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#1 2013-06-25 15:11:27
- GIZhou007
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Wearing a blazer to a function
Is it acceptable to wear a blazer to an after five dinner? No Igent comments please.
#2 2013-06-25 15:18:34
- Senorservo2.0
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Here in America is more than acceptable
Last edited by Senorservo2.0 (2013-06-25 23:55:47)
#3 2013-06-25 15:27:13
- GIZhou007
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Thanks. It is In Canberra so will happily bring along the Yves St Laurent DB blazer my wife found for $15 in a Salvation Army thrift shop. 
#4 2013-06-26 00:15:11
- Lord Eckhart
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Well, if it is a blazer found in a salvation army shop then, no..no you cannot wear it.
I would advise you to spend several thousands of dollars on a new blazer to support the economy and do your country right. Also, support the troops since they kill and maim so you can ask these sorts of questions.
Others would say if the blazer fits then you are fine...not all after five dinners are the same however, so you might not be. In conclusion, bad question without details and with an improper mix of parsimonious braggadocio. Upshot: you might look like a gussied up trollop.
#5 2013-06-26 00:29:54
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound
#6 2013-06-26 01:58:56
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#7 2013-06-26 02:00:50
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#8 2013-06-26 03:49:34
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
His PMs are even better ! 
What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#9 2013-06-26 03:56:36
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2013-06-26 03:57:16)
If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#10 2013-06-26 04:28:27
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
I've started saving them now. I kick myself I never used to do that before. He's a very speculative chap - Hopping from insult to insult hoping to strike gold. He's still hopping and hoping with me...
His subject matter always entertains though - It's always things that he cares about and so he thinks that you will too... And he's always dead wrong in my case so far.
But I'm giving him time... Maybe one day he will actually make me care about what he says. It's a fun experiment. Just now he's stuck in a loop throwing out taunts about my wife and me being a racist - My Lord, if they didn't work the first time then they aren't going to work the 5th.
Please could the forum suggest some new material for him ?
What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#11 2013-06-26 06:23:11
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#12 2013-06-26 08:57:34
- doghouse
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#13 2013-06-26 17:24:37
- Chévere
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Here's an iGent response-
Yes. Most dinners are casual affairs between friends. In such cases a blazer is seen as an effort to look nice.
Even a business dinner should have a veneer of casual bonhomie to mask the contentious nature of the meeting. Indeed the purpose of the business dinner is for the food is to dampen the animal spirits.
Wearing a suit kind of defeats the purpose at a business dinner, and is unbearably pompous at a social event.
If the dinner is of a ceremonial nature, then the Blazer is not equal to the mission of the meal.
There, how's that for rules.
Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.
#14 2013-06-27 03:33:39
- Sammy Ambrose
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#15 2013-06-27 04:19:18
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#16 2013-06-27 04:31:44
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
If you aren't seeing through all three eyes at once day and night you are up shit creek without a paddle. The Shooman
#17 2013-06-27 04:36:40
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
^Terry-Thomas' blazers would be Savile Row though. Mr. Bucket's would be from the High Street.
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#18 2013-06-27 05:10:08
- fxh
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
The Blazer here in Oz carries a different meaning/meanings than it does in UK and USA.
A DB gold button one with a handlebar mustache might get a big laugh but otherwise the navy blazer and grey flannels isn't a familiar sight except on the young hip pitti set believe it or not.
It would mostly be seen as smart and modern.
Meister and others might disagree but I suspect not.
#19 2013-06-27 06:28:10
- Chévere
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
I wear blazers. Not afraid of appearing or being conformist at times. Likewise neither my conscience nor my pride will rend asunder if I'm seen or judged as low middle class. Or awkwardly striving low middle class for that matter.
Furthermore I feel no need to make a personal or original statement every time one walks into the street. As FNB is fond to note, practically every garment one wears has a signifier element of one kind or another and I guess the blue blazer's is that of banal conformity. Dear God forgive me for succumbing to such unpardonable sins!
So a blazer for me is a variation of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak- let's call it the banally anonymous cloak. It's effortless, the blue color is easy to match with jeans, khakis, ties, no tie, whatever, and it's practical (lots of extra pockets). Occasionally I carry a bow tie in the pocket should the day's peregrinations extend and evolve.
So, my unapologetic respect for the blue blazer.
Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.
#20 2013-06-27 08:03:01
- Kingston1an
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
^ When do wear the suit in your avatar? Trips to Las Vegas?
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#21 2013-06-27 08:40:16
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#22 2013-06-27 10:14:07
- Chévere
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.
#23 2013-06-27 10:26:40
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.
#24 2013-06-27 10:40:16
- Chévere
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Re: Wearing a blazer to a function
Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.
