Dresing Tips

Getting Dressed

• To survivors: The general rule is to use your unaffected arm to dress the affected side first. To undress, take the garment off the unaffected side, then remove it from the affected side.
• To caregivers: When you are helping someone dress, always tell them what you are doing first so you don’t startle them.
• Return to your normal daily dressing routines as soon as you can.
• Loose-fitting clothes and silky fabrics are easier to slip in and out of than polyester or flannel.
• Lay out your clothes before dressing.
• Dress while sitting. It is easiest.
• When dressing, use your strong arm to dress your weak side first.
• When undressing, pull your strong arm or leg out of your clothes first.
  

Tips on Dressing Taller

1. Monochromatic Color Themes
Along the same lines as minimizing visual clutter, removing contrasting color from your appearance helps streamline the way you look. Keeping all your clothes within a fairly consistent color theme, especially a dark one, will create an illusion of height. Different color shades are fine–just try to keep it loosely monochrome.
When you do wear different colors or different shades of the same color, try to weight the darker colors toward the bottom half of your body. That way people’s attention starts down near your feet and travels upward. Dark trousers with a lighter shirt create a lengthening effect; a darker shirt with lighter pants shortens your appearance.

How to Dress Sharps for Young Men

It’s important to note that it is worth paying some attention to your clothing as a young man even if you’re working in a field without strict dress codes.  Crisp, clean, and well fitted clothing – wherever you are at in the world – encourages  others to take you more seriously.