White suits are dead sexy - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

CLKeenan · 03-26-2007, 05:01 PM

Or maybe its just me

geekcognito · 03-26-2007, 05:13 PM

Ha! Pimpin'!

The trick to white dress pants is to always be sure to wear white boxers. I almost learned the hard way a few years ago when heading to a wedding. Luckily, my gf at the time stopped me right before I got in the car to go. She could see the clovers printed on my boxers right through the pants.

CLKeenan · 03-26-2007, 05:19 PM

Hahaha- I definitely almost did the same thing too but I realized that as I was getting dressed

Sidenote: I'm going to a wedding in Florida this summer and I want to wear my white suit... it isnt a fashion faux pas to do that is it? White isn't reserved for the bride alone is it?

Aequitas · 03-26-2007, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by CLKeenan

White isn't reserved for the bride alone is it?

In some weddings it is, I was going to wear a white suit to my friends wedding, I was the second man or whatever the fuck is after the first man but I was not allowed because only the bride was allowed to wear white, I was like WTF come on.

CLKeenan · 03-26-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Aequitas

In some weddings it is, I was going to wear a white suit to my friends wedding, I was the second man or whatever the fuck is after the first man but I was not allowed because only the bride was allowed to wear white, I was like WTF come on.

Well, this is a wedding where I know the bride shouldnt be wearing white, if you catch my drift haha. So hopefully I'll be able to wear my suit

geekcognito · 03-26-2007, 05:31 PM

If you're IN the wedding then you have to follow whatever theme and dress code they have going on.

But if you are just attending and especially if the wedding is in the summer in Florida, then you will be fine.

CLKeenan · 03-26-2007, 05:34 PM

Good to hear - I most definitely will

NYDAz · 03-27-2007, 01:33 PM

so Pimpin`

CLKeenan · 03-27-2007, 02:13 PM

Hahhaha - what a great article about white suits

TheÂGAYenduring mystiqueÂGAYof the white suit. - By Inigo Thomas - Slate Magazine

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A month ago, I bought a white suit. Cheap it was: just over 100 bucks at the downtown Brooklyn branch of Daffy's, the discount-clothing store, one of the best shops in New York City.

Now, a white suit, however inexpensive, is always an absurd impracticality, even an act of defiance against all practicality. It is also, in life as in movies and books, never neutral. Like a white Rolls Royce, for example, a white suit connotes grandness, tackiness, egotism, sex, and cash. Such a confluence is found in Fitzgerald's first presentation of Gatsby, dressed to impress Daisy in a "white-flannel suit, silver shirt, and a gold-colored tie." There was no way, that afternoon, that Jay Gatsby could have worn dark blue.

A man in white is never innocent; no woman in white is necessarily innocent either, though the conventional idea is that she may be. A man in white is often searching for something: dirt, or life, or love, money or blood, fame or notoriety. A white suit attracts what you don't have or what you want more of. At least that's the idea, though the experience of wearing a white suit doesn't always follow the script. After Lawrence of Arabia, in which he starred, won best picture, Peter O'Toole bought a white suit in Los Angeles, rented a white Rolls Royce, and cruised Sunset Boulevard. He waved to people in cars and on the sidewalks, as if he was mother of the Queen of England at a parade. "No one took any f------ notice," he told a friend, "but I thoroughly enjoyed it."

If a white suit is a way to draw attention to oneself—maybe, maybe not—it can also be a way to associate oneself with someone else. Wear a white suit and you might hear someone remark, as they pass you by, "Very Hemingway," or "Very Evelyn Waugh," or "Very Graham Greene," or, as I did, "Very Mick Jagger." Not once did I hear anyone say, when I was wearing mine, "Very Tom Wolfe." That was interesting-ish, because the most famous wearer of white suits in recent times is Wolfe.

The problem with Wolfe's suits is the problem with the white suit: They never seem to entirely belong to you. It's as if they're always on loan—a rental, more hotel than home. In other words, white suits are a distraction, a way of losing yourself, or of going abroad. Wolfe's suits always evoke the image of another author, Mark Twain. Twain wore his brilliant white suit in winter and summer, at the opera and at home, and though he was not the first man to wear a white suit—Samuel Pepys possessed one back in the 17th century—he is, as far as I know, the first man who wasn't a pope to be famous to make a point of dressing almost always in white. Prior to his appearance before Congress in December 1906, he explained to Capitol Hill journalists why he wore white: "I have found that when a man reaches the advanced age of 71 years, as I have, the continual sight of drab clothing is likely to have a depressing effect upon him. Light-colored clothing is more pleasing to the eye and enlivens the spirit."

Like every suit, the white suit is a uniform, not of the office but of the street or the cafe. In the movies, Mafia bosses are often in white—like Fanucci, the Lower East Side extortion merchant in The Godfather, who is murdered in a Lower East Side tenement building by the young Vito Corleone—but in life, they tend to wear drearier colors, unless they're death-wish or arrest-wish inclined, as some are, and this is why they wear white. Such fatalism, of course, is another attribute of the white suit. There's the inevitability of its getting dirty, which in the movies is translated into the certainty of blood. And red on the screen is a more convincing and dangerous color when set against white.

The white suit can also be about power. FDR and Truman were white-suit men in summer months, though lately white suits haven't been presidential. Then there's the white suit of the Southern plantation owner (which I suspect was more myth than true), but white has always gone hand in hand symbolically with lording it, and with empire. Photographs of a great uncle in the '30s, then governor of Singapore, depict the epitome of the white-suited Englishman overseas. And though the empire has gone, the white suit hasn't. "As supplied to the Foreign Office," read the tag on a white suit bought by a friend in London's Piccadilly a few years ago. In the imagination, "our man" in the tropics is always in white.

