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What's your opinion on formal clothes? Personally I hate them I don't like how they look on me and I like how I look in casual wear, although I think some people look good in formal attire.

Same. Beer guts don't look good in tuxedo or dress shirts.

Couldn't vote. I have four type of formal. One for Marriage/wedding to go to, one for those government function that does not require my blues, my blues, and one that's a bit modern if I'm going to government function with a hidden agenda of my own to network future contact.

I love the way I look in formal wear, I love the way other people look in formal wear. I wish i had a job where I could get gussied up every day for work.

That being said, its way uncomfortable, so I understand your feelings on it. (I worked a year as a nurse, and was shocked to discover that scrubs pants are the single most comfortable form of pants ever invented. I still buy them even though I got out of the medical industry years ago!)

Only if I wear one of my pin stripe suits with my fedora or bowler hat.

I miss wearing my dress blues, but till then I have a couple suits and want a nice English cut at one point.

I like mine.

Gotta wear a suit every day, but soon started liking it. Comfortable and...it looks awesome.

Formal dress (suit and tie) is fine. I even quite like smart casual just for going out and about.

Not really a fan of black tie though.

I've worn blazers and odd jackets on a daily basis for a few years now, but I got my first suit for Christmas this past year and I love it. I actually had a court date a few months ago and I was super psyched because I get to so few opportunities to wear it. I was so excited I actually got a picture before I left the house!

I look fantastic In a 3-piece.

42-tall, single breast, English cut.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I miss wearing my dress blues, but till then I have a couple suits and want a nice English cut at one point.

Psssh, a suit is worth a hundred women. Even just a good, fitted blazer or sport coat will get you more chicks than anything else. I mean, let's be honest, who're they gonna go for, the dude in the wrinkly cargo shorts and Miami Heat jersey or the guy with some slick jeans/chinos and a well-fitted jacket who actually looks like he knows how to dress himself?

I reserve the wearing of my formal Hawaiian shirts for special occasions, like a meeting with the Bishop.

My formal Hawaiin shirts are a ruby patterned shirt, a white shirt with green trees, and a white shirt with some parrots and tree imprint patterns.
Also I'll wear slacks with the formal Hawaiian shirts and not the usual parachute shorts and sandals.

To paraphrase Billy Connoly:
'When I wear a suit I look like I stole it...'

Call me shallow, but my one pet formal-wear peeve is when people of a very large size wear a shirt, and button it up right to the top and then have their tie done up really tight, causing their neck-fat to spill out the top of their shirt and hang down over their collar, for some reason it makes me think that the person is dodgy or sleazy (probably due to the number of politicians that suffer from that problem).

Where is the option for "I scrub up well, but I don't like to wear it any more than I have to"?

Formal clothes annoy me. Mostly because other people don't know how to where them. Cheap suits, no overcoat, lounge suits to black tie, black tie in the morning, morning dress at evening wedding receptions... If your going to do it, do it right.

That video says it all. Lots of people in suits, outside, not one overcoat. An overcoat or Macintosh is part of the outfit. A wool suit is for indoors people! If its to warm you should be in linen, which is acceptable without a coat (some types of cotton are also acceptable)

For work, you would have to pay me allot more to where a suit every day. At £400+ for a half way passable suit it gets expensive fast.

 Steve steveson wrote:
Formal clothes annoy me. Mostly because other people don't know how to where them. Cheap suits, no overcoat, lounge suits to black tie, black tie in the morning, morning dress at evening wedding receptions... If your going to do it, do it right.

That video says it all. Lots of people in suits, outside, not one overcoat. An overcoat or Macintosh is part of the outfit. A wool suit is for indoors people! If its to warm you should be in linen, which is acceptable without a coat (some types of cotton are also acceptable)

For work, you would have to pay me allot more to where a suit every day. At £400+ for a half way passable suit it gets expensive fast.

If you wear an overcoat in Texas with a suit you will die.

 Frazzled wrote:
If you wear an overcoat in Texas with a suit you will die.

Is that from the heat, or because they think you're from New York?

I used to hate formal wear when I was younger. It always made me think my parents were dressing me up to sell me....
They didn't though. I assume that they didn't get any decent offers.
Now I like wearing a suit. I make it look good.
Job interviews are easier when you're clearly the best dressed person in the room.
I attribute my current job to looking good in an interview.

There's nothing more amusing than going to the pub and greeting the batman whilst wearing a dinner jacket.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
If you wear an overcoat in Texas with a suit you will die.

Is that from the heat, or because they think you're from New York?

Yes.

 rubiksnoob wrote:

Even just a good, fitted blazer or sport coat will get you more chicks than anything else.

Apart from a Kilt.
Chicks dig a man in a kilt.

 marv335 wrote:
Apart from a Kilt.
Chicks dig a man in a kilt.

That depends on whether it is regimental or not

"Suits are full of joy. They're the sartorial equivalent of a baby's smile"

-B. Stinson

 Frazzled wrote:

 Steve steveson wrote:
Formal clothes annoy me. Mostly because other people don't know how to where them. Cheap suits, no overcoat, lounge suits to black tie, black tie in the morning, morning dress at evening wedding receptions... If your going to do it, do it right.

That video says it all. Lots of people in suits, outside, not one overcoat. An overcoat or Macintosh is part of the outfit. A wool suit is for indoors people! If its to warm you should be in linen, which is acceptable without a coat (some types of cotton are also acceptable)

For work, you would have to pay me allot more to where a suit every day. At £400+ for a half way passable suit it gets expensive fast.

If you wear an overcoat in Texas with a suit you will die.

And thats why you should wear light linen or cotton of some kind

You will probably die wearing a wool suit in Texas, overcoat or not (Or at least I would).

I've always been told I look good cleaned up, and in formal clothes...but I just hate wearing ties and long sleeve shirts. So, I'll be happy for a an hour or two, but after that it starts to bug me. Haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_EFdod4YDo

 Steve steveson wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 Steve steveson wrote:
Formal clothes annoy me. Mostly because other people don't know how to where them. Cheap suits, no overcoat, lounge suits to black tie, black tie in the morning, morning dress at evening wedding receptions... If your going to do it, do it right.

That video says it all. Lots of people in suits, outside, not one overcoat. An overcoat or Macintosh is part of the outfit. A wool suit is for indoors people! If its to warm you should be in linen, which is acceptable without a coat (some types of cotton are also acceptable)

For work, you would have to pay me allot more to where a suit every day. At £400+ for a half way passable suit it gets expensive fast.

If you wear an overcoat in Texas with a suit you will die.

And thats why you should wear light linen or cotton of some kind

You will probably die wearing a wool suit in Texas, overcoat or not (Or at least I would).

Only crackers dreaming that Lee won the war wear linen suits. What is this 1962? Yes Miss Tammy, I'll have me a nice mint julip. Can you have your n er servant boy whip me up one...

I feel like a took wearing formal clothes. To me nothing is scarier then a suit

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I feel like a took wearing formal clothes. To me nothing is scarier then a suit

What about a frenzied bear in a mankini?