What're you wearing right now?

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Very well broken in and discolored in variegated ways old pair of dark-gray/brownish flat-front chinos held up by a brown-n-tan cloth belt, a worn pastel green with blue and red highlights horizontally striped Brooks Brother's 1980s polo (complete with three button placket and pocket), and a pair of Thai knockoff Havaianas hard rubber bright yellow flip-flops.

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The same gray/brownish battered and discolored trousers (I guess they're some kind of 80s chinos, probably dockers), now with a really soft dark (navy?) blue very early 80s polo - three button placket, chest pocket (or is it vest pocket?), real collar, and open arm holes, just like the Brooks Brothers one I wore yesterday.  Today completed with my favorite flip-flops - dark brown Thai-brand ones (only about $2.50).

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Rather sadly, I'm still dressed from work at 10:48 PM, the exigencies of toils preventing me from returning home for the 5 PM shower and change which should be the right of everyone in the tropics.  But, happily it was not hot the last few days.

I'm wearing very dark charcoal gray dress trousers with brown leather belt, a vertically stripped burgundy/dark aqua/deep gold Van Huesen long-sleeved dress shirt, black socks and open brown fake leather sandals.

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green lacoste polo, skinny jeans, brown leather boat shoes

You hipster!  I do love boat shoes, if they're the real old-fashioned traditional design.

Right now I'm at work, alas, and wearing a typical work-costume.  Black trousers and socks, brown belt and shoes, and a very pastel yellow almost ecru dress shirt.  You know I wouldn't really wear black pants to work back home, but here charcoal gray is a bit hard to find.. they tend to wear black.  What can you do?

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I'm in work right now, but no dress code for civil servants

So it's chinos, black leather tennis shoes and an off white t-shirt.

Jesus christ, a T-shirt at work?  Is it at least not nipple-showcasing-tight?

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It's well fitting, but not showcasing

I'm lounging about the office on a Friday night in that same pair of grayish-brownish trousers (now a bit ripe!  I do wear trousers quite a few times before the laundry), a white late-70s polo with smallish aquamarine or turquoise horizontal stripes (and very faint pink horizontal pinstripes), a pair of red Thai-rubber flip-flops (farmer flip-flops), and a brown-n-tan cloth belt.

I was slightly tipsy earlier and knocked over a heavy Coke bottle at the restaurant, and then stepped on it with these thick rubber sandals - no prob.  Very very unusual for me to be tipsy, but I had eaten big bag of ultra salty fried insects and was so thirsty I downed a large bottle of ice-cold Leo Beer fresh from the ice-chest at a local store.

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What I wear pretty much every day; jeans, t-shirt and leather jacket.

All that closet space in the double-wide going to waste..

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Tonight I'm on the road going town to town on an old motorbike, the weekend holiday - only a few days.  

I'm wearing a favorite old somewhat scarred pair of dark brown poly/cotton work pants.. a bit like Dickies but a much older more 70s look.  I think they might be Big Mac.  With this a kind of second hand Korean or Chinese polo, in a deep royal blue with a very subtle barely visible light aqua plaid inlaid, and a multicolored shark on the breast - I think it is 'Shark Brand'.  Neat shirt despite having only a two button placket and no breast-pocket.  A dark brown/black reversible soft-leather belt and some beat-up old black (standard) Converse with no socks, and to top it all off a very light rain-resistant black hooded windbreaker.

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I basically wear a v-neck t-shirt or a polo, dark navy skinnies, and brown boat shoes every day. Once it gets colder I'll start wearing shirts + sweaters every day instead.

OK, but do these boat shoes have the proper traditional white rubber soles?  Because I don't hold with the non-white soles.



I do still wear Converse quite a lot over here in Asia.. and I suppose I would back home, they're just so comfortable.  But I can understand why one would feel embarrassed to do so..

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My boat shoes look like this more or less (without the little square logo on the flap)

Where did you find such traditional looking boat shoes without the brand name disfigurement?  Last I looked for boat shoes back in the Bad Place was maybe 4 years ago, and I couldn't find any that weren't altered from the proper, traditional design in some way. I can't abide such divergences from traditional styles.

Right now I'm in that self-same pair of dark brown polyester workmen's trousers (I checked last time I had them off and they are 'Todd' brand.. perhaps its a uniform?), and a medium blue Haley brand golf shirt from the Shreveport Country Club. It has a subtle orange and ecru ticking in a rectangular plaid inlaid.  Still with the rough old Converse and a soft-to-the-point-of-worn-out leather belt.  I also find it very hard to find an appealing belt.

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I'm dressed a bit atypically today, in that I'm wearing a T-shirt.  No, not a 'band T-shirt', but one of those thrift store T-shirts with the name of a home-town on it.  Not actually a little-league team though, just the name of the town.  The shirt is a dark blue with deep red lettering saying 'Harrisburg' - the color combo is really kind of dizzying.  With this I'm wearing a sort of old thrift-purchased flat-front khaki chinos, and a pair of black-and-tan Thai flip-flops - the odd kind with the cloth straps.  Not my favorite kind of flip flops as they were purchased in a shopping mall rather than a local market.

