
Sometimes I worry the internet is not only changing the way we buy clothes, but also the kind of clothes we buy. So many things don’t translate well into .jpeg – subtle details such as texture and finishing are lost; silhouettes are flattened out into two-dimensional measurements. Some of my favorite clothes are things I stumbled upon by chance, but would have never given a second look online.
This ts(s) jacket is a good example. I’ve only had it for a month, but it’s been a go-to favorite almost every day when I’m not wearing a sport coat or leather jacket. I really only picked it up after seeing Greg from No Man Walks Alone last year in it when he was in San Francisco for a trunk show. The jacket isn’t impressive online, but once you see it worn with other things – in Greg’s case, a pair of slim, faded jeans and Margiela German Army Trainers – the appeal becomes obvious.
The modern uniform for tailored clothing typically involves a sport coat with jeans. Sometimes that works; a lot of times it doesn’t. The problem with wearing tailored clothing with denim is that the jacket usually has to be a lot more casual than people think – something like your shorter, slimmer interpretations of classics, rather than actual classics themselves. Unless you have the cool of Andy Warhol, the combo can otherwise come off like a sartorial mullet.
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