HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part III

Threadbearer said:

I'm 6'-1" with a 15" neck and have no trouble getting a nice double 4IH knot in my 57" Panta tie. Hope this helps.

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Sir F said:

What kind of camera would be good with a stand to take good pictures? I really enjoy watching the great quality of pictures here, I feel little ashamed with my iPhone makes my outfits look bad 

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CDHagg said:

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

I think I may be, in small part, a victim of bias...
It seems that people on this forum have a tendency to regard every comment I make as "stupid" or "ignorant" or the like. If Foo had posted the same comment, you would probably have stopped to consider the advise more carefully, and you may have come to accept it as good advise if only because Foo was the giver of the advise. It's not possible for a person to remove all bias from his or her mind when making a judgement, but it is good to at least try.
See, if a guy wears bright colors and loud patterns all over his body, he can end up looking like a clown. It really was a nit-pick, a minuscule point, but I thought I'd point it out anyway.
I apologize if I offend or annoy anyone with my comments. I'm really only trying to help. I do this a lot in real life too - I try to help out by lending a hand, or lending advise, or volunteering to do something that I think I'm qualified to do, but often times it turns out that I should have said and done nothing. I'm really only trying to be a nice guy and help out, though.
Sometimes, my advise is helpful, but not wanted. For instance: I am a classically-trained musician (amateur), so I know a little about harmonic analysis and whatnot. Recently, myself and a few of my friends were trying to write a 4-part harmony for a contemporary piece of vocal music. None of the friends in question had the music theory background that I had, so they would just play a passage in the music over and over again and try making up harmonies off the top of their heads to see if they could eventually find something that sounded good. This was very time-consuming, but because I knew the rules of harmonic progression and cadences and whatnot, I knew why certain things sounded good or bad, and I had the ability to write an SATB harmony in much less time. I tried to get my friends to let me handle it and write the harmony, since it would be much faster. I thought I was being a nice, helpful guy, but in the end my friends just got very annoyed at me because they actually preferred their trial-and-error meathod.
Other times when I try to help out, I'm just plain wrong. For instance, I sing in a choir at my church, and the "choir director" doesn't know much of anything about music (objective fact - she admits it herself, she has no training). I thought I was helping out one Sunday when I insisted at one point during the service at we should be singing a certain piece of music at that very moment. I was extremely sure that I was correct, and I was sure that the choir was holding up the service because we had not yet started the hymn. So, the director relented, and we sang the hymn, and... I was wrong, as usual. It didn't make a big difference to the service, but the director was very offended that I was trying to run things. Honestly, though, I was just trying to help.
So, basically, I have this problem with trying to "help." I'm working on it (probably the most discouraging bit of self-improvement I've ever attempted). My above advise is probably the first bit of subjective style advise that I've given in a couple of months, and it was only meant as a casual comment. I assure you that my intentions are benevolent, and I'm really only trying to be nice and friendly and stuff, but I apologize if I sometimes come off as an ignorant jerk.

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tshaw said:

Personally, SF, given the situation, I think it looks fine.

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Charlie's Wardrobe said:

I think Spoo uses an iphone also.

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Christian B said:

violethour1951 said:

superb! gold buttons on the jacket would have made it pop even more, but as you said it's a suit jacket

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Thank you! I'm not feeling the gold buttons, but I'm thinking of changing the buttons to dark brown horn.

Pingson said:

Really nice tie! And great cuffs on the trousers...

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I love the tie, MalfordofLondon.com has extremly many nice ties for a pretty penny.

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ianGP said:

IMO, iPhone's are fine - DerekS and Charlie's Wardrobe's fitpics are taken with an iPhone if I'm not mistaken.....you just take most of your shots too far away for us to see any of the details aside from color and general fit. I'm not big into camera's at all but I just handled my aunt's Sony Cybershot today.... relatively cheap and takes quality pics!

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SpooPoker said:

Certainly do.

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tacobender said:

Another day at the office...

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Sir F said:

But someone must take them for me? Since I live alone it's pretty hard for me to ask someone, or is there some stand for the iPhone that can help me?

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SpooPoker said:

Most of them I do take myself yes. The full length shots though, my wife takes for me. Bless her patient heart.

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