LOOKBOOK | Introducing plaid to the varsity

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Nope, never been on any varsity team back in school. Besides, I've never really been into sports to begin with. So wearing a varsity jacket is nothing but a so-called fashion thing.

A few who asked where I got the jacket were surprised when I told them it's Bench, a local brand. I've had it for a while now and yeah, it's a nice jacket. It's got small quilted patterns and it's warm enough for the office air conditioning.

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I experimented a bit here by wearing the varsity jacket with plaid pants. Of course plaid pants can be quite loud. I mean, plaid alone can be loud, so what more when it's pants we're talking about. But somehow the jacket just fit in. I guess it's the color blue that's holding everything together here.

As for the shoes, sneakers would have been nice (a no-brainer) but since it was an office workday, I picked a nice pair of camel-colored leather lace-ups. Why it doesn't look out of place is because of the streaks of light brown in the plaid pattern of my pants.

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Happy weekend!
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Varsity jacket (Bench); pants (Prima Linea); shoes (Zara Man).

Comments

  1. mikeSeptember 4, 2016 at 6:39 AM

    very nice. i can see why people would asked where you got it.

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