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

[bienluienapris]

Just adding a pictures with the covert coat :

 

[worthlessturtle]

First official outing for my new bespoke suit in a very subdue, classical combination. Very happy

 

[Patrick R]

Is it the same?
I'm quite happy with mine, since it's easy to dress both up and down according to what I wear together with it.

It is the same and I agree that it is easy to wear and I'm entirely happy with it. I also have 14827:

 

[Roy Al]

That's a nice one. Looks perfect on you @Patrick R
May I ask who made it for you?
Mine is made by Whitcomb & Shaftesbury.

 

[Patrick R]

That's a nice one. Looks perfect on you @Patrick R
May I ask who made it for you?
Mine is made by Whitcomb & Shaftesbury.

Thank you. Both were made by Chris Despos.

 

[afterthesuit]

A bit subdued today in blue, green and grey.

 

[Michael81]

One of the advantages of getting older is that one can affect styles with greater impunity. Prior to the death of my first husband, I had expressed the desire for a Homburg, to which he said, 'You're too young to wear a Homburg". After his death, as a 54-year-old widower, I figured then I was old enough to wear a Homburg.

Agreed. These days, dressing conservatively is almost an act of rebellion for guys my age. I look forward to when it will simply be considered 'dressing'.

Conversely, I am grateful to have grown up in a time when balding white guys could shave their heads without being called fascists. Swings and roundabouts.

(Sorry to hear you lost your husband so young.)

 

[upr_crust]



Agreed. These days, dressing conservatively is almost an act of rebellion for guys my age. I look forward to when it will simply be considered 'dressing'.

Conversely, I am grateful to have grown up in a time when balding white guys could shave their heads without being called fascists. Swings and roundabouts.

(Sorry to hear you lost your husband so young.)

Proper hats (as opposed to hipster skinny-brimmed abominations) for someone your age would be an act of rebellion, or at least rather extreme retro styling.

It is good for those of us with a dearth of follicles that nowadays one can shave one's head without needing also to wear skintight acid-washed jeans and 20-eyelet Doc Martens.

As for my husband (and his loss), he was some 23 years my senior, though I can tell you that the loss of a spouse is an order of magnitude more affecting than the loss of a parent, regardless of the age of the spouse in question.

 

[TweedyProf]

Sorry to hear about your loss, Upr_Crust.

A few late winter fits. Challis and madder.

 

[Roycru]

Summer here again today (around 86F) which is probably not the best thing for the few cherry trees (like the one in this picture) that survived the drought.



Napps Of Waterbury ivory silk jacket, Brooks Brothers pink, blue, and white glen plaid PPBD shirt and BB#1 Stripe tie, Thomas Pink pocket square (that seems to be trying to escape from my pocket although when I left the house this morning it was where it belonged), Banana Republic glen plaid grey linen trousers, Rugby Ralph Lauren socks, and Allen-Edmonds grey suede Strandmoks.

Piece-Of-A-Person (with escaping pocket square) picture.



(It's now back where it belongs but I didn't want to take any more pictures.)

Close up of the shoes and socks. I have ordered grey shoelaces from Shoe Lace Express but they haven't arrived yet.

I have still been walking around all day and (so far) no one has made any bizarre comments about wearing grey shoes with tan shoe laces or about my pocket square trying to escape. Bizarre comments only seem to happen when you post pictures of what you are wearing online (and are often made by those who never post pictures of themselves).

 

[upr_crust]



Sorry to hear about your loss, Upr_Crust.

A few late winter fits. Challis and madder.

Lovely ties, Tweedy, and thank you for your kind thoughts, but my late husband died some seven and a half years ago, and I have had the great good fortune to have remarried someone very different than my first husband, but an equally excellent partner. How I lucked out twice is still a mystery to me, but, as they say, "I'll take it!".

 

[Patrick R]

How I lucked out twice is still a mystery to me

It's no mystery to any of us that have interacted with you over the years.

 

[LAluck5]

Posting this with hesitation. 85 degrees out so the bright colors are coming out.

 

[An Acute Style]

Last days of tweed. New wool tie from PRL.

 

[sugarbutch]

AS, I think that would be great without the navy cardi.