Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man

I had a coworker who used to dress like this, his go-to was a naval peacoat with a top hat.
On Halloween he came to work wearing a hoodie and jeans and it freaked everyone out.
- On Halloween he came to work wearing a hoodie and jeans and it freaked everyone out.
  That's one hell of a long game. Respect.
- did you offer to marry him?
  
  No dowry?
  
  Obvs out of my league.
- Knew a guy who wore a trenchcoat, black, and a kilt, standard red tartan, even when it was 110 out.
  Was chilling with his younger brother one day removed about how fucking hot it was when this badass walks up in said attire with his guitar slung over his shoulder, goes "shut up you pussies", pulls out his guitar, and does a bit of improv chords while singing the last couple of things we'd said, something like "it's hot as balls out here"
  I wish I could be even a 10th as cool as that guy was, because goddamn
  
  Well at least he wasn't wearing a shirt.
- The long con
- Back in college, circa 2010, there was a guy that dressed like it was the early 1900s all the time.

I would want to exude this energy:
But I know I would exude this energy:
- If I looked like this, I'd have to beat the women back with a stick!
  Because they are filthy peasants of course and I can't have them touching my finery. Also my wrists would be too delicate to wield a stick, so I'd have a boy for that.
  
  No need to use a stick - if you're The Macaroni, you're allowed to use your.........elbows
  
  How will you beat your boy, to let him know when to beat the ladies?
- I see that as a win also.
- You .. You do know why powdered wigs, don't you?
  
  Explain
  
  Did you just type a stutter?
- YYHEYH-eeEaahe-shshshshsh!
  Edit: sorry I can hear that second picture and tried to type it. Not sure it came through. Lol sry.
  
  Sounded perfectly to me!

They’re just after his chocolate factory.

If you take away the top hat it doesn't even look that old fashioned lol just like a really well dressed guy
- The top hat makes it though.
  
  Yeah I like the top hat too, I'm just saying that's the only part that makes it seem "historical"
  
  I was about to make this exact comment, satansmaggotycumfart
- What about the cane?
  
  Accessibility is very modern
  
  The cane gives it some hipster flair lol
  
  "Manners. Make. The man."
  
  I remember my great grandmother had a fancy shillelagh, she mainly used it to poke or smack the kids lol.
  
  Have you never met a removed monger?
  
  A man should be able to defend himself
- A really well dressed guy that lives in a cool climate. You wouldn't wear that shit in Texas or Florida or Missouri.
  
  Of course not. Who wants to summer in the colonies? My word.
  
  The upper class did, even before air conditioning. I don't know how they did it.
- ...are we looking at the same clothes?
  
  Presumably, yes

Perhaps it is this man’s display of the wealth required to buy these dandy clothes which procures said marriage proposals.
Meanwhile I, despite flawless erudition, am judged by my daily wear of “wife beater” apparel. I blame the casual utterance of such profanities.
If my tank top offends any woman for being wife beater toppage, I say to her “Madam, I have no wife. Would you please to hand me another beer from yonder fridge?”
- this whole thread hurts me. ugh
  guy makes his own clothes, or at least that was the case originally.
  i have big respect. let the man slay. you're welcome to your wife-beaters, and others are welcome to their finery.
  
  The post you're replying to is painfully obviously a joke
  
  i mean making your own clothes, especially fancy olden time ones, is not something poor people in the west can do. It takes soooo much time that you need to spend working an actual job so you can earn money to buy food.
- Hard to gauge a persons wealth by their clothes in today's world.
  
  Just reminded me, when I was 21 my credit card had a 500 limit but I was asked to travel. Company cards were NOT a thing here, only the CFO had one so they were forced to put me up places with a corporate account. Because of this was staying in a very ritzy four star hotel near silicon valley for a whole month and I had a Sunday check in to get settled. Being young broke and largely oblivious to social norms in a way only a lower class homeschooled kid with ADHD could be I showed up for check in warring ripped khaki rock climbing pants and a stretched out Ramones tanktop with a flannel tied around my waste. The old folks behind me were talking under their breath about how " you really cant tell" and new internet money is changing all the rules. Lmfao they had no idea that I couldnt afford more than the rental car deposit
- He's a tailor, and makes the clothes himself.
  Good grief.
- The fairer sex sees not but the belligerent blustering of a bedswerving bobolyne!
  
  live poetry
- We call those "vests" it sleeveless shirts in Australia, and they don't have any bad image, they just suggest the wearer exercises or is very bothered by heat, or (with the plain white ones) has taken off a button-up shirt
- Perhaps it's all in his head.
  
