The sad state of men Morning Formal Attire @ the Epsom Derby 2012 - Page 2

Originally Posted by marcodalondra 

I was in the Queen's Stand at the Epsom Derby yesterday where the admission dresscode was "Morning Coat or Morning Suit" for men.
I have to report that the vast majority of men did not comply with the general rules of morning attires and looked poorly put together. This may be related to the fact that at Epsom you can get the tickets to the Queen's Stand simply by buying in whilst at Ascot you need to be invited to the royal Enclosure, and thus at Epsom you are more likely find people that have no clue about dressing well.
All mens aside of working staff, were in either formal Morning attire or national dress. the major problem was in my eye that most wear wearing bad fitting rental, and a lot of them, clearly wearing wedding rental attire (cravats, floral waistcoat, etc), but what I really noted as negative was that the vast majority had unproper shoes: some light brown modern stuff, lots of confy black leather of many designs, some slips on and dricing shoes, lots of cheap/squared toes etc. The ones with a bit better shoes wore different types of captoes brogues and i only noticed probably a dozen men wearing plain captoes Oxfords and some captoes derby (for comfort I wore punched captoe derby, that clearly looked more appropriate that 99.9% of what was there.
Just to give a better idea of the scale of the above, the place was sold out and there were several hundreds of men in attendance, and again, i have personally crossed only a dozen of men dressed properly, with one or two dandys clearly over doing it.
I think this may also be the reason why Royal Ascot this year has thighten the dress code even further, specifying "no cravats" and for the first time "only black shoes allowed".
Below a couple of pictures of me, The black herringbone morning coat and buff linen waistcoat are RTW, as is the Charvet tie. The contrasting collar shirt is the Vincenzo Prisco's I have previously posted about and the Houndstooth trousers in H lesser are bespoke by Gianni Volpe as recently posted (worn with Albert Thurston's grey boxcloth suspenders)
(please note that there was a bit of wind that pushed the light trousers against my legs and I also had plenty of coins in my pocket that makes the trouser look not fitting well)
a closer view for some details:

Originally Posted by marcodalondra 

I was at Royal Ascot today and decided to follow up on this post. As per my original guess, the general appropriateness level was higher then at the Derby, however I have still seen to many bad shoes (just few examples):

(I know the knot is loose.. end of the day)