What is too stylish?

[HHHH]

I have a client that is fairly business professional which is ok because I like wearing my suits but I am just concerned about being overly stylish. Today I wore a black suit with a dark blue shirt and felt like people were eyeballing me.

 

[GQ Lawyer]

I don't think anything can be considered "too stylish." What you must keep in mind when dressing is 1) what the occasion is and 2) who your audience is.

During the day time for business wear, a black suit with a dark shirt may look to clubish or runwayish. The last thing that you want, especially in a business meeting, is to make others feel uncomfortable. One way to do this is to make them feel "underdressed" or that you are trying to show them up.

 

[NavyStyles]

I've always been taught that you can never be too overdressed. It's better to go over than to miss by a bit. Of course, I can see how this would be a problem in intimidating your client (not a good thing). So when you get dressed for a meeting of some sort, keep in mind whom you will encounter.

 

[AmericanDevil]

Business requires subtle style, and although i dont consider the outfit you wore to be over the top by any means, maybe you would consider tryin a shirt with cooler colors, light blue or something like it. Also consider that your clients are older than you, and most likely everyone else is too, I say that because it sounds as if your still feeling around for your own style in your offices. These people may not be used to fresher looking suits and newer styles. get your self in a position where people need to conform there style to yours, and break the mold. Were gonna change the world of style brother, we're the up and comers.

 

[CT_madrigal]

Always dress for the occasion. I believe that being overdressed is going to a frat party in an Armani suit. Under dressed would be arriving in clothes that haven't been washed in a million years. Most days now I wear a simple micropique polo shirt with differnet patters or simply solid.

 

[Spinster Jones]

Oh, look, another dead thread we might revive and let stray away from the original topic.

I think the topic can only be analysed if one lives in the most stylish city on the planet, has reached the upper echelons of cultural society, and knows everything there is to know about style. Only then can one have an opinion on what's too stylish.

Therefore, I can not answer.

 

[BPL Esq]

Oh, look, another dead thread we might revive and let stray away from the original topic.

I think the topic can only be analysed if one lives in the most stylish city on the planet, has reached the upper echelons of cultural society, and knows everything there is to know about style. Only then can one have an opinion on what's too stylish.

Therefore, I can not answer.

Let's not start comparing cities again....

 

[Spinster Jones]

I think being too stylish has three easily recognisable factors to it;

• Where the setting is taking place
• The cultural expressions and variations within the area/social group
• Ones own understanding of the first two, and ones willingness to break them

One doesn't show up to an ice hockey game in a glitter shirt, unless one wants to out-glamour the ketchup-stained jerseys that're there.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

To think, when this thread was started:

• GWB was barely in office a year
• the BlackBerry was state of the art
• SNL was still funny
• Spanish cheese was trending
• People still had a DVD collection

 

[BPL Esq]

To think, when this thread was started:

• GWB was barely in office a year
• the BlackBerry was state of the art
• SNL was still funny
• Spanish cheese was trending
• People still had a DVD collection

'Twas a simpler time.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

I don’t know about too stylish, but reviving old threads is never in style!

muaha ha ha ha!!!

 

[Coffandcig]

To think, when this thread was started:

• GWB was barely in office a year
• the BlackBerry was state of the art
• SNL was still funny
• Spanish cheese was trending
• People still had a DVD collection

I still have a DVD collection just not a DVD player.

 

[comrade]

I still have a DVD collection just not a DVD player.

I still occasionally play film classics, according to me, on VHS.

 

[luca_defumo]

I still have a DVD collection just not a DVD player.

same here!

 

[Spinster Jones]

I still have a DVD collection just not a DVD player.

If I own one DVD, Blade Runner, is it a collection?