The first step in avoiding winter fashion mistakes is for men to throw out lumberjack hats and old puffer coats and start thinking about what they are actually wearing. Winter boots are all very well, but if you want to go from work to a dinner date without looking out of place you need a pair of boots that is suitable for most occasions. Make a start on updating your winter wardrobe and avoid all those fashion mistakes.

Winter Gloves and Hats

Most men tend to wear thick, utilitarian gloves once winter arrives. Yes, you want to keep your hands from freezing when winter winds blow, but you don’t have to look as though you are heading for the building site. Avoid winter fashion boobs by getting yourself a pair of decent leather gloves and keeping them in your coat pocket. Either put your old gloves with the rest of your working gear or consign them to the bin.

Nobody expects you to freeze your ears off or suffer from a headache brought on by winter weather, but think about what you are wearing. Get rid of hats with motifs or team names and get yourself a plain, decent woollen hat to keep the cold at bay – as for pompoms, well they just look daft on anyone over the age of 10.

Scarves and Ski Jackets

Everyone likes a nice warm scarf to keep the winter winds at bay, but most men tend to wear scarves that just aren’t long enough. Not only will a short scarf let the cold in, it will look as though it’s shrunk in the wash and should be binned. There was a time when it was the fashion for men to wear a puffy ski jacket over their suit, but that time has long since gone. Get a decent overcoat to wear on top of your suit and you will look and feel far more business like and fashionable.

Suited and Booted

 When men are wearing suits, even if there is snow on the ground, all too many of them shun their boots in favour of thin shoes. If you don’t want to arrive at work or at a restaurant for dinner with soaking wet feet, get yourself a decent pair of fashionable boots. Decent boots will look great whether you are wearing jeans or a suit and you will avoid yet another winter fashion faux pas.

The lesson is that you can keep warm and dry without looking as though you never heard of men’s fashion. Wear clothes that look good but which also perform the function of keeping you warm and dry during the winter months.

This article was written by James Harper on behalf of Patra. Visit their site to find out more.

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Staying Relevant

You probably think that you look pretty good, don’t you? Your clothes all fit well, you wear well cut jeans, smart plimsolls and have a blazer or warmer jacket that you can wear at any time depending on the weather conditions.

Then you open up a newspaper or magazine, or look on a website, and see that actually your look is about six months out of date and that you should be spending fortunes on bringing your look up to date. This is quite a common occurrence at this time of the year, as we move into winter from the warmer months.

How do men treat the transition from season to season?

Time for a Jacket

The most obvious, practical, and pragmatic approach is that you wear the same clothes in the winter as you would do in the summer. You go out and buy a jumper and a coat, perhaps, and that does the trick.

Apparently not, at least not if you are partial to reading certain magazines or visiting particular fashion sites and blogs. Just how much money do they think men have?! At this time of year, surely buying Christmas presents for loved ones and making sure you have some spare cash in case the car packs up in the snow is more important that updating your wardrobe with a flash new t-shirt or pair of jeans!

The killer is not the fact that you are spending £100 on a pair of jeans, it is the fact that you’re spending money to be told in a three months’ time that actually, they are not fashionable anymore! Work that out pro-rata, which is £33 a month for a pair of jeans, in effect! This is madness on the grandest scale, and looking at jeans is the safe end of the spectrum. Just look at how many winter jackets are available at north of £500, and think about how great it will look in a charity shop in February when it is no longer “in.”

What to Do

Obviously when it comes to fashion it is each to their own, however not every man has the money, or the willingness, to shell out on buying a completely new wardrobe every six months, especially when they will wear an item a handful of times before finding out that it isn’t deemed stylish anymore.

Stick to your plan, stock up on winter essentials but don’t spend everything you’ve got – they won’t be any good in a few months’ time, after all.

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