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

[Roy Al]

Finally weekend.

 

[blekit]

@blekit Nice, but would be nicer with different tie. Rust or burgundy?

As for the ties, I'm not sure if rust would work with pink-striped shirt (either way I don't have one, thing that must be fixed some time i. Burgundy would be nice, but I don't have one in wool and that was my priority today. I think that green goes well enough with both shirt and jacket. Thanks for your opinion!

 

[clarinetplayer]

TGIF

New jacket and tie

 

[ShawnBC]

Hal, one of your best fit to date! I really like the jacket lenght and how the trousers fit! As EFV said, though, the shirt collar is a let down, as are the shoes.

Edit* I always thought you were 24, 26, along those lines!

 

[in stitches]

Old news, but I will reiterate that I pretty much never like very formal structured wool looking SCs with rumply cotton pants, or even regular looking cotton pants. Just looks super inconsistent/incoherent to me. To pull of a SC like that with cotton pants they need to to be really dressy sleek luxxxxe cotton, im(nsh)o, and even then it needs to be just so and its still on the line for me. Only a few examples of such a look that I like.

Also, I think it works better with summer color and weight wool SC.

#hashtag

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

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Perfection.

Having said that, I'd like to see how a slightly taller shirt collar suits you.

Thanks! And that's a really common suggestion for some reason, but the reality is that I already wear tall collars. The band on this one I think measures 1 5/8" in the front and taller in the back. That's near the highest you're going to see any standard collar band, or even normal mtm/bespoke. I have a couple shirts made with a 2" collar band and two-button fastening, and those are really tall. Going anywhere beyond that totally throws off the proportions of the shirt collar and starts to look ridiculous. Here's a closeup from this fit that shows the collar a bit better. Again, it's pretty tall already, but with my long neck I'll grant you it barely looks normal.

Those are some seriously tall cuffs. Are they over 2"?

No, they are 2"

 

[wigglr]

 

[Marsay]

Thanks! And that's a really common suggestion for some reason, but the reality is that I already wear tall collars. The band on this one I think measures 1 5/8" in the front and taller in the back. That's near the highest you're going to see any standard collar band, or even normal mtm/bespoke. I have a couple shirts made with a 2" collar band and two-button fastening, and those are really tall. Going anywhere beyond that totally throws off the proportions of the shirt collar and starts to look ridiculous. Here's a closeup from this fit that shows the collar a bit better. Again, it's pretty tall already, but with my long neck I'll grant you it barely looks normal.

No, they are 2"

 

[SYCSYC]

A few days after @blekit I'm also trying to include black shoes in a separate outfit. My take: keeping it monochromatic. Does it work in your opinion?

 

[An Acute Style]

Friday. Oxford and madder and Shetland and tweed. These are a few of my favorite things.

 

[pravda]

@sycsyc I am a big fa of your style. These textures are very luxe but I think the white shirt and PS flattens it out a bit. I would try a white shirt with a weave and complementary PS. Maybe even a black shirt as an alternative.

 

[shirtsnob]

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Thank you.

Hal

the shirt collar curl is very bad......

 

[afterthesuit]

Today, bordering on primary colours. Trousers are a navy houndstooth brushed wool with a flannel-like texture.

 

[mktitsworth]



Old news, but I will reiterate that I pretty much never like very formal structured wool looking SCs with rumply cotton pants, or even regular looking cotton pants. Just looks super inconsistent/incoherent to me. To pull of a SC like that with cotton pants they need to to be really dressy sleek luxxxxe cotton, im(nsh)o, and even then it needs to be just so and its still on the line for me. Only a few examples of such a look that I like.

Also, I think it works better with summer color and weight wool SC.

#hashtag

I assume that this is aimed at me. I don't disagree terribly much, but I am shaded by living in a place which is, for a significant part of the year, too hot to wear separately a jacket and any kind of wool. If I were to own only wool pants I'd be doing my best reevolving impression four months out of the year. I'm a dedicated performer willing to do Andy Kaufman proud, but not that dedicated.

As I said though, I've decided those pants are for donation.

Today, bordering on primary colours. Trousers are a navy houndstooth brushed wool with a flannel-like texture.

Spoiler

Is that jacket solaro?

 

[in stitches]

Not aimed specifically at you, but also not not aimed at you.