Men's Fashion Basics

Men's Fashion Basics

12 Men’s Clothing Essentials To Maximize Your Wardrobe in 2024

When it comes to men’s clothing essentials, how are you shaping up? It’s a question I often ask myself. Yet the truth is, it can be hard to keep tabs on exactly...

The Best Grandad Collar Shirts You Can Buy In 2024

In fashion, as with most things, it's not uncommon for a piece of menswear to come full circle. Take the grandad collar shirt, which didn’t so much originate from your grandpa Joe...

Sneaker Hall Of Fame: Adidas Stan Smith

The Sneaker Hall Of Fame is FashionBeans' compendium of the most iconic trainer designs of all time. From the Common Projects Achilles Low to the Nike Air Force One, these are the...

The Best Ways To Style A Puffer Jacket

Also known as a down jacket - or if you’re Wyclef Jean, a bubblegoose - the puffer jacket is that rarest of things: a nineties fashion staple with real practical benefits. These...

15 Types Of Socks For Men: Explore New Styles in 2024

When writing fashion-style pieces, one almost has to take a mindful approach to the subject of clothing. The things we don’t think twice about in everyday life, we fashion writers take a...

15 Wardrobe Heroes A Man Should Have By The Age Of 30

While it may not at first seem like it, dressing well is easy. Yes, our entire website may be dedicated to helping you look your best, but when it comes down to...

How To Look After Your Jeans: The Pro Guide

Men have a tendency to ride in the same pair of jeans until the fabric is one lunge away from being interwoven with the very atoms of our bodies. You share scent,...

Everyday Carry: Covert

Dress Code: COVERT Mismo Key Hanger | $59 Nudient iPhone Pro Ink Black | $35 Waxlondon Wax Bueller Sunglasses Black | $94

The Best New Menswear To Buy Right Now

C.P. Company Logo Sweater The older brother of Stone Island, pioneering Italian outerwear label C.P. Company does more than just help craft the future of fashion technology. It also just makes extremely wearable...

The Best Japanese Menswear Brands

Anyone who’s ever taken a stroll across downtown Tokyo knows first hand the peculiar energy in Japanese culture: somehow pragmatic yet dreamlike, technical yet endlessly creative, refined yet outlandish. And that madness...

How To Roll Your Shirt Sleeves: 4 Easy Options

It seems simple, rolling your sleeves. But trust us, a sloppily-folded cuff can ruin even the most well-curated look. On the flip-side, a precision-perfect roll can make it. Whether it's just sunny...

Here’s How Often To Wash Your Bedsheets (And Everything Else In Your Home)

Don’t remember the last time you washed your sheets? You might want to do it before you read this (just clean the entire house while you’re at it).

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 83 – Chino Styles

What I really mean by the vaguely Orwellian title above is that there are different chinos for different occasions. This idea that one type or style can cover all possible events needs...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 91 – Breaking The ‘Rules’

Life is about progression. Learning that change is good - and accepting it - is what being a human is all about. The same can be said of fashion and the journey that...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 96 – 5 Key Retailers On A Budget

A couple of months back I wrote an article titled 'The Next Five Steps', with the purpose of helping guys find their footing on the cliff face of men's style. However, based on...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 97 – DIY Tailoring

As most of us know, when it comes to dressing with style, rule #1 is making sure that your clothes fit you. It may sound like an obvious concept, but it’s one...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 79 – Layering & Fabric Basics

Introduction This piece could of very easily turned into a rant about how rubbish our English summer has been so far. Like how I’ve basically had to keep my entire seasonal wardrobe readily...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 80 – Mixing Textures

In part 1 of this series of articles, we covered the simple techniques that can be used to layer your clothes properly and what fabrics are considered to be spring/summer or autumn/winter...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 95 – The Polo Shirt

The UK has been having a bit of shocker weather-wise recently. In London, we've been experiencing the humidity that we'd expect from a month like June – sweaty tubes, an awkward night's...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 99 – The Benefits Of Having A Uniform

Once you've spent a couple of years deeply immersed in the world of men's fashion and style, you start coming to a few conclusions. Firstly, there is a huge difference between fashion and...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 100a – A Casual Round-Up

This particular article marks a bit of a milestone for me , as this will be the 100th instalment in the FashionBeans Men's Fashion Basics series. When I first started writing the...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 1 – Good Fit

With men’s fashion beginning to become just as important, relevant and lucrative as women’s fashion has been for the past 50 years, it’s easy for a lot of us to get left behind...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 100b – A Formal Round-Up

In the second and final part of this round-up of everything that has gone before in the Men's Fashion Basics series, we focus on the more formal end of the spectrum. ...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 94 – White Trousers/Shorts

Like all great philosophers across the ages, I tend to struggle with the important dilemmas of my time. Just as Socrates said "an unexamined life is not worth living" and Lao Tzu...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 92 – Trouser, Socks & Shoes Combinations

Sometimes it's the simplest of things that can cause you the most frustration. Whether it's that one tie that just can't be knotted at the right length or that button on your...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 81 – Layering & Fabric Combinations

Introduction In part 1 and part 2 of this mini-series, we’ve been covering how to layer and mix fabrics the correct way. By now, you should have a pretty solid understanding of how...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 57 – Key Colour: Purple

Following on from last week’s article on the colour green and what it can do for you, I thought I would turn to a colour that is similarly underestimated and overlooked. This...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 68 – Introducing Gingham Check

Often misunderstood, and rarely favoured here in the UK over its near cousin plaid, a gingham shirt, tie and even jacket can be just the touch of spice that your attire has...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 41 – An Introduction To Colour

So with men's accessories out of the way, I think it’s time that we move on to something a bit more colorful. I’d say that probably half the e-mails that I receive...

Men’s Fashion Basics – Part 93 – What Tailoring A Suit Can Do For You

Personally, I don’t think a man will ever look better than he does when he wears a suit. It can be worn at a variety of occasions and locations without ever looking...
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