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On April 05 2012 14:40 Juliette wrote:Show nested quote +On April 05 2012 07:03 Focuspants wrote:
And for the gentleman on the previous page asking about black tie. Black tie is supposed to mean black dinner jacket (Tuxedo) white shirt, bowtie, waistcoat, cumberbund, that sort of deal. If people show up in jeans, they have severely misinterpreted the dress code. Black tie is the second most formal dress requirement. One of the only times black is actually suggested and appropriate.
This is relevant to me, black tie event coming up next week(end). Seems a little too much for someone's 18th birthday party... But I mean, whatever right? Mine was pretty much the same without the dress code. Recommend I just rent a tuxedo, or purchase. I'm an incoming college student. Or can I get away with a black suit/bowtie/vest?
Problem with renting is that the price will be about 1/3 1/4 of the price to buy, so you'll easily have another couple of weddings/chique parties where you could wear your smoking. I just found a cheap online shop with a complete smoking set (suit/shirt/tie) for €150 (or about $200?), cheapest real shop was €250.
If it's for a birthday party I'd check with the organiser, could be a black tie affair, but it'll depend on where you're from, could be a prank too to have you stand out in black tie while the rest is all swimpool wear :p
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Nepeta, I personally like the more modern looking one, but thats purely a matter of taste. I would avoid the white jacket black pants combo personally. James Bond can pull off a lot of things us common folk cant 
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On April 05 2012 11:17 Retgery wrote:
I'm assuming that I'm not the only nerd on this forum who's had this problem.
I've had really bad acne since I was 12, I've tried all the big products, and all of them just seemed to make it worse. Eventually I just went in and got the hardcore meds and now it's pretty manageable. I still have the same problem with products, that if I wash my face in anything but water, I get a bad rash + acne, and my skin looks awful. But if I don;t wash it in a product my face just feels oily all day. This might be cause by some kind of allergy, because my sister has a similar problem. Does anyone have a very,very gentle wash they can recommend?
Edit: completely off topic but, where can I find some dress shirts, I have a weird body shape,I'm fairly muscular with a long body, medium shoulders, and long arms.
I have to take meds too, but there's this really cool "life hack" you can do that helps TREMENDOUSLY. At night before you go to bed, take a clean towel and lay it over your pillow. There's a lot of stored up oil on your pillow that makes the acne worse while you sleep. I've tried it and it works really, really well. You won't see immediate results the next day, but over the course of a few days, you'll notice that your skin is less oily overall.
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On April 05 2012 11:17 Retgery wrote:
I'm assuming that I'm not the only nerd on this forum who's had this problem.
I've had really bad acne since I was 12, I've tried all the big products, and all of them just seemed to make it worse. Eventually I just went in and got the hardcore meds and now it's pretty manageable. I still have the same problem with products, that if I wash my face in anything but water, I get a bad rash + acne, and my skin looks awful. But if I don;t wash it in a product my face just feels oily all day. This might be cause by some kind of allergy, because my sister has a similar problem. Does anyone have a very,very gentle wash they can recommend?
Edit: completely off topic but, where can I find some dress shirts, I have a weird body shape,I'm fairly muscular with a long body, medium shoulders, and long arms.
By hardcore meds, did you mean Acutane? I took that stuff for a while when I had acne (wasn't too bad to be honest but regular break-outs were pretty shitty) and now my face has totally cleared up aside from the occasional blemish.
It has dried my face out though so I have to use a moisturizer (Complex-15 non-oily, non-scented) every few days. I'll still use a regular face wash anytime I exercise though and I never get rashes.
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Somewhat offtopic, but since you check in on this thread often, WHEN DO WE GET ANOTHER BLOG JWD!!! I quite enjoy them, and it has been a while 
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I've been looking at some jackets and I like this one, but I was a little skeptical of the 'faux leather'. Does anyone have experience with it?
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I need some new shorts and some sunnies... even tho winter is coming.
