ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

sry off topic

surm you are v handsome and can wear your hair however you please

I'd just give the cashmere sweater a slightly too warm wash, it will shrink. I've never known anyone to get knitwear altered. Seems weird to me.

Um (1) you don't wash cashmere, and (2) while I've never done it, it seems fairly simple -- just cut a little bit of material out to taper it and sew it back together.

(2) while I've never done it, it seems fairly simple

mmm yes

Well what do you think tailors do?

I don't mean *I* could do it, but I don't see why taperingg a sweater would be much different than tapering a dress shirt. Both have side seams.

yes, yesss

You can wash some cashmere, fwiw. The reason you can't wash it generally is because it shrinks which was the point I was making. It might fit better.

u shd just wear it a lil slouchy imo

http://putthison.com/post/22782539660/q-and-answer-can-i-alter-a-sweater-hayden

oh now we got googlers up itt whats next

To wit, If you google how to wash cashmere lots of people seem to think you can wash it easily and that it's preferable to dry cleaning it, which makes sense to me.

Since dry cleaning is wet too.

umm im no expert but it has dry right in the name

I know, right?

ok its settled then its dry

fuck washing a cash

I'd just give the cashmere sweater a slightly too warm wash, it will shrink

it will also lose all breathability and become horrible to wear

speaking solely from my personal experience here

idk yeah would much sooner just flip it than ever try boiling. never had one tailored

quite fond of tucking a sweater in myself, outfit depending. requires high mana though

just realized I brainfartishly suggested upthread that the sweater might have side seams, which seems very unlikely. So yeah, tailoring probably not easy to do if doable at all.

Heat and agitation is what makes animal fibers felt/full so just hand wash in cold or lukewarm water or wash on delicate cycle and then dry flat and you should be ok?

surm you are v handsome and can wear your hair however you please

― gr8080, Wednesday, December 30, 2015 10:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you know the way to a man's heart. and coincidentally, today i barely did anything to it and it looks p good :)

quite fond of tucking a sweater in myself, outfit depending. requires high mana though

― r|t|c, Thursday, December 31, 2015 4:38 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

SAME. for my friend's engagement party i wore a tucked in red sweater with a collar underneath and a gold blazer.

really not sure ive ever seen someone tuck in the sweater

it always seems kinda fashion shoot-y to me but i also think i just fidget too much for that look to work the sweater never really ends up sitting flat enough against my body

Feel like you need a very thin sweater for that to work (and to be svelte). And every time I hear "thin sweater" I think "left em in the cold with a thin sweater"

@rtc - https://twitter.com/melblatt/status/682909209273339904

as if by magic

THIN SWEATERS

when I think of thin sweaters I think wrinkles, horrible cancerous wrinkles. maybe bc my thin sweaters have cotton in them.

no i have to iron them , you're right

last evening i wore a oversize thick seater with nothing underneath it wasn't as itchy as i thought

SWEATER

s'Gucci

Do y'all men find your personal style evolving radically over time it does it get more focused and refined? For me it's the latter

more focused and refined if those are the choices. i just bought a paisley shirt that looks like it belongs on the cover of a Church album and I'm looking forward to rocking it.

Yeah I do wander into unexpected scarves and things that *speak* and "augment / extend / elevate" my personal style.

I would describe my style as Yamamoto without ever having bought any Yamamoto in my life

I'm on the evolving end of things. Careerism aside, I think over the next few years I could easily wind up heavy into turtlenecks and Under Armour t-shirts; you never know what's going to feel right as you age

my style switches

I feel like there's been a common old mannish, slightly conservative thread to my style that has been there since high school, and yeah I've mostly refined and or updated and or upgraded it.

I feel a small shift every year and fairly major (to me at least ha) shifts every 3-5 years. it all feels like "me" though I guess

i guess i would say evolves radically, in the sense of evolution being a focusing? ie switch it up because i'm surer of myself and remaining so

rly deeply despise that recurring line in #menswear about true man style being paring wardrobes down to the very finest quality most versatile essentials. fuck off

feels like sometimes i buy something which feels a radical enough jump, but soon enough that kind of fits in with the rest. if i look back over a few years, my style has prob changed quite a lot. but even though i've always been into clothes, the last 4/5 years is the main time in which i've actually thought about my style and fashion per se. i guess i find myself less concerned with more ostentatious stuff and more into secret style.

rly deeply despise that recurring line in #menswear about true man style being paring wardrobes down to the very finest quality most versatile essentials. fuck off

guess i agree, i like to have a fairly wide-ranging wardrobe. i think all the men's sites advise this under the assumption that their minions can't pull off more than one look (and basically any look that isn't formal) at a time.

playing for repeat visit partisanship thru bs masculinity marketing to a shook conservative base you mean

really depends on the day tbh. today i'm trying for like furniture maker circa 1994

i am having a p serious problem now though that i wear my glasses to get ready in the morning. i literally like - i had no idea what i was wearing before. and now it takes me 2 hours to get dressed it's taking a toll.

I finally own a suit that was made for me - been having Brooklyn Tailors put one together for a while, it took an age doing back-and-forth stuff via mail & email but it is lovely to have a suit!