Casual Wear

What are some of the best brands for casual wear for IB?

I'm graduating this semester and starting my FT position. I'm unloading my high school/college Abercrombie & Fitch and Express clothes and want to rebuild my wardrobe.

I'm a big fan of Polo and Lacoste; any other recommendations for casual wear?

Thanks!

 

A&F and express? c'mon man.

Polo (not lacoste), banana republic, j. crew, and k-mart are solid brands.

PS illini you remind me of my grandfather lol

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
 

This thread is funny and not because it's about clothes but the fact that you came to a forum populated by nerds in a rat race to ask for fashion advice. Granted, most of the advice is alright still funny

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 

Why Lacoste? What's so special with them? They make polos in different colors.

RL is nice, but stick with Brooks Brothers or J crew. Both make nice clothes, BB is more traditionel and J crew a little more trendy.

 

I really appreciate all of your input guys! What about for the occasional "going out" wear (non-work related for clubbing etc)?

 

You got away with A&F in college?? This is long overdue.

Brooks Brothers and Charles Tyrwhitt shirts (not polos) are good for casual Friday in the office. I haven't seen much RL on the trading floor. Brooks Brothers, RL, and J. Crew are good for the weekends, but I would not recommend J. Crew for going out.

Absolutely no Lacoste or Emporio Armani ever. That shit is for a strange combination of guidos and European trend-whores.

 

Work at a small bank. Today it was the boom boom room. That lucky bastard is gonna get with her tonight i can feel it. Good luck to him, a few have tried it on amd she sent them packing. one guy does claim to have had bothe the sales chicks but i dont believe him.

Dont worry yours truley will be getting some too. Just not with the sales chick. I do hope i get a lap dance too.

 

Ive been obver to the sales desk a few times today once for no reason. The sales chick doesnt seem to be doing any bending over, squats or any other activity.

I wonder if she is going commando, if not I do hope she has a thong underneath that. the guy next to her has the biggest smile on his face like any moment now they are about to get naked and roll around on the trading floor.

all day he has been sitting there and bet hasnt got anywhere with her and mr bigshot with his donation will get the ride of his life tonight.

Its party time in 15 mins. The guys around the floor have been saying buy her as many drinks as possible, the quicker she gets drunk the quicker the fun begins.

 

On second thought... I bet Mr. Bigshot ain't going to get any tonight. Whatever is in his imagination will be more powerful than the real thing and he'll be disappointed. Besides, if he gets some tonight it will deflate all of today's anticipation. Just a thought...

 

maybe your right, no one has hit it yet and he might just be getting happy for nothing. I bet all he gets is a quick little dance and blue balls for the rest of the evening.

But the buzz around the room is to get her all the drinks she can have. rumour has it after a few she gets quite easy. But not that easy else am sure these guys would have got with it by now. Damn lucky I got my girl, else the blue balls days would be back for me too.

 

Yup, she sounds smart... while all the men are tripping over each other to pay for the next round of drinks, I bet she bolts out for the evening and leaves everyone speculating who she left with. Then the conversation in the office on Monday will revolve around which fella' can claim he had an evening with her.

 
StreetLuck:
Random, where do you work, man? Hefner & Co. Capital Advisors?

Someone could make a reality TV show out of all the stuff that goes down at your bank..

Not much goes down its a boring place, maybe its my imagination and a bit of sugar coating.

 
Seanc:
You should convince your girl to have a threesome with you and the other girl Random, that is the best course of action.

I wish, but don't see much chance of that. If that was on the menu my girls roommate is a hottie too and that would lead to regular threesomes.

Her room mate wants it, i have thought about it, but to tell you the truth, if it happens we wont last long after that. These things always fail, never have a threesome with your girl. Plus I kinda like this one, I know I sound like a bit of a player but I wouldnt do anything to jepordise my relationship.

 

You can tame me anytime just make sure you got your whip.

No one can tame me, I allow such things to happen. I haven't been tamed yet. The night is young and if i get the long awaited lap dance, i might be leaving with the sales chick after giving my girl the flick. or who knows maybe seanc's plan works and a threesome it is. Not likely though.

 
Seanc:
Tell us how things went

The chick did give a lap dance but never sat on my lap. My girl was there and said your not going to bid are you. So couldnt. But then she did say i would get a private lap dnce from her.

I didnt see anyone leave with the chick from sales so looks like she left them wanting more.

