As you get older and the first number in the age changes from 2 to 3, the closet should change with you. The excitement of your student years and first unsure steps up the career ladder are behind you. You are becoming more experienced, confident, successful and mature. Things that looked good before will look ridiculous now. You can make a fire out of these 10 things, and bravely step into your fourth decade of life. A period in which you will look better than you did before or after.
1. Jewelry
Wooden bracelets are only allowed if you’re a surfer, and a cross of God the size of your fist if you’re a churchgoer. Men’s accessories-a watch and a wedding ring-are always appropriate. The number of watches is measured only by wealth, but keep in mind that watches are also completely different in form and purpose. Men’s jewelry should be concise, upscale and made of something that doesn’t float.
2. Cheap Sports Watches
These are the ones that should leave your daily look after jewelry. Their versatility and sportiness are a thing of the past, along with the words “versatility” and “sportiness.” In this case, they allow you to look more “sporty” and at the same time emphasize the distance separating you from the real sport. It is relevance that should be the main yardstick in the selection of clothing and accessories in your 30s and 40s. If you want to feel nostalgic, wear them to the gym or to the stadium to cheer on your favorite club.
3. Versatile Black Shoes With a square Toe
Bought for graduation at school and not lost relevance in the institute, and then at job interviews, in 30 years such shoes will help only to stand in line for unemployment benefits. That’s the end of their journey and that’s all. Remember – a rounded toe of shoes, made of good leather, will look appropriate the next thirty years.
4. Sports Socks
These great to wear and wash socks are designed for sports. And that’s why their lifecycle is higher than regular socks. No one meant to deceive you, it’s just that synthetics are more wearable than cotton. The good news is they don’t have to be thrown away and can be worn with sneakers. The bad news is they don’t fit under shoes. And even black socks under black shoes.
5. Hoodies and Raglans
They are timeless. That’s where their benefits end. Keep them as a memory – out of sight. Their synthetic composition is no longer appropriate for your age. And a logo the size of a human head with a reflector will no longer find the spotlight at the club. So let go, just let them go.
6. Artificially Aged Jeans
Jeans are good because you don’t have to think about what to wear. You just put them on. There is such a thing as excessive casualness in clothing. Try to avoid it. And a great example of this casualness is artificially aged jeans, whether they’re frayed at the knees, torn at the calves, or just all in a variegated hole. Pick yourself a pair of good jeans that don’t look like they’ve been hit by a cornermill. Monochrome jeans will age themselves, and do it beautifully. Just like you.
7. Oversize Things
Some things won’t look good on you, no matter how much you convince yourself. “I’m going to wear this golf shirt with the sleeves stretched out under my jacket and no one will notice,” you think. They will. By the time you’re thirty, you should understand which brands fit you well and which don’t. This understanding is a great help in making good purchasing decisions. Maybe the items that actually fit you are a little more expensive than you budgeted for, but it’s worth splurging. If you have a good job, you just have to look a little tidier than you actually are.
8. All the Things You Think are “Funky”
T-shirts with prints, socks with weird drawings, ties with cartoon characters – these things have no place in a man’s life over 30. No matter how ironic they may seem to you. This also applies to small details. As an example of socks: Opt for socks in soft pastel colors, in shades of brown, blue or gray. As a pattern will work perfectly classic patterns – look at the Falke range. Don’t wear socks given for New Year’s Eve by “groovy” friends.
9. Sportswear
Sports clothes are great for when you’re working out at the gym or doing the exact opposite – lying on the couch at home. But when you go out and socialize with people dressed in colorless, baggy clothes – it looks like you’re resigned to the hopelessness of existence on the couch and no longer expect the gifts of fate.
10. Bad Hats
The only thing worse than oversized hats with pompoms is a hat with earflaps or a fur hat. Let’s leave the former to guys under 23, and the latter to the far north, where you can’t survive without them. Regular classic wool hats with no lettering or logos will look neat and to the point. Then there are the caps, and they’re not for 60-year-olds.