How would I dress casually?

[lenahan]

I do not own a pair of Jeans. They are for blue color work, only (I am just making a pretentious joke, I truly just don't like them).

I often will wear a blue blazer with khakis and blue buttondown to a barbecue, or my newly acquired cream cotton jacket, light blue shirt and navy trousers.

 

[GoldenTribe]

Originally Posted by agp

Keeping in mind that a collarless t-shirt is unacceptable,

Originally Posted by westinghouse

Absolutely hideous... Close another button, roll down the shirt sleeves and pant legs, and lose the belt, and you look somewhat respectable.
Do you post photos of yourself? Because you're really not holding back on the other guys.

 

[bluesman528]

Originally Posted by agp

I think most people wear jeans when you tell them to dress "casually" for something, but I don't have a single pair of jeans in my arsenal. The pants area of my closet is filled with broken-in chinos. Keeping in mind that a collarless t-shirt is unacceptable, if I were going to a backyard BBQ, or an informal gathering, how would I dress casually but not blend in?
It depends on the actual situation. Who are the people you are meeting there? Is there a need for looking respectable (colleagues, customers) or are you only meeting some friends? In either way a linen BD shirt with chino and loafers without socks will do. But a pair of jeans is not devil's work.

If they fit just right (that's important) you will find quite some relaxed fun situations to wear them, a BBQ with gallons of beer in a dirty backyard with good friends is a fine candidate.

 

[Threadbearer]

Originally Posted by acecow

When you're wearing a pair of dark Levi's, you wouldn't worry about sitting on the ground or spilling beer all over yourself.
To me jeans are too heavy and hot for a summer BBQ.

Originally Posted by westinghouse

Absolutely hideous...
Close another button, roll down the shirt sleeves and pant legs, and lose the belt, and you look somewhat respectable.
This post is pointlessly harsh -- unless, of course, the point is to pump up your own ego at someone else's expense. You may not like the way he looks, but that does not make his clothing "hideous" and it certainly does not make the man unrespectable.

 

[kgmessier]

Originally Posted by westinghouse

Absolutely hideous... Close another button, roll down the shirt sleeves and pant legs, and lose the belt, and you look somewhat respectable.
Does this mean I'm not invited to your next backyard BBQ?

 

[malat]

Originally Posted by acecow

Buy some jeans. We live in a casual world, accept it and embrace it. No one wears cotton chinos or wool pants to a BBQ, because it's too easy to soil them. When you're wearing a pair of dark Levi's, you wouldn't worry about sitting on the ground or spilling beer all over yourself. That's why they're so popular anyway.

This. Unless it's at the governor's mansion, OP is over-thinking this bbq.

 

[P-K-L]

Originally Posted by Testudo_Aubreii

If everyone else is wearing shorts and short-sleeve shirts, I'd wear the chinos with:

a long-sleeve traditional guayabera in linen. Very versatile summer garment. If pressed and starched and in white, you can make it look like the equivalent of an informal sportcoat.

I would wear this to a latin crime boss party...

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by acecow

No one wears cotton chinos ... to a BBQ, because it's too easy to soil them.
There is this invention called the washing machine. Perhaps you have heard of it?

 

[christinedaae]

polo shirt + khaki shorts + spurry's = $$$

you can't go wrong with that.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by christinedaae

polo shirt + khaki shorts + spurry's = $$$

you can't go wrong with that.
$$$ is the desired look? I thought the objective was to look appropriately and well dressed.

 

[Testudo_Aubreii]

Originally Posted by P-K-L

I would wear this to a latin crime boss party...

You'd look out of place. Search Google Images for "Pablo Escobar" and you'll find that the photos of him are in lounge coats, Aloha shirts, dress shirts, prison uniform, or clowning around in a Mexican revolutionary's get-up. Search for "El Chapo Guzman" or "Joaquin Guzman Loera" and you'll see him in a parka, a dress shirt, maybe a polo shirt, or a bullet-proof vest.

The current Mexican gangsters seldom seem to wear guayaberas, probably because they symbolize some respect for tradition and the old order. Whether intentionally or not, the narcos project an image of defiance of tradition and of the current order. Hence they tend to wear US streetwear, rather than guayaberas or lounge coats.

 

[P-K-L]

Originally Posted by Testudo_Aubreii

You'd look out of place. Search Google Images for "Pablo Escobar" and you'll find that the photos of him are in lounge coats, Aloha shirts, dress shirts, prison uniform, or clowning around in a Mexican revolutionary's get-up. Search for "El Chapo Guzman" or "Joaquin Guzman Loera" and you'll see him in a parka, a dress shirt, maybe a polo shirt, or a bullet-proof vest.

The current Mexican gangsters seldom seem to wear guayaberas, probably because they symbolize some respect for tradition and the old order. Whether intentionally or not, the narcos project an image of defiance of tradition and of the current order. Hence they tend to wear US streetwear, rather than guayaberas or lounge coats.

...you just destroyed so many stereotypes...

 

[agp]

Originally Posted by kgmessier

One idea:

• OCBD
  
• Chinos
  
• Loafers (no socks)

Sorry for the slightly overexposed pic.

You may want to skip the D-ring belt and go with something a little more straightforward like a braided leather belt. I was playing with color today in the backyard.

- K

I quite like this look! I even have (almost) the same hair cut. The only thing is that I don't have any sport/dress shirts that doesn't have any white in them. I think a blue/white stripe oxford with khaki/brown pants would not be as summer-like as white pants, but I don't think any of my shirts will match well with white pants.