When dressing formally all you need to follow some basic easy rules and you will instantly have a stylish classic.

The right look with formal wear for a man is easy, if you follow the tips below:

The suit

The suit is very important and is the building block of your formal look.

1. Style

You can’t go wrong with a single-breasted suit. Solid colors should be used such as black, grey or dark blue

A single-breasted suit will make you look slimmer and leaner a double breasted one will make you look fatter – So this is the safe best option.

A stylish suit can present a multitude of images, all of them good!

A suit can have various looks it can make you look in control, dynamic, mature, conservative, or even sexy! Women love the look and you will do when you doing it correctly

2. Fabrics / Patterns

Wool is a good option to buy. With care It will always look good, wears well and their variety to choose from. Worsted wools by nature are lightweight and ideal for the warmer months.

Gabardine wools are heavier and will keep you warm in the winter. Wool Crepes are lightweight with softer finishes. Flannel wools are heaviest.

With regard to patterns for formal suits these are limited to solids, stripes (pinstripe, chalk stripe, beaded-stripe, multistripe) plaids, and checks (hounds-tooth, windowpane and herringbone).

The Shirt

Men with lean faces should choose collars that are wide, to help broaden their faces; on the other hand, men with wider faces should wear collars that are narrow to help to give the image of a longer face.

Ties

Today, formal wear does not necessarily mean having to wear a tie. You will see people such as Bill Gates and Richard Branson not wear ties and it’s perfectly acceptable.

However, wearing a tie can add a real focal point to your look and if you choose correctly a collar and tie looks great

If you want to make a strong statement wear a patterned tie with a patterned shirt, make sure that the colors are the same and that the patterns go in the same direction.

Don’t forget the Length it’s very important where your tie finishes:

It should hit the top of your belt buckle and t he ideal width of ties is between 3 and 4 inches.

Combining Tie’s Shirts & Suits

When choosing a jacket-shirt-and-tie trio, match its level of color contrast to your complexion and hair color.

If you’re coloring is one of high-contrast i.e. dark hair and light skin, or vice versa—your jacket, tie, and shirt combo should be high contrast, too.

If your hair-hide contrast is softer and lighter i.e. you’re blond or gray-haired with pale skin, or dark-skinned with dark hair—you need to wear clothing with a lower contrast.

When you’re wearing two like patterns in the jacket-shirt-tie triangle, they should be of different gauges.

If your suit has pinstripes 3/4 inch apart, your tie should have significantly broader or thinner bands. If your suit is a striped one (with lines more than an inch apart), your shirt’s stripes then should be narrower.

If for example, you wear two different designs within the lapel triangle a checked shirt and a striped tie, or a striped suit and a medallion tie—They need to be different scales in size If your shirt has a narrow stripe, your tie needs to be the opposite. Deflect

Choose clothes that deflect attention from your extremes in terms of your body.

If you’re short, look for strong vertical lines such as pinstriped suits, two-button jackets. If on the other hand you’re thin, choose a jacket with wider shoulders. If you are of a heavier build then Wear darker colors that are monotone from top to bottom.

Watches

With regard to accessories this is the only one you really need. A watch which has a large face are seen by everyone as stylish.

Forget earrings medallions and lots of rings! The only accessory a man needs is a watch the others should not be worn, rings can be if subtle and only a few.

belts

You want to buy quality and this doesn’t have to be expensive.

Your belt color should be coordinated with your footwear and suit – black with black, brown with brown.

Shoes

Black is the traditional safe color for work but Brown and ox blood can also look stylish.

You can also use a variety of styles including loafers, wingtips, round-toe, or the trendy pointy-tipped shoe.

Don’t economize on quality. For men, shoes are the final touch and are one of the things that most people will notice great suit and look and scuffed or dirty shoes! – Don’t make this mistake

So there you have it. Follow the guidelines above and you will look the business, feel good and get admiring glances from women as well as a bonus!

While on a business trip to Northern Greece (near the Albanian border) I had some free time for some hiking in the foothills surrounding the ancient city of Ioanina. I came to a small village with a population of no more than 100 people, most of them old as their children had moved to the big cities.

As is my habit I often have a coffee with local people and strike up conversations about their place and its history.

While in the only coffee shop I saw an old grandmother sitting in her front yard boiling some brew with a distinctive and unforgettable odor. It smelled of the forest and reminded me of the smell of the earth after a good rain.

I asked what she was making, if it was some food, or concoction.

The men in the coffee shop told me to ask her, and I did. Her name of Grandmother Irina, and she told me she was making her elixir to re-grow lost hair.

I sort of laughed, until an hour later a small lorry pulled up and a man got out and paid a large sum of money for what she was brewing, and took it away in an oil drum.

After much coaxing, I got her to tell me what was in it, although she did not say the proportions, as they were “secret”. However, after about an hour with her, and our pleasant conversation progressed, she told me all about her folk remedy, which I pass on to you now.

Since Grandmother Irina had no children (in Greece, the term Grandmother is respectfully given to any aged woman), she had no one to pass her secret on to, and she was glad to give it to me.

She hoped it would become well know, and help people who have lost their hair, re-grow it without medicines.

She said the recipe well as old as Greece itself, and she did not wish to die when she did.

Grandmother Irina’s Elixir

Taking 2 liters of rainwater (you will find a way to collect it), you boil 20 berries from the bitter laurel tree, along with 10 small cones from the Cyprus tree, for 12 hours under very low heat.

The mixture will become very dark, almost black.

When cooled and the solid particles streained out about one liter of liquid that remains.

In a frying pan, fry 9 very fresh eggs in a large quantity of sesame oil till the eggs are hard fried. Let the mixture cool, and throw away the eggs. The oil is part of the treatment.

Re-Grow Lost Hair Treatment

After a daily morning shower or bath, and a good shampoo of what hair remains on your head, apply the herbal liquid to the scalp, and let it dry. When dry, apply some of the sesame oil (small amount) to the same area. Leave it in place.

After 3 weeks you will notice hair growth.

The longer you apply the treatment, the better the result. This must be a daily event, and not discontinued once hair is in place.

The hair may be very fine, and of a black color, but nevertheless, it is hair, and if that is what you wish, you will have it…without medicines or transplant surgery.

This article is dedicated to the memory of Grandmother Irina, and we hope you shall pass on this wonderful folk remedy to anyone who needs to know about it.