Thread: Jackets

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Yes, I do fret about looking stupid. My wife says people don't care what I look like, but maybe I'm uncertain of myself. Something must have happened to me when I was young...

Wanna start a club?
I think you could have left the last but one sentence at "maybe I'm uncertain", and missed out the maybe.
But that's why we love ya Carl.

Oh and tell Cindy that we care what you look like, and she obviously cares otherwise she wouldn't have said anything about your transvestite shoes. :-)

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

No, I have tried that look but I don't like it. It makes one look like one is a fat fifty year old trying to hide it. I'm actually tucking my shirt in with the jeans and I think it looks fine. But that's just me. I probably look stupid.

It is now time to tease Tim rather than Carl!

A few moments ago my daughter walked past the library and asked me what in the heck are you doing?

Between our laughter I tried to explain that I was seeing how far by belly button stuck out past my belt. At least I didn't have a ruler in my hand!

Seriously, I think that one could pull off the untucked look if your belly stuck out 1/2 inch or less past your belt.

P.S. I don't think that she believed me!

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Footie shirts with that? Mullett?

And bring me a beer too woman! An' a pack 'a' Winnie Blues!


Now Tim you shouldn't make fun of us fatties. I tuck me damn shirt in all the time, but find me guts is untucking it and acting like a dog snuffling at the bottom of the door trying to bust out! I sad once it would be cheaper to lose weight, but it's a damn sight easier just to buy a bigger T-shirt!


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

And bring me a beer too woman! An' a pack 'a' Winnie Blues!


Now Tim you shouldn't make fun of us fatties. I tuck me damn shirt in all the time, but find me guts is untucking it and acting like a dog snuffling at the bottom of the door trying to bust out! I sad once it would be cheaper to lose weight, but it's a damn sight easier just to buy a bigger T-shirt!


Mick

Well it is until you get to FIFO size where your gut hangs out below your shirt, fairly sure beyond that it is mu-mu's which would be really embarassing for the kids.
Tims improvised observational science is fine for those of us lucky enough to have the time for such frippery, but then again he has a library so he probably does have time, provided he isn't too busy ordering his staff around. :-)

These sort of guts

Wow! That bloke at the top musta swallered me wife's Pilate's ball! I'd wondered where it had got too!


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

Wow! That bloke at the top musta swallered me wife's Pilate's ball! I'd wondered where it had got too!


Mick

Vegan sister, wife who does Pilates, are you some sort of sword weilding hippy?

Lets get back on topic. I don't think that Carl really told us the look he is trying to achieve, some reference, either a character from a film, some pictures or a description, actually not a description, but one of the first two options would be good.
There has been quite enough mickey taking, Carl is having a crisis of wardrobe sized proportions, he has the shoes, but where do we go from here.
I would still say light tan or beige trousers and a darker top should look good, but who knows, we need your input Carl.

I don't think Carl has been able to slip a word in edgeways yet! As for sword wielding hippy...Well not really a hippy as such, but I might have some hippyish tendencies. The sword wielding is right on the money though . And even though my wife does own (or at least owned until greedy guts up there ate it) a pilates ball, she's never ever done pilates in her life. I think she thinks pilates fly pilanes actually!


Mick

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Lets get back on topic. I don't think that Carl really told us the look he is trying to achieve, some reference, either a character from a film, some pictures or a description, actually not a description, but one of the first two options would be good.
There has been quite enough mickey taking, Carl is having a crisis of wardrobe sized proportions, he has the shoes, but where do we go from here.
I would still say light tan or beige trousers and a darker top should look good, but who knows, we need your input Carl.

Umm, a sort of cultured yet casual look. A little bit 'hip', not 'old fogey'. Not scruffy (hence the boots polished to the 'n'th degree), yet not shirt and tie (I hate ties, they are foul). The trousers must (I have learnt) be lighter than the boots; yet I hate that 'chino' look (or whatever those 'white' trousers are called). I don't want to look like Mr 4x4 driving 'affluent' 50 year old jerk arrogant guy; more 'cool dude' guy. I'm not adverse to navy jackets, yet don't want a 'blazer' look; and wool is too hot (it'll be spring soon). I'm really thinking grey. Or 'chambray' blue, summer looking. The jacket will be worn with the darker brown boots, lt grey trousers, white French cuff shirt, jade and silver vintage cufflinks (or even the pinky/purpley ones), Ray Ban metal framed sunglasses.

I shall drive a silver convertible Merc; early 60's through winding French (or Italian) coastal roads while listening to French music. I guess I'll have to smoke and drink imported beer whilst driving. Of course I shall have many young ladies lusting after my astonishingly youthful (yet mature) body. I have a villa somewhere. It is white and by the coast. Each morning I stroll to the village and sit in a café and smoke and drink coffee and glance at the newspaper in a disinterested way. I like to watch the passers by over the top of my sunglasses. I read obscure Hungarian authors. I speak some French, yet poorly. I often have stubble, but not always, and never on a Sunday. I have very nice leather luggage. I have no idea where my funds come from and I don't care. I am astonishingly fit and am engaged in all manner of physical activities (between smokes and drinks). I fence. I have several rather good pieces of original art in the villa. I speak some German, when pressed. I practice a hobby that is intricate, time consuming and took years to learn; it shall always engage me and shall never bore me. I swim in the bay often. I disdain the tourists who flock here. It is always summer; warm, but not oppressively so; the fine lace white curtains move in the breeze and the jasmine is always flowering and pungent.