tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27660602.post4974186967439591135..comments2023-03-23T13:29:32.105+00:00Comments on Vaguely Simian: Jesus on the dashboardMonsieur Le Capuchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07927917854738455114noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27660602.post-10569999893423312082007-04-10T00:27:00.000+01:002007-04-10T00:27:00.000+01:00I used to be forced to shirt and tie it up in my l...I used to be forced to shirt and tie it up in my last job. It was horrible. I look like an escaped gorilla in disguise when I try and dress smart.<BR/><BR/>There were about four ties on rotation, completely oblivious to the colour shirt I was wearing. I had two pairs of trousers, and shoes that looked orthapedic.<BR/><BR/>My current job does nothing but expose the limitations in my current wardrobe.<BR/><BR/>I'd be all for the everyone wears suits again idea if it wouldn't make me look like Mr Toad.<BR/><BR/>I'd love a hat though, but thats a Millers Crossing thing.<BR/><BR/>Maybe as a society we've drained all possibility for functional clothing, so everything is just slightly modified and rotated. It's all just tubes of cloth in the end anyway isn't it?Sunny Walkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16766732414927528364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27660602.post-33090372115144745892007-04-09T19:39:00.000+01:002007-04-09T19:39:00.000+01:00See, I've had the joy of working in informal, smar...See, I've had the joy of working in informal, smart-casual offices. I don't have to wear school shoes. But I can make the effort and look tidy in a new, clean, understated shortsleeved shirt, tan slacks and a jacket. Or go for tee shirt and hoody and jeans. Just make sure that the ensemble looks more GQ than NUTS. This is an avenue I can take that doesn't mean suit every day, but doesn't mean I have to look like a scruff either. I can hopefully show I have some style.<BR/><BR/>All my ties but one are vintage, or second hand. And that one was a gift, for a function. Even in a suit, I want to show off a little.<BR/><BR/>The flatmate sometimes asked after I'd stepped out with you guys in a new shirt or jacket if you two had said anything about my duds. I told her we never remark on each others clothes. Not that there's a rule. Just none of us speak about it. The only time I really said anything was when I wanted us to look smart on David's stag night, and you ignored me anyway. <BR/><BR/>But here we are.<BR/><BR/>You'd look better in a v-neck.Monsterworkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06076185794233335347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27660602.post-15494657928560242782007-04-09T16:33:00.000+01:002007-04-09T16:33:00.000+01:00The remaining Irish community here harks back to t...The remaining Irish community here harks back to those days. As they congregate on the steps on the high street clutching their plastic cider bottles each and every one of them is in a suit.<BR/><BR/>So you think that the fashion options reflect the typical male's reluctance to choose?<BR/><BR/>-<BR/><BR/>It's not that I'm happy with '97, it's more that there is nothing else on offer of worth besides the staple suit. <BR/><BR/>I don't wear massive trousers to work, I got them in my size! I can't get them any smaller or they'll not do up. I do have a suit for work, but the dry-cleaning element is impractical and costly. And I had the jumpers for winter. I don't like v-necks.<BR/><BR/>I'll have to get one of them there machine-washable suits.<BR/>I don't beleive that there are "classic but stylish avenues for the office", there is one avenue and that is a well-fitted suit.Monsieur Le Capuchinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927917854738455114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27660602.post-57962830428941086822007-04-09T00:28:00.000+01:002007-04-09T00:28:00.000+01:00This is unexpected. I have a weird idea of you and...This is unexpected. I have a weird idea of you and clothes. You seem to resent them. Out of the three of us you either make the most effort to look untidy, or you make no effort to look sharp.<BR/><BR/>But you chose things that get a raised eyebrow from me, and maybe I'm not alone. Purple Combats? Bold. I wouldn't. Cyberdog-style anorak-material-trousers and trainers with oversized soles? You pave the way. I did metal for years, but I was more conventional in my choices - hoody, black cords or tan combats, black tee. More recently I'm become a lot more generic - the shirt and trousers I've tried on before I buy, to get a complimentary fit, and it's usually a retro-tee or a medium-sized band tee-shirt underneath. I never ventured as far as you into the Camden future fashions as you. But I reckon I buy more clothes more often than you. I think you're happy with 1997.<BR/><BR/>So you do go against the grain, and wear things that don't neccesarily look right on you, despite your gripes. You just don't wear the trendy strange. You wear your own strange.<BR/><BR/>And with your work. I'm guessing you are bound to a formal standard or at the very least a smart casual with hardly any emphasis on casual. But rather than sort yourself out with a suit, and dress to kill, you go with this round neck jumper and massive trousers thing. You sell yourself short in that, dude. There are some more classic, but still stylish avenues you can tread for the office. The flatmate said you looked good in the wedding photos. <BR/><BR/>And get some trousers in your size, man.Monsterworkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06076185794233335347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27660602.post-70087896859982750592007-04-09T00:14:00.000+01:002007-04-09T00:14:00.000+01:00I sometimes wish that it could be like it was back...I sometimes wish that it could be like it was back in the 40s and 50s. Before the hippies and the beatniks and the pinkos and the commies ruined everything, damn their aethiest hides. When everybody - all males between the ages of 15 and 100 - wore suits. All the time. Or if you weren't wearing a suit you wore pants, a jacket, a shirt and tie, which looked like a suit even though it didn't exactly match. If it was a particularly hot day, you wore a waistcoat without a jacket. If you went abroad, you wore a safari suit or maybe just a shirt, without a tie. <BR/><BR/>Everybody wore hats, all the time. In extremely cold weather, you wore a trenchcoat. But suits - everybody looks good in a suit. They are designed to make men look good, and they do the job well.<BR/><BR/>Do men like choice? From what I've read, men are generally sartorially lazy. Most men find a look or a combination they like in their 20s and stick with it - with minute adjustments and alterations - for the rest of their lives. They don't want to bother thinking about it. Wheareas women go on adjusting to trends etc as they age.<BR/><BR/>The only time I really cared about clothes in my life was in my early 20s, when I was single and I went out to pubs and clubs quite a lot. I also had enough disposable income to spend money on clothes, I was fit and healthy, and I wanted to look good. Since then, I haven't really cared. I am the profile of that sartorially lazy male. I know what I like - what I think works for me - and I wear it over and over.David Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01289610966074361701noreply@blogger.com