I think I saw one of those once - it was being worn by exactly the sort of guy who would buy it because he saw it in “International Male” where they told him how “exclusive” it was.
He couldn’t understand the ATM/Debit/Credit machine at the supermarket. It kind of ruined the coat for me.
Well, add “Charley’s Aunt” jackets to movies about Jesus and movies with the Trojan Horse on the list of things ruined by Monty Python.
Now a jacket like that only looks appropriate if the wearer is impaled with a tennis requet and squirting blood.
As someone who collects 60s mod clothes…I actually kinda like that jacket…if done up right, right kind of attitude, I’d swoon for a guy who was wearing it…
But then again I’m the sort of person who will wear a mini dress, hot pants set, cream fishnets, and knee-high cut-out boots to an academic conference to present a paper…so never mind me…
I think they look really sharp.
(From what you said in the OP - and what I know of International Male - I was expecting to see satin Sargeant Pepper’s getups.)
I’ll take that over saggy-ass jeans and a giant baseball jersey any day.
In the interest of strict fact verification, I am afraid that I must insist on a cite for this. 
Well, I’ll be wearing the butterfly motif mini/hotpants set (or something similar, can’t decide on the shoes) at the MPCA conference in Cleveland in October…mum has asked me, ‘Please don’t – I’d rather they remember you for your brilliance, and not as the girl in the butterfly suit.’
And yes, there will be A/V at my presentation. :eek:
I could present you with testimonials from witnesses, but I think they’re still reeling…I’ve this Twiggyesque faux fur 60s dress I like to wear when handling artifacts at the British Museum cos the zips and studs and chains on my leathers could damage the items, etc. All in the name of historic preservation, is what it is.
As for the topic of that stripey jacket, I also really, really like the stripey hipsters the boys used to wear…topped off with the wide white leather belts…but if a guy wears a stripey jacket, it would look nicer, I think, with solid coloured trousers.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in weeks.
That needs to be a movie, Candyland Gigolo. It begins with Richard Gere opening his closet to see row after row of lavender-and-pink striped suits, barbershop quartet suspenders, straw hats, and garters for his orange socks. All set to the driving music of “Merry-go-Round Broke Down.”
A Bond villain getting a little bit of “me-time,” maybe. They all look a little too much like pajamas. If you’re going to go with that look, go all the way and get a Nehru jacket.
Oooh! Oooh! I live in Cleveland! I have a digital camera! I can record the moment for the boards! Just tell me what MPCA means, and I’ll be there! But remember, Cleveland is rainy in October, and cool, so maybe you should order the fur coat to bring along!
Actually, there are several gentlemen who frequent the downtown malls who would probably love those suits. And a former marketing guy for my company stopped by my store one day wearing a very similar fur coat. He’s white, and straight, for the record, and this is a very conservative town, so he attracted a good deal of attention.
Clicking on the links has given me a clue where the sports commentator on the Pistons-Lakers game tonight got his suit, which is a god-awful pale plaid. Ugliest suit I have ever seen. I would search the catalog for it, but I just can’t subject myself to that.
Okay, who wasn’t thinking Donny Osmond on this one?
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I am so bookmarking that site-countless hours of entertainment!
The only place I could think to wear it would be an event like “Victorian Days” at Cape May or something like that. Even then, you’d look like the town dandy.
Still, pair it with a banjo and a canoe, and you’ve got yourself a winner!
Shouldn’t he be chasing after Batman?
Someone must’ve bought this from the producers of “Miami Vice.”
This guy needs help-somebody call Queer Eye!!!
I’m still looking for the straw boaters and raccoon coats.
Thanks for the weather tip!
I have 3 fur coats (faux – outrageously so, no worries!), a jet black, short pretend bunny coat, a mid-thigh leather and faux lynx, and a long, hooded number what defies description, but I have been told it makes me look like a Russian princess (when you’re wearing a coat that makes people on the streets of London stop you and ask where you got it from, you must be doing all right! 
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I’ve never been to Cleveland, so I may ask you (and other locals) for more advice!
MPCA is Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Conference . But it’s some sort of British Popular Culture thingie, and it is held the weekend of 8-10 October – the info so far is here:
Hmmm…rainy weather doesn’t call for fur, which goes all ratty and damp – it calls for my King’s Road/Carnaby Street military style, deep orange mac, I think! (And I actually can wear orange.) But I may take a furry coat with me, just in case.
No clue what this crowd of academics is like – word is, it’s low pressure and laid back, and so far, everyone I’ve had contact with has been really nice. This is the first time I’ve been part of a conference where I’m actually presenting a paper – I’ve attended conferences in my gear, and I’ve given ‘in house’ presentations at uni and in grad school & guested a few classroom lectures and presentations, etc – so in a way, this is my ‘stage debut.’
So do I wear the cut out off-white boots what buckle all the way up the front (the back is leather, and it’s all cut out like eyelet fabric), or the 4" high Mary Quant maryjanes (a real coup for me in a wee shop WAY out of my price range in the Portobello Road, but I had to have them!) Hmmm…
Crikey – sorry to hijack this thread with all this…and don’t mean to bore with all this chat about conferences and all that…just a bit new to me. I do know, they are having me go first because I’m the only historian in the bunch, and I suppose that way I can set the context for the other speakers. I like public speaking, so that part doesn’t bother me. Just a bit nervous and excited. And I’m off Monday to the library (which for me is 100 mile round trip at present) to gather up a few books for the topic…maybe when the time gets nearer, will start a thread, if there’s any interest.
The only people that can make that sort of clothing work are Andre 3000, and flamboyant gay men. Neither of these peole actually need the clothes, since they have enough personality to make you forget about the clothes.
I guess I need to retire my powder-blue mariachi uniform, it’s becoming too trendy.
Brilliant! I see Queen Frostine in the Lauren Hutton role.
They as good as say the clothes are meant for flamboyant gay men in the description for the Versailles Waistcoat:
“Not for every man. In fact, this jacket is for the confident man who wants to set himself apart from the crowd, who loves fashion and romance and theater.”
Personally, I think the Versailles Waistcoat is pretty cool, although they went a little heavy with the buttons. I’d wear it…if they let me. I’m not a man at all, confident or otherwise, and I’m not that keen on fashion or romance. But I do want to look like a wealthy French pirate out on the town.
Funny that it’s called the ‘loro’ suit. Loro in Spanish means ‘parrot’ and the colors are just about right…
On the order of Military Intelligence and Jumbo Shrimp, i’ve found The Desperado Clog Damn. That’s just funny.
I think International Male is trying to reclaim the word “gay.”
Not really. Too butch.
I think all these would look wonderful. On Pee Wee Herman.
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I saw that and it was just hideous. I don’t think that came from any catalog in the last decade. I’m thinking Sears Catalog circa 1978.
I dunno, I kinda like the French Pirate About Town* guy.
The Ice Cream Pimp outfit only works on skinny waspy types. My husband, neither skinny, waspy. stylish or gay, would like like Your Aunt Edna’s Florida Room Sofa in any of these colors.