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Just spent a few days in Milan, and figured I would offer some brief observations on the jacket-wearing men (of the younger guys wearing tight loud t-shirts and louder footwear I will not speak):
- overall, quality of fits is pretty good. better than new york, i would say.
- "sins" frequently committed: jacket sleeves too long (this quite often, and sometimes egregiously), pants too long, loafers with suits (this ALL the time - I'm tempted to say almost half the suits I saw were worn with loafers)
- lots o' linen, worn wrinkled. in my experience it's somewhat rare to see someone wearing a linen suit or even SC in new york, here it is very common. I saw one elderly gentlemen in an absolutely amazing straw/mustard double-breasted linen suit with some linen/calf spectators absolutely killin' it.
- in general, nice fabrics and some interesting patterns - more patterns than you would see in nyc, but not much variation in color. pretty much everyone sticks to the menswear classics of blue/navy, tan, brown. you do see a lot of what some people call "blogger blue". but i don't recall seeing anyone wearing a very loud or crazy-looking tie.
- not many pocket squares.
- lots of black shoes, compared to what i was expecting, given all the talk of italians and brown shoes. there are plenty of black shoes worn here.
- everyone has nice shoes. or at least, there are no absolutely hideous shoes, which you see frequently in the us. nothing i saw looked like it could have come from aldo or kc.
- all shirts are spread collar, many quite widely spread. once i noticed this i started looking for point collars, and ended up finally spotting one, but they are very very rare here.
- not very much in the way of the tight, short suits. this partly because most of the suit-wearing population is older (much older than the age distribution of suit-wearers in new york, i would say). also for the under-appreciated but awesome fact that many suit-wearers get around on bicycle or vespa. maybe someday i will be cool enough to ride a bike around milan in a suit, these guys look fantastic doing it. but i'd imagine it would be pretty tough in a skinny suit.
- italian women:
- italian women on vespas:
that's about all i can think of for now...
- overall, quality of fits is pretty good. better than new york, i would say.
- "sins" frequently committed: jacket sleeves too long (this quite often, and sometimes egregiously), pants too long, loafers with suits (this ALL the time - I'm tempted to say almost half the suits I saw were worn with loafers)
- lots o' linen, worn wrinkled. in my experience it's somewhat rare to see someone wearing a linen suit or even SC in new york, here it is very common. I saw one elderly gentlemen in an absolutely amazing straw/mustard double-breasted linen suit with some linen/calf spectators absolutely killin' it.
- in general, nice fabrics and some interesting patterns - more patterns than you would see in nyc, but not much variation in color. pretty much everyone sticks to the menswear classics of blue/navy, tan, brown. you do see a lot of what some people call "blogger blue". but i don't recall seeing anyone wearing a very loud or crazy-looking tie.
- not many pocket squares.
- lots of black shoes, compared to what i was expecting, given all the talk of italians and brown shoes. there are plenty of black shoes worn here.
- everyone has nice shoes. or at least, there are no absolutely hideous shoes, which you see frequently in the us. nothing i saw looked like it could have come from aldo or kc.
- all shirts are spread collar, many quite widely spread. once i noticed this i started looking for point collars, and ended up finally spotting one, but they are very very rare here.
- not very much in the way of the tight, short suits. this partly because most of the suit-wearing population is older (much older than the age distribution of suit-wearers in new york, i would say). also for the under-appreciated but awesome fact that many suit-wearers get around on bicycle or vespa. maybe someday i will be cool enough to ride a bike around milan in a suit, these guys look fantastic doing it. but i'd imagine it would be pretty tough in a skinny suit.
- italian women:
- italian women on vespas:
that's about all i can think of for now...
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