5 Famous Regular Guys
August 07, 2010, By Jack Heffron 0 comments
Now that you’re the man of the house, odds are the styles you see in the men’s mags and on Hollywood’s red carpet seem, well, sort of stupid. And definitely not how you want to look. Where are the men who look cool and confident and yet more like regular guys?
The key to that look isn’t so much what you wear or how you comb your hair. It’s being sure enough about yourself that you don’t think so much about yourself. The preening fops and blinged-out buffoons we see all over the media today seem like phony, arrogant idiots not because of their over-priced suits and hairstyles but because they’re so obviously grasping for attention.
They look fake. Their affectations reek of ego and desperation, even as they swagger or try to look “real” (which perhaps explains the please-take-me-seriously beards Brad Pitt hangs from his chin between film gigs). Rule of thumb: If what you’re wearing makes you feel self-conscious, you’re wearing the wrong thing. Rule of other thumb: Someone who talks a lot about “keeping it real” usually isn’t.
Your best bet for looking good is to look like you. Now, that doesn’t mean anything goes (especially if your tastes run to high-water pants and rope belts). But choose clothes and a hairstyle that reflect how you see yourself. And be confident that the real you is plenty cool because it’s genuine. Cool is the opposite of self-conscious. It’s being comfortable in your own skin—flaws and all—and being more interested in the world around you than in projecting an image.
