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Recently started complementing a casual look with sport coats, blazers, and pre-owned suit jackets. People seem to react as though I'm dressed in full business-formal and ask whether I'm on my way to or from work — even though aside from the coat I'm just wearing sneakers, jeans, and a tee-shirt. So I'm concerned that this "casual" outfit isn't seen as casual at all. Anyone else get this? Could it be the area where I live (sprawling suburbs & country around a small city)?

>> No.9919106

post a picture wearing 1 of your outfits

>> No.9919113

>>9919095
People have a weird concept that anything that looks like a sport coat = work clothing. It's wrong and bad.

That being said, it may look a bit too formal? We'd have to see the outfit. I suspect it may have to do with the "pre-owned suit jackets" bit - generally speaking, suit coats don't look good outside of their element.

I do think pairing a blazer with a t-shirt can be a bit too 2000, though.

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>>9919095
>>9919113
btw you should ignore anything "patrick bateman" posts

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9919274

unfortunately i can't seem to increase the detail on the black coat in this pic, and so in the jpg it looks like it could be a casual style coat, but it's actually a black suit jacket

>> No.9919277

>>9919274
oh god

>> No.9919284

>>9919277
I know, right?
>"wow anon, are you on your way to a wedding / corporate event / funeral?"

>> No.9919289

>>9919274
i'm going to sound like patrick bateman here, but

1) don't match black and brown until you develop an eye for what looks good
2) buy jeans that fit in a more uniform wash (search "how jeans should fit" for some wikihows and things)
3) consider lurking and investing in nicer clothing

>> No.9919295

>>9919289
>>9919284
>>9919274
like for example, those boots look like what a construction worker would wear.... that and a sports jacket?!

there are many nice leather boots you can buy and they're not even expensive

>> No.9919309

>>9919095
>pre-owned suit jackets.
Very bad idea. Casual jackets call for rougher textures than suit jackets. Usually tweed or flannel for sportcoats (i.e. jackets you'd feel unconcerned with a shaggy dog jumping on, jackets for dusty country situations) or hopsack for blazers.
Maybe you could get away with it if you wore flannel or cavalry twill trousers, since they're a closer match in terms of textures, but with jeans? Bad idea.

>> No.9919317

>>9919295
>>9919289

thank-you but at the moment i don't give a fuck about your style advice with regard to making this outfit more /fa/ and wasn't really "trying", just threw some shit on to gague why do people think that i'm on my way to a wedding/funeral/corporate event whenever i put on a coat?

if anything, following this advice to dress correctly would make me look *less* casual, not more; thank you for irrelevancy.
>boots
oh you mean my $200 suede ecco shoes? yeah nice fashion sense.

>> No.9919325

>>9919317
>just threw some shit on to gague why do people think that i'm on my way to a wedding/funeral/corporate event whenever i put on a coat?

It's probably a function of where you live. If you live in a rural area where everyone dresses for comfort and to do manual labor, then a tailored jacket of any sort is going to seem a world's difference from a chore jacket.

I also would not brag about buying Ecco shoes, especially about buying them at full price.

>> No.9919326

>>9919317
>my $200 suede ecco shoes

hey mate, not sure why you're so hostile? i just meant this as honest advice, but you're free to ignore it.

i didn't mean to attack your character at all, i was just providing constructive criticism on your clothes. sorry if there was a misunderstanding cheers

>> No.9919334

>>9919325
$200 was the full price but I purchased them at extreme markdown as the men's clothing store in my area had applied deep discounts to all their Eccos (can't remember as they're fairly old but like $60).

>> No.9919356

>>9919274
ok, top half not bad, blazer is probably too formal and strutured for your purposes though--hard to tell with grainy photo quality. Buy an unstructured twill blazer for casual use.

bottom half needs work, better fitting jeans in a dark uniform wash if you are sticking with jeans for this, otherwise some black chinos or blended wool pants might be nice, even khaki chinos would be fine. ditch the shoes, they look like some fucked sketchers hybrid boot--get a pair of inoffensive black or brown boots with a stitched sole

>> No.9919482

>>9919274
i'll be honest, this strikes me as a somewhat original and pretty ok take on a normal/seinfieldcore outfit

>> No.9920633

>>9919274
I wouldn't have considered this formal in any stretch, besides the blazer being black (a lot of casual blazers tend to be more colourful more or less)

>> No.9921120

>>9919274 main problem is the flow, the upper & lower body styles really clash.