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I associate fragrance lovers as confident individuals with a strong sense of style. How would you describe your style? I mean, are you avant-garde, fashionable , always keeping up with trends or conservative? Just curious. Living in L.A., my style is casual elegant but edgy. I like to mix my wardrobe.

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Very interesting thread Aubrgene. I've actually always wondered what people wear with certain fragrances. For example, Montale Black Aoud is a very luxurious classy scent with the very rare aoud note, and I always picture someone in a high priced well tailored suit wearing BA. But I actually own & wear it while walking around in grey vintage jeans that only a 12 year old boy can really fit into that slip off my waist and hang on my hips, beat up & torn chuck taylors with a plain tiny white t-shirts that hits the waist. Not Montale Black Aoud attire IMO but I like it.

I really don't know "my" style. It very different at times and I dress differently for different occasions but I like fashion & style. I wear a lot of new clothes mixed with vintage stuff my parents used to own, and stuff I find. I dress a little more unique then the average person and I like mixing things here and there, and I know how to put stuff together. I would say my style is classic/vintage with a modern twist. My favorite designers/labels are: Levi's, Dior Homme, Japanese Clothing Labels, American Apparel, Vintage & Diesel.

I never really liked the look, smell & feel of new clothes for some strange reason, never really looked good on me, especially shoes. I like clothes that have been worn in a little and aged, I like the jackets I own now that have gone through some natural distress. I have a rugged style but I do clean up at times and try to look my best if I'm going out to a special place.

I like deep v-neck t-shirts that show off the collar bones, I just really like that look and I usually spray my SOTD there so it gets some projection. I like hoodies because I'm a student and have a lot of bad hair days. I only wear jeans/pants year round because I have extremely stick thin hairy legs, so I don't look good in shorts. If I'm going to wear jeans all the time, they might as well be premium jeans. I know spending $200 on jeans is crazy to some people but I know people who spend more on jeans. My favorite color is black, and I love black wool & leather jackets, shirts, sweaters, cardigans & jeans. I also only really like white or black shoes.

I guess my style varies but I always like wearing very slim cut clothes. I look like a poor college boy most of the time. But again very interesting thread, I always wondered about this because sometimes I think certain scents that I love like Musc Ravager & Black Aoud don't really fit my style.

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Interesting choice of words in the title too! I guess some would say that being fashionable does not guarantee 'style'. Style, for me is something personal that takes time to evolve and is often expressed in things other than clothing - the way Cary Grant for example exuded style in all his ways and actions.
To answer the question I suppose my 'style' (if I have any) has evolved through the Designer Decade of the 80s when it was often Boss, Armani, Ferre to a more classic look. In fact my wife thinks of it more as a Fogey look!
Today in the office I am wearing:
DAKS dark grey pinstripe suit
Ozwald Boateng pink self herringbone shirt with fine black stripe
Liberty woven pink silk tie with small black dots
Armani cuff links
Lehner paisley silk square in greys, blues, pinks on white background
Boss black cotton sock
Jeffery-West black ankle boots and Gant belt
Monsieur Rochas
When I am 'off duty' it might be a more mid-Atlantic look - Polo RL V neck over BD shirt and Jeans or cords.
Good thread!

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Interesting thread.
As far as fashion is concerned, I tend to go with a uniform - blue shirt, khaki pants pretty much every day. I don't need to wear a tie to work, so that bit of sartorial edge is lost. If I had my druthers, I'd just wear black every day, but when I did I was often mistaken for a priest - go figure.
I'm slightly built so it's often a pain to find clothes that aren't baggy - I HATE baggy.

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I'd say conservative. My workplace is pretty relaxed, lots of people with jeans, tennis shoes and t-shirts. I learned a long time ago that people judge you by your appearance, so I go to work in black dress shoes, slacks and a button-down shirt.
I'm not a big one on brand names just yet, although I do have some Brooks Brothers shirts and ties that I am quite fond of.
The farthest I get off the conservative style line is a couple of shirts I have with French cuffs and the little holes in the collars for tie pins.
Due to the prevalence in current fashion, I do have some three-button sport coats, but my first preference is still two-button with a single vent.
Dressing down for the weekend, I tend to Carhardtt heavy duty jeans, Doc Martins and a heavy cotton overshirt (Arrow makes some nice very reasonably priced shirts in this style). Of course I have some pairs of 501s, the cornerstone of jeans style.
Clothes acquisitions on the horizons are:
1) some corduroy pants in brown and tan
2) a nice tweed jacket (very versatile)
3) time for a new conservative dark blue suit. I've gotten too fat for my old one. It's a 38 and I'm wearing a 44 regular anymore.

