HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part IV (starting May 2014)

Looking good, Victor - I prefer you without the beard.

The sun has returned to NYC, and with it milder temperatures. Let me look a bit more seasonally appropriate than I have done to date this spring.

Suit - Paul Stuart
Shirt - BB
Tie - Lewin
PS - Alain Figaret
Cufflinks - M P Levene, London
Braces - New & Lingwood
Shoes - Florsheim Royal Imperial (Magnanni)
Cologne (with a nod to Victor, as he lists his colognes/perfumes) - Hamman Bouquet, Penhaligon's

DonRaphael said:

Looking great, SeamasterLux. Love the fabric and shoulder on the suit. I suppose it's still chilly in Luxembourg?
Details on the tie?

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Definitely, 13 degrees today!

Sozzi tie

Prince of Paisley said:

It's the same length as pretty much all of my odd jackets. I think I've mentioned before I have an unusually long body/arms and relatively short legs, so jackets much longer than this tend to make me look out of proportion a bit, whereas this length pretty closely 'cuts me in half' if you know what I mean.

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I think we should draw a line across your crotch just to be sure.

Better still, have your 'young, attractive, definitely 100% female secretary' do it for you, just to underline - literally - that you do not personally draw lines on other men's crotches!

New suit @EFV ? Your latest from E-F-V?

@TwoStep Is that a Boggi jacket? If so I have the same one. The woven fabric is awesome, wears like a cardigan.

Apologies for the crappy iPhone pics...I'm working on a "good" reason for the wife and I to buy a camera and tripod. So far, "so I can show the guys on SF what I'm wearing today" ain't cuttin' it!

Burberry London jacket
no-name PS
John W Nordstrom shirt
Hardy Amies tie
LL Bean trousers
Happy Socks
AE Park Ave shoes

An Acute Style said:

sugarbutch said:

The shirt and tie have no place in this outfit.

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I imagine a solid blue shirt would have been better, but I need to do laundry.  The tie matches the pants which I know is frowned upon here.  Are you saying that I shouldn't wear a tie at all with this outfit or just not this one?  Or do you just not like this shirt and tie combo?  I can see both being true.    

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I read the pants as solid gray. Not keen on the matching, but there are worse sins. Upon revisiting, I think the sweater may be the real issue. The cream and stripes don't really work here. (The shirt isn't great for this use, either)

Bit more shouty than yesterday.




I'd like to pause and express my extreme distaste for silk squares under 14" (and even that's borderline). I find it categorically impossible to keep these in any semblance of a puff. No matter how they're stuffed or contorted, they either explode out into a linear shape, or unravel into entirely homogenous concave shapes immediately upon insertion. I own 2, and that's 2 too many. /endrant.

IDK about those shoes, @GMMcL . I think they're a notch too casual, and a bit too American for the top half. I'm wearing something similar with dark brown chelseas today, but I'm in a rumpled OCBD and a tie with giraffes on it, so I'm messing with the framework in a different manner.

And I'm down with silk squares under 14", but I have a 36" chest so...



Murlsquirl said:

New suit @EFV
?  Your latest from E-F-V?

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Not new, but it is E-F-V though. Had it made, as a one off, for last summer's Pitti. Will hopefully have a few linen suits ready by June, in a new model (very limited edition/limited sizes et c).

SFers,

Don't forget to enter our SF Gallery Contest for a chance to win a $200 gift card to Opumo and/or a custom title....for those who don't know what that is, look under my username and you'll see "The Moral Squirrel".

For you guys that are camera shy or feel awkward taking selfies (because it is awkward), the clothing grid category is for you. Lay your outfit on the floor and snap a picture, it's that simple. Create your gallery and submit your entry following the instructions in the announcement here:

http://www.styleforum.net/a/stylefo...t-certificate-to-opumo-com-and-a-custom-title

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or @Cleav in the applicable thread. Best of luck.

Cheers,

Squirly Murl

All blue and all summer. Linen, shantung, chambray and madras.

DL-