Nah, it's not too old.  But don't rely on me.  My own mother tells me I look like a stick in the mud.

I love this:

Walkover Dirty Bucks. Brick Red sole.
Navy cotton hose (Royce?).
Seersucker cuffed Blue/White flat-fronts.
Navy Polo shirt. Untucked.

Old/Young/Classic/Updated.

Seersucker suits (maybe w/o the bow-tie tho') look great. Kinda summer wedding, garden party style, perhaps?

Got an unadventurous b/w gingham seersucker shirt from Land's End on the way at the moment, which I'm looking forward to.

I have never had anything but compliments in a seersucker suit. These compliments ranged from the typical "well-dressed old guy saying it was a nice suit" compliments to having good luck picking up phone numbers from cute girls.  One time I wore it with white bucks downtown here and someone who I might euphemistically term an "urban gentleman" told me I looked 'pimpin' and wanted to know where I bought it. He said it in a way that made it one of the higher compliments I've received. I second the advice to maybe not wear the bow with it every time, though.  I've tried it with a couple of different ties, and after I started a thread on here asking for some new suggestions, got some more good ideas.  My favorite remains a white shirt, navy repp tie with narrow yellow stripes, and the bucks, or the same except navy tie with white dots.  Both of these make the suit stand out rather than the tie and keep it from running too far into GTH territory.

You can also just go with the jacket for less formal occasions.  I have no qualms about wearing jacket and white cotton pants out to any bar above dive status in the summer (since other people now seem to be wearing jackets to bars (no ties) in greater number), just ditch the tie and the white shoes for that. 

Girls in my experience--at least where I'm from--are partial to seersucker.  I know this sounds like bullshit (and probably is...that's what a JD teaches you to do best) but maybe for them it is sensual in some way what with the ridges and crinkles?  After moot court arguments my first year, I went out with my parents (who came to watch) to a nicer seafood restaurant.  The hostess was, I would say, in her late 20s, and she was so taken either with the suit (or, I hope, me in it) that she felt it necessary to actually run her hand down the front.  My parents proceeded to make fun of this for the rest of the evening but the point is it intrigued her to an extent that she really did what would be stepping over the line of restaurant maitre'd in any other situation. Maybe she knew I wouldn't complain.

Long story short: Don't be afraid to wear seersucker, just keep it short of over the top GTH and you will be looking good, not to mention feeling comfortable in the heat!

Last edited by Marc Grayson (2008-03-11 11:46:07)

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The answer is...only if you are an old man.

Let's do the young thing! Or at least the middle aged thing!

Too Old Man?  No.

Ol Boy? Yes.

Cheerio.

Chris Despos had some very nice looking seersucker when I was in his shop.  He too remarked on the difficulty of finding it.  I ended up getting a pair of pink seersucker pants from him and look forward to wearing them in the summer.

I also had a sportcoat made up in Italy from a wide wale seersucker, the likes of which I had never seen before.  It is a very interesting fabric.

Since I don't anticipate wearing either a whole lot, I can't imagine that they will wear out quickly.  At leas I hope they do not.

Guess i'll get some more - thanks to everyone for responding.  Funny how much i learn here ain't it?