What is the difference between a really well-dressed man and an average-dressed man?
I visited Rome last week and many men there were incredibly good-looking. They were not inherently better-looking than men in other countries, there was just something about how they dressed & what they did with their hair that made the difference. What exactly is it?
We have access to better quality of clothes, at cheaper price then what you find outside of Italy. The material of a standard shirt or skirt is way better than anything you get sold everywhere else, and I am not talking about famous brands. I own dresses that people think are branded but are actually not and cost me no more than 20 euros.
We always dress up. No matter the age or the occasion. It's always Sunday at the church kind of feeling. We change outfits during the day. We do it since we are little - remember we don't have uniforms at school so clothing is an important part of representing who you are (and how much you have, but let's not get there...). I always wear heels, my brother owns 15 suits and lots of formal shirts.
We grow up embracing style. Meaning we don't put yellow red and purple together going out looking like a clown. We don't go out in the morning to work with a formal suit on but sneakers or flip flops (horror...) at our feet. We know how to match colours and make sure the whole outfit looks elegant, and subtle - even natural make up for women is regarded as the best.
Now - this applies as I said to both women and men - but the fact that I am glorifying the Italian style here doesn't mean I approve of it completely. It can be very pretentious and fake. In fact I married an Australian, and although he gave me some heart attacks at the beginning when going out in Milan or meeting my parents (...), I somehow appreciate more his straightforward approach to clothing - which in reality makes him more manly than lots of Italian machos (but micios) out there.
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