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Sweet overcoat, Luftwaffles!
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herringbonekid
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variation on a theme.
deadstock French shopcoat.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...age-Workwear&p=1868104&viewfull=1#post1868104
waistcoat made by me.
KT&H chambray shirt.
30s-40s British tie.
deadstock French shopcoat.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...age-Workwear&p=1868104&viewfull=1#post1868104
waistcoat made by me.
KT&H chambray shirt.
30s-40s British tie.
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beautiful buttons on the waistcoat. what trousers did you wear it with. I never feel brave enough to wear a striped waistcoat unless it matches my trousers.
herringbonekid
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same as the waistcoat. i'm wearing a suit with the jacket removed and a shop coat added. sorry, i realise full length photos would help.
herringbonekid
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Rudie, i wear shopcoats at home. i'm wearing the above outfit right now.
i know you're very practical-minded when it comes to clothes, so don't ask me to defend the logic of it, as it will never pass the Rudie test.
i know you're very practical-minded when it comes to clothes, so don't ask me to defend the logic of it, as it will never pass the Rudie test.
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When I shifted to a more vintage/smart style I had to gradually unlearn my adolescent sense of dressing for the occasion.
A sports coat which was only for a fancy night out was 'downgraded' to a daily beater.
It's an ongoing recalibration.
It's always interesting to hear different people's perspectives on the right occasion for this or that item of clothing.
A sports coat which was only for a fancy night out was 'downgraded' to a daily beater.
It's an ongoing recalibration.
It's always interesting to hear different people's perspectives on the right occasion for this or that item of clothing.
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Here's my Saturday night off to the pub outfit and i thought I'd fetch my Big Coat out. It's a German Military coat made from thick grey Gabardine. It has a zip-out wool liner for extra warmth. Trouble is, my wife hates it with a passion. She won't be seen with me if i wear it, which can be an advantage at times. But tell me chaps, do you think it looks that bad?
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That is a nice looking overcoat Dreamofgilgamesh.
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I love sport coats and wear them for almost every occasion - I run errands in them, etc. It's only been in about the past 10 years that I started to get questioned about why I was "so dressed up." In the '80s and '90s this didn't happen, but now it seems a sport coat is a big deal. I actually think I get treated nicer at airports, restaurants, etc. because I look "so dressed up."
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There are two interesting points here:
(1) The 1980s were a time when sports jackets were in decline - they were "squeezed" between the "power-dressing" in suits and the more decidedly casual wear. They had returned by 2000, but then usually (and in my view sloppily) were worn without a tie - what I call "mixed modes" had come in.
(2) The "cultural revolution" of the late 1960s seems not to have had its full effect until the late 1990s - a generation afterwards. Was this, perhaps, because the 1960s generation (baby-boomer-hippie-student radical - call it what you like) was now in a position of power in the workplace? I am somewhat older than that generation and wore sports jacket and tie throughout my professional life as a teacher.
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Here's my Saturday night off to the pub outfit and i thought I'd fetch my Big Coat out. It's a German Military coat made from thick grey Gabardine. It has a zip-out wool liner for extra warmth. Trouble is, my wife hates it with a passion. She won't be seen with me if i wear it, which can be an advantage at times. But tell me chaps, do you think it looks that bad?
I have the single breasted version and I find it to be very practical and stylishly understated. I don't see why your wife wouldn't like it, unless she dislikes trench-coats in general?
There is now a resurgence of sports coats and ties worn casually, but at the moment it seems to be mainly an idealized catalogue image which has not entered the everyday. 'Old' habits die hard in the world of menswear I suppose...
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Dreamofgilgamesh - the coat looks very nice and classic to me. While it has lost a little structure (there are some rolls and puckers) due to age, nothing (at all) that would cause me to retire it. Perhaps it is the German Military origins that troubles your wife.
Hal and Metatron: the sport coat seems to me to be in limbo - the good news is they are still carrying large quantities of them in stores so somebody must be buying them, but that said, I don't see them being worn often any more. For example, I went to brunch yesterday morning at a mid-level place and, of the forty or so diners there, I only saw two other sport coats. Ten years ago, at least a third if not half of the men would have been wearing them (and two-thirds twenty years ago).
I know the twenty-somethings are suppose to be more into dressing, but that was not apparent to me yesterday.
Hal and Metatron: the sport coat seems to me to be in limbo - the good news is they are still carrying large quantities of them in stores so somebody must be buying them, but that said, I don't see them being worn often any more. For example, I went to brunch yesterday morning at a mid-level place and, of the forty or so diners there, I only saw two other sport coats. Ten years ago, at least a third if not half of the men would have been wearing them (and two-thirds twenty years ago).
I know the twenty-somethings are suppose to be more into dressing, but that was not apparent to me yesterday.
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Alex Oviatt
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I am exactly the same! Keep wearing them!
esteban68
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At 46 I wear one every time we go out to dinner or the theatre throughout the year apart from June to September when it's generally too warm for one....occasionally with jeans but more often than not with moleskins and always with a pocket square and often with a tie ! .....you still see quite a few wearing sportsjackets over here in the UK and in fact there's a bit of a resurgence at the moment with the hipsters all be it a skinny cut one!
For me the tie is a must - FAR more important than the pocket square. Sports jacket and tie was my daily professional wear for 36 years (as a teacher).
I absolutely LOATHE the sports jacket + open-necked shirt + jeans combination, but have to admit that it probably brought the sports jacket back from its near-extinction in the 1980s.
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+1 Totally.
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mix and mash of eras, only vintage item is the cap (50's) and tie bar and cuff links
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Sumi Alpaca overcoat
mix and mash of eras, only vintage item is the cap (50's) and tie bar and cuff links
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Sumi Alpaca overcoat
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Very snappy Claudio. I like the jacket & trousers together.
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