Male Fashion Advice

I think this is a fantastic guide. Probably the best resource I’ve seen for men’s fashion, actually.

Wow, thank you, that's incredible praise!

The Concept Wardrobe for Inverted Triangles

This guide is about the Inverted Triangle, a common male body shape, but is aimed at feminizing that body type’s appearance. But I think what holds true for this body type, even for a masculine appearance, is that wider trousers look amazing. Harry Styles has rocked flared, bell bottom trousers.

I tend to find these guides impractical—people generally can't figure out what their body type is (real bodies are three dimensional and a little too unique to fit into these simplified categories), and the tips for each body type are often... made up. To be fair, it's worse with face shape / eyeglass guides or skin tone / color guides, body type guides make at least a little bit of sense, but at the end of the day, the best way to dress is not to obey pseudo-scientific rules based on vague generalizations of shape, but to develop good taste, understand silhouette in the abstract, try clothes on, and pick the ones you like while considering how they might play together.

But yeah, super slim silhouettes never felt masculine to me, they make my ankles look twiggy. A straight leg looks stronger to me, and prevents the top-heavy look that... like, think fat republican politician on a golf course, that's not what I'm going for.

Oh! Also, I've written about Harry Styles and his flared trousers here. I think there's a deeper meaning there than "his body is this shape so he wars this."