WAYWRN: Classic Menswear, Casual Style

furo · Mar 30, 2012

SirGrotius · Mar 30, 2012

furo said:

Looks great. Love the jacket and shoes, especially. Would probably go more tapered with the pants, they seem a tad baggy to me. Shirt looks nice.

SirGrotius · Mar 30, 2012

NewYorkRanger said:
TB, think its just the "wash" of the jean. I prefer either much more worn in, or raw, that in between wash gets me a bit.
Me today:

JCrew
W&H
Epaulet
Alden

Perfect chinos. Looks great.

kgmessier · Mar 30, 2012

gnatty8 said:
This coat looks interesting, what is it?

I'd like to know this as well.

Thrifter · Mar 30, 2012

moizak said:
Here is today's effort.

I think you need to choose your clothes in a way that lengthens your torso and appears to broaden your shoulders.. This fit pretty much does opposite of what you want.

Try lower rise pants that sit lower on your hips, hemmed with very little break. Also a sport coat with padded shoulders would be a good bet for you.

Liam O · Mar 30, 2012

gnatty8 said:
This coat looks interesting, what is it?

Barbour flyweight something or other. Looks like the m65 less the top two pockets. Looked weird til it started getting dirty.

Holdfast · Mar 30, 2012

acecow said:
Or, as Yoda would have it, "Begun, the grammar wars have..."

What, you want to argue with a Jedi master about grammar?

Liam O said:

Barbour flyweight something or other. Looks like the m65 less the top two pockets. Looked weird til it started getting dirty.

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All Barbours look weird until they start getting dirty and crumpled; then they look great. It's why i don't own any though, as my life's pretty sedentary, so they never really get worn in enough.

Lazy day running a few errands around town, and then will be going out this evening:

re: the crew-neck T-shirt showing under the v-neck sweater. I know most here won't like it, but I'm kind of fond of it sometimes...

For reference: there's a bit more pattern/textural interest than it appears: the sweater has a marled sort of appearance up close, the jacket has a narrow herringbone weave to it, and the trousers have a faint glen-plaid pattern. From a distance, of course, everything's vaguely solid.

Liam O · Mar 30, 2012

buy a barbour, overwax it, loan it to me for a week, I'll wear it at the forge 2-3 times, then brush it and it'll look three years old, instantly.

moizak · Mar 30, 2012

Thrifter said:
I think you need to choose your clothes in a way that lengthens your torso and appears to broaden your shoulders.. This fit pretty much does opposite of what you want.
Try lower rise pants that sit lower on your hips, hemmed with very little break. Also a sport coat with padded shoulders would be a good bet for you.

That's an interesting observation regarding the length of my torso. I was looking at another picture I took yesterday with me wearing a contrast colour belt and noticed how much longer my legs look compared to my torso. I'm not sure I could wear my trousers much lower without exposing my crack to the world every time I bent over though.

The proportions of my body are really starting to annoy me.

moizak · Mar 30, 2012

Holdfast · Mar 30, 2012

Liam O said:
buy a barbour, overwax it, loan it to me for a week, I'll wear it at the forge 2-3 times, then brush it and it'll look three years old, instantly.

lol, you should start a cottage industry here on SF, for distressing items so they achieve that elusive "worn-in" look.

I'm reminded of those possibly apocryphal - and certainly amusing - stories of Astaire balling up bespoke jackets and throwing them repeatedly at walls so they soften up, and of an English fellow whose name I can't remember deliberately running his Range Rover back and forth over any new Barbour jacket to get it nicely worn-in.

sugarbutch · Mar 30, 2012

CDHagg said:
The "rule" that you shouldn't end a sentence in a preposition isn't an actual rule in the English Language. The confusion came because in Latin, sentences don't end with prepositions - ever. In most cases, when constructing a sentence in English it sounds best to put the preposition somewhere besides the very end; but if putting the preposition at the end of the sentence makes the sentence clearer, there's no reason not to.

After an overzealous editor attempted to rearrange one of Winston Churchill's sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, the Prime Minister scribbled a single sentence in reply: "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put."

It's acceptable, but I typically take it as a sign that I could do a better job with the whole sentence.

HF: Too much gray for me.

moizak · Mar 30, 2012

Ah, sugarbutch, the man whose beard mine is allegedly in competition with. Hello.

patrick_b · Mar 30, 2012

Liam O said:
Barbour flyweight something or other. Looks like the m65 less the top two pockets. Looked weird til it started getting dirty.

Can you post a pic of the jacket. Tough to get a clear idea in your images, but it looks nice on you. I found a flyweight Sapper jacket at an Orivs outlet this winter and picked it up for a song. It was a first quality, discontinued model. Very lightweight (which I wanted) and fits great. Hideaway hood and Barbour's lightest waxed cotton. Great for the mild winter we had. It's my first Barbour, I'm very pleased.

furo · Mar 30, 2012

NRO has a bunch of Barbour stuff at like 60% off, or at least they did a week or so ago

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