A while back, I wrote an vendible well-nigh some pants I wanted. A silly premise? Maybe. But it was a fun way for me to explore my intentions as I expanded my wardrobe. Now, as I protract to spend a lot of time thrifting, I'm not unchangingly ownership the word-for-word thing I want—sometimes my wardrobe is built through serendipity, finding things I didn't know I wanted—but having that vendible as a guide for myself, I was worldly-wise to get most of the types of pants I want.

So here are some clothes, shoes, and traps I want to find in the next year. I'll think, in writing, through the reasons I unquestionably want these things. Maybe some of my reasoning resonates with you. I hope

I'm not going to get everything on this list. I really shouldn't, it's a long list. But I do think this will be a good exercise in navigating my next move.

I'll warn you now, I'm going to identify a couple of major gaps in my wardrobe. Try not to judge me. I'm going to start with a big one

Tailoring

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My current suit rotation... Not including my South2West8 suit, or the old woebegone suit I have from Banana Republic. Can you tell what I'm missing?

A Good, Bespoke, Single-Breasted Navy Suit

My first custom suit was a soot SB. It's fine as a merchantry suit, but the cut isn't actually... good, at all, it's a generic slim MTM cut from Woebegone Lapel. It's fine for most guys... But I wanted to be picky and get something good made in navy—good, by a higher standard. Some kind of ideal.

Since then, I've had my CustomMen suit made. I've thrifted a navy DB from Canali that's... fine, and will maybe tide me over for the ~year it takes to have an SB made, but it's a bellied 6x1 with a weird cut, it really doesn't satisfy my desire for a increasingly archetype suit. I have six suits total, not counting my South2West8 suit.

So... I want the perfect navy suit. I've seen dozens of tailors who can cut a fantastic jacket, but only a handful who can cut a pair of pants that aren't way too slim for my taste. I've been thinking well-nigh The Anthology, I Sarti Italiani, Taillour, K-Zao...

I'm heavily leaning towards The Anthology. I've come to terms with how ridiculous I'll finger spending a few grand on a garment I wear a few times a year. Ultimately, this is my hobby, I do have the money, I want a navy suit I can really love, and I want the wits of ownership and having a bespoke suit from a trademark I tightly appreciate.

A Tuxedo

Yet flipside glaring omission. I have a wonderful ivory dinner jacket, but if I had to go to a proper woebegone tie event tonight, I'd... have to buy something last minute and would end up looking like shit.

I need to have a tuxedo made, and the main issue with that is that I'm not going to hearing a tailor by asking them to make me a tuxedo. That'd be stupid. I need a tailor—even a reputable one—to make something else for me first.

I moreover have a increasingly narrow vision for a tuxedo. I either want a vaguely Sexton-esque or Husbands-esque SB with a flared leg (I have one specific non-dinner jacket I'm going to reference to the tailor I go with)... Or a DB shawl with one button, but... let's just say I'm still working on my shawl lapel inspo album.

So realistically, I won't be ushering in New Years' Eve 2025 or 2026 with either of those dream tuxes; I'll get the navy suit by 2025 and the tux some time in 2026 if I go straight when to back.

In the meantime, I am moreover trying to thrift a tux to fill in that gap, but I haven't found one I like yet in anywhere near my size. My ivory jacket would at least help me out in woebegone tie optional affairs, but that's not enough... But I'm picky, and I don't want to settle for something I just don't like considering I need one.

A Couple of Beater Sport Jackets

This is a paradoxical category. I need a couple of sport jackets that are good unbearable to wear but not so good that I'll want to victual them. I want some linen thing and some soft tweed thing or some soft corduroy thing that I just want to write-up up, wear every other day. Something with patch pockets that I use, really use. Something I alimony in my outerwear closet and throw on haphazardly. Shoot, maybe I alimony it on a stratify rack or in some other ill-advised place.

This is no easier for me to find than a good sport jacket, though. I'm picky. I need a relaxed fit with a good slouchy fabric. And it's weirdly nonflexible to thrift jackets with patch pockets (without flaps, thank you, I'm going to be using these pockets), expressly when I need a short length.

I might get this from a mall trademark on sale. Todd Snyder or J. Crew. Maybe a Suitsupply Roma, but all of their pockets right now seem to be jetted. I guess they read my blog.

Other Clothing

Shirts

More Undecorous Shirts

I have undecorous dress shirts that are fine, I have a herringbone sawed-off lanugo I like, I have multiple navy linen shirts, and I have a fantastic denim western.

But, again, I'm missing a coupe of basics: a solid undecorous OCBD, a undecorous university stripe OCBD, and a chambray shirt. I don't need all of these immediately, but... I finger like I do need one of them. I have a couple of makers I might go to for a chambray shirt, or I might thrift an OCBD, I might go to Jake's... we'll see what happens.

