# The plaid (mens) suit and other fashion WTFs **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 11, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221 "2011-01-11T15:29:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/21 "2011-01-12T12:44:07Z")
Daniel Day-Lewis wears plaid suits on the Academy Award red carpet. [(Scroll down)](http://gofugyourself.com/celebs/daniel-day-lewis). He gets flack for it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/22 "2011-01-12T13:12:08Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > 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. > > [Speck Rhodes (1915-2000) - Find a Grave Memorial](http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10012) Well you can’t mention weird mens suits and Porter Wagoner in the same sentance and expect anyone else to have worse taste than he did. [http://indianranch.com/photos/wof/web\_Porter\_Wagoner.jpg](http://indianranch.com/photos/wof/web_Porter_Wagoner.jpg) But who am I to talk, I only own plain navy, charcoal, and black suits myself. Oh how I wish I were Don Cherry, who is rocking the plaid quite well in the first link. [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/\_TwAbZhMGVEw/SrbezNoOdpI/AAAAAAAAIlw/zlGMA3UV1Gk/s400/grapes.jpg](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TwAbZhMGVEw/SrbezNoOdpI/AAAAAAAAIlw/zlGMA3UV1Gk/s400/grapes.jpg) [http://thearizonalawmanandphoenixpolicegazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Don-Cherry.jpg](http://thearizonalawmanandphoenixpolicegazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Don-Cherry.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/23 "2011-01-12T13:59:54Z")
[This is a more ridiculous idea in men’s fashion than any plaid suit has ever been.](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/fashion/31shorts.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/24 "2011-01-12T14:09:52Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > [This is a more ridiculous idea in men’s fashion than any plaid suit has ever been.](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/fashion/31shorts.html) It just looks like they washed their Thom Browne suits. [![](http://manolomen.com/images/Thom%20Browne.jpg) ](http://manolomen.com/images/Thom%20Browne.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/25 "2011-01-12T14:17:47Z")
The more lively plaids are not for everyone. But they suit [some guys](http://www.stylebistro.com/Hot+or+Not/articles/D375Ai5r_Ei/Hot+Not+Alan+Cumming+Blue+Plaid+Suit)! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/26 "2011-01-12T14:22:43Z")
Meh, I lived through the leisure suit era. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/27 "2011-01-12T14:53:22Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > [This is a more ridiculous idea in men’s fashion than any plaid suit has ever been.](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/fashion/31shorts.html) You’ve got me there. Looks like Angus Young minus the irony. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/28 "2011-01-12T14:56:03Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > The more lively plaids are not for everyone. But they suit [some guys](http://www.stylebistro.com/Hot+or+Not/articles/D375Ai5r_Ei/Hot+Not+Alan+Cumming+Blue+Plaid+Suit)! Mmm, no. Still looks like he’s wearing a picnic tablecloth. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/29 "2011-01-12T15:00:19Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > \>\> but what the fuck is with [this](http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/02/08/0/291/2916226/ef966ec7f23441c3_moschino_plaid_suit.jpg) 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.” I call it “ugly.” That’s not snobbish, it’s having eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/30 "2011-01-15T05:44:34Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > That one screams 1980s Yale to me and I love it! What? Not the students, surely? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221/31 "2011-01-15T05:55:36Z")
[plaid + turtle-neck](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3554026834_23240b5310_o.jpg) (as modeled by Richard Dawson) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-plaid-mens-suit-and-other-fashion-wtfs/567221.md?page=1)