How to Build a Wardrobe: Essentials, Style Tips & Statement Pieces

You ever open up your closet and you feel like you got nothing to wear even though your closet is full? In this

video, I'm going to teach you everything you need to know about how to building your wardrobe. From actually building a

wardrobe, from what pieces to buy to how to balance exotic pieces and regular pieces. I'm J. Alexander. Let's get to

it. Now, before we get to anything, the first thing we going to talk about is how to select your right basics. So, the

problem is they either under buy or they over buy and they just got too too much dumb stuff going on in their wardrobe.

Bro, the solution is to stock your wardrobe with essentials. Essentials that you can repeat and combine with

your exotic pieces. Now, let me tell you exactly what you should get. Now, coming from somebody who has styled many people

and I can dress myself. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to tell you exactly what to do and exactly where to

start. You need two white TE's, two black TE's. Each of one needs to be cropped and one needs to be fitted

because being fit is also being in shape. We're going to get into that. All right, that's ball knowledge. If you

know, you know. You need four pair of jeans. And these jeans can be style however you want. You can go flare

denim, you can go skinny denim, you can go baggy. It don't matter what you do. Buet, it don't matter. But you need two

of each. You need two black ones and you need two blue ones. You need a blazer, preferably a black one because nine

times out of 10, black is usually accepted everywhere that you go. You need two sweaters. And you can mix and

match these. We going to get into how to pick the color palette way later in the video. Don't worry, we going to get into

that. I got you, my brother. I got you. Or a sister, cuz I know my girls be watching. I didn't count y'all out.

Okay, I know y'all be watching. I love y'all. Ja sisters, too. I love y'all. But you need two sweaters. And these

sweaters can come from different materials. You can get you a cotton one. If you balling, if you hooping, get you

a Kashmir joint. Now, me personally, I'm not hooping. So, I don't know nothing about that Kashmir lifestyle yet. But go

Kashmir if you want to go cashmere. Preferably brown, blue, black. But like I said, we're going to get into color

palettes later. All right. You need two dress shirts, one black and one white one, especially a white one. You're

going to need two pair of sweatpants. That's for the color palette thing later in this video. Sweats are very, very

important though. Very important. Preferably baggy sweats [music] because I don't know about y'all. I me

personally, I'm not a skinny ribbed bottom type of sweat guy. I don't think that they offer that much versatility

compared to how much baggy sweats can. Cuz if you want that skinny look, you could easily just tuck it in your sock.

[music] If you're a hooper, you know that baggy sweats look way better on the court as well. They do not offer as much

accessibility. But bro, we not trying to be Jason Bor gang. We trying to be fly. All of us, we came here to be fly

suitable and bag that girl or bag that guy. But whatever it is, you know what I'm saying? That's what we came for. We

ain't come to go drop 30. All right. So get them baggy sweats. Okay. Don't ask me about no brands. We going to get into

that. Get you a white and a black tank [music] top. Okay, white and black. Specifically them two colors. Then we

going to get into the jackets, more casual, of course. We going to get into statement pieces in this video as well

and how to balance the exotics with the regulars. All right, you're going to get you a trench coat, a leather jacket, and

a puffer. We not talking about dropping 15,000 on the wardrobe right now. All right, we talking about the basics, what

you need. And anybody who got real deal style will tell you this is what you need. Okay, the key here is to mix and

match your statement pieces with your basics. Ja, you didn't even talk about statement pieces. We gonna [music] get

into that, but balance is everything. Balance provides a good foundation for your outfits. And the basics are really

what provide a foundation. And the exotic pieces are the ones that add personality and versatility to your

clothes. But what about Balenciaga and Rick Owen? And we look, bro, we not worried about that right now. We going

to get into that. That's my last time saying that. We going to get into it. I promise you. I got you. I love you. I

know what you looking for. I got you, my brother. I've been there. Okay, look at my old fits. Okay, I've been there.

