{"id":356,"date":"2015-01-22T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T17:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=356"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:01","slug":"dont-dress-stylishly-dress-handsomely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Dress Stylishly, Dress Handsomely!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no fashionista, but I like looking good and being well put together. I chuckled at <a title=\"12 rules\" href=\"http:\/\/stylecaster.com\/fashion-rules-to-steal-from-male-street-style-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this blog<\/a> because it is a bit over the top for my tastes, but there are some great cues. I think there are three essential elements to dressing well: fit, finish and fashion.\u00a0Your clothes should always fit\u00a0you well, good tailoring is essential. Know your body type and what clothing looks good on you. Fabrics are very\u00a0important. Make sure you&#8217;re wearing seasonal appropriate clothing; you can wear shorts in winter but you might get a funny look if they&#8217;re light blue. And lastly, fashion. Don&#8217;t overpower your look with too many trendy clothes. Remember tribal\u00a0printed\u00a0shirts? Don&#8217;t see them too often anymore, do you? \u00a0A few fad-ish things are fine, but make sure they have a short shelf life. Once upon a time, there was the last man who wore a wig. Ha!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Scott Ballew - Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/ballesco\/decisively-dapper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> are some of my favorites on <a title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/ballesco\/decisively-dapper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pinterest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Shirt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vatoclothing.com\/boss-black-white-printed-t-shirt-for-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/boss-black-men-grey-printed-t-shirt-121059-01-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"printed shirt\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/boss-black-men-grey-printed-t-shirt-121059-01-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/boss-black-men-grey-printed-t-shirt-121059-01.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">printed shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no fashionista, but I like looking good and being well put together. I chuckled at this blog because it is a bit over the top for my tastes, but there are some great cues. I think there are three essential elements to dressing well: fit, finish and fashion.\u00a0Your clothes should always fit\u00a0you well, good tailoring is essential. Know your body type and what clothing looks good on you. Fabrics are very\u00a0important. Make sure you&#8217;re wearing seasonal appropriate clothing; you can wear shorts in winter but you might get a funny look if they&#8217;re light blue. And lastly, fashion. Don&#8217;t overpower your look with too many trendy clothes. Remember tribal\u00a0printed\u00a0shirts? Don&#8217;t see them too often anymore, do you? \u00a0A few fad-ish things are fine, but make sure they have a short shelf life. Once upon a time, there was the last man who wore a wig. Ha! Here are some of my favorites on Pinterest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clothing","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}