I can’t stand Brunello Ciccinelli for the absolutely ridiculous prices. Anybody who buys his stuff is just enabling this off the charts gouging.

This luxury market has been discused here before. I guess brands like BC have their niche market (like Prada, Valentino, Tom Ford, Helmut Lang...), guys that wear those garments just because they can afford it, mostly as a pure symbol of status. People that usually replaces taste with money. Some of those companies make clownish ill-fitting garments on purpose (hey, we're avant-garde!), others make hit-or-miss stuff, with NOTHING in the design or fabrics departments that justifies the astronomical prices. If I had the money to afford those brands, I'd go bespoke for everything.

I'm with you all the way when its black ties. Only the Blues brothers could carry that look without being straight up coffin carriers.

However, some colours go better with black I think. pinks, reds, greens and purples. A pair of black pinstripe trousers is one of my favourite pairs to wear for just that reason. I've been wary of being anti any colour for a while now since it shuts off certain pallets and combo's. Often its other peoples rules or tastes instead of us being open minded. Like the never blue with black rule. Break free brothers and sisters, you have nothing to lose but your chains!

You certainly have a point, Leon. However, as years pass, I wear less and less black garments, but it has more to do with personal taste than with sartorial rules or colour matching issues. Maybe black doesn't sit well with our mediterranean sunlight. Anyway, though I'd never ever buy a black suit, I'm not averse to things like black jeans, black shoes (in fact, even a basic man's wardrobe has to store at least a couple of pairs in various degrees of formality), black socks or black jumpers (preferably short sleeve and with white piping detail or stripe). 

If you’re a little’un...

100% cotton

...just change the buttons and pick the label off 

https://www.prettygreen.com/products/mens-contrast-panel-knitted-shirt-2279/?color=navy&size=xs

One of the nicest-looking cardies they've ever made.

Great bit of trivia, Brian, thanks for sharing, your dad must have been a sharp dresser (attention to detail you've inherited, no doubt). Shirts' size pretty close to mine too (14,4"-15" collars)

Quote from: greenstreet on May 19, 2019, 09:57:14 AM

Not sure about terry towelling garments, they always remind me of a statement Hardy Amies did in his essential ABC of men's fashion, something along these lines: towelling fabric should be used only in towels.

Ah , maybe Aimes was recalling white , terry socks. .😄

I could be wrong, but I think he was encompassing the whole masculine wardrobe. Maybe excepting bathrobes & slippers, lol.