Okay, but I want to prove to y'all. Y'all got to think people people main excuse that they use to not dress and

not do this is I don't have [music] enough money. But the whole time you don't even need that much money to

dress. It's about what's in here and it's about the videos and the things that you consume and the inspiration

that you take to dress, [music] not how much money you got. Bro, do you know how many people on the internet have way

more money than me? I'M POOR. I DON'T KNOW WHY Y'ALL BE THINKING I'M RICH. I'M NOT RICH, BRO. I don't know

why y'all be thinking I'm rich. I don't got it like that. And I'm still one of the most best dressed. So, y'all got to

stop with this. Oh, I need money. I need No, you don't. You don't. That's an excuse. And by the way, if you really

need if you want to know where I get any of my clothes from, a specific piece, if you need help with mental, fashion,

getting bullied, anything of them sorts, DM me on Instagram. Here's my Instagram on screen. I reply to literally all my

DMs. If I have not replied to you, I will be replying to you. Don't like Jay didn't reply to me. I got you. I love

you. Welcome to the JA fam. I reply to all of y'all. And I mean all of y'all. Don't be scared. Don't be Man, don't

don't don't text my DMs talking about some Yo, bro. I I'm sorry I'm What you sorry for? I'M TRYING TO HELP Y'ALL.

Y'all think cuz I got these thousands of views on YouTube that I don't want to help y'all no more. I'm going celebrity.

Bro, I I built my foundation on y'all. So, put the DM in my inbox. Follow my following me and I'm going to get back

to you. I got you. I got you. And if you really want to take it a step further, Discord in the description. Join the

Discord. We got a thousand up. We got a thousand JA family members up in there and we'll help you get your friends.

We'll help you anything and it's for free. I'm not charging you nothing. It's for free. Next thing we're going to be

talking about is where to shop from. Now, the problem is most people don't know how to buy clothes that actually

fit and last. The solution is to shop smart. Splitting your payments from affordable, basic to premium, okay? Or

that mid-range area. That's like the sweet spot. I'm gonna give y'all everything that I wear and then I'mma

tell y'all my actual secret at the end of this section on what I do to get most of my clothes. Good Fellow and Hannes

are perfect for TE's. Good Fellow is where you're going to get them fitted TE's. Hes is where you're going to get

those affordable crop TE's. These TE's will not last you forever, but they will do the job and they will hold up for

probably about a year, 6 months to a year. For hoodies and sweaters, you can shop at H&M and Unilo. I'm specifically

I'm going to bring Uniqlo up again in this video, but I just want to say that Uniqlo and specifically regarding to the

hoodies and the sweaters, they are mad affordable and for what the quality that you get. I ain't going to lie, this is

one of the ones that's like one of the godfather. It's just golded, bro. It don't matter where it sat is golded. I

can assure you even if I was rich and I was spending 10,000 on clothes, I would still go to Union Club for my TE's and

my sweaters. I'm That's just me, though. For affordability, if you really want some good denim, I know this is like an

obvious one, but I feel like for some reason we all overlook it. Levis's. Levis's. They offer so many different

versatility from boot cuts, which is like literally everybody's eating that up on the internet right now. From baggy

to skinny. [music] And if you know how to sew, you really could cook it up. That's another thing for another video.

I know y'all want that video. I'm going to get y'all that video. That's another thing, another lane, another topic. But

for mid-range, like I said, Quinc is really good. Zara is really good. Zara used to be cheap, but I don't know what

happened. Ever since they went mainstream and blew up, bro, the prices have shot up. So that we going to go

ahead and say mid-range. But the quality is decent. It's not the best. It's not going to last, you know, two, three

years like a Ralph Lauren sweater will, but it will get you through what you need to do. And let's be honest, bro,

two, three years from now, you gonna be able to afford that Ralph Lauren. You going to be able to afford that Burberry

Berry. So, don't worry about it. Do what you got to do right now. So, you can slide on through. Keep it going, man. I

hate these the people on the internet, bro. Don't be shopping from this place, bro. Cuz this place we didn't come up

with headspun parents like you. If you did, that's cool. No offense to you. Do what you do. You blessed. I still f you.

You still part of the family. But not all of us came from that. We all can't afford, bro, to go Ralph Lauren every

single year. Some of us got single parents. Some of us, you know, hey, do what you got to do. Do what you got to

do. Ain't no judgment here. That's why it's Ja Fanfo L. Discord in the description. Big community. They help

you get right. Banana Republic, Uniqlo, cuz Uniqlo is definitely in the mid-range. They do get a little up

there, but it is worth it. All Saints Hours are really good brands that aren't like super duper mainstream. They're

more of like they came up in the internet culture, the Instagram culture, but they're tough. And I shot I get my

bases from ours. Black Taylor, a lot of my jackets are from there. A lot of y'all ask me where my jackets are from.

