More on wearing button-downs with DB suits

[Film Noir Buff]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

I understand what you're saying, but I think it's pretty easy to tell when a guy knows what he's doing. Conversely, it's pretty easy to tell when a guy doesn't know what he's doing. These days, the gulf between the two is so wide that those collar buttons are even tinier than they were before, if you take my meaning. If Vox, say, walked into your office wearing a DB with a BD and a bowtie, I imagine the fit of his suit, the quality of his shoes, and his choice of accessories would make a pretty compelling case that his collar selection was not at all ignorantura. I'd much rather see that sort of quirk and eccentricity than yet another fellow in a ghastly pastel point collar shirt and square-toed, corrected-grain Kenneth Cole frankenshoes.
Vox would never make it to someone's office, he would be too swamped by autograph seekers and sprezzarazzi.

 

[zalb916]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

Head size aside, does this really look bad?

We're only supposed to comment on the BD w/ the DB aspect, right? Because it would be fun to rehash the larger discussion of the outfit again.

 

[joshman]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

Head size aside, does this really look bad?

It'd be perfect if the shirt collar's cutaway BD.

 

[crazyquik]

I have a French cuff, oxford cloth, button down, (pleated) dinner shirt from Black Fleece. Merely in jest, of course.

 

[unjung]

BD with FC and DB... isn't that a bit of a mongrel, Continental-French-Pom-Yankee look?

 

[Trompe le Monde]

buncha old men who worship dead actors and art sketches arguing over the internet.....

 

[ferguscan]

I think it looks rubbish. But then, I wouldn't wear a BD collar with any suit. But then, I'm not American, so what do I know about such things?

Stuart

 

[voxsartoria]

Where's my stock OCBD with a DB jacket shot?

Oh...here it is:

Not a suit, though.


- B

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

Vox would never make it to someone's office, he would be too swamped by autograph seekers and sprezzarazzi.

Don't forget the little snipers in Sviglia suits.

They're small but feisty.


- B

 

[TRINI]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Where's my stock OCBD with a DB jacket shot?

Oh...here it is:

Not a suit, though.


- B

B, what material is that jacket again?

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Don't forget the little snipers in Sviglia suits. They're small but feisty.
I don't wear Sviglia.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

I don't wear Sviglia.

The guy in Sviglia is not as tall as you.


- B

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by TRINI

B, what material is that jacket again?

Cotton.

- B

 

[RyJ Maduro]

I recently wore a peak lapel, SB, windowpane suit with an OCBD and bow tie...

...and a surcingle belt.

Am I a goober?

 

[J. Cogburn]

It wasn't a DB, so no, you were not a Goober. But given the aggregation of sartorial oddities associated with that outfit, you may well have been Goober's cousin - Gomer. Can't know for sure unless you would be so kind as to post a photo.