ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

these ppl mostly look awful and Dustin from Parker, CO would definitely look better without his Bombfell wares.

if we cd get a "before"-outfit picture of Dustin from Parker, CO that wd be great

Those square-toed slip-ons prominently featured are killing me. Maybe we should poll this.

Kent from Carlsbad CA is probably the best look out of them -- not something I'd rock but it suits him.

finally a subscription shopping service that knows I want to look like a TJ Maxx discount rack

a few of their customers had their wives blogs mentioned in the descriptions i clicked through to one of them and it was all just links to various clothing/makeup/etc subscription services lol some weird affiliate marketing loop

the other two had some regular posts interspersed with links to shit link that

they didnt seem like blogs anyone read

yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they got free or discount stuff in exchange for blogging -- you see a lot of marketing loop shit like that with startups.

seeing these guys just makes me wanna re-visit fedora thread when lagoon was deep-diving for selfies from the fedora lounge

oh man i went so deep i almost started posting but i didnt have a fedora

lol i've been meaning to check in on the ol' lounge

'tis an awesome thing to see

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stalking-the-wild-madras-wearers-of-the-ivy-league

incredible read

i have that book. one of my very favorites.

ty for great article

i do not understand hooded garments w/ hoods that are essentially non-functional and do not adequately cover your head or force you to strain your neck while wearing the hood because the fabric is so stretched out. a remarkable number of hoods ime do not really fit well. i'd throw most hoodies into this terrible category as well as a number of rain coats and winter parkas i've tried on over the years. even like "high performance" outerwear like patagonia has like crappy-fitting hoods that are super uncomfortable to wear over my head

sounds like a hat is in order

I have a really great looking but functionally awful mountain parka that I literally cannot fit the hood of over my head when it's buttoned/zipped up.

im in a bit of a clothing quandary. I basically have nothing formal I can wear. I generaly wear jeans, norse projects chinos & shirts, various brands' sweatershirts, and our legacy and gitman bro's shirts, so I can pull say "business casual", though not that well, but I want more formal stuff, though not necessarily a suit, but dress shirts and pants, a blazer maybe? im too kiddulty, I basically have nothing id be comfortable wearing to an interview (threw my last suit out as it was too old and worn). I live in Canada and I don't really know where to shop for this stuff, also don't really want to spend a ton of money on the kind of thing I want for practical reasons rather than for the purposes of fashion (I don't actually like the way I look when dressed formally, so shopping for this stuff doesn't bring me joy, but I don't want to look like a dork).

tl;dr.

sweatershirts

oh dear

Was that a long-winded way of saying you need to buy a suit? I don't know Canadian stores very well but I would absolutely say go to a department store with a suit department or to a store that specializes in suits. Do not order online -- it's always hairy to do so even if you know suits, and a terrible idea if you don't. I usually like Nordstrom's suit dept but I have no idea if they exist in Canada or what the equivalent would be.

they do exist, thanks! and yeah youre basically right

tbh i kinda took "im too kiddulty" and "I don't actually like the way I look when dressed formally" from that and assumed it was secretly about a deeper malaise than clothes

my advice therefore is we all gotta die someday so enjoy wearing a tie idk

i don't mind looking kiddulty, just aware that it's not v professional

just buy an our legacy blazer... just basically buy our legacy everything is my advice for all and for always.

Tell the salesperson it's for interviews and they'll steer you in the right direction. If you're slim you might like the Boss suits they carry (assuming same brands in canada as US), which are often on sale at reasonable prices and have a sharp contemporary profile. Peter Millar is also a high quality brand with nice cuts that is often on sale there (I think they're made in Canada, actually). Winter/post-Christmas sale is usually a good time to find good prices, but there are always sale suits.

Also ask them to help you put together a shirt and tie or two that go with the suit well, or give you ideas at least.

I like all of these ideas, thanks.

all the brands you cite do formal wear, shirts etc - then go somewhere else and buy one really nice tie, dunno, one good tie will go a long way.

