Cummerbund - Yes or No?

[rogerzilla]

Daughter: Daddy, does anyone wear a tie at your work?

Me: Only the dorks, dear.  Only the dorks.

[offcumden]

But even the dorks don't wear cummerbunds.

[Canardly]

Ah those were the days, black patent shoes and cummberbunds with the orchestra   band playing in the background......

[Mr Larrington]

While the bogey sank?

[Torslanda]

Once you no longer feel the need to be properly dressed in public - why stop at collars? A singlet is very practical, and tracky bottoms much more comfy that trousers - who wants a belt when you can get 3 for 2 at MacD's? Plus when vomiting later in the evening a tie and shirt is double the laundry. Similar appliese to underwear worn inside clothing - what is the point? Unless your are showing a label just don't bother, only you will know.
Likewise with shaving - it os a drag so why not develop stubble and then you can cut back on the early mooring ablution time - eventually showering can be dispensed with too. All that formal nonsense - gone! You can lay back and enjoy a six pack and the telly while you can see it over the hill.
It is a shame they are stopping picking the kids up in PJ's and doing the Tesco run in a onesie. These are the garments of the future.

The 'garments of the future' are silver jumpsuits according to Hollywood. Unless, of course, you were a devotee of Space 1999 & UFO. In which case it's racing driver overalls, string vests, mini skirts and purple acrylic wigs. 

Thinking about it, a cummerbund wouldn't look out of place . . .

[clarion]

Tors, don't tell me you aren't partial to donning a string vest, mini skirt and purple acrylic wig!

[HTFB]

Better a cummerbund than a gash of white between waistcoat and trouserband, and better either than showing where the facings of the dress shirt end---and better that than showing an untucked shirt. If you are tall enough not to be able to find waistcoats then a cummerbund is very useful, even as you get fatter.

Traditionally evening wear demands silk socks, but they're not robust enough to tuck your braided trouserlegs into while riding, so I stick with long fine woollens.

[clarion]

Merino socks, surely?

As for all that palaver with the shirt, why not dispense with the waistcoat, and wear a t-shirt?

[HTFB]

Road shoes or winter boots with formal dress?

With morning wear I would suggest off-road SPDs, with pipeclayed Altura overshoes in place of spats. For a white tie ball then a patent leather or highly polished road shoe, and a carefully fettled bike for high-speed getaway when somebody notices the gash left by your cleats in the parquet.

[HTFB]

Plus when vomiting later in the evening a tie and shirt is double the laundry.

This consideration has never stopped the Bullingdon Club.

[Jaded]

Well, that's three Black Tie events in three weeks and no cummerbund. However tonight braces get an airing for the first time, and I have a tie-up bow tie to master, with a strapon as fall back...

[clarion]

Plus when vomiting later in the evening a tie and shirt is double the laundry.

This consideration has never stopped the Bullingdon Club.

They don't do their own laundry.

[nicknack]

with a strapon as fall back...

[Cudzoziemiec]

with a strapon as fall back...

It's an excuse the nurses have heard before.

[Torslanda]

Tors, don't tell me you aren't partial to donning a string vest, mini skirt and purple acrylic wig!

You never know your luck in a raffle. Wait til long Itch . . . 

[Bledlow]

Merino socks, surely?

Isn't that wot 'e sed? Fine woollen - what else is merino?

[HTFB]

On further reflection: one reason I used to prefer a waistcoat^* is that a cummerbund does get a little in the way of a comfortable posture on the drops.

^*Of, you will be relieved to know, extra long cut. Alas I am no longer the beanpole I was and it's completely impossible to find a replacement economically. The constriction of bending over a cummerbund when awheel is possibly more salient the thinner you are.