It has been said that first impressions can never happen twice. This is true in all respects, and most people deal with this problem through varying degrees of impression management. However, after a first impression has occurred, managing that relationship based on further impressions is vital for long-term symbiotic relationships to continue between the two or more people involved. In a professional context, impression management is essential for establishing a status quo among colleagues in their respective environments. The most obvious form of this is through the use of symbols, in this case clothing, to establish and reinforce how colleagues think and behave towards each other within and outside of a professional context. In particular, men are known to dominate professional environments, therefore they are known for their clothing choices. Mark Twain once quipped, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” This draws a parallel to the common saying, “dress for the job you want, not the one you have.” Through the following literature, this essay asks the research question: How do professional men manage their identities through clothing choices? This essay will discuss what professional identity is and how people manage the presented self in organizations. So apply what is said about identity and impression management and apply it to the constraints men have within a professional context, and ask how clothing creates opportunities for identity management. Identification is known as an active process through which individuals connect to elements in the social scene. . Our identities are vitally important because they help people make sense of their individual experience, organizing the... medium of paper ......the connection between biological and cultural processes are complex and it should be considered that some environments produce or enable the roles that are played in an individual's given system. Simply put, gender takes a variety of factors into consideration, while sex is predetermined. In a narrower perspective, the differences between men and women as members of their society perceive the differences imposed on their identification. Differences such as the division of labor into female and male labor and a different contrast between female and male attitudes play a prominent role in each social system (West, C., Zimmerman, D., 1987, pg.128). Drawing these conclusions on the topic of professionals tells us that these roles acquired by men are the result of attitudes that both sexes have accepted as true and establishes a dynamic over the course of the workplace.