I received a porkpie hat as a 2010 Christmas present. I’m told that it is bad ass and incidentally makes the wearer look bad ass and sexy. I’ve been complimented on it by men, women, elderly and young and all that without wearing any clothes that are particularly special. While I don’t wear the hat in just bum sweat pants and stained shirts or anything like that, I also don’t really even own any “stylish” men’s wear clothing. Because of this I know I am not getting the full awesomeness from my porkpie hat.
This leads me here. I turn to the teeming millions for some stylish men’s wear advice that will help bring out the full potential of my porkpie hat.
Information:
-Male
-Five feet seven inches tall
-Thin body
-Naturally tan skin tone
-Black hair
The hat itself being made of felt and is straight black with a small feather on the left.
I used to be a rudegirl wannabe so I wouldn’t mind seeing your hat with a short-sleeved button-up shirt and some khaki or other colored dress pants (not suit pants) and some super fly shoes.
You could also wear it with a short-sleeved or rolled-up-sleeve plaid flannel and some tidy jeans. And super fly shoes.
If you are very awesome you wear it with a black suit, skinny tie and super-fly shoes. With black braces underneath the suit coat
Either a dark-colored knit sweater vest - wear just over the t-shirt - or a loose, comfy, plaid blazer - again, just over the t-shirt - or a cool short-sleeve (bowling shirt or the kind worn by Larry David or Charlie Sheen on their TV shows) - or a denim button-down shirt worn as a jacket and left mostly unbuttoned…
do you wear glasses? Black plastic frames can work…
This is basically what I wear as a gigging guitar player - I have a stingy-brim black hat that works…
This, definitely. A porkpie hat will look good with most traditional skinhead or mod fashions. If you’re wanting to go more casual, I’d suggest a pair of Doc Martens and slim, clean fitting jeans. For a top I’d wear a nice well-fitted polo shirt in any basic, traditional color – or a short-sleeved gingham shirt. The most important thing with pulling off a pork-pie hat is having a wardrobe that’s very fitted, which is good for you, since you’re thin.
Sausage pants are obviouslyl the first thing I’ll be buying when I start getting this new wardrobe together. It was so obvious I didn’t even feel the need to mention them in my OP.
Is there actually a difference besides cost? And I do mean that seriously, I’ve never particularly worn much of anything besides jeans. I do have a few pairs of dress pants for job interviews, but is there a significant difference between dress pants and suit pants?
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I’ll work my way up to that amount of awesomeness.
This is pretty much my wardrobe already. Maybe that’s why I’m getting complimented so much.
To be clear though, when you filling_pages and Wordman say “Docs” you’re speaking of Doc Martens?
A gingham shirt is a mid-weight cotton shirt with a check pattern. Like this. A polo shirt is a t-shirt with a three-button placket at the collar, like this.. That Fred Perry shirt is a great example of what I mean by “traditional colors” – anything in a dark navy or gray is usually good. It’s also well-fitted. The shoulders on the shirt end at the model’s actual shoulders, it’s slim around the torso but not tight, and the shirt-sleeves come roughly halfway down the bicep. Compare the color and fit of the Fred Perry shirt to this or this.
Yes.
Please note - having too many of these things together can bring you dangerously close to the Hipster Douchebag line, which you’d probably rather not cross. The shirts, for instance, can be a bit much with a stingy brim hat, even when I gig. A cool blazer over a t-shirt seems to always work…
I was about to voice my concern over this. No I’d rather not end up as a Hipster Douchebag. That’s several miles backwards in being fashionably bad ass.
