OPPOSUITS. 

"Svend" (svend) 04/21/2018 at 10:11 • Filed to: None

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As Britain is going through a bit of a heatwave (yes, 20C/68F is getting rather hot for us).

I’m going for a meal with the girls in a few days and thought, horror of horror for me in wearing shorts to a country restaurant to go to quite often.

It’s new for me as I always go the dress code plus one so if somewhere calls for casual I go smart-casual, if it’s smart-casual I always go smart, if it’s smart I go formal minus one.

So I went to look at smart-casual shorts wear and cames across OPPOSUITS.

https://www.opposuits.co.uk/

These are classed as ‘Summer Suits’,

Erm, that’s a no from me.

jimz > Svend 04/21/2018 at 10:26

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does anyone, anywhere actually wear stuff like that?

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 04/21/2018 at 10:29

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You can always wear a nice shirt and some black jeans, that’s how most mexicans go clubbing.

Svend > jimz 04/21/2018 at 10:30

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I know students who have worn stuff similar in the past.

It’s very much students with extra cash, hipster and city people would wear to a summer party.

It was more the fact it was called OPPOSUITS that got me rather than the outfits.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Svend 04/21/2018 at 10:34

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ahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahha *dies*

ill take the green n gold with a leprechaun hat

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 04/21/2018 at 10:34

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I think those are mostly worn as jokes... 20c is not a big deal....

Thought you English people take formality serious, back when I visited London I remember seening a pub filled with dudes in formal attire drinking beer from huge glasses.

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 10:34

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I’ve not wore jeans since I was 13-14. I look like Jeremy Clarkson in jeans, it’s not pretty, I just look awkward.

When I’m not in my work cloths I’m usually wearing something from 5.11 Tactical Clothing (actually some of my workwear is 5.11 too).

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 04/21/2018 at 10:36

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From a Mexican perspective, having a nice shirt is pretty much all you need unless you’re going gala. Note that we’re used to seeing low 30s here in Mexico City and in other cities they’re used to seeing high 30s...

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 10:41

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20C for us is on the boundary of hot. 14-16C is nice, anything more is ‘what’s happening, what do I do!?’.

We take formal wear seriously but we are more liberated now with pretty much anything goes the rest of the time.

You can find a group of friends who all wear greatly different clothing rather than dress similar, it’s much more of a dress how you feel or want now.

LOREM IPSUM > Svend 04/21/2018 at 10:46

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Straight out of the 1977 JC Penney Catalog!

http://brownelllandrum.com/1977-jc-penney-catalogue/

jimz > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 10:47

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Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 10:48

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Here if it gets to 22C and remains there for long it causes issues because people aren’t used to it, the infrastructure isn’t used to it, road surfaces get soft, rails start to warp a little, people start collapsing because they don’t behave as the weather dictates, the health care system is disrupted due to sunburns/burns, people coming into harms way due to trying to cool off by going into bodies of water such as rivers and lakes not knowing whats underfoot of undercurrents, elderly people needing medical treatment, water shortages and hose pipe bans, etc...

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 04/21/2018 at 10:50

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That’s change for the good!

Ever since I entered colleges I decided I’d only wear formal clothing to weddings or funerals... Otherwise I’d do the shirt and jeans.

Our weather might have a lot to do with it... We’d be colder if the Spanish had not filled out the lake (also much safer...)

All that said, whenever I spend winters with my family in Spain I’m wearing formal clothes basically all day; those just happen to be warmer.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > jimz 04/21/2018 at 10:51

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In the Netherlands people wear them during Carnaval (a yearly week-long celebration before the start of fasting (I believe the proper term is Lent)), but people are extremely drunk and act like crazy during that time, so it’s not even the weirdest thing people wear (think Halloween costumes, but not necessarily scary). They tend to get the long versions though, as it’s often around freezing when it’s Carnaval.

But yeah, other than that I don’t really see the point of them.

Spanfeller is a twat > jimz 04/21/2018 at 10:52

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Oh no.... I proved a Family Guy stereotype....

This is mildly depressing.

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 04/21/2018 at 10:53

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Rails wrap at 22c?

That’s insane, you guys need more expansion joints.

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 11:00

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We’ve never really needed much more than minimal expansion joints barring in mind some of the railway lines are many years old.

It’s like when we get snow and ice, the system isn’t geared up for it as we don’t get it often enough to justify the expense.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Svend 04/21/2018 at 11:02

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Here in the south of the Netherlands they are a big thing with Carnaval since a few years, the rest of the year not so much... (Obviously the long versions, way to cold to wear the short ones with Carnaval)

KnowsAboutCars > Svend 04/21/2018 at 11:04

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The iceman needs more this:

Svend > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 04/21/2018 at 11:05

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In Helmond I was always getting called ‘the crazy Englander’ because I would turn up at work wearing shorts and polo shirt at 4am in the morning when it was 0C outside.

