What to wear for an afternoon drink

[Costi]

How very true! Yet experience is a wonderful thing: it helps us recognize a mistake when we repeat it

[storeynicholas]

Very true - in the words of a quote - "In life, we must learn to draw our own confusions"
NJS...

[RWS]

The thing is, sometimes, we know what it is going to be like and we don't want to suffer it again but we always go because we're concerned about what we might miss...
NJS

. . . or that we might offend by not going. In the end, though, it's usually our sense of decency that we offend the most.

[storeynicholas]

Yes, RWS, you're right on both counts - and an invitation for drinks in the high afternoon sun, with everyone in a 'holiday mood', is usually a recipe for mishap - if not disaster!
NJS

[NicolausN]

Another option is to wear dark coloured trousers with a light coloured jacket and a shirt, as it is often depicted on the AA illustrations or in Will's last entry: http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/200 ... lance.html (you can vary the formality by removing the waistcoat and/or necktie, or even substituting the shirt with a polo or short-sleeve shirt, although many think these look odd with a jacket over them, I don't). You can also substitute the bluchers with spectator shoes, and top it with a panama hat.

I tried to follow Will's advice the other day in exactly the dressed down manner that you suggest. I wore my navy trousers and put on a navy polo with a tan odd jacket. I routinely wear a polo under an odd jacket in a casual summer situation, but I wasn't a fan of the navy pants and shirt with light jacket. I think it's because my mind was expecting to see a pants/jacket match, but not a pants/shirt match.

[Guille]

Another option is to wear dark coloured trousers with a light coloured jacket and a shirt, as it is often depicted on the AA illustrations or in Will's last entry: http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/200 ... lance.html (you can vary the formality by removing the waistcoat and/or necktie, or even substituting the shirt with a polo or short-sleeve shirt, although many think these look odd with a jacket over them, I don't). You can also substitute the bluchers with spectator shoes, and top it with a panama hat.

I tried to follow Will's advice the other day in exactly the dressed down manner that you suggest. I wore my navy trousers and put on a navy polo with a tan odd jacket. I routinely wear a polo under an odd jacket in a casual summer situation, but I wasn't a fan of the navy pants and shirt with light jacket. I think it's because my mind was expecting to see a pants/jacket match, but not a pants/shirt match.

I think that the contrast between dark pants and light jacket is grat but I don't know why you matched the shirt to the pants, I wouldn't. I don't think that is good. I prefer if you wear navy trousers and a tan odd jacket, to wear a light blue or red or maybe yellow polo, or a striped polo in white and light blue or white and black, but not matching the trousers. I'm sory if that's what it seemed that I was implying.

[arch]

One hesitates, in the current climate, to suggest an outfit that doesn't feature a tie but on holiday my favourite pieces of clothing are shirts with a lido collar, which are made to be worn open. I'd wear deck shoes, white duck trousers, a pale blue or pink lido collar shirt, a SB casual blazer (patch hip pockets) and a panama.

If other members like lido collar shirts where do they get them? It took me a long time to find a London shirtmaker who could make one. The man in question is Robert Whittaker at Dege & Skinner.

What does a lido collar look like?

[dopey]

. . .
If other members like lido collar shirts where do they get them? It took me a long time to find a London shirtmaker who could make one. The man in question is Robert Whittaker at Dege & Skinner.

He made one for me and I have a second one on order - where it has been for about two years, now.

The one I got might have been the first crack at one in a while as it had some oddities, like collar stay pockets, that I tried to work out for the second. That one, should it ever arrive, was to be short sleeved with two breast pockets.

[NicolausN]

I think that the contrast between dark pants and light jacket is grat but I don't know why you matched the shirt to the pants, I wouldn't. I don't think that is good. I prefer if you wear navy trousers and a tan odd jacket, to wear a light blue or red or maybe yellow polo, or a striped polo in white and light blue or white and black, but not matching the trousers. I'm sory if that's what it seemed that I was implying.

Yes, I'm right there with you. I matched the shirt as that was similar (in my mind at least) to Will's vest matching the trousers. Now I'm thinking that showing the navy through an accessory such as a tie with a shirt or neckerchief with a polo is preferable and keeping the shirt colors similar to as you say (summery).

[JMurphy]

A light coat of LSA.

[edhayes]

lace up full brogues in the summer? with casual pants and a polo shirt?
I'd prefer loafers with either colored socks or patterned socks or no socks
A good belt, I like fairly baggy pants for these occasions with a polo shirt depending on your degree of fitness

[Gruto]

I found this thread started by Alden: shorts, blazers and ballerina slippers for an afternoon drink. They did dare a tad more in the 1930s than today, my fellow LLs
http://thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/vie ... ght=madrid