Forget the sles chick there were some real other lookers there too, that were in another league. I was sat there talking to one of them for some time and at the end said heres my number maybe we can go out for a drink sometime.

As my girl was there I took the number but threw it in the bin and that won me all the brownie points with her. She said i was waiting to see what you were going to do with her number.

So with me now being the boyfriend who could do no wrong I got the promised lap dance and she was willing to do anything else we wanted too. Lets say i knocked off number 10 from my previous list but no threesome.

Only thing now is I wish i had a pole in my room cos boy can she move those hips. Quite flexible too, i found out she can put her legs over her head, do the splits and can stand on one leg with the other tottally elivated straight up. Damn Im glad she is into aerobics.

So didnt get to see any action from the sales chick or the other hottie that was there. But did get the awaited lap dance.

 

Unfortunately, I believe that would be against the rules. Neither of us fly solo.

However, Random, there's no dearth of fun girls out there if you know where to look. Let us know how that goes for you, you horny bastard you.

 

I think theres a lot of fun to be had with my girl right now. I just realised how flexible she is. When i saw her raise her leg straight up while keeping her balance, my jaw literally dropped.

 

Dude... that's just one girl. That's just an aerial split. Please tell me it takes more than that to make your jaw drop.

And don't make me start my own series of posts about my recent strip club adventures. I can't believe you didn't even get a few piddly lap dances. Come on, my friend. Entertain us. I have faith in you.

 

Please to entertain us with your adventures.

I did get a lap dance but just not from the sales chick. It usually does take more but my last few girls were not as flexible.

All I need now is for her to get on a pole. Maybe I was just horny that as soon as she done the aerial split as you put it, I had her up against the wall with her right leg on my shoulder.

I really need to get a kama sutra book cos with her flexible body I cant see any position being out the question.

I will try to entertain but can only tell it how it is. Maybe you need to show me your moves then we will really have something to write about.

 

One thing is that I normally go for the athletic type. But when I was out the other night there were some nice voluptous girls there too. You know I dont have a problem with any type of woman to me every hole is a goal. Unless she is really obese or dead ugly.

One girl had Big boobs, a bit of a larger ass then I like, thick thighs, didnt look that bad. I must say the thick thighs were quite the turn on, she carried them well, wanted to just take a bite out of that meaty woman. She then ruined it as when she bent over I realised she aint got no undies on and it wansnt a pretty site.

As much as I like the girls to go commando you really need to know your limit. So how many girls here go commando regularly. Mis Ind I bet you do.

 

I mean, my life hasn't been all that crazy since coming to New York. We have a male consultant friend who loves company on his expeditions in the city, and we accompany him from time to time. We were at Mystique... what was it, ten days ago? Two weeks? The place is a total shithole but it's home to a fantastic little girl named Ginger; I highly recommend her. Sexy librarian glasses, smooth good body, unstudied manner. She can climb a pole all the way up to the twenty-foot ceiling with no hands, just the action of her spectacular and athletic thighs. She's entirely debauched and yet a complete ingenue; her Jerseyish stream-of-thought chatter runs charmingly from sex to booze to boys to cops to blow, all with amazing Panglossian optimism. One minute she says she doesn't take off her panties for less than twenty dollars, and the next minute she blithely bends over and gives me the whole view for two singles, winking at me over her shoulder as she strokes her ass. When the boys amble over she's a lady again, sitting down and drinking with me and talking about her childhood. When the boys go off with other girls who are being more active, she's all over me, doing her pole tricks, sliding up and down on the arm of my chair, binking me on the nose with her nipple. Towards the end of the night, as usual, she gives me her number. As usual, I take it and never call. I also give her my number, which (if my experience plays out) she will call at an ungodly hour a few weeks from now, crying, when her life hits yet another dead end. Unfortunately, this is not the first time this has happened to me. Back in 2003 or early 2004 I got a call at 3 AM on a weeknight from a blubbering girl calling me her goddess and asking me to save her. I asked her who she was and she said, "It's Jamie!" "Jamie who," I said, before I started having groggy flashbacks to a night a week earlier on which a pretty but very fucked-up blonde named either Jamie or Jessie persuaded me to buy an hour with her in the VIP at the Cheetah. I couldn't really make heads or tails of the memory. I don't even like blondes and I've never understood why I blew four hundred dollars on an hour with one.

