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...
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)
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)
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 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.
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. 😉😚
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.
I'm sometimes in all beige when around the house. Always in the shower.
Haha is that what you call your Nantucket reds?
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."
Has anyone actually met a man from Nantucket?
no but I met someone wearing tassel loafers who was from Nantucket ... name was Coffin ... Coffin Dodger ......
Should Oli have been wearing the hat indoors?
A+ for Stan
the guru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI8IUAeX30o
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...