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I usually try to keep things simple and try to harmonize every part of the ensemble to complement each other and most of all my personality. BTW the hat is now Edward's hat.
metropd said:Also given the right outfit, and right individual, I don't see how more formal hats are "costumey". Top hats and homburgs I think are the height of Elegance in terms of headgear, specifically top hats. Here is my homburg.
metropd said:Also given the right outfit, and right individual, I don't see how more formal hats are "costumey". Top hats and homburgs I think are the height of Elegance in terms of headgear, specifically top hats. Here is my homburg.
BanjoMerlin said:The basic difference between an outfit and a costume is the wearer. If your outfit is intended to make you look like someone you are not then it is a costume. Wear clothes that make you look like you. Most relatively intelligent people can sense the difference, even it they are not aware of the difference.
Torpedo said:Agreed. It is very much a question of attitude - confidence, essentially. And assembling the right outfit does no harm, neither!
You have a nice homburg there - it looks taller than normally seen. Is that so?
Mr Vim said:I'm looking at a blue grey fedora online right now, good price, good fit, I'm just not sure if I can mix that with anything I own, which is a few vintage sport coats in blue, one in a light tan. The light tan will work. But the blue?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained I suppose, but I'd like some folks opinion on it first.
My experience with my charcoal gray Borsalino fedora is that it just does not go with a brown leather jacket, no way, the colors clash. The gray hat with a blue anything is fine. But I consider my gray hat the least versatile one I own, color-wise. It probably depends on the shade of gray. Maybe a light gray would match better with browns, but I personally am not convinced of it. I don't necessary endorse what others might select for themselves.Mr Vim said:I'm looking at a blue grey fedora online right now, good price, good fit, I'm just not sure if I can mix that with anything I own, which is a few vintage sport coats in blue, one in a light tan. The light tan will work. But the blue?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained I suppose, but I'd like some folks opinion on it first.
metropd said: