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

[Accy cyclist]

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’

In the description it says....
Description
While a striped summer blazer always carries with it a hint that you might have just come from punting on the river, its cheerful, sunny style is appropriate for many social occasions, from countryside picnics to lunch parties in town. Style perfectly with a pair of chinos, and your choice of casual or formal shirt.

The Kilnsey jacket is a tailored fit boating style blazer made from a wool blend fabric, and is available in Lime, Navy, White and Tan stripe.
So yes,it's not 'obviously' a boating blazer. I've bought off the suppliers before. They send the product(s) out very quickly and repay payments into your account as soon as they receive the item(s) back, unlike some. I haven't bought stuff off the suppliers of options 2 and 3 before,but somewhere in their write up they say you can send the item(s) back after a month even if they've been worn. Which could mean they repack the item and some unsuspecting customer buys a second hand jacket worn for a month by someone else.

In short, i buy number one,receive it in a couple of days,look at it and if it looks like a deckchair i re-box it,send it back and get my money back in about 4 days.

 

[Accy cyclist]

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

Not forgetting those crocs and cargo shorts!

 

[Accy cyclist]

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?

I really don't see it as being 'posh'.Years ago blokes wore such jackets for every day things. I'd wear it for dog walking,shopping,going to the pub etc etc. If you wear anything remotely smart around here and in fact in most of Britain now you'll stand out, as most just wear 'casual clothes',meaning 'hoodies' and 'trackies'.
The other night on a radio phone in i heard the presenter moaning about people wearing dressing gowns and pyjamas to shop in supermarkets. I agreed entirely. He then said "Why can't they just smarten themselves up" which i also agreed with,but then he ended it by saying "they should put a nice hoodie and tracksuit bottoms on and look and feel good". How we've let standards slip when 'hoodies and trackies' are classed as 'smart'!

 

[CharlesF]

Taking Accy seriously 😳
Option 1 without a doubt!

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

So true! Before this lockdown when we were allowed to see a doctor rather than talking to them on the phone,i'd see a few doctors at my local practitioners. Most were adequately dressed,but one stood out...badly. Seriously he wore and probably still does,a tee shirt,'distressed' jeans and scruffy,scuffed shoes.To me that conveys a message of 'i don't give a toss'.

 

[vickster]

Just don’t be surprised if the hoodies and trackies rip the proverbial

 

[Accy cyclist]

Just don’t be surprised if the hoodies and trackies rip the proverbial

Just been doing a bit of people watching from my kitchen window. I'd say 90% were wearing black or grey and about 60% had hoods on their heads. This uniform of black/grey complete with a hood is depressing to me! One of these types once said to me "You're always way over dressed". I replied 'haven't you thought that maybe it's you who's under dressed'!

 

[Blue Hills]

I really don't see it as being 'posh'.Years ago blokes wore such jackets for every day things. I'd wear it for dog walking,shopping,going to the pub etc etc. If you wear anything remotely smart around here and in fact in most of Britain now you'll stand out, as most just wear 'casual clothes',meaning 'hoodies' and 'trackies'.
The other night on a radio phone in i heard the presenter moaning about people wearing dressing gowns and pyjamas to shop in supermarkets. I agreed entirely. He then said "Why can't they just smarten themselves up" which i also agreed with,but then he ended it by saying "they should put a nice hoodie and tracksuit bottoms on and look and feel good". How we've let standards slip when 'hoodies and trackies' are classed as 'smart'!

I must admit to having worn something vaguely similar in my youth with my old school cricket trousers - very Paul Weller Style Council - though also remember being laughed at as I wandered out one evening.
On the shopping in night wear, I seem to recall hearing that years ago that in some very expensive bits of London, chelsea maybe, or the likes of Beauchamp Place Knightsbridge, some of the locals had taken to a humble brag of walking to the local shops and cafes in their bedroom garb - it was meant to send a signal that they lived there apparently, ie weren't yobs or tourists from outside.
I'll save you my dubious fashion expertise on your detailed choice.

 

[numbnuts]

Just don’t be surprised if the hoodies and trackies rip the proverbial

I have worn my Kilt with all the trimmings amongst these people and nothing was said, just stand tall and hold your ground

 

[vickster]

I have worn my Kilt with all the trimmings amongst these people and nothing was said, just stand tall and hold your ground

Just saying...I’ll just await Accy posting another of his posts saying that he’s been given grief by the neighbours, bloke in pub, yoof in park, drunk in churchyard or other random in street

 

[Hover Fly]

Just been doing a bit of people watching from my kitchen window. I'd say 90% were wearing black or grey and about 60% had hoods on their heads. This uniform of black/grey complete with a hood is depressing to me! One of these types once said to me "You're always way over dressed". I replied 'haven't you thought that maybe it's you who's under dressed'!

As I said a while back to Moon Bunny, walking down our local Market Street, ”It’s like being at a tramp’s funeral.”

 

[Once a Wheeler]

Accy play in red with black-and-white as away strips, so this is for you:


https://www.pinterest.co.uk/hannajordan0760/
No riff-raff in sight.

 

[Hover Fly]

Personally, I would wait a while and go to a proper gents outfitters and look at them in the cloth, try them on etc. preferably with someone to advise you on what you really look like. Remember the “mail order kids” at school? Their mothers would buy their clothes out of one of those thick catalogues, and they would be a bit too short in the trouser leg, loose in the pullover chest, and so on. Buying clothes off the Internet is the modern version of that.

 

[nickyboy]

Plain Navy Blue is the only correct answer to "What colour blazer should I buy?"

I always consider those folk who wear stuff like the MCC stripey blazer as seeking to compensate for some shortcoming

 

[craigwend]

It's got stripes, it's red white and black and may ingratiate you with the youth...

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