Stylish cycling kit

New Manual for Speed kit for preorder now. Has a Fiasco Ciclismo feel to it but seems to be good value for money.

And Castelli too! can't see if the bottom is navy blue or black.

It's Navy blue. Why? Does that clash with your socks?

If Brixton Cycles decided to update their ageing kit, it probably look like this;

It's titled "Guns of Brixton".

That's boaking.

The bottom of the jersey is blue, the bibs are black.

Had to urban dictionary that word. You've broadened my vocabulary :)

Existing Brixton kit is ace - this is an eye sore.

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mfs is lyf

Such a pity that the base of the MFS kit is Navy :(

Black or heather grey would have been rowdy on that jersey.

That wooden box doesn't look comfortable to lean against. Do not lean!

She really could try plucking her eyebrows.

Always quite liked Lance's Mellow Johnny's kit.

Kushtown Society
Stylish? Maybe/maybe not but it did give me a LOL and is rather well executed.

I won't see 40 again so readily accept that I should be wearing beige knits, but I see little here that I would consider "stylish".

Fashionable: fo sho. "Jaunty" even. But most of what's posted is garish tat, that can be had off eBay for less than a score: search "eighties".

#newclothes

PS The whole tattoo wank-off doesn't help: isn't it over yet?

The worst of it is that the clothes actually worn during the eighties, with the exception of about five people in London and a brief, generalised plague of fluorescent towelling socks, were pretty much beige knits

Sorry! Eighteen-eighties.

I wish I could rep.

Isn't it nice that 'stylish' is a subjective term?

Of course! Didn't mean to sound so mean.

I suppose I'm more into "classy" than "stylish": stuck in the past perhaps...

I do like the Kinoko and Das Rad Klub kit though.

Ah no worries! Unfortunately it's a by-product of fixating on adjectives like 'classy' rather than the reality, which is that we're just listing individual preference. My classy and your classy might be quite different.

Post what you do like, I guess is what I'm getting at!

Post what you like, and then we will judge it, and you.

Nah - 'classy' is not a subjective term; it pertains to particular qualities; elegance, refinement, understatement.

And nor is 'stylish'. Style, by its own definition, conforms to a certain sense of what's fashionable - be that contemporary fashion, or a more timeless (classy) look.

That Kushtown horror is not in any way classy. It could be considered stylish, if it is indeed indicative of the sort of thing that prevails right now; I wouldn't know on that score.

Of course, individual tastes are purely subjective, but adjectives like 'classy' and 'stylish' subscribe to more collective sensibilities. That's why such words exist; to specify not that something looks good, but by what manner it achieves this.

The obvious problem with the Kushtown jersey is that it's a knock off of a concept already done with more panache somewhere else: the sofa-fabric inserts look a bit gratuitous.