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Just today I was looking for print button-down long sleeves and the only good looking ones were hundreds of dollars.

I’m not up to date in couture but if we’re on the cusp of that coming into style, the trickle-down to bargain fashion is a few years away? Alas.

Anyway, live long enough that your teen heartthrobs become mature leads in menswear shoots.

Ben Barnes photographed by Wanda Martin for FOXES Magazine (2022)

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#fiber art #fabric art #embroidery #historical garb #waistcoats #Western historic clothing

"This is one of my favourite extant late 18th century waistcoats!" I say, as if I had it narrowed down to just a few.

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I am at the very least ready for the return of fun sweaters and debonaire robes to the world of style.

PEDRO PASCAL Entertainment Weekly | 2020

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The unabashed color and pattern usage of these clothes is delightful. Also, other high school kids of the era also probably though Beverly Hills high school kids were fake.

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Today is the National Day of Norway, that special day when many Norwegians wear the bunad, a sophisticated folk costume. I walked in the morning on the streets of Oslo, the capital of the country, admiring the thousands of bunads all around me. Some were new, but others were inherited from grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Julie didn’t use to wear the bunad before, but a few years ago, during a cold and snowy National Day, she decided to give it a try. She felt so warm and beautiful while wearing it that she decided to wear it every year.

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Elizabeth Jennings, from Collected Poems; “The Way of Words & Language,”

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Salutations!

Folks, suits are still beautiful, yet I don’t have a ton more to say about them. (There are exceptions. Some of them are in my dusty drafts folder.)

I’d love to expand the scope, and return to posting. So much beautiful design is out there in the world of clothing, both present and past. I plan to rename this blog The Library of Style, and start posting again soon!

This notice is so a) if you begin to think you have posts from a blog you never followed there is a papertrail to find and b) declaring intent is a great way to help yourself follow up.

Ready?

Name change will initiate next week!

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This shoot is a vintage cute dream.

Which nearly obscures the odd striping mismatch on the jacket Kang Dong Won wears. I’m not sure I like it, but I’m also not sure I dislike it.

While not very business-like, a playful pinstripe like that would be perfect for (like here) and entertainer who had to dress up but didn’t want to go full salaryman.

The simple white dress Song Hye Kyo is wearing is a look reserved, also, for a few occasions. Like having iced coffee with an entertainer in a fool’s motley pinstripe.

kang dong won & song hye kyo for VOGUE;  강동원/송혜교

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I was going to make a joke about how no winter coat shoot is complete without a lot of skin showing in at least one shot, but it then it dawned on me that there are dogs in almost every shot here, too.

Wintry walks with dogs on beaches are a perfect occasion for these coats. Wear the third, which has no merit in form, when it’s absolutely disgusting out, because you have a dog who needs to go out.

Wear the top two handsomely draped light coats as a gesture to winter when it’s really still fall outside.

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I don’t know what the point is of this, but I love it.

A harsh black suit, some stark white blouse of odd form and underneath, at the cuffs--ecru lace. Sheer. Doing nothing except asking to be put down as a dandy and written into a vampire urban fantasy.

Ann Demeulemeester FW1718

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Autumn is here, rusty flowers British tailoring. Love this jacket #princeofwales #tailoring #driesvannoten #menswearforwomen

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Maybe it’s the part of me that wants manga fashion to be real, but I really like the dramatic lines on the white shirt and jacket. Certainly the photography and shoes play up the dynamic of them. I’m not convinced by the two-tone blazer type jacket, but I feel like it’s just missing one element--the colors strike a good note.

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Celebrating that I accidentally updated the theme for SuitDistracted with a nice fall post of dark button-ups and a blazer on newcomer Woo Do Hwan.

Pretty excited about the textured shirts and jacket--when I think of more visible-weave fabrics like tweed and denim to me they’re a little retro. But considering that solids have dominated suit style for a while now, and denim has come back, maybe tweed will, too. Especially in a thinner fabric like the bottom image shows.

Not sure what to think of the wide stripe on this trouser. Definitely not pleased with Vogue Korea for making it look OK to be wearing loafer shoes.

Any shoe that shouldn’t be worn with a sock should not be worn with a dressy shirt. Not that Vogue asked me.

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I’m not sure I can add anything to “beautifully dapper” but those zoot-suit reminiscent pants are working for me real well.

The detailing of the waist shape is particularly fascinating. Could something with more attention to form than “tight-as-possible” come back for the trouser? Is it too late to ask?

Harry Uzoka, Henry Pedro Wright, O'Shea Robertson, and Sacha M'Baye are the most beautifully dapper in “THE 606” for Carbon Copy, May 2013.

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I think something that draws me to suit style photography is the way it assumes that subtlety can be understood, and you don’t have to rely on overpowering suggestion to make a look catch attention.

2016.06.29 Gucci

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Fall-winter liminal point means it’s time to dust off the wandering-in-a-light-coat aesthetic.

The bottom coat has a brushed quality I love. Colors have been flat in fall trends for a few years, it feels like, I’m glad to see texture coming back.

Park Seo Joon and Park Hyung Sik for VOGUE + Hwarang

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High contrast elegance.

Kofi Siriboe in New Orleans by Micaiah Carter