I'm 27 now, and I just bought another pair of baggy jeans... When should you start dressing like an adult?

Yes, about 17 years ago.

Except today, it's fucking hot.

it often seems, to me, that some men barely think about what they are wearing

are you talking (in part?) about t-shirts/football shirts/sportswear, as day-to-day clothing, on people over a certain age?

I try not to think about what I "should" wear. I think I would dress more badly and feel more awkward, if I did

OTM

Of course there's a huge population of 20/30-somethings, you'd just never know it from the way they dress.

-- teh_kit is jayne without the tits (kittenslikemil...), July 29th, 2006. (g-kit) (later)

OTM, sure, but it's not going to make you look any better.

RJG, i'm not really talking about t-shirts/football shirts/sportswear, but that's part of it. i'm talking in general about the kinds of casual wear that men generally do wear & whether it's camper shoes or baggy trousers or stripey t-shirts i usually think that yeah, it would look ok on a toddler but it doesn't look ok on someone in their 30s. i really DO think that people should wear whatever they want to wear but i don't think it follows that they should feel proud of it.

minus the ballcap, this is what i'm wearing right now. i understand the antipathy, but really, shorts-sandals-t-shirt is comfortable. it's what i wear for as much of the hot months as i can get away with. i guess i could wear a tunic or something. i kind of wish there were more tunics available in your average mens store. but don't take away my shorts and sandals, dammit.

I think the root men's vs. women's difference is that women are expected to own a wide variety of different clothing, the individual pieces of which aren't worn very often, while men tend to have a smaller number of more durable, often-worn pieces.

totally

(i didn't want to say nabisco OTM)

if you guys could only see what i'm wearing right now

Why don't you just...tell us?

this is a funny thread

I don't see much to laugh about.

tretorn/acne collab shoes
trovata shorts
silas t-shirt
eugenia kim hat

did you show all messages?

tretorn/acne collab shoes
trovata shorts
silas t-shirt
eugenia kim hat

If I was the sort of person who understood what any of this stuff is, what sort of conclusions what I draw from this?

WOULD I draw

why did you ask

http://www.eugeniakim.com/
http://www.trovata.com
http://www.silasandmaria.com
http://www.acnejeans.com/

put together an outfit jew monkey

Trousers are exactly what I need. How much should I expect to spend minimum on a decent pair (not including alterations)?

you're wearing a hat?

a few things:
1) pants with pleats can look fantastic, there's no reason to diss all of them in one fell swoop.

2) what is wrong with lacoste style golf shirts? they can be so becoming, and at this point, they come in so many fucking crazy colors that it takes a fashion retard not to look good in them. (tho not w/ khakis. khakis give me the howling fantods)

3) linen pants are excellent, and they actually DO last a long time, provided you are relatively careful. if accidents occur...well, a lot of them are white anyway. bleach is your friend.

4) to the men who don't wear shorts, ever: be prepared to have the most disgusting legs when you get older. like seriously.

5) places 2 shop: it is called Loehmann's Department Store and it sells well-made, good-looking designer clothes for much cheaper than you'll ever pay in any other new clothing store. ALL of my pants and some of my shorts are from Loehmann's.

you sound like you dress like you are 60

I think I have an aversion to things that look expensive, especially stuff that looks like expensive versions of hipster wear.

Also, high fashion needs to cio with their fucking websites.

hipster wear is either vintage clothing or expensive clothing, there is no in between

why did you ask

Because I wanted to know!

you would conclude that i spend too much on clothes and i look too good

fyi cutty, i tend to dress like this guy:
http://spectacle.provocateuse.com/images/spectacles/don_johnson_01.jpg

and if you ever diss the way i dress again, i will find you and rip your disgusting $400 jeans off your ass, fucker.

Also I cannot wear these skinny jeans. I have muscular legs. But I don't really like baggy jeans either. It is deeply difficult, but one tries.

Yes, I do admire you, cutty.

NO MY PIC FUCK. anyway, that was Don Johnson.

Although posting to ILX in a hat is a bit like making a phone call with gloves on.

xp

I don't think I could give you a trouser minimum, Hurting, since it depends on so much stuff -- hell, if you're easy to fit and hit the right designer consignment store, you could have some world-class trousers for cheaper than a pair of Levis. Personally, the couple pairs of really great, stylishly cut, wise-investment trousers I own both came in around $200, from places like APC and DKNY.

Unfortunately I invested in a good suit for my wedding and then lost a whole bunch of weight since then -- it may be fixable through alterations, but the suit looks awfully baggy on me now.

you'd rip my jeans off? what?

do your linen pants have an nice tie string? do you wear tevas with that?

you'd rip my jeans off? what?

rofl

;)

do these "wise investment" $200 pants tan my legs? Build up muscle? Do my taxes and bring my wife to climax?

Why, are you having trouble with those things?

I know, it hurts, but it's really not so crazy to spend as much on a great pair of trousers as you would on, like, a game console. Even if you only manage to wear them 200 times in their entire life with you, that's like getting up in the morning and paying a dollar to look awesome all day.

You are insane, all of you.

do your linen pants have an nice tie string? do you wear tevas with that?

No, they have a button and a zipper. One pair even has TWO buttons.

I never wear sandals (or Tevas or whatever you want to call them). It's either shoes or no shoes.

I wore bible-ish sandals today with my jeans, but only because it was fucking HOT

For footwear, I wear Vans (or generic brand) slip-ons (ie boat shoes) or Eccos. Right now, the latter look like this:
http://www2.ecco.com/ss2007/products/large/3806400160.jpg

I got them just as the summer started, tho, so haven't had much chance to wear them out.

u need to hit up the kenneth cole homie

those eccos look like gabbneb shoes

gabbneb shoes is the new A-shoes

The problem with Adult Male clothes is that, even though I could probably afford it, they always look so dull... Grey and black and beige and white seem to be the only colour options. I love bright colours and stripes and patterns, why are they considered verboten for adult guys? This is one thing I'm jealous of with girls and women, they have a much wider scale of looks they can choose from.

In Barcelona I saw this totally great looking suit, it was electric blue and shiny, like it was made for a glam schlager singer, but unfortunately it was a bit too expensive for my travel budget.

Yeah, I'm very much a color guy, too. As many as I can get away with while still tying everything together, but not in a garish fashion. I'm very particular about making sure the uppermost article (hat? shirt? jacket?) matches the lowermost (shoes!), anything between is fair game.

AND LOOK, IT'S...FARACHI

-- Hurting 2, Sunday, July 8, 2007 3:53 AM

5 am lolz

something in me will never accept that 'slacks' count as dressed up, 'jeans' do not

why is that fabric a more respectable fabric, why

it's because jeans are a symbol of individualism, which is the main thing that school and workplace dresscodes attempt to squash.

in some dress codes they, along with graphic t-shirts, are the only taboo left. you could wear camo cargo shorts at my prep school. obviously these rules are not about respectability or neatness but about suppressing jeans. on a related note, the most individualistic kind of jeans you can wear are JNCOs.

it's fucking hot & i just want to wear shorts to work but i don't want to cause an uproar