Different Suits For Different Cities

Different Suits For Different Cities

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In the past few weeks I have had the opportunity to travel to both Las Vegas and Mexico for purposes that were not completely leisure or fun.  As part of the travels I found myself wearing a suit for some of the days.

Needless to say, Las Vegas and Mexico allow for two different levels of dress.  In Las Vegas, pretty much anything goes.  And given I was there to attend the MRket, Project, Capsule and other shows one could especially wear whatever they pleased.  Given that, I took the liberty to put together some rather aggressive ensembles.  Including some based around the cream linen suit and purple suede wingtips (both pictured below).

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Navy (unbranded) instead of cream pinstripe (Dragon Inside).

Mexico, it would be wiser, I figured, to tone things down a few levels.  So I opted to replace the cream linen with a navy silk/wool blend jacket and the purple suede with brown suede.  Much more conservative choices.  In the end, I was glad I toned things down.  I don’t mind attracting attention with some of my wardrobe pieces, but I do not like to overdo it.  Especially in a foreign country, which a cream suit would have certainly overdone it in the part of Mexico I was in.

dressing for travel
Brown suede (Brooks Brothers) instead of purple suede (Herring).

Part of this was just dressing appropriately for the circumstance and the other part I would like to label as sartorial relativism.

-JLJ

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