Plus, is it still OK to wear a blazer with jeans? And are pleats here to stay?.

No one wants to look out of touch or out of place. Whether slaloming down a mountain on a skiing holiday or weaving in and out of people in the street while going about our daily business, we all want to dress the part. If this week’s questions have a common thread, it is the need to stay on top of what is au courant and de rigueur. We address après-ski style, if the pleat trend is here to stay (oui!) and whether it is still OK to wear blazers and jeans (non!).

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**I'm going skiing for the first time in about 10 years next month. There's loads of advice on what to wear on the slopes, but precious little for the après-ski. Please help! **

**Mr Ollie Felts, via email **

Personally, I would channel those vintage ski resort posters for style inspiration. Think cable-knit or ribbed sweaters and bobble hats. You could go classic (like this beauty from Tom Ford or quite bold and graphic on the knitwear. My pick of our current assortment would include these examples from Thom Browne (on sale!), Calvin Klein, Givenchy (also on sale) and of course Moncler. As a brand, Moncler – and particularly its more technically minded diffusion line Moncler Grenoble – is essentially designed with après-ski in mind. Consider these chunky pebble grain Moncler boots, for example, which should help you keep a sure footing when you’re bar hopping around a slippery ski village.

You’ll want to be wearing aesthetically acceptable base layers in case you get so hot in the après-ski bars that you need to disrobe. Zip-through merino layers such as this from Fulsap are a smart idea.

But then you’ll also need a good down jacket (I like this Canada Goose one) or better still an Arctic parka (hello again, Moncler) for when you step out into the cold. Not that you’ll feel it if you’ve liberally warmed your throat with enough/too much gluhwein.

What kind of jacket/blazer can you wear with jeans these days?

@dr_amirjoon via Instagram

For years, a jacket and jeans was my default look. Not anymore. I’m not necessarily calling time on this tried and tested combo – it can still look cool if it’s the right jacket and the right jeans (see below) – but to me, it can feel quite dated now. And lazy. Look around and you see a lot of guys getting it wrong, wearing bad “dad jeans” with an ill-fitting suit jacket. And it’s been the same for the last 10 years. I think we can do better.

Try switching out the jeans for a slightly upgraded equivalent, such as cords or chinos. Or go for tailored separates and wear flannel trousers.

I rarely wear jeans these days, but when I do it is a more casual weekend look – I wear them with chunky brown leather boots and perhaps an overshirt or a jersey sweatshirt.

If you are going to do jacket and jeans, make sure the jacket is a proper blazer rather than a suit jacket. There’s something about the cut and cloth of a suit jacket that jars with the rugged informality of denim. But a good blazer – perhaps a navy double-breasted number – will still work well with worn with slim-fit indigo raw selvedge denim.

Pleats are back. But is it a big, long-term trend or fad?

@antoniodelgad68 via Instagram

Pleats are indeed back and, judging by the latest menswear shows in London last week, very much here to stay for the foreseeable. Pleated trousers are one of our key trends right now. After years of skinny, flat-fronted trousers, things have loosened up and got much slouchier and more comfortable. (The exception is jeans, which are still best worn slim fit, for now.) Pleats are part of that wider leg trouser trend, but these aren’t your middle manager’s pleats. Time has moved and so has the shape. They tend to be tapered for a more modern silhouette.

As a rule of thumb, if you’re going to go for wider, pleated trousers, pair them something more fitted on your top half – a knitted polo for example – so you’re not wearing all baggy clothes.

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