If at first...

Oh dear.

It appears that this is going to be more difficult than I thought.

Well, at least I'm all in this one. Unfortunately, my tripod is rather non-functioning at this point, for the usual reason- that blasted thingy you screw onto the camera is gone. So, camera perched perilously upon my car, I bowed to fate. Anyway, here are some close ups:

Shirt/Tie

Shoes

Jacket and pocket square.

The jacket, the shirt and the tie are all from various op shops. The trousers are from Kenji, bought in Myer- I wouldn't believe it either, if I hadn't seen it. They were excellent value, (sale) and they have no awful brand names plastered all over them. The shoes are from Payless, or somewhere like that- I've found good things emerge occasionally, even from Australian shoe stores.

The tie was actually bought in a bag from a big Anglicare depot. All the ties I could eat, for a mere $18. I found several of my new favourites inside, and it had all the fun of a lucky dip to boot. I found lugging a translucent sack of ties through Ashfield quite fun, but that's probably just me.

Shirts with simple colours and classic patterns are the best sort of shirts. Not too formal, timeless, interesting to look at. The sports coat has an early 60s, late 50s air, also not very formal, and more interesting than a simple grey, that works well with a thinner tie- generic fat ties should be reserved for business settings, and avoided even there if possible, to my thinking. This tie is obviously at the very skinniest end- current fashion, I believe, prefers ties to be somewhere in between. Certainly, on most occasions, I find that to be the best choice.

Some might say, that this shirt/tie/pocket square combination is too matchy. To you I say, pooh, sirrah. This is hardly likely to be a popular notion, but I find 'sprezzatura' to be absolutely daft. Unless you actually have just thrown your outfit together you are likely to succeed only in creating an air of deliberately getting it wrong. And, in my position, as a young male Sydneysider, wearing anything more than a pair of board shorts halfway down my arse is going to make me look like I dressed up. Thus, I feel no need to hide my penchant for varied shades of colour. I tried this outfit with a white square; I prefer it this way.