Unfortunately, not all men are born tall and handsome with naturally built physiques. Nevertheless, while you may not have won the genetic lottery, clothing and grooming choices can go a long way in helping you make the best of what you’ve inherited. This article is focusing on fashion tips for skinny and fat men because both skinny and chunky men can alter their wardrobes in order to flatter their body types and feel more confident in their skin.

If your body type falls into one of these categories, read these fashion tips for skinny and fat man to learn how to best complement your physique.

Tips for the thin man

Many men spend a lot of time dieting and working out to achieve a slimmer physique, all while harboring serious envy for their skinny counterparts who can eat whatever they please without gaining an ounce. Because society tends to equate being lean with being attractive, it’s easy to forget that being too thin is a real problem that some individuals face.

Have a look at the summary of what’s hot and in style for weddings held in 2008, here are the top ten wedding trends for this year.

1) Color plays a huge role in weddings this year; it’s all about color and featuring that color throughout your wedding.

Designers pushed yellow as the hot color on the runways last spring for 2008, but brides are rebelling and we know from Kate Aspen’s wedding trend report blue is in fact the winning color. The following shades are popular: baby blue, peacock blue, Cinderella blue, Tiffany blue, aqua blue, navy blue and teal.

2) Duel colored weddings are another popular wedding trend both in previous years and continuing into this year as well. The most popular accent colors for duel colored weddings are white, black, chocolate, silver, green, yellow and orange. Also popular are monochromatic color schemes as well as outrageous contrasting color schemes which play into the duel color wedding theme such as orange/pink, pink/brown, aqua blue/brown, aqua blue/white, red/icy blue, slate/lime, pearl grey/deep yellow, light yellow/deep purple, and sky blue/light green.

Fashion and fads may be the drivers of many wardrobes and dressing styles, but today’s world provides a lot of space for individuality – that particular expression of your personality that translates as your own style. The way you wear your clothes, your accessories and personal effects, your speech mannerisms – all are elements of a style of your own. For most of us, this is nothing but a modification of present fashionable standards to suit ourselves. But for some, it is a completely unique presentation of their assets and attributes.

However, you don’t have to become a glaringly ‘different’ rebel in order to have a personal style that is distinct, yet pleasing and acceptable to most people. In fact, personal style can be a combination of some perfectly ordinary things that all add up to something special only because of your ability to carry them off.

Till some time back, a wedding was more or less ‘women oriented’, where the focus of attention was on the bride and the other women of the household. Wedding shopping meant endless discussions on what sarees to buy, whether budgets would allow for matching jewellery, accessory shopping, and of course make-up. The men of the house, poor things, were the last of consideration. At best, they would wear a suit or a churidar-kurta, never mind if this made all the men in the family look alike.

But in the last decade or so, fashion for the men has gone through a radical change. The new wave of designers sweeping the Indian fashion scene have ensured that men now have a larger range. Sherwanis, kurtas, in zardosi, resham or chikan embroidery, in silk or other richly textured material.

You’ve heard about body language, the language of the eyes, even of the hands. Well, here’s one you may not have thought about before. What language do your clothes speak! Nivedita is a very attractive young girl, with a beautiful, young looking mother who is always receiving compliments.

Nivedita wears almost drab clothes, in fact some of them are quite severe, and although her mom is always offering to buy her something trendy she stubbornly refuses. One day, when her mother was trying to persuade her to dress with a little more style to attend a social function, her mother lost patience and said “Oh are you going to be so drab forever?”, to which her daughter replied, Why not? You don’t want me to give you competition do you?