mktitsworth
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So last week I challenged JapanAlex01 to the following:
There's my stuff. I have tried to put some time and thought into these over the past week, and it is my hope they are of use to someone. Hopefully now JA01 will grace us with some observations of his own. Cheers folks. Have a good one.
JA01 has done a commendable job on part one, and now it's my turn to fulfill my part of the bargain. In general, I refrain from critique because I feel I could do with having seen a bit more before judging the things I'm seeing now. However, that's not the game I set up, and so I will play by my own rules. Given that however, any feedback I personally have to provide is below the cut. If you care to look, by all means. If you don't, cheers.
I think PhatGuido generally puts together an awesome fit. In thinking about why this is over the last week, here are a few things that draw my eye about him, and this fit in particular.
- In the short time I've been here, I've heard a lot about PGs shoulders. In this photo, one of the things I noticed, and noticed about other PG fits during the week was that the curve of the shoulder line draws the eye upward in a sort of natural motion, making his neck appear longer and him appear taller overall.
- The first point is accentuated by the positioning of his gorge, collar, and tie knot with respect to the shoulders themselves. The gorge is elevated slightly above the line from shoulder to shoulder, and between the notches on the gorge you can draw a straight line that hits the points of the collar and runs through the middle of the knot.
- The silhouette of this suit provides a very hour glass proportion for PG, so that his hips appear to be just as wide as the seam where the sleeve is attached.
- There is a consistent asymmetry with respect to PGs fits. On this, as well as a few other fits this past week, I noticed that the opening of the quarters (or whatever the actual technical term is) is set off center. The flap on the viewer's left comes further over than the right, putting the opening just slightly to the viewers right. This seemed a bit odd, though I can understand why it might be done on purpose.
- Finally, there is an amazing consistency in the shape of the break on PGs trousers.
- I think this fit provides a great example of how scale can affect the way that an article is viewed. In this photo the Jacket looks grey, but obviously the close ups shows that not to be the case. The tie also has a similar effect
- This fit also provides a contrast to what I mentioned about PGs gorge/Collar/knot. Here, Dennis' gorge is about even with his shoulders, which don't have as much of a pronounced slope. The gorge is also set higher up than the collar points. Now, this collar is not as spread, but I think that works for Dennis because he appears to be taller and thus doesn't really need to do anything that will lengthen his look.
- This was not the post of Gnatty's I wanted to quote originally, but I can't seem to find that one at the moment. Either way, this one does something similar. This is here mostly because I find myself constantly saving his fits. Partly because his build appears to be similar to mine, but also because I usually like what he's done, and still, after a week of thinking about it, can't really put my finger on what it is.
- I really like the front darts on this jacket, because they give you something to look at on the solid cloth.
- The gorge/tie/collar bit here is yet again quite different from the other two which are already up. Here gnatty's gorge has fallen below the line of the shoulder, though whether this is a product of having his hands in his pockets is unknown. Looking at one of his other photos, this may actually be intentional.
- I also think the plunge on this jacket really works well.
- As with some of the other feedback on this, I think I might like this more with darker pants.
- I do think the shirt provides a nice... inversion of the usual tie/shirt dynamic.
- This one made it here because try as I might to not say it, that jacket looks ridiculously short up above the thumb. While I understand that one might do such a thing because it's probably fashionable at the moment, to me it just looks like the jacket is the wrong size.
Nevermind.
