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

[ericgereghty]

Geesh, where do you live? It was a mini blizzard here today.

I like the choice of handkerchief.

Cheers. From Vanda (obviously can't recommend highly enough) and their Aesop's fables run. Top notch quality, and a fun little moral to accompany it.
Los Angeles. Temps are finally "dropping" into the 50s (with rain!) in the coming days. Can't come soon enough.

 

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Cheers. From Vanda (obviously can't recommend highly enough) and their Aesop's fables run. Top notch quality, and a fun little moral to accompany it.
Los Angeles. Temps are finally "dropping" into the 50s (with rain!) in the coming days. Can't come soon enough.

Can't Come Soon Enough, I've Purchased So Much Flannel...

 

[TheSuitBurnsBetter]

So You Had Bernie Over!

I was taking pictures for like 20 minutes before I even noticed he was behind me!

 

[Andy57]

It has occurred to me that, when I emerge from my home dressed as I usually am when posting in this forum, that, in comparison to fellow citizens, I appear like a Spanish galleon in full sail in a sea of motorized dinghies - a bit grandiose and out of step with the current world. So be it. For better or worse, I enjoy exercising the visual vocabulary of menswear, manipulating line, form, color and texture to whatever visual effect I deem most pleasing, in this, one of most temporary of civilized pleasures, dressing well.

We are of like mind.

Places to go.

 

[DapperPhilly]

We are of like mind.

Places to go.
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Let me guess, ACE hardware run?

 

[bernoulli]

Having exhausted reasons to commission new suits, I resorted to eccentricity for justifying a new one.

 

[upr_crust]

Let me guess, ACE hardware run?

Well, Ace is the place, after all, isn't it?

 

[JJ Katz]

A Spanish Colonial Revival tile stairway and me.

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Brooks Brothers Brookstweed jacket and BB#1 stripe tie, L L Bean blue and white University stripe OCBD shirt and corduroy trousers, Thomas Pink pocket square, and Allen-Edmonds shoes.

Those of us who have had the good fortune to have lived most of our lives before the internet was invented can still remember when people buttoned their jackets any way they wanted.

Then the internet was invented and a gaggle of silly twits starting making up totally ridiculous "rules" about buttoning jackets.

Always remember your jackets are your property. You went to work to make the money to pay for your jackets and no one has the right to tell you how to button your jacket.

Here's yet another example from the Golden Era before the internet was invented. It's a picture I found on the PBS website in a slideshow related to the program, "The Unseen Alistair Cooke".

Here we can all see Alistair Cooke with only the bottom button buttoned on a three button jacket.

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When I was young, someone who’d attended college in the 50s said that the preferred way for a lot of fellows back then was indeed to tie only thebottom button

 

[JJ Katz]

Not sold on the shirt, but happy with everything else. The shirt is a purple bengal stripe. It doesn’t photograph well.

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Spoiler: Shots from my new camera.

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Nah, the shirt works great...

 

[Roycru]

When I was young, someone who’d attended college in the 50s said that the preferred way for a lot of fellows back then was indeed to tie only thebottom button

One of the many pictures from the wonderful time before the internet was invented and people buttoned their jackets any way they wanted.

(From 1954 to 1994 I lived around the corner from where this picture was taken.)

 

[Andy57]

Let me guess, ACE hardware run?

Yep. Ace, Whole Foods, my dry cleaners, and then another grocery store.

Well, Ace is the place, after all, isn't it?

It is, indeed. What's more, I have just discovered the joys of ordering online with curbside pickup!

 

[Andy57]

This suit is better, um, suited to evening, I think. But I don't recall the last time I went anywhere during the evening.

 

[RajunCajun]

I'm curious as to why I don't see khaki pants paired with a navy blazer too often if at all. Is that not how life is done anymore?

 

[DapperPhilly]

This suit is better, um, suited to evening, I think. But I don't recall the last time I went anywhere during the evening.
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That is perfect

 

[cr2596]

I'm curious as to why I don't see khaki pants paired with a navy blazer too often if at all. Is that not how life is done anymore?

That reads of adolescence and school uniforms to me, which is why I avoid it. Then again, I’m not into ivy at all. Do you.