Well, it won't change your life, but it will vastly improve how good you look. Remember those jeans you always wanted because some actor or celebrity was wearing them in a movie and you were like, "Holy shit, I want to look like that" and then you bought them from the store and tried them on and your face fell in disappointment because it didn't fit on you the way it fit on him, so you started to question the normality of your legs? Well, the problem with buying clothes from a store and assuming that they must fit you well based purely on waist size and leg length is that you're wrong. Very wrong. Sure, some people have the ideal legs, and clothes just sit perfectly on their Adonis-like bodies, but those people are rare.
Solution: Take your clothes to a tailor. It's an awesome idea. And don't just do it with pants/jeans. Take your dress shirts, and your sports jackets, vests, suit jackets, tweed coats, whatever.
You want to look like this guy.
But you end up looking like this (ignore the after image):
And the only way you're going to pull off a poor-fitting suit is if you're this guy.
It's time we stopped looking like we're wearing our grandfather's clothes on our Bar Mitzvahs. And there's no way in hell you paid 60 bucks for those pairs of jeans only to look like a circus tent, right.
So if you're one of those fellas who was amazed by the clothing style in Inception, and was later disheartened when you didn't look as sharp and stylish as this dude right here,
or this guy (not featured in Inception)
don't lose hope. Yesterday I went to Macy's with my mom because she had given me a 100 dollar gift card for my birthday. After spending a good hour clucking over the overpriced garbage from ralph lauren and tommy hilfiger and DKNY and such, I stumbled upon a mannequin sporting a vest and pants ensemble from a budget clothing brand called INC (International Concepts). And I realized that clothes from all the more expensive brands don't automatically sit well on people. There is this myth people have about cheaper brands. They think clothes made by cheaper companies will have irregular fits. Not true.
Once you buy the clothes that fit you as best as possible when worn off-the-rack, take them to a local tailor and get them altered to your particular body size and shape. No matter how cheap they are, they'll still look great on you and appear more expensive. I have a few very expensive articles of clothing (expensive for me is 50 bucks for a long-sleeved collared shirt), and all my clothes fit poorly on me. I used to think it was because I had a deformed back but after working out and correcting my posture and still seeing clothes fit poorly on me, I decided the issue lay in the fact that these clothes were not custom-made for me, so it was stupid of me to expect a great fit.
So go to any department store and retail outlet, and my advice is to go to cheap places like J.C. Penny and Marshall's and T.J. Maxx, where they tend to carry expensive brands that more expensive stores shipped to them as well as budget brands. You'll find plenty of very expensive shirts there that will be selling for a huge discount price (I'm talking like an 80 dollar shirt selling for 15 bucks). So, then, take those purchased clothes and get them custom-fitted for you. You'll probably end up paying more in tailoring/alteration costs than you will have for your clothes, but don't let this deter you.
It's one of the best decisions you'll ever make, guys. Girls will come up to you and say, "Hey, those clothes look great on you. But they'd look better on my bedroom floor." They won't actually say that with their mouths, but with their eyes.
Upon request, here are some before and after pics that I found on google images.
(very subtle difference)
Those are the best I can find. In general, I think the people wearing off the rack untailored suits look slightly disheveled, while their counterparts are sharper/more refined.
Solution: Take your clothes to a tailor. It's an awesome idea. And don't just do it with pants/jeans. Take your dress shirts, and your sports jackets, vests, suit jackets, tweed coats, whatever.
You want to look like this guy.
But you end up looking like this (ignore the after image):
And the only way you're going to pull off a poor-fitting suit is if you're this guy.
It's time we stopped looking like we're wearing our grandfather's clothes on our Bar Mitzvahs. And there's no way in hell you paid 60 bucks for those pairs of jeans only to look like a circus tent, right.
So if you're one of those fellas who was amazed by the clothing style in Inception, and was later disheartened when you didn't look as sharp and stylish as this dude right here,
or this guy (not featured in Inception)
don't lose hope. Yesterday I went to Macy's with my mom because she had given me a 100 dollar gift card for my birthday. After spending a good hour clucking over the overpriced garbage from ralph lauren and tommy hilfiger and DKNY and such, I stumbled upon a mannequin sporting a vest and pants ensemble from a budget clothing brand called INC (International Concepts). And I realized that clothes from all the more expensive brands don't automatically sit well on people. There is this myth people have about cheaper brands. They think clothes made by cheaper companies will have irregular fits. Not true.
Once you buy the clothes that fit you as best as possible when worn off-the-rack, take them to a local tailor and get them altered to your particular body size and shape. No matter how cheap they are, they'll still look great on you and appear more expensive. I have a few very expensive articles of clothing (expensive for me is 50 bucks for a long-sleeved collared shirt), and all my clothes fit poorly on me. I used to think it was because I had a deformed back but after working out and correcting my posture and still seeing clothes fit poorly on me, I decided the issue lay in the fact that these clothes were not custom-made for me, so it was stupid of me to expect a great fit.
So go to any department store and retail outlet, and my advice is to go to cheap places like J.C. Penny and Marshall's and T.J. Maxx, where they tend to carry expensive brands that more expensive stores shipped to them as well as budget brands. You'll find plenty of very expensive shirts there that will be selling for a huge discount price (I'm talking like an 80 dollar shirt selling for 15 bucks). So, then, take those purchased clothes and get them custom-fitted for you. You'll probably end up paying more in tailoring/alteration costs than you will have for your clothes, but don't let this deter you.
It's one of the best decisions you'll ever make, guys. Girls will come up to you and say, "Hey, those clothes look great on you. But they'd look better on my bedroom floor." They won't actually say that with their mouths, but with their eyes.
Upon request, here are some before and after pics that I found on google images.
(very subtle difference)
Those are the best I can find. In general, I think the people wearing off the rack untailored suits look slightly disheveled, while their counterparts are sharper/more refined.
