Quick guide to start wearing men's jewelry and make it look good
Talk today about men's jewelry as the most risky trend in the world is a joke. Men have worn jewelry all our lives, from kings to rappers. But why did we lose them?
The answer is in the story itself. The inflection point by which the pattern of today's formal fashion is cut is known as 'The great male resignation'. The psychoanalyst arrived at this theory John Carl Flugel in the 30s and explained it to the masses in his book 'Psychology of Dress'. He came to say the following: The masculine fashion that was established at the end of the French Revolution eradicated in a sudden way all adornment of the masculine wardrobe, not on a whim, but to get away from the image of the privileged class that went through the guillotine. In this way, the watch was the only piece that was allowed in the male jewelry box, with the exception of some stamps.
Throughout the 90th century, brightness and pomp have had their comings and goings in the men's wardrobe, until the XNUMXs, when the rappers became one of the absolute style references. And they did it with an image that was far from the standards of the Wall Street yuppie or the minimalism of Calvin Klein. They did it with tracksuits, oversized clothes, sneakers and large jewels that finished off each look to demonstrate their meteoric rise to success. At first they were classified as tacky, but today they are the guide that shapes the streetwear that has dominated the last decade of our time. And that is where the jewels pass that, after the sneakers, begin to live their moment of glory. Just take a look at the luxury firms currently cutting cod.
One of the last and most precious pieces of Louis Vuitton, firm headed by Virgil Abloh, –founder of the firm Off-White and one of the architects of current streetwear–, has been the golden pendant LV² from the collection with Nigo, Founder of BAPE, another of the most important streetwear brands of our time. In Dior Men, Kim Jones has turned his excessive passion for urban fashion into the jewels of the Korean-American designer Yoon Ahn, creative director of Ambush –streetwear firm that triumphs among the most knowledgeable–. And the particular closures in the form of a padlock and clicks with which Matthew Williams he finishes off his creations in his signature Alyx now they are also spread in Givenchy, house for which he is responsible.
Once again, the influence of streetwear It has managed to make pieces or aesthetics that we once rejected become an absolute trend, taking them out of the ghetto and democratizing them in a massive way. But how do we get used to jewelry again? Is there a proper way to do it? In fashion, as in life, everything is trial, error and how we feel about it. There is no specifically correct way to wear jewelry, but there is to put it into practice.
Quick guide to wearing jewelry and making it look good
The essential trick to get into a trend is to do it little by little. start with something simpleIn this way it will be easier to get your eye used to it, study how you look and increase or not the volume. The same thing happens with men's jewelry.
The bracelets they are possibly the option to get used to more quickly. Due to the use of the watch, our eye is more used to seeing our adorned wrists, so adding a small chain or a rigid bracelet will not cause too much visual impact.
Follow up with something discreet, maybe a fine chain in steel, silver or gold. Keep in mind that this piece will be more visible because it is in the visual frame of your face. If it is a simple cord, you can include a small pendant that is special to you, well as a medal or with some form. You can wear it both inside your t-shirt, shirts or sweaters if you need to adapt step by step or let it fall directly over the garments.
Finally, among the basic jewels we find the pending earrings and rings. It is paradoxical that being the smallest pieces, are the most visible. The former because they basically hang from the ear, so they fit within the frame of the face. The second because, if we take into account that the hands are one of the main elements of non-verbal communication and that we are constantly moving them, it is impossible for our interlocutor not to notice them.
Choose, try, look in the mirror and add or remove as many pieces –or volume to them– as you need according to your style, because in the world of jewelry there is nothing written.
Source: GQ