ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

medium gray too

and jeans

great piece actually v. versatile

Yeah navy trousers or medium to dark blue jeans was the first thing that came to mind. Grey would work too. You could also do a strong contrasting color like red.

you could go full Magic Band with something like that. I like it.

yea it is really a great blazer but most of the pants i own are dark gray or faded black and it doesn't quite work with those, think i need some new to wear with it

pair it w the new yeezys maybe

i should always ask for nice clothes from my father-in-law, he knows his shit, his family had a tailor shop that he grew up working in. he is NEVER underdressed, ever, i've seen this guy in a t-shirt like ONCE and it was on a boat and we went swimming after. even then i was surprised his shirt didn't have a collar. so he is a good person to ask about nice clothes.

did you get a BB like what I think the one in the pic is? That's gonna be a good quality blazer if so, wear it into old age.

yea it was brooks brothers

there is nothing u own now that u will wear into old age sorry folks just have to be real on this website

maybe blazers or coats - mostly i find it's only true in theory - you get bored of wearing a certain thing or you dress a bit differently 3/4 years down the line.

i guess there's growing larger to think about too.

also styles change, anyone itt still fucking w a big boxy three button jacket

yeah true i guess - i mean it depends on how vintage you want to dress too. one of my uncles who's in his 70s wears pin stripe suits and brogues and a big camel coat and he looks like the don at every family event - i'm fairly sure he bought them 30 or 40 years ago. not sure our generation will be able to pull that kind of thing off.

cheers: clothes that make u feel sexy dignified and peaceful; jeers: masculine marketing mythologies about permanence and empirical quality

IDK, if anything is going to have staying power its crusty professorwear like that.

btw nothing personal hurting not trying to jump down yr throat for a nice offhanded comment! just an interesting topic generally, one that i have prob already said my peace on itt lol

Everyone has that moment when they put their most trusty jacket on to the realisation they simply can't wear it anymore though.

funny thing is usually if u have something for a long time its cause u dont like it that much, anything u wear a lot will deteriorate no matter how well made

Also over the past 75 years or so I feel like things wrt suits and blazers have been more cyclical than dramatically changing.

yeah obviously there's the deterioration issue. But a blazer lasts because most people just don't wear a blazer that often.

well yeah u cld conceivably hold out until a cycle comes back again but idk doesnt seem likely, also i mean theyre not really cycles, its diff every time, also ones taste and physical form is unlikely to remain stationary over that term

what the oldest piece of clothing u all own that gets any sort of regular burn

yea there are like 5 occasions a year TOPS that call for a blazer for me

i think mine might be a tshirt that says "bermuda" in embroidery that i picked up at a buddhist meditation centers free box 15 years ago lol it is indestructible for some reason

u cld become a blazer guy tho that blazer is very every day blazer guy blazer

i have a military-style jacket from j crew that i wear in fall and spring that i wear a ton, it is probably 10 years old but it is totally deteriorating.

cheers: clothes that make u feel sexy dignified and peaceful; jeers: masculine marketing mythologies about permanence and empirical quality

haha - there is so much bullshit about quality, but it's still a fairly important thing. if something lasts for 20 years maybe you only wear it for five, but if something is fucked in 2 months that's as long as you're going to wear it for.

funny thing is usually if u have something for a long time its cause u dont like it that much, anything u wear a lot will deteriorate no matter how well made

in the case of suits it'd be cos i don't wear it that much, or a formal coat or something. the things i wear the most are the convenient things i guess, cardigans or jackets or whatever, or comfortable shoes. or versatile stuff that takes on a new life over time.

lol i don't want to be blazer guy

i think u shd consider it, i mean u have the blazer now

I have a vintage blazer in a sort of medium-light blue that I would definitely still rock except it doesn't fit me well anymore. That's the problem with my older clothing. I had hand-me-down plaid shirts from my dad that I thought continued to look good as styles changed, but I've always leaned a little bit old-mannish in my style. I have a hand-me-down wool buffalo print sweater that I'm not sure how old it is, but I think is probably 1990s.

i feel like one of the things that has changed the most in the past 10 years or so is pants. there are no pants that i bought 5 years ago that look good on me right now, i feel like today's pants are just much more trim and better-fitting than even a few years ago

i think "slim fit" permeated the mainstream so even just like regular pants from gap or something are better fitting than they were 5-10 years ago

i have a sort of fleece-style (but not fleecy) jumper with a high collar that I remember wearing at my first ever office job in 2002 and possibly owned before then. I still wear it sometimes and it's in the same shape it ever was, although the other day I got told I looked like a warehouse manager by a colleague.

def i feel like even as slim cut pants go out of style maybe men have learned a lesson about not wearing flappy shapeless pants

i love blazers. i wear them a fair bit, although they're a bit of a pain in the winter as it's harder to wear them with a coat on top. Very much spring/autumn wear.

i wld kind of like to be a blazer guy but im not sure i have it in me

Yeah I tend to think we just reached this low point in pants some time in the 90s-00s where manufacturers just figured it was economical to make these big, shapeless pants that would fit everyone and no one. Since then, perhaps because of the inexpensiveness of foreign manufacture combined with how much china and other countries have improved their textile manufacturing, there seem to be many more cuts and fits available.

even slim cut pants are baggy as fuck on me - my legs and especially my ankles are incredibly skinny - i have fabric flapping around the ankles unless i buy topman or similarly skinny cuts.

maybe the overtly baggy pants that are about this year might be better than a failed slim jean, but it's particularly around the ankles they look bad on me. if it's summer and i roll the legs up or they're cropped pants then it's a bit better.

xpost i was blazer guy for a few years - i went home for christmas this year with no blazer and this was a big step

I used to wear a tweed blazer to parties in college sometimes. One time this dude nicknamed me "business" because of it.

lol

leg hole being too big is an awful feeling

to be a blazer guy you have to start wearing them with t-shirts for casual occasions and that just looks kind of weird imo, at least i could never pull it off

what the oldest piece of clothing u all own that gets any sort of regular burn

i have some sweaters that i was given in high school i still wear. just basic crew neck sweaters in plain colors (black, charcoal and navy). my grandmother used to send me stuff every sept when i was starting school and i wish i knew where she got them cuz theyre really well made and super warm. they arent really that fitted but theyre not quite 'boxy' either.

other than that i have a couple of pairs of shoes and a blazer that date from like 2005 that i still wear.

I have some shiny Nike shorts from high school. 20 years old.

ha wow

I am continually shocked that the elastic has held up this long. Must have been back when they had quality sweat shop labor.

They don't make it out of the house though. Strictly lounging shorts.

Thing I have owned the longest and sometimes wear is probably my v-neck duck print sweatshirt, featured somewhere on an old WDYLL thread, picked up around 10 years ago from a vintage shop. As I get older, it's not so much that it has deteriorated or gone "out of style" as it's kind of a comical piece that I feel less comfortable wearing as a dad in my mid-30s.

you have to save it until you are a dad in your mid-50s and then it will be totally fine

leg hole being too big is an awful feeling

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