“Something Wicked This Way Comes” is a horror movie based on a novel by Ray Bradbury, for those who don’t know.
What makes this ensemble particularly hideous to me is the fact that the items appear to be made from polyester or a polyester blend. The horror! The horror!
This blog changes from comedy to horror so quickly but I love it.
Those of us who studied Shakespeare rather than Bradbury at college recognize the reference as coming from Act IV, scene 1 of Macbeth:
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
Mr Boyer has a spalla camicia shoulder on his jacket, an excellent example
of the merging of Ivy and Neapolitan style so characteristic of the past decade or
so. Here’s an other example the similarity of styles on a participant at Pitti
who actually exhibits understated good taste at that menswear circus.
It just goes to show hoe utterly and mindlessly simple good taste is! Unexciting plain white shirt (though I am not in favor of that collar), simple neutral tie with a neat and small, simple knot, and jacket or suit with natural shoulders also in a simple weave and basic non-loud color. Understatement and simplicity are key. Flourishes can be nice, but discretion first and foremost.
And that older gentleman is supremely surprising as an attendant at that prurient posturing peacocks’ parade that is such a pity.
The classic summertime combo that’s received zero attention (here) is blue shirt, navy blazer, tie (repp or madras), penny loafers…and, most important, white–yes, WHITE–chinos. Great look.
The Pitti comment reminded me of something I saw maybe last year.
A ‘documentary’ with a Richard Attenborough-type narration.
Google “Pitti Peacocks” for funny take on Italian style !
Ouch.
…And the tie looks like a clip on.
Ouch though!
Beats National Seersucker Day.
Oh my!
“Something Wicked This Way Comes” is a horror movie based on a novel by Ray Bradbury, for those who don’t know.
What makes this ensemble particularly hideous to me is the fact that the items appear to be made from polyester or a polyester blend. The horror! The horror!
This blog changes from comedy to horror so quickly but I love it.
For those who need an antidote:
https://78.media.tumblr.com/ac2c1bfa9fcf4912f427cc8a6fd7a747/tumblr_pcqqya8MYp1qfbji5o1_1280.jpg
Also, I left out the fact that the pocket square is the same color as the bow tie and is too matchy-matchy.
Really, truly hideous. Like Medusa hideous.
Those of us who studied Shakespeare rather than Bradbury at college recognize the reference as coming from Act IV, scene 1 of Macbeth:
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
Well, you might do something in your skivvies if that was sprung suddenly on you, but I doubt it would be an orgasm.
Mr Boyer has a spalla camicia shoulder on his jacket, an excellent example
of the merging of Ivy and Neapolitan style so characteristic of the past decade or
so. Here’s an other example the similarity of styles on a participant at Pitti
who actually exhibits understated good taste at that menswear circus.
https://smhttp-ssl-39255.nexcesscdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Spread-collar-muted-herringbone-sportcoat-grey-woven-wool-or-cashmere-tie-note-the-spalla-camicia-which-looks-just-like-a-shirt-shoulder-and-the-drape-652×900.jpg
@Roger Sack:
It just goes to show hoe utterly and mindlessly simple good taste is! Unexciting plain white shirt (though I am not in favor of that collar), simple neutral tie with a neat and small, simple knot, and jacket or suit with natural shoulders also in a simple weave and basic non-loud color. Understatement and simplicity are key. Flourishes can be nice, but discretion first and foremost.
And that older gentleman is supremely surprising as an attendant at that prurient posturing peacocks’ parade that is such a pity.
The classic summertime combo that’s received zero attention (here) is blue shirt, navy blazer, tie (repp or madras), penny loafers…and, most important, white–yes, WHITE–chinos. Great look.
blue OCBD, that is.
The Pitti comment reminded me of something I saw maybe last year.
A ‘documentary’ with a Richard Attenborough-type narration.
Google “Pitti Peacocks” for funny take on Italian style !
If Coco the Clown were an alumnus of Dartford, that is what he would wear…
70s degeneration.
Herb Tarlik.
If its patterns you want its madras not patch work quilt. This is, as the previous posters have admirably indicated, hidious.