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Is nonchalance in dress part of leaving Miami/Marriage/Fatherhood or Maturity?

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December 06, 2024, 11:42 AM
Aglifter
Is nonchalance in dress part of leaving Miami/Marriage/Fatherhood or Maturity?
Miami Aglifter: Dial of my watch and shoes co-ordinate with the secondary color of my shirt, whenever possible.

Charleston Ice Cream Papa to Be: Grey U.S. Made New Balances, and an MRG Square G shock.

When I lived in Charleston before, it was leather soles shoes or Sperry Topsiders, hunting jacket or Barbour and often a casual tie. (I miss the leather soles shoes but have to have them repaired - wearing them in Miami was an awful idea.

The cattleman hat and Barbour jacket are still being used - been in a hat since I could walk, and Barbours are useful in Charleston’s climate.

Maybe this is something to discuss with my wife? She always pushes me to “be comfortable” then dresses as far to the nines as possible, being 8 months pregnant.
December 06, 2024, 11:54 AM
HRK

December 06, 2024, 12:04 PM
trapper189
Me - trying to find a "cool" pair of shoes after finding out New Balance were not.

Daughter - "It's OK, dad, you don't have to be cool anymore"

Youngest son - "It's OK, Dad, you never were"

I'm not sure how HRK found my high school yearbook picture.

Getting married and having kids shifted my focus. I wouldn't call it maturity, more like survival. Now that the kids are older, I'm putting some effort back into dressing better and I haven't bought a pair of New Balance or similar in 5 or 6 years now.
December 06, 2024, 01:59 PM
YooperSigs
Socks are optional.


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December 06, 2024, 02:12 PM
P250UA5
Jeans, Ariat boots & typically a polo is my typical attire.
Shorts & Asics or sandals otherwise when not barefoot Cool

But, I've always been in a pretty casual setting/environment




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December 06, 2024, 02:35 PM
ArtieS
You are wearing clothes? Call it a win.



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December 06, 2024, 03:22 PM
Hamden106
I wear New Balance shoes. And grab whatever Carhart shirt is on top of the pile.



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December 06, 2024, 03:45 PM
Fenris
Say what? New Balance are un-cool?

I don't believe it. Not for one minute.




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December 06, 2024, 05:12 PM
PHPaul
I know this is going to come as a shock to a lot of you, but as long as nothing socially unacceptable is sticking out, I don't much give a shit WHAT I wear.

Carharrt carpenter jeans and a not-too-holey pocket tee about 90% of the time. Add a well-worn LLBean chamois shirt in the Winter.

If I'm dressing up, clean denim jeans and a pocket tee with NO holes...




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December 06, 2024, 06:22 PM
MNSIG
quote:
Originally posted by Aglifter:
Miami Aglifter: Dial of my watch and shoes co-ordinate with the secondary color of my shirt, whenever possible.



I’ve never even heard of such a practice. “Ain’t nobody got time fo’ dat”
December 06, 2024, 07:17 PM
arfmel
I don’t delude myself with the idea that anything I wear would make me “cool”. It’s very freeing.
December 06, 2024, 07:18 PM
shovelhead
My feet are so beat up after fifty plus years on concrete floors New Balance shoes are about all I can wear anymore.

Let the naysayers laugh. I don’t care.


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December 06, 2024, 08:40 PM
Bassamatic
If you are wearing anything Carhartt there is no way you are anything but cool. Smile



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December 06, 2024, 08:48 PM
joel9507
Call it awakening to reality, and embrace it. Smile
December 06, 2024, 09:42 PM
92fstech
I'm married. I've got nobody I need to impress anymore Smile.
December 07, 2024, 03:44 AM
Dan
What's a "casual tie?"
December 07, 2024, 05:43 AM
blueye
I'm over 70 so my wife tells me no one pays attention to old fucks.
December 07, 2024, 05:46 AM
Patriot
…and if you new balance uses Velcro?

What’s that say?


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December 07, 2024, 06:28 AM
egregore
quote:
Miami Aglifter: Dial of my watch and shoes co-ordinate with the secondary color of my shirt, whenever possible.

Charleston Ice Cream Papa to Be: Grey U.S. Made New Balances, and an MRG Square G shock.



December 07, 2024, 06:22 PM
Aglifter
A) “Secondary color” is how your wife matches your tie. Wearing a tie the same color as your shirt/suit can come off as a bit off.

Usually, there are several colors in a tie. Matching one of the less used ones to the shirt/suit is a norm.

(I’m partially colorblind, which leads to a weird situation where I am very good at matching colors, even if I can’t tell if they’re certain reds/pinks/oranges.)

B) Casual ties are usually a bit coarser/more open weave/something which goes well with tweeds/hunting clothes/barbours/“country” clothes - drives English people nuts, but social dress in SC is “country,” especially in Charleston/maybe ever city in the South.