February 24, 2025 • 33 mins
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Intro:
In today's episode, we're diving into the world of men's fashion, specifically designed for those of you feeling a bit puzzled by the latest trends.
From identifying your body type and finding the perfect fit to unlocking the secrets of a minimalist wardrobe, we'll cover everything you need to know to enhance your style.
Plus, we'll explore common shopping pitfalls, the art of peacocking, and how to develop a timeless wardrobe that reflects confidence and sophistication. Whether you're looking to impress on a first date or simply want to update your look, this episode has you covered.
00:00 Dressing Tips for Larger Body Types
04:32 Climate and Fashion: Common Mistakes
07:38 "Affordable, Timeless Wardrobe Strategy"
11:37 Efficient Travel Wardrobe Essentials
14:00 Mindful Spending on Watches
17:23 Height-Boosting Footwear Choices
18:52 "Shoe Game & Jacket Advice"
22:23 All Saints: My Perfect Fit
27:15 Timeless Sales on Classy Brands
29:34 Enhancing Personal Style Tips
32:39 Join a High-Status Social Circle
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Transcript
Episode Transcript
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If you're a man between 30 and 60, there is a very high chance
you're probably feeling a littlebit confused about fashion
trends and how you should be dressing.
So in today's episode, my wife Maria here.
Hi, who's a fashion model, photographer and stylist and I
are going to give you a simple template on how you can dress to
Max out your looks and amplify your confidence and personal
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style without breaking the bank account.
You're listening to the Inner Confidence podcast.
My name is Robbie Kramer, I've been a coach since 2007 and I've
helped countless men rapidly achieve all of their social and
dating goals. My mission is simple, to help
you position yourself to meet stunning women, make awesome
friends in route to becoming themost confident and attractive
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version you can possibly be. I am obsessed with giving you
the most leveraged ways possibleto win the game.
So stick around, let's go. So why is fashion so important?
Well, it's the fastest way to signal status and competence
without really opening your mouth.
Women understand that most men don't really understand fashion
that well or care to understand it.
So those are typically do understand it are either gay or
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they've dated beautiful women who have dressed them and really
kind of forced them to understand the value of fashion.
In this episode, we're going to cover how to identify your body
type and find clothes that flatter your shape.
We're going to go over the common shopping blunders and how
guys waste money. We're going to help you find a
very timeless style for yourself.
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Why aiming for minimalism will make your life easy and save you
money. Where to shop and how to shop
online. We're going to go over shoe
game, jacket game, and talk about accessories.
And if you stick around at the very end, we'll show you exactly
how to troubleshoot decision fatigue when you're out shopping
or you're not sure what to buy or whether or not you should
just keep your wallet in your pocket and not buy anything.
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So first let's talk about the general male body types.
And as you can see here, we haveon one side, we've got the
trapezoid, the rectangle, the triangle, and the Oval.
Which one do you think I am, baby?
I think you're a rectangle. You're supposed to say OK.
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I'm sorry, you're trapezoid. No, I'm pretty much a rectangle,
but it's. A good body shape.
Yeah, as long as you're not one of these two, it's, it's easier
to dress, but we're going to cover, you know, the best
clothes to fit depending on whatyou are.
So if you're bigger then and, and you're either that Oval or
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the triangle, you know, you wantto look for regular fit
clothing, more generous cuts that are tailored to fit.
You want to go for vertical stripes, never horizontal
stripes. Regular fit sort of T-shirts,
regular fit Blazers, no like double breasted stuff or things
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that are just, you know, going to make you look wider.
Regular sort of straight jeans. You want to avoid, you know,
slim skinny jeans color like bright colors and and color
blocking. It's you're just gonna look kind
of bigger and draw attention to the wrong areas.
And you also want to avoid too baggy stuff because it will make
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it even bigger. And tight clothing, you know.
Yeah, you also want to avoid white tops because they're gonna
make you bigger, and you need toprefer black or very dark tops
because they don't drive attention to a big you are they
make you look. You want to add volume to the
top, you know, that's why one reason why I love this because
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it has like these shoulder pads and it makes me look bigger up
top and thinner in the middle. So now if you are a trapezoid or
rectangle or that shape in between, you can really get away
with wearing almost anything, right?
Clothes are designed to fit these body styles and you might
find one brand is better than the other, but you can do slim
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fit Blazers, slim fit shirts, V-neck style T-shirts if those
are in in that particular season, slim fit jeans it.
Says like avoid bagging loose fits.
I think for trapezoids, the baggy stuff especially now it's
very like Gen. ZI think it's very good for
trapezoid. They can really pull it off, but
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I would definitely say to avoid for your type of shape because
every try, every time we tried something that was baggy on you,
it made you look so bad. I I can't wear.
Bad stuff, yeah. The Gen.
Z baggy stuff is just not my cupof tea.
Yeah. So that's that's a no go for me.
So let's talk about common mistakes next.
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So first you got to consider theclimate, right?
If you're a little overweight and you living in a cold weather
climate like New York, London, Paris, Berlin, or you know,
Scandinavia country like Stockholm, you can get away with
being a little bit heavier because you can layer again.
You could add the volume up hereto minimize what it looks like
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in terms of volume in the middle, and you can make
yourself look more fit in higherstatus.
And women in these cities care more about fashion than, say, a
girl who's living in like Rio deJaneiro, where it's just hot
most of the year. And the best fashion is having a
six pack and being in your, you know, your bathing suit all the
time. So if you live in a hot weather
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climate near a beach, you reallycan't afford to not be in great
shape if you're if you're tryingto date.
So if you're struggling with fitness accountability, this is
one of the major benefits of joining a community like mine.
We run fitness challenges frequently to inspire each other
to get in great shape. So if that's something you're
struggling with, and it sure wassomething I struggled with for a
long time, nothing works better than accountability to, to lose
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weight. It's very hard to do it on your
own. The next biggest mistake guys
make is is focusing on too much on shirts and pants, right?
They, they try to show their style and their, their fashion
sense through shirts. And fashion companies know this
and they exploit guys who buy expensive shirts.
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You know, you can buy a stupid button down shirt.
It'll be like 2-3 hundred bucks sometimes depending on the
brand. And they think that's the key to
fashion is buying these expensive shirts.
Really, none of the girls know. Not like no girls knows like
about the shirts. No.
And half the time they're buyingthe wrong patterns and the
stripes and they're looking fat or they're looking bad, right?
And they just don't know what they're buying.
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But it's also girls are not going to like, Oh my God, you
wear this shirt. Exactly, no one really cares
about your shirt and guys who buy this stuff are the suckers
of the fast industry. It used to be me and a a shirt
is super noticeable. It's and it's not like you can
wear the same shirt all the timebecause people will notice that
shirt. 10 out of 10 of the guys who come for a fashion makeover,
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you know when they they come in to see us, you know they show up
with like 900 button down shirtsand they almost all.
