WAYWRN: Classic Menswear, Casual Style

[An Acute Style]

A seasonal display and I at the market early this morning.

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Middishade Madras jacket, Barbour shirt, Vineyard Vines belt, Lands' End trousers, white socks, and Allen-Edmonds penny loafers.

(Also showing what pictures look like when someone much taller than you takes the picture.)

Looking like an Ivy League student on a beer run.

 

[An Acute Style]

I unashamedly stole this look from @EFV

Jacket - Engineered Garments

Cardigan - J Lindeberg

Shirt - Kamakura

Trousers - Howard Yount

Shoes - Crockett and Jones

Like the color combo. The creepy lady behind you is freaking me out. I'm not sure how many people could/would enter, but a Friday Challenge around a more interesting color combo other than navy, brown and gray would be cool. There would be at least three entries.

 

[Mr Knightley]

Thank you. In my case it's because when I was at school in the fifties and early sixties almost everyone (boys and girls) wore white socks, so it's probably more Ivy than Essex Man.

Yes, indeed @Roycru

British and French youth have down the years had a fascination with mid-20th C American style. In fact, during the 1960s, for both Original Modernists in England and the Drugstore crowd in Paris, great importance was placed on wearing clothes that were imported. Ivy Style was especially popular, as we know.

Le Style J.F. Kennedy:

“Part of the Champs-Elysees looked like the campus of an American University in ’64. White socks, unlined madras jackets and American-cut slacks” according to Adam ( 1964 ). “… Tassel loafers or over-stitched Penny loafers (with a real US cent slipped in the window), white socks, light coloured cotton or corduroy jeans, Oxford shirts with button-down or snap collars, and lightly lined three-button jackets with small shoulders in seersucker or madras.”
Suits were in “Mohair, Harris Tweed or Herringbone Cheviot (with an adjustment tab on the back of the pants)”. Also popular were “Crested Blazers (here, however, crests were sold separately from a little basket…)”

The look surfaced again in the UK in the 1980's and the young 'criminal types' in Essex, as they would, perverted the look in the most vulgar fashion with thick white socks bulging over slim poor quality loafers!

 

[Mr Knightley]

A wet, mild and murky autumn day in SE England. A very casual Friday for me and taking inspiration from @EFV also - G9, Levis, J Crew BD, Edinburgh Woollen Mill sleeveless V, Bresciani socks, Florsheim longwings.

 

[Roycru]

Yes, indeed @Roycru

British and French youth have down the years had a fascination with mid-20th C American style. In fact, during the 1960s, for both Original Modernists in England and the Drugstore crowd in Paris, great importance was placed on wearing clothes that were imported. Ivy Style was especially popular, as we know.

Le Style J.F. Kennedy:

“Part of the Champs-Elysees looked like the campus of an American University in ’64. White socks, unlined madras jackets and American-cut slacks” according to Adam ( 1964 ). “… Tassel loafers or over-stitched Penny loafers (with a real US cent slipped in the window), white socks, light coloured cotton or corduroy jeans, Oxford shirts with button-down or snap collars, and lightly lined three-button jackets with small shoulders in seersucker or madras.”
Suits were in “Mohair, Harris Tweed or Herringbone Cheviot (with an adjustment tab on the back of the pants)”. Also popular were “Crested Blazers (here, however, crests were sold separately from a little basket…)”

The look surfaced again in the UK in the 1980's and the young 'criminal types' in Essex, as they would, perverted the look in the most vulgar fashion with thick white socks bulging over slim poor quality loafers!

Still put pennies in my penny loafers, although to adjust for inflation, should probably put US$2.50 gold coins (which are the same size as a US penny) in them. Take the pennies out and polish them when polishing the penny loafers. Here's a picture (with shiny penny loafers and shiny pennies) from Monday of last week.

Since you mentioned President Kennedy.

(Nantucket red trousers never have cuffs.)

 

[Clouseau]

The richest members of the Drugstore gang (or crowd) were said to put a Louis d'or or a Napoléon (both golden coins ) instead a penny in their trademark JM Weston loafers.
Myth or reality i cant tell...

 

[Clouseau]

Speaking of inflation, 30 years ago i bought at a reasonable price some Weston loafers and kept them more than 20 years. Today i am on Bass Weejuns...

 

[JIMB]

@JIMB Great fit! Shoe details?

Thank you, they are Saint Crispins bought on this very forum

 

[Penny_pants]

Taking advantage of our first "fall" day its 74 down from 90F yesterday

Spoiler: deets

 

[Gerry Nelson]

Cardigan - Wallace and Barnes for J Crew

Cardigan - J Lindeberg

Shirt - River Island

Trousers - Engineered Garments

Boots - Crockett and Jones

 

[eightace]

X-post from Aussie thread:

Pics from today.
Dark blue shirt from Kazuna
Jacket in wool & silk from Ermenegildo Zegna
Bottle green trousers from Lardini
Single monk shoes from Cheaney

 

[Gerry Nelson]

Cowichan - Kanata

Turtleneck - Andersen-Andersen

Trousers - Brax

Boots - Alden

 

[WillingToLearn]

looks great Gerry, but i couldn't wear 1 of those sweaters indoors, let alone both. I would literally have to be 20 degrees F out for me to pull that off without melting

 

[Gerry Nelson]

looks great Gerry, but i couldn't wear 1 of those sweaters indoors, let alone both. I would literally have to be 20 degrees F out for me to pull that off without melting

Me too. We were headed out to the countryside two hours away where it's about 10 degrees cooler than here.

 

[An Acute Style]

Cowichan - Kanata

Turtleneck - Andersen-Andersen

Trousers - Brax

Boots - Alden

Super intrigued by the woodcut/painting. It looks very interesting.