What are your thoughts on elbow patches?

>>12171719
i think they're cute and there's probably going to be a lot of them as a trend

>>12171719
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LcnkkGAiU8

>>12171719
Not a fan.

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>>12171719
I'm a fan.

>>12171719
Mostly shit, but very good if quality and practićal.

Makes a helluva lot of sense if the jacket or shirt is valuable. The elbows wear out long before any other part of it.

>>12171719
They're bullshit if the shirt or suit is brand new.

>>12172298
It's best to wear through at least one elbow so you know where to center the patches.

>>12171719
I don't like them, but nothing wrong in having them in informal outfits

>>12171719
This: >>12172298
Elbow patches are fine for repairing your sportcoat if you fucked it up through intense wear. And if you do put them on, they should go on both elbows or it'll look shit. But if you get a coat that's new off the rack with patches already put on, it's time for you to gas yourself.

killer

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junya has done cool stuff with them

>>12171719
Imo they look best if they're either similar in color to the rest of the jacket (like solid black patches on marled black) or a little more out there like >>12175870.
OP pic just looks tryhard and 4trendy8me

>>12174249
What's wrong with preemptive measurements?

>>12176543
This. If i recall correctly, elbow patches are used to support your elbow when you're hunting.

>>12176840
>If i recall correctly, elbow patches are used to support your elbow when you're hunting.
No, they're literally made to patch up the sleeves of academics who wear the elbows out first sitting at desks and can't afford to just buy a new suit when that happens, and you reveal your pleb origins when you don't even know this. Elbow patches are literally faking poverty and that's gauche as fuck unless you're the earl of somewhere and everybody knows you're not doing it out of simpleton ignorance.

>>12176853
faking poverty is effay

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>>12176853
>and you reveal your pleb origins when you don't even know this
Oh boy

>>12171719
they're so 2011