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Clothing For Men — LessWrong

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Nothing fundamentally rational about this post, but it is instrumental. It will be useful to those that want to dress better. It's already been discussed that dressing well improved one's social life; I wanted to put it in one place how to reach that. TL,DR Foreword: My post will have two parts. In the first (the one you're reading) I’ll detail the rules that are commonly used to dress well. Those rules will optimize the social aspect of clothing, not what the fabric offers technically: how cool you look, not what interesting properties you get out of your clothes. In a later article, I will explore ‘techwear’, aka clothing with technical properties (thermoregulation, impermeability, not retaining smells…), as the logical direction to fully optimize one’s fashion. Because I don’t want to write the second part now, this first half is totally self sufficient, and I’ll write about many other things than clothing before I write on techwear. Dressing well is an art not a science, and an art

x Clothing For Men — LessWrong Fashion Frontpage 15 Clothing For Men by Solnassant 17th Jan 2019 17 min read 41 15 Nothing fundamentally rational about this post, but it is instrumental. It will be useful to those that want to dress better. It's already been discussed that dressing well improved one's social life; I wanted to put it in one place how to reach that. TL,DR The point of dressing well is to look cool It gets you out of the badly-dressed hole but doesn’t make you a cool God. Work on yourself. Less is more, don’t trust your “I like this funky thing”. Buy to compose outfits, ie to mat

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