What is this strange fascination people in sales or consultancy have with suspenders? I thought suspenders went out with the eighties. For some reason, a lot of our consultants and salespeople wear them all the time. The only problem is that they end up looking like this guy instead of this guy.
Maybe they should just start wearing spats, plus fours, and a beret (everyone looks good in a beret), so they can look like this guy. Thank Og I’m in Tech Support. That means my office wear is jeans and a T-shirt. At least I don’t have to dress like a clown to fit in.
I’ve noticed this before in church. I tend to like my suit pants to be a little bit loose. A belt cinches and holds fine, but sit down and stand up a few times with loose pants cinched with a belt and they don’t look completely right anymore. They’re not in place. With suspenders, as you stand up, they pull the pants right back to the same place each time, so ungainly ‘adjusting’ has to occur.
At least the clown isn’t in jail for insider traiding plus small children think he may eat them.
One must tread carefully when trying to be a trendsetter or your natty threads just look like an affectation. I’ve worn suspenders to work but now the only time I wear them is when I’m dressed in my 1870s garb for cowboy shooting. The trousers are canvas, have no belt loops, the correct buttons for suspenders and the V split at the back seam between the two buttons there.
Hey, even I have been known to wear suspenders, but that’s with my classic black tuxedo. I went whole hog when I got that. It was tailored for me during a weeks vacation in Milan. When invited to a black tie occasion, I wear the tux, a bow tie (that I tie myself!), a dress shirt with french cuffs and cufflinks (no ruffles!), a cummerbund, and suspenders. But I will not wear suspenders on any other occasion. You either look like a clown, an eighty year old man, or Gordon Gekko.
[sub][sub]The advantage of the self-tied bow tie is that I can open it as the evening progresses, to get that “James Bond playing Bacarrat in Monte Carlo” effect.[/sub][/sub]
I’m a nonracist skinhead and hang out with a crew of similar folks. Suspenders are part of the scene “look” (punk scene, to, sometimes) and most of us wear them at one time or another. Just a subculture affectation, but we like them. Anyway, the other day we were at a party and a guy asked me, “Are y’all some sort of suspender gang, or should I be worried?”
I have nothing to add except some advice I read somewhere, “Never deal with a man who is wearing suspenders and a belt. This is a man who can’t even trust his own pants.”
I tend to wear braces with suits for two main reasons.
I’m a young’n trying to get myself over as legitimate, intelligent and someone you’d want to deal with. Braces have a particular curmudgeonly air about them that you have to appreciate.
I’m a tank of a man, and they help break up the Wall of Tom’s Chest And Shoulders. Corollary: They look good on me.
Perfect place for me to ask my question - for the tab/button style suspenders… Do you buy pants that have the tab and button in them, or is it added after the fact (and if so, how?)
I used to surreptitiously try and work this out but never could.
I’ve never bought a suit where the pants didn’t already them sewn inside. Also, many of the casuals I buy have them too. They can be added by your tailor.
But, certain types of pants shouldn’t get them, imnsho. Jeans or Dockers? Ew.
My Dad’s been wearing suspenders my entire life. He’s a retired carpenter, so he probably needed the extra help holding up his pants when he wore a tool belt slung around his hips. Work 'spenders were stretchy and had clips, dress ones are thinner and have proper buttons. He wears thinner clippy ones even with jeans or khakis, over the undershirt and under a casual top.
After so many years of wearing them, he’s not comfortable with a belt at all. According to him they’re more supportive for his back, kinda bracing I guess.
Neither. The Mork from Ork kind (I always call them “seat belts”) we leave to construction workers and birthday party clowns. Skins generally wear thin, fabric braces - between 1/4 and 3/4 of an inch wide. I prefer English-made, with the plastic bit in the back - the kind that don’t cross, but run side-by-side. But a lot of skins just wear the thin American ones that don’t actually do much to hold you pants up. Especially when you’re feeling aggro or lazy and just let them dangle around your ass.
