HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part III

[FlyingMonkey]

Today. A lot of brown and a lot of Argyll and Sutherland Highlander. Double cardi party. The big one is old school Abercrombie. I think another color shirt would have been better, but it's all I had. I need to do laundry badly.

On cardigan is enough, two cardigans starts to look a little excessive...

 

[The Bleeb]

Orvis? You mean the angling company Orvis? Either way the collar looks a bit flimsy, needs a bit more stiffness for a conservative business dress kind of look IMO.

Yup Orvis the fly fishing store. They did make some nice clothing in the day, such as this shirt. Unfortunately, the collar is 1/2" too small, but it wore it anyway because I was running late. How annoying. It fit well several years back! It will be sent to the Island of Misfit Shirts.

btw - What does conservative business dress stand for? A man's got to know what look he's after....

 

[An Acute Style]

On cardigan is enough, two cardigans starts to look a little excessive...

Excessive like brown pants, cardigan, tie and shoes and A&SH cardigan, watch strap and socks. I feel you, but I think of the top one as outerwear and the other one as more of just a sweater. The top one is too heavy and warm to wear once I got in doors.

 

[in stitches]

no hate, just playin'

 

[in stitches]



btw -  What does conservative business dress stand for? A man's got to know what look he's after....

 

Conservative Business Dress

 

[Pliny]

I'd love to hear any feedback that anyone has, though. I wore this with dark brown chelsea boots.

u have some nice repps YRR.. but a repp like that with navy (blazer?) should take a quieter square.
Patterned square + tie in a 2 pattern fit is sub-optimal- esp when they're so colorful.

 

[The Bleeb]

Conservative Business Dress

That was one of my guesses, but I was going with Cool Blue Dude.

 

[Henry Carter]



Yup Orvis the fly fishing store. They did make some nice clothing in the day, such as this shirt. Unfortunately, the collar is 1/2" too small, but it wore it anyway because I was running late. How annoying. It fit well several years back! It will be sent to the Island of Misfit Shirts.

btw -  What does conservative business dress stand for? A man's got to know what look he's after....

 

Interesting. Only picked up in it being a fly fisherman myself. So looking at it again, taking away the collar, I think you'd benefit also from a bit less yellow there, swap the shirt for light blue. Yellow ties don't get a lot of love here, though personally I don't have anything against them, they always sell pretty slowly when I do them.

 

[Academic2]

[...] I feel you, but I think of the top one as outerwear and the other one as more of just a sweater. [...]

I assumed that’s how you’re thinking of it.

I’m not expressing an opinion on the ensemble, but I will observe that it helps your argument that:

(1) The inside sweater is about the proper length for a waistcoat and you wear it like one, with the lowest button unbuttoned; and

(2) The outer sweater is about the right length for a sport coat, and even has pockets very approximately where a sport coat would (it would strengthen the analogy if it also had a chest pocket …).

Cheers,

Ac

 

[mktitsworth]



On cardigan is enough, two cardigans starts to look a little excessive...

It was all he had.

 

[The Bleeb]

Interesting. Only picked up in it being a fly fisherman myself. So looking at it again, taking away the collar, I think you'd benefit also from a bit less yellow there, swap the shirt for light blue. Yellow ties don't get a lot of love here, though personally I don't have anything against them, they always sell pretty slowly when I do them.

I recently picked up some BB no-iron shirts at the outlet in shades of blue and purples. I won a few wonderful ties that members here had listed on eBay, and I'm happy to announce that they're not yellow. I have resurrected some of my father's suits that my wife didn't donate away (the Leading Co., Samuelsohn, BB Golden Fleece, etc.) and overcoats (Canali cashmere, etc), and picked up a Medit and another Sammy on eBay too. I may be headed in the correct direction, with the help here. Thanks.

BTW - I still like yellow.

 

[YRR92]

Hmm... I must be confused between the type of silk and where it is made. Can you explain the difference?



Also is the shirt you wore white or ecru?

That shirt is white, but when I originally took the picture, it appeared to be a rich shade of yellow. I had to pull all manner of tricks to get the colors to look right.

The understanding I had is that a printed neat (as beloved on SF) was called a "Spitalsfield," after one of the other centers of British silk weaving, while a Macclesfield is a woven pattern (as underrepresented on SF). In this thread I came up with trying to check my facts, Manton says a Spitalsfield is still a woven pattern, but with a larger scale, so I'll defer to him.

I think the term "Macclesfield pattern" is a menswear term, not a weaving term, so they make more than just that kind of pattern in Macclesfield. That's a paisley (type of pattern) foulard (type of printing), as far as I know. A "Macclesfield pattern" wouldn't make a good square.

Here's an example of a Macclesfield tie, from one of the best things ever written about ties online (Tintin uses the Macclesfield/Spitalsfield terminology as I thought it was):

u have some nice repps YRR.. but a repp like that with navy (blazer?) should take a quieter square.
Patterned square + tie in a 2 pattern fit is sub-optimal- esp when they're so colorful.

Thank you. My inclination would have been towards a quieter square, but I felt I had to do something to play with the brightly colored cotton trousers.

I know I've heard

say that the issue with wearing a patterned tie and square with a solid coat and tie is that it tends to make it look like you're trying to stretch a small wardrobe with bold furnishings -- and I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm doing just that.

 

[Pliny]

The understanding I had is that a printed neat (as beloved on SF) was called a "Spitalsfield," after one of the other centers of British silk weaving, while a Macclesfield is a woven pattern (as underrepresented on SF). In this thread I came up with trying to check my facts, Manton says a Spitalsfield is still a woven pattern, but with a larger scale, so I'll defer to him.

I think the term "Macclesfield pattern" is a menswear term, not a weaving term, so they make more than just that kind of pattern in Macclesfield. That's a paisley (type of pattern) foulard (type of printing), as far as I know. A "Macclesfield pattern" wouldn't make a good square.

Here's an example of a Macclesfield tie, from one of the best things ever written about ties online (Tintin uses the Macclesfield/Spitalsfield terminology as I thought it was):
Thank you. My inclination would have been towards a quieter square, but I felt I had to do something to play with the brightly colored cotton trousers.I know I've heard

say that the issue with wearing a patterned tie and square with a solid coat and tie is that it tends to make it look like you're trying to stretch a small wardrobe with bold furnishings -- and I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm doing just that.

Flusser talks about the diff between Spits and Maccs in Dressing the Man, and IIRC they're the same basic design- neats - but one is larger than the other. Not sure which tho. He describes them both as formal-ish and has some great pics of Grant and others wearing them. FWIW IMO they both look better narrow with a small knot.


edit: The Spittalsfield appears to be a smaller denser pattern (tho that's opposite of Manton). Found this one of Grant in a Spits (from Flusser)

 

[FlyingMonkey]

It was all he had.

Man, that's only one step above total ruin and homelessness...

PS: I was vaguely paraphrasing Oscar Wilde in my comment - no-one seems to have noticed

 

[Claghorn]

shoes are new, so I had no qualms wearing them indoors.

SF Family:
Howard Yount (tie, trousers)
Post-Imperial (square)
Meermin (shoes)