10 rules on how to dress like a G:
1. The most crucial element is it’s fit. Familiarize yourself with the basic components, especially your shoulders. It frames the length of your body and shapes it. The suit’s shoulders should hug yours. Size matters.
2. I like large lapels because a lot of the times you see standard peak lapels. It accentuates the shoulders making it seem broader. I’m not good with subtlety.
3. Jean-Michel Frank, the 30’s interior and furniture designer, supposedly had 40 identical double-breasted grey flannel suits. He knew himself and is a perfect example of restraint and extravagance.
4. The G does not mean Gangsta. So, pull your pants up and cuff your waist with a Hermès belt. Your pant legs should be tapered that glide gracefully on the ground not dragging it.
5. When a suit gets in the middle-of-the-road it kind of loses me- it has to be sharp and classic. Think, Tom Ford.
6. The worst thing a man can do to ruin his Dior Homme Serge Wool Cashmere Smoking suit is shoving his flat coloured pocket square in his breast pocket.
7. Many forget that the top and bottom of your fit stay fly. Be on top of your shoe game. Everything else in between can be forgivable.
8. The tie/bow and cufflinks is the weapons you carry with you on your armor. Choose them wisely. You want flare and attitude not tacky and boring. Kill and destruct not become destruction.
9. If you don’t feel like a million bucks after you’re done then sure as hell your suit won’t look like it either G.
10. It’s funny- whenever someone talks about rules; I just want to break them. I recoil from the whole idea of rules.
A gentleman is someone who isn’t afraid of walking on a fine line, figuring out who they are, feeling good in what they wear and developing their own outer expression of their style.
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