Random thoughts III
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It's almost many men in Iowa see dressing up as some sort of odd thing to do so they go out of their way to not dress nice. I'm not saying people need to be fashion-forward at all, hell I'm not!, but it's not tough to find a well-fitting dress shirt and decent shoes.
it took a lot of talking and lost luggage to get DH into fitted dress shirts and the idea of a casual button down instead of a polo for evenings out.
Though he wanted fitted dress shirts, that's not really fair to say I pushed him into those. He just couldn't find ones that fit his shoulders without having 18 extra inches at the waist.
And I got him into sketcher type shoes. He looks so fine in the button-down shirt. Don't know if he'd admit I was right, but he picks that to wear to stuff now. Good enough for me!
Though he wanted fitted dress shirts, that's not really fair to say I pushed him into those. He just couldn't find ones that fit his shoulders without having 18 extra inches at the waist.
And I got him into sketcher type shoes. He looks so fine in the button-down shirt. Don't know if he'd admit I was right, but he picks that to wear to stuff now. Good enough for me!
Bleh, no. That sounds bad. The two DH has are solid color long-sleeved. Of course I have no pictures of him in them on FB.
This. And it's not like it has to be an every day thing. You don't need to be wearing a sport coat as you lay around watching tv. But it annoys me to no end when I see guys in a nice restaurant and they're wearing jeans and a tshirt or beat up old polo or something. Put in some effort, it's not that hard.
Hah...this is universal, it seems. I hate that the current state of clothing manufacturing is to allow for the largest protruding beer belly, and everyone else can just deal. I mean, I understand their thinking on it, but it's frustrating. The solution I've found is to shop places that tend toward active outdoors lifestyle. LL Bean, Lands' End, heck, even Ariat shirts (yeah, you gotta be careful with that one to not look too 'country') don't tend to be as huge around the waist.
Addendum: Plus, CG...you can use Discover cash back for both LL Bean and Lands' End, cash in $40 in bonus, get a $50 gift card.
Banana Republic (here comes the CF hate!) has three cuts for dress shirts. Regular, slim, and tailored slim. Each is 2" narrower than than the previous. I buy the slim fit and they fit perfect.
I was gonna say, I think every single picture I've ever seen of him is him wearing a polo.
Polo's got so ubiquitous there for a while that I refused to own one for probably 5 years. I've got a few now, but I bet I have at least 3 button shirts for every polo I own. They don't leave the closet except during the summer.
yeah most of the pictures he's in are from outside stuff in warmer weather, or vacation. And it was 80 at the non-dress shirt restaurants on vacation, so he only wore polos and dress shirts. He wore it to the party this weekend, but I have no pictures of that.
I have a 31 waist so even slim cut dress shirts tend to billow at the waist for me. I do have a bunch of casual long sleeve Polos brand shirts I like cause they are fairly slim cut. Not even semiconscious about the little Polo logo thingy!
Polo is okay for shirts and polo short sleeves but there are limits! I went to a Porsche outing on Saturday. Me in my little cheap 28 year old 924S and these other dudes and their $100K plus 911s. This one dude was wearing a Polo white and blue jersey with "POLO" across the back and a BIG number on it. Dude, WTF?
PS: I own not a single plaid thingy. Solids, yes. Stripes, yes. Some tropical pattern thingies, yes. Plaid reminds me too much of madras which was popular when I was in grade school.
I shop online. Didja know that Lands' End (although owned by Sears) is headquartered in Dodgeville, WI? They have a liquidation sale once a year in Dodgeville, getting rid of closeouts/returns/etc. Unfortunately, a lot of it is monogrammed, we went one year when we just happened to be on our way thru to Milwaukee.
Looks like this year, it's August 19th-24th.
http://www.landsend.com/aboutus/company/retail-stores/special-events/
In regards to fashion you remind me of a lot of the advice on /r/malefashionadvice, which is good to get a foundation of what men's fashion is like but you have to use that foundation to build a style of your own and not many people on there do that. The whole jeans and athletic shoes debate confused some people on here I think. It is ok to wear sneakers but not like tennis shoes but I think some of these old timers on here think they are the same thing.. These are my daily wear (with jeans): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&tag=majeslynxtech-20&linkId=TGUY4X73OKKTNGFL in black.
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