For the longest time ever it was very hard to be a fashionable well dressed man. The fashion industry always concentrated on women's fashions and women's clothing trends and accessory trends. Men were always an afterthought at best and men's clothing was always restricted to a few pieces or a few outfits in a designers collections. It was also restricted to a few major designers and a few major labels who just put out the same kind of clothes every year for fashion season after fashion season and to see these clothes on the catwalk or at a fashion week even the most discerning fashion watcher would have a hard time telling you what the changes were between seasons.
This was not an easy situation for men because as the world we live in; society put more of an emphasis on presentation. The first impression all men are feeling is an even greater need to look good and dress well. This was very difficult because of the lack of great clothes available to men. The designers would argue quite rightly that most men were not wiling to experiment with new fashions and new trends and were much more conservative in their dressing and their buying habits of men's clothing. Due to this it has been hard for designers to innovate and to push men's fashion forward.
The last few years though have seen a sea change in men's clothing and in men's fashion. There has been the rise of a new crop of designers who want to make stylish and fashionable clothes for men that are every bit as on the cutting edge of fashion as women's clothing. There has simultaneously been the rise of the new man who takes a lot of care of the way he looks and the way he dresses. The man who is liable to spend as much on beauty products, grooming and on clothing and accessories for him as any woman would. This new breed of man has been called a metro sexual by many who coined the term to describe a famous footballer who was the person who started the trend.
Whichever way you look at it, men's fashion is quickly coming into its own. It is even catching up at an astounding pace with the world of women's fashion. Today the well dressed man has access to a large number of designer labels and a wide range of styles and even price ranges and which he can buy great clothing and accessories for himself.