Do you tuck your pants into your shirt and not the other way around (tuck your shirt into your pants)? Is this a regional difference (in line/on line)?!?!
Also, I've had this discussion on my page before but I can't rmember the answer -- is "button up" the correct name for that kind of shirt? It always used to irk me when people would call it a button down (since in my book that is a statement about the collar), but I never knew what else to call it. I was about to defer to you since you are in school with people who are/in a profession that is well acquainted with finer frocks, but then i remembered the flip flops. nevermind. though i will still defer to you on this stuff regardless.
Such specificity of language! You should be in law school. I'm going to say I am totally wrong and you tuck the shirt into the jeans.
As for the shirt, if I am referring to the collar I say "button down collar". As in "No one should wear a shirt with a button down collar, those shirts look terrible".
Any shirt with buttons up the front, I call a button up, but maybe that's wrong?
re: specificity of language: Well, my father is a lawyer. There was a lot of obnoxious, "dad, I am not strong enough to pick up my room" when I was little. god, don't tempt me to go to law school though...though i know, everyone i know who went to law school just to have something to do is either no longer in law or hating it...[obvs. you seem like you know what you want out of it]
Anyway, I really do not know the right term for that kind of shirt. Who is the menswear expert around here -- orchid_and_wasp? mr. cranky, esq.?
I call the shirt pictured a button up shirt. So does Jay Z. I more commonly refer to my shirts with long sleeves and buttons all the way up the front as dress shirts, but clearly not all shirts with buttons are "dress," as we see in the example.
But how do you differentiate (semantically) between such a shirt and a three-button "polo" type shirt? Surely, that can't be called a button up as well, but it has buttons on the front. I suppose it is just a polo shirt?
Is that a guy? It looks like a boy. Or maybe a cardboard cut out of a boy. As for tucking in--sometimes it works and sometimes not--but I am thinking solely of women's clothes where its all about the cut of the shirt and pants. Honestly, men's clothes all look basically the same to me.
on my recent trip into Asheville, NC I noticed the mystifying trend of adolescent men wearing what I refer to as Belt Buckle Flair (or Gwen Stefani/Lil Kim Flair)...that is the shiny belt buckles that say things like "Skinny" (and he wasn't) "Phat" and of course "Real" complete with a confederate flag.
Yuck.
and I know squat about fashion but I know I shall never wear Message Belts.
the belt is absurd, right? I actually don't really like this look at all, to be honest. I hate his hair, I hate th belt, and I hate the shirt, but it was the first photo I found of a dude with a dress shirt tucked into jeans.
The emo boys who used to hang out at my friend's workplace would achieve this look by skipping meals (being vegan also helps). They also shopped in the Boys' Section at the department store...
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Also, I've had this discussion on my page before but I can't rmember the answer -- is "button up" the correct name for that kind of shirt? It always used to irk me when people would call it a button down (since in my book that is a statement about the collar), but I never knew what else to call it. I was about to defer to you since you are in school with people who are/in a profession that is well acquainted with finer frocks, but then i remembered the flip flops. nevermind. though i will still defer to you on this stuff regardless.
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As for the shirt, if I am referring to the collar I say "button down collar". As in "No one should wear a shirt with a button down collar, those shirts look terrible".
Any shirt with buttons up the front, I call a button up, but maybe that's wrong?
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Anyway, I really do not know the right term for that kind of shirt. Who is the menswear expert around here -- orchid_and_wasp? mr. cranky, esq.?
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But how do you differentiate (semantically) between such a shirt and a three-button "polo" type shirt? Surely, that can't be called a button up as well, but it has buttons on the front. I suppose it is just a polo shirt?
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The thing is, if your belly isn't as flat as that guy's, then you just look like...a dad.
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i tuck my shirt into slacks most of the time*, but jeans? i'm just not sure...
*because i only wear slacks when i have to go somewhere fancy, not cause i have a flat belly like this dude.
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I prefer knits to cloth anyway.
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Only one of those things is remotely cool, and you are not roping steer, son.
Now, can I divert this conversation to ask: what the fuck is up with that dude's belt?
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Yuck.
and I know squat about fashion but I know I shall never wear Message Belts.
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and his hair is a complete problem. the cut of the shirt is fine for someone of his skinny build, but the design and fabric both suck.
this is certainly a poor advertisement in general for tucking shirt into jeans, but i still stand by the practice.
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Another alternative would be corsets for men.
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