This time of year, a problem often emerges for ladies and gentlemen who don sweaters to keep them warm in the morning and evening -- what to do with the sweater in the heat of the midday sun. Whether I am returning to alma mater to attend an intercollegiate football game or strolling through the Village after a late brunch at Balthazar on Saturday morning, I tend to take off the sweater and throw it over my shoulders. What are your thoughts about the sweater over the shoulders look?
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One gets a pass if out on foot all day with no better means of storage.
Deliberately leaving home like this is twee, effete, stupid. A sweater is not a scarf.
Don't do it! If you're too hot, suffer through it until you can get home and change. Even the queerest guys I know still wouldn't be caught dead with a sweater tied over their shoulders. It is beyond effeminate and the few guys that I've seen sporting this look are the biggest pr*cks I've some across. How can anyone think this is acceptable is beyond me.
BTW, Balthazar doesn't do a Saturday brunch so I am sure you meant Sunday afternoon. I know after all those drinks into the wee hours of the morning that time gets lost somewhere along the line and the weekends become a total blur. At least that's how it is for me.
I recently saw this in the wild (in Kennebunkport). It looked affected, as if the wearer had put on their preppy costume and didn't want to forget a single detail.
tough to pull off...seems very contrived.
For what it's worth, Esquire's style staff disapproves. I agree with others commenting that it seems contrived.
Some guys - typically young and very thin - can pull off these preppy nuances without looking ridiculous. I just don't happen to be one of them.
While I've never affected this look, it seems to me that wearing a sweater over your shoulders (as a scarf like Anon 6:10 said) would itself retain heat.
Adrian -- thanks for commenting! I assure you that Balthazar serves brunch on Saturday -- my wife and I have been many, many, many times (on both Saturday and Sunday)!
On both Saturday and Sunday, Balthazar opens at eight and serves breakfast until nine when the brunch menu emerges (the brunch menu for Saturday and Sunday are slightly different). Unless one plans ahead, it is difficult to obtain reservations and the wait without reservations can be quite long.
So here's my little tip for you, Adrian -- I hope you find it useful! If you decide at the last moment you'd like brunch at Balthazar (whether it be Saturday or Sunday) and you can't get reservations, arrive about half past eight and sit down to read the complimentary issue of The New York Times or Le Monde -- order coffee and linger just a bit over the breakfast menu -- about quarter til, when your waiter comes back to take your order, very kindly ask for the brunch menu -- in my experience, they are always gracious!
I like it. When I lived in NYC I ocassionally wore a sweater over the shoulders. Today I often see older European and Persian gents sporting this look.
Am that Judd Nelson? Wasn't he like a hood in Da Breakfast Club?
Some things just don't change, that which I would sometimes do as a teen, I continue to do as an adult. Growing up in North Carolina, we would never put a sweater over our shoulders, but would tie around our waist. This is a habit that I continue to do, even as an approaching 50 year old.
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