/fa/ - Fashion

>>13279149
Good to know, I wanted to dye mine as well (I presume yours are the same Swiss model that I own) but I guess I'll have to replace the string first. Or get some older ones with cotton tie strings.

Concerning your fit, I'll try to go into detail because you have potential and I want you to do better: The boots are very nice, no complaints there. Your puttees on the other hand are very sloppily wrapped and the off-colour tie string ruins them. The trousers are fine, if the puttees were wrapped more neatly and all black you would be set up for a very nice all-black fit. So far so good.
The belt I'll go into later.
The top half is also pretty good. Greyish jumper, greenish jacket, washed out colours, not particularly bright nor dark, rounded off with a red hat for contrast. Not too bad. The strong black colour of the gloves clashes with the other colours - it's too strong.
The belt in this case is interesting because it marks the border between two halves that should under no circumstances be combined ever again, itself belonging to the lower half: Think about how good it would look if you wore just a tucked in black turtleneck with those same trousers, puttees (successfully died) and boots - like a playful Mosley, the buckle getting the attention it deserves as the centerpiece of an elegant all black outfit.
Or think about how well the top half of your outfit would work with some coarsely textured brown wool trousers, think Swedish WW2 trousers, onion-dyed, and brown (or green) boots, perhaps even greyish-white sneakers. Less elegant, more of a rugged aesthetic, still very pretty.

As is, you look absolutely ridiculous because you combine two aesthetics that absolutely do not go together, have them meet exactly at the midpoint of your body, neatly separated into upper and lower half and even those halves are sloppily implemented (badly tied puttees, not completely dyed, unnecessary gloves).
Each half sets up expectations that the other contradicts.

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