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THE SEASONAL COHERENCE CHALLENGE
A core principle of classic style is coherence: individual components must cohere to produce a single, unified effect. Coherence is of various types, and is itself dependent upon a prior notion of appropriateness: appropriateness to an occasion (work or sport, for example); to a time of day or night; to a location (city or country, for example); and so forth.
And coherence also depends on appropriateness for the season.
That’s this week’s challenge: seasonal coherence.
What season? That’s your choice. Style Forum has members on both sides of the equator and at varying distances from it. Whichever of the four seasons you name, there will be SF members currently experiencing it so far as their climate is concerned.
And every season has its own conventions: color, texture, fabric, and even individual items of apparel have long-standing seasonal associations. Effectively employing these is the challenge this week.
So choose a season, tell us what it is, and dress accordingly. The outfit must be worn this week, no earlier than Sunday, 13 September. It must include:
(1) shirt and tie;
(2) jacket (suit or odd);
(3) trousers;
(4) shoes.
You need not fit all of these into a single picture, but you must provide photographs of all four. No more than one entry/outfit per person and no more than four photographs per entry, please.
The choice of season is yours, so no matter where you are on the planet you’ve got no excuse not to enter. Equator? No problem. Antarctica? I look forward to it.
Let’s see if we can make this thread a valuable resource for those who in the future are looking for examples of seasonally coherent combinations.
Schedule: Entries must be posted by midnight GMT on Saturday. The poll will go up some time on Sunday, and will close at midnight GMT on Monday. This will allow one additional weekend day for fits while still making it possible, in principle at least, for the winner to post the new challenge on Tuesday.
Entries which make me think “Damn, that’s a perfect (spring, summer, autumn, winter) outfit” will get my vote.
Gentlemen, let’s do this.
Cheers,
Ac
The Entrants:
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upr_crust
heldentenor
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An Acute Style
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