Remember that your age conveys a hard-earned wisdom and sense of experience that us younger guys envy and women of all ages want and respect. I’ve heard my own wife tell me a number of times that she’s excited for me to get grey in my hair or have a salt and pepper beard. Younger women are finding traditional masculinity more and more attractive. I also suggest embracing your age when it comes to your grooming.
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If I wear high-wasted pants – even if they’re what’s the most flattering for my build – I run the risk of looking throwback trendy, but a silver fox can pull them off with panache. I look ironic or stupid in a mustache but an older man looks dashing. I look pretentious in a fedora but a man who’s 50 just looks like he’s in the upper echelon of society. Women your age will claw each other’s eyes out to get you and younger women will want you even more.Įmbrace your age when it comes to certain things that you can wear and a young guy can’t. Think Brooks Brothers with an updated fit (which they do now btw). Take a classic pair of straight-legged khakis, a slim-fit oxford-cloth button-down shirt in blue (or hell even in pink), and a blue jacket. There are too many mid-life crises that involve Ed Hardy shirts, spiked hair, and boot-cut jeans. You older men also don’t need to think dressing better means dressing younger. Unless you have quite a few pounds to lose, avoid anything that is advertised as “relaxed.” It’s going to be too much material to look good on anyone, and, if you are older and in good or great shape, it’s a complete waste to hide that behind baggy clothing. I’m not suggesting you go out and buy a pair of skinny jeans, but you can pull off a pair of straight-legged, dark-washed jeans as well as a guy who’s 17 or 27. That may have been the case twenty and thirty years ago, but it doesn’t apply now. When it comes to fit, most Boomers and Gen Xers make the mistake of thinking slim = gay.
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The same basic principles of dressing well apply to older men as to the younger – stay in shape, wear clothes that fit but don’t constrict, wear colors that flatter your hair and skin tones, and wear something that is activity appropriate while still looking better than all the other men in the room. But men who’ve paid their dues have their own sartorial muscles to flex that the younger guys don’t have yet. A lot of younger guys have to fake it until they make it and their clothing is and can be more daring to reflect that. They looked the way you would dress an 8-year-old in the early 90’s.īut the older a man gets, the more ability he has to display the self-respect he’s earned. Most had potbellies and were walking around in denim cargo shorts, T-shirts that were two sizes too big, white tube socks pulled up around their calves, and New Balance, Jerry-Seinfeld-style sneakers on. My wife and I were out to dinner this week at a chain, sit-down restaurant and I was appalled at how the men over 40 were dressed.