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[jaydub]

Got my suit back from the tailor. I look more like a guy from Goodfellas than a guy from Mad Men in this thing.

Fellows of a certain height look more like penguins than gangsters or ad agency flacks when forced to wear suits.  I'm sure this fact is at least partially behind my decision to go into a career where occasions to wear suits are few and far between. 

[theinevitable]

I know this is the dork answer, but I am a big fan of reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice. If you post a picture (maybe with the face blurred out) and say "why does this suit make me feel like an extra from Goodfellas?" they will respond with a point by point analysis of why the suit looks that way. They also have guides on the side with pointers for people who know less than you probably know. I have relied on them heavily when looking for things like dress shoes, summer shoes, etc.

This summer I have embraced that I am just going to look like a weird hipster nerd. Shorter shorts, boat shoes, striped t-shirt, my bright yellow backpack. Every day. All day. Looking good.

One friend said that " look like a 7 year old on the first day of school." Since then I have upgraded my canvas sneakers to real boat shoes. Very comfortable. But they make me feel a little like my dad.

[AugustWest]

I own a purple tie, and I think it looks good. I am a pale Scotsman.

I wore a purple tie yesterday.  I am a pale-American.

I don't give a fuck whether it looked good or not.

[greenkoolayd]

bill nye teaches chris hardwick how to tie a bowtie

[side_show]

That's pretty rad GKA.  Isn't Bill Nye lovely?

Two of my male coworkers came to work wearing purple recently and apparently this was an issue to my female boss.  I had just registered both of the as "looking nice" without really noticing anything unusual.  She always notices what people are wearing though, I mostly don't.  Both were very dark purple polo shirts.  Is it fare to say women have full access to the colour pallet while men have all sorts of perceived limitations?  Like, it's always a statement when a man wears pink, but not a statement when a woman wears blue...

[wombat]

Is it fare to say women have full access to the colour pallet while men have all sorts of perceived limitations? 

Sure, but I always figure it's a fair trade for all that stuff like how we make less money than they do for doing the same jobs, and such.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I honestly don't get the wage gap argument. Are they saying they earn less because there is discrimination against women? Or are they saying women earn less because of basic facts of like we all have to live with?
Most of it sounds like it falls in the correlation =/= causation side.

[Pedro Picasso]

Is it fare to say women have full access to the colour pallet while men have all sorts of perceived limitations?  Like, it's always a statement when a man wears pink, but not a statement when a woman wears blue...

I was reading an article about nerdy women. It basically said that western culture views a woman who takes an interest in manly things as bettering herself, but a man taking an interest in ladylike things is a "broken machine." I think that sentiment directly applies to the colour pallet thing. A subtle and deeply ingrained form of misogyny.

[doomglobe]

http://grooveshark.com/s/Start+Wearing+Purple/1YBL73?src=5

[doomglobe]

Holiday shopping theme song:
http://grooveshark.com/s/Thrift+Shop+Featuirng+Wanz/4UP2JN?src=5

[Choop]

i recently lost my last favorite pair of jeans to time and tearing. rest in peace, you lucky sons of bitches.

anyway i decided i'm through with jeans for a while. i'm short and fat, and it's tough to find jeans that look good, especially if they fit well. if they do both, they're expensive, and damnit i'm sick of the hunt.

so, slacks. they're a hell of a lot comfier than jeans, mostly, though they don't usually grow with you over time. they come in all kinds of weights for seasonable adjustments, and fabrics and colors for every consideration you'd need to bother yourself for. and anybody that says i'm not allowed to wear casual kicks with chinos can go fuck themselves.

fine, i admit it, i'm getting old. you know what else i don't wear? white sneakers. sure, i have a pair of white adidas sambas, but they have black stripes and a tan suede toe. my tastes have evolved, and thank * for it.

my slacks'es colors, in case anybody's wondering: black, charcoal, navy, dark brown, medium brown, light grey. no tan or khaki, by design. in the market for olive and maybe eventually some shade of red and/or lighter blue. also no white, nor will i ever.

[theinevitable]

oh, I posted something here from my phone and it didn't take.

My favorite ##### are brown. I don't know what the name for this type of ##### is. My dad would call them Chinos, but to me that name evokes baggy ##### with big pleats. I guess they are brown khakis.

I roll the cuff a few inches and wear them with low-top canvas sneakers and no socks. It feels great.

I gained a tiny amount of weight, and suddenly all of my jeans are skintight. Good thing it's shorts weather. By fall I'll have biked it off and will be able to wear them without shame again.
My favorite shorts are the one item I wear regularly that breaks my self-imposed color rules-- they are "nantucket red."

I think I am kind of Over the skinny jeans thing. I am looking for jeans that are a little looser, but still tapered towards the cuff. 4 years of super-skinny jeans makes anything else feel like bell-bottoms.

[jay-ell]

I think I am kind of Over the skinny jeans thing. I am looking for jeans that are a little looser, but still tapered towards the cuff. 4 years of super-skinny jeans makes anything else feel like bell-bottoms.

I'm the opposite. I've been wearing boot-cut jeans since...1993? I've tried on straight-leg jeans a few times and I even own two pairs of skinny jeans (which I wear exclusively with knee-high boots), but they always take me right back to 1987 and my stonewashed rainbow-dyed jeans with the zippers in the cuff.