HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part III - Page 2937

More of the jacket I should have burned (according to some). Still struggling to wear it tastefully, if that's even possible.

Brown suede shoes would help...

Details on the COAT...

BRAVE!  I love this Jacket...

@acecow

Find something that works with that jacket and it will be brilliant. I'm in the same boat with one of mine.

What boat is that? One that set sail in 1973 and has yet to make landfall?

Sorry chaps but these huge broad check jackets may get you praise from a handful of virgins on the internet but in the real world people are wondering why you are wearing clothes from the decade that style forgot.

Ace - I think if you lost the sweater and threw it with some grey flannel trousers that combination would be brilliant.

A dish made basically of leftovers yet it seems to work

I think that the jacket goes well with those jeans, but that it would look even better with something that picks up a bit of colour in the jacket, but which is also understated (so, no, I'm not recommending that you wear it with orange trousers!).

For example, I think that it would look good with a pair of forest green or moss green corduroy trousers, light blue shirt (as you're wearing) and a dark brown or navy tie (perhaps a wool tie). Alternatively, you could switch things around and wear a pair of chocolate brown or navy cord trousers, and a dark green tie with a blue shirt.

It's a great-looking jacket and it looks as though it fits you very well.

Here's a cross-post from the Australian Member's thread:

Please dont hit to me so much

In this case I'm thinking of a checked (though nowhere near as loudly) Savile Row bespoke jacket from 1965. It fits like sex but I'm struggling to find pants that go perfectly with it (gray flannel seems to be the only thing I can get to work with it).

Getting the sleeves shortened at the moment, but the one night I wore it I got a lot of favorable comments about looking like I was a British actor from the 1960's. Granted most of the people were drunk and Koreans have some odd standards for fashion...

Regardless, a decades old look is obviously really difficult to pull off, and when it fails its fails miserably...but if you get the fit and the combination right, you look better than any equivalent recent trends (though obviously the classic looks...whatever they may be...are excluded from that comparison).
Edited by Claghorn - 1/25/13 at 4:31am

Vince, that shirt needs to stand on it's own, not the kind of thing you want to wear with a jacket IMO. Not only that, but it's something for summer, not winter. Maybe with a nice pair of linen trousers. And the exploding PS is very distracting and matches the shirt too closely. I know you will do your own thing no matter what, but that is my opinion.

Here's some more Australian members cross-posting. Apologies for the lack of square creativity (I'm still figuring them out).

 

 

 

 

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Spandexter: Don't apologise for your square, It goes well with the restraint shown in the choices for rest of your outfit IMO.