The men's dress style thread..

[Badger_Boom]

When I was working away a lot I'd hang my crumpled-from-travelling shirts up in the bathroom and they'd usually recover enough so you didn't need to iron them again. Trouble is, due to thieving lower-class customers, a lot of hotels have those captive coat hangers where the hooky bit stays in the wardrobe. I'd then have to contrive a way of tying the hangers to the shower rail.

Maybe one of these is the answer?


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[Webbo2]

As we now have some sun I thought I better start wearing a hat given I’ve no hair. After much searching I found my Panama still in its travel tube, where it’s been since September when we moved house. Hence it’s not looking that great.

 

[sungod]

As we now have some sun I thought I better start wearing a hat given I’ve no hair. After much searching I found my Panama still in its travel tube, where it’s been since September when we moved house. Hence it’s not looking that great.
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mine was last seen overlooking lake victoria from a presidential suite at the munyono commonwealth, never got on with it, abandoned it before heading up country

my tilley hat came with me though

 

[Webbo2]

I have a Barbour bucket hat that I wear for outdoor activity type things. Mrs W has forbidden the wearing of it.

 

[Drago]

I have a Barbour bucket hat that I wear for outdoor activity type things. Mrs W has forbidden the wearing of it.

I have one of those!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I wore my beige/cream Cordings linen suit yesterday. A down and out type sat on the floor asked me for 75 pence. I gave him a quid, telling him to keep the change. He then said I should iron my suit as it looked 'crumpled'. I told him that linen suits were supposed to look like that to give them a summer casual look. He wasn't having it and said the suit should be crease free. 🧐

 

[Drago]

I wore my beige/cream Cordings linen suit yesterday. A down and out type sat on the floor asked me for 75 pence. I gave him a quid, telling him to keep the change. He then said I should iron my suit as it looked 'crumpled'. I told him that linen suits were supposed to look like that to give them a summer casual look. He wasn't having it and said the suit should be crease free. 🧐

I'd have asked for my pound back!

 

[Webbo2]

I have one of those!

I would advise against washing it as mine has shrunk.

I wore my beige/cream Cordings linen suit yesterday. A down and out type sat on the floor asked me for 75 pence. I gave him a quid, telling him to keep the change. He then said I should iron my suit as it looked 'crumpled'. I told him that linen suits were supposed to look like that to give them a summer casual look. He wasn't having it and said the suit should be crease free. 🧐

You should tell him to look this thread up when he gets back home to his penthouse.

 

[Moon bunny]

I have a Barbour bucket hat that I wear for outdoor activity type things. Mrs W has forbidden the wearing of it.

Mrs. W is very sensible.

 

[Webbo2]

Mrs. W is very sensible.

However she’s not going to be overly chuffed when she see’s the Panama she bought me has split.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Fellow chaps, help me decide which hat to buy!!🧐 Should I go electric blue, or go with the navy blue one?! 🤔

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I sent the Borselino Avalon brown fedora back to the supplier this afternoon as It just didn't feel right. It was ok, but that's it, just ok, nothing to excite oneself I'd say. It was quite flimsy and just didn't seem worth the price, even though it was reduced to £279 from £400. I much prefer the two Bates poet fedoras supplied by Hilditch & Key (hence my desire to buy the Bates Bruand fedora) to the Borsalino hat as they are far better quality, making them look and feel better, in my opinion! It cost me £13.35 to return it as I chose the best returns option, which guarantees the cost of the hat will be paid to me if it happens to disappear in the postage system. 🧐

Going on for 3 months into this analysis paralysis of which one should I buy, I'm now thinking the navy blue one. I started off with the forest green one, or was it the electric blue, I can't remember. My thoughts are that the electric blue one will go with many of my suits and jackets, but go, not look look good as I now think the navy one would do. As for the green, it'd go with all my country wear, but not with most of my 'town and city' outfits. As I post I'm thinking the navy blue one. 🤔

 

[Accy cyclist]

I must've clicked on to the Hilditch & Key website over a hundred times, looking at the above hats. Many sites after a few clicks offer you a discount, but so far Hilditch & Key aren't budging after all those look ins on those hats. 🧐

 

[Moon bunny]

Can you buy a plain white one and arrange tiny floodlights around the brim, that you can change color according to whim?

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

For years I wore relatively plain dress shirts to the office. Looked good, professional, kept the twits from Detroit off my back. A few years back, while shopping for my annual batch of office wear, my wife pointed out some nice colourful and rather floral shirts in a swanky men’s shop. Stuff I would never buy… never. After some disparaging comments about my taste from the spousal unit I decided to buy a few of the shirts she suggested. Darned if each shirt didn’t get a load of nice complements from the staff at work.

for the rest of my working life she picked my shirts.

 

[Dogtrousers]

For years I wore relatively plain dress shirts to the office.

Apart from one blue shirt I had in my first job I have worn plain white shirts throughout my entire career. Once a year I go to Selfridge's or John Lewis and buy a fresh load. I don't know why, I've just never felt inclined to change. Being colour blind may be part of it.

Even in my current job which has zero dress code. Jeans, shorts, T shirts all entirety fine. I'm nearly at the end of my career so I might as well stay consistent to the end.