So I’m at work, wearing black pleated slacks, a khaki shirt, brown leather deck shoes, black socks, and a brown leather belt. I’m clean, well-groomed and I brushed and flossed.
Deal or no deal?
Perfect! Causal but tight. You’re on board!
How about martinis AND dice (you must have peeked into my closet before coming up with this stipulation)?
How many pleats? One is acceptable, two can pass depending on style of the pant, and three is just plain foppish. Plus they make the ass-less chaps look too bulky.
Pick me up at 7:00.
The “well-groomed” part is really the most important. Most other stuff is just personal taste, as long as you’re appropriately dressed for how casual/formal the date is.
I hate lists like these. Even if I agreed with the whole list, I’m smart enough to know that that’s my personal taste talking, not the end-all & be-all rules for what men should wear on a date. It makes women look a lot pickier than most of us actually are.
If I were single, and a guy showed up for a date in a kilt, I’d be very impressed. Kilts are way hotter than khakis! 
Skirts are good. 
If potentially optional. 
Hey! I’ve got a kilt! More than one actually.
Hmmm. Color me curious. Why the dislike of cowboy boots? I ask because I’ve worn boots every day for the past 20+ years unless I’m wearing shorts or going hiking. They’re basic black, nothing flashy – in fact, they look much like motorcycle boots but with a more traditional western shape. I decided ages ago that I like them, even though I don’t go in for any other country-type apparel or even country music.
got any photographic evidence ?? 
Seconded!
Kilt photos would definitely brighten an otherwise dreary Thursday afternoon.
What’s to say about us women who disagree with this article? Are we not doing our female duties to make men feel more uncomfortable the need be on a first date?
I think this article is rediculous. My SO wore a red polo shirt and khakis on our first date. I wore a dress. We went to Uno’s. I see no problem with any of this, other than he wore really ugly sneakers, the only pair he still owns, after more than a year of dating. I didn’t see that as a deal breaker than, but I am starting to wonder if I burned them while he was at work if he would notice. I told him that his dress shoes were sexy. Now he always wears them when we go out.
Yup. That’s the best way to get a guy to wear anything …
How do they look with the assless chaps?
This sounds so silly to me.
I don’t even know what brand my jeans are. They were the ones that were on sale and fit me pretty well at the time that I last needed jeans. I assure you: at no point in shopping for jeans did I consider my musical tastes. Do you really consider such things?
I’m 24, for what it’s worth.
First guy listed above: a co-worker’s wedding (and he was wearing a perfectly acceptable suit at the time). Second and third guys listed above: I probably shouldn’t say this here, but if memory serves: the Reader Matches. I have tried match.com in the past, but it didn’t get me much of anywhere - but then I only had one crappy photo at the time in digital format…maybe I should give it another shot one of these days.
(Also, to be fair, it’s not like those were the only three guys I have gone on dates with in the past, oh, 3 years - there were some other perfectly nice guys who wore appropriate clothing, but I just haven’t hit it off with any of them so far.)
I don’t have an issue with being a Jewish agnostic, but lemme tell you, prolonged celibacy was not in my preferred life plan.
Besides, would a nun of any sort be debating what guys should wear on dates with her?
FairyChatMom - I should be too embarrassed to post this again (since I put it in the wrong thread the first time) but here it is:
Hubby reports that some welding chaps are indeed “assed” chaps
Pretty much, in most contexts your choices are limited to jeans or khakis, as first dates tend to be casual and low key. After all, you’re probably not going to go to the finest restaurant in town, where you’d be expected to be in dress clothes.
And I agree with khakis being about the most boring style of pants there is.
I don’t get it either, unless they mean, “do you like the kind of music that will likely be blasting in the shop where you go to buy the jeans?”
On the other hand, I do know what brand and what style I’m wearing right now. These things are important to me; when I find jeans that I like, I want to get the same ones next time.