HOF: What Are You Wearing Right Now - Part IV (starting May 2014)

[MrDaniels]



Excellent pics! Though the messy tie knot is somewhat uncharacteristic for Claghorn....

I looked at is as sprezz....

 

[matty long legs]



I love what you're going for, but my main complaint with this fit (and most of your fits) is the jacket is too short.

 

[pravda]

@Dennis Walter. Nice fits. I like the Rouge trousers. Question - would you mind sharing your height and weight. In my head, I think I am about your build. Just want to see if I am on track with my weight loss. Thanks

 

[pravda]

@Matty. Looking good. Show a little sleeve from the turtle neck next time and the jacket won't look short. Also a pointer toe on the shoe would add to your nice Beatles retro look. My $.02

 

[Cao Cao]

 

[DiplomaticTies]

Attolini (cashmere)
G. Inglese (chambray)
Viola Milano (grossa grenadine)
Berg & Berg (corduroy)
Navyboot chukkas
Viola Milano bracelets

Also check out our new, revamped website. Still under construction but up and running: Diplomatic Ties

 

[Koala-T]

@Dennis Walter & @DiplomaticTies , you both seem pretty adept at mixing patterns. What are your main concerns/objectives when doing so? In other words, how do you do it without people telling you you've got too many patterns going on?

 

[DiplomaticTies]

@Dennis Walter & @DiplomaticTies , you both seem pretty adept at mixing patterns. What are your main concerns/objectives when doing so? In other words, how do you do it without people telling you you've got too many patterns going on?

Who says we do it without people telling us that we've got too many patterns going on...

It's one of the great mysteries, more in the category "I know it when I see it" than detailed analysis (take for instance my latest post. At first I had a ps as well, but I ditched it in the end because that became the detail that pushed the whole fit over the brink). I have certainly been guilty of mixing too much in the past and will surely do it again in the future. Luckily I'm not easily embarrased and I do believe that we still follow some of the basic "rules" of classic menswear a little too slavishly. We like to think that there are eternal truths in style but it changes all the time, even for classic menswear.

I tend to think more in terms of colour and texture rather than patterns when I dress. If colours and fabrics work together you can push the boundaries a little when it comes to the patterns. I also give myself a little more freedom when I wear a jacket compared with suits. I also make sure to avoid, as much as possible, all the small nuisances that can totally destroy a look, such as logos, monograms, initials, contrast details and grown men who don't wear socks.

 

[Academic2]

Quote:

Last week, whilst battling the soul-destroying ennui of an academic paper session at a conference, I surreptitiously jotted down some notes for a quiz …

Cheers,

Ac

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Introduction to Graduate Italian

Quiz 4​

[…]

XVI. In the obscure dialect of modern Italian spoken on Style Forum, sprezzatura is best understood as meaning:

(1) My tie is too long.
(2) My fly is open.
(3) I don’t know how to tie a proper knot.
(4) I took ten extra minutes to dress myself today in order to look like I took no time at all. Yes, I’m actually that neurotic.
(5) I do not own a mirror.
(6) Any or all of the above.

[…]

 

[Darkside]

Sorry Clags. The beard is long gone.

 

[EliodA]



Last week, whilst battling the soul-destroying ennui of an academic paper session at a conference, I surreptitiously jotted down some notes for a quiz … Cheers, Ac ========================================================================= Introduction to Graduate Italian

Quiz 4​

[…] XVI. In the obscure dialect of modern Italian spoken on Style Forum, sprezzatura is best understood as meaning:
(1) My tie is too long.
(2) My fly is open.
(3) I don’t know how to tie a proper knot.
(4) I took ten extra minutes to dress myself today in order to look like I took no time at all. Yes, I’m actually that neurotic.
(5) I do not own a mirror.
(6) Any or all of the above.

[…]

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

On a somewhat more serious note, did you see this:http://tuttofattoamano.blogspot.co.id/2015/06/sprezzatura-great-philological-debate.html ?

 

[Academic2]

On a somewhat more serious note, did you see this:http://tuttofattoamano.blogspot.co.id/2015/06/sprezzatura-great-philological-debate.html ?

No, I hadn’t. Many thanks for the link.

As it happens, I’m writing this in my living room on my laptop and from where I’m sitting (like most academics, if I showed you a picture of my living room you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a bookshop …) I can see my hardcover copy of the 1929 printing of L.E. Opdycke’s translation, a beautifully printed book, by the way, with more than 140 pages of notes and a full index. Recommended if you can find it. Let me get it.

Here’s the first mention of sprezzatura, in Opdycke’s translation.

“… I find one universal rule concerning it [‘grace’], which seems to me worth more in this matter than any other in all things human that are done or said: and that is to avoid affectation to the uttermost and as it were a very sharp and dangerous rock; and, to use possibly a new word, to practice in everything a certain nonchalance …” [p. 35].

To which Opdyke provides the following endnote:

“The word sprezzatura (rendered as “nonchalance”) could hardly have been new to Castiglione’s contemporaries, at least in its primary meaning of disparagement or contempt. He may, however, have been among the first to use it (here and elsewhere in The Courtier) in its modified sense of unconcern or nonchalance. Compare Herrick’s ‘wild civility’ in “Art above Nature” and “Delight in Disorder” [p. 338].

Hmm. It’s interesting that according to Opdyck the ‘primary meaning’ conveyed a certain degree of FU ('contempt').

Cheers,

Ac

 

[md2010]

Today

 

[in stitches]

Everyone should aspire to dress as well as Mr. Six.

 

[Murlsquirl]

Everyone should aspire to dress as well as Mr. Six.

Truth. His stuff looks even better in person.