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A well fitting jacket will make your shoulders and your chest look broader and your waist look slimmer thus idealizing your silhouette but these days, as the average daily outfit for a man is becoming less and less formal, the temptation does arise to leave the jacket at home. This does beg the question then, should a man skip the jacket if he so wishes and wear just a dress shirt and tie?
Our short answer here is that this isn't a look we would recommend for most men.
Simply stated, it's because doing this is usually going to make your overall outfit look incomplete. As we stated at the beginning of the video, the trifecta of shirt, tie, and jacket has been the standard for men for centuries and it's still the default in most people's minds. Even though things are getting less and less formal these days, subconsciously, having all three of those elements is still seen as the standard. Therefore, if you remove one of these three key elements, your outfit isn't going to just be less formal, it's also going to feel lacking.
There are going to be very few situations where a man would need to dress formally enough to have a tie on but informally enough to not wear a jacket. In other words, if a jacket is required in a given situation, wearing a tie would almost never be prohibited and if you are still trying to look casual, there are a number of different more casual jacket styles available in terms of colors, patterns, textures, and so on.
You could consider wearing a shirt and tie and then also wearing a sweater as the outer layer.
It's all about the weave. There are a number of breathable and lightweight weaves available for jackets that would keep you just as cool as if you forewent an outer layer.
With all that said, what if you're still dead set on wearing a shirt and tie without a jacket?
In the broad strokes, you're going to need a shirt that fits you well and the appropriate type of tie. Today though, as jackets are increasingly left at home and shirts are worn as an outer layer, it's most important that you buy slim fit shirts.
Turning now to the tie, solid-colored tie with some texture in the weave, perhaps a grenadine, a shantung silk, or a knit would be a good choice here.
As one more related note here, skipping the jacket means that wearing a tie bar in this circumstance would serve you particularly well. Part of the reasoning behind having your jacket buttoned when standing or moving around is that it will keep your tie in place but if you don't have a jacket to accomplish this, wearing something like a tie bar would be even more important.
Finally today, let's talk about the best way to pull off a shirt and tie with no jacket which is actually to have the jacket with you but just to take it off at appropriate times. Stated another way, if you have all three of your core elements on hand at the beginning of the day or when greeting people for the first time, it will cement in their minds that your outfit does in fact have three pieces so you'll be at liberty to take one of them off if you so choose.
Following this strategy pays mind to the classic tenets of menswear and make sure you'll be prepared for different kinds of situations throughout the day but you can also indulge in that wish to wear a shirt and tie without a jacket if you so choose.
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