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On April 03 2012 05:29 PrimeTimey wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 17:59 nepeta wrote:On March 29 2012 17:47 opisska wrote:Please, don't take the following post as trolling. I just thought that people reading this thread make an interesting audience to hearing something about ... me  I am almost 30 now and I weared a suit exactly 4 times in my life. Three times because my mother made me so: for two immatriculations (high school and university) and the final exam from the high school - and once for kinf of a joke activity with my friends (and I got to keep my hiking shoes at least ). And that is it. Dressing as I want has become an importatnt part of my life since I left my parents' home ten years ago. I do not own a single shirt and my whole wardrobe is a couple of outdoor pants and a lot of t-shirts, mainfly from the "clothes for workers" store, 5$ each. Some people would still keep telling me: but you have to dress for X to be successfull. No, I don't. Everyone was wearing a suit for the final exam from the university (i am not sure, how to you call it in English, it is an exam in front of a state-supervised committee, looks dead serious), I was wearing my stuff - yet I had the easiest time, because I had the most knowledge. And thies happens over and over. I want to impress people by who I am and what I can do, not how I look and I have been incredibly succesfull in this in my life. For many years, I do even have a side-job that consists of leturing people on astronomy (sometimes in broad daylight ) on a public observatory and nobody over there dares to say a word about my looks either. If I were offered a dress-coded job, I would gladly decline, no matter how much money would be in it. To me, being able to dress as I want to is one of the stepping stones (yet just one very small part) of my life dream that I am living now: freedom. It is more amazing that you can imagine. And I got married in style, too ![[image loading]](http://ccd.wz.cz/svatba.jpg) (Oh, the look on the city offiial doing the ceremony when he entered the room, that was priceless! The poor guy had no idea, what waits for hime inside. It has been 4 years and random people still talk about the wedding. We even got guests that we never saw before, they just heard baout us and wanted to see what happens, I our personalities get combined with osmething so serious as a wedding. Hell, they got what they wanted!) I say go more minimalist on the attitude as well ^^ Would love to know what that guy does for a living. There is a difference between dressing casually/not caring about your attire all the much to looking like a bum who should be living on the street. I honestly don't think you could even get a job at McDonalds if you dressed like that for the interview.
If your good enough, you'll get a job anywhere, well except place where appearance is everything lol
I have some weird crazy uni teachers that would blow your fashion minds (I study Biology)
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Hmm well, I guess this is as good a place as any to ask.
Anyone here have recommendations/opinions on glasses frames? I've worn mainly contacts for years, so the only glasses I've bothered having are whatever cheap ones I could find for when my eyes are irritated or I'm between lenses. But lately I've been wanting to wear my glasses more to give my eyes a break, and why not, try out a new look. So I've been on a hunt for some new higher quality, more fashionable frames.
I'm trying to find something thats mature but not too pompous, simple and fashionable. I don't mind spending a decent amount of money, but I'd tend to think any frames over $200 would be overkill for me. Keep in mind I'm not what you would call super fashionable. I've got dress shirts and my charcoal pinstripe suit for those rare dress up occasions, but I much prefer the more casual side of things. I don't really wear chinos or anything like that, my usual dress consists of jeans and button down shirts worn over my various pink floyd t-shirts. Lots of plaid, I suppose. I tend to like my sneakers (more skate influenced, no less. :X) Which might be blasphemy to a lot of you guys, but meh, cut me a break.
Any advice is appreciated!
Oh and I suppose I have an oval face type? I hear that matters!
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On April 07 2012 09:29 erin[go]bragh wrote:Hmm well, I guess this is as good a place as any to ask. Anyone here have recommendations/opinions on glasses frames? I've worn mainly contacts for years, so the only glasses I've bothered having are whatever cheap ones I could find for when my eyes are irritated or I'm between lenses. But lately I've been wanting to wear my glasses more to give my eyes a break, and why not, try out a new look. So I've been on a hunt for some new higher quality, more fashionable frames. I'm trying to find something thats mature but not too pompous, simple and fashionable. I don't mind spending a decent amount of money, but I'd tend to think any frames over $200 would be overkill for me. Keep in mind I'm not what you would call super fashionable. I've got dress shirts and my charcoal pinstripe suit for those rare dress up occasions, but I much prefer the more casual side of things. I don't really wear chinos or anything like that, my usual dress consists of jeans and button down shirts worn over my various pink floyd t-shirts. Lots of plaid, I suppose. I tend to like my sneakers (more skate influenced, no less. :X) Which might be blasphemy to a lot of you guys, but meh, cut me a break. Any advice is appreciated! Oh and I suppose I have an oval face type? I hear that matters!
Check out porsche design frames. I'm a Tom Ford fan, but that doesnt seem to match your style, too formal-ish. Porsche design lenses are very well made, stylish, and should match your style, even for formal occasions.
So excited I finally got my first suit, it's tailored navy blue, John Cooper material.
