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Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!
Good for him! I was once in a similar situation to you, and now rather regret having said nothing (sometimes people react to compliments in an embarrassed way, so silence is probably advisable). But the lesson from this incident is surely that the successful attempt of this gentleman is surely...- Hal
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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How do folks react to your hat wearing?
To Marcus D'Hat: until the 1980s or even the 1990s the term fedora was hardly known in the UK except as an Americanism (much like "garbage = rubbish"); this point has been discussed before. For this reason it is hardly surprising that Rocketeer's father always referred to his hat as a trilby. -
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The GREAT BRITISH DUFFEL COAT thread
A great many university students in the UK wore duffel coats in the mid to late 1950s, but whether these were the genuine RN article or cheap imitations I have no idea.- Hal
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Outerwear indoors
Does it not partly depend on the style of the leather jacket? Some such jackets are clearly overcoat-substitutes, while others are jacket (what Superfluous calls a blazer) substitutes. Wearing the former is quite inappropriate indoors.- Hal
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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So what separates a homburg from a fedora structurally?
I strongly agree with Zoukatron. Before c.1980 - perhaps even as late as 1990 - the word fedora was regarded in the UK as the American equivalent to trilby in UK English, much like UK rubbish = USA garbage. And the UK trilby always has/had a snap brim. -
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Forage Caps With Capes
The word "deerstalker" can mean either of two styles - one is the kind that I think Edward is referring to, often called the "fore-and-aft"; the second is the Sherlock Holmes style with ear-flaps, much more eccentric-looking these days.- Hal
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Decade that was the peak of hat quality?
The decline in hat-wearing started a decade earlier in the UK; I cannot remember my father (died 1962) ever wearing a hat (he might have done before I was born). -
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Military 'woolly pully' sweaters
I take your points; you write as a far more experienced woolly-pully wearer than I. I have often seen this, but would have expected the belt to be worn on the fold, not below it. One learns!- Hal
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Military 'woolly pully' sweaters
I agree entirely when the sweater is the outermost garment as in the pictures, but would pull the sweater down if wearing a jacket or coat over it. The "look" question would not then apply.- Hal
- Post #946
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Military 'woolly pully' sweaters
There are sartorial remedies when one feels the cold; there are none when one feels the heat.- Hal
- Post #935
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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If you have to reduce your wardrobe to only 5 items...
A closed collar, whether a shirt collar buttoned or a roll-neck pullover (turtleneck in the USA) certainly keeps the neck warmer, and a buttoned shirt-collar without a tie looks ridiculous to me. After some years of retirement mostly casually clad, I have "reverted" to jacket-and-tie in the...- Hal
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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How do folks react to your hat wearing?
In the UK the discarding of hats was underway from the mid 1930s. With respect to the question of this thread: I have never received any reaction when wearing a hat or cap for practical reasons (with an overcoat or raincoat or for sun protection) but don't wear headgear otherwise. -
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Suit without a tie...
fair enough! This is where face-to-face conversations excel over writing - jest can be difficult to identify when reading something - it's all too easy to assume everything written is deadly serious. Point taken! -
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Suit without a tie...
In normal parlance the word "standards" is usually taken to mean levels of excellence, which was what I thought GHT meant. But if standards are indeed personal guidelines, my comment was certainly not justified. -
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Suit without a tie...
I am sorry, but I am quite unable to see how adding a jacket to a tieless outfit raises the standard of dress. Is my perception defective? -
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Suit without a tie...
I think most of us who have contributed to this thread agree with you - I certainly do. Yes, but why, in that case, wear any jacket? The sort of shirt you describe is a warm-weather item. -
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Suit without a tie...
I'm sorry, but I stick to my view that a suit IS reliant on a tie in order to look good. With a patterned shirt, wear a plain-coloured tie. -
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Suit without a tie...
Exactly! Why forego the opportunity for a bit of colour and individuality? -
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Suit without a tie...
Ridiculous! How can any item of clothing be "stuffy"? The people wearing such clothes may be. -
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Suit without a tie...
While the rest of your posting makes excellent sense and truly helps, I disagree with what I have quoted from it. To me the pocket square belongs to a MORE formal "mode" than does a tie, and magnifies the incongruity of the tieless-but-jacketed look. I would only wear a pocket square (and then...