Suck but it's only like only things they wear.
That shoes. And it's also look like those
shirts are from 9:00 to 5:00. Office job.
You're not gonna wear this shirtto go to the day to impress a
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girl. She will be like, come on.
You couldn't even like, change after your your work.
Yeah. It's yeah, they just wear their
business stuff. So really what you want to focus
on is peacocking. And you can do that with your
shoes and with your jackets and with other accessories.
So more on that later. So next, let's talk about
finding your style. And remember, you don't want to
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get caught up in the trends because you'll really never
understand the overall objective.
And you run the risk of always looking like a poser if you just
try to dress trendy all the time.
And you don't understand fashionat a deeper level, which is a
commitment. And that's why we recommend a
mixture of minimalistic, smart casual, old money, which is the
most affordable, efficient and timeless way to dress.
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And we'll get into exactly how to do that in a bit.
But first thing is you really need to create a budget.
So when it comes to your clothes, you get what you pay
for. And you have to ask yourself,
should I shop at Zara and buy a $50 pair of jeans, right?
And those, maybe you'll be able to wear them 50 times before the
crotch wears out and you get a hole in it.
But compare that to buying a $200 pair of jeans from
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Nordstrom's, a rag and bone. You can wear those 200 times
instead of, you know, 50. So effectively, the way I look
at the cost of Faction is it's kind of like renting it.
How much does it cost per wear? And both of these examples, they
cost a dollar per wear, but the latter, the $200 pair is much
higher quality. So it's going to be more
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comfortable. And you got to remember what my
wife always say. Miser pays twice.
My wife always says miser pays twice.
Usually I'm the miser in the in this relationship because
shopping is for the cheap optionis the same exact price in the
long run. But you got to, you know, you
got to pay the the opportunity cost, you got to go shopping
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four times. And time is money.
So paying for quality is typically worth it if you can
afford to do so. You know, when most clients come
for a fashion makeover and photography session, which is
crucial if you're really trying to optimize your online dating
efforts. It typically takes us about 3
hours of shopping to kind of getto get a guy everything if he
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has nothing. But it's hard because you need
to know, You need to try different brands to see what
fits. And when you establish the
brands, then it's easier for that particular person because
they know exact brands, they feed them, so they'll just go
next time and they show up to those brands.
It's easier after that time, butyou know, you can get away with
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spending as little as maybe $1200 on a full wardrobe, right?
And then some guys obviously want to splurge and you can
spend four or five 6000 bucks noproblem.
When I was travelling a lot, I wanted to have a wardrobe that I
could obviously fit in a carry on bag, right?
That was really important for me.
I was a nomad and I just didn't want a bunch of clothes, right?
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I wanted the fewest number of items that could make me the
most number of outfits. And obviously if you live in a
cold weather climate, you might need a bigger bag.
But I really think as a beginnerin fashion or a guy who's really
just trying to like be the most economical and efficient, that
is what you should go for. You should go for the minimalist
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wardrobe. Fewer colors that all sort of
match each other. And I also think the easiest way
for a guy to hack fashion is to really choose a color palette so
everything matches. For me, it's black and Gray.
That's all I really ever want. Sometimes white.
You have some pastel colors, butthey much they much.
But I wouldn't have bought thoseunless you forced me to, you
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know that right? Like obviously, yeah, I have
more because I'm not nomadic anymore, but when I was on the
road it it was great having onlystuff that matched.
So, you know, with just a few items you can make a ton of
combinations and we'll show a slide here and you can kind of
explain. Yeah, here is what it's called
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capsule wardrobe. And as men say, minimalistic
lifestyle, Don't be scared, it'sonly 9 combinations, right?
But in reality, you can have 50 to 100 combinations with those
clothes and they'll always look different, never the same.
So and on the right right men's spring wardrobe guide right this
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is like especially if you travel, you can plug this in
your suitcase and you will have unlimited amount of options and
as Robbie. Not fully unlimited, but enough
that no one's gonna ever recognize.
Yeah, but it's not like you're traveling for like a year.
If you're traveling, even if youare, but with this, you've got
two pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of pants, you know, two pairs of
shorts plus a, a swimsuit, couple jackets.
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And then you know, these couple sweaters, 2T shirts, button
downs and a couple polos, 4 pairs of shoes, hat watch.
You could fit all this stuff into one bag no problem.
And you can mix and match and you can see you, you would have
enough different, enough different options for you know,
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and all these colours match eachother and that that's the
benefit. You don't want to go buying like
oranges and, and this and that and the other 'cause that's what
most, most guys do. They'll see, Oh, I like that
shirt, right? And it'll be like a certain
colour and he won't have anything else of that color.
Yeah. And after.
You will end up wearing it once a year to some occasion, but
it's fine to buy those things when you when you already have
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established wardrobe. If you have everything like
this, you can start adding like extra pieces that are different
and then you can you know, wear them.
But yes, if you don't have this initial.
You want to start with the basicsomething like that, right?
If you have blue eyes, right, having some blue tones is a
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great sort of color palette. Like if I had blue eyes, I'd
wear blue shirts and I have moreblue stuff, but I don't looks
good. The two sort of color
combinations I would suggest guys go for is if you have dark
hair, dark eyes like me, just goblack, the black, white, Gray,
super simple and it looks great.Dark blue.
Well, if you you don't want to go dark blue with black, you
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could, but it kind of clashed a little bit.
But go with this, this color palette go with blue, khaki,
beige, white and brown. So the only actual items of of
color that I own back in the daywere my shoes, which would
really pop, right? I've got this all black outfit
on and if I rock these like red Nikes.
They're not red. Burgundy, sorry, right.
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The the shoes would pop and it would draw attention to my
shoes. So it would serve as peacocking
conversational fodder. Girls would come over all the
time be like, oh, I love your shoes.
And it was because my normal outfit was pretty plain.
It looked good, it fits well, but I'm intentionally drawing
attention to my shoes or my hat or, you know, whatever jewelry
as I became more advanced and I was sort of leaning into more of
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like a tribal wardrobe. So remember, fashion is a
journey. If you treat it as a quick fix,
you're really missing out on thebiggest benefits.
And you'll have a really short window of looking relevant
before the the trends passed youover.
A quick note on watches, becausethey're they're shown there,
most guys think they need to spend a bunch of money on like a
watch or a variety of watches. So they spend 500 bucks or 1000
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bucks or 800 bucks. But girls don't care about
watches unless they're used to dating very wealthy men.
And if you are a really wealthy guy, buy one expensive watch.
You know, buy a 10K Rolex or 15KAutumn Marbajo, right?
You can, if you can afford to. And because it's a good
investment, you know, typically those things will go up in
value. And you know, if, if he can't
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afford it, it's actually better to not wear a watch at all and
wear cool bracelets instead. I don't own any watches.
You know, I, I don't need to know the time.
