The Sartorialist

not digging this at all..

Fishnets?

Really?

Whatever for?

I mean, besides the obvious, like when you’re in a boat in the middle of a mountain lake, trolling a spinner behind you and waiting for a strike. As footwear? Meh.

A man wearing fishnets? How fresh!

Oh my. Well. He certainly has the calves for it.

men in pantyhose!!
sowwiee ..doesn’t do it for me ~~

Wow.

He’s masculine enough to almost pull it off. Almost.

They look good from afar, but up close, not so much. I think he’d have a better effect if he’d worn regular hose.

Oh come on!

What a daring venture…

I am speechless. What happened?
Is that a foto montage or …
two people in one shot… I dont´t get it.
The upper part of the outfit, including his face and hair is – at least in my point of view- completely different from the lower part.
Looking at the fish net stockings, shoes and trousers, I´d expect something like a white shirt, collar, may be bow tie, may be a topper hat! (stereotype, yes.)
But surprise… I see a desert-safari-shirt !

I guess he´s an artist who left his rehearsals for lunchtime.

he’s a good-looking man.. but i feel the fishnets do nothing for him.. atleast not with this ensemble.. perhaps a more tailored shirt..?

Love this site, love your photos. It’s great to see people dressing with a very individual and unique sense of themselves and style. But, having said that, I just want to ask this guy “why?”

Ahhhh! Not really… ut brave, very brave indeed.

Fabulous ! To live in New York City is one of my dreams! You don’t meet people looking like this in Paris. At least I don’t.

disastrous… the pants aren’t bad. looking good has nothing to do with being brave. if he just tried to be different… !

Not on a man….!!!!

interesting. very VERY interesting…

That just looks too odd, like he is on his way to dance class.

unless you are in drag,
NOOOOO
FISHNETS!!!!!

The best comments so far are the ones that are searching for a context for this fantastic foto!

i cant believe i like this. i think he’s mixed fabrics/textures well.

contrived, maybe. successfully pulled off?
ghhuhhhh! yes.

Wait what!?

On a woman, this outfit would be very chic and hot (maybe if either the pants or top were more tailored). On a man, though, I’m completely thrown. I hope this doesn’t catch on as a trend.

I expected to see more positive comments; I’m surprised. (What’s happened to New York!!?)

The look itself is surprising because it doesn’t seem expected from this guy. I find it interesting that he pairs the stockings with kind of cloddish, distinctly masculine shoes.

It’s only after you see the stockings that you realize his shorts have some style to them too.

I think it’s a fresh, shocking, intelligent comment–aggressive, almost sexy, repulsive-attractive, a little scary. It directly reflects an interesting, daring, questioning mind.

I laughed at the word ‘unhinged’ that one of your commenters used. Good word. Yes, there’s definitely that, too. But it’s done with such awareness, grooming, and all the right accessories, so that one can tell he’s actually not.

I’d also disagree that fishnets for men only look good on drag queens. With drag queens, the look is so over-the-top and expected. It’s appealing, I guess, but no longer fresh. It’s establishment now.

I’m not saying I’d want my boyfriend wearing fishnets–well, maybe ONCE–but SOMEONE’s got to shake things up and make us think new thoughts about gender and style, no?

As a woman, I myself–and my friends–don’t like to wear fishnets with heels AND short dress AND makeup AND ‘hair’, because you end up looking tacky–or like a transvestite! We always add something ‘down’, or undo something, to make it say something more cool.

On that note, I think one of the reasons that Tim Curry was so wildly popular as Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show was that he brought such unabashed macho masculinity to the drag queen role. It was this unexpected juxtaposition that made him so sexy.

I’m not saying that this guy brings anything nearing that magnetism, panache, or star power to this outfit, but it’s somewhere along the same lines.

For my part, I’m relieved to see someone daring enough to do this in these times.

ermm……

Creepy.

wow!
Fishnets and a masculine body/face.
Fishnets and négligé
Creativity and transgression…
This guy is a must

Who on earth wears fishnets without high heels?

This guy must have seen you coming! (Looks like he didn’t even have time to tie his shoelaces..)

So fishnets bad, bowtie dickie good.

Oh brother. Since when did fashion have rules? How about a hip hip hurrah for experimentation?

Not everything has to look like a photo from some lawn party in the 40′s.

