Color analysis and body shapes for men
Your colors and your cuts, read for a man's frame.
Wearly Labs reads a man's coloring with the same 12 seasons and his frame with five shapes of its own: triangle, trapezoid, rectangle, inverted triangle and oval. Each comes with a line, and every cut in the men's library gets Wear, Depends or Skip, with the reason.
Body shapes for men
Five shapes, each with its own cuts.
Shape says where you carry your width. Line says whether a cut should hold an edge or give a little. Together they decide a jacket's shoulder, a trouser's rise and a collar.
Men
- TriangleWaist and hips carrying more width than the shoulders.
- TrapezoidShoulders a little broader than the hips, narrowing gradually.
- RectangleShoulders, waist and hips running close to the same width, with no sharp narrowing at the waist.
- Inverted TriangleShoulders much broader than the hips, narrowing sharply to the waist.
- OvalVolume gathered around the middle, with the waist the fullest part of the frame.
Color for men
The same 12 seasons, on a man's wardrobe.
A season works the same on a man as on anyone: warm or cool, light or deep, clear or muted. What changes is where it shows, which is why these guides start from the shirt, the suit and the knit.
Men · 10 min
The 12 color seasons, explained for men
All 12 color seasons in menswear terms: core colors, the right white shirt, the right watch metal, and where black and navy work for each.
Men · 11 min
The best shirt colors for your skin tone
Ivory, soft white, or pure white? Which blue is yours? The shirt colors for each of the 12 color seasons, and the three shirts for a man's week.
Men · 12 min
What suit color actually suits you
Navy, charcoal, gray, brown or black? The suit colors each of the 12 color seasons can wear as a jacket, and why black works for only three of them.
Men · 7 min
Color analysis isn't just for women
Color analysis works the same way for men. What changes is where color lands: your white, your black, denim, metal and one power color.
Fit for men
Fit is where a frame shows first.
A shoulder seam that sits where your own shoulder ends, a rise that matches your torso, a jacket length that keeps your legs in proportion. These read your shape and your line before they read a size.
Men · 11 min
Men's proportions and fit: why the same jacket looks different on two men
The five men's body shapes, a mirror test and a tape test to tell yours, and what each one changes, from the jacket to the rise of your trousers.
Body types and Kibbe · 15 min
Kibbe Dramatic Classic: the cuts that work and the ones that fight you
Kibbe's Dramatic Classic, checked against his 1987 text: a sharp or sculpted shoulder, regular volume, and why oversized and skin tight both fail.
Body types and Kibbe · 16 min
Kibbe Flamboyant Natural: the cuts that work and the ones that fight you
Kibbe's Flamboyant Natural, checked against his 1987 text: broad shoulders that are not sharp, no cinched waist, texture and room. What works and why.
Sample analysis
The sample analysis is a man's.
It is the real result of our co-founder Filip, published with his consent: Dark Autumn, a Trapezoid with a medium line, every color and every cut with its verdict and its reason.
FAQ
Questions men ask before they start.
Yes. Undertone, depth and clarity work the same way on any face, so the 12 seasons apply as they are. What changes is where the colors land: a shirt collar, a knit, a suit and a tie rather than makeup, which is how the men's guides are written.
Triangle, trapezoid, rectangle, inverted triangle and oval. Each names where a frame carries its width, and the analysis pairs it with a line, sharp, medium or soft, before it judges a cut.
Yes. It is a library of 125+ men's cuts, from jacket shoulders to trouser rises, each with its own verdict and the reason for it. You choose the library in the questionnaire.
Find out what suits you, and why.
A short questionnaire and five photos. Your key arrives by email, usually within 10 minutes.