How to wear formal dress.

Your dress doesn’t speak your value, but it definitely tells your style.

-Alpha’s School

Before you gentlemen start thinking, who would need to know about how to wear a piece of cloth, we all know, How to wear formal dress. Just ask yourself if you’ve ever received a compliment from anyone about how your formal dress suits you. If your answer is never or maybe once or twice from my mommy. Then this piece of knowledge here is going to change your life. If you’ve already read our posts on other outfit related topics, then you definitely would have found formal wear being common in all of them. Well that’s because no matter how much you might hate it, but Formal wears is the one versatile outfit to rock almost in every situation.

Now if you are wondering why is formal so special and why should I receive a compliment for wearing formal wears, then here’s a little truth for you, ‘no matter if you are fat, skinny, bald, short, bearded, clean shaved, if you wear a formal outfit properly without any errors, then your dress itself screams STYLE for you and most people find it irresistible to let go without speaking about it even a bit’. And now if even you want to see people feel the same around you, then here we go on how to wear formal dress.

How to wear Formal dress.

• Proper size:

This is most probably is the first thing that you will hear from any person who knows how to wear a formal dress properly. And proper size doesn’t just mean buying the dress of proper size, instead it means wearing clothes that are perfectly well fitted to your body, not too tight or too baggy, but just enough to complement your body and free enough that it is breathable.

• Understand the Occasion:

This means that where are wearing the formals to, a business trip, to your workplace, a party, meeting, and so on. Because wearing formals should not make you look complicated and stick out of the crowd. You should match with the theme that others are wearing around you. So you just need to wear the right outfit that everyone wears, but wear it to the best. And if you want some formal outfit ideas, there is a website that I found, where almost all types of formal outfit ideas are given. Click this link and check it out.

• Consider the Season:

Now if you are wondering how, it’s pretty simple, you cannot wear just a shirt and pant in winter, you know it won’t work, and if you are wearing your suit, waistcoat, shirt and overcoat on a summer season’s sunny day, that would be a disaster too. So cover yourself with the piece of cloth that will make you look good as well as comfortable. And if you want to get some ideas about what to wear in summer and winter, we have separate topics for those. Click here.

• Contrast:

You can understand the right contrast by simply keeping 3 things in mind, 1. Don’t wear completely matching color from head to toe unless it’s black, 2. Wear complementary colors, 3. Keep it basic like wearing black and white or blue and white and such kind of basic matches.

• Right shoes:

With any formal wear the most common and basic shoe colors that goes with every outfit are black, tan and brown. You just need to know how to play with each combination. The given image helps understand better.

• Tucking:

Tucking your shirt properly is a part that most of the men today don’t know about, but it is one of the most important part of looking good on a formal attire. Always tuck your shirt inside your pants so that there are no visible folds in the tucking in the front side of the shirt. Although if you are wearing a well tailored shirt, every now and then it does gets a little bit baggy, and in that case just fold the excess baggy part of the cloth behind your back in both sides, so that it does not look to be in the middle.

• Sleeves:

Keep your sleeves to proper length and size, and if you are folding your sleeves, always remember to expose your forearm. In this way your sleeve’s fold itself plays a huge role in making your body look more toned and featured.

• Maintain your dress:

No matter what, never wear your formal dress without pressing it. And always wash your clothes regularly as per directed. And if the dress starts to look faded, it’s better not to wear it if you want to look your best.

• Repeating:

Don’t repeat the same outfit twice a week, it will make your outfit look more of a regular basis wear, and you won’t be able to get the amount of attention that we are aiming for. So always keep switching on your attire every day.

• Workout:

Now working out doesn’t change the look of your outfit, but staying fit definately does makes you look more good in that particular outfit, after all formal wears are supposed to complement your body. So the better you look, the more your outfit can shine on you.

• Accessories:

Accessories doesn’t really mean having a lot of piercings, lockets, bands, and chains. The only 3 accessory you’ll need to showcase with your formal attire is a wristwatch, belt and shades. The only two types of wrist watch you should wear for formals is metallic or leather banded watches. And wear leather belts that are tan, black, green or brown, whichever goes perfectly with your outfit. And you should wear shades that complements your face shape. Click here to know how to identify your face shape.

• Groom properly:

No matter how shabby you look, wearing formals with respect to all that is listed here will always make you look like an Alpha in the crowd, but why not step it up a notch by upping your grooming game. Keep well shaved, trimmed, or combed beard as well as hairstyle. And remember do consider the style that complements your face shape.

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