The men's dress style thread..

[Accy cyclist]

I wore my red Cordings mole skin trousers when I went for a birthday nibble with a lady friend this aft'. Some bloke trying to be funny said "Oh, I see you're wearing Tw@t pants"! to me. Why do some have a problem with red pants?! This oaf was wearing skinny fit ripped jeans, a puffer jacket and a baseball cap. How chavvy I thought! My lady friend, seeing as it was my birthday said let me deal with him. When he passed again, smirking at me she said "You do realise that being a geriatric (he looked about my age, maybe older) chav isn't a good look don't you"?!

I think my red pants look ok and the Lancs County Cricket Club jumper I wore matched them well. Maybe the teal fedora was a bit 'dandyish' but so what, I just fancied wearing it! 🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

Interesting. 🤔

Only eleven percent of men in Britain wear 'dress shoes', as in well made leather ones. The renowned makers of such shoes aren't doing too well in this 'leisure shoe/none luxury' wearing society. 🧐

 

[Accy cyclist]

I bought these trousers I've previously mentioned yesterday, in a 'please cut to' note to the seller, asking for a thirty two and a quarter inch inseam length. £120 after discount code and sale price, so I'm quite happy with my buy.🧐

https://cwmenswear.co.uk/collections/trousers/products/harris-tweed-blue-red-check-trousers

 

[Gunk]

Interesting. 🤔

Only eleven percent of men in Britain wear 'dress shoes', as in well made leather ones. The renowned makers of such shoes aren't doing too well in this 'leisure shoe/none luxury' wearing society. 🧐

25 years ago lots of my colleagues wore decent welted shoes for work, I still wear a pair good traditional Northampton made shoes with a suit, but most of my colleagues now wear cheap shoot from Next.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Now that I mostly work from home I don’t get as much use from them, but I’ve still got several identical pairs of black Loake Oxfords (I prefer 747Bs) and wouldn’t wear anything else with a suit.

I think there are two main reasons people no longer wear ‘real’ shoes:
1 - they’re expensive, and
2 - people are indoctrinated into believing that they are somehow uncomfortable.

 

[Profpointy]

I bought these trousers I've previously mentioned yesterday, in a 'please cut to' note to the seller, asking for a thirty two and a quarter inch inseam length. £120 after discount code and sale price, so I'm quite happy with my buy.🧐

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https://cwmenswear.co.uk/collections/trousers/products/harris-tweed-blue-red-check-trousers

Nice pair of brogues you've got there too

 

[tyred]

Interesting. 🤔

Only eleven percent of men in Britain wear 'dress shoes', as in well made leather ones. The renowned makers of such shoes aren't doing too well in this 'leisure shoe/none luxury' wearing society. 🧐

I wear them most of the time but they've mostly been brought second-hand!

 

[Hicky]

Most people don’t have 120 sheckels to throw on a pair of trousers.
Most blokes below 40 don’t have the money nor the social situation to buy 300£ shoes either.

 

[FishFright]

Most people don’t have 120 sheckels to throw on a pair of trousers.
Most blokes below 40 don’t have the money nor the social situation to buy 300£ shoes either.

Cost is always relative to income and to many people those numbers are perfectly fine.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Most people don’t have 120 sheckels to throw on a pair of trousers.
Most blokes below 40 don’t have the money nor the social situation to buy 300£ shoes either.

I didn't have the money either in my younger days. It's only in the last few years since I ended up a single man that I can afford to buy, some may say frivolously. Those trousers I ordered the other day will be very well made and will last me probably till I end up in an old folks home sitting in my own pee!! If You buy cheap you usually end up chucking, or giving stuff away that's only a year or so old. Though I must say that I bought a pair of Tesco polyester dark grey pants for £2.50 from a charity shop last year. These pants are usually about £17. They look and feel to have cost much more than £17 and are a very decent quality.

 

[Profpointy]

Most blokes below 40 don’t have the money nor the social situation to buy 300£ shoes either.

One's view of money changes too. I remember the top of the range Loakes being a hundred quid, and thinking that was fair enough then a year or two later bought some Crocketts in a sale for double that, and though that seemed quite a lot they still seemed decent value for the very high quality. Now I see them at +\- £500 which seems a hell of a price, despite my earnings going up in proportion. Most of mine have been 2nds or 2nd hand for £100 to £200, but even a commando sole resole (plus other work in fairness) cost me £100 at the cobblers the other day. Maybe they are charging me a Crockett's premium

 

[Accy cyclist]

Nice pair of brogues you've got there too

Notice they're black as well. I bought those blue tweed pants instead of another pair/shade of brown ones so that I can wear my black Loake Chelsea boots with them. You don't usually see black shoes/boots with tweed as most tweed is an 'earth' colour, so it doesn't look quite right with black, but I think black and blue (as long as it's not navy blue) go quite well together.

 

[stephec]

As far as the cost of things go I suppose it's a question of where your priorities lie.

There seems to be plenty of people happy to blow a fat wad every month on a PCP payment to have the latest motor whilst kitted out in Sports Direct's finest.

Looking at it that way a pair of £200 shoes that will last you possibly 20 years is a bargain.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Most people don’t have 120 sheckels to throw on a pair of trousers.
Most blokes below 40 don’t have the money nor the social situation to buy 300£ shoes either.

I think that when you're younger you don't rely on clothes as much as us older ones's to make yourself look good or acceptable. When I was in my 30's/40's I was quite a well built chap, as in quite muscular with a good posture etc and would feel happy wearing a t-shirt, Harrington jacket, jeans, trainers etc, most probably costing far less than I'd pay for clothes now. Now, after various operations have caused slight deformities I feel (or like to think) that dressing well with quality clothes and footwear makes up to an extent for my physical deficiencies. 🤔

 

[Profpointy]

As far as the cost of things go I suppose it's a question of where your priorities lie.

There seems to be plenty of people happy to blow a fat wad every month on a PCP payment to have the latest motor whilst kitted out in Sports Direct's finest.

Looking at it that way a pair of £200 shoes that will last you possibly 20 years is a bargain.

My first pair Crocketts were in a sale for £200, a fair wodge nearly 30 years ago. I still have them, and two resoles plus other work have likely cost more than the original £200 in repairs. I guess £500 new is the same in real terms, but I would still balk at that much.

£200 today's price for the top end Loakes seems very good value though, and far better value than my similarly priced so say "Italian" cycling shoes, which are merely glued together no doubt by sweat shop labour in the Philipines