The Look goes on...

[am55]

Today i never see a suit, never see a tie, and when you wear a blazer and a shirt you almost look overdressed !

Mais non, in 2019, suranné is in:

Cédric Villani, candidat à la Mairie de Paris - Le Nouveau Paris

Site officiel de campagne de Cédric Villani, candidat à la Mairie de Paris en 2020. Retrouvez son actualité et ses propositions. Soutenez sa campagne.

www.cedricvillani.paris

 

[Clouseau]

Mais non, in 2019, suranné is in:

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Cédric Villani, candidat à la Mairie de Paris - Le Nouveau Paris

Site officiel de campagne de Cédric Villani, candidat à la Mairie de Paris en 2020. Retrouvez son actualité et ses propositions. Soutenez sa campagne.

www.cedricvillani.paris

I ran into him a couple of weeks ago, he didn't wear a three piece suit nor his weird tie, that he probably Keeps for the medias. He had his TM spider brooch though.

 

[Mr Knightley]

As @cerneabbas said this could be a very good and necessary debate. I think it is, but I was not really commenting on the declining standards in menswear (and in many other things) in my post, although I may have hinted at that decline.

I was really posing the question – thinking of @Kingstonian 's original point – as to whether a (good) blouson can ever convey the same sense of style and occasion as a (good) suit. I was not thinking about the plain man who buys his suits and his onesies at Primark or Asda, drives a new £70K Range Rover but drives it in dirty trainers and a t-shirt.

I suppose, in response, you guys were saying that in very few settings today can a suit ever look ‘right’ and hence the need to dress more casually. But doesn’t that depend on where you go and what you do?

I am looking forward to the current FC to see whether a smart blouson can indeed outshine a fine CM fit.

@Yorky your post reminded me that the navy velvet jacket became, for a short time in the late 1970s, a serious alternative to the navy blazer. I saw businessmen in France and Belgium sporting them during the day with grey flannel trousers and loafers and did my best to copy that look. Today I would advise checking out (if you haven’t already) the thread on the CM boards ‘The State of Black Tie’ which focuses on evening wear in a broad sense. May be helpful for your New Year bash. BTW Mrs Yorky sounds a very stylish lady!

 

[Clouseau]

I think it is a bit like comparing French food to Chinese food. It can't compare !
Both can be excellent or terrible...
And anyway it is subjective : a young SW&D guy will most probably find ridiculous and dated a "Fine CM suit" and vice versa...
So it is an irrelevant debate imho...

 

[Jimmy Balantyne]

 

[Clouseau]

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Nice one. But i much prefer the Stowa, who is also an original Flieger maker, and that don't have a logo (optional), and an optional date. They are also cheaper and exist in a lot of different sizes.

 

[Jimmy Balantyne]

Nice one. But i much prefer the Stowa, who is also an original Flieger maker, and that don't have a logo (optional), and an optional date. They are also cheaper and exist in a lot of different sizes.

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Yeah, you would.

 

[Clouseau]

Yeah, you would.

All this things you post, some are nice. Would be interesting to see them in a "fit" once.

 

[Jimmy Balantyne]

Stroll on longshanks.

 

[Kingstonian]

On another non style related forum I look at, whenever someone asks for advice along the lines of needing a suit for a wedding or other event, there is always a plethora of people advising to get one from George at Asda as you can throw it out afterwards. Even my brother - hardly a sartorial icon but he knows me well enough - when I told him that last time I went home to England I took one dark navy suit plus shirt and tie just in case there was a funeral or impromptu wedding invitation, he replied that if it was him he would have just bought a cheap one if necessary and then thrown it out later.

This seems to be the modern mentality, that more formal clothing is used so rarely it’s now disposable like a Bic razor.

Anyway as for smart casual - here’s a cross post from the MC casual thread. Details on the blog ...

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The sweater reminds me of a Four Tops EP cover. I like knitwear with insets. You don’t see it so much these days

https://img.discogs.com/o9hrnf_qRYZ2NoVhRPETT2cfmp4=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3100271-1316117402.jpeg.jpg

 

[Thin White Duke]

Haha good spot!
I think this kind of knitwear has a very sixties look to it. Don’t recall seeing anything like it during the revival period of say 1979 onwards but I see them occasionally offered these days by the likes of Art Gallery, John Smedley, or even Madcap England. Sometimes you see them as a cardigan with a similar polo collar but buttons all the way to the hem. I’m not much into cardigans but I’d consider one of them if the style and colours were right.

 

[Jimmy Balantyne]

Once you said. OK, here you go. This is probably the only selfie I've got. It was taken in Cordings, in a (successful) attempt to win my missus round to the jacket. This garment is one of those I posted.

 

[Botolph]

@Jimmy Balantyne is that the silk and linen blend jacket? I have a Cordings jacket that looks identical to that in the aforementioned blend.

 

[Jimmy Balantyne]

@Jimmy Balantyne is that the silk and linen blend jacket? I have a Cordings jacket that looks identical to that in the aforementioned blend.

It is B.

 

[Botolph]

It is B.

??Great minds and all that.