Hey gang,
In a perhaps futile effort to try to give the music industry some sort of class, I've lately decided to step up my A-game in daily wear. I thought it'd be fun to have a thread where we can discuss some of the finer fashions of life. (read: You are going to talk about the best locations to get good deals on nice clothes and give up all your fashion advice, and I am going to steal them for myself.) Maybe we could even have a resource section in the OP, I dunno. I'll play it by ear.
My early Father's Day gift was a trio of hats from The Village Hat Shop: here (grey), here, and here. The Jaxon is put away until it's far colder, but the Stetson and the trilby have seen a lot of use already. Been getting a ton of comments particularly on the Stetson; I think the ladies love a good hat.
I also just ordered a bunch of pocket squares and a single test tie from The Tie Bar. No word yet on quality, but I'll let you know.
And finally, I found a local tailor who makes full bespoke clothing, and I've ordered my first bespoke shirt (well, more of a cross between bespoke and MTM, but you get the idea). I have never been able to find a nice dress shirt that fits in the neck but doesn't blouse enormously in the back of the waist. Some of those shirts, a strong wind would pick me up and take me away. Or, shirts that do fit pretty well use horrid fabric and construction, like those sewn pieces of sandpaper (that still somehow wrinkles like crazy) they call MX1 shirts at Express Men. Anyway, I'm excited to have a nice shirt in a fabric of my choosing, and getting to shake the hand of the man who will be putting it together.
How about you? What are you wearing today? Any comments, questions, feelings of hopelessness, regret, etc.?
Those are some pretty sweet hats. I've been looking into getting something on the fancier side like that, but I haven't really had the courage yet. I just don't know what would look good on my head.
I just placed an order at www.elitesuits.com for 3 bespoke/MTM shirts.
The pricing is actually better than off the shelf for reasonable quality business shirts so I thought I'd give it a go.
Since graduating from school I've been trying to step my game up. With a thread title such as this, how could I not subscribe?
Minarchist, how did you go about finding your tailor? I hate baggy dress shirts; even some "fitted" shirts aren't that tight.
Subscribing for dapperness.
Subscribing for wishing to having dapperness.
Subscribing despite complete and total lack of dapperness.
I do have a buddies uncle who I go to for tailoring. Get a pretty good friend discount.
Subscribed for dapper as well.
You gotta get a better belt, my friend.
You gotta get a dapperer belt, my friend.
Fixed.
Dressing Dapper is nice. Dressing Dapper on a budget is very, very hard.
My biggest problem is that clothing is hard enough to find in my size (6'2", thin as a rail) that finding items that are my size and on sale is an epic quest filled with lots of grinding (of my teeth). It's all about priorities, and I could certainly have bought more clothing if I bought fewer video games, but it's still a constant source of frustration that I have to special order most of my clothes, anyway.
I'll have to give eBay a closer look. Thanks!
Also, yes, I tend to stick to European heritage. It fits me much, much better.
What do you mean by European heritage? Clothing made by European companies? Any recommendations for brands or outlets would be appreciated!
Any hints on how to go about finding a decent tailor?
Any hints on how to go about finding a decent tailor?
If you're looking to get custom made clothes, there're a few adequate places that take your measurements and produce the clothes at a distance. Jantzen is supposed to be good for shirts.
I just placed an order at www.elitesuits.com for 3 bespoke/MTM shirts.
The pricing is actually better than off the shelf for reasonable quality business shirts so I thought I'd give it a go.
I'd be interested to know how that worked out.
I'm getting married this Fall and I think a bespoke Tux would be pretty awesome.
As someone who's wardrobe consists mostly of Columbia cargo pants and polo shirts, where should I should I start on my journey to dapperosity? Please use simple terms, I'm an engineer.
As someone who's wardrobe consists mostly of Columbia cargo pants and polo shirts, where should I should I start on my journey to dapperosity? Please use simple terms, I'm an engineer.
Short version, I'd read http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/ to get a better sense of the lay of the land for men's clothes.
Long version, it depends on how you're looking to go - full on Mad Men, or just an upgrade to slacks, dress shirts and vests?
Of course he wants full on Mad Men.
I just found a beautiful super 120's wool Oxxford charcoal pinstripe suit for a whopping $175 at our local men's consignment store. It's a 40s when I'm more like a 37s, so it needs to be taken in fairly substantially everywhere (shoulders, chest, waist, sleeves, pant waist, and we're taking the pleats out of the pants), but my tailor swears she can do it. For reference, these may be the finest suits you can buy (Oxxford, that is), and they typically run $4k-$6k new. The thing feels amazing. It's going to be tough waiting ~two weeks to get it back from the tailor. This place just got in a ton of Oxxfords and Zegnas from some guy who is apparently cleaning out his closet, but most of them are in the $400-$500 range, so I'd have to wait 'til the rest of them got green-tagged before really being able to get around to them. But I'm a patient man...
I also snagged a somewhat meh Brooks Brothers navy chalkstripe for $80, so I guess that's good. :)
See anything in a 40 long for a good price? Boogle be needing suitage.
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