HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part III - Page 3007

Originally Posted by mktitsworth 


Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately, the suit is not grey. It's much closer in color to this

than it is to the color of the suit in the apparel arts picture. The stripe is also lavender (probably closer to wisteria) rather than blue. Still, I thought about navy - it's what I've done with it before with other solid shirts- but navy with the blue shirt and lavender stripe seemed to put things off balance. In that case I think an indigo tie will do well, but I had to send mine off to be repaired yesterday. I will keep all of this in mind for the future though. As I said elsewhere, the pocket square wasn't really doing it for me either.

Thanks.

Tweed and flannel are both very prevalent because it is winter and they are wintery fabrics. I don't feel that I can make much of a statement either way about how nice they are because I don't own any - such things don't make much sense when it's too hot to even wear a jacket for a third of the year and it only gets below freezing for a few weeks, maybe a month, at most. I appreciate and feel that I have a lot to learn from the existing studies of the English and Southern Italian traditions. Some of it however is almost completely inapplicable, either contextually or practically. Additionally, there are regional cultural elements which play a role that have little bearing coming from either of these - primary examples for me are things like western boots and western hats. There does appear to be some validity to the assertion of an acceptable business attire in the Caribbean of shirt, shorts, tie, jacket. I am also aware of an Indian adaptation of the English lounge suit which incorporates more traditional elements of that culture. Neither of these are the subject of this forum however, which is rather explicitly focused on western dress in the English and Southern Italian traditions with varying levels of acceptable variability. Still, I think it would be interesting to see someone study the regional variations associated with dressing well. Maybe someone's done it and can point me to it.

Within these two, there's plenty of reason for orthodoxy which can be found in other threads. I think recently both the Whnay thread and the General Chat thread have recently hit upon this as a related subject. As much as it can grate upon me, there is a cultural and historical precedent for certain fabrics and colors in certain seasons. Additionally, regardless of the reason for it, that sort of orthodoxy is the context which frames this forum. As such one should expect to be considered based upon the norms of the community in which they are engaging. Lavender is not a winter color, but violet is the Liturgical color of lent. Traditionally, at least around Catholic Louisiana, it is perfectly acceptable to wear Violet or Lavender during Carnival and through the warm seasons. Ash Wednesday is this coming week, so it seemed close enough not to matter for as little of it as there is.