Date NightKaty and I stayed at home recently. Katy made chicken curry with white rice, bananas, raisins and cashews. It was delicious. And I made her put on a blazer because I played dress up with some new threads-the vest.
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The Sartorialist.
Just picked up a vest from Herb's and found it nicely paired with my J. Crew purple and gray plaid button down shirt and my DKNY charcoal and purple stripe tie.
Tied with a pair of medium wash denim and some nice chukka's (Timberland) then you've got a sort of rugged polished look.
Great for a cold winter day where dress shoes would be too cold or great for a walk through a little bit of slush. The quilted back of the vest (sorry can't see it) and the skinny tie-well-and the more casual woven makes it a dressy casual trendy look.
Oh yes, and throw in the nice charcoalish striped blazer and you've got yourself a warmer look. I wish I tied in a pair of dark brown gloves and scarf in the picture but after all I was inside and not thinking about that.
Option #1
Option #2
Option #3
Option #4
Which one is the best?
Worn casually.
Blazer, vest, shirt and tie.
Charcoal blazer and gray and purple plaid woven.
Timberland Chukka's. Great buy this December! $57 bucks down from $120
Jos A. Bank StoryTo the point.
Katy's parents bought me a Bank's cashmere sweater for Christmas. Though they bought me a great color (dark charcoal) and a great fabric (cashmere) and a great style (v-neck) I'm much too thin for the cut of their sweaters. They bought me a large, and a medium was much too baggy on the ribs.
Not knowing how much they paid for it at Banks, I returned without a receipt knowing I'd have less to exchange for it. They ran a crazy promotion of buy one thing, get two free before Christmas so I was quite unsure of how I'd get anything if that was the case.
But they took it back and the assistant store manager said I'd have about 99$ to work with. I thought that was fine-I'd get a couple of their tailored dress shirts. So-I did! In fact I was able to get three out of the deal because when I went they were having a buy one get one half off sale. And the kind assistant manager took care of the third. But what a deal!
Original on the cashmere was $295. The dress shirts were $79.50 each.
$79.50 x 3 = $238.50
So, all in all I got my money's worth back-three dress shirts-all $79.50 totaling $137.50 with their promo going on when I went in.
Sorry, pretty much blues here. But, spread collar french cuffed blue pinstripe. White solid with double pinstripe, also spread collar.
#3 is a grayish pinstripe-and yes, spread collar! Nothing is better!
