ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

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.

be relaxed... but never floppy --a handsome man

annoying how pants become floppy after a year or two of wear

line/flat drying helps some with that

Goon do you understand those 1-6 t-shirt sizes on the Simon Miller shirts? No idea what that means.

naw u look at simon millers website

There are still some alright button shirts left in my size but nothing I really want to pay $70 or $100 for even on sale.

i bought a suit ~_~

i am wearing wide legged pants right now and i feel especially hip b/c i work downtown and all the young financial dirtbags have discovered too-small-suits and have fully embraced #menswear and i look at them with disdain and i sneer and i whisper get on my level

xp which one, fenton or oliver?

Those looked nice I just couldn't put together a suit in my sizes

they didn't have any long sizes which is mega bullshit

fenton

I just bought my first Steven Alan item - a like-new sweater off ebay. It's great, my favorite sweater now.

I got me some Surface to Air jeans last week on sale on Gilt.

A StA sweater I bought two years ago is one of my favorites. Like this one but blue, and got it at Nordstrom Rack for 90% off, like $35.

http://cdnd.lystit.com/photos/2013/08/29/surface-to-air-military-green-crewneck-sweater-product-2-13111474-348905410_large_flex.jpeg

i am wearing wide legged pants right now and i feel especially hip b/c i work downtown and all the young financial dirtbags have discovered too-small-suits and have fully embraced #menswear and i look at them with disdain and i sneer and i whisper get on my level

I feel this

lol

otm. pre-internet it took oblivious plebs like 10 years to catch on, now it's a more threatening ~5.

slim cut tailored look has prob been around for almost ten now

tho w/in that there have obvs been diff shapes/styles

actually tight t-shirts and highwater pants became cool mid-90s (thinking hardcore/emo scene), was that the influence? although you can trace any trend backwards endlessly if you want to I suppose.

yeah theres always someone out there wearing tite pants

feel like tho yeah emo guys wearing girl jeans was def an influence on skinny jeans then from the more establishment fashion side came the little suits and fitted looks

I always thought skinny suits were a bod thing

uh I mean mod thing

arent mods from like the 1960s tho

followed by a mad men thing (even if their suits weren't actually that skinny)

well yeah I just figured that's where the style always points

tight suits, narrow lapels, skinny ties. just a little more exagerated each iteration

skinny jeans was a retro thing too though right?

anyway things are moving back towards

http://www.gq.com/images/fashion/blog/american-hustle-movie-designer-clothing-fashion-gq-08.jpg

My suit pants are both pleated and cuffed

Take that

http://www.gq.com/style/blogs/the-gq-eye/american-hustle-movie-designer-clothing-fashion-gq-11.jpg

feel like ultimately there are only so many shapes but i dont think any of those looks gained popularity out of people wearing vintage clothes or something, those obvs people take inspiration from days of yore

I like pleated pants. I think they are hated for their 80s incarnation. but with a high waist they're nice!

check this out

http://thesuitsofjamesbond.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Connery-Trousers.jpg

those pants look so good

pleated pants imo are so much harder to get right, they need tailoring and cuffs and nice heavy fabric and all these things that are lost in the name of speed and convenience.

pleats are just kinda an advanced look if u have some huge ill fitting chinos theyre obvs not gonna improve the situation which is what most people associate them with, i have a suit w pleated pants tho its just a single pleat

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pMDtFKEuL._UY550_.jpg

pleated chinos are something i've never seen work