Fashion Fail: the "Short Suit"

[ASinclair]

Doesn't bother me one bit. Menswear in general is just so flippin' boring to begin with, I like to see anything that challenges stodgy, old, tired, overdone styles. I mean, seriously. Men's suits haven't changed much in almost a century.

Each to their own. If ya wanna wear shorts with your suit... Give'er! I won't be the one to criticize.

CDNSushi, always the rebel!

[TheOfficialBren]

That's one of the many reasons why we like him.

[CDNSushi]

Well, the way I figure it, is the whole lot of us rabble are already turning heads and questioning the menswear status quo by wearing kilts. As such, it would seem to me that I'd be calling the kettle black by belittling someone else's attempts to do the same thing (just going about it in a very different way). Honi soit qui mal y pense, as an old English monarch once said...

[Connaughton]

Here you go in tartan fabric is cotton linen. With those patch pockets and three buttons you could probably shorten the jacket to kilt coat length then you got yourself a smart looking "mock-kilt thing" really going on. Saa-weeeeet.

It advertises as "Modeled after old British hunting jackets, this is a rugged traditional suit. It's woven in lightweight cotton-linen that breathes well in the warm weather and finished with details often found on the workwear jackets of the 1940s, like a buttoned throatlatch. If you're looking for the comfortable summer suit that nobody else will have, this is it." And for the shorts " a vintage-inspired fishtail yoke on the back and suspender buttons".

?'s when did a shorts suit become traditional?
Is it the buttoned throat latch that makes that jacket so damned appealing? Because I really want to close the jacket up tight against those cooling summer breezes.
Lest we forget those shorts, suspender buttons, on shorts, a bridge to far - I think not. But they do break the cardinal rule "thou shall wear a belt when your suit has belt loops."

Now don't go racing off to purchase that so fast. It will be on sale soon enough. So here is where the above proficy will actually and finally come true. You will be in a comfortable suit that nobody else will have.

And here I will confess I actually do wear j.crew suits to the office. They are a fine suit and on sale a decent value. The short suit, well that is a different story. If I had a son who was 5 years old this might work ..... for his second suit. On second thought, I have to ask myself, exactly how many 5 years oldboys need a second suit.

Best,
Connaughton

[McElmurry]

After due consideration I have concluded that the short suit is the sartorial equivalent of the mullet (the hairstyle not the fish).

[CDNSushi]

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[Bob C]

They're not anything I would wear, but a lot of people think we look ridiculous in our kilts. To each, his own.