I can look on my phone. You could also rock a less than
like $200 fun, colorful watch that will serve as a way to
Peacock can match it with your shoes.
You can, you can have fun with that.
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And if you're looking to marry your dream girl during her
Goldilocks period, which I like to say in her early to mid 20s,
which is when I met you, my dear, you got to understand that
like girls don't really care about watches.
Do you care about watches? No right.
So if anything like watches makeyou look older.
So remember over 10K or under 200.
So let's talk about shoe game next, cuz that's one of the
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biggest areas where you can show, you know, style and and
fashion. Women check you out by looking
in your eyes 1st and then they look down at your shoes and then
they look you from toe to head. Would you agree with that?
Right. And if your shoes are dirty, red
flag. Oh, guys think their shoes don't
matter. They you know in.
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Reality. Dirty shoes, old shoes.
They're like, who really looks at your shoes?
Trust me, everybody is looking at your shoes.
It's the most important thing. So don't like guys will just be
like, yeah, I got my my nice dress shirt and my disgusting
Kenneth Cole reaction shoes from1998.
Oh my God. So that is a major fashion faux
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pas, right? But shoes are really worth their
weight in gold. If you take care of them, they
can last for years. I've owned these three pairs of
shoes for over 3 or 4 years eachand I get compliments on them
almost every time I wear them. And you know, I didn't mind
spending 500 bucks on these because the cost per wear and
their quality and they're super versatile.
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I mean, you didn't spell anything.
All of them were my gifts so. You paid for them, so that was
nice. So the first pair is a simple
casual black sneaker. But this is actually, this is by
Prada. And you can see it's like,
obviously it says Prada, but it's not like screaming, you
know, look at me, I'm Prada, right?
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Is classy. So it just looks like a black
sneaker. And they're casual enough to
wear even with shorts. But you could also wear these
with a suit. So you're getting 2 pairs of
shoes really for the price of 1 and you take care of them.
Like I said, the last break. You can dress them up, dress
them down. Easily, Yeah.
My second pair are these Alexander Mcqueens.
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And these are, you know, a typical white casual sneaker.
So you got your black, you got your white.
You can wear these with pants orshorts.
You can't really wear them with a suit, but.
To mention about the. The height, yeah, you could get
away with wearing them at the gym if you're traveling and if
you want to, you know, leave your gym shoes at home.
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But yeah, like she said, both ofthese shoes and even my last
pair, which I'll show in a second, they have a nice little
like almost 2 inches of extra height here.
So I go from, you know, 5-10 to almost 6 feet and this is the
last pair of these are combat boots.
Well, sorry, 2nd to last pair. These are rugged, they're
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masculine. If you're not really into this
style, you could find more of like a desert boot or something
like that. These are really good for cold
weather. They can also be worn formally.
You could wear these with a suitas well.
And if you don't want to spend this sort of money on shoes, you
can easily find stylish casual options like these Nikes I
showed earlier. You've got Adidas Sambas which
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are really popular now. And really, never Adidas never
go out of style. The Sambas.
We could just get some plain white or black shoes and
Nordstrom right? Good price.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
And remember, you could wear a simple black T-shirt, black
jeans and it's going to make theshoes pop and that's what you
want, right? You want the attention to be on
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the shoes. Quick note like I said, if
you're a shorter guy, there's different shoe brands that offer
those lifts which can be a greatattraction Hack because women do
they do care about height they. Do care.
So for some reason, it's stupid,but they do.
And you know, the best thing youcan do for yourself is really
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just learn shoe game. Whenever you walk by a shoe
store, walk in, browse, snap a few photos of the styles that
you like, and then ask other people where you trust their
fashion sense, what they think. And that way you're learning,
but you're not spending any money, you're not making
mistakes. So next, let's talk about
jackets. And that's the other item that I
get most of my mileage out of. I've got this sort of hoodie
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that I wear all the time. And the beauty of this next one,
this leather jacket from All Saints, is you can wear this
formally. You could wear this informally,
like every man should have a good leather jacket.
It's super versatile. It's never going to go out of
style. And you know, it's worth
splurging on like this look right here.
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Pretty, pretty snazzy, right? Yeah, and it was like $400.00,
but the plus of this Osen jacketjacket that they made it on the
same factory that I think the Saint-laurent, that would cost
you like $3000. Exactly.
So you know, here's some more examples of jackets you can see
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in the middle. All Saints makes very good.
Actually Saint-laurent. Leather jackets. 4500 don't look
at the prices of just picture from Internet of leather
jackets. Yeah, you can find leather.
Like I said, this one is it's amazing 400 bucks, you know, got
it on sale. So on the left side you've got
jackets that are more designed for very cold weather, you know,
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pea coats and and wool and that sort of thing.
You got to be careful if you're if if you're taller, you can get
away with wearing like those long jackets, but if you're.
Short. No.
Yeah. If you're tall, it will look
very good and very stylish people will.
Girls will think that you understand fashion, but if
you're very short, it will make you even.
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Shorter, you don't wanna wear. Yeah, Yeah.
And then on the right you have more just very sort of like
casual smart. Smart casual.
Yeah, very. Just simple and it will match
with pretty much everything you wear under right, which is nice.
So remember your pants and your shirts?
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They just need to fit and look clean.
You don't want to make statements with your shirts and
your pants, right? Unless you already have an
wardrobe and you want to add some extra.
Pieces, if you're very advanced,you could do that, but I I
suggest making it about your shoes.
Make it about the jacket. Make it about the jewelry watch,
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which is sunglasses, hats, that sort of belt.
Oh, right do we? You need to buy one Nice belt.
Show your belt. If you're fat, you don't want to
draw attention to your midstock.No, obviously, but like if if if
you were a fit man, you want to have a nice.
Having a nice belt is Yeah, you bought me that beautiful belt.
Ferragamo belt. Yeah.
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So it's to make a statement too.It's very nice, right?
And I'm only going to wear that if I'm like, you know, dressing
really sharp or in a suit or something like that.
I could wear with jeans. But you know, again, you could,
you could as a man, you can makestatements with your accessories
versus just like trying to make it with your, your standard
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wear. So let's talk about finding your
brands, which I think is the most sort of important thing you
could do. And you got to understand like
which stores and brands to shop at.
And that way you save time, you find things that fit your
physique. You're not shopping around like
I only shop at All Saints. 99% of my wardrobe is from All
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Saints because the fit of their clothing fits my body shape the
best. I can walk in there and
literally and everything they sell fits me well.
Versus if I go into another store like Banana Republic or
Theory or some of those other ones like they're just, they
don't fit me as well. And this is you're going to find
one that fits you really well. And of course, I own a few
pieces from other brands, but itwas just so much easier
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discovering All Saints. It made my life so much more
simple when it comes to shopping, and when I didn't have
money in my 20s, I would mostly shop at Zara, and Zara stuff fit
me really well. But if you're over 30 obviously,
and you can afford it, Zara's not the best look.
