ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

I want all of my shirts to be in like fun colors and patterns and fit v well, maybe a lil slim and youthful, but not like obnoxiously on-trend or silly. All the Brooks Bros I've ever seen looks really billowy and embarrassingly dated and yeah the collars are wack. Have they shaped up??

i bought a shirt in uniqlo today

brooks bros has an "extra trim" fit that is more like most fashionable slim fits, but the shoulders/armholes don't work for me. Actually now I think they have four fits and the slimmest is called the Milano or something. They also have lines that are supposed to be trendier like Black Fleece, but it's pricy. Haven't tried, but the quality should at least be good. Some of the sale prices aren't so bad:
http://www.brooksbrothers.com/Shirts/1592,default,sc.html?lid=leftnav-menu (look, they even have a "fun shirt"!)

omg if I'm going to spend $195 on a shirt it's going to be some zany Comme des Garcons statement piece

lots of bb shirts and ties on ebay in good shape for < 30 fwiw

all the black fleece ties are on sale right now btw

i lie i don't have round lenses, they are oval

still tho that's basically the eyewear look i'm working, the ca. 1910 small-time grocer

real talk: do sassy young things ever wear brooks bros?

like I just don't think I could bring myself to do it

Yeah I mean that stuff is not for me either, BB is just where I go to get reliable solid-color non-iron dress shirts that will look sharp and professional with a suit without much care.

The Black Fleece stuff looks a little bit Princeton U. to me. I used to ride NJ Transit and switch to Amtrak at Trenton when I went home for breaks, and there were always a lot of Princeton kids there and some had this certain super-pressed style that marked them as Princeton kids to me, like somehow it looked conservative and trendy at the same time, but more than anything expensive. So I always think of that style as Princeton, like ultra-fussy prep style that only a dandy scion of a wealthy family would wear.

real talk: do sassy young things ever wear brooks bros?

― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, January 6, 2016 3:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no

Bought a tweed jacket in the Mr Porter sale, more for the aspiration to stretch out and try some new looks more than anything else. Now I have a tweed jacket and am not really sure what to do with it. I could start dressing like my Dad I guess.

i bought my bb winter coat on ebay. i think it is my nicest item of clothing, and it feels very nice/expensive to me when i'm wearing it, but it's totally inconspicuous. it just looks like jcrew with an extravagant amount of fabric. i guess that's one thing where bb can be handy right now in 2015: if you don't want the 2005 mad men/2015 championship footballer slim fit, but you don't want to go oversized/fashion.

yeah bb quality is high and i feel like they are out of the trend dialogue rn so they are a good go-to for second-hand deals. i have this very nice, substantial pair of wool pants i got for like 35 dollars that makes me feel like a power daddy at 4x my income bracket, i may have spoken of them before in this very thread actually, i swear they feel like ermine or something they're so soft.

i like bb shirts and imo it doesnt matter if the fit is a little CFO-ish b/c you will will be wearing a jacket over it anyway right?

if you are in a position to be needing tailored shirts in a non-jacket situation i assume you are a fancy architect or lighting consultant and can thus afford something that fits

http://dieworkwear.com/post/136758868414/the-early-days-of-armani

was gonna suggest a third way for now between trad and matrix but here's this guy doing it instead. (his warm minimalism take re normcore last year was p sharp too imo). think i'll always love this shit, it speaks to my childhood or something. wore a vint oversize bb shawl cardie in this style at work this week as it happens - good time for second hand as matt says (but then it always is)

think it's worth underlining that trad and prep are not necc the same, prep was happy to mess with silhouette too, sack suits etc, and imo its sort of self-amused dandyism can actually transition quite well into a non-chintzy 70s enigmatic haute boho to go with the modern drapey minimal. sombre dialled down to melancholy

maybe I need to rethink my style

http://41.media.tumblr.com/9fc95f3b56195861d4b9440d361dc38a/tumblr_inline_o0grq9sLQS1qfex1b_500.jpg

me irl

obv yeah some of those pics might be considered extreme wrt oversizing but like caek says anything that avoids the super tired played out slim fit is gesture enough

xp a power daddy, you say?

