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Dressing Down and Well: Spring/Summer Edition
Introduction It’s fair to say that we Brits haven’t yet had a summer to speak of. However, as the past couple of days have proved (at least in Brighton), occasionally we might be pleasantly surprised. We suffer terribly inconsistent weather, but for those whose intentions are distinctly sartorial, it’s still important that what we wear … Continue reading Dressing Down and Well: Spring/Summer Edition
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How To Wear: Desert Boots In Summer
Introduction Now, I don’t know what kind of weather you guys are experiencing, but to my mind, things are definitely hotting up. Finally being able to go out in the evenings without a second layer on is a dream and I’ve been able to wear shorts consistently for OVER A WEEK! It’s certainly cause for … Continue reading How To Wear: Desert Boots In Summer
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How To Look Good: On Campus
Introduction I’m going to be unapologetically specific for this article. Partly because many of you are students, and it is therefore relevant, and partly because students also seem to be some of the worse dressed people I have ever encountered. As my time at university comes to an unfortunate close, I can take time to … Continue reading How To Look Good: On Campus
Men's Fashion Guides
How To Wear Men’s Skinny Jeans
Rethinking The Skinny Jean It could be argued that just a few short years ago, men’s fashion and style as we know it didn’t really exist. Of course, men still wore clothes and seasonal runway shows took place, but there wasn’t the same desire to dress well, the same need to be stylish or the … Continue reading How To Wear Men’s Skinny Jeans
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How To Add Depth To Your Autumn/Winter Outfits
Outfit Depth Fashion ergonomics: ensuring that clothes fit properly and do so in an efficient and effective manner. Not an official Oxford English Dictionary definition, but relevant none the less. The act of creating an ergonomic outfit is no easy task. It needs to work on all levels, from every angle and no matter how … Continue reading How To Add Depth To Your Autumn/Winter Outfits
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Men’s Footwear Guide: Updating The Classics
Classic With A Twist As a style-conscious man, we don’t need to tell you how important good footwear is – it can make or break an outfit instantly. Classic footwear silhouettes such as loafers, brogues, monk-straps, Oxfords and Derbies are the sartorialist’s bread and butter. But while all these shoes rightly deserve their place in … Continue reading Men’s Footwear Guide: Updating The Classics
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A Guide To Contemporary Men’s Trouser Lengths
The Secrets Of The Trouser Hem There are few things more important in menswear than fit. Regular readers will be well aware of FashionBeans’ obsession with it, and any new visitors won’t be far behind. Alongside confidence, the way you wear your clothes and, of course, the garments themselves, fit makes the biggest impact on … Continue reading A Guide To Contemporary Men’s Trouser Lengths
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Wearing Your Winter Wardrobe In Spring
Wearing Winter In Spring The transitional period is a tricky time of year for lovers of fashion. We’re all itching to purchase new lightweight clothing and refresh our wardrobe for spring/summer but, in reality, the warm weather is still a couple of months away and it isn’t clear exactly what direction menswear will be headed. … Continue reading Wearing Your Winter Wardrobe In Spring
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Maintaining & Developing Your Personal Style
Maintain And Develop Perhaps the ultimate expression of personal style is comfort – or more specifically, confidence and comfort. A man must own his clothes and the way he wears them. Being confident breeds comfort and being comfortable builds confidence. The successful creation of your own inimitable style is an achievement in itself. Yet maintaining, … Continue reading Maintaining & Developing Your Personal Style
Men's Fashion Guides
Tailored Trousers – The Next Menswear Classic?
The Rise Of A Classic? One of the best (and worst) things about fashion is that it is constantly changing and evolving. Each season brings with it a raft of new trends and looks to add to our wardrobe, yet increasingly, old favorites – those items that are often considered timeless – are subtly reinvented … Continue reading Tailored Trousers – The Next Menswear Classic?
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Reviving The Check Shirt
Introduction The check shirt is an item that even the most fashionably inept individual can relate to. It’s a classic piece that transcends the wardrobes of men across the globe – from sharply dressed city boys to rugged, blue-collar workers. Their popularity is plain to see; you only need to walk along your local high … Continue reading Reviving The Check Shirt
Fashion Clothing Collections
Key Autumn/Winter Accessory: Gloves
Introduction Unlike summer, where many accessories are used to add something extra to a look and don’t serve any practical purpose, winter accessories really make a difference. A biting wind will be far more keenly felt by the man that neglects his hat and scarf, and there have been many times where a forgotten pair … Continue reading Key Autumn/Winter Accessory: Gloves
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Men’s Wardrobe Basics
Introduction One of the most popular topics on our forum is the new fashion follower asking for advice on the reinvention of their wardrobe. The demographic of these types of posts is pretty wide, but the question is always the same: where do I start? Luckily for these budding fashionistos, the FashionBeans community is very … Continue reading Men’s Wardrobe Basics
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5 Ways To Keep Your Style Interesting
Don’t Let Your Style Stagnate Modern life is hectic and everything seems to happen at once. Between work, social and personal commitments, it’s a wonder we ever manage to get anything done. Our attention flits between so many things that it never really settles. Information attacks us from every angle and it changes our opinions, … Continue reading 5 Ways To Keep Your Style Interesting
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Men’s Overcoats: AW13
Introduction Sometimes you just don’t get things right first time; you might make a mistake or it might not quite work out in the way you thought it would. You miss stuff, you forget to include important information or you’re just ploughing through things as quick as possible because there’s a deadline to meet. This … Continue reading Men’s Overcoats: AW13
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A Guide To Controlling Bold Colours: Autumn/Winter
