What Are You Wearing Today?

Nash Bridges that was it. Never watched it really. All I recall was the band collar shirts and waistcoats. Didn't realize he'd stopped to those depths!
 
I blame grunge.

Prior to that bands made an effort. Grunge made it perfectly OK for me to pay large sums of money to see a band on stage who looked like they'd just got off work at the construction site. The general public followed suit.
 
Last night I walked up Collins Street and had a quick squiz in RM Williams before jaywalking over to the Ralph Lauren store. I can give some credit to one of DWs favourite sons, Mr S Compton, he's managed to make that dreadful cardigan look better than its ever going to look on anyone else, or the store model. It's a shocker in person.
 
Great White Snark said:
I blame grunge.

Prior to that bands made an effort. Grunge made it perfectly OK for me to pay large sums of money to see a band on stage who looked like they'd just got off work at the construction site. The general public followed suit.
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The end of the 1980s arrived dead on time, the December of 1989 when I noticed all of a sudden it was all drab, charcoal grey and ultra baggy fitting. It was the template of the student scene at the time. And all those indie bands who couldn't play and then suddenly the rot of post-modernism went mainstream. Deconstructing this, deconstructing that...nothing is true, everything is permitted as Burroughs warned us.

I liked the 80s: the strong styles, the sense of a fashion direction and looking sharp. That's never really returned to the extent as was then. Look at all the fashion changes in the 80s and compare to the 90's....and what came after.

If you really want to get interesting, look at how female fashion has become extremely boring. You think it's bad for men? Guess again.
 
Luckily, we're just about entering the post-post-modernist era. The new sincerity. Irony is out, authenticity is back.
 
Great White Snark said:
I blame grunge.

Prior to that bands made an effort. Grunge made it perfectly OK for me to pay large sums of money to see a band on stage who looked like they'd just got off work at the construction site. The general public followed suit.
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Understand the sentiment but a lot of those bands in the 70's and 80's rocking all denim werent exactly putting forth much effort. Journey is the antithesis of grunge and weren't wearing clothing that far removed.



Ramones made bank wearing torn jeans and garbage bags in the 70's too. God I hate the ramones so much.
 
This for tomorrow, weather permitting, but I suspect a repeat of today at 27.5C in the late heat of the Indian summer day: 'Diamond Standard' green and blue check T&A with the "finest Giza 87 Egyptian Cotton, grown on the Nile Delta, which is run through a water bath over a bed of diamond tips, simultaneously washing and gently abrading the surface."

In other words the heat repellent of a two fold 200 plus plus shirt if not Sea Island quality for half the price in the sale. Good stuff, the heat resistance is enough for a tie. An impressive innovation, I like these shirts, again the marketing spin could put you off. There's no discernible, aged, worn, abrazed or faded quality to these shirts, they're pristine. Sometimes the marketing spin of T&A doesn't suit the online buying world.
 
I hate authenticity...its 'surface' that interests me...

There's nothing romantic about wearing 'workwear' as anybody who has to wear them for their job will tell you. They can't wait to get outta the shit.
 
Lord Buckley said:
The end of the 1980s arrived dead on time, the December of 1989 when I noticed all of a sudden it was all drab, charcoal grey and ultra baggy fitting. It was the template of the student scene at the time. And all those indie bands who couldn't play and then suddenly the rot of post-modernism went mainstream. Deconstructing this, deconstructing that...nothing is true, everything is permitted as Burroughs warned us.

I liked the 80s: the strong styles, the sense of a fashion direction and looking sharp. That's never really returned to the extent as was then. Look at all the fashion changes in the 80s and compare to the 90's....and what came after.

If you really want to get interesting, look at how female fashion has become extremely boring. You think it's bad for men? Guess again.
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Yeah the eighties was my coming of age. I love the memory of looking round the sixth form common room and you could tell exactly what band everyone was into by how they wore their hair. Some styles were horrific but at least there was variety and crossover. I remember going to an 'alternative' club around 1984 populated mostly by post-punk / gothy types and along with The Cult, The Smiths, Spear of Destiny, Sisters to Mercy, The Cure etc. they played Chic, Everything But The Girl, Roxy Music (Dance Away), Bowie (Young Americans), Sister Sledge (Lost In Music) ... a great eclectic mix. What a time to be alive!
 
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Monkeyface said:
Too gimmicky with boy sized lapels.
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It's a unstructed sack jacket, so narrow labels are fine. I agree the mixing of the cufflinks might be a tad too far, like those black and white themed apartments back in the early 1990s. But it is after all me, a touch of whimsy every now and again keeps the sartorial also rans in their place.
 
Lord Buckley said:
It's a unstructed sack jacket, so narrow labels are fine. I agree the mixing of the cufflinks might be a tad too far, like those black and white themed apartments back in the early 1990s. But it is after all me, a touch of whimsy every now and again keeps the sartorial also rans in their place.
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Whimsical shirt - whimsical cufflinks - whimsical watch -> pick one
 
Monkeyface said:
Whimsical shirt - whimsical cufflinks - whimsical watch -> pick one
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The watch isn't whimsical, it was the watch of Rod Serling and Elvis Presley. The Ventura is iconic, designed by Richard Arbib and is the watch that Don Draper should have been wearing in the first couple of series of Mad Men.
 
Don't worry about monkey , he's one of those conservative stuck conforming young blokes
 
It's really a very simple and understated look, with no gimmicks one would notice, a style that frightens those with tight fitting grey suits and tan coloured winkle pickers alongside those who overly think and pay for what you wear each day:

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Lord Buckley said:
It's really a very simple and understated look, with no gimmicks one would notice, a style that frightens those with tight fitting grey suits and tan coloured winkle pickers alongside those who overly think and pay for what you wear each day:

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I agree that your outfit is a step above the tan winklepicker/tight grey poly suit wearing crowd!
 
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When I put this jacket on it was sunny, no wind or rain and about 14C. Second time I came back inside I put on a warmer jacket. Third time a still warmer jacket and it was raining, wind and down to 11C or less with wind chill. All within an hour. Ahh Melbourne.
 
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