I love that website. I've probably read 90% of the articles on it by now.

The dude is with Eva Mendes, so yeah, man card cannot be revoked no matter what he is wearing.

The sole reason he is with her is because he wears scarves.

I've long had a problem with sizing. Can't buy a suited set of clothing due to needing a different size for bottom and top. If I want a swimsuit to fit I need two different sized for top and bottom. A one piece is out of the question unless it has a lot of stretch to it. No suits at all unless I but two like outfits.

Also back when I was younger sizes were standardized so a size 8 was a size 8 no matter who made it. Now one never knows what size an 8 is from one brand to the next. Seems with America getting larger they have put smaller sizes on larger cloths. Not sure if that's to trick folks into thinking they are still a smaller size or not but it sure makes online shopping difficult.

This kind of thing really bugs me.

Jeans so tight you can tell their religion...

Clothing size for myself is quite easy to attain because there is a store dedicated to bigger folks like myself.

32-34 on pants, 40 Reg in a suit. Know your neck, arm, and inseam, and you should be totally fine.

I'd rather go baggy than "skinny". I think skinny jeans are the worst style of pants since corduroy.

I have tree trunk legs, regular fit jeans fit me like skinny jeans on an emo kid. I have to go "loose" for regular and "baggy" for loose.

We studied the reasons behind this in my Marketing class, companies find that the smaller a person thinks they are, directly correlates to how much clothing they buy. If you're a size 10, and you feel fat and as if you haven't lost any weight (trying to or not) you're probably less apt to go on a shopping spree, whereas if you're shopping and you thought you were a size 10 but "size 8" fits you better, you'll feel all happy inside and it will make you want to buy more clothing. It's a psychological thing that people reward themselves/punish themselves and use clothing as a token of success/failure when shopping for it.

Thanks for that info. It's what I thought but it still makes it difficult for those of us trying to buy cloths over the internet which is most convenient for those of us out in the boonies. Used to be mail order and there was no problem when sizes were standard everywhere. Getting the right size now is near impossible through the mail and shipping generally is very expensive to be returning cloths for exchange.

Interesting concept but frustrating as heck.

Vanity sizes. Hahahahah. Believe it or not its starting to affect some mens clothing lines. Apparently someone thought it was a good idea for men to have just as much problems finding clothes somewhere in the last few years.

I use actual measurements. Not you know, arbitrary size models. Then again I'm also lucky enough that the majority of clothes here at least for men do have their measurements listed.

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Scarves are awesome! And that's coming from someone who's currently sporting a Fidel Castro hat, a camo tank top, some Pumas and the baggiest sweat pants you can imagine.

I have a size 32 waist, and I only ever find pants in 28, 30's, or 34's. So I have no idea what your talking about

I remember when 501 straight leg jeans meant a certain look. Back in the 80's. These days they're a lot looser/don't like them. The way clothes sizing/variety etc. (in the US at least) has changed is quite interesting.
I personally dislike shirts that are too snug, and with wide shoulders, the way most female shirts are made now I feel like I'm in a straight jacket. I buy men's t-shirts.

When I go shopping for nice clothes, I need custom measurements for *most* slacks. Occasionally I can get away with normal sizes but it's not very often. Short legs, wide frame, muscular thighs from running. If you don't fit "traditional" sizes, you may need to go see a tailor and get a suit made. Cost an arm but I couldn't imagine not suiting up at least once a month.

Levis 501s are too baggy for my liking. I buy the 514s, slimmer than the 501s but not tight like the 511s. They're pretty much my staple jean.



Getting a bespoke suit made should be on every mans to do list. Problem is, the demand for properly tailored clothing is diminishing quickly, and as such it is becoming more and more difficult to find a proper tailor. You could always travel to the likes of Naples or Savile Row and visit a master tailor but a suit would likely set you back upwards of three or four thousand dollars, minimum.

Yeah...I'll stick with a 200EUR MAX suit.

I think commissioning a bespoke suit is something you would do a bit later in life; maybe in your 30s or 40s.

Also Fanner, six months after you got your $4,000 bespoke suit, you wouldn't be able to fit your legs in the pants and your arms in the sleeves.

Or you can come to Bangkok and get a suit tailored for €100!

It will have to fit one way or another. But I could never justify spending so much money on a piece of attire, even if I had the money. At least now I say so...

Well it's all relative to your earnings. I think I would need to be earning at least 250k a year to justify 4k on a suit. Someday relatively soon however, I would like to get a bespoke suit made. I just likely won't get it from Savile Row or somewhere equally prestigious. There are still plenty of excellent tailors that will make you a fantastic suit at a fraction of that price.

Don't get me wrong, I love suits, but I don't wear them often. 3 times a year at most. If I had to wear a suit weekly then I would have a different opinion on the matter. At work a shirt and tie is the dress code. No boxers or trousers.

To the OP: You'll likely have to have your clothes tailored when it comes to suits. In the US, I rarely see anything smaller or shorter then 29 inches. Also, suits are one of those things that just need a few tweaks to fit a person correctly. As for jeans - skinny jeans are the worst fashion trend that's come out in the last 50 years. It's like taking the 80's tapered jean to a whole new level. Just horrible. Though I have to admit, this is the first time I've ever heard a guy complain about not being able to find clothes that fit. They make a wider selection of stuff for ya'll when it comes to sizes: like 29/29 pants all the way up to 40+/40+, same with shirts and the varies size combinations.

Oh, you mean like wearing literally 4 different sizes of jeans depending completely and totally on where I buy them or what brand they are? My all time favorite, however, is that regular length pants aren't anywhere near long enough for me but no one carries talls/longs. They carry regular, short, and petite (so short, shorter, and shortest) lengths, but anyone over the height of 5'6 is screwed. (I'm almost 5'10). You can always tailor pants up, you can't add to them. Wouldn't it make more sense to carry petite, reg, and talls?