So Maria's going to give you a list of brands and what they
have to offer. And a quick note about shopping
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online. Remember that fit is the most
important piece of the fashion equation.
It's very difficult to shop online for new stuff for this
reason. You just don't know how it's
going to fit, but once you go for a style and you find AT
shirt that works, pants that work, shorts, etcetera.
A brand that works. You can buy replacements really
easily right going forward, so take it away my dear.
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OK, I prepare for you guys top five of semi expensive brands
and top five of affordable alternatives.
We will start with the semi expensive brands and what I
really like the five of them youcan find in something like
Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's if you're in.
Yeah, they're all. In the major box stores or you
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can obviously go to the individual brain.
Store. OK, the first one obviously
timeless classic. It's Polo Ralph Lauren.
You must have to buy a polo shirt and knee wear or I like
also a polo cup. You know, all girls will think
you understand fashion 100%. It's always super classy.
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I don't know, I'm obsessed so. Well, you like the old money
style. It's very waspy.
We will do different coast fashion.
Yeah, we will do different. Don't worry.
This is this is like very old money.
This is more modern smart casualpieces from the brand Reese.
I really like it. It's super easy for your eye,
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it's not like flesh or anything.Very clean looking.
Yeah, it's very clean. I really like this brand.
The next one is Theory. It's very similar to Reece.
Like I really have a lot of similarities.
And here, as Robbie mentioned, just to find what fits you.
Maybe Reece will fit you feel will fit you better than Theory.
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You know you just need to and. Theory also makes great suits
which are very affordable and they're very lightweight.
So I own a Theory suit. I think every man should have
one suit. Yeah, right.
Obviously if you don't need it, then you don't need it.
But it once you can afford it, it's a great item to have.
And Theory does make. Really.
Yeah. And it's very high quality, so
it's gonna last you a very long time.
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And obviously girls know what theory is.
They will know that you know what you wear and obviously All
Saints. I should get paid by All Saints
because I'm constantly sending. I know, I know if.
You're listening is All Saints. Yeah, give us Commission.
So All Saints, but I would say it's more edgy, you know, if
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like the polar Ralph Lauren, it's very like old money, like
Reese Theory. It's like smart casual, very,
you know, and with All Saints, it's also, I would say smart
casual, minimalistic, but it's, you know, edgy because those
like leather. Jackets a little bit more.
Of a leather goods. Leather.
Goods you know it's adds that little bit of edginess.
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I don't know if you can say thatso yeah and it's also very comfy
high quality will last you a long time and the last one rug
and bone. I want to the accent on their
premium denim. They have amazing selection of
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jeans. I'm wearing rag and bone right
now. Yeah, and actually I have my
cardigan from Rag and Bones, like old money.
I love it. So they also have some hoodies
and throughout those brands, allof them have hoodies and Thierry
and Paul. Should I show my my rag and bone
ass G? There we go.
So yeah, it's also very clean look, modern, classy.
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So and also big recommendation, you know need to buy, you know,
like the item can be like in between like, you know, 200 five
$100, but I always buy them on sales.
I never buy them full price. This one I got on the 50% off.
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Boy, because you shop around Black Friday and and.
You're smart about it, but it's not only Black Friday.
What's amazing about this, all of these pieces, they're like
very class. Those brands are very classy and
the thing it's never out of style.
So even if it's like, you know, end of the season sale, it's not
gonna be like oh, it's not like it's not good anymore.
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It's it's gonna be good forever because those ones are classy
brands. So just show up on the end of
the season, you know, and get itall on sale.
So that would be my recommendation.
Next one, affordable alternatives, same aesthetic,
lower price point. We'll start, obviously, with
Zara. And I own a lot of, you know, a
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lot of clothes from Zara. They're nice, they look good.
They don't last as long, but youjust throw them away, buy new
ones and it's how it goes next one Mungo.
I love mungo. It's slightly better quality
than Zara. It's slightly more expensive
than Zara, but it's still, you know, pretty cheap.
So definitely check out mungo. It's it's very nice and will
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last you slightly longer. So very nice clean aesthetic.
Next one Banana Republic factory.
You can see this also neat little sweaters, cardigan
hollows, very stylish and very good price.
And of course, H and them, but look for premium collect
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collection because just normal Hand them will not last you at
all. It will be bad after after the
first wash. But in premium collection, you
can get good pieces. Just don't don't buy the ones
that you need to wash because you know they're not gonna last
you for a long time. But if it's like a coat, I
actually, that's so funny. I own this coat that looks like
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it's suede leather. And I get so much compliment on
those on that coat. Everyone thinks that it's real
sweat leather, but I got it on 50 bucks for 50 bucks and H&M
and I just love it so. And the last one is Uniqlo.
It's also very, very simple fashion.
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So that would be the last. Brand And so lastly, let's talk
about how to improve in the nextsteps right.
If you have no sense of style atall, the best thing to do is ask
a more stylish friend to dress you.
You could go to Nordstrom's and you could go to Bloomingdale's,
all the OR even these stores andthe you know the sales reps will
help you find stuff. Obviously they work on
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Commission, so they're going to be incentivized to give you the
highest priced stuff. So be careful about that, but
they will. Dress you well, you can just you
can just say your price. You know your highest price
point. So say don't bring me anything
that's above that price range. I'm not gonna to buy it.
So it will make them, you know, bring you the things that you
actually will purchase. And yeah, Nordstrom stylists are
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actually very nice. They can they can dress you up,
everything you need, jeans, jackets, you know, shoes and you
know, they're actually pretty good.
So that will be definitely a recommendation and it's free.
Yep, it's great. So you know, the other thing you
can do, if you have no idea, youcould look at the mannequins.
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You could buy literally what themannequins are wearing.
They're always styled really well.
Get a few outfits together, evenif you don't understand why
certain pieces go together. You'll see which cuts and colors
sort of flatter you and over time, you're going to develop
your instincts. And one of the thing in
addition, if you really want to dive in, I recommend you join,
Join our community. So yeah, you can see here in the
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community, guys will post. What do you guys think about
this ring? Right?
Guys will say what about this jacket?
Here we go. I shaved my beard to see how it
would look. Also because the ex stripper
didn't like facial hair. You've got, you know, do what do
you think of this sweater, right?
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It's really easy to get feedbackon this stuff and you're going
to get it real time in the moment.
You can snap the pic in the dressing room and you'll never
buy something poor again. That's amazing that I always
push your clients when they go to shopping to post everything
in the group and don't buy anything unless they get
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approved by the group members orobviously Robbie.
So you know you're not making any mistakes and you don't need
to go return them or you just will end up not wearing those
clothes and it's just like a waste of money.
Never buy something you don't love because you'll never wear
it. Yeah, never.
It that's probably the biggest tip of all of them.
