Try this recipe: 6 Brooks Brothers 100%-cotton oxford cloth button down (OCBD) traditional fit shirts in blue (always tucked in). 2 pair Wested Indiana Jones

Try this recipe: 6 Brooks Brothers 100%-cotton oxford cloth button down (OCBD) traditional fit shirts in blue (always tucked in). 2 pair Wested Indiana Jones calvary twill wool trousers hemmed to your length at the local dry cleaner. 1 pair Alden 405 boots in the standard brickish red. 7 pair Merino wool socks. 1 Brown canvas web belt. 1 AO Optics original pilot sunglasses. 1 JPress, Southwick, or Samuelsohn tweed "sack coat" in brown for cooler weather (should be natural "soft" shouldered, understated pattern, and without aggressive, sleazy Italian styling in the midsection). Replace shirts as needed (~every two years). Dry clean trousers only when needed (each pair can last ~5 years). Boots should last >10 years with heel savers and ~1 resoling per decade by Alden. Good brand of merino socks can last upwards of three years, possibly five. Sport coats will last indefinitely (leather patch on the elbows if they get thin). Wear the above (or your own variation) until it becomes a second skin, and, learn to enjoy the patina that comes with better made clothing which ages gracefully.