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I have been experimenting with white + navy blue (and white + black/charcoal) combination. I think these contrasts are too visually striking. I did find some fashion videos that concur with my opinion. What's your take? Here is the poll.

(This is part 2 of a series of posts discussing my thoughts on my current “glowing up while slimming down” journey.) Clothes shopping, as a fat man, isn’t joyous. Before I get lynched in the comments, let me clarify. By “clothes shopping”, I mean in-person high-street retail shopping. Y’know, the bread and butter clothes shopping experience, partly dictated by finances. I’m sure, with the right billfold and a stacked rolladex, employing a suite of bespoke artisans to tailor-drape me in fibrous regality would be quite the uplifting moment. Alas, funds allow what funds allow, and being fat and hitting the outlet village can be sobering at best, and dehumanising at worst. There’s a few reasons for this. The main reason is lack of options. Stores, in their wisdom, keep stock to cater to a bell curve. The majority of their lines will bell curve their garments, with the biggest fractions for those median-shaped people that surround us all. Average height, build, and so on. Sure, there’ll be some outliers to the sizes, curving down. But that means us “extremes” will have a playbook of maybe one or two items to choose from, while “normies” will have the whole store. And if Big Alan has been in an hour earlier and bought a pair of trousers, you’re just bang out of luck. (I realise there may be a UK filter on this comment. Presumably in the US, there’s a much wider and flatter profile of stock options, with the bell curve topping at some number of XLs. Everything is bigger and better there, right?) So the main stores have limited scope. What of shops that cater entirely to the Higher and Mightier folk out there? I mean yes, these are okay, but they are few and far between, and the ones in the UK at least seem largely generic in their designs. They also, in my experience, make a few assumptions in ratio that means people like the Historical Me miss out. Tall and Wide? All good. Small and Skinny? Covered. But us Short Kings with Extensive Circumference are told to just roll on by.

Today’s outfit I put together on Saturday, that’s how much I needed to get into some nice clothes again. Whilst only a casual look it felt so much better being able to wear the clothes again. Todays outfit consists of; M.J. Bale Brera ‘Loro Piana’ Jacket, this single-breasted Brera Jacket has been woven in italy by the loro piana textile mill from a luxe trilogy of fine wool, silk and linen M.J. Bale McQueen Chino in Seafoam Green Charles Tyrwhitt Non-Iron Twill Prince of Wales Check Shirt in Light Blue Ray-Ban Aviatons in Silver Anson Leather Strap in Blue with a Traditional buckle in Silver OTAA White Pocket Square with rolled Blue Edge OTAA Collar Stays in Bright Silver OTAA Marine Blue Ribbed Socks CNES MTO Oxford, Built on the 794 last, in Goodyear construction and crafted from Italian crust leather with a hand finished dye on the uppers. Outsole and heel is Italian vegetable-tanned Leather SOTD - Dior Fahrenheit Parfum WOTD - Islander Greenport Slate Grey/Sky Blue