If you do not own the following things, you are not well dressed - Page 27

Ah, well that's an issue of the sizing, not the items themselves. But in any case, here are some flannels in 30 (you'll have to hem them but this is true for almost any decent pants you'll buy...and they're brown, but I'm sure once fall rolls around they'll be stocking grey again):

http://www.howardyount.com/collections/pants/products/classic-flannel-pants-brown

same thing for BB, surely in fall they will have grey:
http://www.brooksbrothers.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&Section_Id=219&Product_Id=1574266&Parent_Id=1032&default_color=BROWN&sort_by=&sectioncolor=&sectionsize=

PRL:
http://www.ralphlauren.com/product/index.jsp?productId=13193016&cp=1760781.1760811&fbn=GenericColor%7CGrey&fbc=1&f=GenericColor%2FPOLO%2FGrey&parentPage=family&selectedColor=Grey

likely you could go to the same three sites and get options for a 36S blazer, but you can do that yourself.

Really, you could probably go to either BB or RL and get at least 90% of the items on this list. Whatever you can't find at the first one you visit, you can probably get at the other one.

Apart from BB (I hate them for reasons irrelevant to this thread), I'm genuinely impressed. I've had stores get stuff in my size, but you can imagine how cost-prohibitive that can get to be. Been to RL stores in person and they didn't have stuff my size, never thought to check HY.

You, sir, may have damaged my next paycheck.

As a service to some excellent SF members and affiliates:

http://www.pantaclothing.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=1pant
http://www.pantaclothing.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=2pant
http://www.pantaclothing.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=3pant

(note that 3 of the 5 pants in ed's collection right now are on Manton's list)

I have no direct experience, but these seem to be quite popular:

http://www.epauletshop.com/servlet/the-Mens-Clothing-cln-Trousers/Categories

It's been talked about ad nauseum in SW&D. The currently approved SW&D list would look something like this (obviously taking into account the median age, probably mid twenties, and the fact that most of these items are totally popular by virtue of groupthink): Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

Question for Manton
Assuming you have all of these things - and have probably accumulated many others on the journey- do you feel like you have enough and are content? Obviously just the bare minimum is not desirable, but this is clearly not a bare minimum type list.

Moreover, do you feel like a lot of the other stuff not on this list is now somewhat superfluous and you'd be almost better off without it? Do you feel like the "journey" has been about aquiring these pillars of your wardrobe, either through trial and error or thought and planning?

I can see that it would be quite easy to have more, say, shoes, ties and pocketsquares than are present on the list, but it seems to me to be a reasonably comprehensive list of suits and jackets
Edited by hendrix - 8/6/12 at 12:35am

while i agree with your premise that all that stuff can be found RTW. lets not forget though, with jackets in particular, cut is a huge factor. for some people finding any SC/suit RTW that really looks right is genuinely difficult. it is for me anyways.

Yea, but what I'm saying is, if you can't find these items in RTW in cuts that you like, then you just can't find jackets in cuts that you like. Everyone making jackets is going to make a navy blazer every season. Everyone making suits will make a navy and a charcoal every season. The DBs might be a different story, but they're on the advanced list.

 

 

If he gave it to you he wouldn't be well dressed...

Thanks, Hendrix. That's for a three days' trip? I'd be interested in a more MC oriented list though. Or perhaps a list of "classic casuals"...

Great thread, thanks!

I hate the idea of the crappy, cheap, stretchy nylon inset into the nice leather. It just ruins the shoe for me.

this is true.

im sure he will be fine.

my dream. *le sigh*

If this has been asked and answered, I apologize - the early part of the thread went by in a flurry and I may have missed something.

Aside from wondering what exactly constitutes the non-chino khakis (I'll deal with that question another day, for the moment I'll just continue my practice of avoiding all khakis on days when I'm "in public") I have a question about the linen suit. Is that just intended as a hot weather version of the worsteds, or does it have another function. In either case, is it superior to or interchangeable with a cotton/poplin suit? If it is superior, on which grounds (comfort, formality, quality, SF approval, ability to impress the opposite sex, etc)? I've never owned either of them, know very little about them, and haven't got a formed opinion on the issue. Here to learn.