Every Girl Crazy 'bout a Sharp Dressed Man

I love this thread. Officially.

These men in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows made my panties wet last week.

 

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Daniel Craig looks like a heavy drinker. I do like that highlight in the one on the right, though.
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Tom Ford sure is hot. What is even hotter is that he MADE that suit. Might be gay, too. So. I could switch him around.

 

Meh. I can take them or leave them. Usually I feel bad because I've been educated on how awful it feels to have to wear a tie.
I'd rather a nice fitting pair of jeans and a button-down, untucked. With good cologne, it's all over. Suits just look stuffy to me.
And pleated front pants make me giggle.

Of course, the vast majority of men I've been around in suits have been at funerals. Maybe that's something.

 

I'm a happy man that I work from home, so there isn't a need to conform to an outdated, uncomfortable dress code. The sooner ties are burnt/banned, the happier I'll be. You can dress nicely without tying something around your neck.

 

Having a problem with posting pictures for whatever reason, so going with the link I found the picture I chose instead.

 

Recently bought a 2-button Jos A. Banks suit for $350 (Reg. Price was $1,200 total). Had a client who did not take me seriously back in October, but when I walked in to my office the other day with that suit on....he was a lot more respectful. To be fair, my hair was extremely short in October (I look like a 17 y/o when I shave my head).

Anyway. I love looking good. I also realized I had to upgrade my work-wear when I wobbled in to court one day and noticed how differently I treated a well heeled prosecutor. I'm almost never without a jacket, and it doubles as a cover garment for my pistol.

 

Cary Grant and that classic look has always been my ideal of how a well dressed man should look in formal clothing. It's probably why I wear a waistcoat on a semi-regular basis anytime the weather permits, and usually go for a 3-piece wherever possible. That and when you're 5'9" and 120lbs wet you want to not look quite so emaciated.

I'm with Plan9 and Kirstang on the priorities though. As important as your jacket and pants are people still place a LOT of stock in a good tie and a good pair of shoes. You can get a plain white cotton buttondown from target and nobody worth respecting will think twice if it fits you. Cheap out on the shoes and good luck getting people to take you seriously.

Just switching from sneakers to nice brown leather rockports is enough for people to go from eyeballing me from across the room when I check out their store to calling me Sir.

 

Speaking of that, there was a tv show/movie or what have you, that had a woman say something like, "My panties are so wet you could drown a baby in there.....not that you would....or should..."

It made me chuckle.

Carry on.

 

Ooooooh Cary Grant! Swooooooooooooooon!

 

Yeaaah...

As a guy who was a Boyscout, served in the military and wanted to be a cop, fed and lawyer... I'm all about dressing up. It's a uniform: a symbol of power that speaks for you. The most influential people in my life have been well-dressed men: mentors, bosses and my good friends. Even KirStang!

Whoa, how Jos A. Banks can inflatomark a suit made in Mexico for $1200 is beyond my tiny brain.

And, to be fair, you look like a 17 year old when you smile. C'mere, you lovable legal beagle, you.

*manly bonding noogies*

Definitely. I had to upgrade my wardrobe for my current job. The more I looked like the Guy with Answers stereotype, the more people treated me as such and thus I had a chance to show them that I was the guy with the answers. It goes hand and hand, I think: you advance from the unwashed masses because of what you know and how you look. If you look good but don't know anything, you won't last long in your own office and if you look like shit but know everything, nobody is going to be interested in bumping you up. "Well, now there's a refreshing dose of common sense!" chimes Captain Obvious... I know... but a lot of people fuck it up. Know the part and look the part? People will just throw doubloons at you.

FTFY.

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Random muses:

- Bad at going all out. I usually have one thing off when I go formal. Like wearing a rubber dive watch. Or a tacky Kool-Aid t-shirt under the jacket.
- Need to stop buying high breasted suits (3+ button). It makes me look like Frankenstein's monster. A low cut jacket would help spread my chest out.
- Love 3 piece suits but they're not in vogue long enough to warrant buying. I have vests I can wear as standalone garments over a shirt, though.