Black Taylor, that's another brand that fits into what I just said. Aloe and then Carheart. Now for the premium range

for them who really balling, who really got it like that. Northace, Fear of God. I don't want to hear nothing about Fear

of God. Oh, Fear of God. Listen, if you know fashion, you know about Fear of God. Polo, Ralph Lauren, Todd Snder,

Laurel Piana, St. Laurent, obviously Margella, Acne Studios, Tom Ford, and Jay Alexander, which I don't know if

y'all know about Jay Alexander, but it hasn't came out yet, but it's going to be tough when it come out, and the

quality [music] going to be up there for affordable prices when you're shopping in the in the in the in the in the in

the when you're shopping in the affordable range, you're going to be coming off about $100 to $500. Being

realistic, if you're trying to build a full wardrobe, okay, from the mid-range, a,000 and from the premium, I don't

know. All right, bro. You You might be spending anywhere from from from uh 3K to 10K to get up there, bro. I said

Margello, bro. So, and notice how I didn't say Balenciaga and all this other stuff. Come here. Come here. Balenciaga

is a statement brand. [music] Louis Vuitton is a statement brand. YSL and all these other things, I [music] did

include them because they do have basics, okay? They do have the essentials that you need, but these are

statement things. J8, what is a statement piece? No problem. A statement piece is a fashion item that stands out

because it's the main focus of your outfit. It's usually bold, eye-catching, is crazy memorable, and for the most

part, there's a high chance that it's the most expensive thing on your clothes. Hence, Balenciaga. Like, bro,

let me show you an example. This these are literally by definition a statement piece. Cuz I wore basic fish to the

airport. You know how people be wearing Uggs? But instead, I threw these in there. You know, cuz I have a beauty

thing where like wherever I go, you got to know I'm in the swag. [music] You got to know I'm in the fashion. So, I wear

these to the airport. These are literally the definition of a statement piece. They're extremely loud, extremely

memorable. Bro, you don't understand how many compliments and looks I [music] get from just wearing these. The fit could

legit be basic. And these will make the fit not basic. Statement [music] piece. But these go for about like $750 upwards

to $1,000. These did come out like three years a two years ago. So the price on these, they kind of range. But statement

piece up there. Statement piece. Those used to be a statement piece as well before everybody started to act like CDG

wasn't the goat and that is overplayed and da da da. Those used to be a statement places. They used to go for

like 175 200 some back in the day. So at this point, picture this. You just spend about $500 to $1,000 on clothes.

Honestly, you're going to upwardsly spend that much money anyway in a year without even realizing it. Like you

could tell yourself, "I'm not spending $1,000 on clothes. Are you crazy? But I can assure you this, my brother. Go

through the whole year. All right. You going to keep buying clothes and boom, $1,000. Okay. So, at this point, you

know what I'm saying? You done got some clothes. You got some wardrobe. You getting a little bit of the hus. You

ain't going too crazy. But the h they starting to recognize you a little. Okay. He got a little bit of swag,

right? Let me tell you the secrets. Come here. Come here. Come here. I'm one of the best dressed on here.

Let me tell you what I do. Most clothes, anything you could think of that's goated. These clothes 99% of the time

are made through China. No, I'm not about to talk about reps, but instead what I'm about to talk about is Alibaba.

Okay? Now, if you go on Alibaba, bro, you can legit get the clothes directly sourced from the people who make these

other brands. Your favorite Instagram brand, they probably use Alibaba. Your favorite uh clothing brand, da da, they

probably don't use Alibaba cuz Alibaba is just it's like agents that talk to other people, right? But they probably

manufacture, they get their clothes made in China. So, you could go on there and indirectly shop on China and get it.

Like you can get a leather jacket from China. Now don't get me wrong. Yes, you're not going to have the history

artifact. There's no feelings behind the clothes. Like this leather jacket was made back in 1990, bro. And back in

1990, it was a communist who wore this jacket and he then went on to save America. Listen, bro. It's just a

regular real leather jacket you can get straight from China. Okay? If you don't care about that, which I know you don't

care about that bro, then go to Ali. Get on Alibaba, bro, and get you some

drip then. And you knew this was coming. Thrifting. Thrifting. Thrifting. Thrifting is the method. Every f bro,

there's this influencer on here, bro. Name is Yes, I love Mari. He made a full series, blew up on YouTube um about

thrifting. Literally about thrifting. Bro, thrifting is the meta. Thrifting is the wave, bro. Thrifting your the best

the best people you know that are dressed that probably aren't celebrities because the best dressed celebrities are

usually styled, okay? the best dress people, you know, like real day-to-day life people, they probably thrift. So,

get used to thrifting. And I'm not talking about the the upward scale thrift stores that some people own and

it's like, oh, they're just taking clothes and then they're upselling it orop. I'm not talking about that. Depop

is a great place to shop as well. I'm not talking about that though. I'm specifically talking about going to

places like Family Thrift, the outlet centers that have everything for a dollar or going to places like the

