Ya know what really grinds my gears

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about the same as mine, but my front lip drops lower, and the sides of the hat are creased slightly, same bow ( no bow on my leather hat) and its "thinner" instead of so thick looking.and its black like fucking black! in fact most of my clothes are black, and my dishes, cups, coffee pot, towels, any fucking thing I can buy in black I have, black is my favorite lack of color.

Is it just a classic Fedora? I'm also one of the Montecristi hat wearing fuckers in the heat of summer when I'm at the dances.

It's a good thing you've never seen me dressed up, Scotty. With your unrealistically high standards, you might find something wrong, even though I'm careful to make sure there is a good contrast between the patterns and as many colours as possible of my tie and shirt. And I don't know that my belt and shoes will always match, since there is a different belt in my good trousers and my jeans (one is black and one brown), but I only have one pair of shoes (blue).

Someone did once suggest at work that I was a little dressed down, but I pointed out that I was wearing underpants.

fuck jesus! praise some pussy, ya got it! fuck beans I could not come up with that name! Fedor no 1, but mine is wool and black and I had to have the band made for it cause it had fucking gray shit on it and I wanted black, had to have the fucks take one of the black ones they put on the gray hats and put it on my black hat that normally had grey on it.They did not want to do it, but when some asshole is buying a hat for 70 bucks (I can not imagine alot of those hats get sold, I go for months with out running into anyone wearing one aside from me)and ya want the money, you tend to shut up and not bitch about how black on black does not show up well and just do what it takes to make the sale.

fuck though I am eying that Manhattan and the Cagney... I may need one of if not both of them, if I can get them in BLACK

The link I gave you is a custom hatter. They'll do whatever you want.

I would go for a Montecristi, if I could find one I liked, I like smaller-ish brims and i hate straw hats. leather or felt or wool, or in the case of what I wear hiking and packing, canvas! a roll up hat with the loops on it to keep smokes or a pill bottle with a couple of joints in it tucked away but close at hand, preferably black, or olive or off white.

Now see, I never, ever, wear those. Not in slacks, not in sweats or shorts or cargo or levis would I ever wear those. I have not had a pair on since jr high. its been well over 20 years since I went commando, I got no plans to ever go back to wearing those intolerable fuckers that only make one more pile of clothes to wash and clothes to buy but add nothing to the experience of wearing them.boo and hiss on fucking underwear.

Pete, Pete, Pete... there's nothing unrealistic about my standards. It's just a matter of putting little thought into what we put on and not just picking up whatever we may grab in the closet. Give it a little thought for a couple weeks and it's second nature after that.

Now I am gonna tell ya to go spend a hundred buck and by some decent leather shoes and belt that'll go with 'em. If your not wearing 'em everyday it doesn't have to be the best or most comfortable or long lasting. Remember it's about style and being put together not perfection or three piece button down.

For myself I never wear anything other than jeans. But I wear 'em with fine Italian leather shoes a nice thin belt and dress shirt with french cuffs. Cuff links go long way to dressing up any look... something I forgot to mention in my original rant. Then I usually wear a vest of some kind, generally wool window pane and a complementary three button solid, or suede, or micro-corduroy, sport jacket with a pocket square folded to give me four peaks. (Pattern pocket squares are more daring and add a greater air of confidence in your dress than do solid.)

In my profession I don't need to ware a three piece suit but clients expect to see someone with a bit of style about them. That's what this is all about. For good or for ill, how you present yourself does matter. For some it doesn't matter and that's fine, save funeral attire, but for those that it does matter the fuckers need to know how to dress and a shit load of 'em don't.

I agree with ya there Chance. Commando is the only way to go. Unless it's really fuckin hot then I want something to catch the ass-sweat before it bleeds through the fabric of my jeans.

In summer I am nearly always wearing cargo shorts, if not then its shorts of some kind. Even to work all last summer I wore shorts, be it under coveralls, and then it was a pair of shorts, no shirt and socks and leather steel toed boots with a hard hat and safety glasses.
Working around the house on construction I keep the glasses but wear a bandanna, the shorts, tennis shoes and a tool belt :laughing:
in fact working or not that pretty much the normal wear for me dily in summer, but if I go to the store, I do put on a t-shirt, normally something offensive.
I have a white one that in red and orange dots on to pf green dots it says "Fuck the color blind", thats one I like to wear around town.

