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Your neck, guys. Your neck can be unpleasing to the eye if you don't take good care of it. But if it's accessorised nicely, it has the potential to be the most attractive part of your whole look.

It's definitely one of the most noticeable parts of your body. When you talk to someone you can't always look at that person's eyes, because that would be staring. So, every now and then let your eyes wander - to the hair, to the shirt and, yes, the neck.

There are men out there who are blessed with great-looking necks, in which case they could just loosen a few buttons and everything appears fine. Jude Law's doesn't look half bad when he models the spring and summer 2008 collection for Dunhill. When you look like that, all you need is a shirt. But even Law adds a silk scarf for that final British gentleman touch. Perhaps if you have a really great neck, you should consider Giorgio Armani's latest collection with its shawl collar (right). And if you can carry that off, you're the man. But not all of us look like Law (don't whine, life is unfair), so we need some decoration.

In Hong Kong men don't wear necklaces enough. I don't know why... maybe they think it's too feminine. Maybe they can't be bothered as they feel they already have enough to do in terms of buttoning their shirt.

Whatever the case, silver is my favourite colour for necklaces, but if you have a nice tan you could probably get away with some gold. But no big ghetto gold, which doesn't even look good on people who are actually from the ghetto.

The closest you should get to gold in jewellery is the Louis Vuitton gold fish pendant (above), which would be perfect on a sunny day and when you have the skin tone for it. If you're pale, forget it.

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