The men's dress style thread..

[winjim]

Why not just tuck your shirt tails into your underpants like most sensible men

I'm trying to think which approach is sexier.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm going to wear one of my two pairs of Cordings cords, or maybe their moleskin pants later today. I haven't worn them since early last spring. The vid' below is quite interesting, but you have to be 'into' corduroy trousers. 🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

I wore this tie today. I was going to add my gold plated horse crop tiepin, but I couldn't find it. Thinking back, the last time I had it on was last Sunday, when I walked round the local cemetery. I'm hoping it fell off in my car, when I put my seat belt on, or in my flat when I took my tie off. If it fell off in the cemetery it's a looking for a needle in a haystack job!!

While searching for a similar replacement as I post, I've just spotted this which is exactly the same as the tiepin I lost.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1590574185/vintage-gold-tone-tie-clip-featuring-aga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_typ

They advertise it as a 'Rare find'. I'm now thinking is it someone who found it in my local cemetery, confirming I had lost it there after all.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Two 'country' themed tiepins here worth considering. Genuine gold is ok, but as I found out with the lost tiepin last week, tiepins are easily lost, so losing a looks like gold pin worth about £14 isn't too bad, but to lose say a 9 carat pin worth around £80 would be quite a loss!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1566369010/vintage-strattons-horse-riding-jumping?ref=cart

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1475969873/vintage-stratton-gun-tie-clip?ref=cart

 

[Time Waster]

I'm starting a new, proper job in a proper / big company on Monday. Office smart casual I think, but what is that? I'm thinking, dark blue chino or slightly off formal trousers, white possibly button down collar shirt, dark blue jumper and a darker brown almost Derby/ kind of rounded toe shoes with a slightly different colour sole. Does that sound like office smart casual to you?

I've been working 11 plus possibly 20 odd years in jeans, polo shirts and s3 safety boots. The last 11 years with the understanding I wouldn't have an issue with throwing away my clothing if I got particularly messy at work. They were cheap and cheerful jeans and polo shirts. It's gong to be a big change being even a little smart with shirt trousers and shoes. Not up on office wear.

Fashion is something that passed me by with a wide birth!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I'm starting a new, proper job in a proper / big company on Monday. Office smart casual I think, but what is that? I'm thinking, dark blue chino or slightly off formal trousers, white possibly button down collar shirt, dark blue jumper and a darker brown almost Derby/ kind of rounded toe shoes with a slightly different colour sole. Does that sound like office smart casual to you?

That sounds fine to me. Good to hear someone who sees smart but casual meaning still wearing collared shirts and trousers/pants and not meaning jeans and a t-shirt.

 

[Drago]

Saw a smartly dressed BBC weatherman on TV. Tie, crisp white shirt, blazer. A remnant of the time when Auntie Beeb had standards.

 

[winjim]

I'm starting a new, proper job in a proper / big company on Monday. Office smart casual I think, but what is that? I'm thinking, dark blue chino or slightly off formal trousers, white possibly button down collar shirt, dark blue jumper and a darker brown almost Derby/ kind of rounded toe shoes with a slightly different colour sole. Does that sound like office smart casual to you?

I've been working 11 plus possibly 20 odd years in jeans, polo shirts and s3 safety boots. The last 11 years with the understanding I wouldn't have an issue with throwing away my clothing if I got particularly messy at work. They were cheap and cheerful jeans and polo shirts. It's gong to be a big change being even a little smart with shirt trousers and shoes. Not up on office wear.

Fashion is something that passed me by with a wide birth!

That sounds appropriate but very boring. You can dress smart casual without being a clone. Mind you, I often wear a jacket and tie with trainers while my colleague next to me wears shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. We probably get away with it because we're nerdy scientists tucked away in the lab office.

 

[T4tomo]

I'm starting a new, proper job in a proper / big company on Monday. Office smart casual I think, but what is that? I'm thinking, dark blue chino or slightly off formal trousers, white possibly button down collar shirt, dark blue jumper and a darker brown almost Derby/ kind of rounded toe shoes with a slightly different colour sole. Does that sound like office smart casual to you?

