HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part IV (starting May 2014)

[EFV]

LOL, the delusion is too real. I'll stick with bootleg Roycru. Hey, keep doing you, whatever floats your boat kid.

^ bootleg Sarto

I like to think that after being here for several years, I have a sense of other peoples' styles even though they aren't necessarily like my own. I find this should be the basis for suggestion and critique. I can't imagine Claghorn wearing a BD collar or Crusty wearing pants with no break. It would be silly to tell EFV that I think a sack jacket would look good on him or that Sprezza should buy a suit from Suit Supply. I can comment that the lower gorge on a particular jacket is disproportional or that the shoulders are too wide or a jacket is too short or a particular combo is too busy. We may all have different styles, but there is a common aesthetic language that I think we share. These comments will hopefully help the poster grow into his own style, because there is no one true style. Let's help everyone discover and make the most of their own personal style and not try to turn them in to SF drones.

I've owned sack jackets. Don't know if I ever posted pics here though.

 

[blekit]

I find constructive criticism a major factor in improving someone's style. However, there's a big difference between that and just some random trolling, especially from someone who doesn't post pictures himself. I don't always like fits presented by regular posters here, but in most cases I appreciate their sense of style - even when it's not quite like my own.

Anyways, lots of linen and colours for me today. And I couldn't figure what ps would go well with this fit, so in the end there is none.

Spoiler: Details

* Suitsupply
* Tyrwhitt
* tie from Embassy of Elegance
* Benevento trousers
* Barker

 

[upr_crust]

It is interesting to see how one's wardrobe can demarcate the march of Time. Today's suit was bought eight years ago, and at the time, it was the slimmest fit suit into which I could comfortably fit. Now, it's a more generous fit than others in my wardrobe, and the jacket length is about an inch longer than I consider optimal for myself. (I must confess that, prior to posting in these fora, I had never considered jacket length in terms of optimizing one's proportions.)

Today's shirt is even older - some 14 years old, a byproduct of my first MTM suit, made at Brooks, and fitted by Martin Greenfield. I was under the mistaken impression that I needed the longest point shirt collars to contrast with my rather round face. Times have changed, and my face, happily, is less round. In order to wear today's shirt effectively, I've had to resort to using a collar bar.

Suit - BB Fitzgerald
Shirt - BB MTM
Tie - BB
Cufflinks - Wedgwood, via Harrods, Heathrow Terminal 3
PS - vintage no name brand
Shoes - Harris, via Barney's, Boston

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[smittycl]

It is interesting to see how one's wardrobe can demarcate the march of Time. Today's suit was bought eight years ago, and at the time, it was the slimmest fit suit into which I could comfortably fit. Now, it's a more generous fit than others in my wardrobe, and the jacket length is about an inch longer than I consider optimal for myself. (I must confess that, prior to posting in these fora, I had never considered jacket length in terms of optimizing one's proportions.)

Today's shirt is even older - some 14 years old, a byproduct of my first MTM suit, made at Brooks, and fitted by Martin Greenfield. I was under the mistaken impression that I needed the longest point shirt collars to contrast with my rather round face. Times have changed, and my face, happily, is less round. In order to wear today's shirt effectively, I've had to resort to using a collar bar.

Suit - BB Fitzgerald
Shirt - BB MTM
Tie - BB
Cufflinks - Wedgwood, via Harrods, Heathrow Terminal 3
PS - vintage no name brand
Shoes - Harris, via Barney's, Boston

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Very elegant this morning (as always of course)! I have no experience with collar bars. I assume once you use that shirt is committed to bars forever, right? Basically a big safety pin?

 

[upr_crust]

Very elegant this morning (as always of course)! I have no experience with collar buys. I assume once you use that shirt is committed to bars forever, right? Basically a big safety pin?

Nope. This collar bar just uses pressure to hold onto the collar - a more elegant version of a double-headed paper clip. A collar pin actually pierces the collar, and for the use of collar pins, I have my shirts made with eyelets to accommodate the pin. I have seen men use collar pins with shirts not made for them, but it's not a custom in which I would ever engage.

 

[Claghorn]

I don't believe I've ever seen you sans tie. Or at least infrequently enough to not remember.

I don't bother with pictures if I'm not wearing a tie. I think I posted a picture recently though in the SM thread of me without a tie. Though I'm not wearing a BD.

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[jdp234]

I know, darker shoes

 

[DFWWingnut]

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But yeah, generally not

This jacket is awesome. Love the patch pockets and blue/brown pattern. Details?

 

[smittycl]

Hot and awful today but a bunch of meetings squashed my Seersucker plans. Breaking in new knock-about dive watch bought to wear in seedy locations were Sub is impractical and outright dangerous. Violating sports band with suit policy. It is summer after all...

Suit: RLBL
Tie: Seaward and Stearn
Shirt: Emmanuel Berg

 

[Roy Al]

Hello, hello. Donegal he said...

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[jdp234]

Nope. This collar bar just uses pressure to hold onto the collar - a more elegant version of a double-headed paper clip. A collar pin actually pierces the collar, and for the use of collar pins, I have my shirts made with eyelets to accommodate the pin. I have seen men use collar pins with shirts not made for them, but it's not a custom in which I would ever engage.

Unfused collars are largely unharmed by pinning in my (admittedly limited) experience. A quick iron will make the holes hard to spot to the point where I'll happily wear them sans-pin, and you can't even see the hole after a wash. (I'm sure that if you pinned them every time you wore them you'd eventually get some raggedy spots.)

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@Roy Al wearing trousers with a break? What will they think of next?

As always, your trousers are an example to us all.

 

[Roy Al]

@jdp234 When it comes to my bottom I'm multi talented. ;-)

 

[Mr Knightley]

The weather continues quite autumnal and dodging the rain today:

Spoiler: Details

Suit and Shirt - Charles Tyrwhitt
Tie and braces - TM Lewin

 

[dalevy]

The stripes on the socks are not visible except when sitting down. Apologize in advance.

 

[Markus W]

Jacket/Pant - Suitsupply
Shirt - Kamakura
Tie/Pocket Square - Von Amper