HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part III

[Oleg]



Your iPhone looks huge. Are you 4 feet tall?

 

[UncleCozy]

Chester Barrie
RLPL
T&A
E. Marinella
Omega
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Viccel OTC
C&J Westfields for Barney's NY

All in all, the suit is a bit too long all around and the chalkstripes are nearly identical (shirt v suit). Will be up for sale since I'm dropping in weight (44 going on a muscular 40)

 

[Testudo_Aubreii]

CP, I think I understand what you're trying to do, and I applaud. It's damned difficult. This is one of the cases where I think you either go all out and wear a solid navy tie, or dial it back and add more contrast with a B&W gingham.

Also, if you go the one-color route, I think it's much easier if there's a marked contrast in textures:


I think Windsor got the shirt-tie pairing wrong here.

 

[Testudo_Aubreii]

Solid black tie, I think, Holdfast. I like the pairing of the small blue graph check in the shirt and the bold check in the coat.

 

[macintosh85]

Cuffs look good and very little to no break is my favorite, as well. Can't see the shoes but they look good from here. The tie looks fun and pops on the suit which is slightly dimpling at the shoulders. Sleeve length? Check! Overall looks very nice.
Wait, what color is the shirt? The sharply edged P.S. would look better with a stark white shirt, I think.

Thanks for the input. The shirt is white. It just didn't show up well in the picture. And I'm wearing dark brown Allen Edmonds fifth avenue. Thanks again.

 

[Kappelan]

Thank you guys for your feedback

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[Holdfast]

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Solid black tie, I think, Holdfast. I like the pairing of the small blue graph check in the shirt and the bold check in the coat.

Funnily enough, I did think about using a black tie instead and got to the stage of comparing how a black satin compared to a black grenadine against the outfit (the grenadine was better, just; a knit would have been better still). The thing is - call it a pet theory or perhaps even a bete noire - I really don't appreciate the effect of a really dark solid tie if both the shirt and suit are very pattern-intensive. I much prefer the visual effect of a patterned tie with this (esp. an abstract-ish tie as suit and shirt patterns tend to be geometrically based, as here). I suspect I may well be in a minority of one on this, and that's fair enough (and why I put in the line about the tie being divisive in the look) but I've thought about it a fair bit and come to the conclusion that I just prefer the way a patterned tie looks against a boldly patterned shirt/suit combo, rather than trying to hold everything down with a solid dark tie. Perhaps there's more of the 70s in me than I realised...

Thanks for the constructive & thoughtful feedback though, to both of you. It's sensible & good advice, I suspect, even if I'm wilful enough to disagree. If the suit was a more subdued grey plaid (i.e. a less prominent check) I would almost certainly have gone the solid black route, in fact.

Would like to see this in better lighting; I like the colours and style quite a bit, esp. the flouncy & colourful choice of square.

 

[Citan1145]

Weird shadows today, sorry about the crop jobs. Also, apologies for the "tightness" yesterday, I didn't realize the way I was standing until well after I posted...the pants aren't THAT tight.

Last days of tweed...keeping it simple, new clients today and didn't want to "offend"




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[inlandisland]

Another Mannby & Rorling Tie today. It's my first bowtie, so I hope that I'm pulling it off decently.



Close-ups of the bowtie - "Le Wool":

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Another Mannby & Rorling Tie toady. It's my first bowtie, so I hope that I'm pulling it off decently.

Great bow-tie. However, it might be just me but I think that not only do you need to work on tying a bit but also it does not work with that shirt - it seems to dominate the collar completely.

 

[Tailor Dan]



Chester Barrie
RLPL
T&A
E. Marinella
Omega
/ not visible
Viccel OTC
C&J Westfields for Barney's NY
All in all, the suit is a bit too long all around and the chalkstripes are nearly identical (shirt v suit). Will be up for sale since I'm dropping in weight (44 going on a muscular 40)

Think this looks outstanding. Doesn't look long to me but it's your suit. If you're set on selling how tall are you and can you let me know when you are selling it. Just the three piece?


http://gentlemansgent.blogspot.com/

 

[patrickBOOTH]

I can't tell if you're a sock or not, yet.

 

[ColdEyedPugilist]



Both of you are wearing great-looking ties. Somehow, I don't think either goes well with their respective outfit. Something about the material maybe, rather than the pattern (too fuzzy-textured?). Everything else about both looks is great IMO.





Talking of ties that may divide opinion....

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Hey Holdfast Re: tie and outfit not coherent You're right. I just wore the tie for the heck of it, knowing it'd probably would not go with the navy sharkskin; I was bored. I think the problem is that the tie is at once fuzzy and shiny, which clashes with the sheen of the suit; not sure how else to put it. Think I'll wait for my incoming navy casual suit, which has more texture and patch pockets. P.S. Great casual suit you have there!

 

[Threadbearer]

Four patterns is a lot for me, so I kept colors to a minimum.

 

[NORE]



Dude. I had a dream I was out painting teh town with you and the wimminz and was wearing that olive plaid jacket you have [like the (awesome) tie in this pic] but it was a suit. I said, "look, your suit fits me!". You looked over at me in disbelief. The coat was double breasted but I had it done up in a single-breast fashion. Weird.

There is a thread for this: http://www.styleforum.net/t/225811/style-forum-member-dreams/0_100

Aha! I have replied to Ed's message in that thread. Thank you.