FRIDAY CHALLENGE 08/02/13 - Wear a hat without looking like a fool.

[OTM]

 

[PTWilliams]

As far as not looking like a fool, which was, after all, the challenge.
These two girls came up to me and wanted to have my picture taken with them at the gay pride parade in SF.
I was the best dressed there, maybe not the best undressed there, but certainly the best dressed.

 

[Hampton]

 

[Victor Elfo]

Which one are you, Hampton?

 

[Hampton]

Which one are you, Hampton?

With the green RLPL silk pants

 

[DerekS]



With the green RLPL silk pants

knew it. love those. great fits!

 

[DerekS]



As far as not looking like a fool, which was, after all, the challenge.
These two girls came up to me and wanted to have my picture taken with them at the gay pride parade in SF.
I was the best dressed there, maybe not the best undressed there, but certainly the best dressed.

they totally wanted to **** you.

 

[upr_crust]



Forgive for asking questions, I am trying to learn about style. The first thing I see is the bowtie and handkerchief are different colors. Would it look better if they were closer in color?

Your shirt also appears to be, and I don't know how to describe this, thinner material and looks like it belongs with a blazer or darker suit. Something about your jacket looks like it should go with a thicker shirt. 

Your attire looks like it's a wealthy plantation owner from the deep south in the early 1920's, or a novelist's photo on the inside jacket of a book.

No need to ask forgiveness for asking questions.

The general rule, as least as I undestand it, is that one's tie and one's pocket square should coordinate in color, but not match. My choice today was perhaps quirky (it's been known to happen), but I wanted to wear something that wasn't a white cotton handkerchief.

As for choice of shirt, wearing a double-cuffed shirt with a seersucker suit is not the norm as well, but I like the combo of today's tie, cufflinks, and pocket square (green and yellow). A more normal selection of shirt would be an oxford cloth button down (OCBD).

I last wore today's attire (with a blue double-cuffed shirt instead of white) for a fundraiser at the Frick Collection - their Garden Party. I decided to repeat history.

 

[clapeyron]

Wow, lots of great entries. Here's a humble, casual one w/ a bucket hat and seersucker shirt. Shoes are darker there than irl for some reason:

did you plug one of your glasses' temples through a button hole? nifty...

 

[in stitches]

ok, here goes.

in honor of the challenge i went ahead and made a fit gif. its my first attempt at that, and i am reasonably pleased with the result.

boring stills also included.

 

[RDiaz]

That looks very good. I'm trying to figure out why it works. Is it the brown stripe in the hat matches the brown shoes? Or is it because the hat is light in color, the suit is light in color, the shirt is light in color. The hat adds to the look instead of distracting. It looks great!

I guess it works because it's a pretty safe combo. It's not been deeply thought, really. Cream linen suit is a classic, paired with a fine striped shirt that looks pale blue from a distance, then a navy knit - can't go wrong. Pretty much any handkerchief would have worked provided there was enough contrast with the jacket.

Stitchy, that looks nice - I wish more RTW makers would cut their armhoals like that.

 

[HansderHund]



did you plug one of your glasses' temples through a button hole? nifty...

Agreed. I'd never thought of that until this morning when I saw his post in the Luxire thread where se said he gets them for that purpose. I have dropped my glasses a number of times and that seems to be the cure.

 

[GauchoSF]

Great thread, gents.

RDiaz, I featured you on the homepage - hopefully you don't mind?

 

[Greggy500]

 

[RDiaz]

Great thread, gents.

RDiaz, I featured you on the homepage - hopefully you don't mind?

Not at all & I feel humbled