Dressing fashionably - I have issues.

[fuzzybabybunny]

I want to start buying clothes that are more fashionable - both more hip and more classy. But I've got a number of problems:

1. I have NO sense of fashion. NONE.

2. I'm a short Chinese person. I feel like many of the mainstream fashion styles are more for (both in appearance and fit) taller Caucasians and would look a bit silly on a small asian guy.

3. I can't layer clothes because I overheat very easily. When it's winter and everyone's wearing at the minimum jeans and an insulated jacket, I'm wearing thin summer hiking shorts, a thin summer camping short sleeve shirt, and crocs. In the summer I'm wearing the same but wishing I could just take off my shirt. I also sweat a lot when I get hot, so I simply don't have the option of playing around with layering combinations of clothes. I might look at a male mannequin and REALLY dig the style (ex. undershirt over a cozy looking sweater with a fashionable scarf wrapped around + a warm beanie and jeans) but in real life I'd have everything off except the undershirt and wishing I could cut the jeans into shorts.

Anything I can do? Recommend me some clothes?

 

[Colt45]

Don't wear fuckin' crocs for starters.

 

[theflyingpig]

:

1. I have NO sense of fashion. NONE.

Pathetic. You've given up already. Why even try?

 

[Mardeth]

How about http://theasianplayboy.blogspot.com/2006/06/fashion-tips-for-short-asian-men-on.html

 

[JS80]

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[El Guaraguao]

watch music videos.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

How about http://theasianplayboy.blogspot.com/2006/06/fashion-tips-for-short-asian-men-on.html

Ooooo... I like. Good to get some direction.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Stop buying and wearing women's clothes.

You may be only as tall as a child but it doesn't mean you should be wearing crocs.

 

[Ika]

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an` express, yo`

 

[TecHNooB]

Find a girl and have her dress you

 

[coldmeat]

I have a hard time believing that you wear shorts and a t-shirt in the winter. If you do, you either live way down south and should stop calling it winter, or you have no job/school and never leave the house.

 

[hiromizu]

Well it's hard to give fashion advice if we don't know what you look like? Maybe post a pic and the fashionistas here may be able to find suitable looks. Don't don't tell us your budget for jeans is $50 or something ridiculous.

 

[IAteYourMother]

pictures of you

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

I have a hard time believing that you wear shorts and a t-shirt in the winter. If you do, you either live way down south and should stop calling it winter, or you have no job/school and never leave the house.

While I've lived in Cali for a year, I've lived in Northeastern Ohio for 15, and hiked/camped a lot during the wintertime / early spring in places like the Rockies and Adirondacks. Shorts nearly all the time regardless of weather. Maybe jeans if I'm not doing much activity. Crocs 100% of the time even when hiking in the snow. A thick jacket when it's cold and rainy and I'm not doing much, but back down to a vest at the most when it's pouring snow. The rainy cold is what gets me the most, not the snowy kind. Of course all this gets a notch or two warmer in places with high winds.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Well it's hard to give fashion advice if we don't know what you look like? Maybe post a pic and the fashionistas here may be able to find suitable looks. Don't don't tell us your budget for jeans is $50 or something ridiculous.

No, budget's not that small, but I also don't want to spend $500 on jeans, $500 on a sweater / jacket, $150 on a shirt, $400 on shoes, etc. like this article seems to recommend:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13265966/

(BTW the picture of the guy on that page wearing layered clothing would be much much too hot for me in anyplace but outside standing in the snow)

Plus tailoring on top of all that. I also want enough clothes for there to be variety. I don't want to blow $1000 on clothes that just amounts to a couple of shirts and pants.

 

[Zebo]

Wear all black you can never go wrong.

Black dickies
black tee
black leather jacket
black docs

This is how I've dressed for 20 years everyone likes it

 

[IronWing]

Get fat. There are lots of clothes for fat people.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Wear all black you can never go wrong.

Black dickies
black tee
black leather jacket
black docs

This is how I've dressed for 20 years everyone likes it

This, and cutting yourself goes great with that style.

 

[bigrash]

Wear all black you can never go wrong.

Black dickies
black tee
black leather jacket
black docs

This is how I've dressed for 20 years everyone laughs behind my back

fixed.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Me:

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/Random/Me/10626984_avxjN#739100205_rktkG

I usually wear shorts and a short sleeve button down like the one in the pictures. The jeans I rarely use because it's too warm and the pockets are hard to use.

 

[El Guaraguao]

Me:

http://fuzzybabybunny.smugmug.com/Random/Me/10626984_avxjN#739100205_rktkG

iron ya god damn shirt, son. with parental supervision, of coarse. ya look like a damn 12 year old

 

[sandorski]

"Short people got, no reason to Live"

 

[Imp]

I'm 5'4" and one of the best dressed people in my office, and it is noticed. Shortness just means you don't wear full length trench coats, and that you can't get away with ill-fitting clothes. When you're short, everything must fit like a glove, or it'll accent your height (or lack thereof). Just don't go too small.

Do not stick with one brand, or at least not one that whores their logo. Some people I know have 90% of his shirts from American Eagle. Gap and H&M hide logos most of the time.

Shoes matter. I've worn very nice outfits, only to have them ruined when I switched to my runners.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

I'm 5'4" and one of the best dressed people in my office, and it is noticed. Shortness just means you don't wear full length trench coats, and that you can't get away with ill-fitting clothes. When you're short, everything must fit like a glove, or it'll accent your height (or lack thereof). Just don't go too small.

Do not stick with one brand, or at least not one that whores their logo. Some people I know have 90% of his shirts from American Eagle. Gap and H&M hide logos most of the time.

Shoes matter. I've worn very nice outfits, only to have them ruined when I switched to my runners.

So which articles of clothing do you wear? Exact brand size and model would be nice.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

So which articles of clothing do you wear? Exact brand size and model would be nice.

Join a gym first.

After that you can wear whatever you want to.