WIMR's official theorem about guys and jackets and neckties:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Ye who wear a dinner jacket ought not to wear a long necktie, and vice-versa.

Seriously, unless you're like the CEO of Microsoft or something, jacket + necktie looks ridiculous outside of the work setting. Either wear a long tie, and no jacket, or a jacket but no tie. Silly elsewise!

I like "sharp-dressed men," as the ZZ Top song goes, but there's a difference between "sharp" and "dagger-point."

[billyskank]

1. Good job you weren't at lunch with the dapper gents I was with today then

Man did I feel like a scumbag!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. HA!

[JVS]

2. You can't wear a jacket without the tie! It would be like eating your...

pudding without eating your meat!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. We don't need no education!

We don't need no thought control!
No dark sarcasm in the classroom...
Teacher, leave those kids alone!

[JVS]

5. But you do need something to cover your buttons

And that thing is the tie

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Buttons, schmuttons.

How come women who wear button-down blouses don't wear long ties?

[JVS]

7. Because they don't deserve ties!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Oh, yeah, sure.

I prefer to think of it as "We don't NEED ties."

[billyskank]

9. Your buttons don't go all the way up to the neck

Really, the problem is the collar. Men's shirts DEMAND a tie. Without one, they look ridiculous. If we are not to wear ties, then someone needs to design a new formal garment for men to take the place of the shirt.

[Reverend_Smitty]

11. bring back the Nehru jackets!!!

I know it will make at least one man happy

[yurbud]

17. of the three Kennedy's in that pic, I would trust RFK mot, just because

he aint wearing a tie.

[Deja Q]

20. !

[Radical Activist]

10. Jacket without tie is horrible

NEVER DO IT! If its a casual event, just go casual. Don't do a half-assed, blue-blood "I'm too stiff to not wear a business jacket" casual. Excuse me, I think an episode of Frasier is coming on.

[Ava]

12. lol

i prefer a guy in casual wear myself

[wildhorses]

13. thank god for the bow tie

[RevolutionaryActs]

14. !

Edit because I can't spell "thumb"

[wildhorses]

18. >>>>wayward smilies!!

and really I thought they were talkin' pasta

[miss_american_pie]

15. No!

No no no. Please do not tell them to wear ties without jackets.

I humbly beseech you.

No.

Please.

[MiniMandaRuth]

16. I dunno...

There's nothing sexier to me than when my main band men get outta concert and have their loose or undone neckties around their necks. Mmmmmmm....

[billyskank]

23. MINI!!

[MiniMandaRuth]

25. BILLY!!!!!

How have you been?!

[billyskank]

26. I've been better, sweetie

But I had a lovely afternoon with some fine DUers. I hope you are doing splendidly.

[Ava]

19. when dressing up, this is how a man should look

*sigh*

[Reverend_Smitty]

22. yes but he can also pull it off with the tie as well

hell he can look good without putting a shirt on at all

[RevolutionaryActs]

21. I disagree, tie + jacket = sexy.

Especially when they wear it like this:

loose tie, un-tucked shirt... oooh hotness.



I'm sorry, I'm just using this as an excuse to post his picture. I am a bad, bad girl.

[skygazer]

24. Dinner jacket sans necktie is ridiculous looking

And shirt and tie without jacket looks sloppy.

But George Clooney can wear it any way he wants and look absolutely fabulous. I'm drooling freely over the above photos.

[Midlodemocrat]

31. I think it looks okay sometimes if the jacket is a sports coat and not

part of a suit. Otherwise, I totally agree with you.

[tjwmason]

27. Dinner jacket requires a black bow-tie.

Normal jackets don't require ties they are optional.

Most suits really need ties.

Shirt and tie without jacket is just plain nasty.

But as other threads prove this evening, I am perpetually over-dressed - and damn proud of it too.

[TOhioLiberal]

28. if it's this guy...

Give me a suit EVERY time!

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. No, quite wrong - the problem is that guys you are seeing

are probably wearing poorly tailored suits, bad ties, and shirts that aren't very good.

Or, it could simply be that you just don't like the looks of jackets and ties.

[Midlodemocrat]

30. My husband wears tailor made suits to work

and if I say so myself, he looks fantastic in them. And, obviously, jackets and ties are required garb at certain events that aren't black tie. Or white tie for that matter.

The only time he doesn't wear a tie is when he is wearing a sports jacket to a less than formal event. Otherwise, tres gauche.

Also, another thing that frosts me, if you are wearing a suit jacket and tie, make sure you are wearing a long sleeved shirt. Otherwise, you look like a bad used car salesman.

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. The short-sleeved "dress" shirt with suit - yes, cracks me up no end!

It looks SOOOOOO awful.

Even a short-sleeved shirt with tie is anathema - it makes no sense. They look better without a tie. With a tie, they just make the wearer look like a pathetic puppy that needs someone to take better care of him.

[Midlodemocrat]

33. When I was in marketing back in the day, we had a little saying

that we could always tell the 'print salesmen' by their wardrobes.

Grey slacks, brownish plaid sport coat, tie, and short sleeved shirt.


Gah.