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Had to return my Unbranded 32's I bought, didn't fit, and 33's are out of stock everywhere, so today I bought some 32x32 Levi 511 "Rigid Dragon" (raw denim). Fit well, just too bad I couldn't get the unbranded selvedge. But I saved about 40% compared to unbranded so it's all good.
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Actually are Levi 511 "Rigid Dragon" jeans raw? I can't get a clear answer.
edit nm levis store says "raw blue/black denim..."
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On April 06 2012 13:43 hnQ wrote:Show nested quote +On April 03 2012 05:29 PrimeTimey wrote:On April 02 2012 17:59 nepeta wrote:On March 29 2012 17:47 opisska wrote:Please, don't take the following post as trolling. I just thought that people reading this thread make an interesting audience to hearing something about ... me I am almost 30 now and I weared a suit exactly 4 times in my life. Three times because my mother made me so: for two immatriculations (high school and university) and the final exam from the high school - and once for kinf of a joke activity with my friends (and I got to keep my hiking shoes at least ). And that is it. Dressing as I want has become an importatnt part of my life since I left my parents' home ten years ago. I do not own a single shirt and my whole wardrobe is a couple of outdoor pants and a lot of t-shirts, mainfly from the "clothes for workers" store, 5$ each. Some people would still keep telling me: but you have to dress for X to be successfull. No, I don't. Everyone was wearing a suit for the final exam from the university (i am not sure, how to you call it in English, it is an exam in front of a state-supervised committee, looks dead serious), I was wearing my stuff - yet I had the easiest time, because I had the most knowledge. And thies happens over and over. I want to impress people by who I am and what I can do, not how I look and I have been incredibly succesfull in this in my life. For many years, I do even have a side-job that consists of leturing people on astronomy (sometimes in broad daylight ) on a public observatory and nobody over there dares to say a word about my looks either. If I were offered a dress-coded job, I would gladly decline, no matter how much money would be in it. To me, being able to dress as I want to is one of the stepping stones (yet just one very small part) of my life dream that I am living now: freedom. It is more amazing that you can imagine. And I got married in style, too (Oh, the look on the city offiial doing the ceremony when he entered the room, that was priceless! The poor guy had no idea, what waits for hime inside. It has been 4 years and random people still talk about the wedding. We even got guests that we never saw before, they just heard baout us and wanted to see what happens, I our personalities get combined with osmething so serious as a wedding. Hell, they got what they wanted!) I say go more minimalist on the attitude as well ^^ Would love to know what that guy does for a living. There is a difference between dressing casually/not caring about your attire all the much to looking like a bum who should be living on the street. I honestly don't think you could even get a job at McDonalds if you dressed like that for the interview. If your good enough, you'll get a job anywhere, well except place where appearance is everything lol I have some weird crazy uni teachers that would blow your fashion minds (I study Biology)
Disagree. First impressions is everything in a job interview, if you have the best resume in the world, unlimited amount of experience, and attended one of the best Universities in the world. But, you decide that you show up to the job interview your hair not combed, stain on your pants, and your shirt is not tucked in.. good luck.
Your professors at school might act weird, dress weird, but I would guarantee when they were going for their job interview they did not dress like a hobo on the street.
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On April 08 2012 13:57 PrimeTimey wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2012 13:43 hnQ wrote:On April 03 2012 05:29 PrimeTimey wrote:On April 02 2012 17:59 nepeta wrote:On March 29 2012 17:47 opisska wrote:Please, don't take the following post as trolling. I just thought that people reading this thread make an interesting audience to hearing something about ... me I am almost 30 now and I weared a suit exactly 4 times in my life. Three times because my mother made me so: for two immatriculations (high school and university) and the final exam from the high school - and once for kinf of a joke activity with my friends (and I got to keep my hiking shoes at least ). And that is it. Dressing as I want has become an importatnt part of my life since I left my parents' home ten years ago. I do not own a single shirt and my whole wardrobe is a couple of outdoor pants and a lot of t-shirts, mainfly from the "clothes for workers" store, 5$ each. Some people would still keep telling me: but you have to dress for X to be successfull. No, I don't. Everyone was wearing a suit for the final exam from the university (i am not sure, how to you call it in English, it is an exam in front of a state-supervised committee, looks dead serious), I was wearing my stuff - yet I had the easiest time, because I had the most knowledge. And thies happens over and over. I want to impress people by who I am and what I can do, not how I look and I have been incredibly succesfull in this in my life. For many years, I do even have a side-job that consists of leturing people on astronomy (sometimes in broad daylight ) on a public observatory and nobody over there dares to say a word about my looks either. If I were offered a dress-coded job, I would gladly decline, no matter how much money would be in it. To me, being able to dress as I want to is one of the stepping stones (yet just one very small part) of my life dream that I am living now: freedom. It is more amazing that you can imagine. And I got married in style, too (Oh, the look on the city offiial doing the ceremony when he entered the room, that was priceless! The poor guy had no idea, what waits for hime inside. It has been 4 years and random people still talk about the wedding. We even got guests that we never saw before, they just heard baout us and wanted to see what happens, I our personalities get combined with osmething so serious as a wedding. Hell, they got what they wanted!) I say go more minimalist on the attitude as well ^^ Would love to know what that guy does for a living. There is a difference between dressing casually/not caring about your attire all the much to looking like a bum who should be living on the street. I honestly don't think you could even get a job at McDonalds if you dressed like that for the interview. If your good enough, you'll get a job anywhere, well except place where appearance is everything lol I have some weird crazy uni teachers that would blow your fashion minds (I study Biology) Disagree. First impressions is everything in a job interview, if you have the best resume in the world, unlimited amount of experience, and attended one of the best Universities in the world. But, you decide that you show up to the job interview your hair not combed, stain on your pants, and your shirt is not tucked in.. good luck. Your professors at school might act weird, dress weird, but I would guarantee when they were going for their job interview they did not dress like a hobo on the street.
