Thursday, July 06, 2006

Suit jacket and jeans

Good day faithful readers. I don't usually do requests, but an urgent plea came through to me from a friend begging me to explain the ins and outs of wearing a suit jacket as casual wear (ie. with jeans). What follows is just my opinion on the topic, so if you disagree and wish to provide your own opinions then please feel free to do so. BTW, I've now opened up my comments, so anyone, not just members are able to post.

The main variables as I see it when you're wearing a suit jacket with jeans are as follows:
- plain jacket or pinstriped jacket
- t-shirt or buttoned shirt
- dress shoes or trainers
- tucked or un-tucked

Plain or pinstriped jackets (side note: jackets should only ever be black, white or perhaps a brown sports coat if you want to go for the retro look - if you're a beginner stick with black) are both fine, so it's what you wear under them that makes the difference. A plain jacket can be worn with either a plain shirt or something with a bit of a pattern. Nothing too much though, you're try to make casual seem formal and something too outlandish will just bring you tumbling down. Pin striped jackets on the other hand should only ever be worn with a plain coloured shirt.

When you're wearing a t-shirt with a jacket it should always be either tight or at least slim fitting. It should definitely not be baggy. If you don't have the figure to pull it off then don't try it. If you're wearing a buttoned shirt it should ideally be long sleaved, and not just a business shirt, a nice casual shirt with the top one or two buttons left undone as well as the cuffs.

When you're wearing a t-shirt whether you go tucked or un-tucked depends on the shirt. If it's tight you should go tucked. If it's slim fit then you should go un-tucked. If you move on to baggy then you should tuck again, but then you should never be wearing a baggy t-shirt should you? With buttoned shirts you should probably always tuck, and you should try to be wearing a nice belt to show off. If you happen to take your jacket off however then you should un-tuck.

You can get away with wearing trainers with your outfit but usually they'd only be worn with a t-shirt, and you have to have the right ones. They should always be white, and we're not talking the type of trainers that you would ever actually do any sort of exercise in. To be safe just stick to dress shoes. Here again you have to have the right ones, but it's a bit easier. Just make sure you don't find yourself wearing those horrible round toe military type ones and you should be right. Additionally, black shoes go with black or white jacket, brown shoes go with brown or white jacket. You should always wear a belt and it should always match your shoes.

And that people, I think, is all that there is to it! If you would like me to offer comment on any other fashion issues then let me know. If you'd like to hear my comments on the current Paris fashion show, I've just finished looking at all the models from the Armani show... and their outfits!

35 Comments:

At 12:33 am, Blogger suelynanas said...

my rule is no sneakers if you're wearing a jacket. and never a short sleeved shirt under a jacket. yikes!

yes i agree, brown shoes with brown belt, black shoes with black belt. and none of that chunky skull and crossbones belt buckle either, for goodness sake! are you a pirate in disguise?

 
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