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#29626 2016-08-01 07:55:01
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#29628 2016-08-01 08:10:56
- Berkeley_Breathes
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Re: Ivy League style for today
I agree that the outfit is too monotone for me, but I like the jacket... It's a look and if that's the look you're going for, Oli, you've done it very well... For me, the hat is what makes it too much, especially since it's not just beige, but the exact beige of the jacket... It makes you look like you're wearing a matched set. An even just slightly darker brown in the cap would fix it for me... But like I said, if you're happy, that's all that matters! Fit is certainly great and all the pieces look beautiful...
"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin
#29629 2016-08-01 08:21:39
- Chief Brody
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Re: Ivy League style for today
I know "we dress for ourselves" but I don't think a woman/man under 80 would go for a guy in that rig.
Retirement home IVY.
In fact, I bet if you were single…you wouldn't go that deep into the rabbit hole...
Last edited by Chief Brody (2016-08-01 08:22:57)
#29630 2016-08-01 09:12:45
- Oliver
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Re: Ivy League style for today
Well I beg to differ. Sign me up for whatever retirement home looks like that please.
The cap is a suede buckle back from the 50s which obviously matches the suede of the jacket; I bought it for that reason, to wear collectively. The chinos are old army issue knockarounds. I guess it's the camel colored vest that puts it over for some of you. I've worn variations on this "outfit" dozens of times without the vest and I've probably posted a few of them. I think an old pair of Weejuns would've worked better for a laid back Sunday look.
I think I'll try this with the burgundy cardigan and color 8 loafers next weekend as an experiment.
Last edited by Oliver (2016-08-01 09:15:49)
#29631 2016-08-01 09:18:30
- Berkeley_Breathes
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Re: Ivy League style for today
I agree that the loafers would look good...
And lest we forget, the original practitioners of Ivy style are probably around retirement home age, so I'm not sure "retirement home Ivy" is much of an insult 
Wear the look with pride, Oli!
"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin
#29632 2016-08-01 09:35:27
#29633 2016-08-01 09:44:51
- Berkeley_Breathes
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Re: Ivy League style for today
"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin
#29634 2016-08-01 09:46:49
- Chief Brody
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Re: Ivy League style for today
The tan/khaki/sand head-toe-look is strictly for old-timers. A rhapsody in beige. Not a colour scheme the Collegiate Ivy guys wore in droves while at school... And if they did it wouldn't them the same way a guy on his 30s/40s would be aged if went with the retirement home shades.
Certainly wasn't a look promoted in Ads of the time for professional age Ivy Stylers either.
#29635 2016-08-01 10:42:12
#29636 2016-08-01 10:50:57
- Chief Brody
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Re: Ivy League style for today
Oliver bruv, you went full beige. By accident. It happens to the best of us. Sometimes. A hazard for tradly dudes everywhere.
But your textures are all same too. Suedes, wools and coarse khakis and Oxford.
So it ages you by 40 years.
Kids can dress old and look cool. Old guys can dress old and look cool. But Ivy Studs in their prime me and you... Well we got a be careful because we won't look cool dressing like coffin dodgers.
One love. 😉😚
#29637 2016-08-01 10:55:27
- Tomiskinky
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Re: Ivy League style for today
I think as Bop mentioned - viewing on a phone with you rather small in the composition a lot of the colours get lost, I thought you have a beige shirt on, don't see the stripe. As others have said it just needs a splash of colour, that red cap would have done the trick.
There's nothing wrong at all with the individual elements - it just needs the swapping of one thing. I love the suede/knit jacket.
#29638 2016-08-01 11:12:37
- stanshall
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Re: Ivy League style for today
"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
#29639 2016-08-01 11:33:35
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Re: Ivy League style for today
I'm sometimes in all beige when around the house. Always in the shower.
"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955
#29640 2016-08-01 11:35:31
- Oliver
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Re: Ivy League style for today
Haha is that what you call your Nantucket reds?
#29641 2016-08-01 11:48:19
- Oliver
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Re: Ivy League style for today
There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose clothes were so tan he thought fuck it
If Capt. Binghamton dug them
Than I sure can't shrug 'em
So everyone just can go suck it
😋😎
"Commander, how would you and your men like two weeks with nothing to do but play gin rummy, go surfing, have luaus with steel drum bands, dancing girls, hmm?"
"Two whole weeks? Woo hooo, oh that'd be a wonderful change sir. Yes sir."
"Knock it off McHale. That's what you do every week."
#29642 2016-08-01 11:50:36
- Oliver
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Re: Ivy League style for today
Has anyone actually met a man from Nantucket?
#29643 2016-08-01 11:55:04
- stanshall
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Re: Ivy League style for today
no but I met someone wearing tassel loafers who was from Nantucket ... name was Coffin ... Coffin Dodger ......
"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
#29644 2016-08-01 12:07:33
- RobbieB
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Re: Ivy League style for today
Should Oli have been wearing the hat indoors?
'I am a closet optimist' Leonard Cohen.
#29645 2016-08-01 12:07:48
- Berkeley_Breathes
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Re: Ivy League style for today
A+ for Stan
"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin
#29646 2016-08-01 13:26:07
- Oliver
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Re: Ivy League style for today
the guru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI8IUAeX30o
#29647 2016-08-01 13:52:42
- Berkeley_Breathes
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Re: Ivy League style for today
I'm in your camp, Oli, but I'd timidly suggest that Jack Klugman isn't going to help your case with the "beige is for old guys" group That said, he wears that hat like a badass... And on the Tonight Show too!
In the end, if you wear it like you mean it, it always works... Re: an earlier comment, there's nothing "objective" about style, rules were made to be broken, as long as they're broken wth confidence and a knowledge of what the rules actually are... Clothes are for fun, after all...
"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin
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#29650 2016-08-01 23:26:10
- Moose Maclennan
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