THE FBG Fashion Thread :style: (2 Viewers)

[Major]

Esquire Casual Style Rules. Thoughts?

Nothing's changed in the six years since you posted this the first time, Joe.

Impressive notebook. I'll have to confer with offdee but there may be an opening for Secretary of :style: since Flapgreen has failed miserably.

 

[Buck Bradcanon]

Has anyone shopped J Crew factory site and is quality variance notiecable versus their retail? Prices are much more palatable to us worker bees (with apologies to my hero Major).

Thanks.

 

[pollardsvision]

Sorry for the :honda:

What casual t shirts are best for wearing outdoors during the summer? TIA.

If you're not harvesting a bearskin rug on your chest, go with a simple solid colored v-neck. Target has some decent ones for $10 or so. (Mossimo brand, athletic cut)

What?

What is a V for, if not so that a man blessed with testosterone sprouting from his chest can allow the world to witness it?

 

[Major]

Has anyone shopped J Crew factory site and is quality variance notiecable versus their retail? Prices are much more palatable to us worker bees (with apologies to my hero Major).

Thanks.

I'd assume they're the same maybe just excess inventory or irregular garments but Ill defer to one of you commoners.

 

[Joe Bryant]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

 

[Binky The Doormat]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Grown men with school boy uniforms is not a good look.

It doesn't translate like a grown woman in a school girl uniform.

 

[Ilov80s]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Grown men with school boy uniforms is not a good look.

It doesn't translate like a grown woman in a school girl uniform.

99% of the men in the world that try this look will fail in the most extreme way.

 

[mquinnjr]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Grown men with school boy uniforms is not a good look.

It doesn't translate like a grown woman in a school girl uniform.

99% of the men in the world that try this look will fail in the most extreme way.

C'mon J.Crew, you're better than that!

As for the t-shirt discussion from earlier, I pick up crew next t-shirts in a few different colors from their factory store every summer. Simple, comfortable, plain, and pretty cheap (I think I got 3 for ~$40 last summer). Piece of cake decision.

 

[Ilov80s]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Grown men with school boy uniforms is not a good look.

It doesn't translate like a grown woman in a school girl uniform.

99% of the men in the world that try this look will fail in the most extreme way.

C'mon J.Crew, you're better than that!

As for the t-shirt discussion from earlier, I pick up crew next t-shirts in a few different colors from their factory store every summer. Simple, comfortable, plain, and pretty cheap (I think I got 3 for ~$40 last summer). Piece of cake decision.

I dare anyone in here to post a pic of them in a shorts suit. I double dog dare you. As for v-neck or crew cut t-shirts, yeah you can get a good value and look good for the summer.

 

[Joe Bryant]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Grown men with school boy uniforms is not a good look.

It doesn't translate like a grown woman in a school girl uniform.

99% of the men in the world that try this look will fail in the most extreme way.

I think it may be closer to 99.5%

Even in the pic, Nick Wooster can b-a-r-e-l-y pull it off. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/the-short-suit-revolution-061014

And Nick Wooster on clothes is like Brad Pitt on hair styles. He can make pretty much anything work. But Thom Browne fails huge. And he's Thom Browne.

This is one of those timeless :style: rules that we used to talk about earlier where offdee would pull out a pic of a celebrity wearing suspenders and use that for justification it was cool:

Just because Justin Timberlake or Pharrell or Nick Wooster can wear something doesn't mean it's cool and doesn't mean it works for other people.

J

 

[Bull Dozier]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Grown men with school boy uniforms is not a good look.

It doesn't translate like a grown woman in a school girl uniform.

99% of the men in the world that try this look will fail in the most extreme way.

I think it may be closer to 99.5%

Even in the pic, Nick Wooster can b-a-r-e-l-y pull it off. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/the-short-suit-revolution-061014

And Nick Wooster on clothes is like Brad Pitt on hair styles. He can make pretty much anything work. But Thom Browne fails huge. And he's Thom Browne.

This is one of those timeless :style: rules that we used to talk about earlier where offdee would pull out a pic of a celebrity wearing suspenders and use that for justification it was cool:

Just because Justin Timberlake or Pharrell or Nick Wooster can wear something doesn't mean it's cool and doesn't mean it works for other people.

