Best dressed businessman: the search continues
Closing a deal? The ultimate salesman's outfit is reputedly a navy suit, white shirt and red tie. Works everytime.
Thursday, April 01 2010 || Features || BY Unlimited Staff
In any other country, when a young man starts his first job, he'll buy himself a crisp navy blue suit - navy and grey suits are for the office, black suits are reserved for weddings and funerals. In New Zealand however, due to a historical connection with the colour of our rugby players' uniforms, a fashion industry obsessed with black and a fairly conservative outlook on men's dressing, our young men choose black as the primary colour.
But listen up gentlemen, here are a couple of facts you may not know. According to Working Style's creative director Eddy von Dadelszen, navy blue is not only easier to wear than black, but it suits 90% of skin complexions as opposed to black's 30%. If you work in a sales role - and let's face it, all of us are selling something - you're more likely to close a deal in a navy suit than when you're wearing any other colour. In fact the ultimate salesman's outfit is reputedly a navy suit, white shirt and red tie. Works everytime.
Navy suits give you more options with accessories too. You can wear them with brown shoes to give your look a bit of punch, or black shoes to tone it all down. Navy suits look immaculate with just about every colour of shirt too, and if you're a paler gent, they even do wonders for your skin tone.
So here's our recommendation: make your first suit a navy blue suit. You can thank us later.
Ok, you can’t nominate yourself. But surely you know some other spiffy gent worthy of the title ‘New Zealand’s best dressed businessman’? Working Style, in association with Unlimited and Mercedes-Benz, is seeking New Zealand’s most stylish businessmen for its seventh Best Dressed Businessman Awards.
Click over the page to see a selection of nominees.
