InternationPlayboy said:
There's usually a difference between wearing business suits and wearing a fly suit out of GQ. Most business men dress like shit. How many business men do you see dressed like the men on this thread? I don't see many and when I do I think, "Damn, that cat has style, game recognized."
Here in the civilized world, there is no difference between "business suits" and "suits". Here, 99% of the people who wear suits because of their job dress as "the men on this thread" as you say, i.e trendy suits. Quality vary of course and depends of the financial means, from 300 € for total shit - fushed suits - to 3 000€ for Brioni masterpieces. Talking about quality, I'm rather surprised that noone talks about it in this thread, as if the simple fact to wear a suit was enough to be " sharp dressed". FYI, most pret-à-porter brands (Boss, Kenzo, Ralph Lauren, Armani, Paul Smith and many many others) make half-fused suits that are in fact of poor construction and of poor quality. A quality suit is necessarily canvassed (Pal Zileri, Zegna, Brioni, Canali, Corneliani, Kiton, ect come to mind), and sorry, you are not "sharp dressed" with a fused or half-fused suit, but only a try-hard faker.
InternationPlayboy said:
The pictures you posted may look good for old man style, but who wants to look like an old man?
Hmm. Since when a fit cardigan is an "old man style"? ...Cortigiani is pure Italian trendy chic and highest quality material and construction. Indeed, it seems that there is an abyssal fossa between the two sides of the Atlantic ocean when it comes to fashion. Anyway, to each its own, and I hope for you that when you will be "an old man", you'll have the financial means and the taste for such things.
InternationPlayboy said:
If you don't like dressing nice, that's all good, but no reason to bash on guys who like to take care of the way they look
As you challenge me, let me answer you that even for dressing casual I solely buy the best quality. You can dress nice without wearing a suit. I feel very elegant with a simple 500 € Cortigiani black turtleneck pullover, stylish italian jeans, and 700 € Westons. And as we talk about accessories, I am curious to know what all the "sharp dressed men" wear as shoes, watches, ect. I was laughing when I read on another thread that someone bragged about the "Prada loafers" that he just bought ..... Prada is a brand that, for its shoes, sells licences to anyone, with as a result average quality with fabrication in China (usually only the montage is made in Italy, so they can stamp "made in Italy"). For the shoes, most brands sell their licence by the way, with as a consequence low or average quality products .... I personally wouldn't feel "sharp dressed" with this kind of stuff. I wear ONLY shoes from recognized manufactures using traditional shoemaking techniques (like
Weston). Same for the watch. A "sharp dressed man" needs a accordingly fancy watch, don't you think so? ...you can't pretend to dress sharp if you wear a 300 $ shit at your wrist, or if you do, you are just a try-hard faker. I might not dress in suits out of my work, but I wear a 7000 € mid-level watch (IWC Ingenieur Mission Earth) and plan to buy soon the new 18 000 € Bulgari Octo Quadri-Retro Chronograph. I also wear high-end optical glasses like Dita or Barton Perreira (600-700 € glasses). I have spoken for myself here, but I'm sure that many guys here ARE refined and elegant WITHOUT wearing suits. So please don't say that someone "doesn't care of the way he looks" or (well you didn't say that, but some did) that he is "insecured" (which is one of the most stupid I have ever heard) just because he doesn't wear fucking suits outside of his professional life. FYI, I wear suits since I began working for CB Richard Ellis at 21yo, and I'm now 46yo, still in the high-level real estate investments business, and do wear suits 45 weeks/year (well in fact more 35 weeks/year now that I run my own company and can afford long vacations) ..but wearing a suit to go to a club or a bar, or for a date ? ...it's simply ludicrous.
