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Have you decided that you want a change of image? Or would you merely like to smarten yourself up a bit? Perhaps you have a new career with new colleagues and you would like to take this opportunity to dress a bit more smartly. Sometimes people like to change their image when they are searching for or have recently found a new partner.

Whilst changing one’s image most people will focus on a new hair style and smarter clothes. Women might go for smart trouser suits or power dresses and men might make a decision to wear a lounge suit or a jacket and tie more frequently. If the weather is bad a costly overcoat always completes the image, especially suede, cashmere or leather. It used to be that fur was de rigeur, but now it is duh.

However, there is another way of changing your image, a way that need not be that costly, although sometimes it takes courage to attempt it. That is the wearing or the using of accessories. Women have more opportunity here in numerous ways, but men have options too.

Women can sport something in their new hair style; possibly co-ordinate bags and shoes; possibly wear a different style of stockings or could start wearing gloves, white kid, for example. They could modify the style of jewelery they wear and the colour or their hair and lipstick. Belts, brooches, watches and scarves can also serve the purpose of changing ones image. They could also wear a fresh flower on their lapel, in their hair or behind their ear for that old style gypsy look (that is the brave one).

Men have a slightly harder time of it without looking daft, but men can wear better shoes, wear a tie more often or a costly watch. They could carry a briefcase and an umbrella, and wear a flower in their button hole, but this is where it starts to look a bit contrived. They could also wear a monocle, a pocket watch or a bow tie.

My cousin wears a monocle and once you overcome your first instinct to laugh, you have to admit that he looks fairly elegant. The same is true of bow ties, which he wears too and insists on tying it by hand. He also carries an umbrella, a briefcase and wears pinstripes. He is very brave and he is noticed and remembered wherever he goes.

However, you do not need to go that far. Even simply wearing a bow tie instead of a tie will set you apart. Have you noticed that if you are talking to someone wearing a bow tie you cannot help yourself staring at it? It is the men’s equivalent of a woman’s low-cut dress.

Anyway, accessories are a cheaper way of altering your image than going out and purchasing a new wardrobe of outfits and they are more easily combined that different suits. Go for colours that combine easily, like blacks, greys, browns and off-whites. Understatement is usually better than garish.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now concerned with the jean jacket. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Mens Overcoats For Sale.