ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

al gore didnt get to be president because he wore a brown suit once

i don't want to be president tbqf

but damn i am at this conference right now. it's for librarians and publishers and i'm a librarian and i feel super under-dressed. all the (male) publishers have on suits and jackets and i just brought my schlubby academic librarian clothes that are fine around campus but here i feel sloppy. you can look around and determine on one glance who is a librarian and who is a publisher (the men at least)

Oh a brown suit would totally be fine in that context imo

idk feel like u shd aim a lil higher tbh try to be president

The most common suit color I have is brown.

yea xxp! i have this dark brown blazer that is great and fits so well but i left it at home, would've been perfect here

Or taupe I guess. When you have the option to wear brown in a sea of grey and navy banker bros it feels nice. Xpost

bold countercultural suit color choice

tbh despite feeling under-dressed here w/ all these publisher suits i also feel pretty grateful to work at a university where there are a lot of weirdos and you can basically wear whatever the fuck you want. i don't think i'd want to work in a field in which i have to wear a suit and tie everyday. i wouldn't fit in.

i'm relieved too that for the most part men don't really have to shave anymore

Arrest this man

also grateful for a non-existent dress code at the also-ran increasingly irrelevant academic library that employs me. as long as the lovable schlub in the cubicle across from mine keeps looking like a giant man-baby toddler in white sneakers sweaters and jeans (he is only 36) i will never have to worry about being underdressed.

haha xp some women did walk past me today and said "he needs a shave"

A while back the WSJ ran a feature where they had a bunch of expert tailors blind review various low/mid-priced suits and J. Crew actually got the highest marks. So yeah overall I respect their suits. I don't own one but I usually watch for their "suting trousers" to go on sale to use as workwear (and there it's ok to sometimes have fabric you wouldn't want a whole suit of). Have also found that the "Thomas Mason for J. Crew" shirts are very good on sale, prob not worth the $160 or whatever they are at full price but have gotten them for like $60-70 and they are good in that range. I also have a "Wallace & Barnes" jacket from there that I like a lot. Other stuff has been of disappointing quality, sort of going for that heritage look without the heritage workmanship.

tbf mattress there is a really great spread of casual styles i've seen some academic librarians wear. in new england there is this type of senior librarian dude that has a white beard and wears corduroys and chamois and flannel shirts and i'd be down to look like them in 30 years

yeah i'm sort of gravitating toward that look. there was a desert rat acquisitions librarian who left here right after i arrived, he basically wore hiking boots khakis and olive/brown double pocket shirts to work every day. i assume he's lost somewhere in southern utah now.

/ in a dim bungalow collecting newsprint in tooele county.

lol

bold countercultural suit color choice

; )

I feel like there's a perfect corporate stock photo for that out there somewhere.

I don't even own a suit. I had two mundane jos a bank suits and ripped the seats on both of them, as well as a wretched men's wearhouse suit that I gave away. I know I'm going to need a suit again one day. Really no idea where I'm going to start. Have been coasting on the dress shirt, tie, chinos thing for a while at work, but we will have a new executive soon and I can imagine a culture change.

http://i.imgur.com/nnexFBI.jpg
i am getting these soon!

Marcos, are you at NYLA?

I never get inspired for conference dressing.

I'm at the charleston conference

is any heavy flannel shirt acceptable as a shirt-jacket? does it look weird to wear it over another button-down and have two collars visible?

I think it's weird to have two collars visible but I do it sometimes anyway

By sometimes anyway i mean every day

two collars is a def look but can u pull it off bro? (difficulty: intermediate)

two distinct fabrics/textures on the shirts is impt in this situation, ideally with the rougher on the outside unless you are going for some collared shirt variant of the 90s waffle-knit with a superchunk t shirt on top

yea i only think it looks weird when i button up the heavier shirt. when it's unbuttoned i don't think of it that much.

this is how you do it
http://thesandtrap.com/content/type/61/id/7569/width/686/height/800

wow where did u find that picture of me

lol

otoh i generally do have a generally aversion to button-down shirts that are unbuttoned. i only make an exception b/c it's a shirt-jacket and jackets can be worn open. i am not a fan of the "relaxed and casual" look of an unbuttoned shirt over a t-shirt that is quite prevalent in media and advertisements to connotate that somebody is "relaxed and casual." occassionally it can work but idk man

i just wear yogurt stained sweatpants to indicate that i am the boss and unpredictable

i wear two collars all the time. dress shirt + shirt jacket is two or three times weekly thing for me.

of course i work in a casual dress environment

i will do button-down collar with a shirt jacket over it to represent the diversity of collar styles and options

p nice sale going on at steven alan rite now fyi

http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aaiu_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-stevenalan-Site/Sites-stevenalan-Library/default/v1416202157737/banner_samplesale_v4.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cXKKDc0.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/vzeKRuw.gif

Everything I wanted in the Steven alan sale went in the first few hours.

Is it dumb to get jeans a waist size up ( one inch up) and get them tailored?

ive never heard of such a thing but maybe ur a visionary

which ones r u thinking abt getting

http://www.stevenalan.com/F14_NA_CC_SS_M002SKO.html?dwvar_F14__NA__CC__SS__M002SKO_color=410#cgid=sample-sale-mens-pants-shorts&prefn1=size&view=all&frmt=ajax&prefv1=M&start=0&hitcount=26

lil bit too lo-rise maybe imo

Think you wanna size down with jeans because they'll stretch as you wear?

Otherwise you'll have floppy jeans

floppy jeans is so out

thought they were coming back #normcore

Relaxed fit. Because being relaxed never goes out of style.

I was wondering to myself on the subway today in what year drop-crotch pants will become workwear.