We make unique suits for unique people

If you wanted to understand the single biggest reason that men’s business attire has remained relatively frozen in time since the 1920s and 1930s, you need look no further than the gradual eclipse of the tailoring house by ready-made fashions.

At one point in time, everyone dressed differently.  Individuality and personality were bywords.

Pockets were shaped and placed to store the exact items that a given individual carried every day.

Pants and custom made suits were styled not by a mystical set of rules, but rather to flatter and to express.

But with mass produced suits, every style suddenly needed to appeal to 100,000 customers. A programmer was supposed to wear the same suit as an executive and the executive was suppose to wear the same suit as the programmer.

We make unique suits for unique people.

Because we can make every style of pocket, every style of waistcoat, can cut pants with an immeasurable number of fits.

Because we don’t have any standard rules or molds.  Because we make suits from any number of novel fabrics, we can offer a virtually infinite amount of choices.

Many of the projects that we take are those that have been turned down by other tailors because  the factories that they contract with are unable to handle anything that deviates more than a hair from the mass model.

Unlike most tailors, we understand the needs of creative professionals.

We will work with you to design a suit from the ground up that expresses what you need to express at the events that you attend.

Daniel Bruce of DiBi Ties

Most are crafted using non-silk fabrics, including cotton, seersucker, velvet, and chambray.  Given this, as well as the slim width (ranging from 2-2.75″), DiBi ties are ideal for that #NewCasual look, perfectly suitable for a date or a night out with the boys.

 

Daniel Bruce of DiBi Ties

Most are crafted using non-silk fabrics, including cotton, seersucker, velvet, and chambray.  Given this, as well as the slim width (ranging from 2-2.75″), DiBi ties are ideal for that #NewCasual look, perfectly suitable for a date or a night out with the boys.
But what many don’t know is that DIBI runs its own foundation (www.dibifoundation.com), which seeks to strengthen and expand educational services and supplies in rural communities throughout the world. A portion of every purchase goes towards providing teaching kits.  FreshNeck is proud to participate in such a worth cause.
Daniel Bruce, founder of DiBi and the DiBi Foundation, describes the brand as representing “the fashion conscious shopper who enjoys plenty of selection at competitive prices.  On the men’s fashion industry, Bruce says “it is growing at a rapid rate, especially accessories. I can only imagine the industry expanding and continuing at this pace.” As a longstanding partner of FreshNeck, Daniel says of the unique “Netflix for Ties” business model “it’s a unique way to offer accessibility to fashion for those who are in need of ties on a daily basis.”

Avoid Loud Patterns

Avoid Loud Patterns

Shorter Men

Avoid Loud Patterns
Loud and busy patterns create the illusion of a smaller frame.
Wear Vertical Stripes
Much like high heels for a dress shoe, vertical stripes run top to bottom, drawing the eye upward. Plus, they also lengthen your frame by elongating the look of the bespoke suit.
1 Button and 2 Button Jackets

The Overcoat Is An Easy Style

In the colder months, the overcoat is an easy style move that distinguishes the well-dressed from the dressed up. However stately a man's suit, if he walks in off the street with a ski parka covering it, the parka will define the first impression he makes and the suit will look discordant when it comes into the light. 

Men's Shoes in Black Tie

Someone who expects to wear black tie regularly will want to invest in the classic formal footwear: patent leather pumps with a black ribbon bow on the front. Modern dressers tend to accuse traditional black tie pumps of looking like either women's shoes or slippers, but this forgets the overall purpose of black tie, which is to provide an outfit unique to the occasion -- in their traditional form, men's formal pumps are only suited to indoors wear. It speaks of luxury and sophistication, and is exclusive to the formal style.

Shorter Men

Avoid Loud Patterns
Loud and busy patterns create the illusion of a smaller frame.
Wear Vertical Stripes
Much like high heels for a dress shoe, vertical stripes run top to bottom, drawing the eye upward. Plus, they also lengthen your frame by elongating the look of the bespoke suit.
1 Button and 2 Button Jackets
Fewer buttons neutralize the proportions of your frame. Wearing a single or two button jacket will create a more sleek line undisrupted by a 3rd button.
Double Vents
The dual slits (or vents) along the side emphasize the outside lines of the body which create an attractive, longer silhouette that complements and lengthens your frame.
Straight or Tapered Pant with No Cuffs
Straight leg or tapered pants with no cuffs are recommended. A normal cuff adds volume to the lower leg which breaks up the slim line of the pant and provides a shorter appearance.