 

dressing up is overrated

 

I like dressing well. If I could afford it, I would have a closet full of bespoke suits, handmade shoes, etc.

No being able to afford that, I do the best I can.

 

i wear rumpled button downs with jeans when i get the chance but if it's a special occasion or if i want to surprise the SO with something that will make her feel less like taking a red-hot poker to her eyes i wear my Johnny Varvados suit that my sketchy dad bought for me. can't say i'm a fan of the slacks and tie look though. maybe i just can't pull it off.

 

I wear suits pretty much on a daily basis for 6-12 hours per day. I have two styles, but they're the same with only one detail changed: the tie.

The below pictured suit looks close to what I have, but replace the shirt with a black one. I really have it in for chalk-striped navy suits.



I don't really wear ties and almost always simply show up in the suit and black shirt. Though, for first-time meetings with clients, colleagues and partners, I usually wear a red tie with my suit. Looks similar to this:



On the topic of dressing sharp, I find the way one of my friends dresses casually to be pretty good. My casual wear is baggy pants with a black untucked button-down shirt. Here's a pic of my friend while shopping for clothes in Beijing:



One issue I have with business suits, is when people choose ones with very prominent chalk lines. Never got around to like them and have seen very few people in the business world wear it. Those that I did see it on usually work(ed) in finance. Do not like.

 

jeans and a t-shirt........two bits.

 

I'm with you Remixer. The heavy chalk lines just look wrong to me. That said, the guys who wear them, in my experience, are either English or big Anglophiles. In my work life, I do a fair amount of work with the Brits, and they come over here a fair amount, and the younger ones definitely trend towards those sorts of patterns.

Shirts are more of an accent piece than I think most guys realize. Lots of guys choose them because they like the shirt, but they're really there to set off the suit and tie, not the other way around. When I wear a suit I practically never (as in there's one suit and one instance that doesn't apply) wear a patterned shirt with a suit, even if the suit is plain. Patterns are for ties, not shirts. That said, a colorful shirt can do a lot for a suit. I have a pretty sweet linen suit (light brown/khaki with faint pink and red pinstripes that are almost invisible. But they pop with the right shirt and tie. I have a combination that I only wear with that suit - together only and never with anything else separately - that are both bright pink. If I take the jacket off, or it drapes open too much, it becomes blaring, so I tend to wear it places where I'll keep my jacket buttoned, like cocktail parties.

There's something to knowing how to wear a suit beyond buying the right one. I think that KirStang is in the middle of figuring that out.

 

hmm

nope. not this guy. I've been successful and nope..never have to wear anything more than jeans and a shirt. I don't even wear ties to interviews or business gatherings. I let my work speak for itself. That's what I'm there (and home) for so respect that. I don't give a shit if you think I'm not dressed appropriately because I'm either making you money, or making you jealous and both put benjamins into my account so I don't give a shit about wearing proper business attire. I reserve my nice stuff for home and going out with people I actually like.

 

My employer provides consulting services to banks. As such I work closely with our clients' senior managment. When I am on site, it is suit and tie. Otherwise, when I'm in my home office, it is whatever the hell I feel like wearing or when in our company's office (out of state) it is business casual. I actually enjoy wearing a suit and tie. At one time I probably had 12 very nice suits in my closet. Now, much less. I project a different personality when dressed for business than when I am in jeans or worse.

I was in London last fall and I did enjoy seeing how the businessmen dressed there. Certainly a different look. Heavy chalk line pinstripes, flashy contrasting ties. Less subdued than here in the US.

 

I actually like the bold pinstripes...but not with a striped shirt AND a striped tie. That's just stripey overload.

 

Ladies, how about the plaid look? Turn on? Turn off?

Can anyone other than models, actors and sports figures wear plaid suits?

I wouldn't mind having that suit in bright green.