About a month ago I read, heard or smelled that bright colors were ‘in? for men this Spring. So, I immediately bought a yellow, short sleeve shirt.
If I have a favorite color it’s yellow. Mommy’s influence. In the good ol? days of golf, wild colors were the rule on the links. Plaid slacks or shorts, argyle socks, floral shirts and all kinds of hats (except baseball). I hate baseball hats. They’re so billed!
Then some French (he had to be French) designer called our pride and joys gauche, and in came khaki. Soon everyone was wearing colors meant for the military.
From the waist down all golfers looked the same. Thanks to golf course managers khaki kept denim in the background for years. But, now, after a generation or more of casualness (sloppiness), many courses have tees full of loose or tight, short or long, paint stained or clean, overall bottomed ball strikers.
That all may change according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article reprinted in The Detroit News. Khaki will not be gone entirely, it reads, but it will be dressed up with a silk tie, or down with an open-collar, button-down shirt.
No one is happier to see neckties making a return than I. Some of my 250 plus ties may be fashionable. Yes, some are silk.
And, denim isn’t to be forgotten entirely, though it should be. This Spring, ‘destroyed? denim is in if it has a ‘relaxed fit? paired with an embroidered shirt with French cuffs and novelty tie.
Again, the designers have come over, or back to, my likes. I’ll have to get an embroidered shirt, maybe today, but I have some 50 pairs of cuff links and several novelty ties, like one with The Lone Ranger (tv not radio Ranger), golf, birds, etc.
Here are some more Spring offerings for men that will just make you want to lie down and die for: ‘Cotton canvas sport jackets, silk blazers in hot solids such as tangerine and periwinkle (Don’t you love it?), leather motorcycle jackets with flat-front trousers and shirts in colorful prints so zany and abstract that they look as if they could have been a preschool project.?
Linen is expected to be big for men, too. The sanding and fraying of denim has carried over into linen, along with an intentional wrinkled texture.
Still in, and I’ll never understand why, are T-shirts. Nothing is an un-dressy as a T-shirt. Unless it has a message, like ‘I’m with the ugly guy? I think T-shirts should be covered or left in the drawer.
They should never be thought of as acceptable even when covered by a fashionable sports jacket. T-shirts are for tikes and confinables.
Of course, that’s only my opinion, which is in the huge minority.
Back to the Pittsburgh and Detroit papers? articles, but first, there is no mention of short-sleeved dress shirts being even available. Let alone embroidered.
But, a soft deconstructed suit-type jacket in a suede, distressed canvas or velvety fabric gets ink. So do driving moccasins, bead embellished shirts and designer blue jeans. Oh, the jacket has to be 3-button.
Damn, we still have blue jeans being pushed as wearable for dress-up occasions. My daddy wore blue jeans as they were meant to be worn: as bib-overalls.
Blue jeans are a working man’s uniform, not a trend-setter at a ball. They are also not to be worn as acceptable wear by teens, etc. with holes in the knees and buttocks, or dragging on the turf.
White denims are coming in this year. Maybe I’ll like them better.
NOT!