[Jake Gittes]

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Colors and patterns... particularly SJC items as a way of promoting his items and given people like me some inspiration on how to maximize outfits.

Regarding patterns, when combining with something like the "33" jacket already mentioned, the safe approach is to pick one of the minor colours and select a garment that harmonizes with that. No need to exactly match the colour, a lighter or darker shade usually works too. A contrasting shade of the ground colour will do, too, as will a colour that goes well with said ground colour.

Be careful when you have a strongly patterned garment - not that combining with other patterns can not be done, but until you get confident, is probably advisable to limit yourself to one. Different patterns have to be of different scales, in particular if they are the same (stripes and stripes, for example).

[Jake Gittes]

Now that you are at it, what Instagram vintage style menswear profiles are you following or think are interesting? I am just creating an account, and have not much idea about what is worth looking for...

[Jake Gittes]

I think it's about time to show off my Vaugan suit... 

[metatron]

wow, looks stunning in the bright light.

[Edward2.0]

Love the brown. Hope it makes a comeback at some point! (Ideally, I think the vaughn suits should be an SJC staple).

[SJC]

Boy this is a nice suit

[Jake Gittes]

Another Norfolk suit outfit...

[Edward2.0]

I really do like that Norfolk. It's going to be a knockout in tweed.... (get going on moleskin and corduroy Big Bs to go with it as well).

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This last week ,I've mostly been as I am today - in a shirt or SJC polo, with or without a large sweater, and as outerwear a Laulhere 'Paris' model beret in oxblood, and a TU sherpa-lined Shirt-jacket/chorecoat. On the bottom half, Wrangler 13MWZs (almost all I'm wearing in this lockdown period), and more often than not my trusty Chippewa 1901m52 7" OXBLOOD engineer boots. Almost broken in enough that the left one isn't a pig to get into - perfect when they are on, though. I do have to laugh at the trouble online shoe sellers create for themselves by perpetuating the myth Chippewas are oversized in these boots! 




Oh.... and I don't need telling the mask probably won't help. I'm utterly indifferent on that score, tbh, but a] it makes Herself worry less when I have to go outside for fresh groceries, and b] I actually really am enjoying the excuse to go out in public with my face covered. I like the sense of distance from other people it brings, a sort of 'privacy'. I'm planning to find a cool, buckle-over leather mask, like an old-school motorcycle mask, to wear over the top of this. - one I can can a filter with, as the big thing I've discovered from the lockdown is how perceptibly more pleasant the air is round the East End with significantly less traffic. Gonna filter some of that out in future!

Aero have made an approach to the NHS offering to make masks for staff there.... if they were offering an n95 with a Horween FQHH shell I'd be all over that!

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The beret - which is a *civilian* basque style, *not* military - briefly had a Bowie Aladdin Sane style lightning flash pin on the front, but a Higher Power insisted it be removed because apparently it made me "look like a fascist".

[Philipp]

I hope everyone is doing well, considering... Here I am, relatively comfortably isolating myself in the countryside. Wearing two thirds of a 2017 (?) SJC tweed suit. I really like the waistcoat and trousers, they often get worn with a mackinaw or leather jacket on top. The suit jacket, unfortunately, never looked 100% right.

[MondoFW]

1940's/50's "Campus Wear" jacket (not sure on the hide, a TFL expert suggested capeskin), 1940's linen shirt, 1950 dated Army chinos, and Vans.

Good outfit, but I still can't find a way to make a fit pic look natural 

[Philipp]

With apologies for the bad lighting -this is "workwear" worn at work, in this case digging up "forest compost" for use in the garden. Hence the darkness...

Not a stitch of SJC this time: Pike Brothers shirt, Filson waistcoat, Swiss army work trousers.

[NCF]

Out and about.

[Philipp]

Decided to dress up to go into town to finally get my hair cut (I'm in Germany at the moment, the barbers have re-opened), now the hat fits again.... All SJC, except for hat, shoes and tie!



(I keep reminding me I have to work on my photo editing skills... don't mind the sandwich bags hung up to dry....)

[SJC]

I was wearing my tobacco kc jacket and the new cream bedford cords with jade polo. I know pics. Kinda hard to wrangle a photographer these days.

[Edward2.0]

Back in my Wranglers and an SJC polo - the rust orange one from the 2017 line-up. I didn't managed to get any of the waffle ones from last year; those and the logo ones this year are the only ones I didn't get any from as of yet. 

Feeling like I'm just wearing the same damn thing every day at the minute - I've not worn jeans this much since I graduated nearly a quarter of a century ago - but at least the weight is dropping. I believe we're allowed to slowly come out of lockdown between the end of this month and across July, so hopefully things will change soon.