J

I don't know who Nick Wooster is both both of those guys look like major tool boxes in a shorts suit.

If that statement makes me clueless and out of touch, then I'm happy with clueless and out of touch.

 

[Disco Stu]

I think it may be closer to 99.5%


Even in the pic, Nick Wooster can b-a-r-e-l-y pull it off. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/the-short-suit-revolution-061014

And Nick Wooster on clothes is like Brad Pitt on hair styles. He can make pretty much anything work. But Thom Browne fails huge. And he's Thom Browne.

Is his tie tucked into his shorts?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Grown men with school boy uniforms is not a good look.

It doesn't translate like a grown woman in a school girl uniform.

99% of the men in the world that try this look will fail in the most extreme way.

I think it may be closer to 99.5%

Even in the pic, Nick Wooster can b-a-r-e-l-y pull it off. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/the-short-suit-revolution-061014

And Nick Wooster on clothes is like Brad Pitt on hair styles. He can make pretty much anything work. But Thom Browne fails huge. And he's Thom Browne.

This is one of those timeless :style: rules that we used to talk about earlier where offdee would pull out a pic of a celebrity wearing suspenders and use that for justification it was cool:

Just because Justin Timberlake or Pharrell or Nick Wooster can wear something doesn't mean it's cool and doesn't mean it works for other people.

J

I don't know who Nick Wooster is both both of those guys look like major tool boxes in a shorts suit.

If that statement makes me clueless and out of touch, then I'm happy with clueless and out of touch.

I didn't either so I went and checked out his website. Upper-tier, super-elite status in the fey world. NTTWWT.

Some of the stuff he wears is less ground-breaking and more just really odd. But

Fans of the mustachioed and tattooed style icon will recall that he was ousted as the men's fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus about a year ago. While Neiman never issued a statement about why he was let go, it happened right after Wooster gave this quote to GQ about his position there: “I am just an old f—ing midget queen who, you know, had the good fortune to get this job and it’s like, ‘How did that happen?’” Two days later he was history.

 

[Statcruncher]

I'm not a fashion dude, but Wooster isn't pulling that off. On the grand scale of things:

Jesus sandals with socks>>>>>>>>>>>Jorts>>>>>>>>>>>>>Suit Shorts

 

[Ilov80s]

Wooster is a little stocky guy. How did he bed up some fashion icon?

Well that got autocorrected, but I think it still works.

 

[5Rings]

Wooster is a little stocky guy. How did he bed up some fashion icon?

oops crock

 

[Major]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Tom Browne has been pushing this and the highwater pant look for a good 10 years now. I can dig highwaters from time to time but the short suit schtick really only works for queens on the streets of Chelsea. That being said JB, might be quality schtick to rock this at the next FBG board meeting.

 

[Joe Bryant]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Tom Browne has been pushing this and the highwater pant look for a good 10 years now. I can dig highwaters from time to time but the short suit schtick really only works for queens on the streets of Chelsea. That being said JB, might be quality schtick to rock this at the next FBG board meeting.

I'm sure this would go over great. Better yet, the FFPC High Stakes drafts in Las Vegas this summer.

We may have to do a charity raffle for this to happen...

J

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

So the wife bought me some new swimming trunks and she called them board shorts. I have no idea what this means but what I can tell you is that when they came in they did not have any lining. No net to hold my goods, nothing. Do I actually go swimming in these things and free ball it or am I supposed to wear underwear?

Signed, 40+ and confused

 

[El Floppo]

So the wife bought me some new swimming trunks and she called them board shorts. I have no idea what this means but what I can tell you is that when they came in they did not have any lining. No net to hold my goods, nothing. Do I actually go swimming in these things and free ball it or am I supposed to wear underwear?

Signed, 40+ and confused

You should definitely wear cotton underwear under them. And then report back.

 

[Major]

So the wife bought me some new swimming trunks and she called them board shorts. I have no idea what this means but what I can tell you is that when they came in they did not have any lining. No net to hold my goods, nothing. Do I actually go swimming in these things and free ball it or am I supposed to wear underwear?

