What're you wearing right now?

[opebo]

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?

I sell heroin to primary school children. Have I not mentioned this before? Seriously though, yeah, charity shops are good. Well, some of them are. There are some absolute dives around here (because of the students).

Back in the day (my day) - the eighties and nineties, and very early 2000s, before the severe poverty that is now the norm, one could easily find all sorts of good things in american thrift stores or second hand shops as they are called there.  I wonder nowadays if anything's changed.  Visiting second hand stores is practically the only thing I miss about the US.

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It is still very chilly here - down to about 55 at night - so I'm wearing a fairly lightweight pair of blue/grey corduroys held up by a tan cloth belt, a sort of dark orange/brown plaid Chinese uncle long sleeved polo (3 button placket, breast pocket, very soft and comfy), topped off with a fairly heavy lambs-wool dark blue cardigan with pockets.  Oh, and black converse, but still without socks - its not that cold.  Of course I also don a jacket and scarf for when riding the motorbike.

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A POC shirt...
Together with black jeans,,,

What does POC stand for?

I'm wearing black jeans too (not precisely black, but close) - and I can't say I like it.  These are my only pair of jeans and though I get compliments on them, I just don't find jeans comfortable.  I'm a slacks or trousers man, and best of all are corduroys.

Oh, besides, the jeans, I have a brown/green checked long sleeved button-down, a v-necked dark blue pullover sweater, and hanging on the back of the chair, a fairly heavy khaki jacket. Still cold here.

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Still wearing the damned black jeans, with a nice circa 1980 brown plaid shirt and a blue acrylic v-neck pullover from the same era, with ancient worn out gray boat shoes and a khaki cloth belt.

I'd really like to buy some new boat shoes, but I just looked at them at a mall the other day and they were like $100.

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Some good old navy blue poly-ester pants.. maybe from the late seventies or very early eighties.. a nice eighties brown/red/green plaid short sleeve button-down in muted tones (Wedgefield brand), a dark brown lightweight cardigan with a swastika on the lapel (a Buddhist one, not a Nazi one) and a yellow band on one arm, and good old well-worn light blue Converse with no socks.  Yes, the weekend.

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Amazingly good-quality asian (maybe Chinese or Korean?) second hand dress pants in a kind of very dark near-navy blue, a Daniel Cremieux long sleeved button-down dress shirt in an unusual green plaid with hints of red and blue, dark brown belt and shoes.  Whole outfit cost me less than $20 I guess, which is normal for me, but I think I come off looking rather just-so for the office.  Get a lot of compliments.

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The last couple of days I broke out a 70's acrylic golf cardigan I've hardly ever worn, despite owning for a decade.  Its a strange yellowy-green color, something you'd only see in the 70s, and I've always been a bit doubtful about it.  I'm also wearing a vibrant medium blue hospital orderly's polo with the hospital insignia on the breast, and dark brown trousers, with a cloth belt and black low-top converse, sockless.

And I actually got a compliment from a Thai girl at a hip coffeeshop on my weird sweater!

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I find that trotting out pieces of clothing from decades ago can indeed generate compliments from those too young to see the clothes as old and tired.

Very good!  We have finally some common ground (though in point of fact I bought all my clothes in second-hand shops specifically to try to look cool, so its not really the same thing, but point well taken).

dark skinny jeans, brown boat shoes, a white button-down collar shirt with light blue stripes and a gray v-neck sweater.

Very good!  Not exactly what I would do, but you're barking up the right tree.

At the moment I'm very 'professional' in a nice pair of charcoal gray dress trousers (I'm finding more of them finally in the second hand here, used to have only the one pair, now 2-3. can at last and with relief give the black a rest), a kind of dark green checked shirt with a bit of burgundy and white in the check - its a Puritan brand, a brand of which I used to be dubious, but now I'm wondering if it was in fact associated with J.C. Penney, an excellent store -  topped with a nice dark blue Chinese cardigan sweater, and finished off with brown leather belt and brown open shoes and dark blue socks.

