Analysis Of Taboos In Men'S Formal Dress

I believe many men love and hate their suits. One thing is that they really promote their bodies and eat all kinds of occasions.

But I believe more people will reveal a little confidence when they are dressed in suits.

After all, compared to other men's clothing, this dress is too much dress code. If you don't pay attention, you will laugh at it.

In fact, rather than memorizing those dress taboos, careful reading of this topic will help you escape from the many taboos in the suit.

Dressing rules for the upper part of the body

1. don't wear shirts on formal occasions; the bottom of your shirt should not be exposed.

2. never fasten the last button on the suit coat.

3. shirts must be exposed.

The shirt must not be exposed.

As we all know, there is an unwritten rule in the world of suits, that is, formal occasions can not only wear shirts.

If you fail to do so, the visual effect created is no less than the famous fairy tale "the emperor's new clothes".

To solve this problem, almost all clothing books can say so - "because shirts were originally underwear."

(since 1800, there has been a habit of wearing underwear in dress shirt.)

This is not the only trouble. If shirts are used as underwear, it is understandable that they can not be dressed alone.

The most perplexing thing is that shirts, as a jacket, stipulate in the dress code that "the bottom of the shirt should not be exposed in formal occasions".

In many schools in the west, in addition to prohibiting "hair dye and smoking", it is also stipulated that it is not allowed to expose the shirt hem.

American football star Terrell Owens (Terrell Owens) was fined for violating the uniform shirt.

It seems that this is a rule that must be taken seriously.

For those with light weight, this way is reasonable. Placing the shirt under the trousers can highlight a good figure.

But for some middle-aged men who are fat and big bellied, it is absolutely a punishment for themselves to push their shirts over their tummy tummy and squeeze the only remaining poor hem into the way of trousers.

The late tenor Pavarotti had publicly complained about this problem. He had to customize his extra long shirt to cope with his uncontrollable stomachs.

How did this unfortunate dress code come into being?

In British Museum, there are several shirts that have been worn from eighteenth Century to nineteenth Century.

The length of those shirts is about the knee, and the yellow part of the lower part of the shirt's lower part is yellow. I think it should be covered by the crotch.

At that time, the shirt was equivalent to the present underwear. Maybe at that time, it was only for fixing it to put the shirt into the trousers.

If you can't just wear shirts on a formal occasion because "it's a former underwear", the reason why you can't pull the shirt off is because "the former part is men's underwear".

And if you don't hide your shirt in your pants, it's like announces to the people around you that you are a superman wearing underwear.

In the American drama "C.S.I (crime scene)", the detective was tied to three suits of the suit on the victim's body, and it was judged that the victim was not suicide, but the murderer put on his suit after he killed him.

"Never fasten the last button of a Western coat", I believe everyone will be confused when they see this dressing rule.

It is said that this is from Prince Elizabeth's son, Prince Welles, because he is too greedy for appetite. After every meal, he must untie the bottom button of his vest, and the attendant will have to unbutton the bottom button. Then it will turn into an unwritten rule that everyone must wear when wearing a suit.

When wearing a three button suit, you can only button the top and middle buttons or only one middle button.

If you wear a suit vest, you should unfasten the three buttons of your coat, and the buttons on the bottom of the suit vest should not be buckled.

If the two buttons suit is only the top one button, the four button can buckle the top three or the middle two. Anyway, the bottom button is the ornament, and it will never be buckled.

And when you sit down, remember to untie all the suit buttons, because all the clothes are designed for standing, which is doomed to sit down.

When the suit was buttoned up and sat down, it was even more awkward, so it was better to untie it.

Of course, when you sit down, remember to unbutton the button, and keep your buttons on when you stand up.

Recalling the usual awarding ceremony in the west, the winning male stars almost always buckle their suits on the first move after standing up, then slowly walk up to the stage. Button buttons are not only the whole dress, but also take the whole mentality to walk slowly onto the stage.

Why must the shirt reveal the cuffs?

"The shirt is out of the cuff" is already known as the dress code.

This is really a lot of advantages.

Historically speaking, shirts have always existed as underwear since their inception.

What is the value of underwear?

It is to isolate the friction between the skin and the coat, and to protect the coat of the coat.

As one of the most expensive investments in clothing for men, suits are more expensive, so they need more special underwear, that is, shirts to protect.

In order to ensure the best protection for the cuffs of a suit, the safest way is to make the sleeves of the shirt longer than the suit, so that the shirt can be exposed from the cuffs of the suit and completely isolate the friction between the cuffs and the skin of the suit so as to play a protective role.