Needless to say, Jamie hung up and never called back.

I'm not sure what other good strip-club stories I've got. They're pretty much all the same. This most recent Saturday night we went to the Pussycat Lounge, another real shithole whose best virtues are that they are within easy stumbling distance of our apartment and that they have Samuel Adams in bottles. I'm not sure I'd trust the cleanliness of any beer they kept on tap. It's that kind of place.

Anyway, on a Saturday night the three of us dropped $500 total and were the high rollers in the entire place, so that should tell you how cheap it is. There are no lapdances, which is good when you're just in the mood to watch because there's no upselling, no pressure, and no little bimbo sitting on your lap and telling you you have to buy a bottle of champagne for her. The girls are the kind who wouldn't make it in an ordinary strip club -- too unusual, too clean, too studenty, too ethnic -- but refreshing. They were the kind of girls who dance for a hobby, not for a lifestyle. Joan was our favorite: a plump, smooth, young, long-long-haired, pale Renaissance goddess-type from the West Coast, a local student, a very bright and funny girl who also happens to have a large/firm/beautiful body, which is rare. The Pussycat is a panties-on place, but Joan slipped me a nice peek without me even asking. It wasn't sexy, but it was nice. It honestly felt exactly like the innocent and almost entirely nonsexual games my female childhood friends and I played before we all adolesced.

This has become a leitmotif. I go to strip clubs, I see pussy. Even if I'm not paying or looking, I see pussy. It's like I turn around to order another beer and bam: another crotch shot. I see more pussy than every man in the club combined. Perhaps you have to have one to see one? I don't know.

 

Sure, strippers love me. That's a real blessing, let me tell you. Particularly when I get those middle-of-the-night phone calls from Jamies and Charlis and Jades. And yet I never learn not to give out my number. There are some days that I think I'm as stupid as a boy about that.

And well, if they're 100% straight, there's no way they're going to like me. But seriously... how many 100% straight strippers are there in this world? Yeah.

 

And actually, no: I don't like to go commando. I don't keep any... uh... fuzz on the peach, so there's no padding or protection to keep the hard seams of my pants from rubbing my lil kitty the wrong way. And as for skirts: definitely not with the commando thing. Panties aren't much protection but they are better than nothing when a cold draft gets up your skirt or if things get a tad juicy. But (in deference to all you gentlemens' fantasies out there) I'm sure most girls love to go commando as much as possible. Just not me. ;)

 
Mis Ind:
And actually, no: I don't like to go commando. I don't keep any... uh... fuzz on the peach, so there's no padding or protection to keep the hard seams of my pants from rubbing my lil kitty the wrong way. And as for skirts: definitely not with the commando thing. Panties aren't much protection but they are better than nothing when a cold draft gets up your skirt or if things get a tad juicy. But (in deference to all you gentlemens' fantasies out there) I'm sure most girls love to go commando as much as possible. Just not me. ;)

And I thought you were adventouress, I like it when my girl keeps me guessing if she is going commando, as makes we wanna put my hand all the way up her skirt to find out. Start by stroking the legs then move in for the feel. If theres no panties she either gets fingered up the ass or a good clit rubbing.

 

Not many I bet. But am sure there not 100% disease free either.

The thing I hate most are the cock blockers. There was this one girl at a club who was flirting with me and we were grinding on the dance floor and when we would go to get drinks her blockers would move in.

I ended up leaving the club with her and her friends came along we soon got rid of them and her phone never stopped ringing. When I was ramming her up the ass I felt like answering the phone so her friends could hear her orgasming on the phone.

One thing I have always enjoyed is doing a girl infront of the mirror, when your doing her from behind the facial expressions are just priceless. This one girl I use to go out with just looked like she was gonna explode, her eyes would rll all over the place and she sounded like she was having an asthma attack.

But I like the more sophisticated girl now, girls at clubs are good for a ne nighter and thats it.

 
Mis Ind:
Not my style at all, dude; the last thing I need is a sudden unannounced finger up my ass. But that's okay; everyone has their little things. I've known girls that would have loved that.

You all like a man to be spontaneous and take control. All the girls I have done it to seem to enjoy it or maybe just play along.

 

Why are the CT casual shirts so inexpensive? Seems odd for purported high quality. Btw, what's the classic fit, slim fit in CT compared to BB?

