Gary Neville Style Profile
To start with, I think we all know how well he suits a plain, tight, well fitted short sleeve t-shirt in any neutral colour. Yes that included white. Wear the white t-shirt Gary. Long sleeve and baggy t-shirts don't work quite as well.
In the 00s, Gary changed with the times and dropped the baggy madchester trousers for jeans so skinny he looks like one of the guys in that picture of the 4 British blokes (you know the one I mean). Somehow Gary looks back on his old trousers as a fashion mistake, and doesn't seem to notice that the trend has circled back to his 90s baggies. If you're trying to look like you're down with the kidz, please drop the stone island and fish around your wardrobe for the pleated chinos I know you never threw away. Personally, I look in every charity and vintage shop I go to for a pair of jeans like yours, although I think you've grown up too much for the ripped, distressed denim look.
Given his own wedding picture looks like he walked through a launderettes picking up any item he could reach, it is a surprise he actually looks gorgeous in white tie attire. We rarely see him in a tux but it never fails him, and for completely inexplicable reasons he looked radiant in full pinstripe as a best man. Let's just call it David Beckham's impact.
Part 2
When it comes to suits, I like his recent transition from shirts to neutral t-shirts under a suit jacket. While bow ties may be his thing, ties certainly are not, and his work outfits massively improve when he sheds the tie and pops the top few buttons open, and a rolled up sleeve doesn't go amiss either. A tapered suit trouser can shorten his legs, but a straight leg chino with a matching casual jacket lengthens him.
If Jamie didn't shame him for the glasses, I'm sure he'd wear them more often. They age him, but dignify him too, in fact I think I had an anthropology professor who looked pretty similar. I hope we see more of them.
The lilac shirt with the open collar goes a long way to making Gary look like someone's WAG, hanging off the arms of wealthy attractive footballers. I assume Gary looks hot in that one video because of the rolled up sleeves, open collar shirt and false bravado, but maybe it's actually because he's carrying a hawk. To really level up his fashion game, maybe he should try carrying one around with him regularly?
As a final thought, baggy sweatshirts are IN, skinny puffers are OUT. Chinos are IN, tight cargos are OUT. Long hair is IN, bucket hats are OUT. Hipster glasses are IN, David's sunnies are OUT.
Part 3
It's as if Gary, or rather whoever actually styled this collection, read the Gary Neville Style Profile.
The stylist has made him look like he owns a vineyard. This is appropriate because there is a decent chance that - being Gary Neville and owning most things - he does own a vineyard. At least he now had the outfits to holiday at said vineyard.
I've long been sceptical and disapproving of the majority of his formal wear, preferring him in either a semi-formal t-shirt and blazer, or a white tie tux. However, this collection ditches the ties he has always been restricted by, instead choosing to pop the top buttons open, and drape him in linens: or at the very least linen blends.
Free from the suffocation of his top button and tight ankle trousers, he has the agility to kick around a ball which is nearly unusable and clearly only there for aesthetic purposes, complementing the flattering neutral tones of the collection. The loafers are similarly aesthetic over function: far less useful than the oh-so-nearly trendy trainers he's had surgically attached to his body, but the appropriate match to the conventional summer style and silhouette of the suits. I wish one of his daughters would tell him Nike Pandas are rather 2017. Not that any current it-girl trainer would improve his wardrobe. Imagine Gary in Sambas?
I was equally surprised and delighted by his double breasted blazer. I have never seen him wear one. His attempts to minimise his shape - minimise Gary Neville - usually lead to unfashionably skinny jeans and slim-fit sweatshirts. The padded shoulders and intentional broadness of the blazer announces him loudly, and impressively, and I want to see more of it.
This being said, I now have to have a heated word with this stylist for missing what should have been the piece de restistence of dilfism: glasses.