In addition, according to the study, the cuffs of the shirts reveal the cuffs of western style suits. The performance of these two parts is conducive to making the arms look more slender and helps to make men's suits more stylish.

From a historical point of view, in the days when the collar sleeves of old shirts were still used, all kinds of fancy ways to hide such beautiful cuffs were immoral, so they would arrange cuffs to expose some centimeters of coats, so that beautiful cuffs could be fully displayed.

And when the suit and shirt came together, the dress rule of the shirt was also preserved. After that, it became an important rule in western style clothes.

Code of decoration for the lower part of the body

1. don't highlight the belt too much.

2. trousers must be lined up with tight trousers.

3. socks should be long enough to reveal their legs.

If you have noticed the celebrities of this publication, you will be familiar with the poor taste of Blair Tony Blair.

Every time he makes public appearances, he can become a good time for the media to play their toxic tongue.

"Evening Standard" reporter had such entertainment: "it should have been one million years, no one wearing Snowflakes (snow wash, the color of the cloth is different, become like leopard print) jeans, our prime minister is really brave enough to try!"

Originally thought that the reporter refers to his holiday wear, I did not think that it was said that he was dressed in the press conference, and his belt buckle was still golden, which was really staggering.

According to the British version of GQ (micro-blog), the color of gold buttons is too strong and too vulgar.

The man who is also wearing a gold buckle belt is not a self thinking return to 80s, but a style that is contrary to the style of twenty-first Century.

It's just a gold buckle. Is it necessary to make such a fuss?

Nicholas Antongiavanni, a speech expert at the White House, said in the book "The Suit": "when wearing a suit, the belt must not be too eye-catching."

But no book mentioned belts that could not wear gold buttons.

In fact, when you wear a suit, you need to pay special attention to any gold accessory.

Paul Gills, a British male fashion critic, said: "there are only two kinds of gold suitable for modern men, one is the" golden rule "and the other is" silence is gold ".

However, according to the author's guess, what really displeased reporters was not the gold buckle of the belt, but the posture of Mr. Blair.

Although it was his unconscious posture, the posture of grasping the belt, it looked like two arms, and the English arm was "akimbo". According to Desmond Morris, this gesture represents "rejection and negation". Although Mr. Blair's posture is not entirely in the hands of the hips, it looks very close. At least it is certain that this posture will not give a good impression on Desmond Morris.

If politicians or celebrities are always at that moment, let reporters take the opportunity to interpret their "secret of the heart".

The mood of journalists should be "tired of posture" and "ornament button".

Only the gold buckle played the innocent victim.

It is because of the bad posture, it will clearly wear a coat, but also make the belt buckle look so dazzling.

As mentioned earlier, "the belt must not be too eye-catching", and the real meaning may be "not to put too much attention on the belt."

Importance of folding line of trousers

How to show the beauty of leg lines?

This problem does not belong exclusively to women dressed in dresses. For men, this is also a major topic for a long time.

Before eighteenth Century, it can be said that the age of five cent breeches (breeches), when people would wear stockings to modify their legs, or dance to train their legs.

In the early nineteenth Century, the longer trousers became popular, so people began to pay attention to the lines from waist to toe, and even wore foot pads with belts to fix the trouser legs through the soles of the feet.

Following the tape, people also thought of using new methods to show leg lines, that is, broken line.

Broken line English is "crease".

The fashion leader to carry forward it is king Edward VII of England.

Around 1880, when he was still the crown prince, there appeared a pair of trousers that fold the line along the left and right sides, which fully displayed the beauty of leg lines.

During his son George V, he tried to press the fold line in the middle of his trousers.

Up to 1910, most of the trousers had been used in the middle of the fold, which turned into what we see now.

Even the electric iron invented in 1882 plays an important role in this popular way.

In addition, trouser tube folding is also popular at this time.

Around 1860, people avoid folding up their trouser legs to fold up their trouser legs during sports or bad roads.

However, this way of folding is coming on the popular stage with the name of "turn-ups" (Kaf trousers). It is 1895.

By such a counter turn, the outline of trousers can be more stereoscopic, and the key figure to make this kind of folding popular among the hearts of the people is Edward VII.

In the early twentieth Century, when Edward VII ascended the throne, men's clothing began to jump out of the hard line and take a breath of elegance.

