Dressing Well Need Not be Expensive
Jacket: Hart Schaffner Marx, thrifted $10
Shirt: Lands’ End Tailored Fit, $12
Tie: Borrelli, thrifted $8 (iirc)
Pocket Square: MVO Designs, courtesy of MVO Designs
Pants: Dockers Alpha Khakis, $30
Shoes: Allen Edmonds Park Avenue, thrifted $4
More stripes and plaid.
Structured shoulder.
Stripes on Stripes.
Black Loafers by Johnston & Murphy, thrifted ~$10
Simplicity.
Jacket: W.W. Chan, estate sale $1.50
Shirt: Lands’ End Tailored Fit, clearance $12
Tie: No-name silk rep stripe tie, thrifted .50
Pocket Square: Banana Republic, clearance $8
In honor of the best-and-most-hilariously-named thread on StyleForum, “Show us your Chan”…
Glen Plaid and Stripes. Khakis and Monks.
Pocket Square: Vintage Vera, thrifted $2
Brooks Brothers, Brooks Brothers, and Brooks Brothers.
Go ahead and clash a little.
Hard at work…
Yesterday was, I think, the hottest day of the year so far. I couldn’t stomach the notion of wearing a tie, and wanted to wear a shirt that would keep me cool in the heat. Seersucker is a great fabric for such an occasion, but the contrast cutaway collar on this shirt has made me never wear it without a tie before. I decided I’d go for it, and am quite glad I did.
Though the shirt (by Lands’ End, and purchased on clearance for ~$17) is a bit trendy, in that it’s made of seersucker but also has a contrast collar in a cutaway shape, it is those very disparate and incongruous elements which make it a shirt that dresses down fairly well. I’ll probably wear this shirt several more times this Spring and Summer without any neckwear.
Vintage Natural Shoulder Goodness from Brooks Brothers
Like the W.W. Chan blazer I posted this morning, this one also only cost $1.50 at an estate sale over the weekend.
Craftsmanship.
