alden wrote:
Is this look sweater-y, casual and country as well? Is the suit more barnyard than boardroom? It is the same soft shoulder made up in a worsted cloth . . .
Clothes, independent of the make, take on a different character depending on the cloth one uses.
Cheers
M Alden
In form, yes.
And form is only one part of the whole [color, texture, form, proportion, and balance/symmetry].
If one
isolates only the shoulders of the above posted three-series photos, there are more curves, roundedness, softness than lines and angles. Taking cues from Nature, the former are associated with relaxedness and latter decisiveness. One step further curves can be feminine [breasts, buttocks] and angles masculine [a man's jaw line]. Women who take testosterone for bodybuilding develop unsightly masculine jaw lines, so the visual coding must be built in somewhere in Nature.
In texture [cloth], no. Add color, proportion, and symmetry, your Jean Gabin-esque countenance, and on the whole your posted photo is more business than barnyard. Mr. Modenese's and Old Dog Old Trix's are also
on the whole more business than banyard as well.
Any more with bespoke I think less about armor [think Trump in his Brioni] than about presenting the individual, although both purposes can apply.
- M