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 bitching 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.
I see that as a win also.
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
...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.
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
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 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
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
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.
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.
Ew, gross! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
I regularly wear a full-length cloak in public. Nothing is stopping you
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?
something something chocolate factory
/c/grandpajoehate ?
Edit: probably doesn't exist yet or I'm doing it wrong.
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!
That is one dapper motherfucker
Plot twist: the marriage offers are all from a single obsessed stalker.
Quite, AUSTENtacious, if I do say. Ho ho ho ho
More power to them.
This says a lot about the human condition.
That's some Mr. Darcy energy.
I was thinking reviewbrah vibes
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
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
Clothing is custom, no labels. Nothing in his pockets but knives and lint.
The term is "bespoke," you Philistine!
/s
Isn’t that Jacob Rees-Mogg’s origin story?
Mogg?
Half man, half dog?
He's his own best friend
I need an outfit made out of razor blades. Nothing could be sharper than that.
Friend of a friend of the working class
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
“I see you dress to the right, sir.”
That’s more modern than Regency, Shirley?
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
Fedora > bowler
Just because you're insecure doesn't mean everyone is.
Press x to doubt.
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.
People did used to look better back in the day. (Photos below)
It's also nice that every culture had their own style. Now everyone wearing jeans and a T-shirt is bad, but the awful american dad sneakers and white socks with baseball cap does it.
We need to go back. At least on special occasions or something. Don't think going the UK and everyone wearing a suit or going to Japan and everyone wearing a Kimono is better?
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.
Of course I don't mean the lower classes would wear a suit like that.
They would wear different clothes. But trousers, waistcoat, shirt are standard British clothing for all classes.
Here's some miners
The only people that actual seem to dress British are people that work in finance and schoolchildren. Thank God for uniforms.
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.
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
