You see it in comedic movies and TV shows all the time: the rich jerk the audience is supposed to hate always sports a lightweight sweater draped over his shoulders and tied around his neck. I can't say I've ever seen any man in real life actually wearing a sweater that way. Have you?
Do men ever wear sweaters tied around their necks in real life?
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That's not a purse, whatever Simon thinks. It's a shopping bag!
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I thought that was a business bag...seriously. A computer, work etc easily would fit in it.
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This. I have been chuckling quietly at the notion that one can't possibly hope to manage the daily transition in temperature without transforming the outer layer into a foppish noose.Gentlemen: If we are tuff enough to wear those suit coats, we oh-so-love, throughout the warming day, until we get home in the evening, then we should be tuff enough to endure wearing the sweater we saw fit to pull on that morning, in lieu of the jacket...yes, no? LOL.
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Not at all. The fact that I have observed it in real life doesn't make it look any less tasteless than the other option.
If someone really needs to have a sweater they would be taking off when it gets warm, etc., why not just take something like a messenger bag with you? Most men working white-collar jobs in my area seem to carry one.
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Take a messenger to the beach? C'mon.
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A beach tote bag makes a fine substitute in this instance.
"Foppish noose" has me chuckling more than quietly. :biggrin:
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I think I already explained that I go out in the late afternoon, when the sun is still out, with the sweater. When the sun goes down, and it gets colder, especially near a large body of water, I put the sweater on. I'm not strolling the quad at my prep school, or swanning about the office in tennis whites.
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I need one hand to hold a beer, the other to hold my lobster sandwich, plus a tote bag unbalances me when I want to kick sand in some skinny guy's face while his girlfriend watches.
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It's the most practical way to carry around a sweater you will need as the temp changes. Besides it always gets a chuckle out of my wife, who then just shakes her head, rolls her eyes, and realizes she created a monster when she bought me the Preppy Handbook in 1978.
I second the notion that it's the most practical way to carry around a sweater you will need as the temp changes fairly significantly between morning /afternoon or afternoon/evening especially in late spring and mid fall around here.
It also looks a heck of lot better than tying it around your waist.
It also looks a heck of lot better than tying it around your waist.
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I don't wear sweaters around my neck, but I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. Suit and sport coats are not intended to keep one warm (generally). If that were the case, I would never wear a suit or sport coat, given where I live. Different story with sweaters.
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Of course it's a fair comparison.
Nobody has asserted that adopting the sweater noose has anything to do with the fact that the garment is intended to keep one warm, but rather that variance in temperature during wear necessitates this particular response.
I find that a bit hard to swallow.
A sport coat could just as easily be the smart casual choice on a cool fall morning that sees warming temperatures throughout the day, followed by a return to cooler temps in the evening. The reason nobody would loop the sport coat around the neck during the warmer hours is that it would look absolutely ridiculous. And they would somehow manage to deal carrying said sport coat if it in fact proved to be to unbearable to wear.
Doing so with a sweater also looks ridiculous, but it was a preppy affectation in the '80s that some thought was awesome then (and was manifestly NOT undertaken for any practical reason) and still think is awesome now. If you like the look, rock it all day long. But the claim that it is the only practical way to deal with temperature change is a bit precious.
By the way - I categorically reject your assertion that sport coats are not intended to keep one warm. There is a reason some are made in linen, while others are made in heavy wool, tweed and cashmere
I actually do this all the time in the summer. When you're wearing a sweater during a day where it's cool in the morning, warm in the afternoon and cool in the evenings and I am not near my office or car, I might wear a lightweight sweater wrapped around my neck. It beats having to wrap it around one's waist, or stuff it in my briefcase.
Of course, I am a prep (private schools and a B.A. in a totally useless field) and in grad school at one of the older seminaries in Canada so I might as well enjoy those Oxbridge pretensions. It's like Croakies. Totally impractical and useless except for a very specific purpose, but very much enjoyable as a symbol of one's standings.
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Of course, I am a prep (private schools and a B.A. in a totally useless field) and in grad school at one of the older seminaries in Canada so I might as well enjoy those Oxbridge pretensions. It's like Croakies. Totally impractical and useless except for a very specific purpose, but very much enjoyable as a symbol of one's standings.
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