[Charles Dana]

I was meaning a more modern style in mid green... something like these...

I do have at least a good idea what I'll be wearing!.

You're kidding, right? Your most recent post is just an example of your offbeat sense of humor, correct?

If by some chance you are being sincere, then I'll say this: Each one of the above suits looks ridiculous--not because of the color, but because of the silly shrunken fit. And the men wearing them look like idiots. If, at your wedding, you wear a suit, regardless of color, that fits like any of the outfits above, you will look silly, too.

If the suits in the above photos embody your idea of good looks and good taste, I recommend that you not get married until after your taste in clothing has matured and seasoned a bit--perhaps by the time you are age 50.

Don't wear a green suit at your wedding. Don't wear one of those shrunken abominations that are otherwise known as "modern suits." Wear a navy blue suit. Or charcoal grey. Wear it slim if you like, but not short and small and tight. If you have your heart set on looking like a laughingstock, fine: wear a "modern" suit on your honeymoon, or any time thereafter. But not at your wedding.

What's dumb and trendy has no place in a wedding ceremony. And the above suits are as dumb and trendy as it gets.

I know you won't heed my advice. Given the vast difference in our ages, you and I see clothing through much different eyes. That's OK, though: just writing this response was therapeutic for me. So put on a funny little suit for your wedding. Green? Why not? After all, you saw some Hollywood actors wearing the same getup, so it must be the height of exquisite taste. Young actors: always great role models.

 

[JLibourel]

After all, you saw some Hollywood actors wearing the same getup, so it must be the height of exquisite taste. Young actors: always great role models.

Once upon a time, in an era when the public set more store on dressing well and cultivating elegance in general, a lot of them were great sartorial role models.

 

[fiftyforfifty]

Thank you for the replies, gents.

I should have been more specific really. I was meaning a more modern style in mid green... something like these...

however, I've decided our budget won't stretch to nice enough ones so "un-normal" for 5 guys and I also have decided against uniforming my groomsmen. I'm sort of back to the drawing board, but I do have at least a good idea what I'll be wearing! Just have to dress the best man and ushers now without being tacky. One of whom is a 6'5 giant and a pain to buy for being a 56xl jacket and a 44w 35l trouser with an 18.5 inch neck.

Great suit but would really like to know is it fashion not to wear socks, i mean i feel strange not to wear socks,

 

[Balfour]

You're kidding, right? Your most recent post is just an example of your offbeat sense of humor, correct?

If by some chance you are being sincere, then I'll say this: Each one of the above suits looks ridiculous--not because of the color, but because of the silly shrunken fit. And the men wearing them look like idiots. ...

This.

 

[Chouan]

I have a green suit in a lightweight wool by Balenciaga which I rather liked. I bought it to wear at my niece's wedding last August, but my wife loathed it, or rather she loathed the colour. I still can't see what is wrong with it!

 

[SlideGuitarist]

Great suit but would really like to know is it fashion not to wear socks, i mean i feel strange not to wear socks,

It's the fashion, yes. So what? Don't do it.

 

[Charles Dana]

Once upon a time, in an era when the public set more store on dressing well and cultivating elegance in general, a lot of [Hollywood actors] were great sartorial role models.

Yes--absolutely and emphatically correct. Before the late 1960's, in decades when Hollywood was synonymous with glamour, one looked to motion picture actors for edification on how to dress. (No matter how messy their private lives may have been, those actors looked impeccable. In public, anyway.) Nowadays one looks to actors to learn precisely how not to dress.

 

[Balfour]

... Nowadays one looks to actors to learn precisely how not to dress.

Very true.

The late Sir Christopher Lee dressed, and Bill Nighy dresses, quite well.

 

[citizenk]

My Green Suit

 

[Charles Dana]

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Sehr gut! Danke!

Good because:

1. The green is understated.
2. You are not at your own wedding ceremony.
3. The suit is not four sizes too small.

Schön.

 

[Balfour]

...
3. The suit is not four sizes too small.

...

Indeed!

 

[son of brummell]

Green is OK for a less formal suit. That is one reason why olive poplin remains a summer standard at Brooks Bros.

Wear a green suit on a spring or summer day for either the weekend or a less formal day at your business. But don't wear it for a night at the Metropolitan Opera or an evening at an expensive restaurant.

 

[citizenk]

Mark,

The suit in my picture is a Brooks Brothers Poplin, which is quite comfortable in the Spring, Summer or early Fall.

I took the photo a last summer as I was getting ready to depart for work. I would never wear that suit out for a night at the opera or to dinner at anything grander than a pizzeria!

I certainly don't consider it a "formal" suit but it has its place in the workaday world.

Cheers,

 

[Oldsarge]

That looks about right. My own olive poplin is even more casually cut and you would be hard pressed to prove that the jacket isn't a sport coat. But I'm retired. I can be as eccentric as I want. :winner:

 

[ocatoro]

I really did only post those examples for the shade of green rather than "I want this suit" ... but...

I absolutely agree on the silly lack of socks and the "shrunken" looking fit particularly of the trousers in #3 with the chap sat down.

but I don't agree that the other three are shrunken in fit. any more material and they'd be spud-sack in fit to my eye.

if those are too in your face for shade then that's your taste, and that's fine. as I said previously I've abandoned the green as doing it how I wanted is going to cost too much, along with flying people abroad for the wedding. In fact, as I said, I've abandoned the uniformed tradition all together

 

[Oldsarge]

Ocatoro, old fellow, the members right now are more interested in spouting off than in actually engaging you in either conversation or debate. That's one of the hazards of asking a question around here, sadly. ic12337:

 

[Balfour]

... as I said previously I've abandoned the green as doing it how I wanted is going to cost too much, along with flying people abroad for the wedding. In fact, as I said, I've abandoned the uniformed tradition all together

You said this in the same post that included the fashion forward monstrosities - you can hardly complain people commented about them.

 

[Charles Dana]

I should have been more specific really. I was meaning a more modern style in mid green... something like these.... I'm sort of back to the drawing board, but I do have at least a good idea what I'll be wearing!

I'm not sure I see the basis of Oldsarge's criticism. In the same post from which I extracted the above quote, the OP inserted, as examples of the "modern style" that gave him "a good idea of what [he will] be wearing", several photographs of horrendously-fitting suits. Therefore, my subsequent criticism of the suits was, although admittedly blunt, a direct response to something that the OP himself had explicitly stated and illustrated. (In being brutally frank, I was attempting to save the OP from himself so that he wouldn't look lousy on his wedding date). Accordingly, I don't understand how my comments about the fit of the suits constituted an irrelevant "spouting off." The OP raised an issue; I addressed the issue.

 

[Balfour]

...Accordingly, I don't understand how my comments about the fit of the suits constituted an irrelevant "spouting off." The OP raised an issue; I addressed the issue.

Exactly.