Signed, 40+ and confused

A quality Speedo should suffice.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

So the wife bought me some new swimming trunks and she called them board shorts. I have no idea what this means but what I can tell you is that when they came in they did not have any lining. No net to hold my goods, nothing. Do I actually go swimming in these things and free ball it or am I supposed to wear underwear?

Signed, 40+ and confused

A quality Speedo should suffice.

I think wearing the speedo is what prompted the purchase of "board shorts"

 

[glock]

So the wife bought me some new swimming trunks and she called them board shorts. I have no idea what this means but what I can tell you is that when they came in they did not have any lining. No net to hold my goods, nothing. Do I actually go swimming in these things and free ball it or am I supposed to wear underwear?

Signed, 40+ and confused

You should definitely wear cotton underwear under them. And then report back.

Because cotton dries so well, right?...

 

[Joe Bryant]

Nordstrom Sale from Dappered

J

 

[mr. furley]

Has anyone shopped J Crew factory site and is quality variance notiecable versus their retail? Prices are much more palatable to us worker bees (with apologies to my hero Major).

Thanks.

fits are all over the place. do not recommend.

i've ordered from the site before, bought the same size i buy in all the rest of my clothes, 2 shirts in one shipment. one was at least 2 sizes too small.. the other 2 sizes too big.

 

[flapgreen]

Great time for the Nordstrom sale. I always wait for the extra markdowns.

 

[flapgreen]

So the wife bought me some new swimming trunks and she called them board shorts. I have no idea what this means but what I can tell you is that when they came in they did not have any lining. No net to hold my goods, nothing. Do I actually go swimming in these things and free ball it or am I supposed to wear underwear?

Signed, 40+ and confused

Let your nuts float around.

 

[flapgreen]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Only Wooster can pull that off. No one else. Looks totally ridiculous.

 

[flapgreen]

"Like it or not, short suits are a thing".

I know everyone thinks whatever Nick Wooster does is cool. You down with this?

J

Grown men with school boy uniforms is not a good look.

It doesn't translate like a grown woman in a school girl uniform.

99% of the men in the world that try this look will fail in the most extreme way.

I think it may be closer to 99.5%Even in the pic, Nick Wooster can b-a-r-e-l-y pull it off. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/the-short-suit-revolution-061014

And Nick Wooster on clothes is like Brad Pitt on hair styles. He can make pretty much anything work. But Thom Browne fails huge. And he's Thom Browne.

This is one of those timeless :style: rules that we used to talk about earlier where offdee would pull out a pic of a celebrity wearing suspenders and use that for justification it was cool:

Just because Justin Timberlake or Pharrell or Nick Wooster can wear something doesn't mean it's cool and doesn't mean it works for other people.

J

I don't know who Nick Wooster is both both of those guys look like major tool boxes in a shorts suit.If that statement makes me clueless and out of touch, then I'm happy with clueless and out of touch.

It's because they are. It's strange because he put out some cool stuff at JCP.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

Hi offer,

Is this really a big fashion trend? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fathers-day-socks-are-the-new-neck-ties/

 

[bigbottom]

Hi offer,

Is this really a big fashion trend? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fathers-day-socks-are-the-new-neck-ties/

George H.W. a trendsetter!

 

[Rohn Jambo]

Hi offer,

Is this really a big fashion trend? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fathers-day-socks-are-the-new-neck-ties/

George H.W. a trendsetter!

I think a Republican might have started the suspenders movement. What I want to know is if socks are cooler or not.

 

[Ilov80s]

Hi offer,

Is this really a big fashion trend? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fathers-day-socks-are-the-new-neck-ties/

Yeah, for awhile now. Even the high school kids I work with talk about their "sock game."

 

[Rohn Jambo]

I suspect Gold Toe value pak doesn't cut it?

 

[Rohn Jambo]

Dammit, I got sucked in by the product placement...

http://www.sockhopny.com/collections/inventory

 

[Joe Bryant]

I suspect Gold Toe value pak doesn't cut it?

No. But for no more money than Gold Toes you can get yourself up to speed. TheTieBar.com rocks for ties, pocket squares and socks.

J

 

[Rohn Jambo]

I suspect Gold Toe value pak doesn't cut it?

No. But for no more money than Gold Toes you can get yourself up to speed. TheTieBar.com rocks for ties, pocket squares and socks.

