cptruggedI think it has something to do with free will.Registered Userregular
edited March 2014
I get one new suit maybe once a decade at this point. The damn things are just too expensive. Oh and I didn't mind wearing it. The Brooks Brothers one I got in 2001 that was tailored had the most comfortable pants I owned ever. But, between work and my lifestyle, there was just no time to really wear it outside of special occasions. And funny enough, for me its not the suits that I mind as a garment. I just tend to dislike "dress up" occasions and places. Snazzy restraunts with low lighting where people speak quitely drive me nuts and no one likes funerals. So the unfortunately, suits simply have an association with me with things that I don't enjoy.
But I also have zero sense of fashion so that probably doesn't help either.
i find ties very difficult to match as a colourblind so i often don't wear them, even though i like them
you probably just need to work out a system of what you buy.
i assume you are red-green colorblind. both actually work with charcoal suits and slightly less so navy. if you stick with white shirts you can wear either color tie. if you want to wear blue shirts you should probably make sure your ties are red and not green.
i have trouble with red and green, but in general i see far fewer shades and have trouble differentiating similar colours (or find colours similar when other people see them as starkly different, even vividly contrasting colours)
beige and light green look almost identical to me when they're not highly saturated, for example.
I have a navy suit, light grey suit, and black suit. i have yet to find a decent charcoal one while shopping, but i might actually get one made since charcoal is one of the most widely applicable colours. most of my ties are some variety of blue, because blue is easiest for me.
i realized the other day that i am almost always wearing some combination of earth tones - rich browns, tans, olives, etc - and blues, and occasionally red, because those contrasts are very pleasing to me and i can, like, actually see them
hmm it sounds like you have already given it some thought. can you easily distinguish between navy and charcoal? (this is even hard for people with good vision in low light)
i have a couple tan/ brown suits and i love them but brown/ tan is a pretty casual suit color. most dudes don't have much use for a casual suit these days so ymmv on that.
i guess i'd recommend finding a few color combinations that you can actually see and sticking to those. like, your khaki + red and khaki + blue are solid combinations. for suiting you actually won't run into too many problems with navy/ charcoal + the colors you like. it would get tricky if you were trying to do something with like green or red suits but those barely even exist.
the most important thing in matching is to not approximate colors too much - navy + black looks terrible because the colors are not sufficiently distinct. as long as you can perceive chroma value - basically lightness/ darkness - and otherwise know that you don't have like yellow or pink shirts in your wardrobe you should be golden.
So, Project S***box, where to begin. Basically a friend crashed his 106 GTi when drunk, and I decided it would be amusing to stick the engine in my AX. Not an AX GTi, but a base model with steel wheels and no body kit. Oh, and faded red paintwork. I mean properly matt finish from too many years of sitting in the sun. No rust at all, solid as a rock, just faded paint. She looks like a rotter, but is solid, and comfortably keeps up with Civic Type Rs, Clio 197s, etc. etc. This always puts a smile on my face and an expression of bewilderment on their's.
Anyway, engine and gearbox are 106 GTi, as is the entire front suspension assembly. It has 306 GTI6 discs and calipers and 106 GTi master cylinder. Exhaust is 106 GTi manifold and downpipe, with AX GT centre and rear section. Rear axle is 106 Quicksilver (I didn't think the hassle of messing about with discs at the rear was worth it). She also sports a lovely pair of fake side exit exhausts on the front bumper, which never fails to generate questions from most people.
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
2:00 pm: tech arrived. Plugged the Ethernet cable into my phone and says "this might be the problem". It was not
2:05: tech says "what the hell is wrong with this thing?" I go and have a cigarette
2:15: return to my office. Tech is gone. Laptop is gone. There is no note. I am back in detention mode.
Suitsupply is great in general. Some of their stuff is pretty daring and I don't like their new thing for super peaked lapels but their conservative stuff is fine. They tend to hem their pants shorter which was a trend for a bit but some people really don't like that.
