ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

I generally spend almost nothing on clothes and dress like a clueless dad most days but I'm going to be away for work so much this year and feel like my slob tendencies have gotten worse since kid #2 arrived on the scene so yesterday I got fitted for a couple of proper shirts which was kind of exciting because I've, like, never gotten fitted for a shirt

stockbroker colin hunt is my favourite vetements fw17 look tbh

xp (or maybe not)

von dutch cap, avirex jacket, k swiss creps, evisu jeans, bit of versace maybe, the usual

how many of these things should i google?

a so solid crew video should suffice i imagine

dress like a clueless dad most days but I'm going to be away for work so much this year and feel like my slob tendencies have gotten worse since kid #2 arrived on the scene

yea i've started to embrace clueless dad slob as a look tbh, i've made it deliberate now and it feels like a good look for me

btw i am going to ditch these black 501s. i picked up some other levis and the problem w/ the 501s is that the denim feels very cheap, it wasn't that they are too black it's that denim sucks. for some reason the 505s i picked up seem like way higher quality denim and they are very black too but they are look much better

hmm yeah depending where you got them, the 501s might be the cheap levi's junk. they have some nice mid and upper end lines, but a bunch of the classic numbered styles are subject to the lowered standards of commodity staples

then there's whatever gets sold at target/wal-mart which (if levi's still does this) even has a slightly different label and are practically throw-away

i'm all sad because my five year old pair of nudies denim I liked is getting a hole in the groin :/

it's warm here today and I didn't do laundry so I'm wearing a t-shirt and black jeans lol

I remember when I started working in an office (doing IT for HR/sales stuff) and it was required to wear business casual, which was decent shoes, collared shirt, and khakis or their equivalent. Now, standards have relaxed and I'm working in a relatively internally-facing group for research IT and no one seems to care

yea i ordered them directly from levi's, but the difference in quality between the 501s and the 505s is drastic. the 501s definitely feel like super cheap throwaway denim

there is ostensibly a business casual dress code here, but it's pretty wide open. the director wears a suit and tie everyday, most everyone else wheres khakis and a dress shirt, some of us slobs just wear jeans

wears wheres

i can usually spell

if I'm going to spend all day toiling in the code mines I don't need to wear a suit

i'm all sad because my five year old pair of nudies denim I liked is getting a hole in the groin :/

― mh 😏, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 9:50 AM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uhh mend them

no u

take them to a professional mender at least

I will probably do something with them, let me vent

btw if u have a pair of jeans that are too long do u 1) get them hemmed or 2) cuff them

*looks down* I have cuffed them today sir

tbh that depends on the style of jeans and the style of the day, I think we're still in a "cuffing jeans is ok" style era but that may have changed in the last couple years

during the "erryone buying selvedge" times a few years back I saw even more cuffed jeans

yea i tend to cuff too

thought of you this morning, the gustin jeans my friend gifted to me because he screwed up the size when ordering were on top of a stack so i'm wearing super black jeans

haha

3. Return them / give them away

http://www.gap.co.uk/browse/product.do?cid=1077265&vid=1&pid=000712931002
http://www.gap.co.uk/browse/product.do?cid=1077265&vid=1&pid=000713142002

a limited-edition collection of iconic pieces pulled straight from our archives

Haha testing people's reception of 80s memorabilia

those look like normal 2017 clothes though lol

90s xp

it's a shirt, but bigger

http://i.imgur.com/bsmE7Sj.png

Was thinking big pink shirts and pleated trousers from saved by the bell

I always thought of it as an 80s show but it actually started in 89 so there you go

yeah it was early 90s all the way

I that late 80s/early 90s era got brushed away as transitional because many styles and attitudes didn't cleanly map to new things that have been ascendent since then

i kinda admire their success in conveying the slightly oversize medium shirt (which is prob just back to normal after slim fit foolishness) w/ that partic model and styling and whatnot

pleated khakis not so much

Very close to buying a black XBYO Adidas hoodie. Please convince me to save my money.

No get this instead

https://gb.benetton.com/shop/gb_en/men/tops/sweatshirts/sweatshirt-with-quilted-details.html

link? xp

i haven't worn a hoodie in months believe it or not

http://www.adidas.co.uk/xbyo-hoodie/BQ3087.html

Yeah, I've smartened up my look over the winter months - lots of nice blazers and jackets and muted cotton jumpers but Bristol is almost unforgivably casual and spring is practically here now.

oh that is a nice hoodie

i know... it's not that cheap either.

im at the point now when i don't even really want to look at my winter clothes let alone wear them

especially my winter coats

of all the different types of garments i think i am the fussiest about coats. i can wear the same shirt, t-shirt, or pair of jeans every day of the year but i get tired of my coats and jackets after a few months of wearing them

Yeah I've more or less retired my winter coat (thank god), although it's still a bit chilly to go out without some sort of jacket or coat. I'm a bit stumped on that too - need an intermediary coat that looks good and can be worn interseasonally. Some sort of hood for the rain would be ideal although I always think hoods let them down a bit.

what are some good options for affordable non-jogger sweatpants for actual trips to and from the gym? something a step above champion brand. also why is it so hard to find decent crewneck sweatshirts?

i have a drawerful of crewneck sweatshirts, mostly acquired second hand tho

it's nice to be happy with a haircut

i used to hate getting haircuts but for a full year now i've liked every haircut i've had. it is a nice fresh feeling to get a haircut

i'm not bald yet but one thing that i think has helped me w/ haircuts is developing some fundamental honesty about my thinning hair. keeping it shorter is much better and quells the impulse to hide or obscure it

after mb 5 years of having it short i've been keeping some length over last cpl of cuts and i feel much happier with it. also finding a barbers where the laddish energy is of a tolerable character is a big plus

my self confidence is pretty tightly correlated with how long it's been since my last haircut past week 3 or 4, yet i can rarely fit one in given my work schedule (how do barber shops stay in business? the ones here are all open 9-2pm mon-fri, and closed Sunday. Does EVERYONE who works nine to five get their hair cut on that sliver of a Saturday afternoon they stay open for us?) so i let it grow out and feel like an ugly schlub for weeks

can you take an early/long lunch and just have them rinse you out when you're done?