How To Choose Mens Pinstripe Trousers

Hello, my name is Anita Feron-Clark http://feronclarkstyle.com/. I work freelance as an image consultant in association with Colour Me Beautiful http://www.colourmebeautiful.co.uk/ and today we are going to talk about various trousers. Generally, any man can wear a pinstripe trouser, but there are three things to remember when you are selecting some trousers for yourself.

Think about your body shape, your height and your personality. So if you are a rectangle shape, inverted triangle, or round, you can wear a pinstripe trouser. But, you have to be careful of the type of pinstripe you wear according to your height.

If your height is shorter than 5'8", be careful about the type of pinstripe you wear, it has got to be quite subtle. So it has got to be tone on tone, so there is not too much contrast with the background colour and the colour of the stripe, and it has also got to be quite a narrow wale - quite a narrow distance between the stripes. If you are of average height, which is 5'8" and over, then generally you can wear any kind of pinstripe.

And if you are tall you can get away with a bolder type of pinstripe. The type of pinstripe you wear is also dictated by your personality. If you are quite outgoing and you like to make a statement, you may want to wear the more bold type of pinstripe.

If you don't want to draw too much attention to yourself and want more of a subtle look, you will generally go for pinstripes that are more tone on tone and narrower in their width. So just to give you an example of some of the types of stripes that are out there at the moment, this is quite a bold stripe, and by bold, I mean where the ground colour is a lot darker than the stripe itself. So there is a lot of contrast between the dark and the light, and the distance of the stripes is quite wide.

So if your height is quite short - so if you are 5'8" and below - I would avoid a stripe this prominent. This generally is a better pinstripe, where the stripe is more tone on tone. So the ground colour is a dark blue and the stripe is also a blue, so there is less contrast.

And also, the distance between the stripes is narrower, and this works for men of all different heights. Often, men are not sure how to wear a pinstripe trouser if they are not wearing it with a matching pinstripe jacket. Basically, the subtler the pinstripe, the more you can wear with it.

So, if it is a tone on tone pinstripe, you could wear something quite plain with it or you could wear another texture or another design with it. Where the pinstripe trouser is a little bit bolder, it is good to keep the top half quite plain with this - so too much design, too much pattern, doesn't work well with a bold pinstripe. .