Best Menswear for a Night Out in Vegas, Baby!

[Soph]

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[sho'nuff]

depends on what you are there to do.
if you are planning to hit the clubs or bars, i would wear your best night out suit and some snazzy shoes. i know i would leave the borrelli, attolini, kitons at home ,and bring your best fashion label stuff maybe armani, vuitton, etc. you know the fun stuff for the night out, you might get sweaty and someone might throw a drink in your face who knows.

if you are planning to gamble, i always prefer to dress really down, i never dress up in nice clothes, one thing at the tables people usually dont care, and plus it is a superstitious thing for me. i feel like a loser with nice clothes on gambling. however, i like to roll with a couple of nice bling bling accessories, maybe a nice expensive watch you might have , a precious metals ring, and some nice shoes. the rest i dont care if i wear a jumper suit or jeans and tshirt.


so thus, i would bring two sets of clothes, one for club, one for gambling, if that is what you are going there to do. well, obviously!

 

[designprofessor]

Vegas is puzzling. Despite the glamour of Oceans 11 -12 and Hollywood, I found chunky tourists and sneakers.
I brought decent clothes to Vegas, but seems like no one else did. (I'm no VIP, and that may account for my perception.)
But,I made it a point to hit some real nice restaurants with my girlfriend and we wanted to get dressed up, have a good meal and spend a night on the town.

So, some casual and some of your favs -keeping in mind the guy next to you at the casino may step on your shoes in his zeal to roll the dice.

 

[jonnyunpleasant]

Vegas is a great place to break out the clothes that would be considered distasteful or rakish elsewhere. I have a gold, single button, double vented blazer with thin peak lapels that I've wanted to wear in Vegas for years.

 

[mistahlee]

Man, I've done it all.

I wish there was a "jackets required" casino in Las Vegas. There isn't. Still, a well dressed man gets attention and respect in many places there.

 

[itsstillmatt]

 

[LabelKing]

Last time I went to Las Vegas it was full of fat tourists with waist-bags, cheap tee-shirts, and unattractive legs.

Maybe the idea of a flashy well-dressed Las Vegas was true before the Disney-fication of Las Vegas, but it certainly doesn't hold true today.

I think Versace is really appropriate though.

 

[DandySF]

I was recently there for a few days and saw boots and cowboy hats all over the place. Maybe there was a rodeo or a convention that attracted these people, or maybe it's just always like that.

Aside from ranch apparel, LV is a good place to experiment with your more louche looks. It's just about impossible to shock anyone, so don't hold back and go as wild as you wish. This is the place to realize your lounge lizard and Austin Powers dreams. The town is such a strange stew of hard luck stories and swanky gamblers arriving by private plane. Unfortunately, the fantasy of Vegas is too frequently canceled by its vulgar reality.

Oddly, on the way back to the airport I passed a surprising number of people pulling their luggage on the sidewalk, headed back to the airport, a walk of what must be at least a mile or two. My cab driver and I figured they must have gambled it all away, including their cab fare.

 

[Briguy]

DandySF, we must have been there at the same time. I was there the 2nd through the 5th and there was a cowboy convention in town. I fit right in wearing a tweed jacket and bow tie...

 

[DandySF]

Well that explains it. I was at the Wynn from Dec 3-5.

 

[Bradford]

Originally Posted by Briguy

DandySF, we must have been there at the same time. I was there the 2nd through the 5th and there was a cowboy convention in town.

Umm guys - it wasn't a "cowboy convention", it was the National Finals Rodeo...

Cowboys from all across the U.S. and Canada work all year in hopes of qualifying for the National Finals Rodeo( NFR), the PRCA's premier championship, sometimes referred to as the "Superbowl of Rodeos".

The NFR is held each December in Las Vegas at the Thomas and Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The top 15 regular-season finishers in each event qualify for the NFR and compete for prize money. In December, 2001, this prize money exceeded $4.5 million.

The NFR features the Top 15 competitors in each of professional rodeo's seven events: saddle bronc riding, bull riding, bareback riding, calf roping, team roping, steer wrestling and barrel racing.

Each year over 140,000 people attend the "Sold Out" National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas and more than 13 million viewers tuned in when all 10 rounds of the Finals were broadcast on ESPN and ESPN2. The National Finals Rodeo is sold out each and every year, more than a year in advance. A public lottery is held through a mail order system a full year before the event; in previous years approximately 1 out of every 25 of the orders submitted were filled.. Of 1.5 million tickets applied for, less than 40,000 are distributed to the general pubic. Thus, because the Thomas and Mack center venue is small, riders and sponsors are allocated a majority of the seats. Given that there is such a high demand for the rest of the seats from the public, NFR tickets are scarce and hard for the everyday person to obtain.

 

[WestOfPCH]

Originally Posted by DandySF

Well that explains it. I was at the Wynn from Dec 3-5.

Yes, just got back from there myself (Dec 8-10). There is a big rodeo championship every year in early December.

As for what to wear, it's tough to wear anything and not fit in.

1) If your plan is mainly to gamble, then wear whatever you want (dressed up or dressed down, it doesn't really matter). Since it is winter, the preponderance of flip-flops and shorts is way down, but you'll still see it more often than someone throwing dice in a nice 2.5 button Isaia suit.

2) If you are going clubbing, the de riguer men's club wear is similar to L.A.: untucked dress shirt over jeans, but dressier styles are also present more so than in Hollywood clubs.

3) If you're going to a top restaurant (i.e. Robuchon, Picasso, Alex, etc.), then dress to impress (At many of the best restaurants in Vegas, jackets are required). There's something amazingly appropriate and comfortable wearing one of your nicest suits as you dine beneath a painting by Pablo . . . Mix is probably one of the few newer nice restaurants where they don't require jackets, but the vibe is more modern and besides, the club side of Mix is right next door, so people dress accordingly (see #2 above).

 

[LabelKing]

I'm going to indulge my inner Jason King:

 

[Jovan]

It's posts like these that make LK infamous... you can never tell when he's serious or not.

 

[Soph]

I'm thinking grey suit, open collar blue shirt
or
Grey pants, brown velvet sportcoat with hacking pockets, turtleneck black or op collar black or blue shirt

Ankle boots black or brown either way.