What sartorial faux pas do you commit?

[odoreater]

So, I know that you guys don't always dress according to the "rules" and sometimes do strange and interesting things with your dress that bend or break the rules - things that might be considered a faux pas. So what sartorial faux pas do you commit?

I'll start - when I'm dressed casually - and especially when wearing jeans or cords - I often wear dress shoes with black ankle socks.

Whew - that felt good. Okay, now you go.

 

[Soph]

If Jeans and Oddjackets are a crime, I'm guilty as charged, a repeat offender and will continue to do so.

 

[norcaltransplant]

I wear square-toe Eccos when it rains (really, really ugly ones).

I also regularly rotate a square-toe pair of black Bally bluchers that won't die... ditto goes for a pair of square toe, black monkstraps from Moreschi. Both are of sufficiently good quality that it makes tossing them a difficult proposition--yet, I have ample replacements for both!

JUSTIFICATION: As a perpetual student, I still firmly believe in the philosophy of economy

 

[Kent Wang]

I wear French cuffs with jeans, untucked.

 

[Vintage Gent]

Cashmere ties, year-round. Love 'em, and I feel the season should be no barrier to wearing them.

 

[Manton]

Suede shoes in summer, brown in town, mix four patterns, socks don't match trousers, mix metals, light shoes with dark suits. Among others.

 

[luk-cha]

thom browne - coz there over priced and rated!

 

[josepidal]

Originally Posted by Kent Wang

I wear French cuffs with jeans, untucked.
With cufflinks?

 

[pkincy]

I have 2 black suits I wear in my normal rotation for business.

I also quite often wear navy socks with cordovan shoes and grey slacks or a grey suit.

Perry

 

[Mute]

Brown shoes whenever I feel like it. Day or night.

 

[Soph]

Brown Ankle boots at night. I'm a sinner.

 

[Vintage Gent]

Originally Posted by Manton

Suede shoes in summer...

Oh please. How on God's green little acre can that be considered a faux pas, except by the sartorial troglodytes of the world? Flusser himself gives the brown-suede-shoes-in-summer look his endorsement.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Vintage Gent

Oh please. How on God's green little acre can that be considered a faux pas, except by the sartorial troglodytes of the world? Flusser himself gives the brown-suede-shoes-in-summer look his endorsement.
Well, it is, or was, a "rule" for a long time. I think the trads still adhere to it.

 

[Kent Wang]

Originally Posted by josepidal

With cufflinks?
Usually silk knots.

 

[Vintage Gent]

Originally Posted by Manton

Well, it is, or was, a "rule" for a long time. I think the trads still adhere to it.

Like I said, the sartorial troglodytes.

Just kidding, trads. Bring down not upon me your tradly wrath.