Christmas dress etiquette crisis! Help me please, style gurus.

[slowmotion]

budgie smugglers and a fixed grin

Grimace not grin...

 

[ufkacbln]

 

[slowmotion]

Perfect! I'm sorted. Thank you.

 

[bonsaibilly]

I would just not go and when asked why, explain that its because they are up their own arses. BB

 

[slowmotion]

On reflection, I think I might run with your idea and go for the full-on Sir Leslie Patterson look.

 

[summerdays]

How was Christmas in the end @slowmotion? Hopefully you enjoyed yourself no matter what you were wearing!

 

[slowmotion]

How was Christmas in the end @slowmotion? Hopefully you enjoyed yourself no matter what you were wearing!

It was highly civilised and we benefited from very generous hospitality. On any occasions where smart sofas were likely to be used I wore my suit trousers and a Harris tweed jacket, both of which I inherited long ago from the widows of friends and relations.

A few days after we left, my wife and daughter told me I looked like a circus clown rather than the picture of sartorial elegance that I was seeking.

 

[Profpointy]

It was highly civilised and we benefited from very generous hospitality. On any occasions where smart sofas were likely to be used I wore my suit trousers and a Harris tweed jacket, both of which I inherited long ago from the widows of friends and relations.

A few days after we left, my wife and daughter told me I looked like a circus clown rather than the picture of sartorial elegance that I was seeking.

the tweeds and tidy trousers were fine, the comedy big shoes were the problem

 

[slowmotion]

The hair, nose, and squirting bow tie didn't help.

I've learned to live with the nose.