How often do we go outdoors anymore. No, I don’t mean going to work, or to your favorite pub. I mean to go away from habitation, into a forest, into the hills. Take a walk, smell the flowers, wrestle bears, you know. This outfit isn’t for those times. This is for when you want to look like you wrestle bears before tea in the afternoon.
The monsoon has been quite bad this year. Sporadic rainfall means that I haven’t brought out the full length rain coat yet, but I still carry around a rain jacket just in case. This means that I am happy and farmers aren’t, which means economic repercussions. Yes, I do spend time thinking about these things but for now, let’s look at how monochrome works with prints.
Clothes usually are incapable of bestowing the gift of flight upon us. Unless of course you happen to rock Tony Stark’s suit or a Power Ring. But sometimes the clothes you wear can make you appear and feel so fly, you might actually be rising above everyone else. Let’s take a look at how you can do just that.
Buddy, Baby, Hubby, Daddy. In his lifetime, a man wears many hats. I don’t wear hats. This fedora belongs to a friend. The only hats I’ve ever owned are New Era snapbacks as you can see in this earlier post. So this is me trying to fill that hat-shaped gap in my life.
I find analog devices fascinating. Whether its moving needles on timepieces and speedometers or the feedback you get from the keys on a typewriter or a grand piano. So you can call me old-fashioned. Exactly why this outfit is something completely out of the ordinary for me. Because its a short suit. With some typewriters thrown in.
Water covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. That’s a significant amount. Your trousers cover more than 60% of your body. But to most men, they are merely an afterthought. Just buying slim fitting shirts and jackets does not flatter your figure as trousers influence your silhouette even more. Thankfully, in today’s world where manufacturers realize that we all are different, they give us clothes in a wide variety of sizes and fits. Yes, its not just women who get to shop by body type.
Contrast is the difference in luminance or color that makes objects distinguishable from one another. And in a way all of us try to set ourselves apart from the rest. But how different are we really? I set out to find just that out with fellow dapper gent, Dipayan Debbarma.
Monochrome: A word derived from the Greek word monokhrōmatos, meaning ‘of a single colour’. However, today if someone says that they are stepping out in monochrome it probably means a black and white outfit. Black & White are simply the most tried and tested colors to go with when putting together a single color ensemble, however using other colors can give you some interesting results, a la Queen Bey.