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You're, you're, you're going to wear the same like 20% of your
wardrobe. So make sure you love 100% of
your wardrobe because otherwise you're just literally wasting
money. So you know if you join the
group, you'll never shop alone. And don't let confusion stop
you. Start with a new outfit, wear it
with confidence, see how people react to it, right?
You got to push the limits. And whether that's a little
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guidance from either us in the community or a friend, just that
feedback goes a long way towardsupgrading your look.
So hope you guys learned a lot and if you have any questions
drop in the comments and thanks for helping out baby.
Yeah. Thank you so much.
Bye. Bye guys.
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If you're a man between 30 and 60, there is a very high chance
you're probably feeling a littlebit confused about fashion
trends and how you should be dressing.
So in today's episode, my wife Maria here.
Hi, who's a fashion model, photographer and stylist and I
are going to give you a simple template on how you can dress to
Max out your looks and amplify your confidence and personal
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style without breaking the bank account.
You're listening to the Inner Confidence podcast.
My name is Robbie Kramer, I've been a coach since 2007 and I've
helped countless men rapidly achieve all of their social and
dating goals. My mission is simple, to help
you position yourself to meet stunning women, make awesome
friends in route to becoming themost confident and attractive
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version you can possibly be. I am obsessed with giving you
the most leveraged ways possibleto win the game.
So stick around, let's go. So why is fashion so important?
Well, it's the fastest way to signal status and competence
without really opening your mouth.
Women understand that most men don't really understand fashion
that well or care to understand it.
So those are typically do understand it are either gay or
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they've dated beautiful women who have dressed them and really
kind of forced them to understand the value of fashion.
In this episode, we're going to cover how to identify your body
type and find clothes that flatter your shape.
We're going to go over the common shopping blunders and how
guys waste money. We're going to help you find a
very timeless style for yourself.
(01:25):
Why aiming for minimalism will make your life easy and save you
money. Where to shop and how to shop
online. We're going to go over shoe
game, jacket game, and talk about accessories.
And if you stick around at the very end, we'll show you exactly
how to troubleshoot decision fatigue when you're out shopping
or you're not sure what to buy or whether or not you should
just keep your wallet in your pocket and not buy anything.
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So first let's talk about the general male body types.
And as you can see here, we haveon one side, we've got the
trapezoid, the rectangle, the triangle, and the Oval.
Which one do you think I am, baby?
I think you're a rectangle. You're supposed to say OK.
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I'm sorry, you're trapezoid. No, I'm pretty much a rectangle,
but it's. A good body shape.
Yeah, as long as you're not one of these two, it's, it's easier
to dress, but we're going to cover, you know, the best
clothes to fit depending on whatyou are.
So if you're bigger then and, and you're either that Oval or
(02:27):
the triangle, you know, you wantto look for regular fit
clothing, more generous cuts that are tailored to fit.
You want to go for vertical stripes, never horizontal
stripes. Regular fit sort of T-shirts,
regular fit Blazers, no like double breasted stuff or things
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that are just, you know, going to make you look wider.
Regular sort of straight jeans. You want to avoid, you know,
slim skinny jeans color like bright colors and and color
blocking. It's you're just gonna look kind
of bigger and draw attention to the wrong areas.
And you also want to avoid too baggy stuff because it will make
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it even bigger. And tight clothing, you know.
Yeah, you also want to avoid white tops because they're gonna
make you bigger, and you need toprefer black or very dark tops
because they don't drive attention to a big you are they
make you look. You want to add volume to the
top, you know, that's why one reason why I love this because
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it has like these shoulder pads and it makes me look bigger up
top and thinner in the middle. So now if you are a trapezoid or
rectangle or that shape in between, you can really get away
with wearing almost anything, right?
Clothes are designed to fit these body styles and you might
find one brand is better than the other, but you can do slim
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fit Blazers, slim fit shirts, V-neck style T-shirts if those
are in in that particular season, slim fit jeans it.
Says like avoid bagging loose fits.
I think for trapezoids, the baggy stuff especially now it's
very like Gen. ZI think it's very good for
trapezoid. They can really pull it off, but
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I would definitely say to avoid for your type of shape because
every try, every time we tried something that was baggy on you,
it made you look so bad. I I can't wear.
Bad stuff, yeah. The Gen.
Z baggy stuff is just not my cupof tea.
Yeah. So that's that's a no go for me.
So let's talk about common mistakes next.
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So first you got to consider theclimate, right?
If you're a little overweight and you living in a cold weather
climate like New York, London, Paris, Berlin, or you know,
Scandinavia country like Stockholm, you can get away with
being a little bit heavier because you can layer again.
You could add the volume up hereto minimize what it looks like
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in terms of volume in the middle, and you can make
yourself look more fit in higherstatus.
And women in these cities care more about fashion than, say, a
girl who's living in like Rio deJaneiro, where it's just hot
most of the year. And the best fashion is having a
six pack and being in your, you know, your bathing suit all the
time. So if you live in a hot weather
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climate near a beach, you reallycan't afford to not be in great
shape if you're if you're tryingto date.
So if you're struggling with fitness accountability, this is
one of the major benefits of joining a community like mine.
We run fitness challenges frequently to inspire each other
to get in great shape. So if that's something you're
struggling with, and it sure wassomething I struggled with for a
long time, nothing works better than accountability to, to lose
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weight. It's very hard to do it on your
own. The next biggest mistake guys
make is is focusing on too much on shirts and pants, right?
They, they try to show their style and their, their fashion
sense through shirts. And fashion companies know this
and they exploit guys who buy expensive shirts.
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You know, you can buy a stupid button down shirt.
It'll be like 2-3 hundred bucks sometimes depending on the
brand. And they think that's the key to
fashion is buying these expensive shirts.
Really, none of the girls know. Not like no girls knows like
about the shirts. No.
And half the time they're buyingthe wrong patterns and the
stripes and they're looking fat or they're looking bad, right?
And they just don't know what they're buying.
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But it's also girls are not going to like, Oh my God, you
wear this shirt. Exactly, no one really cares
about your shirt and guys who buy this stuff are the suckers
of the fast industry. It used to be me and a a shirt
is super noticeable. It's and it's not like you can
wear the same shirt all the timebecause people will notice that
shirt. 10 out of 10 of the guys who come for a fashion makeover,
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you know when they they come in to see us, you know they show up
with like 900 button down shirtsand they almost all.
Suck but it's only like only things they wear.
That shoes. And it's also look like those
shirts are from 9:00 to 5:00. Office job.
You're not gonna wear this shirtto go to the day to impress a
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girl. She will be like, come on.
You couldn't even like, change after your your work.
Yeah. It's yeah, they just wear their
business stuff. So really what you want to focus
on is peacocking. And you can do that with your
shoes and with your jackets and with other accessories.
So more on that later. So next, let's talk about
finding your style. And remember, you don't want to
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get caught up in the trends because you'll really never
understand the overall objective.