Goodwill bins. Not actually Goodwill, but the Goodwill [music] bins. going to these places, going to um Salvation

Army, going to places where you actually get real deals, real thrifted clothes. Go there. And lastly is going to be Dep

Depot because now it be a lot of scammers on Depot. Matter of fact, look, if if it's not like some legit like

random like Levi jeans or all this other stuff, don't buy don't buy from anybody that don't got a 4.5 rating or higher

[music] and that don't got reviews and don't got a bunch of items. So, anything designer, bro, never in your life ever

buy designer on depot. That is like you're getting, bro. I can guarant Bro, give me your money to me. Just give it

to me. I'm going I'm going to do I'm GOING TO DO BETTER WITH IT. I'm just saying. You got some clothes, you got

some drip, but you realize there something missing at your wardrobe. I got the clothes, J8, but now I ain't got

no shoes. That's going to be the next thing we talk about. Shoes. Now, the problem is thinking that you need about

15 different pair of shoes when you really only need about six, seven different shoes. Now, I'm going to

perfectly tell you every type of shoe that you need in [music] your wardrobe. Let's do it. You going to need three

pair of casual sneakers. These this can range from your Pumas to your Adidas sambas to your Chuck Taylor to your

Margellas to your AS6 or your New Balances, your Jordan fours, your Bapstas, whatever. You're going to need

a heavy boot. For example, heavy boots. Any form of Doc Martin platform like a combat boot or maybe even like a like a

work boot [music] like a Timberland. What about Balenciaga? No. No, you don't got to go that crazy. You're going to

need a pair of slides. You're going to need a pair of loafers. You're going to need a pair of dress shoes. I'm not.

Dress shoes and loafers are two different things. By the way, if you want real sauce, I say get you a pair

[music] of pointy Chelsea boots. Them them so hard. I ain't going to lie. Them so tough. Get you a pair of cowboy

boots. This is like I said, this is me. Get you a pair of combat boots. This is me. Like I said, you don't got to do

this, but if you want real swag, [music] I'm just saying this what I would do. And then you can get you some

statements. We going to talk about statements later on in this video, though. Very short and simple. Like I

said, that was a very short and simple [music] session, but it had to Hey, we got to get it in there, right? I'm not

trying to make you watch a thousand videos. I'm trying to get you right right here, right now. Number four is

going to be accessorizing. Now, before I tell you about accessorizing, let me just tell you something, okay? I have

literally went and dropped a 23minute [music] video specifically on how to

accessorize. I'm going to put it right here. If you really want to know the in-depth and details on how to

accessorize to [music] a tea, watch that video. And I'm not even saying that to just like get more views. I'm legit

telling you like, bro, that video I really broke it down and accessorize. So, check that out. And if you coming

from this video, leave a comment. I will reply to you. By the way, if y'all haven't noticed, I reply to legit all

the comments that I get. Literally, there's no comments on my videos that I don't reply to unless the video is like

3 months old. So, don't hesitate to ask me questions down there as well. Now, accessories is like the cherry on top,

the icing on the cake, something that you need to finish off. It's like when your coach tell you to finish strong.

That's exactly what accessorizing is. Cuz accessories is actually the part that most people skip. They get the

clothes in and they skip over this part thinking that the clothes is going to be enough to make them fly. You're going to

need your basics like watches, rings, and the minimal jewelry, glasses, pair of shades, scarfves, gloves. Bro,

scarfves are really tough. And if you know how to really use a scarf to elevate your fit, bro, I'm telling you,

scarfves add a whole different look onto your fashion. I'm talking about you can wear your scarf around your neck. You

can put it in your pocket and have it hang. You can wear it like this and have one side hanging lower than the other. I

do that. That's my swag. Scarfves are extremely versatile. Gloves, headphones, AirPod Max. Do y'all remember in 2020

like 22 23 when everybody was like genuinely obsessed bro with AirPod Maxes and now they kind of just like they