J

That's more like it. That Sock Hop place had me worried because half their inventory is unisex.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

"Tie/Sock of the Month" may be a good gift idea.

 

[Ilov80s]

"Tie/Sock of the Month" may be a good gift idea.

I just don't like buying a gift and not being able to see what they will be. They could send you 12 ugly ties that they can't sell on their own. I know most beer of the month packages are loaded with crap beer.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

"Tie/Sock of the Month" may be a good gift idea.

I just don't like buying a gift and not being able to see what they will be. They could send you 12 ugly ties that they can't sell on their own. I know most beer of the month packages are loaded with crap beer.

I guess it is just as easy to buy 12 items and wrap them individually for each month. They don't have a combo that mixes ties and socks anyway.

 

[Joe Bryant]

"Tie/Sock of the Month" may be a good gift idea.

I just don't like buying a gift and not being able to see what they will be. They could send you 12 ugly ties that they can't sell on their own. I know most beer of the month packages are loaded with crap beer.

Yes. I hate the gift of the month thing. That just feels like moving old inventory.

J

 

[Rohn Jambo]

If you think short suits may not catch on, get a hold of floral short suits

http://www.mensfashionmagazine.com/the-floral-print-trend-2014

They detract a bit from the cool socks.

 

[Ilov80s]

If you think short suits may not catch on, get a hold of floral short suits

http://www.mensfashionmagazine.com/the-floral-print-trend-2014

They detract a bit from the cool socks.

What do you think the models are thinking when they have to wear that stuff?

 

[Rohn Jambo]

If you think short suits may not catch on, get a hold of floral short suits http://www.mensfashionmagazine.com/the-floral-print-trend-2014

They detract a bit from the cool socks.

What do you think the models are thinking when they have to wear that stuff?

I searched for men who are not models and willingly wear floral. I found one guy, but it's not more daring than Hawaiian shirts.

http://www.leeoliveira.com/uncategorized/on-the-streets-of-hong-kong/

 

[Ilov80s]

If you think short suits may not catch on, get a hold of floral short suits http://www.mensfashionmagazine.com/the-floral-print-trend-2014

They detract a bit from the cool socks.

What do you think the models are thinking when they have to wear that stuff?

I searched for men who are not models and willingly wear floral. I found one guy, but it's not more daring than Hawaiian shirts.http://www.leeoliveira.com/uncategorized/on-the-streets-of-hong-kong/

Yeah that's not even close to the other link. Models have to be like WTF you want to wear most of the time. There's a lot of silly stuff.

 

[flapgreen]

http://m.nordstrom.com/s/3462634/?origin=category&BaseUrl=Men&cm_ven=Linkshare&cm_cat=partner&cm_pla=10&cm_ite=1&siteid=th9ILo5LtqE-D6Ov0GTrtJ3jW8TE9YyQjA

Don't own any blue suede but really like these. If they're included in the next round of markdowns next week, I'm definitely grabbing these.

 

[Ilov80s]

http://m.nordstrom.com/s/3462634/?origin=category&BaseUrl=Men&cm_ven=Linkshare&cm_cat=partner&cm_pla=10&cm_ite=1&siteid=th9ILo5LtqE-D6Ov0GTrtJ3jW8TE9YyQjA

Don't own any blue suede but really like these. If they're included in the next round of markdowns next week, I'm definitely grabbing these.

I picked a pair of these up in Linz at a Marco O'Polo store.http://images.marc-o-polo.com/images/products/link/18222/850/ap.jpg

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Sorry for the :honda:

What casual t shirts are best for wearing outdoors during the summer? TIA.

Wore this to a BBQ this weekend

Doosh-be-que?

 

[flapgreen]

Sorry for the :honda:

What casual t shirts are best for wearing outdoors during the summer? TIA.

Wore this to a BBQ this weekend

 

[flapgreen]

Some cheap Vans I bought online from Old Navy. Cheap summer shows and not clunky. $25 shipped

http://m.oldnavy.gap.com/product.html?dn=op104503282&dv=1&pid=104503282&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Ffrugalmalefashion%2Fcomments%2F2a0tj6%2Fanyone_know_if_i_can_get_a_similar_shoe_style_for%2F&cid=37844&vid=1