Edward
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Meh, if "vintage" is your criteria, both of those were around by the forties... (jeans much longer).YI'm embarrassed to say it's t-shirts and jeans in weather like this...
Cream linen trousers...I wish. I'm afraid I have not mastered wearing anything cream, white, off-white. They always get tyre track marks or engine oil or something. Someone out there might have figured out a proofing agent to retain it's snazzy brightness? Equally I'm suspicious when someone's trousers are too shiny and clean (or possibly envious lol).
Heh. I've always found the watchwords to be "machine washable" when it comes to white garments.... Certainly whomever invented cricket whites didn't do their own laundry!
Right...time to burn all of my parka and shorts images. It's just harder to change out of shorts...than to throw a parka over when it gets colder!
:lol:
It works if the jeans are like new and the sport coat does not look like part of a suit.
That's mostly how I see it done - it's a very popular look among the more vintage-wear oriented hipsters here in the UK, especially in creative industries like advertising. Not my thing, but a lot of them do it with great confidence.
Ever seen the Man in the White Suit? Tip: don't go out in the rain like Alec Guinness does.
Heh, I've long dreamed of trousers like that!
Tweed and linen is not the ideal combo as Edward says. I think tweed looks best with jeans to be honest but I understand Dirk's point of view about tweed with "trousers" it's a conservative viewpoint but one that fits the Golden Era sensibility. I don't mind cord trousers with tweed either but it can look stuffy.
In the end with clothes it's who wears it and how it's worn that makes it work. Or not.
Oh, I have a piar of ruby red cords I just adore with a great tweed jacket...