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It looks like you are in Chicagoland, so I’d say you do you. It’s cool enough most of the year near the lake that you can wear one. I’m from Florida originally and there it would look fairly pretentious. It is too hot about 80% of the year for one to be necessary.
I have a couple of nice casual sportcoats that I really enjoy wearing with jeans and boots on weekends. But I'm a mid-40s dad in a suburb, and tend to run with other 40-something dads, most of whom dress WAY more casually and generally avoid wearing sportcoats unless they have to.
I generally find that if I wear a sportcoat to meet friends, or even if I generally look put together at the kids' soccer game, someone will ask why I'm so dressed up. Or they'll seem uncomfortable if we are out somewhere and say something like, "I didn't think I'd need a jacket."
My wife and her friends seem to wear casual blazers all the time...so what do you think? Is this look pretentious?
This is the general gist of what I'm talking about:
No, not at all pretentious.
You are wearing what you like.
I thin they are not use to seeing it and they themselves are stereotyping / pigeon-holing / or making assumptions about that these casual blazers are or mean.
When people in a community (if this if the case) wear the same clothes all of the time the tend to think this way in my experience in different part so the country I've lived.
Americans in general usually look like slobs. Don’t feel like you have to follow the crowd. A sports jacket with jeans is a good look.
Very true, nurider.
I used to dress like a slob in a certain town over 25 years ago.
In many urban and suburban and rural areas when I go to malls, department stores, grocery stores and music and sporting events people do dress like.....slobs.
I'm not being condescending.....but it's kind of ugly.
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I have a couple of nice casual sportcoats that I really enjoy wearing with jeans and boots on weekends. But I'm a mid-40s dad in a suburb, and tend to run with other 40-something dads, most of whom dress WAY more casually and generally avoid wearing sportcoats unless they have to.
I generally find that if I wear a sportcoat to meet friends, or even if I generally look put together at the kids' soccer game, someone will ask why I'm so dressed up. Or they'll seem uncomfortable if we are out somewhere and say something like, "I didn't think I'd need a jacket."
My wife and her friends seem to wear casual blazers all the time...so what do you think? Is this look pretentious?
This is the general gist of what I'm talking about:
IMO sportcoats on a man are way off for stuff like a soccer game or anything casual BUT....if you & your wife like it.....that's what you gotta go by. It's a nice look for a man tho...paired with straight pants or jeans & maybe loafers more than a bootleg jean....for an evening out.
I'm in the Pacific NW and the slob look for men is almost a requirement here. The ball cap is considered a sartorial must for many of the suburban types who never dress up beyond what they wore outside gardening or lying on the couch watching the tube. I prefer sport coats in winter here just because they serve the need for warmth while looking like I dressed beyond the bedclothes look. Jeans and loafers are plenty acceptable when wearing a nice shirt or sweater. The sport coat is just added for a good look of casual dress and in no way can be considered a "too dressy" look, unless you are attending a biker event or anywhere you see ponytails on the over sixty guys.
My wife is a very nice dresser, so I like to dress as nice as I can for her, as well as for my own self esteem. Sebastian Maniscalo, a very funny guy does a monologue titled, "aren't you embarrassed?" And in that vein he adequately points out the tendency toward slovenly behavior as an added aspect of the general sloppiness that has become the American social norm..
I remember first noticing this look in the early 2000's, it looks like a person knows what to do, but not know how to do it. I think it is not even close to being pretentious. It is a look I will never understand, reminds me of an elderly guy thinking they are under society pressure to look somewhat formal every time they step out of the bedroom, but reality is they do not want to, so this look is a compromise. combined with tucking the front of your shirt in so everyone can see your belt buckle, you will be rocking it, lol.
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