And you run the risk of always looking like a poser if you just
try to dress trendy all the time.
And you don't understand fashionat a deeper level, which is a
commitment. And that's why we recommend a
mixture of minimalistic, smart casual, old money, which is the
most affordable, efficient and timeless way to dress.
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And we'll get into exactly how to do that in a bit.
But first thing is you really need to create a budget.
So when it comes to your clothes, you get what you pay
for. And you have to ask yourself,
should I shop at Zara and buy a $50 pair of jeans, right?
And those, maybe you'll be able to wear them 50 times before the
crotch wears out and you get a hole in it.
But compare that to buying a $200 pair of jeans from
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Nordstrom's, a rag and bone. You can wear those 200 times
instead of, you know, 50. So effectively, the way I look
at the cost of Faction is it's kind of like renting it.
How much does it cost per wear? And both of these examples, they
cost a dollar per wear, but the latter, the $200 pair is much
higher quality. So it's going to be more
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comfortable. And you got to remember what my
wife always say. Miser pays twice.
My wife always says miser pays twice.
Usually I'm the miser in the in this relationship because
shopping is for the cheap optionis the same exact price in the
long run. But you got to, you know, you
got to pay the the opportunity cost, you got to go shopping
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four times. And time is money.
So paying for quality is typically worth it if you can
afford to do so. You know, when most clients come
for a fashion makeover and photography session, which is
crucial if you're really trying to optimize your online dating
efforts. It typically takes us about 3
hours of shopping to kind of getto get a guy everything if he
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has nothing. But it's hard because you need
to know, You need to try different brands to see what
fits. And when you establish the
brands, then it's easier for that particular person because
they know exact brands, they feed them, so they'll just go
next time and they show up to those brands.
It's easier after that time, butyou know, you can get away with
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spending as little as maybe $1200 on a full wardrobe, right?
And then some guys obviously want to splurge and you can
spend four or five 6000 bucks noproblem.
When I was travelling a lot, I wanted to have a wardrobe that I
could obviously fit in a carry on bag, right?
That was really important for me.
I was a nomad and I just didn't want a bunch of clothes, right?
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I wanted the fewest number of items that could make me the
most number of outfits. And obviously if you live in a
cold weather climate, you might need a bigger bag.
But I really think as a beginnerin fashion or a guy who's really
just trying to like be the most economical and efficient, that
is what you should go for. You should go for the minimalist
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wardrobe. Fewer colors that all sort of
match each other. And I also think the easiest way
for a guy to hack fashion is to really choose a color palette so
everything matches. For me, it's black and Gray.
That's all I really ever want. Sometimes white.
You have some pastel colors, butthey much they much.
But I wouldn't have bought thoseunless you forced me to, you
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know that right? Like obviously, yeah, I have
more because I'm not nomadic anymore, but when I was on the
road it it was great having onlystuff that matched.
So, you know, with just a few items you can make a ton of
combinations and we'll show a slide here and you can kind of
explain. Yeah, here is what it's called
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capsule wardrobe. And as men say, minimalistic
lifestyle, Don't be scared, it'sonly 9 combinations, right?
But in reality, you can have 50 to 100 combinations with those
clothes and they'll always look different, never the same.
So and on the right right men's spring wardrobe guide right this
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is like especially if you travel, you can plug this in
your suitcase and you will have unlimited amount of options and
as Robbie. Not fully unlimited, but enough
that no one's gonna ever recognize.
Yeah, but it's not like you're traveling for like a year.
If you're traveling, even if youare, but with this, you've got
two pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of pants, you know, two pairs of
shorts plus a, a swimsuit, couple jackets.
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And then you know, these couple sweaters, 2T shirts, button
downs and a couple polos, 4 pairs of shoes, hat watch.
You could fit all this stuff into one bag no problem.
And you can mix and match and you can see you, you would have
enough different, enough different options for you know,
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and all these colours match eachother and that that's the
benefit. You don't want to go buying like
oranges and, and this and that and the other 'cause that's what
most, most guys do. They'll see, Oh, I like that
shirt, right? And it'll be like a certain
colour and he won't have anything else of that color.
Yeah. And after.
You will end up wearing it once a year to some occasion, but
it's fine to buy those things when you when you already have
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established wardrobe. If you have everything like
this, you can start adding like extra pieces that are different
and then you can you know, wear them.
But yes, if you don't have this initial.
You want to start with the basicsomething like that, right?
If you have blue eyes, right, having some blue tones is a
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great sort of color palette. Like if I had blue eyes, I'd
wear blue shirts and I have moreblue stuff, but I don't looks
good. The two sort of color
combinations I would suggest guys go for is if you have dark
hair, dark eyes like me, just goblack, the black, white, Gray,
super simple and it looks great.Dark blue.
Well, if you you don't want to go dark blue with black, you
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could, but it kind of clashed a little bit.
But go with this, this color palette go with blue, khaki,
beige, white and brown. So the only actual items of of
color that I own back in the daywere my shoes, which would
really pop, right? I've got this all black outfit
on and if I rock these like red Nikes.
They're not red. Burgundy, sorry, right.
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The the shoes would pop and it would draw attention to my
shoes. So it would serve as peacocking
conversational fodder. Girls would come over all the
time be like, oh, I love your shoes.
And it was because my normal outfit was pretty plain.
It looked good, it fits well, but I'm intentionally drawing
attention to my shoes or my hat or, you know, whatever jewelry
as I became more advanced and I was sort of leaning into more of
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like a tribal wardrobe. So remember, fashion is a
journey. If you treat it as a quick fix,
you're really missing out on thebiggest benefits.
And you'll have a really short window of looking relevant
before the the trends passed youover.
A quick note on watches, becausethey're they're shown there,
most guys think they need to spend a bunch of money on like a
watch or a variety of watches. So they spend 500 bucks or 1000
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bucks or 800 bucks. But girls don't care about
watches unless they're used to dating very wealthy men.
And if you are a really wealthy guy, buy one expensive watch.
You know, buy a 10K Rolex or 15KAutumn Marbajo, right?
You can, if you can afford to. And because it's a good
investment, you know, typically those things will go up in
value. And you know, if, if he can't
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afford it, it's actually better to not wear a watch at all and
wear cool bracelets instead. I don't own any watches.
You know, I, I don't need to know the time.
I can look on my phone. You could also rock a less than
like $200 fun, colorful watch that will serve as a way to
Peacock can match it with your shoes.
You can, you can have fun with that.
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And if you're looking to marry your dream girl during her
Goldilocks period, which I like to say in her early to mid 20s,
which is when I met you, my dear, you got to understand that
like girls don't really care about watches.
Do you care about watches? No right.
So if anything like watches makeyou look older.
So remember over 10K or under 200.
So let's talk about shoe game next, cuz that's one of the
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biggest areas where you can show, you know, style and and
fashion. Women check you out by looking
in your eyes 1st and then they look down at your shoes and then
they look you from toe to head. Would you agree with that?
