I go to all sorts of places... If I was going where he does I'd just wear some smelly old jeans and not shave. However, if I was dressed like him I wouldn't go to the places he does. Maybe he's spent all his money on his special outfits and has so little left over that he can only trawl dumps for a night out ?

Just another victim of this cruel recession.

I suspect the awful truth is that most who see him in the places he goes to must think that he's doing it for a joke. People often resent jokes. Hence the problems he brings down upon himself.

I've no issue with how he dresses really, it's just the appropriateness of it that's all wrong.  We've recently put some snaps up of me in my drinking clothes on Talk Ivy - The point being that different activities require different clothes. I was photo'd camping it up in a collection of smelly rumpled vintage Americana. Real pub clothes with an American influence going on...  There was a great outrage !    We need more photos of people just living life in their clothes online, not just dressing for the camera and posing. I often drink all day so I wear drinking clothes. It's a lifestyle thing. When I'm in the office I wear other clothes.

All this 'dressing well' & 'knowing the rules' crap is a dead end. Nothing beats dressing appropriately.

That has to be the first consideration.

Maybe?

I have just had TEN applications for said pub-crawl (first names only but - Simon, Michael, Andy, Will and Jim are among them) and two even asked how come I can do it so cheaply - one of them said that the last time that he did something like this was in Sicily and it cost him E4,999.99 - and that was before he got mugged in Corleone and tore a hole in his spalla camicia.

I'm looking forward to it !

Good point that people are encouraged to do this sort of thing online for the financial gain of others. Now there's manipulation if you like.

I just wonder how many bar room beatings it takes for the penny to drop that the approval of an online website isn't quite as good as being a fully functioning person in the real world. I'm sure the guy is great, but all the displays of 'rules' and 'being well dressed' surely don't quite compensate for not getting smacked in the face when you go out.

Dressing appropriately has to be the most important thing. Beyond that you can show off all you like, why not ?

I'm sure his get up is fine - He's just wearing it inappropriately. He should have been in a pair of old jeans in that bar.

To be helpful what we should do is to suggest venues where his outfit would work.

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The trouble is that he is far too young for that lot. Moreover, the hat style screams 'retro-repro', and they're just all the wrong types of clothes for a rough-neck bar. What he really needs is a pair of chinos and a Gieves & Hawkes bespoke, leather bomber-jacket.

A valiant attempt to stir up a fuss, but the staid gentry won't do more than gently nibble.

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