Recent non-Sartorialist Looks

artoftime · Apr 15, 2010

Horrendous. Esp the U shaped loafers with the suit.

SoHoJoejoe · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by whnay.

Getting fitted for a suit just off the trading floor by some Pakastani is a rite of passage.
Not too long ago I was ridiculed for spending an unheard $600 for a RLBL suit by my stock broker roommate. See, I was a sucker because he gets his "custom made" by the asian lady that comes by the Merrill offices. It was only $300 and he gets his name on the inside breast pocket! I had a hard time holding back the smirk when I found out only a few months later that it was starting to fall apart. Or when I saw the "custom fit" the first time he wore it that looked beyond any reasonable repair by SF standards. But I'm the sucker. He still mentions from time to time that I should really give the custom suit thing a try.

comrade · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by whnay.

You are not alone.

Stock brokers / traders have a rare ability to universally combine poor taste and third world tailoring. These photos are only the tip of the iceberg. Getting fitted for a suit just off the trading floor by some Pakastani is a rite of passage.

It's Good Fellas meets Joey Buttafuoco meets International Male.

Well put.
You're such a snob. I approve.
Except in your part of the country the same demographic
has an incomplete complement of teeth!

RJE · Apr 16, 2010

While fearful of redirecting SF's ridicule of Outsiders onto myself, I don't think any of those outfits was terrible. In fact, the lighter blue combinations could easily have been worn by several of our Asian brethren. They could definitely lose the loafers and the monogram, and maybe slim some pants, but we're focussing too much on the setting and face shots - points we generally exclude in our own shots.
And it's not as if a large % of SF doesn't make its money from the financial sector - directly or indirectly.

apropos · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by RJE

While fearful of redirecting SF's ridicule of Outsiders onto myself, I don't think any of those outfits was terrible. In fact, the lighter blue combinations could easily have been worn by several of our Asian brethren. They could definitely lose the loafers and the monogram, and maybe slim some pants, but we're focussing too much on the setting and face shots - points we generally exclude in our own shots. And it's not as if a large % of SF doesn't make its money from the financial sector - directly or indirectly.
It is difficult to look past the tryhard/guido faces and the asshat poses to see the sartorial mistakes - but they are there, and many of them are elementary ones: waistcoat length, belts with waistcoats, the worst pick stitching I have ever seen, contrast pick stitching, matchy-matchy pocket squares, etc... ...all mistakes most of the iThugs would very likely not make.

aj_del · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by whnay.

Getting fitted for a suit just off the trading floor by some Pakastani is a rite of passage.

Originally Posted by SoHoJoejoe

See, I was a sucker because he gets his "custom made" by the asian lady that comes by the Merrill offices. It was only $300 and he gets his name on the inside breast pocket!

I thought Wall Street was only buying Kiton & Brioni full price at the boutiques. IIRC a Hermes boutique opened some time back on Wall Street and it was selling a croc desk set for soemthing like a 100K.

Aren't these guys supposed to be the very symbols of conspicuous consumption ?

A little shocked that they would think that a 300 USD suit is a good one. I would think they would be kind of douchebags who try to show other people down by telling them of their 7000 USD Kitons.

Genuinely curious since I am in India and my knowledge and understanding of the American culture is somewhat limited.

Cary Grant · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by aj_del

I thought Wall Street was only buying Kiton & Brioni full price at the boutiques. IIRC a Hermes boutique opened some time back on Wall Street and it was selling a croc desk set for soemthing like a 100K.

Aren't these guys supposed to be the very symbols of conspicuous consumption ?

A little shocked that they would think that a 300 USD suit is a good one. I would think they would be kind of douchebags who try to show other people down by telling them of their 7000 USD Kitons.

Genuinely curious since I am in India and my knowledge and understanding of the American culture is somewhat limited.

"Cheap Bastards" exist at every income level.

patrickBOOTH · Apr 16, 2010

So true, also a lot of uncommonly wealthy people really don't know how to spend their money. They buy the oddest things. I reckon it all comes down to priorities, who knows most of them might be stretched thin with $20 million mortgages.

SoHoJoejoe · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by aj_del

I thought Wall Street was only buying Kiton & Brioni full price at the boutiques. IIRC a Hermes boutique opened some time back on Wall Street and it was selling a croc desk set for soemthing like a 100K.

Different generation perhaps. It's cheaper to boast your suit is "custom" than it coming from a high end, albeit pricey, tailoring house. I'd wager to be that most of the 20 somethings on Wall St have probably never even heard of Kiton or Brioni any way.

Kentishman · Apr 16, 2010

...as explained by the old adage that money can't buy taste.

See Russian billionaires and WAYWRN from time to time.

Cary Grant · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by SoHoJoejoe

I'd wager to be that most everybody on Wall St, like everywhere else, have probably never even heard of Kiton or Brioni any way.

FTFY

whiteslashasian · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by Cary Grant

FTFY

To be fair you have to admit that those on "Wall Street" are generally at the income level where they could actually afford Brioni etc, where as most others are not.

Those Wall St. pictures are pretty hilarious to be honest. I'm down there quite often and I rarely see things that bad.

lasbar · Apr 16, 2010

Originally Posted by Kentishman

...as explained by the old adage that money can't buy taste.

See Russian billionaires and WAYWRN from time to time.

Ouch...Maybe WAYWRN is full of them...

I can picture Vox as a powerful oligarch...

Kentishman · Apr 17, 2010

There are a lot of Russians these days

LabelKing · Apr 17, 2010

I like to see egregious bad taste rather than mediocre taste as exhibited by these young Wall St. up & comers.

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