Australian Members - Page 1901

Thanks for everyone who's chimed in regarding the shoes.

 

I think the slight difference between yourself, Geoff, and my colleague's fiance is that she's vegan, not just a herbivore (which I take it to mean 'vegetarian'). My colleague is just doing what he can to accommodate his fiance's beliefs.

Brown and blue will never do and red in the night, sailor's delight; red in the morning, sailor's warning.

Mj Bale new winter lookbook:

http://www.mjbale.com/lookbooks/autumn-winter2013

10x better than Herringbone.

And they have put some cheap sale stock up:

http://www.mjbale.com/on-sale

BTW there many shite clothes around - at expensive prices - and the number of shops who actually know and care and can help with fit you can count on one hand - even in Melbourne. Its not necessarily your fault if "yr not doin it write"

Paradoxically at a time when less generational knowledge about mens dressing is being passed on through fathers, uncles, grandfathers*, theres also markedly less "professional" help available through tailors and menswear shops. It makes it very hard.

In the "good old days" you could actually walk into a menswear shop and walk out looking ok with alterations fit etc all assisted by a sales person.

Even Jason can tell you about how it used to be like that at FJs and hes only a kid.

*Its not only fathers but even grandfathers these days who have NFI how to wear a suit and slop around in jeans and white athletic shoes. Any knowledge is lost two generations ago.
Edited by fxh - 3/20/13 at 10:43pm

 

Wool; from Vanda Fine Clothing.

 

These are meant to be 3.5" (approx 8.8 cm). But with the hand construction, the tie doesn't 'sit completely flat' [I can't think of a refined way of saying this]. Instead, it has a bit more 'body' and so, it appears to be between 3 and 3.5" (7.6 to 8.8 cm)

 

 

Ah, ok thanks.

 

The suit is midnight - sorry about the white balance.

 

I take your comments on the PS-tie combination under advisement. I realised the the 2nd (brighter) PS would be a bit trickier to pull off which is why I paired it with a plain (albeit textured) tie. The converse logic applied with the Black Watch tie (patterned tie with plain PS).

 

Blanc sur rouge, rien ne bouge; rouge sur blanc, tout fout le camp

 

Cloth slippers with initials VF on the toes

What do you guys think of the cotton khaki and grey trousers? I need some basic trousers to mix with odd jackets and my legs are too large for other slim fit pants

Crocs - any colour you want
http://www.crocsaustralia.com.au/

this is where the rot sets in next thing he won't be able to wear wool (just joking)

also re politics I feel as if I just caught the train to Flinders Street and got off at Princes Bridge

Vegan-espadrilles for summer!

Depends what jackets/outfits you have in mind. Cotton chinos probably won't look good with woollen jackets, so unless you have a couple of cotton/linen/blend jackets to go with them... Then again they will go well with a lot of shirts just on their own if that's your style.

Look to Alan See for inspiration on that combo http://lnsee.tumblr.com/

I haven't looked at Alan's blog for a while.

It's disappointing to see that Ethan has also jumped on the "over-sprezzed" bandwagon, and that he's wearing the tail of his tie over the front blade:
http://lnsee.tumblr.com/post/44130693582

It's not "sprezz" if you do it deliberately, people!

 

ACTUALLY, he's been digging deeper into the issue of mulesing. Apparently it's common in Australia (but banned in NZ, for example).

 

And it was at this point of time, that I said out loud to him: "It really isn't a wonder why most vegan activists dress the way they do."

 

I'm never going out with a vegan chick, that's for sure.