Spring and summer boating type striped blazer to make me stand out from the riff raff...help me decide

[cookiemonster]

Beige is ok as long as you wear something colourful with it,like Canucks Traveller said. I've had a pair of beige smart shorts for years. They're getting on now and after umpteen washes have turned more stone than beige. I wouldn't wear them with a beige or stone top,but i would with a solid dark colour or something like this.

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I bet your guide dog went 'Holy Shoot!'

 

[cookiemonster]

Choices may be a bit easier as the 70s are coming back.

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/mar/28/fashion-trend-1970s-house-of-gucci-pandemic-flares

 

[MntnMan62]

I'm not crazy about any of them. #2 and #3 are just wrong. So don't even think about either of those. The first one isn't terrible but that doesn't mean I would suggest you get it. You don't want to just look "ok". You want to look good.

 

[Joffey]

Not sure you can get any more Tory than a boating blazer - great if you are going down the Cons Club for a few Sherries with the boys and spitting on the homeless on the way.

 

[Dave7]

@Accy cyclist at the risk of taking this thread seriously......and if the choice IS between just those 2.....then I would go with the 1st one. Personally I prefer the 2nd one as it's more discreet but if you want it to clearly look like a boating jacket then its the 1st one.
Bear in mind I have never owned a boat or boating jacket though

 

[cookiemonster]

Not sure you can get any more Tory than a boating blazer - great if you are going down the Cons Club for a few Sherries with the boys and spitting on the homeless on the way.

And smashing up the occasional restaurant.

 

[winjim]

Beige is ok as long as you wear something colourful with it,like Canucks Traveller said. I've had a pair of beige smart shorts for years. They're getting on now and after umpteen washes have turned more stone than beige. I wouldn't wear them with a beige or stone top,but i would with a solid dark colour or something like this.

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Blimey.

 

[Deleted User]

Youv'e watched Quad too many times.

 

[Archie_tect]

Did you mean unironic badinage

You can say that...

 

[fossyant]

Has anyone mentioned Specsavers, and whilst there get checked for colour blindness !

 

[Cycleops]

I think the first is your best option. It doesn’t look overtly like a boating blazer so you won’t get comments like ‘Oi mate Henly is that a way’ or ‘Have you got an invite from Phillip Green’

 

[Blue Hills]

Where are you planning to wear this accy?
Your neck of the woods, wouldn't it be more cost-effective to rent something for the two weeks of summer sun?
I thought you had ditched the move to Lytham?

 

[newfhouse]

Planning a retirement in Brazzaville, @Accy?

View: https://youtu.be/v2O5yfw20Yg

 

[numbnuts]

Just wear what you like as most people on here think “smart” is cycling shorts and top

 

[postman]

Accy go to Blackpool and take a look at the deckchairs you might get some style ideas.Or better still find that tv commercial where those mature men in New Orleans strut their stuff in the most amazing clothes.