ways to wear a suit jacket S/D

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so, whats the best way to stand when wearing a suit? having just become an office drone, i have started wearing a suit, and find myself inexplicably drawn to putting my hands in my pocket, but with the jacket pushed behind them, like this:http://www.boden.co.uk/i/lModel/r_MD108.jpg
but the norm, is with your arms sticking through the sort of vents in the middle isnt it? like this:
http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/media/images/products/array/A0440134745802_4005c.jpg

i think my new style is sort of subconciously based on this sort of 40-s oxford image, but its like a new nervous reaction for me, and i remember thinking that the kids at school who stood like this with blazers on looked like total gimps. so which is cooler? which do you prefer? does anyone have any idea what i am talking about? this subject is v important for me at thew moment...

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

never button the bottom button, never put you hands in the trouser pockets, try not to store anything in the trouser pockets either, stand up straight shoulders back

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

ed, point 2 defeats the object of the exercise! if you follow your instructions, you will never look louche, or 'lounge'.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

make sure you throw your tie over your shoulder when getting takeout.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Louche is down to posture, putting your hands in the pockets just shows you don't know what to do with them. If you can't think of anything to do with your hands take up smoking cheroutes from a silver cigarette case.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I make fun of N because he keeps his wallet in his front pocket of his pants, so he has this weird bulge there.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

bbbbbbut that picutre is ripped from the boden catalouge! thatsd the look!!!!!1

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

office drone,

I just love the idea of the guy in that second photo posing like that by the photocopier or fax machine.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

all day.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"making copies"

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

if u have an italian jacket u cannot do #2 cuz - no vents

i have been told by a professional manual laborer that hands in pockets = "idle hands" so you'd think this look would be perfect for a lounger

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

The first guy is the one in the office that everyone likes but nobody really knows what he does.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the second one is the one who everyone thinks is loaded but is actually on £12000

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i wear my suit like i wore my school uniform - messily, i like to think that people think im aloof and could do with pulling my sock's up and becoming "shipshape", i dont believe that a button undone or a tie loosely hanging around one's neck is any key to an individuals ability - therefore if you have to be trussed up in a suit then wear it well.

oh and shiney shoes - DUD

― james (james), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

hands in pockets makes you look like an estate agent and should therefore be avoided. It's almost impossible to look good in a cheap suit, you might be able to pull it off becaus eyou are skinny, but I certainly can't.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

my suit was £60 from topman and it looks good - but then i am skinny so i guess ed is right

― james (james), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

what if you need a shoe-shine, james?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

cheap suit always seem to be cut for a skinnier men than me. I have one suit and I need to loose some weight to wear it well again.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer dont be tempted mucky shoes show you have other more important things to think about - shiney shoes = empty mind only visit shoe-shines if you need to solicite info as, if television has taught me anything, then these are the places to go to.

― james (james), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure about this cheap suit / skinny man thing: I am a cheap bastard who can't find suits skinny enough. (Okay, correction: I am a weirdo skinny-with-broad-shoulders unjacketable type.) But but SARAH, don't make fun of N. I put my wallet in my front pocket as well, for the following reasons: (a) Why the hell would I want to sit on a lump all day? (b) Pickpockets; not that I'm really worried about pickpockets, but it is an advantage, and when I put my wallet in my back pocket I'm ever so slightly more paranoid that it could fall out or get stolen or lost without my noticing. (c) My ass is big enough already.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

By skinny I guess I mean average build, or at least slim to average build. this may not apply at all in the states as suits may be cut differently there.

Backpocket for wallet, are you mad. If you're wearing a suit you have the inside jacket pocket for your wallet, change goes in your trouser pocket, although my suit features a change pocket in the jacket which is useful.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, totally. Thanks for sticking up for me, nabisco. You hit the nail on the head, as per usual. Those women, with those lumpy scary purses, they just don't get it.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Speaking of back-pockety things: so I found this great pair of jeans at a thrift store a little while ago, just perfect-looking and great fit, and then I look at the back pocket and rather than the worn-out wallet outline you often see, there was the worn-out outline of a cannister of chewing tobacco. This ruined everything. Should I have bought them?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, you were foolish not to. That kind of authenticity you can't buy. It would be like a trucker hat but cool.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

all of us who wants pictures of ambrose in said suit raise hands!

*raises his hand*

― Erik, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.malemanor.com/images/merchandise/boss/image1.jpg

what to do with said hands

― Erik, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

fig.2

http://www.selavi.ru/text/images/vb05.jpg

― Erik, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is N?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Front-pocket wallet-keepers UNITE!

(I love you all.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

More about the front wallet ...

The reason I have it there is because of pickpockets like nabisco said. The logic behind it is: I don't always know when someone is going to grab my ass, but I always know when someone's about to grab my junk.

Think about that for awhile, ladies...

― jm (jtm), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Hands in pockets, slouched over, head down, the weight of the world on you shoulders. This is the way to wear a suit jacket.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

God, that first of Erik's pictures is one lovely suit.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

its hugo boss what's yours ambrose?

― Erik, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yes please wear your suits like a disgruntled uniform and with converse too that is kawaii

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, the best way to stand is no special way at all, just like, oh am I wearing a suit? I guess I am, anyway are you using the three-hole punch or what?

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

In my field, wearing a suit = being able to say "Here, could you three-hole punch these for me? Thanks so much."

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Are you using the three-hole punch or what? Because if you're not, I'll find someone who can."

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I should add "facility with a three-hole punch" to my resume.

The staff at my workplace recently rejected a candidate for director largely on the basis that he was wearing a really terrible sky-blue suit to his interview.

I wish I could afford a suit. Right now when I need to wear a suit (two funerals and a wedding in the past 1 1/2 years) I just take my ages-old suit in for alterations. Every so often I head downtown to buy a suit and come back demoralized.

I keep my wallet in my bag (sssh!) when I have it, and my back pocket when I have it, because I'm too scared to go against prevailing trends. But I can vouch for the fact that casually dropping your oversized wallet into your back pocket is a recipe for a pickpocketing.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

the second "when I have it" should be "when I don't have it"

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

My ages-old suit is awful; it looks like something you'd wear to a bar mitzvah. I can't pull off that lovely suit in Erik's first pic because I'm too much of a fatty. Alas.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

and i'm too skinny alas

― Erik, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

no such thing

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean?

― Erik, Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yes

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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