FRUIT FANCIES No. 3

sportcoat CDG x Brooks Brothers at Park & Bond // shirt Band of Outsiders at Park & Bond // bowtie Natural Born Elegance // pants Scotch & Soda // hat Rag & Bone at Barneys New York // scarf Nigel Cabourn at Barneys New York // boots Red Wing

Annnnd here's a bowtie-tastic outfit for ya! It's a plenty butch ensemble featuring that menswear staple, with a nod to my own bowtie-centric look. A very vintage vibe with the focus on textures and subtle patterns...maybe roll the sleeves up on the checked sportcoat so you look ready for a round of fisticuffs outside a bar called, "Saloon Times"?

THE BROOKS BROTHERS SHIRT

This shirt is so quintessentially summer, no? Vintage Brooks Brothers from Low, 100% fine cotton - so eighties, but so now! Summer shirting is tricky because I royally suck at the polished thing any time of year, but am not even willing to try in oppressive heat. I use either my patent-pending Twist & Tuck method (not to be confused with Buffalo Bill's T&T method from The Silence of the Lambs, a clarification I'm required to make for legislative purposes) or a loose front-tuck (seen here and on Lucy Chadwick below), or sometimes I just let my shirttails roam free. I love my shirts voluminous for that "borrowed from the boyfriend" aesthetic - a lazily half-popped collar here, a flash of nipple there when my halfway-unbuttoned shirt falls open as I lean forward to pick some chard in the community garden...what could be sexier? Probably nothing.

original photo by Joel Codiamat; loose-tuck inspiration photos via The Sartorialist and Vanessa Jackman, visit me on Pinterest for more!