Dressing For A Change

Have you come to the conclusion that you want a change of image? Or would you only like to smarten yourself up a bit? Maybe you have a new job with new colleagues and you would like to take this opportunity to dress a bit more elegantly. Sometimes individuals like to transform their image while they are looking for or have recently discovered a new partner.

While changing one's image most people will focus on a new hair style and smarter clothes. Women might go for smart trouser suits or power dresses and men may make a decision to wear a lounge suit or a jacket and tie more frequently. If the weather is bad a costly overcoat always completes the image, particularly suede, cashmere or leather. It used to be that fur was de rigeur, but now it is duh.

However, there is another way of changing your image, a way that need not be that costly, although occasionally it takes courage to try it. That is the wearing or the using of accessories. Women have more opportunity here in many ways, but men have choices too.

Women can sport something in their new hair style; they can co-ordinate bags and shoes; they can wear a different style of stockings or could begin wearing gloves, white kid, for instance. They could modify the style of jewelery they wear and the colour or their hair and lipstick. Belts, brooches, watches and scarves can also serve the purpose of changing ones image. They could also wear a fresh flower on their lapel, in their hair or behind their ear for that old style gypsy look :-) (that is the brave one).

Men have a somewhat harder time of it without looking daft, but men can wear better shoes, wear a tie more frequently or a costly watch. They could carry a briefcase and an umbrella, and wear a flower in their button hole, but this is where it begins to look a bit contrived. They could also wear a monocle, a pocket watch or a bow tie.

My cousin wears a monocle and once you overcome your first instinct to laugh, you have to admit that he looks fairly elegant. The same is the case with bow ties, which he wears as well and insists on tying it by hand. He also carries an umbrella, a briefcase and wears pinstripes. He is very brave and he is noticed and remembered wherever he goes.

However, you do not need to go that far. Even simply wearing a bow tie instead of a tie will set you apart. Have you noticed that if you are talking to someone wearing a bow tie you cannot stop looking at it? It is the men's equivalent of a woman's low-cut dress.

Anyway, accessories are a less expensive way of altering your image than going out and purchasing a new wardrobe of outfits and they are more easily combined that different suits. Go for colours that combine easily, like blacks, greys, browns and off-whites. Understatement is usually better than garish.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of subjects, but is now concerned with the jean jacket. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Mens Overcoats For Sale.