WIWT

[fauxshow]

Looking good, guys. Fauxshow, that will be hard to beat.

Here's my daughter wearing her princess dress, and me wearing the southern man's version of a princess dress: seersucker.

JCrew seersucker jacket
Merona shirt
navy linen pants
Stafford wingtips

Looks good. I wish I could pull off a seersucker jacket here in California. A tie, pocket square and shorts (not at the same time) is as far as I dare go.

Outstanding my good man, outstanding. I love it.

Thank you kind sir.

[Jake101]

Full outfit from my earlier post.

[fauxshow]

Nice dub monks! Mercanti or Magnanni's?

[Jake101]

Nice dub monks! Mercanti or Magnanni's?

Haha I guess that says something. They're the neumoras from AE, recent factory seconds sale

[Jackson]

Casual Day...
Shirt = H&M
Pants = J. Crew
Shoes = Clarks

Trying a proper sleeve roll for the first time, it's an experiment.

This is my first WIWT post, so any critiquing is welcome and encouraged.

[yoyorobbo]

Trying a proper sleeve roll for the first time, it's an experiment.

I'm not sure you actually completed the steps in that experiment. From what I'm seeing there in the pic, it looks like you "stopped short." (eh, bruschetta?.... eh? - if you're reading this, that is - LOL - sorry guys, Seinfeld crap again)

I'm not saying it's wrong or anything, for rolling up your sleeves like that - in fact that's the way they're rolled in seemingly every pic on J.Crew's website and in their catalog. But if you're talking about the method that Joe featured on the main page a while back, then I think you want to roll/fold that one more time, no?

Maybe it's your photo playing games with my eyes this early in the morning, but at least from what I'm seeing in the pic, it looks like you (1) flipped and (2) dragged, but you didn't finish with the (3) flip and lock in:



http://dappered.com/2010/12/how-to-r...-your-sleeves/

Regardless, the look you have here is very nice. Fit is solid, and the color scheme is classic. Looks good, brother!

[Jackson]

Thanks Yoyo! I appreciate the feedback, and your eyes are not playing tricks on you, it's definitely a bad roll. I've never been able to get a good roll, I like to tell myself it's difficult to get a quality roll with biceps and forearms this big, but alas I'm no longer believing my own lies. I definitely need more practice. There was a lock-in (step 3), but it's not nearly high enough. I'll keep trying as long as the weather allows it.

[yoyorobbo]

I've never been able to get a good roll, I like to tell myself it's difficult to get a quality roll with biceps and forearms this big, but alas I'm no longer believing my own lies.

LOL! All good, man. I too have some shirts that don't seem to like me rolling/folding the sleeves either. Some of them comply nicely; others seem to despise the thought. Ah well. Again, the look is solid, so no worries there. And your welcome for the feedback. That's partially what this thread is about. Well, that and a little showing off once in a while. LOL

[Manny De La Cruz]

Casual Day...
Shirt = H&M
Pants = J. Crew
Shoes = Clarks

Trying a proper sleeve roll for the first time, it's an experiment.

This is my first WIWT post, so any critiquing is welcome and encouraged.

The fit is very good and the colour combination is classic. Well done!

[Mikey]

Thanks Yoyo! I appreciate the feedback, and your eyes are not playing tricks on you, it's definitely a bad roll. I've never been able to get a good roll, I like to tell myself it's difficult to get a quality roll with biceps and forearms this big, but alas I'm no longer believing my own lies. I definitely need more practice. There was a lock-in (step 3), but it's not nearly high enough. I'll keep trying as long as the weather allows it.

For what it's worth, I have tiny (okay, not tiny, but I definitely build lean muscle over bulk and so my arms are pretty small) arms and sometimes the fabric of H&M shirts just makes it hard to get a good roll... that being said, the hardest part is lining up step two correctly; if you make sure that the cuff ends where you want it to, and the sleeve is two layers, both flat against your skin (as opposed to crumpled all over the place), the lock is a whole lot easier to do.

Although honestly, a big point of the "proper roll" is to look (and be) more effortless, otherwise you could just literally roll them up from the cuff and keep folding over, so I don't worry too much about having a perfect roll. I do tend to get a lot of compliments about "having the JCrew roll" or whatnot.

[BB]

Nice looks, gentlemen. Jake, killing it. I liked your polka dot tie, so I pulled one of mine out today.



TH suit
Calibrate shirt
JCrew tie
Thrifted (patent leather, boo) wingtips

[BB]

You know, I'm not sure these are patent leather. They're definitely a bit shiny and a bit slick, but they're not as glossy as I think patent leather is. Maybe these are just corrected grain? It says "genuine leather" on the tongue.

[yoyorobbo]

You know, I'm not sure these are patent leather. They're definitely a bit shiny and a bit slick, but they're not as glossy as I think patent leather is. Maybe these are just corrected grain? It says "genuine leather" on the tongue.

Maybe they're a rare early prototype of the new JCP Stafford "Kent."

Kidding. They look pretty darn nice in that ensemble, BB.

[BB]

Thanks Robbo. You know, they might be just that. I can't figure them out. It's possible that someone else couldn't figure them out too, which is how they ended up at Goodwill.

[BB]

Question for a shoe expert:

Sometimes I get obsessed about a question and can't focus on something else until I answer it, and figuring out where these shoes came from became my obsession... this shoe is a Johnston and Murphy (I can see that on the sole) and it has a distinctive brogue pattern (there's an extra looping thing in there), and I found it after some googling-- it's this: http://www.johnstonmurphy.com/produc...hoes&pid=38370

So, these are apparently "lustrous hand-polished uppers" made of calf skin. Does any shoe expert out there know what to do with this stuff? Polish as normal? It's a bit plastic-like. Will that go away over time? Or with some sort of special polish?