No more pocket squares/french cuffs - Esquire - Page 2

Advice is old gloom.

The BBB was prepared about half a year ago, at the time of the F/W runway shows. At the time, all was gray, sober, dour.

This is what the internet has over dead tree media. With the magic of SF & Co, we can dress for now rather than yesterseason.

If you drew a Venn diagram of their audience and the SF bretheren, I doubt you'd have much overlap. If Esquire's Black Book, take a look at the Sunday New York Time's most recent Men's Style color supplement - equally egregious.

What does Dan T say? FTFY

+1

During down times people tend to dress better, it is during the boom times that slobwear is tolerated more.

There is a reason I visit SF, FNB and London Lounge and do not read Esquire or GQ (who this fall proclaimed it is acceptable to wear a ski jacket overtop your shirt&tie when going to the office)

Yes, there is a reason for me too: this is free

Neckties don't serve much purpose these days, either.

Since when is Esquire the leader for true timeless elegance. Don't they have to make you buy different things every now and then.
Almost all my dress/business shirts and many of my casual shirts have french-cuffs and the crisis does not allow me to renew my wardrobe for the time being. And i wouldn't even like to change it, i'm wearing those cuffs for more than half of my life and feel good with them.

The soft Belvest jacket in that issue is GORGEOUS.

The rest of the issue, meh.

The Spring one was better. I could also do without the car features. Leave that shit for the regular magazine.

My white linen pocket square has been useful on far more occasions than my ties.

I'm with Douglas.

While I really like the look of pocket squres and french cuffs, part of me appreciates the appeal of the simplest male clothing - shirt, tie, suit, and nothing else.
Accessories make it much easier to look good. it is harder to pull together a perfect look without such aides.

Aren't madder ties harmful to the environment?

Their marketing strategy appears to be that if someone is simple enough to buy their mag in the first place, they'll believe anything it contains

Esquire ought at least to acknowledge that it is contradicting its better self, the 1934 Apparel Arts/Esky version of itself:

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Captioned "[T]he way to dress if you are so sure of yourself, under the New Deal, that you are unafraid of offering a striking similarity to the Socialist cartoonist's conception of a Capitalist. Since a good appearance is about all that's left to the Capitalist, now, anyway, why not go ahead and enjoy it?" The gent is definitely sporting a handkerchief in his breast pocket and, though no links are apparent, his cuffs appear to be French. (Courtesy of Etutee and the London Lounge, http://www.thelondonlounge.net/forum...hp?f=32&t=6862)

+1.

All these pronouncements, and push to have different trends/looks, are simply driven by advertising dollars.