Reasons No. 4537 and 4538 why I love Southern Men … August 4, 2006
Posted by charmingbutsingle in Uncategorized.trackback
Two purely fashion-related reasons:
- Seersucker suits
- White bucs.
All spring and summer long.
Updated: By request, the seersucker suit and white bucs:
Charming, as a non-American (and therefore non-Southern) lady, I don’t really understand what those things mean in visual terms. Can you find me a picture of a nice seersucker-and-white-bucs southern man on the internet and illustrate?
Love,
Rosie
(seriously. I’m more and more lost every time you talk about them)
First of all: that is super cute of Rosie to want to know that those are.
Second: ditto to that, girl. I love me some southern men!
God I love seer sucker. Period.
omg! I’m american. Well, In new york .. what is that? I’ve never seen a southern person well, on TV .. well on South Beach .. kinda sorta .. yeah Get pic… let me google it..
ok, I just googled this. White shoes? strippy thingie? Oh no..did I see the wrong pic? nooo!! noo! noo! noo! noo! me no likey ..
and here I was thinking we shared a brain, that we were match made in AA heaven! lol jk…
Oh, white bucs are IT! Love ‘em.
looooove the seersucker. southern gentlemen are the best.
Dillard’s had a seersucker suit on sale last week…I was tempted, but then I remembered how far north of the Mason-Dixon line I am…
Hmm… not sure that I’m convinced. It must be a Southern thing =D
Looks like something out of the Newman/Redford movie The Sting.
I am so damned. I live in the south yet don’t really go for southern men. It is the accent…just one of those preference things and well not a big fan of it when it comes from a man. But the guy in the seersucker suit? He’ll do for me provided I can gag him so I don’t hear him speak.
Damn, seersucker and white bucs - I am melting…where can I find one of these men????
i must admit that i had no idea what was a seersucker suit and white bucs. and after the visuals, i’m still not so sure if that’s my thing… but admittedly there IS a certain charm bout it… hmmm…
hmmm…
maybe im just used to new york city men in dark italian suits and shoes.
it must be a southern thing.
the stripes, my screen play pixels on it.
people wear that?
I guess technically Virginia, where I live, is a southern state.(Even though it’s one of those states where a lot of people act like they are from New York) Anyways, I feel you on the Seersucker suit, I wore one with a fresh pair of shell-toe Adidas last year..
Hmmmm yea!…. Awesome!!!
http://www.weego.de/english/images/fotos/seersucker-2.jpg
In the midwest where I live, only the really, really, REALLY old dudes wear both.
Kinda funny how things change from region to region.
god, i love ‘em too. the manners, the drawl, and of course, the seersucker. love your blog, i’ll be reading!
Totally with you on this one. I love a man in a seersucker suit! All the young hot lawyers in New Orleans wear them all summer long. Yummy!
I gotta get me one of those suits when I go to America later this year… all the ladies back in Japan will swoon…
Only the very J.Crew pull that off here in Michigan…
It’s true, the Southern gentlemen make me swoon.
dang, girl, you like ‘em preppy, don’t cha?
only the super duper rich boys and frat boys wear that stuff up here.
but on the right guy, it’s pretty yummy. only certain personalities can pull it off without coming off as pompous and smarmy.
i’m just more partial to a nice polo mesh shirt and some cargo shorts. and flip flops.
hey–are you over all the owen wilson haircuts? they are really prevalent here in SC. i can’t stand them. i want the caesar cut to come back.
Sorry ladies, while the southern may have copied the look. It is distinctively northeastern and New England, as Brooks Brothers “invented” the seersucker suit. Too bad none of you went to private schools or hang out on the cape; you may have been enlightened. A White Shoe firm is even used up here to describe waspy old school legal and banking firms, a reference to White Bucs.
Now I must decide… do I stay single? Or do I dress like a frat boy pretending to be Matlock? Crap. I guess it’s just me and the dog again this weekend.
Honestly though, I have found (and this thread confirms) that you can’t really dress to impress. Same as you can’t judge a book by it’s cover. It appears that I could wear seersucker and attract many of these respondants, or I could wear a polo and flip-flops. The problem is, it would attract the wrong girls. And they would be attracted to the wrong guy. I guess I better dress like me and hope the girl is attracted to me.
dear anonymous–
don’t be too proud — seersucker is from india and is British and NO….Brooks Brother’s did not invent it.
American seersucker is a cotton version of the silk seersucker worn in the nineteenth century by the British in India. The word itself seems to be a Hindi corruption of a Persian phrase, shir shakkar, which translates as “milk and sugar.” This etymology refers to the alternating smooth and rough textures of the stripes, the distinctive feature of the cloth, which is achieved by what is called slack-tension weaving: alternating fibers are held under normal tension, while intervening ones are kept slack to create a pattern of puckered and flat stripes. Seersucker’s most distinguishing characteristic is its greatest stylistic virtue as well: it flaunts its rumpled state with aplomb.
It became popular as the perfect cloth for hot, humid climes. In the South, men began to wear seersucker suits in the summer around the turn of the century as a more comfortable alternative to flannel and linen, but they were considered a rather cheap approach to dressing and had little fashion allure until university men began wearing them after the First World War. They were seen at tony country clubs in the ’30s and ’40s but didn’t really catch on with businessmen in the North until the end of the Second World War.
By G. Bruce Boyer
My fiance is wearing seersucker and bucs to our upcoming engagemnt party!
score 1 for me!!
cool post!