Category Archive: Jackets

Prep as all eff

Prep as all eff

Green-tinted tortoise-shell glasses ($333) pink shirt, critter tie, a jacket fit for an old Italian man, and a early ’90s BMW. That’s living the life right there, right down to the braided leather key fob.

 

This is me in 10 years

This is me in 10 years

Somebody in the SNL wardrobe department has a crystal ball.

 

Khaki suit

Khaki suit

It’s more suited (har) for the summer, but what can I say? It looks good.

 

Perfect coordination

Perfect coordination

Every layer has a color that matches another layer.

 

Another Jack Kennedy outfit…

Another Jack Kennedy outfit…

… that’s just as available today as it was in the 60s.

 

East coast prep

East coast prep

by some of the greatest.

 

I love hidden color on clothes

I love hidden color on clothes

And this jacket has it under the lapel, which is nice. It also has almost a dozen pockets, which is pleasantly useful. Indochino, $349-$499.

 

A nice gray jacket

A nice gray jacket

I’m not 100 per cent sold on elbow patches as a sartorial genre, but this sportcoat has a very nice contrast collar and military-inspired front patch pockets, and that sells it.

 

Vintage collar

Vintage collar

Alain Delon and Jane Fonda

 

Killer look

Killer look

I’m not 100% sold on the flared chinos, but I won’t argue with someone who has a degree in pogonology from the Professor Badass Graduate School of Sartorialism.

 

Eurocrat, with a twist

Eurocrat, with a twist

Yes, that’s a knit tie! I don’t think you’d see one of those on the 10th floor of the Berlaymont.

 

It’s a little long for a peacoat…

It’s a little long for a peacoat…

… but my fellow Hoosier had the right idea.

 

Smoking kills

Smoking kills

But this outfit is a killer.

 

The only problem with women’s clothing inspired by men’s clothing…

The only problem with women’s clothing inspired by men’s clothing…

.. is that I want men’s clothing that is inspired by it.

 

Everything in this picture is rad

Everything in this picture is rad

When Wim Wenders visits the European Parliament, he puts on blue glasses, a matching sweater, a shirt with hidden color on the inside collar, and a jacket that looks like the carpet at the old Indianapolis airport.

 

Areas of my style expertise

Areas of my style expertise

John Hodgman, you are kind of annoying, but you sure do dress well when you’re not in a mac commercial.

 

Mark Ronson, can I be you?

Mark Ronson, can I be you?

Seriously, Version, or at least the songs that I heard from it, was such a classy idea, and now you’re shooting album cover pictures in Brooklyn wearing red pants?

 

Classics

Classics

If you didn’t immediately know their faces, there is nothing in this picture that would keep you from believing it could have been taken last …

 

Summer suits in Florence

Summer suits in Florence

It’s a little bit messy, but very classy. Also, is that a Finnish cockade on the lapel? Whatever it is, I like it.

 

A coat fit for an Italian gentleman

A coat fit for an Italian gentleman

Unfortunately for me, this nice Moleskin jacket only comes in sizes which fit an Italian gentleman.