Right. And if your shoes are dirty, red
flag. Oh, guys think their shoes don't
matter. They you know in.
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Reality. Dirty shoes, old shoes.
They're like, who really looks at your shoes?
Trust me, everybody is looking at your shoes.
It's the most important thing. So don't like guys will just be
like, yeah, I got my my nice dress shirt and my disgusting
Kenneth Cole reaction shoes from1998.
Oh my God. So that is a major fashion faux
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pas, right? But shoes are really worth their
weight in gold. If you take care of them, they
can last for years. I've owned these three pairs of
shoes for over 3 or 4 years eachand I get compliments on them
almost every time I wear them. And you know, I didn't mind
spending 500 bucks on these because the cost per wear and
their quality and they're super versatile.
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I mean, you didn't spell anything.
All of them were my gifts so. You paid for them, so that was
nice. So the first pair is a simple
casual black sneaker. But this is actually, this is by
Prada. And you can see it's like,
obviously it says Prada, but it's not like screaming, you
know, look at me, I'm Prada, right?
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Is classy. So it just looks like a black
sneaker. And they're casual enough to
wear even with shorts. But you could also wear these
with a suit. So you're getting 2 pairs of
shoes really for the price of 1 and you take care of them.
Like I said, the last break. You can dress them up, dress
them down. Easily, Yeah.
My second pair are these Alexander Mcqueens.
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And these are, you know, a typical white casual sneaker.
So you got your black, you got your white.
You can wear these with pants orshorts.
You can't really wear them with a suit, but.
To mention about the. The height, yeah, you could get
away with wearing them at the gym if you're traveling and if
you want to, you know, leave your gym shoes at home.
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But yeah, like she said, both ofthese shoes and even my last
pair, which I'll show in a second, they have a nice little
like almost 2 inches of extra height here.
So I go from, you know, 5-10 to almost 6 feet and this is the
last pair of these are combat boots.
Well, sorry, 2nd to last pair. These are rugged, they're
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masculine. If you're not really into this
style, you could find more of like a desert boot or something
like that. These are really good for cold
weather. They can also be worn formally.
You could wear these with a suitas well.
And if you don't want to spend this sort of money on shoes, you
can easily find stylish casual options like these Nikes I
showed earlier. You've got Adidas Sambas which
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are really popular now. And really, never Adidas never
go out of style. The Sambas.
We could just get some plain white or black shoes and
Nordstrom right? Good price.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
And remember, you could wear a simple black T-shirt, black
jeans and it's going to make theshoes pop and that's what you
want, right? You want the attention to be on
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the shoes. Quick note like I said, if
you're a shorter guy, there's different shoe brands that offer
those lifts which can be a greatattraction Hack because women do
they do care about height they. Do care.
So for some reason, it's stupid,but they do.
And you know, the best thing youcan do for yourself is really
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just learn shoe game. Whenever you walk by a shoe
store, walk in, browse, snap a few photos of the styles that
you like, and then ask other people where you trust their
fashion sense, what they think. And that way you're learning,
but you're not spending any money, you're not making
mistakes. So next, let's talk about
jackets. And that's the other item that I
get most of my mileage out of. I've got this sort of hoodie
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that I wear all the time. And the beauty of this next one,
this leather jacket from All Saints, is you can wear this
formally. You could wear this informally,
like every man should have a good leather jacket.
It's super versatile. It's never going to go out of
style. And you know, it's worth
splurging on like this look right here.
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Pretty, pretty snazzy, right? Yeah, and it was like $400.00,
but the plus of this Osen jacketjacket that they made it on the
same factory that I think the Saint-laurent, that would cost
you like $3000. Exactly.
So you know, here's some more examples of jackets you can see
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in the middle. All Saints makes very good.
Actually Saint-laurent. Leather jackets. 4500 don't look
at the prices of just picture from Internet of leather
jackets. Yeah, you can find leather.
Like I said, this one is it's amazing 400 bucks, you know, got
it on sale. So on the left side you've got
jackets that are more designed for very cold weather, you know,
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pea coats and and wool and that sort of thing.
You got to be careful if you're if if you're taller, you can get
away with wearing like those long jackets, but if you're.
Short. No.
Yeah. If you're tall, it will look
very good and very stylish people will.
Girls will think that you understand fashion, but if
you're very short, it will make you even.
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Shorter, you don't wanna wear. Yeah, Yeah.
And then on the right you have more just very sort of like
casual smart. Smart casual.
Yeah, very. Just simple and it will match
with pretty much everything you wear under right, which is nice.
So remember your pants and your shirts?
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They just need to fit and look clean.
You don't want to make statements with your shirts and
your pants, right? Unless you already have an
wardrobe and you want to add some extra.
Pieces, if you're very advanced,you could do that, but I I
suggest making it about your shoes.
Make it about the jacket. Make it about the jewelry watch,
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which is sunglasses, hats, that sort of belt.
Oh, right do we? You need to buy one Nice belt.
Show your belt. If you're fat, you don't want to
draw attention to your midstock.No, obviously, but like if if if
you were a fit man, you want to have a nice.
Having a nice belt is Yeah, you bought me that beautiful belt.
Ferragamo belt. Yeah.
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So it's to make a statement too.It's very nice, right?
And I'm only going to wear that if I'm like, you know, dressing
really sharp or in a suit or something like that.
I could wear with jeans. But you know, again, you could,
you could as a man, you can makestatements with your accessories
versus just like trying to make it with your, your standard
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wear. So let's talk about finding your
brands, which I think is the most sort of important thing you
could do. And you got to understand like
which stores and brands to shop at.
And that way you save time, you find things that fit your
physique. You're not shopping around like
I only shop at All Saints. 99% of my wardrobe is from All
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Saints because the fit of their clothing fits my body shape the
best. I can walk in there and
literally and everything they sell fits me well.
Versus if I go into another store like Banana Republic or
Theory or some of those other ones like they're just, they
don't fit me as well. And this is you're going to find
one that fits you really well. And of course, I own a few
pieces from other brands, but itwas just so much easier
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discovering All Saints. It made my life so much more
simple when it comes to shopping, and when I didn't have
money in my 20s, I would mostly shop at Zara, and Zara stuff fit
me really well. But if you're over 30 obviously,
and you can afford it, Zara's not the best look.
So Maria's going to give you a list of brands and what they
have to offer. And a quick note about shopping
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online. Remember that fit is the most
important piece of the fashion equation.
It's very difficult to shop online for new stuff for this
reason. You just don't know how it's
going to fit, but once you go for a style and you find AT
shirt that works, pants that work, shorts, etcetera.
A brand that works. You can buy replacements really
easily right going forward, so take it away my dear.
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OK, I prepare for you guys top five of semi expensive brands
and top five of affordable alternatives.