Introduction The industry?s obsession with colour over the past few years has – I think we can all agree – been nothing but good for our wardrobe. Yes, there is a place for monochrome; yes, there is a place for tonal dressing; and yes, timeless neutrals should continue to form the foundation of our ensembles … Continue reading A Guide To Controlling Bold Colours: Autumn/Winter
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Men’s Fur/Borg Collar Jackets
Introduction Although we all strive for it, individuality is hard to come by – especially within menswear. Whilst women have the run of hundreds of high street stores and independent retailers, vast seasonal collections and a much more developed blogosphere, we men are stuck with a small number of quality brands and not much else. … Continue reading Men’s Fur/Borg Collar Jackets
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The Unstructured Blazer Revisited
Introduction We all love a good blazer. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone that actively dislikes them, so it perhaps comes as no surprise that we labelled them 2013’s definitive piece of menswear. For the majority of men, the blazer represents a significant wardrobe investment – whether it be from Topman, Reiss … Continue reading The Unstructured Blazer Revisited
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Transitional Season Essentials: The Blazer Jacket
Introduction It would appear that summer is over. We are, after all, midway through September and Christmas is nearly here. Again. But it isn’t all doom and gloom. When it comes to dressing, I find autumn/winter a far more exciting and engaging season – better textures, better colours and better layering options. Sadly, it isn’t … Continue reading Transitional Season Essentials: The Blazer Jacket
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Men’s Key AW13 Colour: Orange
Introduction In a world where the majority of men have black, blue, grey and white ingrained in their minds as the only colours that exist for clothes, understated hues like burnt orange and burgundy offer us the chance to stand out from the crowd in a subtle and refined way. We’ve been talking about orange … Continue reading Men’s Key AW13 Colour: Orange
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Men’s Fashion Debate – Does Brand Matter?
Introduction Brands are everywhere. Everything you buy, drink, eat, watch or look at is, in some way, a branded item. When you buy the own brand goods from your local supermarket you might well think that you’re sticking two fingers up at that hateful consumerist, marketing machine when in actual fact you are still investing … Continue reading Men’s Fashion Debate – Does Brand Matter?
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Transitional Season Essentials: The Heavyweight Trouser
Introduction I can only apologise to those of you that think I’m looking a little too far forward here, but the fact remains that, at least in the retail world, seasons are a-changing. I can already hear the jingle jingle of Christmas decorations. Following on from my initial guide to preparing for the transitional season, … Continue reading Transitional Season Essentials: The Heavyweight Trouser
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Transitional Season Essentials: Lightweight Knitwear
Introduction Last week I encouraged you to start planning for the much maligned and often misunderstood transitional period: that moment in time when summer hasn’t finished but pretty much all retailers have decided that it has. Retail wise, this is a tricky time of year – sales are all but done and stock levels are … Continue reading Transitional Season Essentials: Lightweight Knitwear
Men's Fashion Guides
Preparing For The Transitional Season
Looking Forward Working in the clothing and retail industry (yep, sales assistant), I’m perhaps more exposed to the comings and goings of high street fashion than most. Although it’s my job to be knowledgeable about the industry, you still become acutely aware of the changing seasons, along with the new trends, the new colors and, … Continue reading Preparing For The Transitional Season
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Men’s Pattern Trend: Tie-Dye
Introduction Patterns and prints are big business this season, and it doesn’t look like the trend is going to die down anytime soon. From embroidered shorts to bold print shirts, slightly louder pieces are becoming a hallmark of many well dressed gents’ style. Of course, you have your standard geometric prints, polka dots, camouflage and … Continue reading Men’s Pattern Trend: Tie-Dye
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Paying Attention To The Details – Part 2
Paying A Bit More Attention To The Details Back in April we published an article entitled ‘paying attention to the details’, which encouraged you to give the smallest parts of your outfit the same thought and consideration you would the clothes you pick to wear. We broke down how even the most minute details that you … Continue reading Paying Attention To The Details – Part 2
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Dressing For High Summer
How To Handle The Heat Unlike Britain, some countries do actually get a summer [ed: ironically, we are now in the middle of a UK heat wave]. Some overseas readers might even get too much of a summer for our liking (I’m looking at you, western United States). We British are a perennially miserable lot … Continue reading Dressing For High Summer
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Men’s Fashion Debate: To Dress Up Or Dress Down
Introduction We here at FashionBeans are very lucky to have a loyal, committed and ever-expanding readership who are keen to get involved in almost every part of the community. In return, we writers strive to produce work that will keep you coming back, day after day – and would hope that each and every one … Continue reading Men’s Fashion Debate: To Dress Up Or Dress Down
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How To Look Good: On Your Bike
Introduction Arguably, after clothes, body image and physical appearance is the most important part of a man’s sartorial success. Fitness is quickly becoming an obsession for men of all ages; from jogging to football, the majority of individuals are hitting the gym regularly or even just hopping on a bike in an attempt to stay … Continue reading How To Look Good: On Your Bike
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5 Common Summer Fashion Mistakes
Introduction It’s back again. The FashionBeans round-up of seasonal fashion mistakes has returned for another outing, hoping to oust those faux pas, expose those styling misdemeanours and save men everywhere from abject embarrassment and ridicule. You might think we’ve jumped the gun a bit – we are only in May after all and the weather … Continue reading 5 Common Summer Fashion Mistakes