I mean I prob won't be wearing jackets, just like slacks and something w/ buttons and shoes that aren't sneakers

those armani pics are p high fashion - or at least would be today - not quite the same as shopping where my dad shops or whatever.

there are a lot of minimalist fashion brands that aren't doing mad oversized or particularly ostentatious stuff - just nicely cut but doesn't make me look like i work for kpmg and should be accessorising with a multi-stripe scarf and square-toed loafers.

http://56.media.tumblr.com/4084af3583ce37060e14134d95a1edc7/tumblr_inline_o0grqkwVPm1qfex1b_500.jpg = guy who stole the spotlight on the bar mitzvah dancefloor

i want this shirt very badly

http://40.media.tumblr.com/ec86d9f746487b4bc4f37faf8b1d4e5e/tumblr_inline_o0grcxRyK41qfex1b_500.jpg

His look says "I am sexy although I have yellow fever"

A lot of that Armani stuff also reminds me of how my aunt's rich, narcissistic ex-husband dressed. He didn't like kids and was a bit of a dick to me.

i am getting ezra koenig vibes from that pic i posted tbh

boxy cut + wide peak lapels is so strange to me to think that there was a time that it was au courant and stylish and not excruciatingly naff and dated

I can definitely see lapels getting wider now, but the whole oversized thing seems like it's strictly 4 profiling n posing.

there are a lot of really big baggy pants around now - would never wear personally but i don't have the frame for it...

i have been wearing a few oversize tops, mostly sweaters and sweatshirts lately, though less "stylish" and more i just feel like swimming in some big sweatshirts in the wintertime

there are a lot of minimalist fashion brands that aren't doing mad oversized or particularly ostentatious stuff - just nicely cut but doesn't make me look like i work for kpmg and should be accessorising with a multi-stripe scarf and square-toed loafers.

― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 7 January 2016 15:21 Bookmark

yes if only kpmg execs had the humble good taste to spend hundreds on "secret style" pieces at our legacy

those vintage armani pics remind me of the time my wife and i tried to watch the pilot episode of thirtysomething.

i can't really get w/that look at all, the lemaire collection linked in that piece is kind of cool tho.

i have been wearing a few oversize tops, mostly sweaters and sweatshirts lately, though less "stylish" and more i just feel like swimming in some big sweatshirts in the wintertime

― marcos, Thursday, January 7, 2016 4:10 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

goes hand in hand really, a big oversize sweater with swanky pants is both comfortable and fun to look at

I find some big sweaters/coats can look good if you wear them with more tailored-fitting pants. I think it's baggy everything that I really don't like.

yes if only kpmg execs had the humble good taste to spend hundreds on "secret style" pieces at our legacy

kinda unnecessary ad hominem there but apologies if it seemed like i was attacking you. our legacy isn't partic expensive really anyway fwiw.

The uniqlo shirt I bought yesterday was a large. I usually get medium. Don't know if that's relevant to this important trend.

oh yeah baggy everything is a real stretch no pun intended that has to be like mega designer i feel

The uniqlo shirt I bought yesterday was a large. I usually get medium. Don't know if that's relevant to this important trend.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, January 7, 2016 12:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly idk if there has been weird sizing things happening but i am 5'7" 120 lbs very very skinny but if i want a regular-fitting (i.e. not super form-fitting or small) size t-shirt i have to buy medium, sometimes even large depending on the shirt. i do tend to wear tees slightly more loosely but still size S tees really feel too small for me and i am by any measure a fairly small dude

like i don't even know who is buying size XS

button-down shirts though i still buy S

tbh there are some outfits where like i can only wear an XS button down but i only own like 1 so i only wear those outfits like 3 times a year

my boyf buys XS from Uniqlo and H&M and he's like 5'5" and prob 130 or so, v tiny, and they are quite form fitting

Stevie I can totally see you rocking Epaulet!

Pricey, tho.

Oh hell yeah Epaulet is nice as fuck. Used to occasionally pop in their store but never bought anything.

tomorrow i am going to get really dressed up and be super like clean cut

buttons on my ($$$$$$$) epaulet oxford broke in like a month, pants split in the crotch within 2 months, buyer beware imo

daaaaaang that sucks. Spouse has a few pairs of pants and they have all worn fine. For shirts he likes Hugh and Crye and stocks up when they have a sale at their kinda-b&m store in town.

actually this thread may be interested if they don't know it already:

http://www.hughandcrye.com/

xp, damn, really? Guess it's all hype then. It looks so well made. I feel duped.