked wry smiles not so much because they were funny as because they were true.

Form, fit, and finish apply to a man’s body and especially to the quality of his clothing. No less an authority than Jack Kerouac wrote admiringly of a man whose body was tailored to his clothes, the product of relentless hard-work and honest sweat. While your body remains a work in progress, however, you can tailor your clothes to accentuate your assets and conceal your flaws. Do not squirm and suggest that may be just a little girly or vain for your taste; instead, accept the notion that using your clothing to advantage is simply a critical element of style-the adverbs in the grammar of clothes. Whatever shape you’re in, your clothes should fit well enough to move with you and look good doing it. When you compose your fashion statement, make your clothing fit the way you live.

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