I saw this man in a DB pistachio icecream sort of shade of suit. It had some texture, maybe a slight herringbone. Anyway it was well made and fitted. He was that Leathery, tanned life starts at 60 sort of fellow you so often see sauntering down 5th Avenue.  I have to say the suit looked good, and he looked like his own man. That was the instant impression I gathered. He was wearing those orange/brown shoes and that looked good too.

^ Kilmarnock?

Could be SC Heerenveen, more popular and Frisians go mad about anything they consider their own. Also, stop making me think about football jerseys. I feel embarrassed knowing about it.

As I believe Hepcat is referring, these prissy little shoes with paper thin rubber soles.  Previous 'athleisure' shoes looked like bowling shoes, but somehow it's shifted to ballet slipper proportions.
Hilariously, these twee shoes are usually worn by metrosexual ruffian wannabes.  Usually with the crummy hip-hugger snug jeans with the fake fading on the front thighs and, seriously, fake crotch wrinkling patterns.  Paired with some bizarrely tasteless knit shirt, also too snug, feauturing gothic lettering, ink blots, occultic imagery, phony DIY patches etc.  I've seen more than one bearing the word 'AFFLICTION' which seems like a pretty stupid word to brand oneself with.  I suspect it is an Ed Hardy rival brand.

The other trend I see is that men of all ages in 'business casual' are stuck with low-rise khakis hanging off the tops of their butts.  Always paired with a thick, wide, crude leather belt that clearly isn't doing its intended job.

Last week I was in downtown Toronto in a car and I was stopped behind some old man getting out of his brand-new Rolls Royce and going into one of the Mies towers. The car was black and covered in leaves, so he obviously lived in Forest Hill or Rosedale. He took several minutes to struggle from the car, then a few more to shuffle onto the curb and up the steps to the building. His driver, who appeared to be wearing a boiler suit (to steal a UK-ism), was probably a mechanic from the dealershop or something and slowly drove off, getting into a "dare" with a cabbie but backing off when it became clear the cabbie wasn't going to give way. The old man at this point was still struggling up the stairs to the building. He was wearing some expensive driving mocs and an expensive single-breasted raincoat. Somehow the shoos and the raincoat looked "expensive." Which I found weird, since usually clothing can look classic, modern, fashionable, trendy, conservative, dated, worn-out, or brand-new, but almost never "expensive."

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One guy in mid town manhattan wearing a navy solid suit which was so wrinkled across the back that I thought it must have been a designer thing.

Also this really unattractive asian dude in a shadow chalk stripe 3 pc suit. Jacket was too short, too tight and no necktie. He was with a beautiful japanese girl though, so he was doing something right.

Unless you are really handsome like Brad Pitt, wearing distressed jeans with a jacket or no necktie makes you look worse.

This old man in khaki green cotton pants, dark green tie on a bengal striped shirt and a matching green baseball cap. Never seen that before and it was almost natty.

In general stripes on suits are heavier than they used to be, and even more interesting, no one notices. I remember that I used to stop traffic with my bold stripes.

Another man win navy blue English style suit w/hacking pockets, blue shirt, striped tie. He looked a little like Cochise goes to Wall Street.

Seems to be a long hair movement recently.

On the tube today. Black shirt with gold pinstripe with a navy tie with a swirly sky blue pattern. A bit like 70s wallpaper. Beige Harrington type thing, black trews and shoes needing a polish, must have been whatever came to hand first. He really didn't give a shit (I hope) and it showed. I couldn't take my eyes off him. Made me smile, so bad it was fantastic, almost cool in a way.

Middle aged man in a mid-grey SB suit, white shirt with no tie, thick-rimmed black spectacles, black shoes, and a light grey silk pocket hank stuffed 'upside down' with the edges showing. I can only guess the hankie was the size of a small tablecloth as it looked like an explosion of grey silk was blowing out of his breat pocket.

Normally this would look pretentious, and it is typically seen on young iGents but on this chap, with his longish grey hair and moustache and Greek islands tan, the effect was more "ageing playboy" than "boy-in-man's-clothes".

Outside my office in Holborn this morning.

Man in dark suit wearing a bowler hat. He was also wearing white trainers and a loud red tie with a Santa Claus motif. He was being talked to by a chugger*

The only other times I see bowlers on a regular basis are the doormen outside The Waldorf hotel.

* chugger is UK slang for individuals paid to hang round street corners trying to persuade individuals to set up regular bank payments to charity.