A couple of fashion pet peeves...

[prairieschooner]

1) Shorts in the winter. It was 20 degrees yesterday and I saw no less than three guys out in shorts. I don't care how much of a mountain man you are, you look silly. Put on some long pants.
2) This untucked shirt thing. Don't get me wrong, I wear mine untucked at times, but a shirt tail hanging out from under a sweater or vest just looks sloppy and dumb. Tuck it in.

Anyone else?

 

[tropicalbob]

1) Shorts in the winter. It was 20 degrees yesterday and I saw no less than three guys out in shorts. I don't care how much of a mountain man you are, you look silly. Put on some long pants.
2) This untucked shirt thing. Don't get me wrong, I wear mine untucked at times, but a shirt tail hanging out from under a sweater or vest just looks sloppy and dumb. Tuck it in.

Anyone else?

I agree on both counts, but one of the things you'll find here on the Lounge is that such opinions are most often greeted with either an ominous silence or a lecture on individuality, and over the years I've been logging on I've realized they're probably right. For instance, the shirt-tail controversy is an on-going one and I feel as you do, but why would I want to offend those who disagree, espeicially since some of them are the most decent people who comment here? So, you learn a little tolerance, which is always a good thing.

 

[prairieschooner]

Fair enough. No offense intended, just an opinion expressed. I'm sure it won't change anyone's mind, just theirs wouldn't change mine.

 

[MondoFW]

I agree on both counts, but one of the things you'll find here on the Lounge is that such opinions are most often greeted with either an ominous silence or a lecture on individuality, and over the years I've been logging on I've realized they're probably right. For instance, the shirt-tail controversy is an on-going one and I feel as you do, but why would I want to offend those who disagree, espeicially since some of them are the most decent people who comment here? So, you learn a little tolerance, which is always a good thing.

Surely we can all agree on the suspenders + belt faux pas?

 

[Edward]

Surely we can all agree on the suspenders + belt faux pas?

Never trust a man who can't trust his own trousers.

 

[MondoFW]

Never trust a man who can't trust his own trousers.

Too right, mate. I'm a high school boy, and you wouldn't believe how many people pull this for the occasional dances.

 

[belfastboy]

1) Shorts in the winter. It was 20 degrees yesterday and I saw no less than three guys out in shorts. I don't care how much of a mountain man you are, you look silly. Put on some long pants.
2) This untucked shirt thing. Don't get me wrong, I wear mine untucked at times, but a shirt tail hanging out from under a sweater or vest just looks sloppy and dumb. Tuck it in.

Anyone else?

I live on the west coast so we don't get very cold in the winter but wearing shorts is a "thing". Many of the middle school students that pass my house wear shorts regardless of the weather. Sort of an adolescent insoussiance??

 

[Jaxenro]

Personally I can’t stand shorts period on men summer or winter except maybe on a beach

 

[OldStrummer]

You asked about pet peeves. While I know it's "high fashion" right now, I cringe every time I see someone wearing brown shoes with a blue or grey suit. Never mind that suits these days look like they've shrunk two sizes before being worn.

 

[HanauMan]

You asked about pet peeves. While I know it's "high fashion" right now, I cringe every time I see someone wearing brown shoes with a blue or grey suit. Never mind that suits these days look like they've shrunk two sizes before being worn.

Hmmmm.........

I wore an Italian blue linen suit with Red Wing brown leather lace up shoes for my wedding. This was twenty years ago.

 

[OldStrummer]

I wore an Italian blue linen suit with Red Wing brown leather lace up shoes for my wedding. This was twenty years ago.

A faux pas then, as it is now. Just my (minority) opinion. Congratulations on twenty years of marital bliss.

 

[MondoFW]

You asked about pet peeves. While I know it's "high fashion" right now, I cringe every time I see someone wearing brown shoes with a blue or grey suit. Never mind that suits these days look like they've shrunk two sizes before being worn.

Curious, what shoes do you recommend wearing with a blue suit?

 

[prairieschooner]

Navy suits are highly versatile. The most popular choice is brown but almost any shoe color will also match this suit. Gray suits pair well with a variety of colors including black, lighter brown or camel. Charcoal suits look best with black or dark burgundy shoes.
How To Match A Shoe To A Suit | JoS. A. Bank

 

[scotrace]

You asked about pet peeves. While I know it's "high fashion" right now, I cringe every time I see someone wearing brown shoes with a blue or grey suit. Never mind that suits these days look like they've shrunk two sizes before being worn.

You see this combo in menswear illustrations throughout the era.

 

[Bushman]

Shorts in the winter. It was 20 degrees yesterday and I saw no less than three guys out in shorts. I don't care how much of a mountain man you are, you look silly. Put on some long pants.

This irritates me to no end. I also knew a guy in high school who I swear did not own a single pair of pants. You know they're cold, but through some misplaced sense of masculinity, they'll never admit it.

 

[tropicalbob]

You see this combo in menswear illustrations throughout the era.

That's absolutely correct. I was just watching some of the "Bertie and Jeeves" episodes, and in a few of them Bertie (Hugh Laurie) is sporting (with Jeeves' approval) a grey or blue suit with brown shoes and hat. I also recall my father's Uncle Harry, one of the best-dressed men I've ever known and who worked with Dutch Shultz, the gangster, back in the Thirties, wearing brown shoes with blue suits. I was just wondering if this prejudice didn't begin during the Sixties and Seventies, when brown shoes fell out of style for a time. Frank Zappa had a song on one of his early albums called "Brown Shoes Don't Make It."

 

[OldStrummer]

Three day-old beards. C'mon, guys. Either grow the dang thing or shave it. What's the point of looking like you just stumbled in from an all-nighter?

 

[scottyrocks]

Shorts in winter seems to be a college-age-and-down thing here. The only grown men I see doing it have enough natural insulation to make it work, comfort-wise (I assume).

 

[scottyrocks]

Fair enough. No offense intended, just an opinion expressed. I'm sure it won't change anyone's mind, just theirs wouldn't change mine.

I doubt that anyone who wears things you don't like is attempting to change your mind.

 

[bluesforchallah]

My pet peeve... Someone who thinks I should dress to please them.