Gilbert Cruz

All right, this one, I'm actually, I'm interested in this one as a dude who sees dudes dressing terribly.

Okay, so this is from Cale in New Haven, Connecticut.

Don't know where he went to college.

He is a law student who describes himself as, quote, never particularly concerned about fashion or style.

But he gets anxious about making sure his outfit fits the particular setting he's in.

So he asks, what are good rules of thumb I can or should be following to make sure I'm not finding myself chronically overdressed or underdressed?

And this touches on a theme that a lot of, I think, men asked about, which is how do they dress better than they do now without looking overly formal?

Because I have several pairs of red socks.

That's why.

Yeah, a lot of half-sips.

Why not?

Can we touch on the obvious, which is, did the pandemic break the way some people think about clothing?

Oh, a thousand percent.

Yeah.

So this is good.

This is good because Maggie from Summit, New Jersey, she has a question that relates to what you're talking about here, I think.

She says she's really concerned with coming off as, quote, a trend hopper.

She says that she finds that whenever she goes back to something in her closet, it inevitably feels like she's drafting off what other people are wearing, even though it's just her wardrobe.

So she writes,

I feel like it's harder than ever to curate a unique personal style without parts or the whole becoming social media's latest microtrend.