RAWscore - the hit or miss fit and combo space

[4c]

IH Sweatshirt, 40's pea coat (red silk thread used to sew buttons back on + paint stain :P), my best fitting jeans(IMO), green elephant western boots…  Does it work?

[Snowy]

The color of the boots throws it the most. Likely just a personal thing, not over-all tho.

The stacking on the jeans looks a little off to me..

Cuff the jeans, change the boots and re-post

[mclaincausey]

This thread gave me an idea. This forum supports voting yes? Well, here are some ideas:

A yea / nay / comment thing where we can post fits that uses the polling feature

A WAYWT "competition" where we can post fit pics from every day over an interval  (a week, a month, whatever) and have the community vote on a winner. Perhaps there's a prize?

There could even be WAYWT featuring specific items of clothing, a competition to see who rocks an item the best according to the collective tastes of the IHF.

Just spitballin, but to me these fall in line with ideas to freshen up the forum and stimulate more conversation…

[Clint_D]

I'm liking this idea. Maybe we could take up a small collection for some sort of prize?

[pillowPANTS]

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I agree with snowy on the color of the boots. Actually not even sure i like cowboy boots with a Pcoat at all. Also dont like the hoody under the coat lol. Dumbs down a "dressier" coat

[sabergirl]

I'm with you on the hoody under the pea coat. Doesn't look right.

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[4c]

Hmmmm….  Lots of food for thought. Thanks snowy, Pillow, Saber.
This is pretty fun, will try again…

[Cole]

I'm a little late, but I'm with the others about the hoody. It doesn't work with the peacoat.

Hooded shirts can go well with cafe racer style jackets, but with coats and certain flight jackets they just don't look right for me.

[Qinhan]

^  Disagree on the hoody.  I like 'em under pea coats.  Not a fan of the cowboy boots, however.

[Anesthetist]

@Qinhan:

^  Disagree on the hoody.  I like 'em under pea coats.  Not a fan of the cowboy boots, however.

What he said

[Snowy]

@4c:

This is pretty fun, will try again…

Yeah wish I had something recent/new to post. Will look once my feet touch the ground soon. Might just post one in the birkies to see what people really think…not that it'll change my mind of it being practical, but am interested..

[4c]

@Snowy:

Might just post one in the birkies to see what people really think…

Haha

[el padre]

OK, I'll have a go… some more double denim. TW05 and 666UHR.

[4c]

Arms look a little long, but all else looks great IMO.

[pillowPANTS]

Looks good. Do up the snaps on the cuffs and the arms wont look as long.

[el padre]

You're both right, of course, the arms are too long. But I love the colour and the weight and, well, everything else. Don't know any alternative shirts like this one. And I don't like buttoning long arms as I've got a thing about weird arm-stacks. Considered a medieval rack but I have my 86 to think of too.

How much compromising is too much? How do you all decide when, however much you want an item to work, it just doesn't?

[Cole]

I think it looks good together, since the shirt and the jeans don't have the same shade of blue. the sleves a a wee bit to long, but you can allways close the snaps or roll them up.

[grandmasterben]

Personally I'd just accept it didn't work for me, but in extremely picky in almost every regard.

I think the sleeves are too long

[spitfiredealer]

Yeah colour wise it works but the arms are too long. Next size down perhaps.

[el padre]

@spitfiredealer:

Yeah colour wise it works but the arms are too long. Next size down perhaps.

This is the compromise thing, though. There wasn't a next size down and if there had been it wouldn't have fit anywhere else. If it was an indigo shirt, say, or a chambray, I'd have returned it and looked for another option, but I've not found anything that contrasts with dark jeans like this, which is why I'm sticking with it.

Interesting to hear where you all draw the line. Thanks for the comments.