exist now it's kind of like regular now. Y'all remember that bro? Maybe it's cuz everybody got more money now. So it

doesn't seem like it's these $500 pair of headphones that everybody's talking about. Maybe that's what it is. I don't

know. But headphones, bags, and when I say bags, I mean anything ranging from a suitcase. Y'all miss that suitcase I did

back there. A suitcase, a bag, like a cross body bag, maybe even a purse. Purses ain't gay, by the way. Let's stop

right there and talk about this. Anybody who is telling you, "Oh, what you're doing is gay. Getting into fashion is

gay." Da da da. In 2025, my brother, you really judging another man for what he wear. Who really

gay for real? How clothes make you gay? That don't even make sense. I mean, maybe if you overdoing it, if you going

like super flamboyant and no, no, no judgment to y'all. Y'all, y'all boys, y'all girls do what y'all do. But don't

let these these these people out here try to define you by your clothes. All right, bro. You gay cuz you Nobody

trying to hear none of that, bro. And if you deal with that, DM me on Instagram. I got you. But bags, especially bags,

add a lot of character and versatility to your fits. And it can be bags like the cross body ones, the ones that hang

like you were on the runway. It could be a suitcase. It could be a carry-on luggage, a purse. It could be it could

be like the satchel bags, fanny packs. It's just up to you. It really it's on your style. It really depends what you

want to do. I know that. And and by the way, I want you to understand no matter what your wardrobe is, it all comes down

to style, which I will talk about later in this video as well. And lastly, earrings. Now, obviously, there's a lot

more accessories. I didn't talk about like hats, chains, and all that because that's like common knowledge, right? But

I want you to understand that it's not about how many accessories that you wear because there's minimalist accessorizing

and there's maximum accessorizing, which is two different things, by the way, right?

Come on, bro. Hey, I'm trying to help everybody. This falling, bro. I got interrupted, bro. Two interruptions in

one video was crazy. But earrings now, like I was saying, there's maximalist and there's minimalist. Minimalist being

sub tool. That's like the old money guys or the very subtle classy guys. I ain't going to lie. Look, minimalistic styling

is definitely way more catered towards getting women. Women love minimalist styling. Unless, of course, it's a woman

who's into fashion, which in 2025, not everybody's into fashion. Like, [music] the community is still mad niche. So, it

could really be the subtle things. And I recommend you be sub, especially if you're just getting into fashion [music]

or you're in the mid-range. be sub because sub accessorizing is usually way more successful when you're building an

outfit. [music] Especially if the clothes you're wearing are actually really good because like I

said, accessorizing is not the thing that makes your outfits. It is the small detail on top of everything that just

add it's like fine wine like a nice sip of Chardonnay. Like it's really really tough. It's really really tough. It's

the cake. It's the icing on the damn cake literally cuz your outfit should be treated like a masterpiece. And a

masterpiece is when everything is right. Meaning every detail got to be right. Shoes, accessories, clothes, all of that

is got to be right. We losers, okay? This fashion stuff not no joke. This is life.

We used to be chopped back in the day. Then we got clothes and now we fly and we getting women. You know what I'm

saying? These clothes, it's everything. I'm done. I'm done. Next topic, BRO. AT LAST, statement pieces. Now, the main

issue everybody focuses is they either avoid statement pieces, thinking that they don't need exotic things about

their outfits, or they overdo it. They go full Louis Vuitton top to bottom or they go full designer, bro. I went proud

on the socks. I went lincy on the pants. [music] Louisie on the You don't need all that, my brother. And half the time

the people who got the most bread don't know how to dress. That's why these people got stylist. That's why I'm a

stylist. I'm a stylist. Yo, boy. Craig 20 years old. That's why. You should be using

exotic/statement pieces to add [music] character, liveless, and the beauty in your outfits. Okay? If you don't

understand what I'm saying, think of [music] it as this. I'm gonna put an outfit on screen. This is one of my

favorite outfits. I've rewor tons and tons of times. But what makes this outfit good, right? Obviously, there's

no shirt under the blazer, but what really [music] makes this outfit good is the chain. It is the double cross

pendant in the middle of this outfit that adds that chic and that character [music] look. I can assure you, if I did

not have this cross, this outfit would not be as good. Like [music] I said, statement pieces, they add character.

