Cold and wet today:

*  Brown wool pants
*  green cotton button down shirt
*  tweed coat
*  brown Cheaney loafers (first time i've worn them in 12 months).

one bad motherf--ker! me like!

Thank you Heikki, but don't you think the bird-feeder and the shed detract a tad from the hard man image?
Patrick, the honour is mine.

Stealth Ivy today. So darn stealthy, you won't even get pics:

brown suede GBX playboy boots
slim grey cotton trousers, a kind of mini-herringbone stonewashed fabric (I left these a hint longer than I would dress trousers, the way I would wear jeans)
dark brown belt
white OCBD
natural-coloured poplin sack jacket
Lands' End unlined field jacket in 'vintage olive'

Moose Maclennan wrote:

Thank you Heikki, but don't you think the bird-feeder and the shed detract a tad from the hard man image?

The shed is great. It puts a Brit twist on the ensemble. It has so many resonances it would be difficult to list them all. Foreigners would never understand.

Patrick wrote:

Moose Maclennan wrote:

Heroes of the WAYWT, Pt. II

The 'Patrick':

I am honored

Forget about 'honoured', you should be getting payment for this stuff.

You are clearly established as the face of classic American clothes on the internet.

Why are you not paid to be on the Ben Silver and Brooks Brothers sites wearing their gear ?

You can 'rock a bow tie' to use the vernacular and manage to look good on mostly thrifted clothing.

Imagine what you could do with new stuff.

Ben Silver models are hopeless. The Brooks Brothers ones are usually like actors from Dynasty - apart from the mixed race bloke.

'Another day, another dollar' should be your motto. That is the American way.

So you might have to wear jackets with darts occasionally. It is a small price to pay.

Oh sorry I forgot...
Black cord slack jacket with leather "football" buttons
Dark grey oxford button down
Black flat front chinos - US Army cut rolled up
Black suede desert boots
At work today. Even Beatniks need some scratch, Plus, I'm corrupting the system from within...

The Beatnik wrote:

What do your significant others make of your style obsessions?

Smirking tolerance is about what I get.  In all fairness, it's probably what I deserve.

Today we're hitting 90F in my part of The Sticks, so:
Blue/tan seersucker suit.
Blue pinpoint shirt
Dark red bow tie with small, neat repeat pattern.
Cordo penny loafers, no socks.

No bucks, no ribbon belts, no cartoon tie.  'Sucker done right, IMHO.

Just Jim wrote:

I used to drink with a cove who wore lady's tights in the Winter you know... Very warm he said. He rode a motorbike & did deliveries around W1. Said it was quite common with bikers.

... Thoughts?

Rather more practical in winter than assless chaps.

Kingstonian wrote:

Moose Maclennan wrote:

Thank you Heikki, but don't you think the bird-feeder and the shed detract a tad from the hard man image?

The shed is great. It puts a Brit twist on the ensemble. It has so many resonances it would be difficult to list them all. Foreigners would never understand.

Host:    Did you write this symphony in the shed?
Jackson (surprised): No!
Host:    Have you written any of your recent works in this shed of yours?
Jackson: No, no, not at all. It's just an ordinary garden shed.
Host:    I see, I see.  And you're thinking of buying this second shed to write
         in!
Jackson: No, no.  Look.  This shed business -- it doesn't really matter.  The
         sheds aren't important.  A few friends call me Two Sheds and that's
         all there is to it.  I wish you'd ask me about the music.  Everybody
         talks about the sheds.  They've got it out of proportion -- I'm a
         composer.  I'm going to get rid of the shed.  I'm fed up with it!
Host:   Then you'll be Arthur 'No Sheds' Jackson, eh?
Jackson: Look, forget about the sheds. They don't matter.

^ Very cool, Brownshoe.

Brownshoe wrote:

Arthur "No Sheds" Brownshoe

Spring!

Vintage BB poplin

http://i42.tinypic.com/f2osx5.jpg

Off topic here............

lf you aint got a "shed", you aint winning. Sheds are for doing manly stuff: repairing stuff, playing hard rock/metal, swearing alot, having drinks and stuff with the boys and doing other blokes stuff. Women are never allowed in sheds (they must stay in the house while the blokes play up in the shed). l am known as `the Shedman' [to some people] and l have a popular saying over here:  "if you don't have a shed, you aren't a real aussie or a proper man". You can't respect aussie blokes [properly] if they don't have a shed

The SHED (a song)
Hey, did you ever wake up in the morning
On the wrong side of the bed
I bit confused and yawning
You go straight out the back to your shed

Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed
A place where he can go, somewhere to clear his head
To think about the things his woman said
Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed

A joint to learn to read an' write, to work on his bike at night
To grow up as he likes, to grow anything under lights
A place to keep his tools, nuts and bolts and drills
To hang a hide, to hide the dry or hang to pay the bills

Well my old shed, she leaks a bit, the roof is caving in
Nothing that a bloke can't fix with a few spare sheets of tin
The beams are old telegraph poles, white ants have eaten them
She creaks and sways on windy days and leans towards the sound

Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed

At the back of the shed where the dogs are fed near last years bails of lucern
Sticky tall green leaves came up from thrown out seeds
All it took was bantam poop, I watered 'em once and they grew some
They should be prime 'bout Easter time if no nosy neighbour steals 'em

Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed
To weld up broken gates, a place for all his mates
To come 'round Sunday arvo' for a gin
A place to make a racket, to find the pipe and pack it
To think about the things his woman said
Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed
Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed
Yeah, all Australian boys need a shed

Last edited by The_Shooman (2009-04-28 01:24:48)

A very 'London' look.