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Rudi
Lately I've been noticing a spike in the popularity of brown leather. Specifically, dudes sporting good-looking brown leather belts... only to find the entire ensemble ruined by the fact that they're wearing black leather shoes in completion.
Fellas, this is one of the cardinal rules of style:
Your shoes must match your belt
No what ifs, no buts. They just have to match.
Brown shoes, brown belt
That being said, "matching" doesn't mean that you have to always wear a belt with the exact same design as your shoes. The idea is to just not to obviously mismatch your belt and shoes, e.g. brown with black, white with orange, etc. If you're wearing a pair of dark shoes, wear a dark belt. Light pastel colored shoes, a light pastel colored belt.
Photographic illustration ensues:
With all due respect, I'm aware this dude has a mild "douchebag-ish" look...but hey! His belt and shoes match!
All three gentlemen are wearing very nicely matched shoes and belts - notice how 'refined' their overall ensembles look because of that.
And notice how this mismatching shoe and belt combination just spoils an otherwise decent getup.
Even if a situation arises where you don't own a matching shoe and belt combination - it's perfectly okay to go belt-less. Provided your trousers don't drop to the floor the second you stand up, going belt-less is a perfectly acceptable look.
The moral of the story is, rather than wear a wrong belt-shoes combination (left), go belt-less and look like Kanye West (right)!
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3 comments:
good tip. will do that. :-D
I really need to add to this that every guy needs to have the common sense and decency to stay away from shoes that are TOO TACKY. Tacky means.. you're only going to wear it once.. and tacky also means that it only matches ONE or TWO outfits.
if anything stands out as abit of a novelty in the store.. don't buy it. chances are whoever designed it was blind.. or the people in the store are trying hard to sell it BECAUSE they know its ugly.
when you stay away from tacky you stay away from the risk of mis-matching your clothes... in a nutshell, keep the colours simple, and you're scott free from the fashion police
beautifully said! we need to talk bro.
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