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Also, how do suits look like schlock? They're suits, for chrissakes! The point is that they make everyone look great!

Oh dear, here we go again.

I have confidence in my ability to be discerning, but I don't want to have to wade through crap that that MW asshole "GAHrantees" (talk about awful pronunciation).

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ "all suits look good"

http://www.mayerco.com/images/men/haspel_02a.jpg

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

(xp to Amanda) Yup, they were very friendly to me, too. I went there because I thought that was where people went to buy suits. It never occurred to me to go anywhere else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Girls in NYC usually WAY outdress their boys...and it's kind of understandable, because I, too, am a sucker for a sharp-jawed punk rock dirtbag with the right evil grin and no shirts with buttons in his closet. But it's still a little sad, and it makes couples who dress to the same level TOTAL KNOCKOUTS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

John, read the article I posted and you will see.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, don't ask him to read the article, we'll only be arguing, I mean, talking about it all afternoon.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like to be outdressed. Just like I like to be just a little taller.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a law of diminishing returns, but it seems to me that just as with wine, in suits the range between terrible an acceptable is much wider than between acceptable and mouthwatering.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh dear, here we go again

lol @ "all suits look good"

I like that suit. Who is that, Gregory Peck?

John, read the article I posted and you will see.

I did read that article. It said don't wear a suit-jacket with jeans (yeah, duh), and it looked askance on single-button suits (okay, whatever), but other than that, I don't know what you're talking about.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

J0rdan, please send me contact INFORMACION por CAM. I want to ask him for ideas/help on playing in milwaukee.

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that suit. Who is that, Gregory Peck?

Yeah. And I guess you're right -- there's a time and place for seersucker. And that time and place is when you're Gregory Peck. Or Matlock.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I will kick the shins of any sucka who says that my hubs looked schlocky on our wedding day.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean they ALL just look alike! They're fabric! Who cares if it's wool and polyester? They're both fabrics--how can they be different?

― Jaymcee (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't mess with the weasel.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

They're both fabrics--how can they be different?

You're making my day a little brighter. Really.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Post pictures of mouthwatering suits here.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.ilovemoda.com/images/armani-three-button.jpg

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Look: I went to MW and knew I just wanted a basic black suit that I could wear for weddings. I didn't know if I wanted one button or two, so I tried both on and decided I liked two. I didn't want anything fancy, so I didn't look at anything fancy. Based on that article, it seems like "bad suits" are suits that are trying to be all trendy or embellished somehow, with odd cuts or weird fabrics, but that inevitably fall flat. But if you know you just want a good basic suit that fits you, then I don't know what's wrong with Men's Warehouse. If they have schlock there, I certainly wasn't looking for it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

You know what I liked about NO? The fact that young heterosexual men -- hetero and homo alike -- could wear seersucker. And white linen. I loved White Linen Night when all the galleries opened their doors, NPR gave away fans, and many people wore white linen suits. You just can NOT do that in Chicago, even in the dog days of summer without looking like an old man or a douchebag.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/101/309563899_48845feb4c.jpg?v=0

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I have accepted the fact that when/if I purchase a new suit, it will have to be at the (Big &) TALL Store.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

After all this, I had better find a good suit.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse I know a great haberdasher in Oconomowoc.

― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel OTM. Why is that picture so hot? I can't quite figure it out.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

While we're on the subject, I'll just throw this out there: Fuck Pleated Pants.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

You just can NOT do that in Chicago, even in the dog days of summer without looking like an old man or a douchebag.

Right. Or Matlock.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

With a suit, a little tailoring goes a long way.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

MW kind of looks like XEB -- or they are at least the same physical type. It makes me messed up. I'd have liked to see that one dress awesomely during our association, with his build & looks he was CRYING OUT to be really, really sharp.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

XEB = Xander Berkeley, from Safe?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Good look, Mr. White!

― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

OH WAIT I GET IT NOW.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Where is Oconomonwoc?

I am not very skilled at dressing myself. Someone should dress me for best results.

The guy who runs the Center in New Orleans wears a suit every single day. It makes him seem covetous of a social class that he understands only in terms of being "dressed up," while he ignores the importance of being appropriately dressed.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone should dress me for best results.

Totally. I still would LOVE to be Queer Eye'd.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

When it's warm enough, which is rare, I wear seersucker here in S.F.

Who is XEB?

― Michael White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

The last person I dated, M. Who I have yet to get over, in any plausible sense.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know what levels of douchebaggery I thereby achieve, however.

xpost to self

My condolences, Laurel.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I will do the personal shopper thing at Macy's once I save up some money.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

oconomowoc=wisconsin town

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

also, cowomonoco spelled backwards.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

and it looked askance on single-button suits

Hilarious considering their prevalence on Saville Row.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Just found out that C@N@ST@ is going to be opening up for THE DEARS (whom Eazy likes) at METRO on DECEMBER 8. Apparently the venue is having trouble selling tix, so we're getting a couple hundred FREE tickets to give away to our fans.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I also need help buying jeans.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

jeans are hell to shop for if you have feminine curves. possibly otherwise as well.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I just haven't bought jeans in literally years. And it shows.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate shopping for jeans. I wear ridiculously baggy jeans because that seems to be all that "fits."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I love my A|X jeans.

http://www.armaniexchange.com/category/id/100349.do

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

At any given time, I have about five pair of jeans that are either too baggy or too tight or otherwise wonky in some way, and one pair of jeans that are *perfect* that are beginning to get very worn.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

At any given time, I have about ~~five pair of jeans that are either too baggy or too tight or otherwise wonky in some way, and~~ one pair of jeans ~~that are *perfect* that are beginning to get very worn~~.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I am happier with my current jeans lineup than I have ever been. Even the H&M ones are working well.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

"ones" = I'm an idiot.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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