Cé hé sin > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 11:06

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Rails don’t really give trouble at 22°, there’s a slight amount of exaggeration...

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Svend 04/21/2018 at 11:09

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Haha, yeah for a country that has quite some cold weather, we’re not that used to the cold.

Spanfeller is a twat > Svend 04/21/2018 at 11:09

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I thought English whether was mostly consistently between 0-18 and raining half of the time...Though top gear might have influenced my understanding.

We don’t have a lot of rail lines here, thought biggest issue is the summer rain that sees some stations flood.

I do know that after an earthquake some rail lines got bent and wagons couldn’t go through.I think in one particular case they changed/rectified a 60m curved section in less than 4 hours and right before the rush hour. If we spent more time without a metro they’d be riots.

Spanfeller is a twat > Cé hé sin 04/21/2018 at 11:12

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I thought the same, but then I remembered England does have really old railways. I wouldn’t expect the engineers who built them to understand material sciences as well as we do now.

Svend > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 11:26

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Over the whole year it’s around 0-18C but on average it’s more 5-10 really here in the north of England, the south tends to get the warmer end of the deal with less rain, we get more of it (hence ‘the lake district’).

It all depends on where the weather system is coming from.

Though we lost a lot of train stations (55%) and some railway lines (30% of rail line miles) back in the 1960s due to the Beeching Cuts we still have a very extensive railway system.

Out, but with a W - has found the answer > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 12:47

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If it’s continuously welded rail, rails can actually warp at just about any temperature: they’re “regulated” during construction/maintenance to a certain temperature, at which they’re stress-free. The bigger the actual rail temperature differs from this neutral temperature, the bigger the chance of issues, i.e. cracks when negative, buckling when positive.

Spanfeller is a twat > Out, but with a W - has found the answer 04/21/2018 at 12:49

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Yes, that’s exactly why they should update it with expansion joints as climate changes around earth; who knows what England might start seeing in that respect.

whatisthatsound > Svend 04/21/2018 at 13:18

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I have an OPPO summer suit and I love it, that is all.

whatisthatsound > jimz 04/21/2018 at 13:20

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Heck yes!

Svend > whatisthatsound 04/21/2018 at 13:28

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Need pictures.

whatisthatsound > Svend 04/21/2018 at 13:40

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Kiltedpadre > Svend 04/21/2018 at 13:43

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I’m going to a wedding this summer at a beach house. It’ll probably be mid 80’s F. My wife is trying to talk me out of a look similar to this.

She claims she’d be ok with it if it were an ocean beach, but this is a cabin on a large man made lake in Ohio.

Svend > whatisthatsound 04/21/2018 at 13:55

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Nice.

Won’t work for me.

Add hair on every part of the body visible there, about six to eight inches around the waist and going bald. That would be me.

Svend > Kiltedpadre 04/21/2018 at 14:09

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That looks good. I wish I could carry it off.

Unfortunately I don’t have the body for it.

whatisthatsound > Svend 04/21/2018 at 14:10

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But is your face black scribbles, everything looks better with scribbles

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > Kiltedpadre 04/21/2018 at 14:57

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And the wife’s suggestion is... more formal? Showing less leg?

Kiltedpadre > Svend 04/21/2018 at 14:59

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I’m 6-4 and about 240 (around 1.9m and 108kg in the rest of the world). So, I’m not sure I exactly have the ideal physique for it either realistically.

Kiltedpadre > Svart Smart, traded in his Smart 04/21/2018 at 15:04

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Certainly not more formal. She has suggested linen slacks in place of the shorts. Alternatively, if I can find a sport coat to wear with a kilt that was her other thought. So showing leg is fine too.

Probably has more to do with being slightly more rounded than the model at 6-4, 240lbs. I think she’s concerned I’ll look silly. My bar for looking silly is pretty low though given that I wore a camo kilt hiking this morning.

Cé hé sin > Spanfeller is a twat 04/21/2018 at 16:27

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Er....the location of many of the railways may date back to the 19th century, but the rails and other equipment on them do not!

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > Kiltedpadre 04/21/2018 at 19:22

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I suspect you could probably pull it off OK. I don’t know what you look like, obvi, but I don’t see why a big guy like you couldn’t wear what the pictured model is wearing (adjusting the size of the garments of course).

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend 04/22/2018 at 03:58

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go as Mr Pink.

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 04/22/2018 at 04:38

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That one did stick out to me, but unfortunately I don’t have the look or body for it.