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

[Clouseau]

You say you don’t wear classic clothes to feel superior, yet in the same breath you say they are “so much nicer” and “a more elevated style”.

And so my point about living in a self-reinforcing bubble.

Who knows what he really wears, he never had the guts to post a fit. 😉

 

[TheFoo]

Who knows what he really wears, he never had the guts to post a fit. 😉

So, he’s a dieworkwear sock puppet?

 

[An Acute Style]

Question is what comes next…

The one true Foo?

 

[TheFoo]

The one true Foo?

Lol maybe. I just know I like myself better now than I did 10-15 years ago when I was trekking to Naples and Paris just to get some especially nicely-stitched shirts or bespoke suits that I can’t wear anywhere anymore without quietly rationalizing to myself some bullsh!t about how “a suit is never wrong”.

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

though once you drop the pretension, it can still be fun to occaisonally wear a suit in an otherwise inappropriate environment for one

 

[An Acute Style]

Lol maybe. I just know I like myself better now than I did 10-15 years ago when I was trekking to Naples and Paris just to get some especially nicely-stitched shirts or bespoke suits that I can’t wear anywhere anymore without quietly rationalizing to myself some bullsh!t about how “a suit is never wrong”.

Everyone has their own arc to self discovery. I’m glad you’ve discovered what makes you happy.

My arc has been a lot cheaper, involved less travel, surrounded by people with a lot less money, and a lot more encouragement about me wearing what I like without judgement. Most negativity around my attire has come from people who don’t know me. I’m ok with that.

It sounds like you went through a lot. I’m glad you’re healing.

 

[DapperPhilly]

Wasn’t trying to be “deep” at all. Just honest.

Honesty is great. My "thats deep" quip was merely trying to add some levity.
However, that was why I ended with, to each their own.
I have only worked for myself and was blessed enough to never have to dress
up.
I do it because I like (and my wife) the way I look. I like the different feel of cloths. There is an aesthetic I can't satisfy with casual clothes although that is what I mostly wear.
The tactile (to the touch and skin) aspect that I also can't satisfy with just casual clothes.

Tonight I will be dressing up for a dinner out. In south Florida almost nobody dresses up aside from charity type events. I will almost assuredly be the only one with a tie on this evening.
A smattering of SC's likely.

Enjoy the journey.

 

[Thin White Duke]

Lol maybe. I just know I like myself better now than I did 10-15 years ago when I was trekking to Naples and Paris just to get some especially nicely-stitched shirts or bespoke suits that I can’t wear anywhere anymore without quietly rationalizing to myself some bullsh!t about how “a suit is never wrong”.

I was always curious to know if you ever received your ten pairs of $1k strides from Italy?
And if so, along with all your other now unloved gear - what did you do with it? Send it all to a charity? To Luxe Swap? Or is it gathering dust in your cupboard?

What does one do with a closet full of expensive clothes when the road to stylistic Nirvana takes a sharp turn I wonder?

 

[An Acute Style]

Blackwatch madras and linen.

 

[DapperPhilly]

Question is what comes next…



Have not worn a tie in many years. Have only worn a suit sparingly. Enjoying letting go of rigid adherence to traditional menswear and obsession with quality. Hard for me to even look at my old clothes without feeling a little embarrassed for how niche / costumey they have become (or maybe always were). Menswear is a self-reinforcing bubble.

Will tell you having done the bespokiest of bespoke (even traveling internationally for it) that life is a lot more fun this way. I feel a lot happier participating in current fashion and culture rather than smirking at them while I fuss with my HMS Victory pocket square.

If I’m being honest, wearing bespoke / classic menswear always required a level of “holier than thou” ego to withstand the fact that I was constantly dressing so far outside social norm. Not healthy.

"Enjoying letting go of rigid adherence to traditional menswear and obsession with quality."

The clothes you are wearing, by my (googles) estimation cost approximately $2K+.
Thats a high pice to pay for something not quality?

"the fact that I was constantly dressing so far outside social norm."

Do you see what you're wearing as the "social norm"?

 

[loarbmhs]

I like the length, I wouldn't touch it.

Agree. The length looks fine. The last thing you want to risk is winding up with today's show-half-my-butt, ridiculously short jackets. That fad will, I hope, die a quick and permanent death.

 

[Roycru]

A tree and me on 5th Street in Santa Monica CA.

There is a Styleforum thread about some bizarre subset of humanity who lack the basic life skills to be able get the ends of their ties to come out correctly.

Tie Back Blade Length - Can we discuss?

I have noticed a trend where otherwise very stylish guys dressed in finely tailored clothing tie their tie in a way where the back blade is longer than the front and very prominently showing. To me this looks very bad and "wrong", quickly catching my attention and diverting my gaze there over...

www.styleforum.net

All Brooks Brothers except for a Vineyard Vines belt and Allen-Edmonds white suede shoes.

For fans of fire equipment pictures in clothing groups, some Santa Monica Fire Department equipment.

 

[Thin White Duke]

A tree and me on 5th Street in Santa Monica CA.

There is a Styleforum thread about some bizarre subset of humanity who lack the basic life skills to be able get the ends of their ties to come out correctly.

Tie Back Blade Length - Can we discuss?

I have noticed a trend where otherwise very stylish guys dressed in finely tailored clothing tie their tie in a way where the back blade is longer than the front and very prominently showing. To me this looks very bad and "wrong", quickly catching my attention and diverting my gaze there over...

www.styleforum.net

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All Brooks Brothers except for a Vineyard Vines belt and Allen-Edmonds white suede shoes.

For fans of fire equipment pictures in clothing groups, some Santa Monica Fire Department equipment.

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I was hoping you’d get in that thread and impart some of your wisdom Roy😁

 

[Roycru]

I was hoping you’d get in that thread and impart some of your wisdom Roy😁

Out of curiosity looked at that thread when I got the email from Styleforum promoting it, but as I usually do, took the advice about not giving that which is holy unto the dogs, or casting my pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

I also ignore all posts made by people who never post pictures of themselves.

 

[TheFoo]

"Enjoying letting go of rigid adherence to traditional menswear and obsession with quality."

The clothes you are wearing, by my (googles) estimation cost approximately $2K+.
Thats a high pice to pay for something not quality?

"the fact that I was constantly dressing so far outside social norm."

Do you see what you're wearing as the "social norm"?

One doesn’t just pay for the number of man hours that goes into physically constructing a thing. There is such a thing as design. And feel. And mood. Etc.

Yes, what I’m wearing is far more within the norm for downtown Manhattan than a suit would be.