Are you well dressed? A PH gentleman thread.

[Integroo]

Blown2CV said:

can't believe someone is posting north face caps in a thread about being well dressed!!!

Being well dressed doesn't mean wearing tweed at all times. Nothing worse than some try hard in a flat cap.

[anonymous-user]

Integroo said:

Being well dressed doesn't mean wearing tweed at all times. Nothing worse than some try hard in a flat cap.

Well, someone in a North Face cap for a start.

[Blown2CV]

Integroo said:

Blown2CV said:

can't believe someone is posting north face caps in a thread about being well dressed!!!

Being well dressed doesn't mean wearing tweed at all times. Nothing worse than some try hard in a flat cap.

are you one of those "it's expensive so it must be stylish" people? You won't catch me defending flat caps but it's not really either/or.

[Antony Moxey]

A baseball cap is up there with trackies as the ultimate chav attire. It wouldn’t matter if it had a Gieves and Hawkes badge on it, it’s still, and always will be, chav. A flat cap isn’t necessarily chav, although I’d baulk at those overly large Peaky Blinders style caps.

[HannsG]

I would say so.

I have taken to sports jackets, chinos and shirt, sweater and a Mac.

Lot of layering, but works well in this weather.

Even going as far as having the pocket handkerchief sticking out.

I think my contractor mindset has set in now after a few years of this lark.

Nothing worse than suit trousers and a baggy shirt.

Outside of work, anything goes.

[DoubleSix]

Good sale on at Reiss at the moment.

Just ordered a black parker jacket for £115 (reduced from £400) and various woollen garms...

[LordGrover]

DoubleSix said:

Good sale on at Reiss at the moment.

Just ordered a black parker jacket for £115 (reduced from £400) and various woollen garms...

Looking at their blazers, some of the lapels are harking back to my youth... maybe I should check the loft.

[Integroo]

Blown2CV said:

are you one of those "it's expensive so it must be stylish" people? You won't catch me defending flat caps but it's not really either/or.

North Face caps aren't expensive? A Stone Island jacket is expensive and the ultimate chav attire.

[tertius]

Antony Moxey said:

A baseball cap is up there with trackies as the ultimate chav attire. It wouldn’t matter if it had a Gieves and Hawkes badge on it, it’s still, and always will be, chav. A flat cap isn’t necessarily chav, although I’d baulk at those overly large Peaky Blinders style caps.

I have a Lock & Co baseball cap which I rather like; though looking on their website today I have to say mine was MUCH cheaper than the ones they are selling now!

[DoubleSix]

LordGrover said:

DoubleSix said:

Good sale on at Reiss at the moment.

Just ordered a black parker jacket for £115 (reduced from £400) and various woollen garms...

Looking at their blazers, some of the lapels are harking back to my youth... maybe I should check the loft.

Indeed. Those are some mighty lapels!

[Integroo]

Spot the £160 hat suitable for a well dressed man, and the £18 hat suitable only for a chav.



Hard, isn't it?

[anonymous-user]

Integroo said:

Spot the £160 hat suitable for a well dressed man, and the £18 hat suitable only for a chav.

Hard, isn't it?

It really isn't.

Somewhere in cyberspace induction roar is having a seizure.

[Integroo]

desolate said:

It really isn't.

Somewhere in cyberspace induction roar is having a seizure.

They look almost exactly the same.

I don't know what you mean by that last sentence.

[Antony Moxey]

Integroo said:

desolate said:

It really isn't.

Somewhere in cyberspace induction roar is having a seizure.

They look almost exactly the same.

I don't know what you mean by that last sentence.

They do look almost exactly the same, and both the staple attire of a tracksuit wearer. Cost and label are irrelevant, baseball caps are for chavs and baseball players.

[anonymous-user]

Integroo said:

They look almost exactly the same.

I don't know what you mean by that last sentence.

Induction Roar is the OP

In the context of this particular thread baseball caps and well dressed are mutually exclusive.

In summary: "There are few more distressing sights than an Englishman in a baseball cap."

[Budflicker]

Integroo said:

Spot the £160 hat suitable for a well dressed man, and the £18 hat suitable only for a chav.



Hard, isn't it?

Mickey Carroll would like his hats back when you have finished with them.

He is over on the council thread where these belong.

[Integroo]

Antony Moxey said:

They do look almost exactly the same, and both the staple attire of a tracksuit wearer. Cost and label are irrelevant, baseball caps are for chavs and baseball players.

Well we can agree to disagree and I won't clog up this thread with more argument. I think it is quite narrow minded to say that a baseball cap has no place in anyone other than a chav's wardrobe. I'd rather wear a baseball cap with the roof down than look like a try hard with a flat cap.

[thismonkeyhere]

Antony Moxey said:

A baseball cap is up there with trackies as the ultimate chav attire. It wouldn’t matter if it had a Gieves and Hawkes badge on it, it’s still, and always will be, chav.

Crikey. Slightly inflexible viewpoint.

Surely, like most things, it depends how, when and where you are wearing it?

[Antony Moxey]

Integroo said:

Antony Moxey said:

They do look almost exactly the same, and both the staple attire of a tracksuit wearer. Cost and label are irrelevant, baseball caps are for chavs and baseball players.

Well we can agree to disagree and I won't clog up this thread with more argument. I think it is quite narrow minded to say that a baseball cap has no place in anyone other than a chav's wardrobe. I'd rather wear a baseball cap with the roof down than look like a try hard with a flat cap.

Flat cap or baseball cap isn’t an either/or choice, and you can easily wear a flat cap without ‘trying hard’ (whatever that’s supposed to mean). As an aside, why do you need to wear any head attire at all when driving with the roof down? When I drive my kit car all I wear on my head are a pair of wraparounds, or maybe a crash helmet if I venture onto a motorway (it is a bit low and doesn’t have a windscreen).

[Integroo]

Antony Moxey said:

Flat cap or baseball cap isn’t an either/or choice, and you can easily wear a flat cap without ‘trying hard’ (whatever that’s supposed to mean). As an aside, why do you need to wear any head attire at all when driving with the roof down? When I drive my kit car all I wear on my head are a pair of wraparounds, or maybe a crash helmet if I venture onto a motorway (it is a bit low and doesn’t have a windscreen).

To keep the wind off my head and the sun out of my eyes?