Styles that make you shudder...

[Risque]

So, we're just getting in to Spring weather in Sydney, and one of my colleagues in his late 50's came in to work today wearing a short sleeve white shirt with a dated floral tie.

For a long time, I've joked with friends and called this outfit the Sipowicz (in honour of Dennis Franz, NYPD Blue), but figured it was a thing of myth in modern office environments.

With this in mind, what are some of the outfits you are seeing (or predict you'll be seeing shortly) that make you shudder? Extra credit if you give the ensemble a catchy title

 

[wmmk]

With the right sense of irony (and some youth), a shortsleeve white OCBD and narsty tie could work rather well...

 

[NiFTY]

i would have to agree with you risque, and maybe go even farther, i think that there is never a place for a short sleeve button up, that couldn't be better accomplished with a longsleeve with the sleeves rolled up. it is even worse if they are wearing a short-sleeve shirt & a jacket, a la dwight from the office.

an ensemble i hate with a passion, is running shoes, proper running shoes like cross-trainers, with jeans, i would call it the american college student, but this is an american site.

 

[garmentmerchant]

I call it the Chinese business man suit short sleeve shirt and tie

 

[Risque]

Originally Posted by NiFTY

i would have to agree with you risque, and maybe go even farther, i think that there is never a place for a short sleeve button up, that couldn't be better accomplished with a longsleeve with the sleeves rolled up. it is even worse if they are wearing a short-sleeve shirt & a jacket, a la dwight from the office.

Exactly. I couldn't agree more.

Originally Posted by NiFTY

an ensemble i hate with a passion, is running shoes, proper running shoes like cross-trainers, with jeans, i would call it the american college student, but this is an american site.

I've seen plenty of that in Aust, you could easily just call it the 'College Student'... of course excluding the sartorially inclined students amongst us

 

[MrFab]

Do you count converse, sambas, or something that style a running shoe? I think that actually looks pretty good, but actual athletic shoes are a total hot mess, especially those ones that have springs or something on them! I mean, oh my god! Those look bad with pretty much anything.

My number one most shudder-worthy style that I've seen as of late are those ridiculous croc slippers. And the fact that they're always in obscenely bright and loud colors just draws more attention to their awfulness. Does anybody here wear them (witch hunt!)? I still don't get what the appeal is to all those people who buy them

 

[appolyon]

I'll throw in my 2 cents and say men or women in professional attire (read suits) that wear trainers for the oh so long walk from the tram/train station to work and back.

I have no good name for this at the moment (yes I know I'm in marketing but I can't think at the moment) ... but I will edit this if I come up with one soon

 

[greyinla]

Blue blazer, white shirt, (striped) tie and khakis. In practice, it usually looks like the poor guy was dressed by his mom for the junior prom and not too happy about it.

 

[bbaquiran]

Didn't we have this exact same thread a couple of weeks ago?

 

[Star]

Originally Posted by appolyon

I'll throw in my 2 cents and say men or women in professional attire (read suits) that wear trainers for the oh so long walk from the tram/train station to work and back.

I have no good name for this at the moment (yes I know I'm in marketing but I can't think at the moment) ... but I will edit this if I come up with one soon

I don't now how a man wearing trainers with a suite can be called a 'man'.

 

[merkur]

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[alliswell]

Originally Posted by Star

I don't now how a man wearing trainers with a suite can be called a 'man'.

Why do people misspell suit this way? It's not a homonym, for instance.

 

[Get Smart]

Originally Posted by NiFTY

i think that there is never a place for a short sleeve button up, that couldn't be better accomplished with a longsleeve with the sleeves rolled up.

there's a huge difference in feeling to wearing a half sleeve shirt vs l/s rolled up. If it's a really hot day and your sleeves are rolled, that area around your elbow where all that fabric is rolled makes you feel so much warmer than wearing a half sleeve. But I'd also say that most guys don't look good in half sleeves, and NO ONE looks good in half sleeves w/tie (not even cool, hip, ironic guys).

 

[johnnyblazini]

Thom Browne and the infamous university student red tie on red shirt combo..

 

[Fuuma]

Anything that's not to be found in apparel arts. Those youngin dress like vagrants.