Waistcoats have hit the market, what do you think of them?

Worth buying or just a Timberlake trend?

Oh sorry - Justin Timberlake (Mr JT)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2006320496,00.html

Are you a boy, Huntie?

yup

I can't stand JT.

Ah ok.Well, my advice would be that you need to be p.r.e.t.t.y slick to pull it off without looking like either a banker or a pimp. I would buy one only if you mess-up the look a little. Do you propose wearing it during the day, or is it more of a going-out look?

HOWEVER! for the love of GOD do not wear it with a Trilby. Nobody wants those consequences...

Erm, I do spend alot on clothes, but I wouldn't say I'm a fashion victim. Just like to dress well

I sometimes wear a waistcoat if I am wearing a suit.. but thats about it.. If Mr Timberlake is wearing them then it wont be too long before they will be found in all pubs and clubs around the UK.

Oh thanks Bobby, but I'm not a hat kinda person anyway

Very wise I say...

I don't think spending money and taking an interest in clothes makes you a fashion victim. As long as you don't go crazy and buy things that suit you its fine...well, that's what I tell myself anyway.

Go Huntie, you buy yourself that waistcoat! Come on, its friday, treat yourself!

Well hangseng, I don't believe that people are necessarily lacking in sense just because they like to keep up to date with the current trends.

And thanks bobby, I will - hehe

Oh good, see that means I'm allowed to go out for a little treat now! Living in Central London is such a goddam hazard. I think I deserve a PhD just for managing to get through everyday without necessarily buying another pair of shoes!

Go Team!

Huntie I think such attention to dress in a man is deeply admirable and does not make you a fashion victim in anyway. I dislike the phrase fashion victim – it suggests a sort of cultural dupe caught up in a cycle of false needs. I LOVE fashion, still means I am able to consume consciously, critically etc. But for the record I think the waistcoat is a big no-no unless teamed with the other parts of a well cut / tailored suit and you need to be athletically built Dandy to pull it off (which of course you might be)? I think JT looks a bit of a donut.

Alas, athletically built Dandy i am not, I'm only iccle - not my fault tho - I have a complete inabillity to put on weight

It is strange how you perceive what people look like by what they say though. I think we should ask the nice ppl who run the forum to allow us to add our bea-utiful photos - lol