People can say whatever they want, but the way you dress will always one way of another reflect your personality.
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Hey, thread's too long. I'll keep it short. Please reply and teach me.
How do you style hair without mirror? I don't use gel, my hair goes out of shape. I want to just rub them around so they look cool, but I can't go around with a mirror all the time. How do you do it?
So far I have some general procedure of rub it flat to the right so I know what it WILL look like...
![[image loading]](http://www.ftmguide.org/images/part.gif)
But THEN what do you do? I have some strange movements so it looks descently messy but I'm not really sure...
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On April 08 2012 13:57 PrimeTimey wrote:Show nested quote +On April 06 2012 13:43 hnQ wrote:On April 03 2012 05:29 PrimeTimey wrote:On April 02 2012 17:59 nepeta wrote:On March 29 2012 17:47 opisska wrote:Please, don't take the following post as trolling. I just thought that people reading this thread make an interesting audience to hearing something about ... me I am almost 30 now and I weared a suit exactly 4 times in my life. Three times because my mother made me so: for two immatriculations (high school and university) and the final exam from the high school - and once for kinf of a joke activity with my friends (and I got to keep my hiking shoes at least ). And that is it. Dressing as I want has become an importatnt part of my life since I left my parents' home ten years ago. I do not own a single shirt and my whole wardrobe is a couple of outdoor pants and a lot of t-shirts, mainfly from the "clothes for workers" store, 5$ each. Some people would still keep telling me: but you have to dress for X to be successfull. No, I don't. Everyone was wearing a suit for the final exam from the university (i am not sure, how to you call it in English, it is an exam in front of a state-supervised committee, looks dead serious), I was wearing my stuff - yet I had the easiest time, because I had the most knowledge. And thies happens over and over. I want to impress people by who I am and what I can do, not how I look and I have been incredibly succesfull in this in my life. For many years, I do even have a side-job that consists of leturing people on astronomy (sometimes in broad daylight ) on a public observatory and nobody over there dares to say a word about my looks either. If I were offered a dress-coded job, I would gladly decline, no matter how much money would be in it. To me, being able to dress as I want to is one of the stepping stones (yet just one very small part) of my life dream that I am living now: freedom. It is more amazing that you can imagine. And I got married in style, too (Oh, the look on the city offiial doing the ceremony when he entered the room, that was priceless! The poor guy had no idea, what waits for hime inside. It has been 4 years and random people still talk about the wedding. We even got guests that we never saw before, they just heard baout us and wanted to see what happens, I our personalities get combined with osmething so serious as a wedding. Hell, they got what they wanted!) I say go more minimalist on the attitude as well ^^ Would love to know what that guy does for a living. There is a difference between dressing casually/not caring about your attire all the much to looking like a bum who should be living on the street. I honestly don't think you could even get a job at McDonalds if you dressed like that for the interview. If your good enough, you'll get a job anywhere, well except place where appearance is everything lol I have some weird crazy uni teachers that would blow your fashion minds (I study Biology) Disagree. First impressions is everything in a job interview, if you have the best resume in the world, unlimited amount of experience, and attended one of the best Universities in the world. But, you decide that you show up to the job interview your hair not combed, stain on your pants, and your shirt is not tucked in.. good luck. Your professors at school might act weird, dress weird, but I would guarantee when they were going for their job interview they did not dress like a hobo on the street.