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Suitsupply is great in general. Some of their stuff is pretty daring and I don't like their new thing for super peaked lapels but their conservative stuff is fine. They tend to hem their pants shorter which was a trend for a bit but some people really don't like that.
we had to put ~$500 into sarah's car a few weeks ago I was kinda mad like we should just sell this!
but it's paid off so it's nice to not have that second car payment and I guess we do need something a little bigger for babx2
I want her to get one of those 4-door wranglers but wranglers never drop in price ever
original MSRP is just what you will pay for one with 100k mi sorry fuk u gg
skippydumptruck on
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
I still cringe every time I think a year or two back when I was first thinking about getting a suit and I kept trying to find this god damned Bespoke brand everyone was talking about.
So, Project S***box, where to begin. Basically a friend crashed his 106 GTi when drunk, and I decided it would be amusing to stick the engine in my AX. Not an AX GTi, but a base model with steel wheels and no body kit. Oh, and faded red paintwork. I mean properly matt finish from too many years of sitting in the sun. No rust at all, solid as a rock, just faded paint. She looks like a rotter, but is solid, and comfortably keeps up with Civic Type Rs, Clio 197s, etc. etc. This always puts a smile on my face and an expression of bewilderment on their's.
Anyway, engine and gearbox are 106 GTi, as is the entire front suspension assembly. It has 306 GTI6 discs and calipers and 106 GTi master cylinder. Exhaust is 106 GTi manifold and downpipe, with AX GT centre and rear section. Rear axle is 106 Quicksilver (I didn't think the hassle of messing about with discs at the rear was worth it). She also sports a lovely pair of fake side exit exhausts on the front bumper, which never fails to generate questions from most people.
Haha. Reminds me of a guy I used to know. He had a shitty-looking, beat-up, rusted Golf. He and my other acquaintance put a GTI engine in it as practice along with a bunch of other performance mods. I don't remember the specs, I just remember that it was fast but looked like junk. They'd take it to track days and get a good laugh out of peoples' reactions.
Feral on
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I get one new suit maybe once a decade at this point. The damn things are just too expensive. Oh and I didn't mind wearing it. The Brooks Brothers one I got in 2001 that was tailored had the most comfortable pants I owned ever. But, between work and my lifestyle, there was just no time to really wear it outside of special occasions. And funny enough, for me its not the suits that I mind as a garment. I just tend to dislike "dress up" occasions and places. Snazzy restraunts with low lighting where people speak quitely drive me nuts and no one likes funerals. So the unfortunately, suits simply have an association with me with things that I don't enjoy.
But I also have zero sense of fashion so that probably doesn't help either.
Snazzy? yes please
Snazzy restaurant? Even better
Snazzy restaurant with low lighting? what other sort of lighting would you want? This is great!
people speaking quietly in a snazzy restaurant with low lighting? this sounds perfect!
2:00 pm: tech arrived. Plugged the Ethernet cable into my phone and says "this might be the problem". It was not
2:05: tech says "what the hell is wrong with this thing?" I go and have a cigarette
2:15: return to my office. Tech is gone. Laptop is gone. There is no note. I am back in detention mode.
Dell laptop?
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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cptruggedI think it has something to do with free will.Registered Userregular
I will say that I'm very very glad that "business casual" is the standard now. It almost pained me to look at old newsletters from our company from the 80s with dudes digging around in server rooms wearing an 80s power tie.
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GonmunHe keeps kickin' me inthe dickRegistered Userregular
2:00 pm: tech arrived. Plugged the Ethernet cable into my phone and says "this might be the problem". It was not
2:05: tech says "what the hell is wrong with this thing?" I go and have a cigarette
2:15: return to my office. Tech is gone. Laptop is gone. There is no note. I am back in detention mode.
How the fuck would plugging it into the phone fix the damn problem? O_o
VoIP phones usually have pass-through for your desk computer.
I understand that but did he think that Dee's comp was plugged into a bad jack previously? If that was the case then wouldn't he have seen something other then not being able to authenticate on the network?
I still cringe every time I think a year or two back when I was first thinking about getting a suit and I kept trying to find this god damned Bespoke brand everyone was talking about.
