WAYWRN: Classic Menswear, Casual Style

[Caustic Man]

I used to do the polo shirt under a jacket quite frequently but I grew dis-satisfied with the way the shirt collar sinks down under the jacket collar as you demonstrated here.

I just did it to prove that I can do the SF fashion poof thing, too.

 

[gettoasty]

Eidos Lupos does a great job worn with a jacket.

 

[Thin White Duke]

I just did it to prove that I can do the SF fashion poof thing, too.

I have no idea what that means.

 

[Caustic Man]

Someone out there does.

 

[Blake Stitched Blues]

I'm assuming the term has a different meaning for our American friends? I'd like to think that CM's causticity doesn't extend to casual homophobia.

 

[Chaconne]

It's not just our names...

 

[K. Nights]

I'm assuming the term has a different meaning for our American friends?

It does not, unfortunately...

 

[Jacobs]

*waiting for CM's response

 

[SprezzaTrash]

Camp collars are "in" now, but I prefer buying the true vintage ones! More variety in fabrics/colors and they have a bit more personality imo. I've been wearing them this past week a little too often.

All the shirts are true vintage and made of soft, drape-y gabardine

 

[An Acute Style]

Camp collars are "in" now, but I prefer buying the true vintage ones! More variety in fabrics/colors and they have a bit more personality imo. I've been wearing them this past week a little too often.

All the shirts are true vintage and made of soft, drape-y gabardine

Really nice looks. I like the last one the most. I think the first look could use a lighter pair of shoes.

 

[thefoxtooth]

I think jeans and sport coats are two of the most heralded garments in the menswear worlds. I think when it comes to naming a favorite menswear piece most people's mind will either go to a suit or sport coat. On the casual side, jeans are an absolute favorite. I think people want these worlds to collide: casually formal and formally casual. The non-moronic oxymoron. It does work sometimes. Hopefully, we can come up with a metric in the new thread.

I suppose you're right. Two items that are so universally loved are bound to be forever entangled in some kind of quixotic menswear Grail-quest. I look forward to watching everyone ruin their sanity over it.

 

[noob in 89]

Aren't the best streetwear looks mostly jeans and blazers, though?

APC jeans, EG blazer, and untucked shirt has been my default for a few years. Slim black jeans and boots for a more sinister look...

I'm not too accomplished, but cotton dockers certainly provides a lot of good examples. For a more CM look, maybe, seems like a lot of tv personalities pull off the jeans and blazer look, like, I dunno, Tim Gunn or that What Not to Wear guy...

 

[EFV]

Yesterday

 

[MrUnderwood]

@SprezzaTrash

That last outfit seems incredible difficult to pull off, but i think you really make it look effortless and natural, nicely done!

 

[thefoxtooth]

I used to do the polo shirt under a jacket quite frequently but I grew dis-satisfied with the way the shirt collar sinks down under the jacket collar as you demonstrated here.

I've never felt that comfortable in an open necked shirt but I finally got over my aversion to BD shirts and got a couple. Also a couple of popovers in BD and hidden BD, and a couple of pique BDs from Kamakura all of which were attempts to straddle that formal-casual bridge to be worn under a blazer with reasonable success. Next I'm gonna try a Kent Wang rugby.

I'm really into the flyaway spearpoint polos at SJC, as advocated by @SprezzaTrash . Putting your collar outside is due for a return. http://www.simonjamescathcart.com/summer-polo-shirts/