That kind of white-suited Englishman is often contrasted with its famous variation: the man in the rumpled white suit. This is the man from the pages of Graham Greene's fictions, symbol of the man gone wild in the jungle, who, like a plant taken from Europe to the equator, has become a monstrosity with no hope of returning home, no hope of redemption, but mainly with no hope of finding a cleaner to attend to his white suit. Not that this kind of man is intrinsically English. He can be an American imitating English airs. In Michael Herr's book about the war in Vietnam, Dispatches, American CIA types sit in Saigon cafes dressed in white suits, reading Brit kitsch boy stuff: Lawrence of Arabia, the adventures of Richard Burton, and the end of General Gordon at Khartoum. One can't imagine that their suits stayed white for too long.

Would anyone buy a white suit that never got dirty and never became rumpled? Isn't this part of their allure? In the movie The Man in the White Suit, the boffin played by Alec Guinness creates a white suit resistant to grime. He invents the sartorial equivalent of the light bulb that never needs be changed. He and his invention are crushed by evil mill owners who have no interest in seeing a small man successfully rob them of their profits from traditional, dirt-absorbing cloth.

Of course it's how a white suit becomes dirty that is interesting. My own white suit is now filthy: I sat on a blackened fire escape one warm Sunday morning. Among all else, a white suit is folly, though I've always preferred people who expose some of their follies to those who hide them. My suit will soon go to the cleaners for a few days. It's not the best suit I've owned, but it is the cheapest, and as a suit for a summer in New York, where the awfully formal-informal dress code is that you shouldn't wear white earlier than Memorial Day—a rule I have not been observing—I shall be curious to see how it records the course of the next three months, each indelible stain it and I acquire as part of a diary of a summer in the city.

engaged · 03-27-2007, 02:16 PM

i can tell from here that is a cheap tie

CLKeenan · 03-27-2007, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by engaged

i can tell from here that is a cheap tie

oh ya? what makes you say that?

engaged · 03-27-2007, 02:55 PM

material doesnt look like nice silk, so bright im almost blinded

CLKeenan · 03-27-2007, 05:09 PM

So bright? It looks pretty dark in that shitty quality picture haha

agua · 03-27-2007, 08:41 PM

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White suits are dead sexy

That guy with his arm around you seems to think so

Idea Guy · 03-27-2007, 08:58 PM

Ok..They are both sexy!

lol

I guess, there's nothing wrong with the tie..It doesn't look bad..

IgAnand · 03-27-2007, 11:08 PM

hmmm ... this explains a lot - jeff in hr has a thing for white ...

03-26-2007, 05:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
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03-26-2007, 05:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
geekcognito Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 2,012 iTrader: 26 / 100%	Ha! Pimpin'! The trick to white dress pants is to always be sure to wear white boxers. I almost learned the hard way a few years ago when heading to a wedding. Luckily, my gf at the time stopped me right before I got in the car to go. She could see the clovers printed on my boxers right through the pants. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ "Never confuse movement with action." ~Ernest Hemingway "While you have lost some money, you have also gained some knowledge. So in the end you may have not lossed at all. Good luck bro." ~ Sumitdhawan09

03-26-2007, 05:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
CLKeenan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 2,118 iTrader: 10 / 100%	Hahaha- I definitely almost did the same thing too but I realized that as I was getting dressed Sidenote: I'm going to a wedding in Florida this summer and I want to wear my white suit... it isnt a fashion faux pas to do that is it? White isn't reserved for the bride alone is it? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Looking for Drupal developers. PM me for details.

03-26-2007, 05:31 PM	#6 (permalink)
geekcognito Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 2,012 iTrader: 26 / 100%	If you're IN the wedding then you have to follow whatever theme and dress code they have going on. But if you are just attending and especially if the wedding is in the summer in Florida, then you will be fine. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ "Never confuse movement with action." ~Ernest Hemingway "While you have lost some money, you have also gained some knowledge. So in the end you may have not lossed at all. Good luck bro." ~ Sumitdhawan09 Last edited by geekcognito; 04-17-2007 at 09:46 PM..

03-26-2007, 05:34 PM	#7 (permalink)
CLKeenan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 2,118 iTrader: 10 / 100%	Good to hear - I most definitely will Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Looking for Drupal developers. PM me for details.

03-27-2007, 01:33 PM	#8 (permalink)
NYDAz Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sin City Posts: 275 iTrader: 0 / 0%	so Pimpin` Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Baby blanket They don't do it like me anymore, in fact they never did it like me before !

03-27-2007, 02:16 PM	#10 (permalink)
engaged I can get it juicy for ya Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,484 iTrader: 2 / 100%	i can tell from here that is a cheap tie Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

03-27-2007, 02:55 PM	#12 (permalink)
engaged I can get it juicy for ya Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,484 iTrader: 2 / 100%	material doesnt look like nice silk, so bright im almost blinded Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

03-27-2007, 05:09 PM	#13 (permalink)
CLKeenan Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 2,118 iTrader: 10 / 100%	So bright? It looks pretty dark in that shitty quality picture haha Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Looking for Drupal developers. PM me for details.

03-27-2007, 08:58 PM	#15 (permalink)
Idea Guy Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 77 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Ok..They are both sexy! lol I guess, there's nothing wrong with the tie..It doesn't look bad.. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ Marketing Ideas and Insights

03-27-2007, 11:08 PM	#16 (permalink)
IgAnand Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: CT Posts: 44 iTrader: 0 / 0%	hmmm ... this explains a lot - jeff in hr has a thing for white ... Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

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