Fly Tie

 Here me is sporting my fly tie that I bought as a joke but think now it can get some wear, especially with brown, grey and cream.

A cheap polyester tie by Marks & Spencer.

Also a 110s wool jacket of local provenance, semi-canvas, and a cotton cream shirt.

Plus a pair of stretch wool pants in a subtle brown hue.

All the colors are pretty well matched and coordinated, wouldn't you say so?

 

Fall Fits for the Country

 Here, dropping some fall fits for the country (as opposed to town).

Suited for the Rat Race

 Suited for the Rate Race...

 

...just for today though and appropriately the rat face is rejoined in a grey suit du jour aka nothing fancy.

So just a grey micro pattern suit it is.

Regarding trouser length, I feel the length is correct on these ones but if you do wear a suit as opposed to putting one on for making a few pictures like, say, on styleforum ) and as you progress through the day the trousers invariably and naturally tend to slip lower than ideal, especially if there is a lot of walking and sitting down and standing up, and hence the appearance of too much break. 

 

A pair of suspenders would solve the problem but I don't wear them and anyway these pants are for wearing with a belt as they have belt loops and the cut is for the belt too.

Out and About in Moscow July 14, 2020

Yesterday I had to chase and dispatch some simple errands here in Moscow, mainly out of necessity, however, I did manage to squeeze in a two beer lunch on government funds.

Two beers.

For the first course there was a pint of AF Brew Sangre Fresca which is supposed to mean "fresh blood" and is a tomato gose style beer, very tasty but maybe not enough abv.

For the second and last course there was a fancy glass (not of my choosing) of The Big Fat 5 Imperial IPA from a Dutch brewery het Uiltje or something like that, was good too.

And here I am chasing those errands to dispatch them.

I should add some notes here about the outfit.

The two questionable areas are the length of the trousers and the jacket sleeves.

As regards the trousers, which are chinos, I decided to leave this full break length where the trouser leg sits on the top of the shoe with a fold (or two).

My personal opinion is that the correct length is where the back of the hem just reaches the top of the heel straight, without any folds, but the front naturally has a full break meaning a visible fold as it sits on the top of the shoe.

This pair could be altered to be shorter, in other words, hemmed higher, and still comply with my ideas on the correct length but I hate the short trouser look more than I dislike the triple break and basically can't be bovvered.

The jacket sleeves are definitely a couple of inches too long but here again I decided to let them be that way for reasons of practically: altering them will be a very costly proposition with an acceptable end result by no means guaranteed as they have functional buttons (mother of pearl too) on the cuffs, i.e. a surgeon's cuff, and can't be shortened from the cuff but only from the shoulder which is expensive, requires skill, and also could throw the check pattern out of alignment on the body and the sleeve and I can't have that.

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Gentleman's accessories

Some of my gentleman's accessories...

OOTD: Suit and Tie

Suited and tie'd... OOTD from yesterday, I think.

Tie.

Love this cupro by Bemberg, I think.