Matching Light Gray with Color and Pattern

The Overcoat Is An Easy Style

In the colder months, the overcoat is an easy style move that distinguishes the well-dressed from the dressed up. However stately a man's suit, if he walks in off the street with a ski parka covering it, the parka will define the first impression he makes and the suit will look discordant when it comes into the light. On the other hand, when you walk in draped in a knee-length coat with your scarf smartly knotted around your neck, you make a distinguished impression that will stick even if you take it off to reveal a polo shirt and blue jeans. Of all the garments we wear, the overcoat has perhaps changed the least over the past century, so that one of high quality is truly a long-term investment.

Matching Light Gray with Color and Pattern

  The single-breasted overcoat is the most common, and for good reason. On bright fall and winter days, it can be worn without a scarf, or with one just trimming the lapels, to display your shirt and tie. In the freezing wind and snow, double your scarf around your neck and turn the collar up for protection from the elements. Besides the single-breasted standard, overcoats may be double breasted, with or without a belt. The belted model is sometimes called a polo coat. Black, charcoal, and navy blue will each frame any shirt and tie you have on underneath.

Men's Shoes in Black Tie

Someone who expects to wear black tie regularly will want to invest in the classic formal footwear: patent leather pumps with a black ribbon bow on the front. Modern dressers tend to accuse traditional black tie pumps of looking like either women's shoes or slippers, but this forgets the overall purpose of black tie, which is to provide an outfit unique to the occasion -- in their traditional form, men's formal pumps are only suited to indoors wear. It speaks of luxury and sophistication, and is exclusive to the formal style.

For most men, a pair of shoes strictly for black tie events is an excessive investment. Modern black tie standards allow for any black, patent-leather dress shoe in a simple and formal style, with plain-toe oxfords being the ideal. It is possible to get away with regular black leather dress shoes if they are polished to a highly-reflective shine, but even small scuffs or scrapes will immediately show that these are not "the real thing." 

You want to keep the visual clutter to a minimum during your formal interview, and at all stages of the hiring process in general, so opt for a pair of black Oxfords without tips or edging of any kind. A good shine the day before the interview should leave the leather smooth but not overly reflective -- you don't want to appear overly flashy, and institutional lighting tends to lend itself to glare.

Socks -- a minor issue, but a relevant one -- should be matched to the color of your trousers, not the color of your shoes. That prevents your leg from looking shortened if the trouser cuff rides up. They should also be free of holes, even where you think no one will see them, since there's always the unlikely-but-real possibility that you'll enter a facility with specialized footgear and need to change in front of others.

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Matching Light Gray with Color and Pattern

In the United States, comfort reigns tyrannically over leisure clothing, and some men worry about looking sufficiently relaxed wearing a jacket when off duty. Social concerns aside, a man is simply more attractive in a sport coat than in a sweatshirt, and this fact should encourage those who fear drawing accusations of looking "uptight" if they wear anything they can't play basketball in. The sheer beauty of tailored clothing transcends this country's present obsession with being laid back.

Like its darker cousins medium and charcoal gray, a light gray bespoke suit has no opposites on the color wheel. It is simply a shade of black.
That doesn't mean that nothing will clash -- any color in a shade of similar lightness will look like a mismatch with light gray. No, what there needs to be is a clear distinction between how close the gray is to white and how close the colors worn with it are to the same point.
Deep colors help make the contrast clear, as do patterns. Plain white shirts will usually be too close to light gray to be a good match, and should be broken up with a pattern of some kind, ideally in a dark color.
A patterned gray suit is an ambitious sartorial challenge. Pinstripes in a dark color can be an interesting inversion of traditional business-wear (dark gray with light-colored pinstripes), but dress shirts then need to avoid clashing with both the light gray and the color of the stripe. Plaid in such a light color looks odd, and big windowpane checks on a light color is aggressively retro -- one of those looks better left in the 1970s. Texture in the fabric can make a less jarring alternative to a pattern in a dark color and help emphasize that the custom made suit is light gray rather than off-white.