I've been working 11 plus possibly 20 odd years in jeans, polo shirts and s3 safety boots. The last 11 years with the understanding I wouldn't have an issue with throwing away my clothing if I got particularly messy at work. They were cheap and cheerful jeans and polo shirts. It's gong to be a big change being even a little smart with shirt trousers and shoes. Not up on office wear.

Fashion is something that passed me by with a wide birth!

Cant go wrong with Chinos, shirt and jumper. Dark blue are more practical than lighter colours too.

 

[Time Waster]

That sounds appropriate but very boring. You can dress smart casual without being a clone. Mind you, I often wear a jacket and tie with trainers while my colleague next to me wears shorts and a Hawaiian shirt. We probably get away with it because we're nerdy scientists tucked away in the lab office.

The origins of dress down Friday was Hawaii. One of the islands biggest shirt makers had a promotion called aloha Friday. It was a success and spread. Then Levis got involved with promoting dockers with a dress down Friday.

Oh and I reckon labs have less formality about dress codes. Having said that my last lab experience I had to wear long trousers, labcoat, leather boots/shoes, heavy PVC apron, two pairs of gloves of which the outer were so thick they were hard to use, safety glasses and full face shield. And when a bunch of first year undergrads were caught by lab tech running around behind my station like in the playground they got the implied threats of violence from the toue of her voice. I was measuring out concentrated sulphuric acid and concentrated hydrofluoric acid at the time! Not something you want to spill! Especially since the nearest acid shower was in the floor above!

 

[Time Waster]

Cant go wrong with Chinos, shirt and jumper. Dark blue are more practical than lighter colours too.

My fear is I might look like the old relatives I knew as a kid! Some of those blue chinos are soft touch and look like old people trousers when I was a kid. At least they're not Farrahs! Lol!

 

[T4tomo]

My fear is I might look like the old relatives I knew as a kid! Some of those blue chinos are soft touch and look like old people trousers when I was a kid. At least they're not Farrahs! Lol!

Very hard to go wrong with Tyrwhitt's navy ultimate chinos.

 

[Time Waster]

Very hard to go wrong with Tyrwhitt's navy ultimate chinos.

I'm cheap so have bought the Next version of these in straight leg and stretch to the fabric for all day comfort. Should look smart with long sleeved, button down collar, white shirt. I've got slim fit as normal fit shirts and t-shirts from next always go baggy on me. Teamed with navy blue long length jumper (I'm 196cm tall but not too waisted shall we say) if it's cold in the office.

Not sure about brown shoes with blue but you see the clothing and shoes like that online so I guess it's OK now even fashion. I've got dark brown as a compromise instead of the light and bright tan version. Also Jon pointed shoes. More pointed shoes are formal suit shoes in my mind.

Fashion generally swerves to avoid me but I have a few classic stereotyped clothing mixes and faux pas in my clothing consciousness. I can only work around them.

 

[winjim]

The origins of dress down Friday was Hawaii. One of the islands biggest shirt makers had a promotion called aloha Friday. It was a success and spread. Then Levis got involved with promoting dockers with a dress down Friday.

Oh and I reckon labs have less formality about dress codes. Having said that my last lab experience I had to wear long trousers, labcoat, leather boots/shoes, heavy PVC apron, two pairs of gloves of which the outer were so thick they were hard to use, safety glasses and full face shield. And when a bunch of first year undergrads were caught by lab tech running around behind my station like in the playground they got the implied threats of violence from the toue of her voice. I was measuring out concentrated sulphuric acid and concentrated hydrofluoric acid at the time! Not something you want to spill! Especially since the nearest acid shower was in the floor above!

I've been under one of those showers. They are bloody freezing and have a tendency to flood the lab.

Fortunately we don't use HF any more, I'm not keen on spilling any of that.

 

[johnblack]

I tells you what else Accy, this modern trend for brown shoes with a blue suit makes me want to vomit. They'll be mixing checks and stripes next.

The old City saying is "Never brown in Town" But I'd make an exception for oxblood.