Warm weather and bank holiday Monday

This Monday I went with my family and dogs to Bushey park for a leisurely stroll, but the wonderful weather was too good an opportunity to pass up, so I brought a camera! The weather was humid but had a chill to it at some points, so I wore a contrast waistcoat alongside a micro check two piece suit in a wool/cashmere blend.

This outfit is a poplin blue and white Bengal stripe tab French cuff contrast collar shirt in a full English cutaway style. The tie is a pink and white micro-stripe silk tie tied in a double windsor with 3 dimples. The waistcoat is a black wool/mohair 4 button sans lapel with 3 pockets and the suit is a charcoal grey and black micro check two piece suit with flap pockets, peak lapels and subtle pagoda shoulders with roped sleeve heads. This outfit has many breathable, light fabrics but also paired with thicker fabrics to keep the chill of the later day off.

The 3 dimples may not be to everyone's taste and may be seen as too narcissistic, but it has a purpose nevertheless. The high number of dimples framed the collar in showing how wide the knot was, accentuating my shoulders into that pagoda concave but leaving breadth in my chest. Usually I have one large dimple in The middle of all my ties but sometimes I like to experiment, because style is nothing if you don't make it your own!

The shoes that I am wearing are Liverpool double monks in black calf leather. I am recently one to be enticed by the seduction of monk shoes and monk boots, similar to the Jodhpur. I find the buckles quite accentuating of certain metals one may be wearing, such as cufflinks or wristwatches. The silver buckles on these monk shoes complimented my silver watch whilst also complimenting my silver cufflinks with their white enamel.

Usually I wear some shade of brown with charcoal as it adds a nonchalance that can be elegant yet daring, but I was pushing it already with this wide colour palette already, the only thing that tied in all down for me was the grey prince of Wales check pocket square.

 If you look closely, the colours of the pocket square mute, compliment and accentuate all the right places of this outfit, in my opinion at least. These bright and muted colours all reflect the beauty of the sun's radiance but also the brevity of summer life, and how short it really can be. I love colour and I cannot wait to see what interesting combination I make this time round. 

Did I get carried away? Are there too many colours or the wrong ones? You tell me, but also be sure to send pictures too if you wish! Style is all about embracing instead of shunning, let us all embrace and see each other's style loves, quirks or mistakes even. 

Thank you for reading,

-Kieran