  And perhaps you, dear fellow, exist only in your own head, which itself exists inside the room you’re in, which is furthermore in your head as well.
- This joke would work better if you knew how to use words like "profanities", "toppage", and "yonder" correctly
  
  There's always somebody who sees an "iamverysmart" joke post as a personal threat.

I've met people like this. They tend to have delusions about their wierd thing. Im confident those proposals were mostly in his head or from one off jests.
- I'm a school bus driver and I've been proposed to by third-graders. I don't exactly take them seriously since I'm older than their grandparents.
- Nah I'm sure he got some joke proposals from people that are actually attracted to his eccentric dress code
  I mean, he does look pretty sharp. It's just kind of silly at the same time
  What's funny is that he sort of bragged about these joke proposals to the article
  
  joke proposals
  one off jests
  Those are the same things
- I used to dress weird (anything from HS Thompson in Fear and Loathing to Victorian-ish numbers to goth stuff) for the hell of it and got a lot more positive attention than otherwise. I suppose it was effort and confidence more than anything else, but who knows. I never took it very seriously, so not sure what the article's subject's real story is.
  
  Getting more tangental but thought I would share. I went to fandom cons in my youth and middle age and some fen had like costume identities. We stopped by a guys place spontaneously because we were in the area and when he answered he was like. Give me a min and then came back in his costume and invited us in.

I wonder where he finds the money to get these clothes that are probably tailored. Must've cost a fortune.
- Someone shared a link to his socials, he does his own tailoring.
  
  That's honestly very cool. As long as he's not being an ass about it, I think it's neat that he's expressing himself on a daily basis and wearing what makes him happy.
  
  That's so fucking cool. Good on him.
  
  Nice. Might also account for a few of the marriage proposals. Being able to sew is very self-sufficient.
  
  Ladies want a man who can sew

I just wear shit from gap and have been married three times
get on my level noob
- The Gap gets a lot of hate in my experience but I don’t give a fuck because all their clothes are comfy and fit my frame perfectly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Pinsent
https://www.instagram.com/pinsent_tailoring/feed/
- While very cool, I have to say I was not expecting the stripteases in all of his videos
  
  For real, grow up and show us your cock already 😡

Wtf i know this guy he’s a friend if mines younger brother, haven’t seen him in years now but he does always look that dapper

It says "countless offers of marriage" but not that it was women offering to marry him. So it could also be dudes. Schrödinger's sexuality I guess.
- he's in a long-time relationship with another man. my guess is his "proposals" run the gamut (and i expect a majority are made in jest).
- One dude, who keeps creating new accounts to beg him for his hand in marriage.
- I'd marry him to share his wardrobe
- Could also be a null value making it uncountable
  
  Zero is countable
- It was mostly dogs, but since they can't give consent he refused

Why don't we dress cool anymore?
- Lots of people do. Wear whatever you want.
  
  Not like this they don't! At least not in any of the places I frequent. Sure, people will dress pretty slick for formal parties now. I guess maybe this was all formal wear for its era, and not something worn daily. Or maybe it was worn daily for the very wealthy.
- I could dress cool... for money.
  
  Or with money.
- Biggest reason? Dressing this fancy is expensive. Prohibitively, in many cases, at least as an every day thing. I like to dress up from time to time, but I would need a lot more fancy clothes in order to dress up to that degree every day.
- I regularly wear a full-length cloak in public. Nothing is stopping you
- Ew, gross! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
- We're not hiding the odeous stench of our bodies anymore.
- I wouldn't really apply the word cool to a meticulously thought out, complicated outfit. Cool invokes effortlessness, this is anything but. This is impressive and grandiloquent.
- because good clothes don't fucking exist anymore, all you can buy is trash tier stuff made in an indonesian sweatshop by people who can barely afford food, which the shop then charges 200 bucks for.
  it just makes no sense to buy anything other than tshirts and jeans these days, everything else is just extra profit to evil companies and isn't of higher quality.
  Back in the day clothes were actually high quality and practical, if you can get your hands on some authentic second hand stuff you'll see the difference.

