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Back-Office Work Wear - Style Advice For London
Man Working At International Finance Company
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Hi!
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men
Real Style.
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Today, I'm going to be giving some advice
to a gentleman who has a back office job in
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London.
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This is the letter that came in.
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It's actually an older one, so apologies for
taking a few months to get back to you, sir.
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"Antonio, I work for an international finance
company in London.
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It's a back office job, not a customer facing
job, but we should dress formally.
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Jeans are not accepted, but because it's in
the back office, smart trousers and a smart
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jacket are okay."
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Smart, I think for those British guys, it
means it's cool, so just a little bit of translation
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there.
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"So my question is what kind of jacket would
you recommend?
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I was thinking about a navy blazer because
I like dark colors and dark blue suits my
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complexion, but I would like to have all the
features that may show individual style.
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The tailor who made my suit, he can do many
things and he even suggested and for sure
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we're going to go with working buttonholes,
but he also said that I could go with contrasting
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stitching on the lapel buttonhole or on some
of the sleeves as well.
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What do you think about this whole idea?
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Is it going to be too informal to wear to
work?"
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All right.
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It sounds like he's a pretty sharp dresser
already.
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He has a tailor and his question is he wants
to show a little bit of style, but at the
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same time, he's confined to looking and dressing
in a certain way.
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Now, he's in London and they've got certain
ways of doing things.
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It's one of the supposedly best cities in
the world when it comes to how the men dress,
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but they're also much more conservative than,
let's say, Italians or the French or even
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us crazy Americans over here.
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Now, my advice at first, since he's asking
this question, would be to hold off.
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Even though these are really small details,
he's working in the finance field and it sounds
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like he has a pretty limited wardrobe.
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And when you're building your wardrobe from
the base, you want to go with the simple classics
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especially in your jackets because your jackets
are your highest priced items.
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It would be better to try to show a little
bit of style with pocket squares, with ties,
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with the shirts that you wear because all
of these items are interchangeable in their
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much lower price points.
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Now, what he's talking about, the contrast
stitching, that's actually really easy to
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fix, so if he didn鈥檛 even like it, he could
have them taken out and go with normal stitching.
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So at a later point, if he feels he wants
to introduce that, go for it.
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But another thing that you could try, maybe
contrasting buttons.
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I don't know if you guys noticed, but on this
blue sports jacket -- it's actually not a
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blazer -- I go with white mother of pearl
buttons and they contrast nicely.
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But in the winter, I could put silver or gold
buttons on this, or even go with some horn
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and it's going to not stand out as much.
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A lot of guys forget that they can change
the buttons.
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It's a very easy thing to do.
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Now, he does want to have a classic blazer
that doesn鈥檛 have any of these little style
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features, and again, this is because he's
in London and there are going to be events
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which are going to be more formal and the
blazer, the classic one, is going to be needed.
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But what he can introduce is a blue sports
jacket and this would be built differently
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than the blazer.
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I would recommend something like patch pockets.
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In fact, on my jacket here, if you notice,
I have a patch pocket here.
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A patch pocket is a pocket sewn on.
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I'll link to an article on patch pockets down
below, but these are the areas where you can
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start to have fun.
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This has got a little bit of a glen check
pattern in it as well, but from a distance,
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it looks like a light or a medium blue jacket
and most people mistake it to be a blazer.
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Other jackets that you can introduce, brown
herringbone.
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Don't go for tweeds.
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Instead, go for worsted wools that have unique
patterns in them, so you can find worsted
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wools that have herringbones along with maybe
something like hopsack.
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Hopsack is one of my favorite fabrics, especially
for travelers or men that they work in them
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because it's not going to wrinkle.
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You can crumple it up and it'll look just
perfectly fine, so consider hopsack, and that
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comes in a wide variety of colors.
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But keep everything towards the more solids.
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Don't go for anything outlandish because again,
this is work clothing and these are big ticket
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items, especially since I know you're having
them made by a tailor.
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So go for simple, go for classic, go for solid
colors, go for weaves that are going to bounce
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right back or not going to show wrinkles.
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That would be a bit of my guidance.
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Hopefully that helps, sir.
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I wish you the best of luck.
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I'll also link you guys to an article I did
over at Real Men Real Style which there was
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a whole lot of sports jacket fabrics, so you
can go out there and get a few more ideas.
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All right.
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I'll see you guys in the next video.
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Bye-bye.
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