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Depressing lack of dress sense.

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
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    It is a bit peculiar to see men in their thirties and forties dressed in hoodies and the like, I also think it is rude not to go to a wedding or a funeral appropriately dressed. I will probably be shot down for this but I think the Marks and Spencer
    Collezione range gets the balance between smart and wearable right for men.

    http://www.marksandspencer.com/l/men/collezione.


  • #33
    FunLover18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Jesus OP, what were you wearing yourself on this jaunt around Dublin. I've checked all the fashion rags and sites haven't seen any stories about the mysterious man walking around town like he just stepped out of a [insert Brand OP admires] catalogue.

    How long are you back from your travels, I hope you gave the Luas workers enough time to make sure the new line can get around your sense of superiority.


  • #34
    CPSW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭CPSW


    "Fashion comes and goes, but style stays around forever"
    The OP must live by this code! :P


  • #35
    Austria!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭Austria!


    I try not to get too down about what other people wear, though it's hard sometimes. I'll see a man in a suit and he's obviously going to a funeral, or was not smart enough to get a job where his intelligence is so valued that he can wear what he likes. Either way, very sad.


  • #36
    IamMetaldave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭IamMetaldave


    I'm 35. I am a well traveled man. I do "important" business. I wear blue suits. I wear grey suits.
    I wear bootcut jeans. I wear skate shoes. I wear hoodies. I wear Metallica tshirts.
    I look awesome. Always.
    Worry about yourself OP, the rest of us will look after ourselves.

    https://www.instagram.com/iammetaldave/



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  • #37
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I'm wearing a banana hammock, where does this leave me?


  • #38
    fizzypish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭fizzypish


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    I'm wearing a banana hammock, where does this leave me?
    Cold


  • #39
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    fizzypish wrote: »
    Cold

    Indoors, obviously!

    When I'm heading out I'll throw on a full length sheepskin coat over it.


  • #40
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    The Dutch are the worst dressed people in Europe if not the world. Dirty jeans, filthy trainers, scraggly unkempt hair, ill-fitting manky jackets. And that's the girls.


  • #41
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    It is a credit to Irish men that they generally avoid following the fickle world of fashion.


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  • #42
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    At the moment I'm wearing brown Engineer's boots with plenty of steel in them, cream slacks, a white brown-pinstriped Polo shirt and a brown leather waistcoat. It's a surprisingly pleasing mix of Office Dork and Hell's Angels. When women attempt to dress me I end up looking like some sad ape who's trying to look like a skinny 22-year-old craft beer fan. I am freshly clean-shaven and sporting a tidy Jarhead.


  • #43
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    OP, you have little to be worrying you! I envy that, in a way.


  • #44
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Bootcut jeans? It's more the skinny variety you see commonly around Dublin.


  • #45
    Mac-Chops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Mac-Chops


    ElChe32 wrote: »
    Any time I go shopping for jeans its a fecking struggle to get a decent fitting pair (32 waist and leg) Skinny and super skinny are the majority on the racks, when I do find some bootcut they are usually cut to shít.

    How do lads even get into skinny jeans? Do they come with some kind of lubricant?

    I wondered the same myself recently.

    After coming back here after living in London for a few years, it is like stepping back in time to some degree. This can be applied to most things in this country though so it makes sense.

    Each to their own of course!


  • #46
    elefant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭elefant


    Completely agree. Taking a look around you in an Irish late-bar or nightclub is an absolute eye-opener. The amount of terrible shirts and jeans on show is horrendous.

    And it's not that they're not making an effort; if you want to dress comfortably and don't gaf that's fair enough. It's that they are making an effort, and they actually went to town and decided those J-Star jeans and Jack Jones shirt were the best choices they could make to look well on a night out with friends.

    Strangely, then, Irish men will actually get a ribbing for wearing something adventurous, dressing to suit their bodies or putting effort into their hair. There's just such a proclivity towards the safe and awful.


  • #47
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    elefant wrote: »
    Completely agree. Taking a look around you in an Irish late-bar or nightclub is an absolute eye-opener. The amount of terrible shirts and jeans on show is horrendous.

    And it's not that they're not making an effort; if you want to dress comfortably and don't gaf that's fair enough. It's that they are making an effort, and they actually went to town and decided those J-Star jeans and Jack Jones shirt were the best choices they could make to look well on a night out with friends.

    Strangely, then, Irish men will actually get a ribbing for wearing something adventurous, dressing to suit their bodies or putting effort into their hair. There's just such a proclivity towards the safe and awful.

    Post up a picture there of what you wear when out for the night there trout til we have a look and see where we are going wrong!