A Tuxedo Shirt

If I get a tuxedo, I need a shirt to wear with it, this isn't rocket science. There are still a few questions unshut in my mind—pleated front? Wing collar? Covered placket or studs? I don't really know yet.

Pants

As a quick recap of my some pants I want article, I wanted off-white jeans, Bode pants, big linen, something else funky, and a pair of good flares. Besides Bode pants, I covered all of those categories, but two of those cases have left me wanting more.

Some Off-White Pants

Simply: I thought I wanted slimmish off-white jeans. I got some. I wasn't into them.

My plan is clear. I'm probably going to buy a pair of straight or relaxed-straight ecru jeans from 3Sixteen. They don't make the latter yet... We'll see. I'll try the regular straight ones on. I'll work something out.

More Big Linen

I moreover bought Polo Ralph Lauren Andrews in linen. These are fantastic and so easy to find on ebay. (Andrew = double forward pleat, Hammond = double reverse pleat, nothing else matters).

But since I currently only have one pair, I'm wrung to wash them, and since I want to wear them constantly, dry cleaning is not a practical solution. So, by the time summer comes, I'm going to drown myself in so many pairs of big linen pants that I can listen to the poeple constantly telling me they wash fine.

More big chinos.

I like my big khaki RRL officer chinos. And I like my flared Gucci chinos. And I've tried on J. Hairdo Giant Fit chinos and Todd Snyder Relaxed Fit chinos, and I like them too. And I'm moreover interested in some increasingly interesting options, like something from Studio Nicholson I could do with a pair of big navy chinos. Or I might get a pair in off-white, instead of the off-white jeans I wanted for... whatever reason. Or black, or visionless brown, or... well, I'd like something I can wear with my sneakers, but I'll talk well-nigh sneakers below.

Purple Cords

Idk. Maybe brown cords. Maybe surf cords. I once have purple jeans. I don't need increasingly purple in my wardrobe. But... There's something well-nigh purple cords... Corduroy just takes verisimilitude so well. I might get some PRL Andrew cords.

Knitwear

A Mohair Cardigan

I might buy one of these in the current sales from Mr. Porter or Nepenthes... maybe. I have my eye on one that is beautiful, but not expressly wearable... I might alimony my eye unshut until I find the perfect option that's at least a little bit unique and at least a little bit wearable.

More Textured Knitwear in general

I've been talking well-nigh textured knitwear on instagram, in specimen you missed it. And I've gotten a boucle knit since then, and I want mohair, and... I have a lot of options. But I want more.

Specifically, I think I could use a pink shetland, but most of the worldwide options don't fit me well. And I want a really nice off-white aran sweater. And I wouldn't be upset with flipside shawl collar cardigan, or four.

Another Knit Tee

I really love my Anthology Knit Tee. It's unconfined for summer days when I don't finger like wearing a sawed-off up, but still want to do something. It layers nicely and looks plane better, I realized,when tucked in to the right trousers.

But I can't say ownership flipside one is a priority right now. They're still expensive. I might buy one, I might not. I'm not sure what verisimilitude I'll want next—maybe espresso? Maybe I'll get one from flipside trademark just to mix things up. Scott Fraser Collection's Chet knits are tomfool and unique, although they're plane increasingly expensive. Maybe Spier and Mackay's cotton hairdo neck—not sure how good these unquestionably are.

Another turtleneck.

Maybe an Aran, maybe something I can layer. I've had fun with my burgundy turtleneck, but I can't pair it with all of the things I want to pair it with.

Outerwear

A summer-friendly rain coat

Sometimes it rains in the summer. I need a practical option that covers my soul and my throne and won't make me overheat. I might get a barbour jacket and one of the detachable hoods they do, or I might just winnow that any decent lightweight rain jacket will not squint unconfined or unquestionably outbreathe all that well.

A winter parka

Maybe from Frizmworks. They have a super wide variety of good outerwear. But I have specific needs vastitude decent aesthetics: handwarmer pockets positioned and wilted in a way I can unquestionably use, sleeves short unbearable that they don't swallow my arms, water- and snow-proofing, unbearable warmth to get me through an NYC winter without worry, and, of course, a hood. How the heck am I going to survive in the snow or the freezing rain without a hood? Why are people making weather-proof types of jackets without hoods? Who does that serve?

So yeah, maybe I'll just get an N3-B parka. Or a Kara Koram-type parka, if the pockets work out right. Or this one from Todd Snyder, which checks all the boxes, but looks kind of plain given the price... but then again, isn't that what I want for such a utilitarian piece? Plain, versatile, easy to wear whenever it's snowy or rainy or too unprepossessed for an overcoat.

