Men's Business Dress Accessories Professional & Graduate University Etiquette

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Harold Almon Etiquette Coach
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Men's Business Dress Accessories is designed to denote options in dress enhancements. It covers things that let a man stand out from the crowd.

Accessories are to be used to allow a man to be fully dressed in the uniform of the day, add architectural details to a well-framed wardrobe, and silently emphasize individual style. It may be distinctive touches of finishing accessories that make the difference in being accepted and respected. They could provide accent marks that allow a person to pause and to look at your personality.

People react to accessories. They aid in the performance of displaying a well-dressed image. To some one the operational level the number one accessory in male dress is a name tag.

1. It can say, “Hello,” or “Lets talk.” It may suggest, “Let’s do business.”

2. The ultimate accessory can be a thirty-four inch waist. You can be your own personal trainer or hire one.

3. Get a good tailor. “Either can do better for your image than any suit.” A tailor that is not good can make you look like you are where you do not belong.

4. Get a small Swiss Army Knife. Strings are to be cut off clothing used in a business life. You can use a nail clipper for now

5. You can get a clothes brush.

6. Hair is to be scissors cut.

7. Eyeglasses are connected to social status, even when you wear them in your hair, breast pocket, or atop a button center your shirt. In business, avoid wearing eyewear that looks like sunglasses, unless medically directed.

Eyewear can be conservative and fashionable. Each piece may be in a signature or company color or frame. Eyeglasses are to be washed. Water and soap can be used to do this. Each is to be wiped using a fabric cloth. Glasses can be taken to an optician. He or she will usually clean and adjust them free.

8. A lapel pin can be placed on the left lapel of a jacket. It is to be country, company or community related.

9. A breast pocket wallet or a day planner is to be acquired. This can be the closet a man is to come to owning a (man purse) murse. Hip wallets are to be avoided; or worn in a front pocket. Avoid being injured by your wallet, sitting on the picture of a loved one, or sitting on a business card of a friend.

10. Get platinum or gold American Express card. You can get a green one, if you must.

11. In business, have a business card holder. Learn to open and close one, silently, using just one hand. A holder can be a license case, or a wallet; avoid any that looks like a shrine.

12. Get a Smart Telephone. Get a cellular telephone. The two can be one and the same. Each is connected to a social class.

In old school, you were to strive to eliminate VTL (visible telephone line); now some people look for your ultimate cover or case.

You may play at talking small, and pretending that it does not matter, as long as your telephone is equipped with voice mail, tri-mode, and lock out code capability, and has an ICE (In Case of an Emergency) contact number. Learn to use your telephone with your left hand, elbows down and in.

13. Have a signature candy, cracker, or cookie. It can contain Cinnamon, mint, or flavor of your choosing. Give it away freely. Ensure it is good enough for people to remember and to want often.

14. Get metal writing instruments (a pen and pencil set,) the more metal in each, the better. Each is to be engraved on the side, in the space set aside for it. It can be done locally, or have it done back at the company that made it. Get and learn how to use a fountain pen. It can be made of plastic.

15. Writing instruments are to be engraved in script, block, or double block in Gothic, with a first and last name, or with initials. This will give credence to someone saying that each was obtained as a present.

16. Get a soft briefcase. An envelope can serve as a briefcase. A briefcase may be an expanding file made of reddish brown fibers. It could be a Mark Cross leather case, or a Mark Cross look-a-like. It is to be thin and look used. It could be in the same color and texture as a belt. Carry a briefcase to the left. A messenger bag can be carried over the right shoulder.

17. Have a soft laptop case, backpack, or side satchel. Be careful about carrying any two at the same physical level. Avoid carrying a back pack below your lower back (and causing one to have to rename it.) A short person can avoid carrying a large satchel or one that is too low. Get a lap top computer when you can. Use a 7.75 X 5 coil bound note pad in a day planner, until you can afford one, or a 6 X4 spiral notebook.

18. Keep a soft travel bag packed. One for the day you say, "I am never coming back." Equip it with a sewing kit to reattach buttons that may come off along your way.

19. Get and use a metal money clip, and a leather, or cloth, coin holder. Paper money can be washed, dried, and ironed. Coins may be washed and shined. One man I know, and one major Hotel, I hope, still does this. The act is impressive.

20. Carry a newspaper. Socially, carry a book. I called it the Harriet Tubman effect: have someone look at and think less of you and make him or her take it back. It could assist in staying informed, mentoring someone, your staying free, and in changing your life’s quality.

21. You may get a necklace. It is to be gold, and discreet. Socially, it can be of rope or shells for the young.

22. Have a pocket timepiece. It can be worn after work and with formal clothes. It may be worn every day, socially. Learn to open it, and to close it, silently, using just one hand.

23. Get a wrist timepiece for business. Get a Rolex® sport (a Submariner.) It is immediate negotiable currency. You can get a Timex Iron man Triathalon®. Welcome to the club. When you are ready to be reborn you may get a Brietling®; it could be the bottom of the level that is next. You may inherit a Patek Philippe®. There are different levels of work: Tiffany & Co.

Own a timepiece equal in value to those worn by your peers or immediate superiors. Insure it. Protect it. Have it serviced once a year. It is to work or avoid wearing it. It is used as a cultural totem. Have one you want to pass up to a son.

24. Wear one "I like me ring," in a signature setting. You can wear your marriage band, on your left hand. You may wear a signature ring on your right hand. You could carry a class ring, but show it only in a place where you would show a passport. A necklace, a timepiece, and a ring, when three are worn, only two are to be seen. The metal in each can be cleaned with 91% alcohol. So can keys. For outside the only other thing to shine may be really cool sunglasses.

25. In business, wear a signature gold bracelet only when you can do so without prompting a personnel investigation.

26. Get conversational cufflinks and/or button covers. Get a lighter for things flame worthy. As an accessory, jewelry for a man can be limited; a man is judged based on the size of the jewelry on his special someone's hand.

27. In the United States of America, in business, avoid wearing a hat. In social life, an accessory item is to be sporty. A baseball cap is to have an allegiance symbol on it. A cowboy hat can be known by a cut.

28. A tee shirt may be worn and can be printed on to reflect allegiance to an institution of sport and/or an event. Learn the rules for markings. Get a jacket, some gloves, a scarf, and an umbrella.

29. You can add an IPOD to your business dress accessories. A man can walk to the beat of different drummers. Place the Y of the speaker wires behind your head, until the advent of Bluetooth; avoid looking like you want to be lead. You can be micro phoned from the front under a shirt, and use only one part of the y for an earpiece. Avoid locking a potential sponsor or contact out of your life.

30. A piercing is a hole for an accessory. No more than two piercings are to be for one ear. Facial piercings are to be avoided; they can inhibit chances at real employment.

31. A tattoo is a present to oneself. Each is to be placed discretely. What is art to one person is a “Whoe” tag or a “Tramp stamp” to someone else. I did not invent the vocabulary.

You have a right to wear most anything. There is a line between your being free, demeaning, and proselytizing. The more they can envy you, the quicker they may release you.