Another summer, another edition of Pitti Uomo. With the excellent coverage by Charlie (@sebastianmcfox) at this summer’s Pitti Uomo 94, we’ve got a Styleforum guy’s eye for style to show us the looks that other street photographers might overlook. Out of the “best of” pics from his time there, I’ve chosen three of dudes outfits I liked in particular, with the intent to find similar products if I wanted to assemble a similar fit for myself.
Aloha shirts—also commonly called Hawaiian shirts—are huge right now, and the Pitti crowd proved no exception to that trend. A lot of the times I’m seeing them with the collar—often a camp collar—worn over the jacket collar and lapel. It’s a look that harkens back to casual ensembles in old Apparel Arts illustrations. Whether you want to wear the collar over the jacket lapel or not, bringing the formality of your jacket or suit down with a Hawaiian print shirt might be a fun way to expand your horizons this summer. Just make sure your tailoring is made from an already somewhat “casual” fabric—think linens, cottons, blends, or textured wool.
Some options for Hawaiian print shirts
Levi’s • Brooks Brothers navy shirt • Brooks Brothers navy shirt 2
[edit: the actual shirt worn in the picture is by the brand Two Palms, available here.]
Tan and brown suit options
Drake’s brown linen suit jacket and trousers • Drake’s tan ramie suit jacket and trousers • Berg & Berg tobacco fresco (also comes in tan, which would work well, too)
Camoshita chocolate brown suit separates Jacket and Trousers • Ring Jacket brown balloon jacket
This guy’s clearly there to work, but while his clothes are obviously comfortable, I still like the accessible, layered style he’s done here. First of all, he’s wearing canoe mocs and off-white pants (he must read my blogs) in a loose fit that I’m sure helped beat the heat. Since he’s got a camera in hand (the excellent Canon 6D, which I use and highly recommend at the price point), the untucked chambray shirt makes perfect sense because moving around to get the shot, it would probably just come untucked anyhow. The loose olive linen safari jacket makes the fit feel a bit more put together and has the benefit of giving him extra storage for camera gear (and probably hides sweat—a major benefit of wearing an outer layer when it’s warm out that people just don’t think of). And he’s rounded out the fit with a Coke-bezel Rolex GMT-Master and a straw panama hat.
Off-white/stone chinos
Polo • Fujito • Brooks Brothers
Canoe mocs / boat shoes
Oak Street bootmakers • Sperry
Chambray shirt
Safari / field jacket options
Anderson and Sheppard • RRL shirt jacket • Sartoria Formosa “Sahariana”
Drakes linen field jacket • Ring Jacket 1 • Ring Jacket 2
Panama hat • Rolex GMT-Master “coke” bezel
This is my favorite photo of Charlie’s from Pitti, which shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody. I like what all four guys are wearing (though white bucks on the second from the right guy wouldn’t have been my choice). Of the four, I love the casual simplicity of Andreas Weinas (far right) the most (though Maxim Lundh, far left, is wearing an Eidos Ciro suit, which I love). Andreas appears to be wearing a grayish-greenish sport coat (looks to be Orazio Luciano to my eyes), pale blue washed chambray shirt, off-white possibly single-pleat summer trousers and a pair of chocolate brown Belgian loafers. It’s exactly the kind of thing I’d wear.
Similar jackets
Drakes 1 • Drakes 2 • Suitsupply • Polo • Anglo-Italian green linen
Chambray shirts
Suitsupply • Rubinacci • Purple Label • Polo • Anglo-Italian
Off-white trousers
Boglioli • Eidos • Rota • Berg & Berg • Suitsupply 1 • Suitsupply 2
Belgian loafers