And yes, a statement piece don't got to just be clothes. It don't got to be this giant suitcase in the back. It could

just be the Santa Claus hat. This ass character, right? I'm in I'm in I'm in JA Christmas mode. Layer them smart and

mix them properly [music] to create the perfect masterpiece for your clothes. Think about my wardrobe. Yes, I got St.

Lauron. Yes, I got Valencia and all these different things, right? But I want you to understand, for the most

part, all my fits are dumb. Like [music] from a surface level, it's basic. Look at the fit on screen. Black jacket,

black pants, [music] black shoes. Let's get closer. Chromeart Tims, right? Double cross pendant, [music] right?

Staint Laurent glasses. You probably know that though, but Staint Laurent glasses, [music] right? These things,

they add character, they add style, they add the pop, they make the fits not exot, not basic. If you all black type

of guy, but guess [music] what? You just seen a scarf and this scarf is blue, red, and yellow. Hey, you were all

black, but you could just boom, throw it in there, pop. Add some style. Add some swag. Add some new some new stuff to

your wardrobe. Number six is going to be style. what we just talked about. That's why I love doing my videos like this

because everything makes sense. These creators, they give you random, bro. Do this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Why would I tell you where to get the clothes from and where to do all this other stuff, you're just going to keep

coming back to me, my brother. I want you to know yourself. I want you to be swag yourself. I'm not going to teach

you a skill. I'm not going to just hold withhold some information so you keep coming back to me. No, that's why my

videos be mad different. Style. Let's get to it. You see how I just locked in right there? Now, the problem is most

people don't know how to actually build style. They just get on Pinterest, they see what everybody else wearing, and

then they just copy that. When that's not the case. Style is the fine-tuning things. It's the knowledge on things.

It's the characteristics of your fits to actually make your fit better. You can't buy swag. You can't buy style. You just

got to know. And I'm about to educate you. And I'm going to give y'all multiple different ways you can add swag

to your clothes. The first one being proportioning and layering. Put this fit back on screen, Ja. Now, this fit right

here is perfect. But let me tell you why this fit is perfect. It's not perfect because the pieces, although if you if

you pee what I saw earlier in this video, the pieces what I said, get you a black blazer, get you a pair of heavy

shoes, get you a pair of pants, right? But let's take a look at the actual fit. Okay, this fit has a open blazer, right?

That's swag. There's a heavy chain instead. That's swag. Look at the pants. The pants have a flare. So, this creates

an hourglass silhouette. That's swag. Then the heavy chrome heart tims. That is swag. But it's all basic, right? It's

all basic. It's just black shoes, black pants, and a black blazer. That's it, right? But we all can see that that's

not it. I'm not trying to hype my head up. I'm trying to use me as an example because I've had a lot of people in my

community literally say that they got inspired by this fit, right? And I'm telling y'all, what make this fit good

is the swag of it. It is not the pieces of it, my brother. It is the swag. The next thing is going to be, like I talked

about earlier in this video, your color palette. But if I'm you, and especially if I'm getting into fashion, I would say

stick to neutrals. There is no reason you should have a all yellow, orange, and red wardrobe. We have issues. Now,

I'm not going to tell you what colors to stick to in the neutral range, but if I was you, I would recommend blue and

black and white. It's the perfect things that create the base of your outfits and then you add the things that pop. You

add the swag that pop, right? I was blue and black last year. The year before that, I was just blue. I was a denim

type guy and now I'm a all black type guy. I don't know what I'm going to do uh for next year. It might be a all

black year again next year cuz I really love this year, man. I'm so happy I got y'all. I love y'all, man, with my whole

heart. Ja fam for Lel. By the way, if you don't know what's going on, it's Ja Christmas. You should have You should

have went and go watch that first video. I'm literally doing a giveaway. All you got to do is drop a comment on this

video, go on Instagram, send me a screenshot of a comment, follow me, and just say I came from this video. And

just like that, you end. But colors is a nice way to add swag to your things. Proportions is a nice way to add swag to

your thing. But most importantly, swag itself. Okay? Having the mindset to be able to look at something, take the

inspiration, and then add it to your own pace. This this whole look right here is inspired by Brad Pit Fight Club

specifically. Okay? And I've had this jacket, bro, for years. That thing in my brain has transferred from then all the

way to now to then influence me now to wear my clothes like this. Style ain't just about clothes. It's about how you

carry yourself straight like that. Number seven is going to be versatility testing. Now, the problem is most people

buy clothes and they don't even think about what they got at the crib. you buying you on Instagram getting