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On holiday!  I'm wearing dark khaki-green cargo shorts, alas I don't know the brand, and a very nice and spiffy genuine 1970s light blue short sleeve button down with small white vertical stripes and a big collar!  Don't worry it has a placket though.  Finishing this ensemble, black and bright neon-green flip-flops.

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'Kinos'?  Is that like chinos?

Why would you get anti-compliments for a Dogville t-shirt?  I quite liked that fillum.

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'Kinos'?  Is that like chinos?

Why would you get anti-compliments for a Dogville t-shirt?  I quite liked that fillum.

Oh, right, that's how one spells it. Shows how interested I am in clothes, I guess...

I don't think it was the theme of it. One of my friends called it a fashion disaster. Which in this case, rarely for me, was actually somewhat intentional. I want to look bad for this particular course.

Looking very bad is sometimes just the trick.  But I don't see their point.  What shoes were you wearing?

(at the moment I'm in practically the same outfit as yesterday, just changed from the 70s shirt to a colorful 80's Madras.

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My favorite pair of dark brown dress pants (Haggar of course) - I finally took them to the seamstress to have them taken in a bit, so now they're still very roomy but not ridiculously so.  Topped off with a very nice quality light blue buttondown Nautica shirt with a hint of purplish or dark blue check, black belt and shoes.  Very comfortable outfit, though earlier there was a downpour and I had to don a black hooded rain-jacket as well.  

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To give you fellows an idea of how cold it is here now (down to upper fifties many nights):

I'm wearing a pair of old dark-blue slack-style corduroys, a very well-worn soft Brooks brother shirt, white with a fine brown/grey check in it, white socks, my worn-out gun-metal grey boat shoes, and a black hoodie.  Earlier when I was on the motorbike I had added to this a heavy insulated navy blue windbreaker with red and white stripes in the arms, a voluminous red-and-black plaid wooly scarf, and heavy hardware-store style dark brown gloves.

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A very heavy sweater and slacks....it's 8 goddamn degrees out.

What kind of slacks are warm enough for this weather?  Woolen slacks (perhaps in a plaid)?  Or corduroy 'slacks'?

As for myself, today very boring - classic 'farang ajarn' (honkey master): voluminous khaki pants, dark blue dress shirt with a fine light blue/grey check in it, black belt, black 'sandals', black socks.

Today I showed up for my first class at one PM, after my students messaged me in the morning 'ajarn do we have class today?'  Big mistake - only 5 out of 27 students showed, and we were just about the only people in the entire building!  Thais always take their holidays to mean basically a week before and after the actual scheduled holiday, and just skip out of the office.  So, a 5 day weekend around New years becomes - off from about 22 December to about 6 January.  (to top that off we have midterm weeks coming up, and we never actually give any midterms, so those are weeks off too!)

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Old laundered wool dress pants from the thrift market here in charcoal grey, not sure how long they'll last, as laundered wool pants don't usually last more than a few months, held up by a really crappy medium brown Thai 'leather' belt.. a green gray large-pane long-sleeved plaid shirt from the early 1980s, with a bit of burgundy and light blue piping in the plaid as well, a navy blue acrylic golf sweater, and old worn out off-white converse low-tops with no socks.

I also have a medium weight coat with me for on the motorbike - getting down into the lower 60s here at night.

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English khakis, a white polo shirt,  smart wool socks, and Donald Pliner loafers.

Sounds a little chilly even in South Carolina, in January.  A short sleeved polo with no sweater or jacket? 

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Sweatpants, tshirt and a hoodie!

You sound like a youth!

Btw, I approve, everyone, of the pajama pants.  I've taken to wearing them now that I have a house and don't feel comfortable traipsing about the place entirely naked.

But now I'm still out, wearing the faithful old destroyed washed wool pants, a plaid tan and light blue flannel, and a dark blue hoodie, with 'Facebook' flip-flops.

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What's a fish belt, Duke?

Now I'm wearing a dark green khaki plaid with a bit of charcoal gray and red in it, a blue 'professorly' cardigan (has pockets, etc), black dockers, sandals with black socks.

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What's a fish belt, Duke?

