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Friday Challenge 4 September 2015: Air Your Linen!

Who aired their linen the best?

  • warriortree

    Votes: 3 5.1%
  • SYCSYC

    Votes: 8 13.6%
  • redmusic1

    Votes: 3 5.1%
  • Claghorn

    Votes: 26 44.1%
  • Buster Brown

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • calypso

    Votes: 11 18.6%
  • CaptainTohm

    Votes: 4 6.8%
  • StanleyVanBuren

    Votes: 30 50.8%
  • Thin White Duke

    Votes: 4 6.8%
  • upr_crust

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Total voters
    59
  • Poll closed .

Coxsackie

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OK gentlemen. Here's the drill: show us a great outfit which includes some linen.

We are looking for pure linen here, not blends. Major component (jacket/pants/shirt) in linen is preferred, but a minor component (tie, pocket square etc) is OK as long as it's a key feature of the look.

Classic menswear is preferred, but streetwear is fine too as long as it has cut and style. Ties not mandated as linen is, by definition, a more casual fabric. However, the outfit must have been worn within the last seven days.

Apologies for the lateness in posting this challenge, but I'm travelling this week and fairly busy. Deadline is nevertheless 12 midnight, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-7).

Here are a few images to inspire you. (I've massively indulged myself here by including one of my own.)














And this week's entries:

Here is it

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As it happens, I intended to wear this linen sport coat today...
















Linen jacket and trousers






Shirt: BB
Jacket: Local MTM
BT and PS: TH
Trousers: JAB
Shoes: AE
Belt: JA


Linen-silk-wool jacket
Linen pants
Linen square
Raw silk tie
Cotton underwear
Leather shoes
(or was it leather underwear and cotton shoes?)



Linen slacks and jacket.





And 'lintex' shoes:



linen trousers after 5h in a car




Jacket Rubinacci
Shirt Stenströms
Tie Altea
Pents made by Robin Pettersson in Tobacco brown linen


Had a lovely almost-birthday dinner tonight. Wearing a linen jacket and a linen pocket square. Cat is made of fluff, not linen.











ALL LINEN EVERYTHING

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Date night with the Duchess ...

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X-post WAYWRN - linen trousers, cotton shirt, wool sports jacket - one from Column A, one from Column B, one from Column C . . .

 
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sugarbutch

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I don't think I own a single all-linen item.
 

EliodA

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@Coxsackie what day is the deadline? I think you only gave us a time.
 

warriortree

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Subscribed!

I have just taken from the taylor a linen suit :)
 

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This should be good.
 

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cool,i like it very much,thank you
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warriortree

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Is a blue linen suit

The surprise is that is from massimo dutti... But my tailor has done a very good job


Enviado desde mi zapato con Tapatalk
 

Coxsackie

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I don't think I own a single all-linen item.

Well, go and buy one then. This thread wants your active participation!

@Coxsackie what day is the deadline? I think you only gave us a time.

Sorry. This Sunday, 12 midnight New York time. I would make it later, but that would put me in the middle of a 24 hour plane trip back to Sydney with questionable opportunities for internet access.
 

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Well, I won't have time to get back home and change now. Will enjoy seeing contributions.
 

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Linen jacket and trousers






Shirt: BB
Jacket: Local MTM
BT and PS: TH
Trousers: JAB
Shoes: AE
Belt: JA
 

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