UrbanComposition
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Originally Posted by Manton
What color are those shoes?
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conservative business dress WAYWRN: An Experiment
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What color are those shoes?
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You probably tucked the flaps in.Originally Posted by mmkn
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- correct as my Herringbone suits are OTR & GAWD FORBID shorten in the body by 1"
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Are you saying Manton should improve his photographic skills?Originally Posted by NOBD
Heh...just haven't seen black suede too often. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
- correct as my Herringbone suits are OTR & GAWD FORBID shorten in the body by 1"Originally Posted by Phat Guido
I do that all the time
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A navy Panama was sighted
* A Q for Sir Mantoni - where does the rules sit with wearing black shoes w a knit tie that is not black or navy or grey. As I may have sinned today.. Certainly can't be worse than me not buttoning up my BDs or commissioning a 1B SB BlazerSuit..
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Originally Posted by Manton
Please don't take any of this the wrong way, I really don't mean any harm. This has been mentioned earlier in the thread but I don't recall a reply. Is the granny knot faux-sprezz, a Manton signature item, or do you really not know how to tie a square knot? For a guy that's fairly meticulous when it comes to the appropriate way to do wear a tie, pocket square, and on and on, I'm surprised that you tie your shoes the way that you do. I'm not making a cosmetic point either, granny knots are far less secure than square knots. Any chance that you're left-handed and never thought about how you tie your shoes? For what it's worth and to make this topical, fellow Cal grad here and think it's a shame that it's so hard to find a good Cal repp tie. Not sure why anyone would want a tie that says Cal 50 times on it or a repp tie with the word Cal written on it. Seems to me that it sort of defeats the purpose of a tie to represent your school if you look like a clown while wearing it, although I guess that shows how far the necktie has fallen in stature in California.
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@ zbromer - whole thing looks great, including the shoes (IMO.)Originally Posted by CaymanS
+1, looks fantastic. In fact, so good I ordered a suit's length of 0520 just now which will be sent to Mina as soon as it arrives!
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Originally Posted by NewYorkRanger
What's up with your photo skills today? Nice shoes, but the rest is a blur...
Not sperm:Originally Posted by Mr. Pink
I quite like that tie
I've been asked for a picture of how the Minnis 520 Fresco looks when made up as a blazersuit. I know some don't like the points up PS, but I like it with linen squares with colored borders.Originally Posted by zbromer
This looks great. Congratulations on the weightloss too.
Originally Posted by Manton
All this stuff looks great.Originally Posted by JohnnyCrockett
One question - why don't we try a true conservative business dress thread, or at least a few true conservative business dress posts here - no colored pocket squares, no suede shoes, no brown shoes, no crazy socks.
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I don't think anyone would complain if you wanted to post an ultra-conservative business dress fit...
What color are those shoes?Originally Posted by UrbanComposition
My guess is Mink rather than black.
Originally Posted by Phat Guido
A navy Panama was sighted
* A Q for Sir Mantoni - where does the rules sit with wearing black shoes w a knit tie that is not black or navy or grey. As I may have sinned today.. Certainly can't be worse than me not buttoning up my BDs or commissioning a 1B SB BlazerSuit..
Looks good.
I'll eagerly await Manton's comments, but surely black shoes can be worn with anything, it's a proud English tradition
- I agree that not buttoning up your BD's is a sin, but a 1B SB suit is fine
I'll eagerly await Manton's comments, but surely black shoes can be worn with anything, it's a proud English tradition
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What's up with your photo skills today? Nice shoes, but the rest is a blur...Originally Posted by ManofKent
LOL, busy day, iphone in the early morning light...will throw some better ones up.
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Please don't take any of this the wrong way, I really don't mean any harm. This has been mentioned earlier in the thread but I don't recall a reply. Is the granny knot faux-sprezz, a Manton signature item, or do you really not know how to tie a square knot? For a guy that's fairly meticulous when it comes to the appropriate way to do wear a tie, pocket square, and on and on, I'm surprised that you tie your shoes the way that you do. I'm not making a cosmetic point either, granny knots are far less secure than square knots.Originally Posted by UnFacconable
Please tell me this is a joke.
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Please tell me this is a joke.Originally Posted by Manton
My knots used to 'unknot' quite often, before I used the knot as it was intended. I write 'intended', because the two phases of making a good knot strengthen the knot automatically, with a granny knot they don't.
If you don't have problems with 'unknotting', I can see you don't want to change anything. But it's a wrong knot, against the Very Important Rules of Knot Construction (VIRKC).
Srivats around? He's chairman of the VIRKC.
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