Help?!? Classic style or premature senior citizen? - Page 2

As public service message to all SF brethren, if you're over 30 and still rokkin the earring, let it go, let - it - go.

+1000

I'd have to off myself.

FTFY

I also work in advertising and face the same challenge - maybe more so as I'm 50. I've found a couple of ways that work for me - but I'm definitely open to hearing other suggestions and experiences.

One approach I have is to wear classic clothing, but with a twist. For example, color: I have a pair of bottle green trousers, very slim cut. Paired with a sports coat, FC shirt etc, it makes a classic look but the color shows you're using your imagination. Another option is to mix in a single item that's not so classic. You have to be careful with this, but for example I frequently wear FC shirts - sometimes solids or classic patterns, sometimes bolder - with jeans. Or dress pants in say POW check with a dress shirt, but with a jeans jacket. It's not for everyone, but it shows some spirit. Also, in my office, my colleagues only wear suits for important meetings, but I occasionally wear a suit just because "I feel like it"... adds an element of surprise. One other opportunity is the bow tie... I use this a lot, again, to add an unexpected note.

The aim is to show creativity - that you're wearing classic clothing, not because you have no imagination, but because you DO - that it's your way of being creative without resorting to the cliché of graphic T, jeans and Converse. Someone on this board has a signature line "I dress to express, not to impress," and I think that's the key.

I know some of these suggestions are SF heresy, but they work for me personally, they work for my environment, and they work for the business image I need to project.

What he said.


- B

Wear what makes you most comfortable. In two weeks everyone with stop making their snarky little comments even sooner if you are ready with some quips of your own.

I recently had somewhat of a similar epiphany on how I dress outside the office. I realize with two young girls at home, I don't want to look like the dad trying too hard to be cool.

Goodbye stan smith and hello brogues on the weekend.

You know, I don't think this quite gets it. The unsentimental truth--and I'm sorry to be breaking this to so many WAYWRN posters--is that the stylish can make almost anything look good while the unstylish struggle with even the finest raw ingredients. Life is so unfair.

Don't forget the women.

And better parking spots.


- B

This is exactly the type of thing I do. I always liked dressing in unexpected ways. I continue to do so, but with my eye on classic pieces, for lack of another term, with a twist.

You either have style or you don't. There's no in-between.

Color and fit - check. Flannel, to some, is an old-fashioned material. Traditional-looking shoes, such as many wingtips, can look "old." A full suit probably is too much. The problem is easily dealt with in, say, a client.