Agreeable Menswear Post Of The Day

Regarding Fedoras and dorks...it can be a fine line between looking smashing and looking like a dork with these hats. I tried on the Akubra stylemaster and it doesn't look quite right, but when l wear the Akubra hampton l look a million bucks; that slight change makes all the difference. With many people, no matter what fedora they wear they will still look like a dork. Whether it is the old days or today, many hats don't suit a lot of people (panama excepted). The homburg is great with overcoats, but when worn with suits or sportscoats it gives a real vintage look, but it can be made to work with a navy blazer and pocketsquare with an open neck shirt to make everything less formal and less vintage looking.

O.k, better switch to the other disagreeable menswear section to make my next post about boaters.
 
It’s a pic thread - if you have photos of modern men looking good in vintage hats, then post them!
 
When tailoring and music was great.

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and now,

do as disco stoo, Frankie Knukles, Maradona, the Napoli camorristi and Sarto di Napoli can´t be wrong

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I sort of lost interest in Cave at the end of the 80s, and didn’t really notice as his thrift shop suits were replaced by London bespoke.

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Dropbear said:
I sort of lost interest in Cave at the end of the 80s, and didn’t really notice as his thrift shop suits were replaced by London bespoke.

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That jacket is not bespoke, or at least not for him, no?
Shoulders too big/broad, sleeves too long and incorrect button stance. Or maybe it’s just a bad picture.
 
belinmad said:
That jacket is not bespoke, or at least not for him, no?
Shoulders too big/broad, sleeves too long and incorrect button stance. Or maybe it’s just a bad picture.
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Right. I’m guessing that was around the time he was starting to look for better suits, but still buying used. You can see the transition from Birthday Party in your face punk aggression to where he is today


 
great jackets here, 1980. The brown in the center resembles me the Anderson & Sheppard cut from the 50´s you can see in The Rope film

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Pimptastic!

Frank Lucas, the black drug lord who ruled Harlem in the 1970s, was so discreet that the police didn't know who he was in 1971 when he decided to wear a $100,000 full-length chinchilla coat — to a Muhammad Ali boxing match.
He later wrote that this was a “massive mistake. Apparently, Lucas’s coat caught the eye of law enforcement — who were surprised that he had better seats than Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra.
As Lucas put it: “I left that fight a marked man.”
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btw, never seen chichilla fabric in my life or ( or want to)

Is that true 100.000$?
 
I have been looking at Michael Alden's clothes lately. I really love his style because it doesn't come across as being obsessed with clothes. Look at his outfit at this market, he looks nice without looking fussy or obsessed, and he doesn't look expensive or scream look at me l am wearing bespoke. He just wears his clothes. No crazy patterns either.
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Look at his coats, none of them are overly perfect fitting either, they are just clothes that fit well. He blends in seemlessly and doesn't draw attention to his clothes. He says he doesn't love clothes, and you can see it is true here. He just gets a coat made and wears it and gets on with his day. I see so much obsession with clothes on the forums, and it comes across as that, ie, overly perfect fits, overly studied outfits....none of them has what Alden has. I know l can do an Alden, but it takes a while to mature to that point.
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Nope, and better it is that way. Keep it word of mouth and keep unwanted internet types away. Once that cat is out of the bag the damage is done.
 
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The Shooman said:
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Nope, and better it is that way. Keep it word of mouth and keep unwanted internet types away. Once that cat is out of the bag the damage is done.
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What damage? Sending customers to a business designed specifically to serve them?

This whole keep the mystery bullshit serves in this case no one but Michael to preserve his image of untouchable higher form of sartorial knowledge to sell his cloth, which is excellent but highly overpriced, and in the broader case, like you and your mystery tailor with untold knowledge of how to cut a collar the right way, to justify dissing other makers and overcharging you for his own services.

Michael used some fairly old local guy in one of Sicily’s inner cities (maybe Ragusa?), not noticeably better than the plethora of well known tailors in Palermo and Napoli. Cheaper? Maybe, but is that the point, to keep him from making market prices (not sure that’s even possible in this day and age) so you can exploit the situation for personal profit?

If you are happy with your tailor, make sure everyone who can spend money with them knows - that’s the best way to keep them well fed and in business. They won’t be “ruined by the unwanted internet types”. Your money is no greener than theirs.
 
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Has anyone ever found out who his tailors in Sicily and Naples are?
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It looks 25 years ago Rubinacci or random Sicily tailor, not very "neapolitan", it looks more English style from the 60s 70s, but that is how most Sicilian cut. ( anyway is not of my particular taste, the shoulder line is way off from his bone. so it's badspoke.
 
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