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oxford buttondown, not white twill w/spread collar. wool or knit tie, not shiny silk tie. and so forth.

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:55 (eight years ago)

I don't think anyone's advocating an actual suit jacket with jeans here guys. although I think there was a time I would wear a skinny tie and jeans but that was over 10 years ago at least

Badgers (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:56 (eight years ago)

xp yeah totally depends on the material and style. generally business attire and casual don't mix

Badgers (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:58 (eight years ago)

sry i gotta come down on the side of tie with jeans is generally pretty bad, dressing up jeans is kinda just lame IMHO there are lots of kinds of pants, i know everyone wants to wear jeans 2 work and i sympathize but its still just trying to square a circle jeans r for being cool chill and for wiping your hands on and dont really need to be paired with a gingham shirt a northface fleece and some shoes, also a thing i hate while were at it is the tie without jacket shitty college age male look

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:03 (eight years ago)

also i know there is the rocker guy tie with jeans look too

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:04 (eight years ago)

Suit jacket or suit coat - has matching pants (and maybe vest). Generally more formal in cut, fabric, and usage than sportcoats/jackets/blazers.

Jacket or sportcoat - meant to be worn as a separate, with non-matchy but still coordinating pants. Generally less formal in cut, fabric and usage. One might see tweed and corduroy and even velvet in this category.

Blazer - subcategory of jacket/sportcoat, usually blue with gold buttons but not always.

Easy to mush these things up because all blazers are sportcoats but not all sportcoats are blazers, geez doodz, there can be some areas of ambiguity but most of the time it is not that hard to figure out what is meant

I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:05 (eight years ago)

get some nice wool pants or cotton pants for the summer people will notice and think you are on to something

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:06 (eight years ago)

Jean jacket and tie
Feel like such a lie

Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:07 (eight years ago)

i feel like maybe ppl just dont want to say sport coat cause it sounds super lame

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:07 (eight years ago)

just dawned on me that name prob originated when englishmen used to dress up in those brown suits to go hunting god bless

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:09 (eight years ago)

words do change

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:09 (eight years ago)

Yeah, p sure "pants" is plural because they used to be separate things, although most people now just have one garment that they call "pants."

The mental image of sports being played in sportcoats is still a little amusing to me, though. Like imagine the New England Patriots or Boston Red Sox, all trotting onto the field wearing matching herringbone tweed jackets with elbow patches.

I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:13 (eight years ago)

its good i think they shd do it

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:15 (eight years ago)

xp

they're english mate they're more civil

infinity (∞), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:16 (eight years ago)

tie w/jeans is fine with the right shirt/tie/jacket/sweater. the problem is no one knows understand how different fabrics, patterns, etc. affect the final look.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:54 (twenty minutes ago) Permalink

A lot of fashion advice that says something is "bad" is really just shorthand for saying "if you are reading this you are probably in the bottom 98% of men fashion-wise and hence you will fuck this up because it takes a lot of nuance and attention to detail to make it work, so just don't do it."

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:18 (eight years ago)

nice!

Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:22 (eight years ago)

dont really need to be paired with a gingham shirt a northface fleece and some shoes

- goon

Wait this is considered “dressing up” jeans?

treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:27 (eight years ago)

well its a standard work look, and its not jeans natural partner the famous tee

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:29 (eight years ago)

i mean that's a bad look b/c it's boring and normie more than anything else

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:31 (eight years ago)

well it is conventional but that doesnt say much about it beyond that

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:33 (eight years ago)

Jeans look good with heavier weight button downs, plaid or solid, like workwear kinda deal

treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:34 (eight years ago)

Traditional khakis are such a weird color to be the staple that they are.

treeship 2, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:35 (eight years ago)

theyre khaki

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:09 (eight years ago)

http://www.bondsuits.com/what-is-coat-jacket-suit-blazer-glossary/

of course i'm extremely old money so i only use the correct terms

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:31 (eight years ago)

I weighed my pants today and they're 2.8 lbs. yowza, these are some heavy pants! er xpost I guess

chinavision!, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:32 (eight years ago)

also later in the week if the weather's right I'm gonna wear a double breasted navy blazer w/brass buttons. should be fun.

chinavision!, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:33 (eight years ago)

http://www.bondsuits.com/what-is-coat-jacket-suit-blazer-glossary/

of course i'm extremely old money so i only use the correct terms

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, February 7, 2018 3:31 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is pretty darn good

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:43 (eight years ago)

its fun to know the names of things i do enjoy lording it over people but only for sport

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:45 (eight years ago)

me too, i wear my sports jacket while i do it, and i also wear a button down collar so my collar doesn't flap about in the excitement

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:46 (eight years ago)

one mustent have their collar flapping around it simply wont do

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:47 (eight years ago)

Odd jacket: A lounge jacket that is not part of a suit. A sports coat is a type of odd jacket, but if the jacket does not have sporting features it is merely an “odd jacket” or a “jacket“.

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:10 (eight years ago)

Sports coat: A lounge jacket with sporting features—such as hacking pockets, bellows pockets, deep vents, a throat latch or pleated and belted backs—in a coarse cloth. Also called a sports jacket, a sport coat or a sport jacket. Americans will use any one of these terms to specify any odd jacket.

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:11 (eight years ago)

the things brits think are sports are funny

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:11 (eight years ago)

the things they think are sport

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:20 (eight years ago)

dont americans call car driving a sport

we all fuck that word up

flippy bard (Will M.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:29 (eight years ago)

traveling in a fried-out Crombie

I will finish what I (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:42 (eight years ago)

imagine wearing a dinner jacket to dinner LOL!

scoff walker (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:48 (eight years ago)

its not even a jacket its a whole suit!!

lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 21:53 (eight years ago)

My 19 year old USAF issue blue windbreaker still fits and is cool now

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:02 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

yeah i stick by "there are no rules in style" or w/e but omg please don't ever wear a suit with jeans you are right on this at the very least

plax (ico), Saturday, 3 March 2018 22:19 (eight years ago)

how is it possible to wear a suit with jeans I'm confused

El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:06 (eight years ago)

a suit Jacket, I take it.

Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:16 (eight years ago)

read the damn thread its explained and documented, at least look at the picture of ezra klein

lag∞n, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:36 (eight years ago)

https://images.newrepublic.com/a06b981f27fa60338b3fc35de333dc21369cd8d3.jpeg?w=400&q=65&dpi=1&fm=pjpg&h=600

i will save you some trouble

Clay, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:39 (eight years ago)

"do you see now what a suit with jeans is" --ezra klein

lag∞n, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:44 (eight years ago)

I’m just asking for a little more precision in the nomenclature here

El Tomboto, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:48 (eight years ago)

its perfect actually

lag∞n, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:48 (eight years ago)

a picture of ezra klein is worth a thousand words

Clay, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:54 (eight years ago)

one thousand takes even

lag∞n, Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:55 (eight years ago)

i just got a baracuta G9. i've come to think that (for fairly obvious reasons) the brits really figured out jackets in a way that no other cultures have.

call all destroyer, Sunday, 4 March 2018 02:03 (eight years ago)


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