ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

Now I feel like the looks are more unabashedly fussy, less ironically manly.

i still see the odd nice thing and i dunno, i think shirt jackets are kind of cool, or some of the japanese workwear is nice, but like wearing lots of plaid or brown or whatever, i dunno. lots of marketing of masculinity going on.

My SO is very upset that pleated pants are back. They never left DC, and he has been almost single-handedly (-leggedly?) swimming upstream on that.

pleated pants should never ever come back

I love pleats

i quite like that floral zip up thing and i've seen people wear similar things like that that look good, but i don't reckon i could pull it off.

I'm on board with a pleated pants revival

Thread. Shark. Jumped.

I've been on board w/pleats this whole time

i like that kilim bag quite a bit but not sure i'd carry it around myself

are you pleats defenders in IT

I'm in IT. I do not defend pleats.

Fight the good fight. I'm guessing Chicago is about on the same fashion level as DC.

A skinny handsome model dude with perfect style can get away with pleats but everyone else should stay far away. Pleats will get SO abused in places like DC and Chicago if they come back.

i'm sure i've said this before but there are good pleats, very few of them but they're out there.

xp you don't need to be skinny to wear pleats, come on man

Not in IT. Just got my own thing to do.

Suits with high waists and pleats can look good on a guy who can actually wear high-waisted pants, i.e. doesn't have a gut.

the end of pleats was def good for most ppl but if u cn make them work then u cn make them work

the end of pleats was good for society

its kinda like writing when adopting an unadorned style can get you pretty far so thats why they teach ppl in school to take words out instead of add them

Pleats only work with a high waist. It's kind of how they're designed.

i have a suit w pleated pants but its just a single pleat u cn barely tell

Oh also khaki pleats are terrible and are probably what we think of when we talk about IT workers. Dockers and all that.

Dockers is such a funny name.

https://nickshell1983.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/pleated_work_pants1.jpg

its just like how in german u cant display the swastika our nation needs to heal

yeah feel like suit trousers have a fairly light pleat quiet often - is the hatred more for those really pointy pleats?

i dunno, i wear jeans or sweatpants p much always.

xpost the pleat was originally a buddhist symbol

lol tru

khaki pleats are so weird, like how did it even happen where you take a fabric that doesn't drape at all and give it something that relies entirely on drape

i tried to fins a picture of truly terrible 90s pleats be cldnt quite get there, guys were wearing extremely huge pleated khakis like they were going to an office rave

Yeah khakis with multiple pleats -- it looks like you're planning to hold a catered event in your pants.

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

I was almost gonna post a photo of like Cary Grant or Sean Connery or someone in a nice suit with pleats, but that's sort of cheating, obvs the handsomest dudes in the world with the best tailors in the world are going to make it look good.

I feel like Obama affects that look as part of his schtick btw. Pleated dockers, weatherproof jackets, polos, Hart Schaffner Marx suits, etc. He's trolling the haters with his all-American normcore look.

otm

i question whether that look is really american

i wasn't around the last time pleats were in, but ok with them staying out

all the nice pleat pics i can find of non-famous ppl are pretty #menswear

i question whether that look is really american

― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, December 1, 2015 10:40 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't fathom what else it would be.

the chinos and polo shirt thing really is no another level here, so far beyond anything accomplished in europe (and a reliable way of spotting american tourists in london etc.)

btw this is lag00ns jacket https://www.google.com/search?q=mary+berry+jackets&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X

the crane print one is great

I mean it's mostly an affluent older conservative thing but it's definitely an American thing.

I can't fathom what else it would be.

iraqi

oh you mean Kenyan I get it

can we talk about how the massively pleated Dockers are always accompanied by a massively billowing button-down shirt, also with pleats.

classic look

whats man alive's ceaseless beef with skinny handsome model dude with perfect style tho

i spilled a drink on him at tropical 128

can we talk about how the massively pleated Dockers are always accompanied by a massively billowing button-down shirt, also with pleats.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, December 1, 2015 12:29 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i work with guys who pair perfectly fine dress pants with shirts that are three sizes too big for them, you could fit one of those child-carrying backpacks under the back of their shirts.