Now I'm wearing a dark green khaki plaid with a bit of charcoal gray and red in it, a blue 'professorly' cardigan (has pockets, etc), black dockers, sandals with black socks.

http://www.redixstore.com/index/page/product/product_id/36002/category_id/265/product_name/Leatherman+Men%27s+Marlin+Belt+

A belt with fish on it!

I'm a big fan of those cloth belts, not that I have any with fish on them...

Simfan, I agree that prehaps Duke's preppie look is a bit 'too correct'.  Duke I would recommend that you 'mix it up a bit'.  Basically preppie but with some 'unique' bits.  For example, get a retro preppie item from a thrift store to set off your ensemble.  I used to buy really ancient but quite cool corduroy and tweed jackets, sometimes with elbow pads..

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Courduroy pants
A madras blue, white and yellow madras shirt
A light blue sweater
Gray suede shoes

At the moment is almost 2:00 AM and I'm in an airconditioned room, so its tolerable, but all day it was about 100 degrees here.  Insupportable.  So, I'm wearing a pair of large, voluminous shorts made from black dockers pants (they make shorts from second hand pants here a lot), they're a bit shiny or have a kind of sheen to them, kind of neat.. worn with a tan cloth belt.  I've also got on an extremely worn out old early 1980s brown polo with a few tiny red and gray horizontal stripes in it, and worn camouflage flip-flops.

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The unemployed man's uniform; beater and sweat pants

Isn't it still winter there?  Can't imagine how warm you fellows must keep it inside your homes to be able to wear 'beaters' and t-shirts and the like.

As for the weather here, I'm so happy to report it 'broke' last night with a few (very atypical) out-of-season showers.  By late night/early morning it was downright cool, and today was cool and overcast day.  So, I had to wear heavy gunmetal gray Dockers (flat-front - usually I'm no fan of the flat-front fad which will surely fizzle out soon, but this pair is so 'full cut' that it doesn't matter), a brick-red/to brownish polo with a bit of widely spaced horizontal piping in white and black, a soft old-style medium blue hoodie, and off-white Converse low-tops.

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I'm a big fan of those cloth belts, not that I have any with fish on them...

Small world.  I'm wearing a cloth belt too.

Good man.  Today I have a dark brown leather belt on, so busted up its almost two belts.  With that, a medium blue 1970s big-collar short sleeved button-down shirt with some vertical white stripes, a pair of baggy, very odd Chinese black pleated cargo shorts with an odd barely visible check or plaid in them, and a strange slightly textured feel - like a cross between a super-fine corduroy and velveteen, and a worn out pair of yellow-and-black flip flops.  Beach time for opebo (though I never actually go down to the water).

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Jacket + Shirt + Slim, slightly-faded navy jeans + Navy and gray striped socks + Shoes

Not my favorite look, a little too coordinated, but I'm sure it comes off very well.  Excellent shoes of course.

I'm going 'simple' today, almost standard farang: soft docker's flat front shorts (I think they're called UPS shorts or postman's shorts), and a black T-shirt with 'That's Fabulous' emblazoned in gold letters across the chest.

edit: just checked, they're 'courier shorts' according to the label inside.

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We're in the midst of Song-kran festivities.  I of course avoid the water throwing (using my car now), but I still dress in 'Song-kran style' to fit in, and just in case I accidentally get doused somewhere.

Yesterday I donned a pair of muted plaid blue-gray slightly pleated shorts and a sort of orange/yellow Chinese Polo... with just two black striped across the chest.. made me think a little of Charley Brown.  I also used my 'silly' flip flops - they're made up of several large circles in different colors.

Today was similar, a green-gray muted plaid slightly pleated pair of shorts (you get this type of short-pants made from hemmed long pants at the second hand markets here), and a black T-shirt with the words 'Its Fabulous' emblazoned across the chest in gold letters.  Simple red-and-white 'real rubber' Thai-farmer's flip flops today.

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Very lightweight black dress trousers, slightly pleated and with a cuff, a beige cloth belt, and an extremely worn out and comfy blue golf polo with a light plaid in it.  The shirt is sort of nubby, which is neat.  and black and orange plaid flip-flops.