Getting A New Look

by Brian Underwood

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THE MF OVERHAUL
If it were up to you, you'd never stray from your favorite pair of beat-up jeans and college football T-shirt. But they won't always fly with your girlfriend, or the office dress code. And if you don't have some backup duds, you've got a problem. The solution: Get more options in your closet, without abandoning what feels comfortable.

To help you, we're presenting the second installment in our MF Overhaul series-a sequence of strategies designed to make you as successful in your life outside the gym as you've been inside it. Last February, we transformed one fit couple's basement into the ultimate home gym. This time we've focused on style and grooming. After getting to the bottom of the mountain of readers' letters we received asking for help, we settled on Seth Hill, a 24-year-old student at the University of Washington, Tacoma.

Hill wrote in telling us how he'd recently lost 85 pounds by working out and eating right. He'd been heavy most of his life, hiding behind baggy shirts and jeans, and now that he'd worked out and built the body, he needed some help finding the right clothes to fit it properly. "My weight loss has given me a boost of self-confidence," Hill wrote, "and I think I need a new look to go along with it." After checking out his current wardrobe, we readily agreed, and a few months later, Hill was in our New York office meeting with our style experts.