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"  After serving eight months of a year-long sentence, Lil Wayne is a free man. One of the most popular and provocative men on the planet these days, Wayne spent the balance of 2010 behind bars on a gun charge that may or may not have been something of a stretch. But with his release last week, all that&amp;#039;s behind him.  Or is it?  And in just one weekend, Weezy has already been spotted courtside in New Orleans, onstage with Drake in Las Vegas, and at a blowout party in Miami (pictured above). Trouble is, the terms of Lil Wayne&amp;#039;s probation say he&amp;#039;s got to stay away from convicted criminals and booze for the next thirty-six months \u2014 probably not be an easy task for such an outspoken consumer of mind-altering substances. Hell, for his welcome-home party on Sunday night alone, there was splurging to the tune of forty-eight bottles of P.J. Rose Perrier-Jouet champagne. At $700 a pop.  Which got us thinking: If Lil Wayne needs to clean up his act to stay out of jail, and needs to clean up his appearance to gain favor in court (and, you know, not wear hoodies to his own party), then why not blow the dough on some new threads? If Weezy would just allocate as much money on clothes over the course of his probation as he did this weekend on bubbly, he&amp;#039;d have $933 dollars a month \u2014 or roughly $33,600 total \u2014 to spend on a style upgrade. You can buy a whole lot of respect just right there. And nothing hides a hangover better than a well-cut suit. So, here are The Style Blog&amp;#039;s official wardrobe suggestions for Lil Wayne 2.0: The First $18,000: Start with a couple nice suits. And by a couple we mean as many as he damn well pleases. Wayne favors flashy jewelry but relatively subdued clothes, which should make the jump to tailoring \u2014 where it&amp;#039;s all about the details \u2014 that much easier. Also, Weezy&amp;#039;s a slim guy, which means pretty much any suit shape beside a four-button, single-breasted one will look good on him. And he&amp;#039;s got plenty of flavor, so there&amp;#039;s little doubt he&amp;#039;d like the process of making custom suits with houses like, say, Kiton, Norton &amp;amp;amp; Sons, Luciano Barbera, Tom Ford, or Oxxford. Believe or not, all the tattoos help our case: there are few combos more gangster than peak lapels and face ink. The Next G: Pull up the people. Or at least the pants. Police and politicians hate it when a young man&amp;#039;s pants hang low, so we&amp;#039;ll go ahead and assume judges do, too. Wayne has a penchant for wearing his jeans strapped somewhere around his thighs, which won&amp;#039;t exactly endear him during any probation meetings. We&amp;#039;re not saying he needs to give up jeans, though a few other trouser options would help (corduroy or a heavy cotton twill would do). We&amp;#039;re just asking that he try, like, a belt. $5,000 Well Spent: Give the sneakers a boot. At least some of the time. Trust us: shopping for boots and shoes can be just as much fun as sneaker shopping, especially when you have a significant chunk of change with which to do it. The variations in construction and the materials can be nearly endless, and the nuances between brands and styles can quickly become an obsession, which could help keep Weezy out of that trouble his other &amp;quot;hobbies&amp;quot; might land him in. And he wouldn&amp;#039;t even really need to change brand loyalties, as some of his favorite brands (Gucci, Prada, Ralph Lauren, A Bathing Ape) produce exquisite and exciting hard-soled footwear. Even the most rugged pair of boots, with the most street credibility, will be that much more palatable to an officer of the court than designer sneakers ever could be.  Step Four, for $4,000: Shirts and ties make the man. It might not be the sexiest thing in the world, but for a man like Lil Wayne, shirt-and-tie shopping is friggin&amp;#039; easy. He&amp;#039;d never even need to leave the recording booth if he didn&amp;#039;t want to. Once the first fitting&amp;#039;s done properly (and many tailors or shirt-makers do house calls), it&amp;#039;s just a question of picking the fabrics. And with all those suits he&amp;#039;s already invested in by this point in our progression, the shirts could show off as much personality as damn well pleases. What we&amp;#039;re saying is that Weezy would look sharp as a razor without having to worry about being patted down for one. $4,600: The get-outwear-of-jail-free card. The pun notwithstanding, Mr. Young Money should at least listen to us for this piece of advice: Lose the parka (for now) and get an overcoat, especially if you insist on keeping the jeans low and the sneakers on. No don&amp;#039;t get us wrong, we love parkas, and recommend that any man have one ready for sub-zero temperatures. But it won&amp;#039;t go far to re-cast Wayne as a law-abiding citizen. An overcoat, on the other hand \u2014 a Crombie, a Chesterfield, or a Polo coat, perhaps \u2014 would hide a multitude of sins beneath. And by sins we mean low-slung jeans. What did you think we meant? The Free Flourish: Sunglasses are for the sun. Lil Wayne already has an impressive collection of eyewear, so he doesn&amp;#039;t need to budget any of our proposed money on a new pair. But he should think seriously about keeping the sunglasses on only during the day time, and outdoors. Eyeglasses, even with a slight, Nicholson-esqe tint, will go over much better with that law enforcement crowd he&amp;#039;ll be seeing a lot of indoors.  PLUS: More Celebrity Fashion Advice on The Style Blog &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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