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Good thread. I love fashion and style. At times I have thought of my style as "Audrey Hepburn Meets Tank Girl" (elegant and classic with subversive contemporary elements + edge); "sporty elegant" (fabrics with stretch and give but classic proportions and shapes; experimentation goes to the colors and tops, but foundational pieces like shoes or pants/skirt must be strong and hold the outfit together).
I buy at discount stores a lot, like TJ Maxx and Marshalls where I try to find good pieces at cheap prices. For example, one day I scored, on deep clearance, a pair of cabernet red tuxedo pants, 100% Italian wool, for the insane price of $7 (can't recall designer). My indulgences are limited mostly to shoes, purses, frags, and makeup. I have a Miu Miu purse and am about to receive a Prada pebble-skin bowler in a jaunty shade of green. My makeup is Clinique or Mac (I am trying to move away from drugstore brands because that encourages me to buy too much). I wear a diesel watch that most would say is not for women: it's large, black, and digital, but I don't have a little birdy wrist and I think this watch really reflects who I am.
I love finding good vintage things and mixing them with my modern pieces. I have a tweed blazer with suede patches at the elbow that I love to wear with either my Citizens or 7 for Humanity Jeans, with a nice pair of open-toed shoes. For cooler weather, I'd wear this outfit with a wine or near-black nail polish, No. 88, a push-up bra (wonderbra makes some good ones), a casual knit shirt in olive or coffee brown with tencel or modal so it's light and clingy without being trashy, and my Gucci glasses.

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I wear a uniform during workdays. Whenever I wear 'normal' clothes, I usually go with jeans or cotton trousers, a t-shirt, and a blue or red vintage work shirt. Someone once told me that my style was 'rockabilly', but since I wasn't really aiming for a certain style, I would hesitate to accept the label. I have several pairs of chuck taylors, but in the cooler weather I wear vintage-style leather shoes (Bass and Diesel, I think).
-ben

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i follow trends but at the sametime avoiding them
as a guy...there isn't much to follow...but instead of wearing the ultra fitted jeans guys started to wear in which you can't move in....i wear a slightly tappered than usual boot cut jean...
the main "trend" i follow is the color profile of the season
i just wear what's comfortable without looking like a crappy student
but not too uptight that it is enough to show hom much i'm trying...
hollister,abercrombie, and american eagle....no no no no nooooo( ithink that syas it all )

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Good question. I would describe my style as casual and relaxed. I have my fair share of polo that I wear on a regular basis. For pants, I tend to wear baggy stuff, though I hope to get more fitting jeans in the future. I do not follow the trends of abercrombie and all the other, as I try to dress in a polo because it is more upscale for my age. I currently have 3 pair of jeans, a pair of dockers, and a pair of carpetner pants. I also have two thermal underwear shirts that I use with out of my polos and other shirts. I also got a CK turtle neck sweater I wear that is cool. For x-mas I got a tommy bahama shirt that I will wear. When I want to get dressed up it usually consists of brown new balance shoes, brown slacks, a black belt, a under shirt, a polo and sometimes the thermal underwear to layer it with, and a leather jacket. The days I want to be more relaxed I will wear jeans and a hoodie. I am currently in search of my style but I try to follow the lines of the abercrombie look but follow a more classic preppy look if that makes any sense.

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I like the British/Italian style mix that is dressy but not uptight; but with interesting fabrics; side vented jackets and a lot of subtle use of color. My models are Astaire, Grant, the inestimable William Powell, Ray Milland, the great dressers of the 30s and early 40s (after which things becane to sink a lot as far as style goes in movies).
In a world moving inelucatably toward mediocre, corporate-Maoist total lack of style, I am the guy in the jacket and tie, who likes to dress most of the time. I know it is subversive. I like being subversive. On dress down Friday, when I wear a sports coat(that I think is a fantastic looking) and tie, my co-workers ask, "why are you wearin a tie?" and I say, "because I like to". They say, "oh". I wonder: when we were all younger and in college, did we expect to turn into such unthinking lemmings and conformists? The youngish corporate nebishes with their golf shirts and khakis doing their corp-speak are laughable as far as I am concerned. They are what George Orwell had in mind absolutely. So, fragrance is laughed at at times; being interested in the way you look is weird or even gay. Funny. Last night, the movie "Gorky Park" was on tv, and I noted with not a small degree of interest, the way Lee Marvin's character took time and interest in the way he dressed, and made sure his tie looked "just so". He was a perfectionist a man of style and a "tough guy". Frankly in this movie, the bad-guy looked great! He was old, well older (like me) and he looked great. That's what I like.
Joe