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I'm wearing clothes I traded for at a clothes trading party.

Do you disrobe at these parties, kinky-swede?

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What's the difference between a kinky-Swede and a kinky Swede?

In some cases pronunciation in some cases a leer or wink. 

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OK that's all pretty kinky.  If I were holding such a party I'd have people bring in their wares in a nice box, bag, or basket, and then trade wholesomely.  No need to exchange what one is actually wearing.

Anyway, at the moment I am imprisoned within the office, and thus wearing office attire - a pair of black trousers, a sort of peachy coloured short-sleeved dress shirt, and brown belt and shoes with black socks.

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Go out to a 'rig' and 'make some sales'?  What on earth do you sell and what kinds of rigs do you sell on?

Anyway, I'm wearing a sort of deep blue short sleeved dress shirt and black pants.. more leftover work clothes.  I would probably never wear this back home, but here I do.

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Go out to a 'rig' and 'make some sales'?  What on earth do you sell and what kinds of rigs do you sell on?

Natural Gas rigs in the area. Probably made about 15 grand today.

Haha, as much as I do in a year.  But what are you selling?  Your sweet ass?

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LOL, I started some starters and valves. Nothing too big.

I don't understand how you're using the verb 'started' in this context..

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Hunny, its gonna cost more than 15 grand for this ass.

But alas you probably couldn't give something like that away, eh what?

I think the point of it is more to have people undress than to trade clothes...

Aha, kinky!  When there is a healthy and normal prostitution industry such silliness doesn't much occur.  Did you see a booby or a Swedish Flank?

Btw, I have to admit this is one of the rare occasions when I have nothing on at all - sorry guys.  But I always have to sit in front of the fan for about 10 minutes at least after taking a shower here in humid, tropical Thailand - this is a 'universal male practice' according to my Thai friends, which is a necessity for avoiding fungals in ones jungles - basically 'jock itch' or ringworm.  (That said, it has been breezy and cool all day, so 'winter' is coming.. of course by cool I mean a daytime high in the lower eighties).

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Well well tststinborack, I like that outfit and would love to see a photograph!

At the moment I'm on a little 4 day mini holiday (or long weekend as they call them, alas), wearing a real all cotton heavily frayed old Madrass plaid shirt in muted pastel yellows, teals, purples, etc., from the USA second-hand, with green-khaki Asian (perhaps Thai, perhaps Korean) trousers from the second hand market here in Thailand, and a pair of black and electric-green flip-flops. 

I'm on the beach so no need for a jacket at the moment, but upcountry is definitely jacket weather in the evenings now.

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Besides the aforementioned green khaki trousers, now quite stained with use, I'm sporting my current favorite t-shirt today - a dark blue one from a Saudi oil rigger with a sort of outline drawing of the oil rigs on it and the name of the company.

Correction: not oil rigs, but more like an outline of a kind of refinery plant.  An oil company t-shirt from Saudi.

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An early eighties pair of dark blue corderoy Haggar trousers, held up by a tan cloth belt, a brown plaid button down shirt of the same era (or maybe even late seventies) with a just-slightly-wider-than-present-day collar, a soft old gray 'hoodie', and a pair of low-top black Converse.

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A sleeveless muscle T shirt purchased from Walmart, AG jeans from Nordstroms, and running shoes. That is my typical uniform.

Funny you should call it a 'uniform'.

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Today I'm very smart for work in charcoal gray slacks, dark brown belt and shoes, and a very nice Brooks Brothers medium blue shirt with a very tiny, almost invisible check in it.

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Second-hand South Korean boxer shorts, in a nice off-white or ecru with a dark pink and gray plaid in them.

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As an example, this is what not to wear.  Not to mention the smoking, the nasty greasy hair, and the pasty white unsunned skin.

Actually a little oil is better than dry flyaway hair, and for sure pasty unsunned skin is far healthier than the alternative, but I agree with you that too-tight or too-baggy clothes are stupid. (and while I've never smoked a cigarette, I find it to be cool and the condemnation of smoke to be the height of prudery).

I'm currently wearing a nice green plaid shirt with a bit of red, blue, and gray in it, and a pair of navy blue trousers (yes I thought I was wearing black trousers when I left the house - I don't mind navy with green in casual clothing, but I find it slightly suspect when one is trying to 'dress up' for work).  Dark brown belt and shoes of course.

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Cheap grey tweed jacket, a nice linen shirt, dark brownish (kind of) corduroy trousers. Earlier in the day, the shirt was cotton, there was a tie (made of the objectively correct material for such things; wool), and a dark brown jumper. And, when outside, a long black coat, a flat cap, a scarf and leather gloves.

If you're buying all that stuff second hand, then you are I are very alike - I wore somewhat similar attire at home in the winter (though not the tie).  If not, where are you getting all that money?