Best Men's Fashion Trends Summer 2018

Trends are misunderstood. Terminate about men in the street and they'll tell yous they don't follow way trends, but wait inside their wardrobes and hanging alongside the timeless classics you'll run across ripped jeans, seventies knitwear, Cuban collar shirts… and those are just the trends he yet likes.

Sure, in that location'due south a lot of fifty/l way out there (pyjamas for wearing outdoors, anyone?), but in-betwixt all the catwalk looks trotted out for shock factor, in that location's a heap of new stuff that'south not painfully boring and is thoroughly wearable. Ergo, it's perfect for taking you from plodding pedestrian to menswear maestro.

This bound/summer, yous don't have to business organisation yourself with the messy business concern of sorting the cool from the crap – we've gone and done that for you lot. What's left is all killer, no filler.

Vertical Stripes

Similar grimacing through rain-soaked barbecues and festivals, Breton stripes are a summertime institution. Only since they've too been hijacked by everyone from school-run mums to cocky society promoters, you could hardly call them groundbreaking.

The solution: plow them 90 degrees. The vertical stripe is officially menswear's new go-to blueprint. Seen on everything from bombers to field jackets at the global mode weeks, there'due south no denying that it was ane seriously stripey season. In existent life, yous're aiming for Armie Hammer'south effortless Call My By Your Name wardrobe – merely accept it likewise far and you're one half of Bananas In Pyjamas.

The key to staying well clear of animated fruit is the size of your stripes. The all-time examples on show for SS18 were straight, narrow and deployed beyond T-shirts, curt-sleeved shirts and cuffed joggers. When creating your own looks, one vertically striped piece at a fourth dimension is oftentimes enough – the double vertical stripe is an avant-garde way move that only the most confident of men tin can pull off.

Tonal Dressing

Forget what you've heard well-nigh opposites alluring, menswear is going for the total-kit look this season. But before you lot channel Run-DMC in your Adidas Originals tracksuit and shell toes, at that place'south a disclaimer: we're talking about tonal color matching, non clothing billboards.

Think of tonal dressing as spring/summer'south answer to all-black everything, but with way more selection: the outfits on show for SS18 had more colour variations than your average Dulux nautical chart. The real beauty of tonal dressing is that it works for almost whatever scenario that you tin can remember of. Tonal suiting? Try it for a summer wedding. Tonal pastels? Give it a go along your side by side summertime holiday. Tonal navy? Yous've probably worn that all winter long.

Colors y'all're already well-stocked with are a good place to start – think blueish or gray – but don't be agape of lighter neutrals and even pastel shades as the weather improves. Oh, and three is the magic number for the number of tonal items you lot should be wearing in i outfit.

Side-Stripe Trousers

Picture this: information technology's the nineties, jeans are the 'smart' option, and there are more side-stripe trackies walking the streets than people. Now rub your eyes, because hey, it'due south 2018 and the side-stripe revival is real.

The proof that side-stripe trousers are no longer unacceptable for grown-ups was the fact that luxury designers went absolutely mad for them this season. There were skinny versions at Balmain, Prada showed them coordinating tops, while Valentino went straight-upward retro sportswear. Basically, if you haven't got lines down your legs for SS18, you're not doing menswear correct.

Side-stripe trousers have come at a pretty adept time, with 'athleisure' in danger of becoming about as much fun equally marathon training. Get a pair of stripes on your pins though and you lot'll find the trend can get some other mile or two.

The cardinal to making side stripes work without looking similar Sporty Spice is balance. Yes, you tin can wearable trainers with them, but you'll need to add a smart knit or a slim-fit shirt to stop the 'I socialize at motorbus stops' vibes.

Dad Denim

Menswear likes extremes. Then, just when information technology looked like circulation-restricting spray-on jeans were never going to dice, SS18 gifted u.s. with leg-friendly dad denim. Call up loose fit, low-cal wash, unfussy and straight up and down. Similar a more stylish, dialled-downwardly version of the normcore tendency, dad denim unites baby boomers and millennials through a love of unfussy comfort (but don't mention the housing market).

Irony addicts Vetements almost single-handedly kicked off the whole dad denim revival, and we couldn't be happier. It'south comfy, doesn't make y'all look similar you're trying too hard and gives legs everywhere the breathing space they've been so desperately peckish for the past decade or and so. Plus, Simon Cowell has been vindicated: he knew all along that going loose on the legs would somewhen bike dorsum around. Isn't that right, Si?

Equally for the rules of dressing like your dad (only much, much improve): go for cropped designs or pinroll your jeans (pools of fabric at your feet are still non cool) and team with T-shirts, argument trainers, Chelsea boots and loose-plumbing fixtures shirts in pastel shades. Skinny jeans, your vice-similar grip is no more.

Technical Jackets

The winds of change accept diddled for SS18 and what'southward deemed hot property in men's outerwear has washed a complete 180. Yep, that silky-soft suede bomber you bought last twelvemonth is withal unbelievably attractive, but if you really want to flex your menswear muscle so a technical jacket (read: anorak or windbreaker) is your safest bet.

Before yous groan, nosotros're not talking dishwater wearisome mountain trekking gear. The technical jackets you're about to see state in the shops have kept their conditions-fighting superpowers but are now designed in a way which won't send yous to sleep. They come color-blocked, in pastels or dark and moody shades. The fact that a big chunk of them would look out of place on a ramble is proof of just how much of a menswear makeover technical jackets take undergone.

The very best part of this reinvention is that your styling options are broad. Throw 1 on over jeans, tailored trousers, knits, shirts, trainers or Chelsea boots… you'd be difficult pressed to go wrong. Too, y'all're sure equally hell going to go your money's worth – summer, as always, is jump to be a write off.

Checks

Nosotros know what you're thinking, checks can't come dorsum because they never really went away. Technically you're correct, but while checks refuse to ever leave the menswear party, the wrong type can make y'all look, well, foursquare.

There'due south nevertheless a chasm of taste between a gingham 'going out' shirt for Fri dark with the lads and a classic windowpane arrange. We actually don't want you letting yourself downward in one of those short-sleeved weekend wonders, only fortunately you're spoilt for choice when it comes to size, fashion and color this flavor.

The safest way to make checks piece of work for you is to try larger or more than complex motifs (remember heritage, windowpane, Prince of Wales) on outerwear, knitwear and trousers. To avert giving innocent bystanders a headache, check yourself and make sure that the residue of your outfit is toned down.

Tropical Print Shirts

Sometimes we call up that menswear designers are out to practice a number on us. Such is the case with the resurgence of tropical print shirts which, on starting time take, seems similar a flake of a sartorial booby trap. Liking a tropical shirt flies in the face of all good reason: they're usually gaudy, never fit particularly well and are invariably worn by overbearing men as a nonverbal style of communicating that you're in shut proximity to 'a fun guy'.

Nobody therefore is more than surprised than us that we're fully into the idea of tropical print shirts for SS18. And, oddly enough, it was Paris (definitely not tropical) that embraced the trend well-nigh warmly with Louis Vuitton in particular making us sit bolt upright and admit we were wrong.

Getting on board requires subtlety, something lost on practically every printed shirt wearer to appointment. Seek out designs in pared-back color palettes and combine with dark tailored chinos or jeans to nail the await. Even if the atmospheric condition doesn't play ball this twelvemonth, the outlook for your summer wardrobe should exist totally and utterly tropical.

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