Fashion 101: My fashion style?!

I saw this ad and was so fancied by the porma of the guy. Photo credits to the owner.

When you have your own family you tend to regard yourself as the last priority. This is definitely true in my case. I've been so busy catching up with our bills and my projects in building the house.

It's been three years of neglecting my fashion sense. I have problems too. My fancy with ukay-ukay has gone sour. I can't even bear entering an UK shop. I also did not feel the need all these years because I hate my big belly. Nothing looks good on my big tummy. I have only been borrowing clothes from my brother. He works abroad and I'm settling for the clothes he does not bring. 

As part of my plan for 2013 to be "back in the game!", I set rules. 1) I was into sale pants as far as I remember, which means my jeans are always past season. Therefore, my plan was to have 12 pants ( one month each) this year which at least few of them, not bought on discounted price. Today is June and I have 5  new pants so far. Actually, I have to catch up for one pair for this month. 2) Ultimately, I am going to shed off pounds to have abs this year. No compromise! Abs. I don't intend to be the macho guy around but to be pleasant enough for fashionable shirts.

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Sorry for the selfie. I am posting some of my photos through the years.

These are my office uniform fashion. We have the official uniform which are pairs of polo and slacks.
We do Field work so we have alternative uniform which are more comfortable shirts and denim pants.

These are what I mentioned about my pahiram-ng-damit-kuya fashion. 

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Lately, my wife usually panics about dress codes of the events she has to attend. Firstly, she has no time to shop for these requirement. She would text me about what smart casual, evening summer, sports and the likes are. I also have affairs in the office which require me to have formal, semi-formal and summer outfits. My wife would be amazed how I give attention to following those require attires.

I've been into vintage shirts lately.

I have been into vintage shirts lately. We frequently go to the mall and I see that there is "mall fashion". It is sort of declaring "I bought this last time and I'm buying again". The pang-mall clothes are usually shorts and shirt. I just have problems with wearing shorts. I can't stand wearing shorts and shoes and when I wear shorts them with slippers, the get up looks pambahay. I also have concerns that we might go to other places that require long pants and shoes.

Vintage shirts from Artwork were my last purchases. I am basically in scarcity of polo-shirts so I have problems if occasions require smart casuals attires.

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So what's my fashion style?

The shirt is my greatest ukay
find ever.

As much as possible I have to follow what's in. In pants I'm still into skinny and re-cut pants. I see people of my age who are not. I just don't want to get stuck on certain era despite being in my 30's. In evaluating what to wear, I look at people of my age on how they look. Christian Bautista, Piolo Pascual and Dennis Trillo are of almost my age bracket. They can get away with fads because dress for shows. For ordinary people, it is more awful see not dressing appropriately with times than not dressing with age. As I see it, mid 30's is not so old. Anyway, I have my wife to tone me down when I dress too young for my age.

This brings me to the complaints I hear from my office mates about their sons' fashion style which are too fit  and quite revealing clothes. Then, they would realize that is so close to how I dress up. Their sons are in their early 20's.

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Fashion is part of the theme of this blog so expect to have more posts about it as series. I will be exploring fashion, getting up and looks in general. It's just the first post so it focuses on me.