In the Pink
Friday, August 17, 2007
I liked that this man had gone for the pink socks to match his shirt. It just kinda made all the difference.
The shirt and shoes were both Burberry and the pants were…Dockers!
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I rally appreciate the shots of guys, Rachel, so keep it up. I like his socks. I’m thankful his shirt isn’t a button-down.
Unfortunately with this guy, those shoes ruin it. He looks “fine” otherwise, but those (corrected-grain?) black shoes look way off. Brown. Or even better brown suede. It also looks like he needs to chop about 2″ off those sleeves.
Did you chat with him much? I always get the impression that most guys just don’t own many pairs of shoes. This looks like he doesn’t have brown shoes and thought he try out his shiny black brogues with his casual outfit. Bad choice.
-rdhd
It does make all the difference. I can’t stand guys who wear the pink button down shirts– Happy Hour Steves are famous for this– but on this gentleman with the matching socks it actually looks classy and adoreable.
This man is the picture of perfection.
Just for clarification, a “button down” shirt refers to the collar, not the button front.
The button down is just…oh, I don’t know, everywhere. Very trad. It can look good, but seldom does.
-rdhd
Wow rdhd, now I know that women have nothing on men in criticizing strangers for should’a-rules.
It’s so rare that a guy in this town makes the effort at all without the self-appointed’s going all parochial on them.
The guy made the effort and paid attention to some of the details. Give him some props for it.
Sorry, but for me “making an effort” rates only above simply dressing appropriately.
The only thing I criticized are his shoes. I would have worn brown suede. I also said that I like his socks. I’ll add that his trousers look to be a nice shade of blue. How’s that?
His shoes still suck.
-rdhd
I agree with rdhd on this one — light pink begs for a brown complement, not a black one.
I prefer red, but then again, I have my reasons…
Y’know, rdhd, I don’t disagree with you, it’s the approach. I guess I’d focus on what he did right and leave the rest unsaid. For instance, (not) check where the sleeve meets the body of the shirt. The guy’s swimming in his shirt…
And here’s the deal. I’m on the train Friday, and I’m in work clothes which that day was a blue Sulka suit with BROWN shoes to match its tannish pinstrips, and the rest I guess was also put together because some guy comes up to me and asks if he can take a picture of what I’m wearing and I said absolutely not. Not because I didn’t agree with what he said about what I was wearing, but because I knew if it wound up on a place like this someone would have found something to criticize, and I didn’t want to deal with it if/when it got back to me.
Reading some comments here why would anyone?
Of course my girlfriend said later on he may have been just cruising me…
Picture of perfection?! Hmm did anyone see “Sling Blade”? This entire outfit looks like it came from wardrobe of that set.
You can never go wrong with pink and he looks fabulous. I would love to have coffee with him and his pink socks.
his sleeves are too long and poofy. his pants look really horrible, maybe its just his body shape, they could be more slim fitting for sure.
get your shirts and pants fitted and tailored properly!
and pink socks?! you gotta be kidding me..
I think it’s fair to say what you think works or doesn’t work about an outfit. It’s NOT ok to disparage the person–we don’t know anything about the people in the pics on this site. Personal attacks on strangers are not acceptable–and not fair, since the people you attack here cannot defend themselves.
The nasty comment business is rampant on the internet and no one has figured out 1) why people do it and 2) how to stop it.
As to this outfit, I don’t care for pink on men (or to excess on women), but it is cute that the socks and shirt match. It’s good to see a man trying to liven up his wardrobe within the constraints of looking presentable in this town.
a pink shirt & slick black shoes, i like it!