7 Outdated Men's Style Rules to IGNORE | Men's Style Advice

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Sacawa discusses seven outdated men’s style rules that can be broken, including avoiding brown in professional settings, matching shoes to belts, mixing navy and black, combining brown and black, mixing metals, restricting double-breasted suits to slim men, and always fully buttoning double-breasted jackets. He emphasizes that the one rule to always follow is personal intuition: if an outfit looks right, it is right.

Key takeaways

• Sacawa argues that many traditional menswear rules—such as no brown in town, shoes matching belts, and avoiding navy-black combinations—are outdated and can be broken with intentional styling choices
• Sacawa recommends a practical approach to accessories: use one black belt for black shoes and one medium brown belt for most other shoes, rather than trying to match every pair exactly
• Sacawa emphasizes that personal intuition and how an outfit looks should guide styling decisions more than rigid rules, encouraging viewers to develop confidence in their own style judgment

Episode details: published February 2, 2021 · 162K views · 7:13 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style advice summarized here is Brian Sacawa’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are his, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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