Plaid suits. I don’t get it.
This type of muted, solid-colored plaid suit is perfectly fine by me, but what the fuck is with this shit? Obviously this is purposely terrible, but this is totally serious and isn’t much better. Even this is pushing it for me though I could stand to wear it if I had to (I prefer dark solid-colored suits).
Is there something wrong with my fashion sense? Am I just being boring? What popular fashions bother you?
You’re right. We can’t have people wearing colorful clothes! It’s against God’s word! We must wear black or dark brown or gray because colors and patterns are evil!!!
:rolleyes:
Color is fine. But that shit is just ugly to me.
I agree with you 100% The muted suit was nice but everything else was just an abomination that I’d never wear.
And in this case totally ill-fitting.
Holy cats! The blue plaid guy is shocking. And resembles Joe Buck. Hmm…
I’m probably in the minority on this one, but my ideal in male clothing styles is Dean Stockwell in the Quantum Leap days.
That one screams 1980s Yale to me and I love it!
Not a plaid. That’s a check.
True, but it still says Yale to me.
Somebody should find some pictures of Herb Tarlek of WKRP in Cincinnati for really bad mens fashions. I think mens suits are pretty much boring uniforms and any teeny little thing different gets a WTF. (Mr. Sali felt like the first man to walk on the moon when he wore a pale green dress shirt to work one day, that daring rebel! :rolleyes:.)
the pants-on-the-ground-look bothers me, though I haven’t seen much of it lately. I do enjoy the punk goth look and haven’t seen much of that either, which makes me sad.
Somebody should find some pictures from the International Male catalog for a REAL WTF?
Street corner con men are required to wear a plaid suit.
Here’s my favorite shirt! Very comfortable.
I wasn’t going to post until I found what I was looking for, and dammit, I did. The plaid suit I was most familiar with was worn by Speck Rhodes on the Porter Wagoner show in the 60s. No doubt the pants matched the jacket.
Fixed your third link. Assassin
DCnDC, like me, works in DC, which is about the most conservative city in the US for men’s fashions. I suspect that the blue plaid would be OK in certain creative industries, and the brown check would work in academia.
>> This type of muted, solid-colored plaid suit is perfectly fine by me,
bleh. That’s not even plaid.
>> but what the fuck is with this shit?
It’s Moschino, you’re an Anglo Yank in a behind-the-fashion-curve snobbish Southern town. Even if you’re gay, you’re not supposed to “get it.”
>> Obviously this is purposely terrible,
evs. That’s a costume, not period, right?
>> but this is totally serious and isn’t much better. Even this is pushing it for me though I could stand to wear it if I had to (I prefer dark solid-colored suits).
I think those are pretty nice. The first reminds me of something someone of Morley Safer’s era might wear. The second seems plenty conservative & styling to me–though that may be the model–on some random white dude it might just be snobbish.
Note that I have no intention of wearing any of them, but I’d consider some of them when trying to look like less of a slacker.
Of course, I wanted Fred Dalton Thompson to be a better Presidential candidate in the hopes that his wife would bring some Hollywood style to DC, which is in some quarters so fuddy-duddy that thirty-year-olds try to look 50. Sadly, Missus Thompson did not campaign in the flash frocks, but I had hope that she might break out of the skirt-suit mode once in office.
I’m actually pretty pleased with Michelle Obama in that regard; she dresses pretty well.
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Street Corner Con Men** would be an AWESOME band name.