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
I still cringe every time I think a year or two back when I was first thinking about getting a suit and I kept trying to find this god damned Bespoke brand everyone was talking about.
Wait, is this a bit?
Nope. I genuinely thought Bespoke was a namebrand.
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
I don't see how OFA using the gadsden flag is any more offensive than the tea party using it.
EDIT: Honestly I think it kind of drives home a point about what is freedom in the modern word. Liberty, or security?
Aioua on
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
the gadsten flag was already a bullshit appropriation by the tea party people
they don't own it
so basically fuck em
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
you bleeding-heart conservatives, always getting offended by something.
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But I also have zero sense of fashion so that probably doesn't help either.
I blame irond will mostly
hmm it sounds like you have already given it some thought. can you easily distinguish between navy and charcoal? (this is even hard for people with good vision in low light)
i have a couple tan/ brown suits and i love them but brown/ tan is a pretty casual suit color. most dudes don't have much use for a casual suit these days so ymmv on that.
i guess i'd recommend finding a few color combinations that you can actually see and sticking to those. like, your khaki + red and khaki + blue are solid combinations. for suiting you actually won't run into too many problems with navy/ charcoal + the colors you like. it would get tricky if you were trying to do something with like green or red suits but those barely even exist.
the most important thing in matching is to not approximate colors too much - navy + black looks terrible because the colors are not sufficiently distinct. as long as you can perceive chroma value - basically lightness/ darkness - and otherwise know that you don't have like yellow or pink shirts in your wardrobe you should be golden.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/citroen/ax/106-gti-powered-ax-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing/1984351
2:05: tech says "what the hell is wrong with this thing?" I go and have a cigarette
2:15: return to my office. Tech is gone. Laptop is gone. There is no note. I am back in detention mode.
desk
Did he hack your account?
Skup
Edit: ._.
Edit 2: I own one pair of black jeans but they feel too lose now
Like dad jeans
i think that @eddy or maybe @Casual Eddy or @Shazkar Shadowstorm might have bought from them. i haven't.
Suit privilege all ins eh?
How the fuck would plugging it into the phone fix the damn problem? O_o
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Burnt crimson
Go bold and make an impression
VoIP phones usually have pass-through for your desk computer.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Taking notes furiously, nodding
Just no good way to respond to that. Other than "sure" I guess but even that seems really boring after the 10th or 20th time that day
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but it's paid off so it's nice to not have that second car payment and I guess we do need something a little bigger for babx2
I want her to get one of those 4-door wranglers but wranglers never drop in price ever
original MSRP is just what you will pay for one with 100k mi sorry fuk u gg
Haha. Reminds me of a guy I used to know. He had a shitty-looking, beat-up, rusted Golf. He and my other acquaintance put a GTI engine in it as practice along with a bunch of other performance mods. I don't remember the specs, I just remember that it was fast but looked like junk. They'd take it to track days and get a good laugh out of peoples' reactions.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
desk/eddy/will
Snazzy? yes please
Snazzy restaurant? Even better
Snazzy restaurant with low lighting? what other sort of lighting would you want? This is great!
people speaking quietly in a snazzy restaurant with low lighting? this sounds perfect!
... drives me nuts?
wat
You are a broken man.
Dell laptop?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I understand that but did he think that Dee's comp was plugged into a bad jack previously? If that was the case then wouldn't he have seen something other then not being able to authenticate on the network?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
it's been two days of sun, was worried about drought
Wait, is this a bit?
OFA made that?
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
Nope. I genuinely thought Bespoke was a namebrand.
I don't see how OFA using the gadsden flag is any more offensive than the tea party using it.
EDIT: Honestly I think it kind of drives home a point about what is freedom in the modern word. Liberty, or security?
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
you guys have no idea
i need to find a similar value but of a higher quality somewhere because this ish is atrocious but poooorrrrr
the gadsten flag was already a bullshit appropriation by the tea party people
they don't own it
so basically fuck em
y
are you a wizard?
you bleeding-heart conservatives, always getting offended by something.