    You can block out your face or whatever, cheers!


  • #48
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    kfallon wrote: »
    Post up a picture there of what you wear when out for the night there trout til we have a look and see where we are going wrong!

    You can block out your face or whatever, cheers!

    Here's me anyway. I blocked my face out.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    IamMetaldave wrote: »
    I'm 35. I am a well traveled man. I do "important" business. I wear blue suits. I wear grey suits.

    Grey and blue are fine for work or business...just dark grey...and very very dark blue.

    Light grey or light blue? No. Someone confusing a summer wedding with business. It would be like wearing a linen suit to work. It's just the wrong setting.


  • #50
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    The only decision I make in the morning when deciding what to wear is what obscure band t-shirt to pick.

    Am I feeling doom metal or post-rock today?

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #51
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #52
    Wanderer78
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    GLaDOS wrote: »
    The only decision I make in the morning when deciding what to wear is what obscure band t-shirt to pick.

    Am I feeling doom metal or post-rock today?

    crowbar it is then


  • #53
    Pac1Man
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    What is the definition of a 'bad' shirt?

    I hear that term a lot.


  • #54
    Winterlong
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    Pac1Man wrote: »
    What is the definition of a 'bad' shirt?

    I hear that term a lot.

    Any shirt that is not tucked in.


  • #55
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #56
    whiskeyman
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    AH is a better place with AvB.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    Pac1Man wrote: »
    What is the definition of a 'bad' shirt?

    I hear that term a lot.

    Any shirt where you can see through, the chest hair underneath, the vest (Jesus, a vest...awful). Just not up to scratch. Once it's opaque enough to prevent that, and is obviously not some dazzling bright thing, it should be fine. And then you just have bad sized shirts, people clinging to that oversized look from years back etc.


  • #58
    kirk buttercup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭kirk buttercup


    Find it funny that Irish men are getting a lash here. some men are fashionable some aren't in Ireland simple as that,sure our European brothers look far more stylish in certain parts of Europe London , Paris , Milan , Rome etc. however in some parts of Europe they aren't as fashionable (don't want to insult anyone so wont name them). I think fashion in Ireland in both men and women's is pretty mid table, lets be honest Ladies fashion in Ireland is a level or two below the cities I have just mentioned as well. the part I find funny is the dig at normal blokes who probably don't give a monkeys while some people dress like they are a character out of sex and the city and think they are fashionable drinking Cocktails in their River Island dress GET OVER YOURSELF! some of the coolest looking people I have met do not buy into any of this rubbish Male or Female.


  • #59
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    HensVassal wrote: »
    The Dutch are the worst dressed people in Europe if not the world. Dirty jeans, filthy trainers, scraggly unkempt hair, ill-fitting manky jackets. And that's the girls.

    The last few times I was over there I thought they looked a lot better than us. The only time I saw anyone in a tracksuit they were actually running.


  • #60
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I have a hot press full of jeans and tshirts. I select them at random when I need to. Fashion is a pointless distraction, a leftover from caveman days when people would wear dead animals on their heads as status symbols. Same for jewelry, I don't need to display my wealth, I'm not a peacock.


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  • #61
    Minderbinder
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    kirk buttercup wrote: »
    Find it funny that Irish men are getting a lash here. some men are fashionable some aren't in Ireland simple as that,sure our European brothers look far more stylish in certain parts of Europe London , Paris , Milan , Rome etc. however in some parts of Europe they aren't as fashionable (don't want to insult anyone so wont name them). I think fashion in Ireland in both men and women's is pretty mid table, lets be honest Ladies fashion in Ireland is a level or two below the cities I have just mentioned as well. the part I find funny is the dig at normal blokes who probably don't give a monkeys while some people dress like they are a character out of sex and the city and think they are fashionable drinking Cocktails in their River Island dress GET OVER YOURSELF! some of the coolest looking people I have met do not buy into any of this rubbish Male or Female.

    To be fair though there are many older men in this country, men who have all sorts of joint pains and other ailments, and they still wouldn't go outside the house without a shirt and a tie.

    I honestly don't know what happened my generation. I don't really care if it's a 200 shirt from Hugo Boss or a 5 shirt from Dunnes but if you're a grown adult going around in a t-shirt every day it just looks like you have given up on life. And there is that attitude of being proud of being ignorant in this country and it certainly applies in the case of appearance. Not even fashion because I don't really think fashion and appearance is the same. Just try to appear like you have a reason to live ffs!

    Even the goths and other groups put the effort in. They have their thing and fair play it's not for me but at least they care about their appearance.


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