Many men get it wrong. Some dress badly because they think clothes are unimportant, some leave the buying of their clothes to their wives and others, we know, dress-young as they struggle to keep up with the gang.
Obviously around M-M time dressing in an odd-ball way is fine if you are an eccentric or perhaps a painter or sculptor but it is hardly constructive if you still want to get ahead and be successful. With the ego already worried a man needs all the help he can get from his outer trappings. Just as his face and hair care contribute to confidence, so the choice of clothes should help bolster career and life in general.
The truth is that no matter how much a man may swear he is disinterested in clothes, deep inside he knows he would like to be well-dressed and admired for the way he dresses. Often the problem is simply that he does not know where to start and at around forty it seems to him that every shop window is full of clothes designed exclusively for the fashion-plate whose age must be twenty-five.
To succeed with minimum trouble all it needs is a few guidelines and one important recommendation that will undoubtedly be repeated: at this age, spend more not less — but buy less. Inexpensive clothes may look fine but on a man around forty they look what they are, inexpensive and inexpensively made. They may be fun and cheap but they rarely flatter.
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