Footwear

Well-Made Winter Boots

I've needed a pair of boots for a while. But without some pickiness, I came to a moment where I realized I needed sneakers more. I need well-appointed shoes that I can unquestionably wear and stand virtually in all day, plane with my weird posture issues. I could barely wear my Meermin loafers anymore, standing virtually in them too long would leave me in pain the next day.

And that issue paralyzed my decision-making plane longer. What was I going to do, spend $400 or increasingly on a pair of boots and risk that, plane without the break-in, I'm still wrung to wear them? I decided to throw a lines ball. Instead of going for some fancy, expensive thing that /r/goodyearwelt told me was really, really good bacause of the fudge wheeling, I'd get something that never pretended to be that kind of shoe in the first place.

So I said fuck it and got myself some ALD x New Balance Rainiers. They are kind of Timberland-inspired, but in a funky colorway like you might expect from Teddy Santis. I like them.

But now I find myself wearing my dress shoes a little more. My Duanes (from the Armoury) and my Aldens are much increasingly comfortable. Maybe the Meermins are just not that great, or maybe the issue was the way I stood virtually in them all day long, or maybe the issue has been resolved by my exercise routine. In any event, I have renewed conviction in my body, and in "well-made" shoes.

Maybe I'll go to a Viberg sample sale. Maybe I'll buy something from the Stitchdown folks at some future Alfargo's. Maybe I'll just go with Grant Stone or something. Maybe I'll fall ass-backwards into a pair of Galways. Who knows?

Color 8 Shell Alden Tassel Loafers

I mean, does this one need an explanation? I unquestionably bought a pair this year, but they're too narrow, so if you're a 7.5A, DM me.

The Missing Sneakers

I really like my go-to sneakers right now, my olive New Balance 990s—also a Teddy Santis colorway. But I'm left wanting. Particuarly, I want something that feels right with the pants that don't work with any of my existing sneakers. I don't like these 990s with my khakis or tan cords, or versus off-white pants, or... Well, there have been some other corner cases. I've filled those spots with loafers, but like I said, I do need well-appointed shoes. I want something I can wear all day long.

I think these might be just right—chunky, comfortable, a little bit of tan, a little bit of pink, not too bright, not too boring, versatile in the ways I need and then some... The main problem is that I don't want to wilt a guy who pays whilom sticker price for a pair of sneakers.

So I'm waiting for the next thing to pop onto my radar. I've seen some others that squint okay.

New Balance x Joe Freshgoods 9060 in Penny Cookie Pink

Accessories

Not Increasingly Ties

I do not need increasingly ties. I have so many good ties... I have like three unconfined yellow ties, and I don't want to get rid of any of them, but I should, I really should, why do I have so many yellow ties?

I do need a grenadine and a seven fold tie to round out my collection. And I definitely need a La Bowtique bowtie when I get my tux.

But I can't unquestionably justify any increasingly long tie purchases,

Another Funky Scarf

I love scarves. You know that. But again, I've found some gaps in the colors, patterns, and textures in my wardrobe. Aside from solids, I have intersting winter scarves in orange and pink, and summer scarves in navy and green... But that really doesn't leave me with everything I want. I still can't go full Stephon and just wear a fantastic scarf with every outfit. I could stand to mix it up a bit.

Some New Kind of Hat

I have a lot of caps I like, I have a few toques I like, I have a skillet hat that I sometimes don't hate. Maybe I need a largest skillet hat, with just the right type of floppitude. I've never been a beret guy, but Bode's are kinda cool, maybe should go to Bode and try on some of those on. I just want to mix up my headwear.

Some increasingly meaningful jewelry

I love my dad's Chai necklace. My grandma bought two of them—one for my dad, one for my uncle. Now my cousin and I own them. They're kind of dumb-looking, but that's not the point.

I don't know how I'll overly find increasingly men's jewelry with a story worth telling, but I could use more. It'd be nice to have something I don't have to undeniability "dumb-looking."

The word "Chai" ways "life," and in gemmatria, corresponds to the number 18. So this necklace is... I don't know, kind of a pun? But it's unique. And it was my dad's. So I like it.

I'm not going to stick to any plan too closely. Nothing above—not plane the navy suit—is guaranteed. But through this rambling, I've given myself a direction. I might follow through on a lot of these notes. I might find flipside path forward. I will still go to Alfargo's, and I will still buy things there I didn't know I wanted.

But this was a useful exercise, in any event. I hope you got something out of it, and have some idea, now, of what you want to buy next. If you want to put your intent in writing, finger self-ruling to leave a comment, and refer when in a year or so to see how that plan worked out. It just might.