Instagram clothes and getting Instagram merch talking man I'm I'm going to go shop here I'm gonna go shop here you

don't even know if the clothes going to work with your wardrobe at the crib you don't even know the solution is before

buying imagine [music] three different outfits at the crib can you make three different outfits with these pieces and

unless you plan to build a wardrobe that's [music] specifically all statement pieces which I highly do not

recommend unless you're rich right but even the rich that actually got styled don't do that can I pair it with [music]

basics which for the most part if you follow the basic list I said earlier in the You can. If you can't layer with

hoodies, don't buy it. If you can't layer with with shorts and pants, don't buy it. If you can't mix it with staving

pieces, don't buy it. You need strategic buying. All right. The problem is most people they end up they shop randomly,

bro. They just see what everybody else buying and they like, "Okay, cool. I'mma buy it, bro, cuz everybody else buying

it." Sure, you want to be versatile and I get it. And you can prioritize that as well. But make sure you got the basics

and a nice foundation to create a structured versatility foundation because it's not always going to be hot

outside. So why is your whole wardrobe only shorts and shirts? Map your closet out. Be serious. Be intentional about

it, bro. I get it. It might not be that serious, but when it's time to go outside, when it's time to go on them

dates, when it's time to go with your guys, your girls, when it's time to step out, when it's time to do something, you

going to think about your fit and you going to be like, "Dang, I should have just bought this. I should have." It's

always better to invest in yourself, to be honest. If you really think about it, cuz if you don't spend, y'all ever just

be wanting to spend money on yourself, but then you be like, "Man, I'm not I'm not trying to spend money. I'm just

trying to invest in myself." And then you end up spending the money on something dumb and temporary. Anyway,

y'all get what I'm trying to say, though. Now, the last thing we're gonna be talking about for my JA fam who isn't

new here, if you watch all the way to the video, you are now a part of the JA ecosystem. JA stands for J Alexander.

That's my name, by the way. You're now a part of the ecosystem. And we're going to talk about the mental part of

building a wardrobe. These things are a part of you. And I'm not saying they define you, but they definitely define a

small portion of your life. When you're getting into these things, understand that you probably will fail. [music] You

probably will buy certain pieces from certain brands that I probably didn't say or did say. They might not fit. They

might fit you. They might [music] not. But that's what comes with the game. It took me 3 years, all right, 3 years to

get to this point of being a veteran at this at [music] this, bro. I'm not going to lie, right? And in times, it can mess

with your mental. You thinking, bro, I need to buy these clothes so I can get this girl. I can impress [music] this

guy. I can impress these people that you probably don't even care about. Do it for yourself. Go into this, go into

building your wardrobe with confidence and creativity, bro. Of course, I'm here to help you and I'm here to guide you.

That's my sole purpose on this planet is to help y'all get into fashion, help you build your mentals, but use me and use

my videos as a [music] blueprint, okay? a blueprint to go and elevate and go out there and go crazy. Stops in your head.

Remember that. J A J. What's up with y'all? Man, get this off me, bro. Ja fam, what's good with y'all?

First of all, [music] if you not part of the JA fam, if you're not part of the ecosystem, now is your time to leave. I

helped you out and I love you. I wish blessings upon your life. Merry Christmas if you don't see me again. My

JA fam that's here though. First of all, I'mma [music] comment. Look, look. First of all, if you want to participate in

the giveaway, okay, I'm giving away a full pair of denim. It is 100% cotton, same quality as Lindy LB, all of that.

All right? It's going to be about $120 when it actually drop. I'm giving it to you for free. All you got to do, go on

there, DM me, send me a screenshot, and you're entered in the giveaway. Join the Discord, bro. Get in there and get

active, bro. We got a thousand people in there. It's a lot of people. They all sitting there waiting for y'all to join.

Y'all need help with style, you need help with anything, it's for free. This a no judgment zone. This is a come into

the community, bro, and show some love. Get some love back. Join the community. It's free and you stay up to date when

I'm posting videos, when I got giveaways, when I'm doing things. We have meetings on the first of every

single month. I just want to let y'all know I love y'all, man. I'm very happy to do this series. More videos coming.

Comment a video that you want cuz I'm selecting videos from the comment section to make. All right. So, comment

a video so I can help you out. As usual, stay authentic. DM me Instagram if you need anything. I love you. [music] Next

video coming next week. Peace.