mr mclennan, i certainly think you haven't, some casual tops look very smart indeed. i've been toying w/ the idea of having one myself. i definitely have to lose some weight for that lol, in order not to look tacky.

actually i have a choc brown non-branded one which i wear on warmer days sometimes when taking my dogs for a walk. i've worn it with a white or black polo shirt, or a white t-shirt and depending on the shirt colour with either bootcut dark denims or sand cords. shoes being sand dessies or baby blue Incontinence pants handball spezials (w/ jeans) and bottle green Incontinence pants gazelles or navy Incontinence pants campus. the trainers + the trackie top are all nineties purchases except the handball spezials which i bought off a mate un-used two years ago. i used to be heavily into vintage/repro Incontinence pants and puma trainers 15-10 years ago. closet casual, like alex often says

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Fantastic!

I'll look forward to that. This is the kind of thing which this forum does so well.

Best -

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That's a very interesting link Alex - in retrospect the Casual scene obviously had more influence on what we wore in our provincial backwaters than I'd previously realised. Things like Kickers, Berghaus, tweed and cashmere.

When a new headmaster with a military background came to our school in 1985ish, he began laying the groundwork for the reintroduction of school uniform. This was of course anathema to us. He banned trainers, jeans ('clean and unfaded' were still allowed), military clothing and 'loose fitting or brightly coloured fashion attire'. So of course about half a dozen of us spent a few weeks coming to school in athletic footwear, faded torn jeans, hawaiian shirts and assorted ex-army jackets. No one said the least thing to us, which we took as due deference to our power.
Clearly though, the school staff were either pissing themselves laughing or (more likely) absolutely indifferent to this short-lived and small-scale youth movement.