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Death of a Newspaper
I once thought that the death of the physical newspaper was overwhelmingly because people chose to read newspapers online (or at least largely read news content online), but I fear it is actually that people now have the supreme diversion of a smartphone and that the issue of 'content' is of...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #3
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Sport coat and jeans??
That could prove difficult when his spirit is so strongly invoked by photographs like some of those above.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #160
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
Yeah, who is he? I suppose you think you're having a rise out of me? I'm sure your friends think you're a right comedian.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #155
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
Well... you thought a middle-aged man was 60-70 years old, so I'm now assuming you must be a whipper-snapper who has come of age with the men around you already part way down the road of dressing like overgrown teenagers? I'm only 38 and I remember seeing it too. My own father favours jeans and...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #153
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
I'd like to point out that I am not anti-jeans. I wear them for dressing down. I have a rather fashion-forward denim waistcoat that I use over corduroys or even jeans. It's a tad longer than older waistcoats and does a far better job than one of those too-short-for-jeans 'vintage' acquisitions...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #147
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
I have to assume that you're being a satirist here, posting all those photos? An odd waistcoat (odd indeed), odd jacket and a pair of ratty jeans is no 'three-piece' worthy of the name. It's an ensemble, but then so was the outfit worn by Chaplin's 'little tramp'. How old is that prematurely...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #143
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
At least two of those men have not been dragged into sartorial hell. The rest...well the worst is bottom middle. Jeans and jacket/waistcoat is a failure and a desperate clinging to some formality in the age of lazy dressing. What galls me is that people mixed and matched and wore sometimes...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #132
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
You see, this is what happens when a man wears jeans too often. His trousers start to go wrong whenever he wears a suit! Those trousers can't possibly be higher than his pelvis.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #130
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
Quite so. The 'half a suit' with jeans look is mind-bogglingly awful.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #126
- Forum: Suits
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Free time in the 1950s BBC
It's a different family. The ones you are referring to, who were eating the food from the different eras, were perhaps the most well-adjusted family I've ever seen on a television programme like this. The family they have doing the 'free time' are also pretty normal; not your usual noisome...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #7
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Sport coat and jeans??
Meldrew! Now that would make him irate. It's available from several cloth suppliers, like Huddersfield who sell it in about five colours. Now, whether it's exactly the same as twill from 40-50 years back, well... a lot of cloths have changed.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #119
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
The Japanese fellow's appreciation of his product is marketing spiel. 'Selvedge edges'? Why is there such a haze of mystique around this? A selvedge is nothing more than the edges on cloth as they are held on the loom. It's not magic and it imparts no magic qualities to anything incorporating...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #114
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
This is exactly what I wear. Tweed jacket over a barrel and it's a lot better than jeans.- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #110
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
I don't have a hang-up about people wearing jeans for 'days on end'. I said that people can do that (and some do do that) because jeans can be worn for more than a day without having to be rested like wool trousers, are more hard-wearing and can be thrown in a washing machine. These are some...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #106
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
Then I'll help you. If you scroll back a little you'll see I wrote that jeans can be worn for a few days (or longer for some) without losing too much shape or needing to be pressed. They are hard-wearing (being work clothes originally. This makes them functional more than e.g. 'elegant'. Then...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #100
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
I didn't 'spectacularly' miss anything. They may have a "look", but it is what every Tom, Dick and Harry everywhere has adopted and it is largely about functionality, with an attempt to knock it up a notch from ordinary informal. Dull and student like. The photo of the man above, fiddling with...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #97
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
Well, it depends what 'works' means. I'm quite sure the prime reason is the sturdy 'wash and wear' nature of jeans, which also require little to no pressing and can be worn for more than day without losing too much shape. That works. If you don't mind wearing wrinkled cotton trousers. Why bother...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #87
- Forum: Suits
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Sport coat and jeans??
I can no longer bear to wear an odd jacket (and particularly a tweed jacket) with jeans. The overall look of odd-jackets worn with jeans has become such a tiresome, commonplace replacement for 'informal style' that it is ubiquitous. All around me in this city men put on a pair of jeans and shirt...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #81
- Forum: Suits
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What Are You Reading
I'm going to start on Patrick Hamilton's trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (1929-1934). Set in late 1920s-early 1930s London. The BBC did an adaptation of it some years back, but I fear they trimmed it fit into three 50 minute episodes. Before that I have 20-odd pages left of Martin...- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #6,751
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Linen Suit - where to find a good one...
I'm quite wondering how Roderick Charles has a 'house cut' when they don't make anything?- Dirk Wainscotting
- Post #24
- Forum: Suits