The beauty of leg lines pursued by modern suits is also continuing the aesthetic feeling of that era.

And what is the best length of trousers?

The trouser tube is slightly covered over the shoes, so that the fold line is slightly collapsed.

Such a sense of collapse is called "break" in English, that is, the meaning of suspension and rest.

A broken line with a little sense of collapse seems to make people "have room for rest and breathing in the world of rules and regulations". Perhaps this is the charm of it.

The slump of trouser legs can show the graceful and easiness of trousers, and the two straight lines on the side of the trousers that just came back from the dry cleaners do not damage this calm and calm feeling.

Measure whether you buy a pair of trousers.

The waist of trousers is the soul of trousers. The waist of trousers is not suitable. As long as you wear your pants, you can just put one hand under the condition of natural breathing. This shows that the waist of trousers is suitable.

If you can't get a palm in your hand, your trousers are thin.

If you can put a fist in your waist, it means the waist is fat.

The trouser waist of western trousers can be modified to a certain extent. It can only be changed to 5 centimeters in a small lane, but not more than 3.8 centimeters in the big lane.

If you go beyond this range, the original shape of trousers will be changed.

The trouser tube should also be exquisite. The middle fold line of the trouser leg must be impartial, straight and natural to the vamp. Only in this way can the central folding line support the texture of the trousers.

The length of the trousers should be just behind the seams of the heel and the upper.

If you want your legs to look longer, the length of the trouser legs can extend to the 1/2 of the heel.

In addition, the belt must be 5 centimeters longer than the trousers when buying the belt.

That is to say, if you wear trousers of size 35, then the belt should be bought 36.

In the 60s of last century, columnist George Frazier of the American version of Espuire once said a famous saying, "Wanna know if a guy is well dressed"?

Look down. (if a man knows whether to dress?

Look down. "

This sentence has always been regarded as an irrefutable truth.

In fact, as long as people watch their feet, they can know who is not accustomed to wearing suits.

Because when someone raises their feet, they will expose their legs that are not covered by socks.

Is this what we call "overstretched"?

In order not to let people see calf, we have to wear longer socks.

In English, this stocking is called "hose", which is the same spelling as a soft water pipe. So it can be imagined that this kind of socks is like a water pipe tightly wrapped around the calf.

The originals of the stockings were men's clothing in the fifteenth Century. From the modern perspective, they are very similar to ballet dancers and their names are "hose".

Now what we call socks (socks) is the light shoes worn by the comedian of ancient Greece and Rome on the stage.

That is to say, stockings are evolved from tights and socks are evolved from shoes.

In any case, socks are linked to trousers and shoes, which can be said to be a very attractive ornament.

In sixteenth Century, in order to make the calf look bulging, it even used a kind of interlining called "clock".

The lining is shaped like an ancient bell, and the ancient clock is the origin of the modern clock.

At the same time, the most common diamond pattern on socks is called "Argyle".

This pattern is inspired by the square pattern of Scotland, and the diamond pattern is produced after cutting the square pattern cloth to the tailoring and re sewing.

This pattern of socks appeared in Britain in the middle of nineteenth Century. The socks were so attractive that they even crossed the Himalaya Range and became the traditional clothing of Bhutanese men.

The traditional costume called "Kho" is somewhat similar to the Japanese kimono with knee length and knee length.

When men wear traditional clothes "Kho", they will also wear stockings. Though they are not accustomed to seeing them, they are also a sense of beauty of the clothes themselves.

If you are swayed by your clothes, you may as well check it yourself.

When wearing a suit and tie, the standard knot of the tie should be a solid inverted trapezium.

Avoid wearing too big collar collar, there is a gap between collar.

Don't wear suit sleeves longer than shirts. It should be about 1 centimeters shorter than shirts.

In a suit, shirt buttons should be buckled. Avoid wearing shirts under trousers, and wearing a sweater or sweater in a suit will be overstaffed.

Don't wear too many bags and bags.

If it is a single row double grain buckle, its second buttons are like buttons, so avoid all buckles. Generally only one or two grains are deducted.

If you want to double suit, you should button up all buttons, or you can only button up one or both.

The standard trousers are covered with trousers and shoes can not be inserted into trousers.

The color of leather shoes and shoelaces and socks should be coordinated. The color of socks should be deeper than that of suits.

A well-dressed man must not wear the same clothes or the same pair of shoes in two days. The alternate wear will shorten the time for the garment to restore the plate shape, and will help maintain the plate shape for a long time.