Dressing Successfully: The Ten Commandments 7: Buy the right size (PART 2)
The worst faults are with shirt collars (too big, loose, gaping at the front), shirt waistlines (too small, buttons straining over the stomach) and perhaps worst of all, trousers that not only hang half-mast and flap around the ankles but sag baggily in the seat. Clothes that fit this badly do so either because they are the wrong size or because they are badly in need of alterations or because they are cut for a body type other than the one that is wearing them.
If you have any doubts about your own measurements ask a salesman to check. And remember that although a size 40 jacket may in theory be your correct size, it may not fit you as well as it should because the size 40 block being used does not conform to your own body type and measurements. Try another manufacturer’s size 40 and the fit may be perfect. Seek out companies that make along the lines of your shape.
Whether the clothes are up-to-the minute in fashion or not, fit matters and faults caused by ill-fit illustrate either a man who has no idea about dressing well or a wife/mother/lover who buys her man the wrong clothes. .
Any woman who sees her man’s clothes fitting him badly should do something about it and rectify the faults. And if you are the man whose clothes fit badly you have only yourself to blame. You are wearing the clothes.
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