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the norse shirts imo are really well cut and p well priced.

or just uniqlo for shirts, if it's a one or two wear scenario. okay that's my info dump done... :)

BTW for standard dress shirts, the Nordstrom brands are all very good for the price (Calibrate, Nordstrom and the premium "John W. Nordstrom" line).

get some dressy garments then leave them in yr closet until they go out of style, repeat, eventually die

lol otm

so many occasions for which i had to buy something dressy, wore it once, now it is ill-fitting and out of style

get some dressy garments then leave them in yr closet until they go out of style, repeat, eventually die

haha. never even bother buying a suit for this reason. blazer is the only vague thing you might bother wearing.

jim do you live in toronto?

vancouver

Yeah I probably have to wear a suit minimum 1x per month for work so my suiting needs are a little different. I even keep one at my office now for emergencies. I have a total of five wearable suits -- a solid navy brooks brothers where the jacket is a little too long because I should have gotten a short (I blame the sales guy), a charcoal with light stripes and a blue with very faint plaid Peter Millar suits, a boss "micro houndstooth" suit that's good for more casual/wearing without a tie, and a Jos A Bank sharkskin suit that I had to buy for a wedding and don't have many other occasions for (except maybe wearing to someone else's summer wedding).

I just ordered my first Ledbury shirts so I feel like a real fucking midtown douche now. Bought sale shirts with an additional discount, if the quality is as good as is rumored they came to a reasonable price of about $70 each.

btw i went to NYC last weekend, i had not been there in years, half a decade maybe? seems very ridiculous to say obviously NYC is like a global fashion and art center but i was still pretty blown away, people dress on another level there. i live in boston, obv a major city, there are fashionable people here too but it just seems very different, most of the young people in boston are here bc of some relationship to a higher ed institution and that kind of collegiate casual dress predominates, i was surprised by how different the vibe was in nyc

sexy ppl and delivery food are the only good reasons to live in ny

the job markets actually p good rn

also access to stuff kindof, mostly

he said defensively

i mean also there is such a wider mix of fashion on display due to the crazy mix of people in nyc, like even in super wealthy manhattan all kinds of people come over there to do shit so there are all different kinds of fashion being worn, you see all kinds of styles next to each other. boston is super segregated so if i am walking around cambridge it is mostly student or tech dude fashion, i drive through dorchester and it is more urban wear, there is some mixing happening but not really to the same extent at all

if u accidentally become sexy in boston u r required by law to move to ny within 6 months

when you see ny street style it seems to be leading everywhere for sure.

when there it's a bit more random, but some really fashion parts of manhattan, i mean as a tourist i dunno but like crosby street and around there seems like one of the most fashion places i've ever been in.

Yeah, I have to admit I think the only reason I even post regularly ITT is that living in NYC rubbed off on me, like I just started to get super fascinated seeing the way people dress every day on the subway, walking around midtown, whatever -- it used to be the more daring stuff I'd see in Downtown BK and Williamsburg when I lived in those areas, but even around the offices and midtown consulates and stuff you see so many people whose dress at a ridiculously high level, including people from all over the world wearing stuff you don't necessarily find easily here. I almost stopped a dude today just to ask him what his shoes were, and I heard him speaking Spanish. Middle-aged guy, subtly and tastefully dressed, shoes were simple and reddish-brown leather but very rich color and perfect shape. Even on the Queens subway line I ride you see interesting stuff all the time even though it's not the norm. Chinese dudes from Flushing dressed impeccably sharp, occasional normcore hipsters in Jackson Heights and Astoria, and then Long Island City is always where the flood of beautiful people gets on/off.

I appreciate it a lot, it adds so much visual interest to my day. I guess in nature you look at the trees, birds, mountains, streams etc. In a lot of NYC you have drab grey and glass buildings, but you can look at the people.

there are very sexy ppl there for sure