Let me guess: Your New Year’s resolutions this year include a stricter clothing budget, a more consistent use of eye cream, and maybe even a raw food cleanse. Ok, maybe that’s my list. But I do have a resolution that I think a lot of guys can benefit from, and it’s to take more risks when it comes to clothes.

A lot of my guy friends will read this blog and later tell me something along the lines of ‘Sperrys are cool and all, but I don’t think they’d look good on me”; or “I can’t wear man cardigans because they make me look fat”; or “Paul Walker can pull this off, but I can’t”. You get the idea. I’ve almost given up trying to convince them otherwise until I was reminded the other day of the story of Sean Avery, superstar hockey player and fashionista extraordinaire. You might be familiar with his work on the New York Rangers, but did you know Avery is also a self admitted fashionista with a shoe collection to rival Anna Wintour herself!

As a guy in one of the toughest sports around, he’s one of the last people you’d expect in a buttoned up lapel vest, yet here he is:

And here’s another athlete, Beckham, pulling off two of this season’s trends, the plaid shirt with the man cardigan:

It just goes to show that fashion is an area no longer reserved just for girls and metro guys. So here’s to embracing your inner fashionista in 2010. Trust me – if a hockey player can pull off a buttoned-up-wide-pointed-lapel-vest, yes, you can too.

Read the rest of this entry…