When I'm just around the house or fucking off it's shorts only. When I'm not dressed up I look like a fuckin' bum. As can be proven by my Facebook pic.

funny.where I was working, some of my coworkers took teh time to permenantly apply the word HOBO to my locker in the shower room.I walked out all summer in shorts, no sandles. as of winter it was hoody, one of many trench coats and a pair of sweats and some duck boots. If onyl they cod see me now with 4 days growth...wait I got laid off friday afternoon, had shaved friday morning before work, so its actually more like 6 1/2 days growth. but I am comfy, and this had been the first winter of no beard since 99, I had grown used to the beard, fuck its good to not shave daily! maybe I do not want that job back! I like the beard, I like dressing like a fucking hobo. I did like that I got paid to shower each day before I went home, but then for some odd reason, there was never hot water after winter hit, there is nothing worse than getting sweaty, stinky and contaminated and then goign to take a cold shower and walk to your truck 300 years off in a fucking blizzard with wet hair

I may not agree with every single sartorial point you made, but I def agree with the essence of what you're saying. I think it boils down to 2 unfortunate trends:1. a serious lack of professionalism2. adult males who refuse to stop being college boys and start being men(and you'll be happy to know that there are several items in my closet that I would love to wear but won't because I've lost my nice black belt.)

"I may not agree with every single sartorial point you made, but I def agree with the essence of what you're saying."But, but... I'm right. >>>"I think it boils down to 2 unfortunate trends:1. a serious lack of professionalism2. adult males who refuse to stop being college boys and start being men" I couldn't agree more. "Business Causal" has gone a long way to bring down the quality of a mens' dress. And like I said before, for good or for ill how your present yourself does matter. A client, a patient, a shopper, a mark, they all want to deal with someone who's not only knowledgeable but represents the best of what it is they're buying. You sell yourself then the product or service. That's just the way it is.Here's a link for you damien. While I certainly don't agree with a lot of shit the claim or say a man should do or be and most certainly don't agree with what they say defines manliness or what manliness is limited to, they do have some good grooming tips and things that a man should consider in how he conducts himself. Here's another less narrow minded site. Though I find some of their fashion tips to be a little of the mark on a few things.

I am not a college boy, but I refuse to ever grow the fuck up...at least all the way!I dress for comfort, thats it, comfort and function. I do nto work professional jobs, I do construction, if I worked in a office I would have to wear the other shit, as it is for the most part, my work clothes are the same as my play clothes, well outside of wearing shirts that say fuck out and since your already this close why dont you just suck my dick, can not wear those to work!

Chance, I'm disappointed. I was in such hopes that this little bitch session of mine would insult more and therefore elicit more vitriol responses from everybody. Alas you, damien and Pete are the only assholes who have anything to say about it. So, in a state of equanimity and being mindful of equality, I shall now turn my criticisms on the fairer gender and their less than becoming attire.I shall keep this rant short however, but hopefully no less insulting to everyones sense of decorum. I am sick of seeing women, girls, hags whatever the fuck you want to call 'em going to the grocery store or quick trip or even the mall wearing PJs, a shitty t-shirt and ugly ass dirty freakin' Crocks. Have a little fuckin' self respect ladies you look like shit and when your dressed like that seem to act like shit as well. You don't look like your basking in leisure. You fuckin' look dirty and unwashed. All I can think when I see some girl in such a get up, with her hair balled up on top her head is that she looks dirty, unwashed and smelly... not to mention disgruntle which is the way most girls dressed in such a manner act. I haven't figured out the fuckin' correlation other than to assume people feel like shit when the look like shit and so act like shit. Clean it up ladies you don't look cute in such thrown on shit. You look like you stink. I'm not trying to educe any reaction. I'm just stating what I and I know others think. You may very well smell like flowers and honey but when you look like that at the quick trip you look like you smell and don't give a shit about anything.Now I'm not saying you have to be dressed to the nines to walk around the mall or go to the store but save the fuckin' PJs for sleeping and laying around the house. Beyond that when the get to looking funky, regardless of how they may smell, toss 'em and get new shit it doesn't cost that much. Take a little fuckin' pride in yourself... Jesus... All I'm askin' is that you throw on something that doesn't make people think that "I bet she smells."Strive to be something a little better than the fuckin' least of your mettle. Women who wear PJs in public with crocks and waded up hair... that's yet another thing that really grind my gears.

atleast the days of seeing them in curlers and fucking cream at the store are MOSTLY gone!I am happy to say Julie will never do that!to go to the coffee shop and drive through the fucking thing and get coffee, she has to take a shower and do her hair first!The only time she ever wore PJs in public was to work this last year.For the record she got up showered did hair and shit then put on CLEAN Pj's and went to work, took off her shoes then put on her slippers, all this under a knee length coat.WHy wold she you ask?eh, it was fucking Halloween, and all employees had been instructed that they would appear in costume at work.Why? I have no fucking idea, very few people come to the building to see anyone, its a fucking phone and internet company for fuck sakes.

Yeah, but the get to see each other. I wouldn't mind seeing some of the ladies in what they wear to bed... but some of the others... never mind.

Originally Posted By: OldFolksHere's a link for you damien. Wow, thanks a gadzillion for this link. I eat this kind of stuff up! I bookmarked it for when I'm at home, not wasting time at work.