We will start with the semi expensive brands and what I
really like the five of them youcan find in something like
Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's if you're in.
Yeah, they're all. In the major box stores or you
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can obviously go to the individual brain.
Store. OK, the first one obviously
timeless classic. It's Polo Ralph Lauren.
You must have to buy a polo shirt and knee wear or I like
also a polo cup. You know, all girls will think
you understand fashion 100%. It's always super classy.
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I don't know, I'm obsessed so. Well, you like the old money
style. It's very waspy.
We will do different coast fashion.
Yeah, we will do different. Don't worry.
This is this is like very old money.
This is more modern smart casualpieces from the brand Reese.
I really like it. It's super easy for your eye,
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it's not like flesh or anything.Very clean looking.
Yeah, it's very clean. I really like this brand.
The next one is Theory. It's very similar to Reece.
Like I really have a lot of similarities.
And here, as Robbie mentioned, just to find what fits you.
Maybe Reece will fit you feel will fit you better than Theory.
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You know you just need to and. Theory also makes great suits
which are very affordable and they're very lightweight.
So I own a Theory suit. I think every man should have
one suit. Yeah, right.
Obviously if you don't need it, then you don't need it.
But it once you can afford it, it's a great item to have.
And Theory does make. Really.
Yeah. And it's very high quality, so
it's gonna last you a very long time.
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And obviously girls know what theory is.
They will know that you know what you wear and obviously All
Saints. I should get paid by All Saints
because I'm constantly sending. I know, I know if.
You're listening is All Saints. Yeah, give us Commission.
So All Saints, but I would say it's more edgy, you know, if
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like the polar Ralph Lauren, it's very like old money, like
Reese Theory. It's like smart casual, very,
you know, and with All Saints, it's also, I would say smart
casual, minimalistic, but it's, you know, edgy because those
like leather. Jackets a little bit more.
Of a leather goods. Leather.
Goods you know it's adds that little bit of edginess.
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I don't know if you can say thatso yeah and it's also very comfy
high quality will last you a long time and the last one rug
and bone. I want to the accent on their
premium denim. They have amazing selection of
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jeans. I'm wearing rag and bone right
now. Yeah, and actually I have my
cardigan from Rag and Bones, like old money.
I love it. So they also have some hoodies
and throughout those brands, allof them have hoodies and Thierry
and Paul. Should I show my my rag and bone
ass G? There we go.
So yeah, it's also very clean look, modern, classy.
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So and also big recommendation, you know need to buy, you know,
like the item can be like in between like, you know, 200 five
$100, but I always buy them on sales.
I never buy them full price. This one I got on the 50% off.
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Boy, because you shop around Black Friday and and.
You're smart about it, but it's not only Black Friday.
What's amazing about this, all of these pieces, they're like
very class. Those brands are very classy and
the thing it's never out of style.
So even if it's like, you know, end of the season sale, it's not
gonna be like oh, it's not like it's not good anymore.
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It's it's gonna be good forever because those ones are classy
brands. So just show up on the end of
the season, you know, and get itall on sale.
So that would be my recommendation.
Next one, affordable alternatives, same aesthetic,
lower price point. We'll start, obviously, with
Zara. And I own a lot of, you know, a
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lot of clothes from Zara. They're nice, they look good.
They don't last as long, but youjust throw them away, buy new
ones and it's how it goes next one Mungo.
I love mungo. It's slightly better quality
than Zara. It's slightly more expensive
than Zara, but it's still, you know, pretty cheap.
So definitely check out mungo. It's it's very nice and will
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last you slightly longer. So very nice clean aesthetic.
Next one Banana Republic factory.
You can see this also neat little sweaters, cardigan
hollows, very stylish and very good price.
And of course, H and them, but look for premium collect
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collection because just normal Hand them will not last you at
all. It will be bad after after the
first wash. But in premium collection, you
can get good pieces. Just don't don't buy the ones
that you need to wash because you know they're not gonna last
you for a long time. But if it's like a coat, I
actually, that's so funny. I own this coat that looks like
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it's suede leather. And I get so much compliment on
those on that coat. Everyone thinks that it's real
sweat leather, but I got it on 50 bucks for 50 bucks and H&M
and I just love it so. And the last one is Uniqlo.
It's also very, very simple fashion.
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So that would be the last. Brand And so lastly, let's talk
about how to improve in the nextsteps right.
If you have no sense of style atall, the best thing to do is ask
a more stylish friend to dress you.
You could go to Nordstrom's and you could go to Bloomingdale's,
all the OR even these stores andthe you know the sales reps will
help you find stuff. Obviously they work on
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Commission, so they're going to be incentivized to give you the
highest priced stuff. So be careful about that, but
they will. Dress you well, you can just you
can just say your price. You know your highest price
point. So say don't bring me anything
that's above that price range. I'm not gonna to buy it.
So it will make them, you know, bring you the things that you
actually will purchase. And yeah, Nordstrom stylists are
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actually very nice. They can they can dress you up,
everything you need, jeans, jackets, you know, shoes and you
know, they're actually pretty good.
So that will be definitely a recommendation and it's free.
Yep, it's great. So you know, the other thing you
can do, if you have no idea, youcould look at the mannequins.
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You could buy literally what themannequins are wearing.
They're always styled really well.
Get a few outfits together, evenif you don't understand why
certain pieces go together. You'll see which cuts and colors
sort of flatter you and over time, you're going to develop
your instincts. And one of the thing in
addition, if you really want to dive in, I recommend you join,
Join our community. So yeah, you can see here in the
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community, guys will post. What do you guys think about
this ring? Right?
Guys will say what about this jacket?
Here we go. I shaved my beard to see how it
would look. Also because the ex stripper
didn't like facial hair. You've got, you know, do what do
you think of this sweater, right?
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It's really easy to get feedbackon this stuff and you're going
to get it real time in the moment.
You can snap the pic in the dressing room and you'll never
buy something poor again. That's amazing that I always
push your clients when they go to shopping to post everything
in the group and don't buy anything unless they get
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approved by the group members orobviously Robbie.
So you know you're not making any mistakes and you don't need
to go return them or you just will end up not wearing those
clothes and it's just like a waste of money.
Never buy something you don't love because you'll never wear
it. Yeah, never.
It that's probably the biggest tip of all of them.
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You're, you're, you're going to wear the same like 20% of your
wardrobe. So make sure you love 100% of
your wardrobe because otherwise you're just literally wasting
money. So you know if you join the
group, you'll never shop alone. And don't let confusion stop
you. Start with a new outfit, wear it
with confidence, see how people react to it, right?
You got to push the limits. And whether that's a little
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guidance from either us in the community or a friend, just that
feedback goes a long way towardsupgrading your look.
So hope you guys learned a lot and if you have any questions
drop in the comments and thanks for helping out baby.
Yeah. Thank you so much.
Bye. Bye guys.
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strategies simply don't work consistently to attract top tier
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