HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part III

tshaw said:

Sorry I haven't been around much lately, gents, my Dad passed away yesterday after having a rough time in the hospital last week. Been driving back-n-forth across the State to handle things and help Mom out. Funeral is Saturday -will be wearing basic - - Black!

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F. Corbera said:

SpooPoker asked me to offer an reaction to this suit, so I will, expecially since we corresponded about it before he got it back in the summer. I told him then that I was biased against multi-stripes.
Over the years, I have seldom "critiqued" (I believe that is the popular term now) a "fit." I certainly have not "nit picked" any save for about four posts on mafoofan's first Rubinacci jacket and a handful of others. Instead, about 99.9% of my reaction to the photographs in WAYWRN has been in the form of wordless positism: namely, my first and second WAYWRN digest threads. If you are new to them, I think you will find that a wide spectrum of style is represented in them..wider, ironically, than the totality of photographs now in WAYWRN. Few photographs I chose exemplified or approached what could be considered "perfection." Nevertheless, I was of a mind that what made them appeal to me would be self-evident to the trained, curious, or interested eye.
I mention this since characterization of the Old Guard, the Dearly Departed, the Crazy 88s, whatever as nit pickers is exactly the opposite of what is true. WAYWRN today is full of nit pickers, the Underwear Typists. There seems to be an especially hypoxic concentration these days of opinion deliverers who have no deeper social participation of the sort that comes in either sharing their own looks or contributing in meaninigful ways with original content in new, substantive threads. All crows on telephone lines, cawing. In the better days of the Mens Clothing forum, WAYWRN was the sideline to the main activity: great threads on good topics by knowledgable guys.
Not that I don't enjoy a good Reevolving thread.
Now, when it comes to Spoo's suit, I will say the following. It is not meant to be complete. For that, I will leave it to those of you who like to use the phrase, "button stance up a notch."
1. As an ensemble, it suffers greatly from the style schizophrenia through which Spoo is currently laboring. The suit fabric is wacky. The shirt and tie are not. One does not help nor moderate the other. The attributes do no cancel each other out, they create discordancy. A wacky suit requires a wacky tie and a wacky shirt. You need to go full on wacky, as LabelKing does. For that, you also need either a very trivial or very wacky life unless your relationsip to society is an anti-social one.
This is why greater sobriety serves better for most. If you cannot imagine yourself with a Lapo Elkann man-date, well, maybe you should put down that wacky suit.
2. The photographs are technically bad. There's not much that can be done if you are a busy, normal guy, especially the kind who has no interest in photography. Even so, WAYWRN today is full of page after page of people reading the spleens of each terrible photograph as if they are seeing things in the flesh, and then they burn the entrails vengefully or they cavort mindlessly around the pyre drunk on projection/wishful association. iammatt, who amassed a large number of photos in which he looked great, pioneered the shot from a distance with a non-bathroom-fixture background that allows things actually to be seen in proportion (this was before Phat Guido found expression in photographic compulsion and took things a bit further.) At any rate, you should not overinterpret things, positive or negative, apparent in terrible photographs. You might be right, but you are probably wrong.
3. I doubt the truth of the popular conjecture that certain guys are an "easy fit" to RTW. In an old post, I wrote:
Despos described in concise detail what needed to be done to have jackets be more in harmony with Spoo's frame. Manton also described the characteristics that reliably make RTW an ill fit for him. People seemed to have ignored the message in both.
Also keep in mind that most blocks today are cut for the fatter male of today. Spoo is skinny.
4. Well, how about Spoo's fit? It's an improvement, but somewhat incremental.

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SpooPoker said:

Thanks man! Also, I appreciate your words in the maelstrom of Mondays conversation here, I dont think I ever thanked you for that.
Well, I prefer instant gratification, thats one. Im still impetuous enough to not want to wait. Also, I routinely work about 15 hours a day, so I dont have a lot of free time. Also, I think for the most part I have a good enough build that I make RTW work... in the past I have picked the wrong RTW, but I am slowly correcting that, and as you can see here with my newest looks today, I think that its improved.

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tshaw said:

Sorry I haven't been around much lately, gents, my Dad passed away yesterday after having a rough time in the hospital last week. Been driving back-n-forth across the State to handle things and help Mom out. Funeral is Saturday -will be wearing basic - - Black!

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F. Corbera said:

A wacky suit requires a wacky tie and a wacky shirt. You need to go full on wacky...

This is why greater sobriety serves better for most.

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SpooPoker said:

You look great dig. Im not sure olive (I know, I know, Olive) is the best color of pants for this option. That jacket would have been better with a true brown, or it could have worked better for me without that tie. I dunno, something just feels off about the mix of colors. You commented yourself on the fit - but you look great and are still miles and miles away from where you were.
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mktitsworth said:

Dig, this is similar to a combination I've been trying to play with myself. I did it a week or two back, don't know how many pages. Don't know if I pulled it off any better. I have to agree with Spoo that I think a brown pant comes off better with it. I've tried it that way, also with charcoal and blue trou, but while I think that the charcoal is probably the safest, the brown is definitely my favorite. I think part of the problem you're having here is that the olive is blending into your background. The gorge is also sitting right on your collar bone and slightly above the horizontal line between your shoulders. To me, this makes you look taller.

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VictorSF said:

Yesterday:

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exhaze said:

Привет Victor. I really like the way your cuff links match the buttons on the blazer, and I like the overall color scheme of the outfit. However, I think that the buttons on the blazer are much too close together and just exacerbate the issue that others have pointed out -- due to your musculature, you're very top-heavy, and in your case, you want your jackets to make you look more balanced. I think that reducing waist suppression as well as moving the buttons further apart would alleviate that in this case.

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Jamesgatz said:

Handsome chukkas and bag, Victor. French cuffs are too formal for the outfit, no?

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