Gentleman Within

👔 Mastering Smart Casual Style

Not to be confused with Business Casual – Smart Casual can encompass anything more polished than a tracksuit to just before a formal suit and tie.

It combines elements of well-fitted business wear with more casual options like chinos and dress pants, tees and polos, dark denim, practical footwear, blazers and more. Although you should be comfortable in casual style clothes, the trick is to avoid a look that is too casual and loose-fitting.

With smart casual, men will pair finer quality apparel with great fabrics that are on trend and in style for the occasion. In essence, the smart casual approach is just a notch under a business casual or business professional look.

In these examples, a sharkskin suit qualifies as biz professional or biz casual, while tweed and linen falls under smart casual. In the case of the jeans, the dark wash and mid-wash are more in-line with smart casual while light wash is simply casual.

Here's some smart casual styling inspiration: