Fashion Choices That Can Make Older Men Look More Confident

Looking confident in clothes is largely a matter of removing variables. A man who has settled his colors, his shoe rotation and his grooming has nothing left to adjust on the way out of the house, and the absence of adjustment is what other people see as ease. Most appearance research measures one variable at a time, which is why its findings rarely survive contact with a real wardrobe. A handful of choices still hold up, because each one cuts the number of decisions a man makes in the morning and closes off a way to look unsure. A Fixed Palette Pick two neutrals and hold them. Navy and charcoal are enough for almost everything, with white and pale blue for shirts and one brown for leather. When every top works with every bottom, getting dressed stops involving trial and error, and nobody spends 20 minutes proving to himself that an outfit works. Five shirts and three trousers in one palette produce 15 working combinations.

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