Spring Street Style Ideas for Men’s Inspiration.

2024 Update

Menswear is in an interesting place at the moment. The way men dress is slowly getting more colourful, more adventurous and less constrained by old rules and dress codes. As white-collar workers where hoodies to the office and streetwear designers reimagine tailoring, change is everywhere.

Spring is the perfect time for reinvention and breathing new life into your style, so these are the 10 biggest spring trends that the FashionBeans team is backing, along with our personal tips on how to wear the hell out of them.

PASTELS

We all have a comfort zone. A place where we feel cosy and safe and dry. For most guys, this takes the form of a wooly cocoon in some shade of navy, black or grey. But every now and then we need to step outside. If we don’t, we risk our style becoming stagnant, or even mouldy (and no one wants the way they dress described as ‘mouldy’).

This season, few trends challenge guys to try something new, experiment, even get a scared like wearing pastels. Get these faded, chalky hues favoured by everyone from Tom Ford to Topman right, you look look like 1980s Miami Vice; get them wrong, you look like My Little Pony.

To avoid getting freezer burnt by spring’s sorbet soft goods, apply a colour — such as mint green or dusty pink — to a single piece (sweatshirts, denim jackets and sneakers being the most wearable) anchored by a dark staple before progressing to tonal looks. Trust us, it’s a much easier way of blowing the cobwebs off than hand gliding.

OPEN COLLARS

What to wear when it can be either hot or cold, monsoon or drought? The key is the perfect layering piece. You already know (we hope) that a light jacket is invaluable, but so too is the open collar shirt. It will layer wonderfully with both casual jackets and tailoring but it also possesses the very important quality of looking far superior to the pique buttoned polo in almost all instances.

Patterned Cuban collar shirts invariably lean a little too close to Elvis Presley circa Blue Hawaii (it was fine for Elvis, it probably isn’t for the rest of us) so opt for a block colour design here. A patterned open collar polo shirt can work very well, and if you wear with flat front chinos, you’ll come over all Dickie Greenleaf on us. Generally speaking muted shades are best here: grey, dusky pink, pale blue and faded khaki are all good shouts.

In spring wear one beneath a suit (navy is your safest bet) for sprightly style but when it gets a bit warmer team smart chinos (never jeans) and finish the look with some penny loafers.

TONAL LAYERING

This is perhaps the easiest spring trend to wear, mostly because it requires very little thought or planning. Yes, all-black has been a thing forever, and tonal navy is a look the FashionBeans staff turn to time and time again. But tonal layering in other colours have been cropping up here and there, with the likes of Brunello Cucinelli, Burberry and Cos leading the charge.

It’s not really rocket science this one. It’s spring, so opting for a layered outfit is a wise choice as it is, just ensure each of the layers, and maybe the trousers too, are in different shades of the same colour. Grey is a good place to start – you might wear a grey marl T-shirt, a dark grey overshirt and a charcoal parka, or perhaps you want to opt for beige or stone. Look to Burberry for that, which sent a bunch of models down its recent runways in various shades of granny’s favourite colour.

Source: fashionbeans.com