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conservative business dress WAYWRN: An Experiment

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Originally Posted by coolpapaboze
I really like that tie. Marinella?

No, I got it at a NY store called Harrison James that was in business for a very short time in the 1990s.
 

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I think conservative business dress is amazingly boring. There are nuances that can be pulled off whereas one can look blah [save fit] from a distance but patterns & textures can be noted as you near. I think gdl & MAnton do this well. Isn't this the point?
 

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^ Great stuff Manton.
 

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Originally Posted by sellahi22
You seem to not be into regular dark brown or black calfskin oxfords

Not true, the weather has just been bad here, rough weather=big shoes.
 

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As close as I got to conservative business dress this week, just so I could post in Manton's thread:

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gnatty - looks good but I can't help thinking that it would look so much better with a wider shirt collar spread. The square edge also seems so close to the stripe color that you would have been better off hiding the edge IMO
 

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Originally Posted by gdl203
gnatty - looks good but I can't help thinking that it would look so much better with a wider shirt collar spread. The square edge also seems so close to the stripe color that you would have been better off hiding the edge IMO

Yeah, I think I agree on the collar, the point collar doesn't seem to take up enough real estate in there, looks lonely.
 

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