Custom Made Linen Suit, Panama Hat, linen-leather Spectators?

[Rathdown]

Start any sartorial eccentricity on your first day of work, otherwise your colleagues will think you've gone ga-ga when, six months after starting the job, you show up in vintage attire.

 

[Shangas]

Rathdown gives good advice. I did that from Day 1. My friends now think it's my regular style. Which it is.

 

[Edward]

I think you can probably wear more vintage than you think. Most people aren't like us and would not notice the difference.

Very much so.

Start any sartorial eccentricity on your first day of work, otherwise your colleagues will think you've gone ga-ga when, six months after starting the job, you show up in vintage attire.

Agreed, yes.... though I still would slowly work in some vintage elements such as especially wide-legged trousers or spats. Bow ties always get a great response in my experience, but you want them to know you're for real with those and not wearing it to take the mickey.

 

[avedwards]

Start any sartorial eccentricity on your first day of work, otherwise your colleagues will think you've gone ga-ga when, six months after starting the job, you show up in vintage attire.

I want to be careful though as I fought hard to get this job and the last thing I want to do is lose it because the managers think I look unprofessional. I don't think I'll ever wear bow ties to work (I'll save them for nights out) but I have no problem wearing the hat to the office as I'll take it off inside anyway. Most of my suits and ties don't look too unusual to the untrained eye anyway so I can wear vintage from day one without sticking out.

It's just bow ties and waistcoats that I might leave out because of how unusual they are in a modern company these days.

 

[Haversack]

I second Flat Foot Flooey's recommendation of Magnoli Clothiers. I had him make up his Nassau Suit design out of off-white Irish Linen for me to attend some friends' hot-climate daytime wedding a couple of years ago. You can see me wearing it on the avatar to the left. Just make sure you have someone who knows how to measure a person take your measurements.

Haversack.

 

[New Englishman]

Thanks Haversack! It looks good on you! I'll give him a try!

 

[cookie]

http://www.mycubanstore.com/men/men-linen-suits/custom-irish-linen-suit

 

[Mario]

I was told it is rude to outdress the wedding couple.

That's hillarious! I'd never ever dress down just because I might be outdressing someone if I didn't. Not if what I'm wearing is compliant with my general style of dress. It's not my fault that people chose to attend a wedding in shorts and flip-flops (I'm exaggerating, I know, but still...).

 

[avedwards]

That's hillarious! I'd never ever dress down just because I might be outdressing someone if I didn't. Not if what I'm wearing is compliant with my general style of dress. It's not my fault that people chose to attend a wedding in shorts and flip-flops (I'm exaggerating, I know, but still...).

But then you're not in the habit of regularly wearing morning dress or white tie are you ? I think Flo meant that wearing formalwear when the groom wears a lounge suit is rude. If you wear a jacket and tie (or any of your usual combinations) to a wedding and end up outdressing the couple then it's just a clear sign that they aren't taking their own wedding seriously in my opinion.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

I think Flo meant that wearing formalwear when the groom wears a lounge suit is rude.

Yes.

... then it's just a clear sign that they aren't taking their own wedding seriously in my opinion.

Maybe. I think many people just don't have a good taste and don't care about clothes as much as we do. I can't blame them. They probably think other "values" are more important.
IF they do...they shouldn't mind if you dress better than them anyway.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

A little late but I stumbled across this.

Informal country daytime.
1937, source blacktieguide.com