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Post by disheveled on Feb 27, 2016 9:07:12 GMT -6
I'm a fan of dressing preppy especially in summer and out to dinner etc. Rhode Island is kinda imbedded in the coastal summer time tradition no doubt. But to go as far as to swear off jeans and classic Americana pieces. Hell yeah, man. Different tools for different jobs. Its fun finding "my style" within the different genres/levels of formality. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 9:14:10 GMT -6
I do really like tweed but that's as far as it goes. Dressing "preppy" for me would feel like a costume. The style is rooted in a part of society that I can not relate to.
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Post by whiskeyriver on Feb 27, 2016 9:57:56 GMT -6
Personally, I think it has much, much less to do with exactly what you wear, but rather if it looks like what you are wearing is a costume. If you look like you belong in your clothes . . . that you are comfortable in them, you come off as authentic. If you look like you are trying to hard to project an image, i.e. you are wearing a costume, you come off as a clown, a fake, a phony. See also: the much-maligned hipster. As an example, when you see someone like George W. Bush in a denim workshirt, he pulled it off. Ted Cruz, not so much. Both Texans, both east coast ivy league educated. And ironically, it's Bush who is the blue blood, yet he pulled it off. (BTW, i am NOT in any way trying to bring politics into this, i've just seen way too many pix of Cruz at town halls in workwear on Gawker the last couple of months trying to be a "regular guy") This can't be repeated enough. Can't look like a costume. Like "today, I am pretending to be an army man! Today I'm pretending to be an old timey 20s guy! Today I'll be working on the railroad! Today, I'm riding my pretend hog to pretend Sturgis!" Etc. When what you wear is not mixed and matched with care and thought, but is all one uniform theme, you are just wearing a uniform. It looks like a costume. It looks like you are playing "dress up," and it looks inauthentic. Totally agree. |
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Post by gaseousclay on Feb 27, 2016 17:55:24 GMT -6
Looking over at AAAC and I saw this and quickly closed my browsers (well after saving the image) Trad hero Ginsberg I was wondering why most of the ties were tied crooked like Ginsberg's there. Perhaps it's a goal to have a weird crooked knot. Looks like a sloppy 4 in hand knot. |
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Post by gaseousclay on Feb 27, 2016 18:01:19 GMT -6
One of the funniest...err, troubling threads I'd seen on AAAC was about wearing white after Labor Day. It went on and on for days. Unfortunately, there's a lot of minutiae like that over there. I rarely go there these days, especially after embracing denim and work wear. Their forum is useful in that you can learn a lot about dress or dress casual styles, but you can also glean that same info from SF. Apples and oranges. |
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Post by brentkuz on Feb 27, 2016 20:16:01 GMT -6
ickes The millionaire next door is great book--I love the stat about the % of first generation immigrants who are wealthy compared to the national average, and how their born/raised in USA children revert back to the mean in 1 generation. "Your money or your life" is also an empowering book. I'd think the fit/design of the work/western shirt has a big influence--construction workers don't tend to wear fitted clothes (I think loose/baggy) on how the man in the get up is viewed. As was said earlier, how one wears the clothes is probably the most important factor. Body language, posture (are your hips and shoulders collapsed inward--yes too often for me) communicate to others on a guttural level who you are to the world--Foundation Training I found to be a postural game changer! The idea of the "high/low" concept (if you are straying too far into the construction worker look) just sliding the shoes up the formal scale a notch should squelch that. There is a definite grey area between looking well put together and looking like douche. Great topic OP Honestly workwear like construction jobs needs to fit. Extra fabric is a burden. I see a ton of 505's on job sites. Not restrictive but not too large to get caught on stuff. |
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Post by brentkuz on Feb 27, 2016 20:16:29 GMT -6
One of the funniest...err, troubling threads I'd seen on AAAC was about wearing white after Labor Day. It went on and on for days. Unfortunately, there's a lot of minutiae like that over there. I rarely go there these days, especially after embracing denim and work wear. Their forum is useful in that you can learn a lot about dress or dress casual styles, but you can also glean that same info from SF. Apples and oranges. Wait tho why no white after Labor Day? |
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Post by gaseousclay on Feb 27, 2016 20:21:04 GMT -6
No idea. I honestly have zero interest in that forum anymore so you'll have to find the thread. The fact that an entire thread was dedicated to that topic speaks volumes
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Post by exophobe on Feb 27, 2016 20:50:54 GMT -6
Wait tho why no white after Labor Day? Cause Emily Post said so. There's also the possibility that it was functional, since shoveling coal in a white suit is generally a bad idea. edit: the latter is sorta like why people in nyc only wear black and grey overcoats in the winter since everything else ends up turning black or grey over the course of time anyway. Obviously these are generalizations, so I don't need pictures of people in nyc wearing other colors (they're tourists anyway). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 21:02:44 GMT -6
Unfortunately, there's a lot of minutiae like that over there. I rarely go there these days, especially after embracing denim and work wear. Their forum is useful in that you can learn a lot about dress or dress casual styles, but you can also glean that same info from SF. Apples and oranges. Wait tho why no white after Labor Day? It has to do with southern culture. My mothers people are southern and she always applied it to women's accessories, shoes handbags etc. (i.e. The movie "Serial Mom") Much of the thread in question was how it applies to men's clothing and its relationship to WASP culture. Men of leisure would wear white clothing while summering. |
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Post by brentkuz on Feb 27, 2016 21:05:49 GMT -6
Figured it was a old money rule to keep the new money out.
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