I want to stab him and take his little sack of silver coins.
- You probably don't even need to stab, they obviously can't count
- yeah this kid wouldn't have survived a day at any of the schools I went to. glad to see people are kinder I guess.

Just use regency era dating standards, showing ankles is basically a proposal right?

That is one dapper motherfucker

something something chocolate factory
- /c/grandpajoehate ?
  Edit: probably doesn't exist yet or I'm doing it wrong.
  
  !grandpajoehate@lemmy.world
  It exists, but it is dormant. You could make the first post!
  Be the change you want to see in the world, and never let Grand Pajoe's attrocities be forgotten!
  
  Fediverse links are !community_name@instance_url, but idk if there's a grandpajoehate here yet

Plot twist: the marriage offers are all from a single obsessed stalker.

Oh, innumerable offers! Manifold! Multitudinous!
One might even say - a plethora!
- Pepe, tell me. What is a plethora?
  
  Very, very much a lot
  
  Wasn't it supposed to be El Guapo?
  And you don't know what a plethora is?!!

Quite, AUSTENtacious, if I do say. Ho ho ho ho

- I was thinking reviewbrah vibes

More power to them.

This says a lot about the human condition.

The boots in the right picture trip my trigger!
- I've asked my girlfriend to wear boots like that but now I think maybe I should set an example myself...
  
  With boxers and a leather tool belt with power... Wait, I'm not walking into that ..

I'm not digging the blue and red outfit but the other two are dripping.

I'd marry him

Isn’t that Jacob Rees-Mogg’s origin story?
- Mogg?
  Half man, half dog?
  
  He's his own best friend

Clothing is custom, no labels. Nothing in his pockets but knives and lint.

I don't believe it.
- Can one count forward to where they started? I could entertain the argument 0 is uncountable, it exists but it has no effect, it's only a starting place, until exponents and calculus come into play, but that's where I got off the math train

I need an outfit made out of razor blades. Nothing could be sharper than that.

When did this go out of style? We need more people like this guy.
- Surprisingly recently. There are photos and film of men dresses like this at work. Perhaps after WW2, in the age of cheap mass market clothes.
- Another casualty of Climate Change

Friend of a friend of the working class

That’s more modern than Regency, Shirley?

“I see you dress to the right, sir.”

add 30 years and you have yourself a jacob rees mogg

I say! Someone managed to outcringe fedoras! Jolly well done, that chap.
- Cheerio!
  
  Pip pip
- Just because you're insecure doesn't mean everyone is.
- Fedora bowler

- Honestly, you'd be surprised. I never went this far, but as a man who used to own many colorful blazers, bowties, pocket squares, fancy pants, etc...women respond to the confidence.

- I mean, by people I think you mean people with money. People dress appropriate to their station. People then doing manual labor couldn’t afford clothes like the dude in the post and wouldn’t have wasted money on clothes that weren’t durable and easily cleaned.
  T-shirt and jeans became the standard due to their cheap cost to manufacture, durability, and standardized sizes and popularity in the mining, farming, and railroad industry, and again with WWII.
  Not a lot of jobs these days that allow for fancy dress and not many people can afford their own tailor. Not to mention temperatures were much cooler back then allowing all those extra layers, where as now you’d melt in some parts.

Sure, buddy
- No, really, he had received countless offers of marriage. Mostly from young gay men. OK, exclusively from young gay men, but it still counts.
  
  If you’re a young gay man, that’s all you would want anyway, right?

So instead of wearing the uniform of the modern elitist class he's wearing the uniform of a prior eliteist class. Is not reinforcing class division, but it's still tacky as hell.

This is dated 2019. Covid probably took care of THAT.
- ...what?
  
  THAT !
- Historic tailoring is that gentleman's business. I doubt the pandemic affected it much

If you're gonna go through all the trouble to dress weird at least pick an attire that looks cool
- I'm okay with men in corset, bra, girdle, shapewear in general., thongs (must get a Brazilian wax, for the look, ofc)and stilettos. 8 hours, consecutively, that's it (under wires optional, I'm not that cruel).
- I guess there really is no accounting for taste. I guess it's lucky he's not trying to impress you

THAT !