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The Three-piece Suit Thread

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While I prefer the vertical line of the single breasted version in the first. The blue stripe in the POW glen check is an added attraction. Still, handsome suits, all three.
 
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Still, handsome suits, all three.
No. The middle one's bad news. It needs shoulders. Not the suit, the guy wearing it. Amazing what decent anatomy will do for clothes.
...I love the idea of a contrasting button on the waistcoat.
Just a single one as you mention, or the others we can't see? And what else would you put there but contrasting buttons, gray? Nah. Besides, contrasting's not the proper adjective. Harmonizing is, and they do.

Thus ends your and Sarge's dose of dogmaticizing for the day.
 
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Amazing timing finding this thread about a week after getting back my old friend and don't give a flip if wrong in so many ways. Still don't know why Opa would by a three piece suit, mostly wore odd sport coats when needed. Paired with a modern shirt, modern Brooks Brothers tie, and a modern Panama.
 
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Oops, forgot to finish my post...



Thank you!

Wear it well probably because my first suit and wore to Church every Sunday?

Though back then I was a plump 215 pounds and couldn't fit the vest or pants, though the latter I thought was just the style... Oh the horrible things we do in our youth.

Wasn't my intent to feature the Panama. How about posting in the Summer thread?
 
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This thread, having been bumped recently by Oldsarge's latest postings, caused me to re-read its entries. I noted that someone maintained that one needs a washboard stomach in order to effectively wear a three-piece suit. As a newly minted senior citizen, with the requisite amount of excess avoirdupois one inevitably acquires with age, I beg to differ, with photos of myself, and my three-piece ensembles as evidence to the contrary.
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This thread, having been bumped recently by Oldsarge's latest postings, caused me to re-read its entries. I noted that someone maintained that one needs a washboard stomach in order to effectively wear a three-piece suit. As a newly minted senior citizen, with the requisite amount of excess avoirdupois one inevitably acquires with age, I beg to differ, with photos of myself, and my three-piece ensembles as evidence to the contrary. View attachment 53220 View attachment 53221 View attachment 53222 View attachment 53223
Even with the dreaded ten pounds the camera adds to a person's body, you look like you still have a washboard stomach at your age (62 and up is a senior citizen, for what it's worth), upr crust. If you're still under 62, you're not yet a senior citizen.

However, if you just turned 65, you've been a senior citizen for three years now (which I guess is still fairly newly minted). I've got 17 years and six days to go before I'm a senior citizen.
 
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WHITE socks? With a suit?
For what is obviously a fashion shoot, anything outlandish that will attract viewer attention is OK. Please note that the suit is a three-piece double-breasted combo, modeled by the impossibly thin actor Tom Hiddleston.

I look lumpy today in comparison, but my socks are a more proper color for my suit.

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