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Men:
Buying Right for Career Success
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*A
monthly column devoted to helping women and men
be their best and most confident in any situation.
Topics include dress, body language, attitude and
etiquette.
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Victoria Seitz, PhD
Image Expert |
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Here
are some tips in purchasing that look that spells success
for the profession you're in.
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Buying
Your Suit
- The best suit to buy is pure wool or wool blend suit
in blue, gray, olive, or beige.
- The darker the suit, the more authority it conveys.
- Before shopping for a suit, decide what color, pattern,
texture, weight, material, and style of suit you'll need.
- Settle on the price range and know your approximate
size.
- When shopping, wear the shoes, belt, and shirt that
you plan to wear with the suit.
- Once you find a suit you like, examine it carefully
for quality.
- If the suit is plaid or striped, check at the side,
back, and shoulder seams to make certain the patterns line up.
- The choice of plain or cuffed pant is yours.
- Although vests go in and out of fashion, if you choose
to wear one, make sure it fits.
- Sleeve length on a jacket should be five inches from
the tip of the thumb.
- When it comes to the style of suit, you can choose
between the square-or the soft-shoulder cut and single- or double-breasted
styles.
Buying
Your Ties
- The tie is one of the strongest symbols of respectability
and responsibility for a man.
- The best baric for ties is silk, followed by polyester
that looks like silk, silk/polyester, wool, and cotton.
- The width of the tie should harmonize with the width
of the suit lapel - wide ties with wide lapels.
- Make sure that the lining of the tie is coarse enough
to make a good knot.
- Check for a tab on the back of the large end of the
tie.
- For traditional professions chose polka dot, solids,
paisley, heirloom, or repetition patters.
- For positions in retailing, advertising, real estate,
or a nontraditional field or company, consider large florals,
or ties with large symbols or big pictures.
Buying
Your Shirts
- Shirts should generally be lighter than the suit and
the tie should be darker than the shirt.
- When buying shirts , choose pinpoint oxford cloth,
end-on-end weaves, and broadcloth fabrics.
- Stripes are great with suits, but save the plaids
for business casual or nontraditional fields.
- Monogramming on shirts should be discreet and on the
cuff.
- Be sure that buttons are plain, simple and white.
- Cufflinks should be modest when worn with suits.
- Your shirt wardrobe might include a good dozen white,
blue, and pin- or chalk-striped shirts in oxford cloth and broadcloth;
however, the number and variety are entirely up to you and the
image you want to project.
- Unless they are button-down, check collars for removable
stays.
- Check that the sleeve length is just below the wrist
bone.
- When worn with a suit, blazer or sport coat, the sleeve
should extend about quarter to half-inch below the jacket sleeve.
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Victoria
Seitz, PhD is a professor of Marketing at California State
University, San Bernardino and is author of Your Executive
Image, AdamsMedia, Inc, 2000 and Power Dressing, DonJon
Publishing, 1991. In addition to teaching, Dr. Seitz was a fashion
coordinator for Burdines, Florida and in retail management for
Saks Fifth Avenue, Phoenix, AZ. Clients of Dr. Seitz have included
Abbott Laboratories, Northern Telecom, Texas Instruments, Yellow
Freight Systems, Sally Beauty Company, the United States Armed
Forces, Travellife magazine, YWCA and Accountants Overload, in
addition to law firms, hotels, newspapers, universities, banks,
credit unions, national and local community and professional organizations
nationwide.
To learn more about Dr. Seitz please visit her website at www.cbpa.csusb.edu/vseitz.
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