Rules 19, 42, 18

I am going to go on about colours until I am blue in the face (at which point I will start using warmer colours to give my pale, lifeless skin a bit more verve!).  Get the colours right and you are most of the way to dressing like a fucking man

Hoxton

02/03

The Rules

19. Create a highlight. Move away from just black, blue and grey clothes. I know, sometimes it’s nice to hold onto what you think is safe; safe is nice, you look into your wardrobe and it’s a sea of nice safe blacks, greys and blues. Fuck that you winey little girl. I’m not suggesting you start buying suits that would scare Jonathan Ross circa 2001, but a bright corner pocket, socks or scarf will make you look like you’ve thought about it, and you’ve got the chops to have a go.

42. No Trainers. You are not a fucking B boy, if you are, run along now, there’s nothing here for you to see.

18. Work with your palette. Unless you’re a black and white minstrel, or you want to look like a French man, you’ll have to start picking out tones in your face to work with: Eye colour, ruddiness of your cheeks, hair colour. The big advantage of building a wardrobe based on your pallet palette is that more and more clothes will fit together, and you’ll get more combinations of clothes.

He has taken the simplest streak in his hair, and mirrored it in his scarf, thingy (I’m actually not what that thing is, but it’s cool), and made it his..thing.  Now he’s interesting, he could have masked his streak, or drawn attention away from it, but he has taken a detail and made it his point of difference.  I’ll say it again, women’s fashion is all about overt, large gestures.  Men’s fashion is all about subtle, understated details which raise the minor to the intriguing.

Throw in a rich green, double breasted jacket, which not only works with his lighter skin tones, a retro pair of driving gloves (again another cool little detail) and a pair of well fitted jeans, the whole thing is a great mixture of small, subtle details working together, not over powering the great colours.

My only complaint, get a proper bike man, you look like a fucking tourist.  The bus drivers aim for the out-of-towners.