Anticipation? Try focus…

Sart – I can see you chose this because it was an attempt at being directional, and in the right context it might work on a guy (I can’t imagine how, but maybe in a matador or period punk inspired getup?) but here it is absolutely not working to the point of it being horrifying. Maybe if it was cold…?

btw I saw you on Mulberry Street recently but it took a while for me to register it was you, so if you saw someone shady staring at you, its because I thought maybe I knew you from somewhere (sorry).

ps kudos to the guy for the attempt, tho

EW!! What is up with the knickers and the fishnets with those galloshes?

Rocky Horror meets David Blaine

Fearlessly unique.

His nonchalance makes it fashionable

I am not opposed with men experimenting with fishnets but the way I see it, the problem lies in his choice of shirt. Had he chosen a more fitted blouse the look would have been a little easier on the eyes. This combination, however is just awful.

No.

I personally like it. It’s a complete novel idea, a casual shirt a la weekend linen, non-casual shoes meet with the bizarre stockings. It wouldn’t be the same without each and every piece.

I’m very open-minded and honstly, bravo to anyone who will defy what we accept as normal and go for something new; I’m all for that. But to me, this particular man’s outfit doesn’t work because he seems so heavy! Heavy in size and demeanour. It needs a certain amount of candour, humour and lightness to work, and I don’t think he has that. Put this on a different guy and who knows, it might just work.

Energie

Makes me want to do the Time Warp again.

This is slightly disturbing.

Why?? Is he doing this for a dare?

Something just does not look right about his legs. Shoes? The colour/ something more pointed/ higher heels. Or the proportion of his top?

His legs look quite swollen to me.
I used a paper to cover his shoes and his legs don’t look that swollen

I don’t think there is any good way for men to wear fishnet stockings. Its a daring move, but still too costume-y

Certainly provocative, but the shirt ruins the aesthetic created by the pants/fishnets/shoes – it just fits him terribly. Your outfit can’t try to make 5 statements at once.

It’s fashion week in New York, people! Open your eyes, open your minds, embrace your sense of adventure and sense of humour! Burn your ill-fitting blue jeans, faded T’s and sneakers. Thank you fishnet dude for being so thought-provoking, Thank you Sart for seeing and sharing, Thank you landis smithers, ephidrina and Jorge from WPB for getting it and being positive!
(ok, rant over, i was just so disappointed to see so many negative comments…)

Is this a new gansta look?

Interesting. Some commentators think that a more light-hearted man(ner) could pull it off better, but I think it would be too close to drag/camp to really pull it off. As some others have noted, details such as grooming and accessories make it more masculine, and are anti-drag.

Also, are they really fishnets, or just sheer patterned knee-highs? Between his skin color and having the focus plane about 3-4 feet behind the subject, it’s hard to tell.

I know the Sart almost never answers questions about technique, but I’ll ask anyway; why did you put focal plane where you did? I have a guess.

Finally…a look nobody on here likes!! I’ve been waiting for this!

Man in fishnets aside, the fit of the shirt and pants is making him look dumpy. Which moves the look from potentially edgy (though not my cup of tea) to a little bit sad.

I really don’t know how else you would pull off knickers in this kind of weather. Wool high socks would be great, but it’s too warm for them. Perhaps this is a fall preview.

As far as the cankles go: LESS CARBS and MORE CARDIO!

On top of all of it..the picture is out of focus.

yikes. tell me please that he’s coming home from tap dancing rehearsals and he threw his sandals in his locker.

oh my god. that man is…..well i’m out of words.

I am not sure which is more disturbing: the fishnets or the fact that at first glance the umbrella looks like a hook-hand.

Shock for the sake of shock is trite and boring.

this is sloppy sloppy.

The tights look silly. I have not seen something this bad for a long time.

Oh, hisnets.

To me, the only real difficulty with this outfit is the proportions. The “pouf” factor of the pants (lovely in its own right) combined with the length of the untucked shirt makes his legs look very short. That being said, although I am never a fan of fishnets (on women or otherwise), I really, really like the way they look with the mens dress shoes. I think the whole thing works very well from the knees down surprisingly enough. I also, really appreciate having been surprised and actually required to question my fashion assumptions. Yay for fasion week! :)

A perfect way for a thousand-yard-stare serial killer to hide his weapon of choice. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome “The Fishnet Strangler”…

ha! every time i glance at this picture i see his umbrella handle as a hook, as if he’s in costume for a pirate. In that context, this outfit makes sense

NO.

This is great. Sloppy kind of sexuality, playful but with a nice grounded masculinity.

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Mmm.. if he were wearing a nice white top with a tailored blazer i would actually love it. But something is just wrong with that oversized safari shirt.