The single biggest factor in looking stylish isn’t the price tag on your clothes—it’s how they fit. You don’t need a complete wardrobe overhaul. Often, a few small adjustments from a tailor can transform your existing clothes.
1. Taper Your Trousers
Baggy, pooling trousers can make you look sloppy. A good tailor can taper the legs from the knee down to create a clean, modern silhouette that breaks neatly on your shoe.
- Ideal For: Jeans, chinos, and dress pants.
2. Shorten Your Sleeves
Shirt sleeves should end right at the break of your wrist, allowing about a quarter to a half-inch of your shirt cuff to show when wearing a jacket. Sleeves that are too long make you look like you’re wearing someone else’s clothes.
- Ideal For: Dress shirts and casual button-downs.
3. Shorten a Hem (The Easiest Fix!)
Whether it’s the hem of your trousers or the sleeves of a too-long t-shirt, getting the length right is crucial. For trousers, a slight break or no break is the modern standard.
- Ideal For: Virtually any pair of pants or jacket sleeves.
Think of tailoring not as an extra expense, but as part of the cost of the item. A $50 shirt that’s tailored to fit you will look infinitely better than a $200 shirt that doesn’t.
