ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

i dont hate the troops but i def dont support them either we do our own things that thats fine

The area I've just moved to isn't known for its fashion sense: http://www.bristol247.com/channel/lifestyle/fashion/trend/street-style-gloucester-road-1443450918

love local features with "real people" - the smaller the area the better.

lanyards are big in bristol it seems

i understand not wanting to wear camouflage but that covers a pretty broad swath of patterns and they're not all military flavored. there's a differences in signification between, say, digital camo or desert camo and woodland hunting camo. would never wear the former but i can fuck with the latter in moderation.

The area I've just moved to isn't known for its fashion sense: http://www.bristol247.com/channel/lifestyle/fashion/trend/street-style-gloucester-road-1443450918

― canoon fooder (dog latin), Friday, November 13, 2015 8:55 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this gives me hope that someday i too may be approached for a what-are-you-wearing piece

xp I wear came from time to time and I don't care. I get a lot of compliments on my yellow came coat. But then I live on Gloucester Road, see above.

this gives me hope that someday i too may be approached for a what-are-you-wearing piece

one of my big life ambitions tbh

"i got these sweatpants from my granddad - he always had such an individual style. they don't make products like this anymore."

hahaha you would be such a goldmine of quotes

lol @ bristol streetstyle

a street style that asks totally ordinarily dressed ppl abt their clothes wld be good imo

I loooove that Bristol streetstyle page

but really, why is everyone wearing lanyards?

many xps came? camo obviously

new dress oxfords just arrived, thinking I will prob keep, not totally in love with them but good and will work with suit or casual (vaguely considering getting a set of thinner laces for when I want to wear them with a suit):
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Last one should have been
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The only thing I don't completely like is the lines of the seams visible in the second pic -- they look a little too angular or boxy for me or something but it's not a huge deal and I need dress shoes. Overall the leather and construction is very nice.

i like those a lot i like a nice low key rounded toe

yeah I'm all about the rounded toe, fuck a square or pointy toe

i think they call that a quarter brouge when u just have the decorative border on the toe cap

the pointier they are the dressier theyre considered traditionally iirc, square toe idk what that is

i agree they look a little boxy--many oxfords have more shaping as they come around the ball of the foot. it's a little less dressy which can be good for wearing with more than a suit.

the laces need to go though.

maybe so -- part of my problem is wide feet, so anything narrow/pointy I have to get a half size up and then they look like clown shoes

they only look like clown shoes to you who are used to looking at yr feet to everyone else they just look like thats the size foot u have which is within a typical range

Nice shoe - I like rounded toe mostly. Have one nice pair of chisel toe black suede boots that I love tho'. point of shoe pedantry tho' - are those not derbys/gibsons rather than oxfords?

I have wide foot problem too, and in longer shoes I start irregularly clipping pavement when walking. It's annoying.

research does suggest you are correct that it's technically a derby

apart from the quarter brouge those look exactly like my work shoes

didn't know you were back in town lag00n?

http://i.imgur.com/zHohLw2.jpg

square toe idk what that is

do people in the usa not commit this crime? in the uk it's prob the worst fashion abomination there is.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LAJbF3ALL._SX395_.jpg

these aren't even the worst example. a lot of formally dressed men seem to go for these shoes, very weird.

these were big but i think they've started to fade in the past couple years.

they seem a really good example of people tribally imitating each other for no exact reason

prob enough crossover to give me sufficient excuse to repost this: http://jeansandsheux.tumblr.com/

I have beautiful shoes now and I don't know how to look after them help help

square-toed shoes ('bicycle toe shoes' is the proper nomeclature iirc) are very popular shoes to hate on. you don't see them nearly as often as you would a decade ago but every men's style mag loves to make fun of them.

xp
what kind of beautiful shoes? Basic advice is use shoes trees & clean every month or two depending on how much you wear them - brush down, wipe down with a little soap and water, use wax polish (shiny) or cream (less shiny, maybe better for the leather, good at getting colour in), brush to get a sheen, buff a bit with a cloth. Saphir is a super nice brand if you want to feel like you are spending money on your shoes.

They'll look better as they age if they're good shoes, but yeah that period immediately after the PERFECT initial state can be a bit stressy.

Sometimes I wonder if all style is arbitrary and any trend can eventually work its way into my heart, but square-toed shoes are one I hated at the outset, continued to hate, and still hate. Although by now they are really only worn by people who pretty much DGAF.

I have beautiful shoes now and I don't know how to look after them help help

cut a potato in half and use it to scuff up the sole if they're slippery on airport or train station floors! #potatolifehack

I usually just have the shoe repair guy clean and polish my shoes. Probably it'd be wise for me to learn to do it myself though, since I probably don't take them in often enough. I got about five years out of my last pair of dress oxfords but I'll bet they would have lasted longer if I had taken better care -- leather finally started to crack and look ugly.

square toe idk what that is

do people in the usa not commit this crime? in the uk it's prob the worst fashion abomination there is.

― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, November 17, 2015 6:01 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just meant i dont know what they mean

polishing shoes is not v hard btw

didn't know you were back in town lag00n?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, November 16, 2015 10:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am a motherfucker with some dark secrets one of which is that im back in town

Polishing shoes is a complete waste of my time. I can pay someone $4 to do it for me and they do a much better job and I have nothing to clean up.

some cobblers will add a little grippy film to the bottom of your slippy sole shoes, i got that done in france a couple of years ago when i got new shoes and felt like a fucking film star or something

xp My shoe repair guy told me that a lot of shoe shine stands won't properly clean your shoes before they polish and that this results in a buildup that's bad for the leather.

he could be fear-mongering to keep your custom

cleaning and polishing shoes takes less than 10 minutes and is a truly useful skill, if not from the "now your shoes look shiny and clean" standpoint than definitely from a "make sure any shoes you sunk some money into last for years" standpoint.

I buy cheap shoes and wear them for like 10 years. Can't wait until shoe shiners are replaced by robots, tbh though.

Team Rockport.

you should definitely wash your shoes with saddle soap to strip off the old polish before re-polishing imho