The whole look is too weak. You are a fairly young guy in good shape, but this look makes you look like you're trying to be young in a dept. store kind of way.
The first outfit, the square pattern is too big. It looks nice in a close up of the shirt but doesn't work well overall. The big pattern seems to overwhelm you.

I hate the shoes; go for classic style there.

I think with the sport coat you should ditch that shirt and go to Nordstrom and keep trying on flashy dress shirts until the sales girl tells you that you've found the color that works with the jacket and your features. A classic style one color shirt but with some flash in the color dept, only flash that works. Take her or his opinion into account.

The retro print makes it look like you have an inner Goldie Hawn trying to get out. It's too feminine and flashy and a bit trashy. Again im seeing it on a mannequin in a dept. store section for the "hip" folks. Maybe, if you had it under a jacket some wild sunglasses and some crazy hair, but that probably isnt you. It just seems to say "look my wildness is peaking out." And we the viewers are not buying that. Wildness hidden equals timidity.

The T-shirt combo seems fine, but it seems to familiar. We dont need to see the face in that cuz we know it is generic.

I think you would do great to go with solid classic style. You look young, so play up your maturity and that will give your look strength.
Tuck shirts in. Make that skinny look a tight look, not a skinny look which can happen on slender folks who untuck. The reason you see so many untucked shirts is because we are fat so dont buy into that.

I think you need to make strong statements and I find your shirts weak, but it is only the clothes im criticizing. You dont need body work, so you enter the battle halfway to victory. Now spend the money for total victory.
SteveN

Posted by: steve a on September 29, 2006 10:36 PM