I disagree with both of you. If you are good enough AND in the right field, how you dress does not matter. Dress like a hobo for a fashion interview might as well not even show up. Be amazing at something NASA currently has a need for, dressing poorly probably wont even hurt you. The reality is most of us are not on one of these extremes how we dress matters along with our skills.
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On April 08 2012 21:44 evanthebouncy! wrote:Hey, thread's too long. I'll keep it short. Please reply and teach me. How do you style hair without mirror? I don't use gel, my hair goes out of shape. I want to just rub them around so they look cool, but I can't go around with a mirror all the time. How do you do it? So far I have some general procedure of rub it flat to the right so I know what it WILL look like... But THEN what do you do? I have some strange movements so it looks descently messy but I'm not really sure...
Hmm what kind of style do you have with your hair? Length-wise?
Mines super short on the sides and long on the top so I can kind of feel if things are going a little astray. I guess you can just practice 'scrunches in the mirror' So you know if you just grab a bit with your hand and flick what it 'usually looks like' Try and make it as quick as possible, because you might look like a wanker if you're taking your time checking yourself out in a window.
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On April 08 2012 21:50 jamesr12 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 08 2012 13:57 PrimeTimey wrote:On April 06 2012 13:43 hnQ wrote:On April 03 2012 05:29 PrimeTimey wrote:On April 02 2012 17:59 nepeta wrote:On March 29 2012 17:47 opisska wrote:Please, don't take the following post as trolling. I just thought that people reading this thread make an interesting audience to hearing something about ... me I am almost 30 now and I weared a suit exactly 4 times in my life. Three times because my mother made me so: for two immatriculations (high school and university) and the final exam from the high school - and once for kinf of a joke activity with my friends (and I got to keep my hiking shoes at least ). And that is it. Dressing as I want has become an importatnt part of my life since I left my parents' home ten years ago. I do not own a single shirt and my whole wardrobe is a couple of outdoor pants and a lot of t-shirts, mainfly from the "clothes for workers" store, 5$ each. Some people would still keep telling me: but you have to dress for X to be successfull. No, I don't. Everyone was wearing a suit for the final exam from the university (i am not sure, how to you call it in English, it is an exam in front of a state-supervised committee, looks dead serious), I was wearing my stuff - yet I had the easiest time, because I had the most knowledge. And thies happens over and over. I want to impress people by who I am and what I can do, not how I look and I have been incredibly succesfull in this in my life. For many years, I do even have a side-job that consists of leturing people on astronomy (sometimes in broad daylight ) on a public observatory and nobody over there dares to say a word about my looks either. If I were offered a dress-coded job, I would gladly decline, no matter how much money would be in it. To me, being able to dress as I want to is one of the stepping stones (yet just one very small part) of my life dream that I am living now: freedom. It is more amazing that you can imagine. And I got married in style, too (Oh, the look on the city offiial doing the ceremony when he entered the room, that was priceless! The poor guy had no idea, what waits for hime inside. It has been 4 years and random people still talk about the wedding. We even got guests that we never saw before, they just heard baout us and wanted to see what happens, I our personalities get combined with osmething so serious as a wedding. Hell, they got what they wanted!) I say go more minimalist on the attitude as well ^^ Would love to know what that guy does for a living. There is a difference between dressing casually/not caring about your attire all the much to looking like a bum who should be living on the street. I honestly don't think you could even get a job at McDonalds if you dressed like that for the interview. If your good enough, you'll get a job anywhere, well except place where appearance is everything lol I have some weird crazy uni teachers that would blow your fashion minds (I study Biology) Disagree. First impressions is everything in a job interview, if you have the best resume in the world, unlimited amount of experience, and attended one of the best Universities in the world. But, you decide that you show up to the job interview your hair not combed, stain on your pants, and your shirt is not tucked in.. good luck. Your professors at school might act weird, dress weird, but I would guarantee when they were going for their job interview they did not dress like a hobo on the street. I disagree with both of you. If you are good enough AND in the right field, how you dress does not matter. Dress like a hobo for a fashion interview might as well not even show up. Be amazing at something NASA currently has a need for, dressing poorly probably wont even hurt you. The reality is most of us are not on one of these extremes how we dress matters along with our skills.
I guess in a business related field, how you sell yourself is extremely important.
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