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UncleMilty:
Why are the CT casual shirts so inexpensive? Seems odd for purported high quality. Btw, what's the classic fit, slim fit in CT compared to BB?

I don't understand how CT can afford those sales either, but I can vouch that their materials feel legit and their (dress) shirts are great for suiting. I don't have much experience with their casual wear.

The approximate conversion from BB: CT classic=BB slim, CT slim=BB extra slim. In reality, the CT are even still a little slimmer than that conversion suggests, because BB has their cuts adjusted for overweight Americans.

 

Business casual 5 days a week, sweatpants on weekends unless I'm going out to club/dinner then practically a more hipster or fratboy version of business casual depending on the scene

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 
EtherBinge:
Suiting up almost everyday.

Yakuza hipster on the weekends in Brooklyn.

Just curious.... How does a Yakuza hipster dress?

I would honestly love to dress in business formal everyday, for a while, but right now I just get to wear casual clothes all the time at work. Wasn't into it at first, but I've come to appreciate the option.

"That dude is so haole, he don't even have any breath left."
 

For casual wear, I usually shop at Express or H&M. However, I just starting shopping on 191unlimited.com. I find their clothes to fit perfectly. Now that you starting a FT job, they have shirts that can be worn to work or to the bar after work. The quality is great so you don't have to worry about shrinking after washing. They have free shipping both ways which was a plus for me. Try them out and see how you look them.

 

I respectfully disagree with HarvardorBust on the tweed and wingtips, unless you want to look like a Humanities professor.

If you want the JT look it sounds like you're going for, stick with a lighter stretch wool vest in a charcoal or black, an appropriately colored or patterned silk tie (narrow is in), and some more casual black dress shoes.

 

Agree with tunnel. Wingtips are for old men (no offense) go with a more conventional captoe or some tasteful brogueing instead.

and dont go with anything off the rack, with vests you really do want it to conform to your body. pay up and get a good one made for you froma reputable tailor and it will last but more importantly you'll look like a million bucks after paying a few hundred instead of paying 50-100 and looking like a homeless guy that's crawled into a tent

make sure you read into how a vest should fit, 90% of people don't have a damn clue anymore (and all the statistics i quote are made up)

 

Where do you all suggest I get a good-taiolred vest from? I am not sure as to where to even look for "appropriate" ones to even fit my style....I def. don't want to walk into a mens warehouse type deal looking like an asshole when I don't end up buying a prom tux

 

I think most people are gonna be rocking a pretty preppy/conservative/traditional look just by nature of what this site is.

Kinda pointless thread, but here's what I see in a massive pile of dirty laundry in the middle of my room:

Shades: -Ray-Ban Wayfarer

Shirts: -Canterbury of New Zealand (rugby shirts) -Original Penguin (polos, button-downs, coats) -Ben Sheman (button-downs, polos, t-shirts) -Threadless (hipster t-shirts) -Lacoste (polos)

Coats: -Calvin Klein -Original Penguin -Burberry -Ben Sherman -Banana Republic -(some coat I got in Denmark that I can't pronounce the name of)

Workout clothes: -Nike (shorts, shirts, headbands, iPod arm sleeve thing) -Under Armour (dry-shirts) -Adidas (gym shoes, socks, jersey) -New Balance (running shoes)

Jeans/Pants/Shorts: -Levi's (jeans) -Lucky (jeans) -Banana Republic (shorts, khakis)

Shoes: -Converse (high-top chucks) -Sperry (top-siders) -Calvin Klein (loafers) -Rainbow (flip-flops)

. . . CONCLUSION: Damn, Richie gotta gon get his laundry did...

“Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do”
 

Shirts:

Lacoste (polos) Hugo boss (polos) Banana republic J Crew Zara

Slacks: Ralph Lauren (khakis) Lee (khakis) Dockers (khakis) Levi's (jeans) Banana Republic (shorts)

Shoes: Timberland (boots) S. Carter (Sneaks)

Sunglasses:

Ray Ban

Still I Rise
 

Clothes: Polo, Brooks Brothers, Lacoste, golf shirts, Vineyard Vines, Diesel, J. McLaughlin, Barbour jacket, North Face Shoes: Sperry, LL Bean, Brooks Brothers Sunglasses: Ray Bans, Maui Jims, Persols

Wow, now that I actually write that out, I'm pretty damn boring. Eh, oh well.

Hi, Eric Stratton, rush chairman, damn glad to meet you.
 

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