How to dress

flannel

 

The biggest bugaboo around here is shorts, particularly cargo shorts.
Baseball hats are widely disputed, with good argument being made that they are often a reasonable choice for players with male pattern baldness.

I would aim for keeping it as simple as possible, you don't want to look like you are trying too hard. Go shopping with a woman in her twenties (or engage
a clerk) and buy jeans that are NOT dad cut. Add a black shoe and black long sleeve or t-shirt and leave it at that.

 

Chuck's, jeans, t-shirt, tie flannel around waist.

 

Black pants, black shirt, black doc like boots or chucks. It's the safest bet, always.

 

Leather

 

This. 90s band? You can be the grunge guy in your 90s Village People.

 

I'm a coat and tie guy as well. Perhaps the problem is it's a "90s" band?

 

Speedo and cowboy hat

 

Lux Interior of the Cramps dressed that way past sixty, why not OP.

 

I tear up everytime his name is mentioned, I miss him

 

One of the most rebel-rousing performers I ever saw. I saw him work a room of perhaps 2,000 to a fever pitch (Perkin's Palace, Pasadena CA, early 80s).

And I had the pleasure of tackling him on the dace floor of The Roxy around the same time -- Psychedelic Jungle was the album being promoted -- when he
did a stage dive during "The Crusher." He was very sweaty and had surprisingly small shoulders, I recall from our tussle... Hey, I'm getting misty now, too.

 

I also do not know how to dress for a performance. I'm in a metal band, but I only have two black t-shirts, and the sleeves are intact. I have short hair and no tattoos. I am totally lost. If necessary, I will default to my high school band uniform of black pants and a white button up shirt.

 

As far as the "dad cut" jeans - as a chunky 50-something guy when I get normal jeans in a size to fit my waist the legs are ridiculously baggy. I recently discovered Levi's 511 "Slim" fit jeans - you can get them in big waist sizes but the legs are slimmer (note - not "skinny jeans"!). They are tough to find in stores - I order direct from Levi's or JC Penney on-line.
Lately I've been wearing a pair of black mid-top Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars. I have a pair of Vans I wear sometimes too.

 

You are playing metal, stop caring of what others think of you. That's metal.

 

Whatever, dude.

 

I would definitely recommend against wearing a baseball cap.
They're made for keeping the sun off your noggin & out of your eyes, so there's no reason to wear it indoors.

 

I see pics of a lot of older guys on here with expensive gear showing up to gigs in jeans, white sneakers and a band T-shirt...
DO NOT DRESS LIKE THEM!
That look when out of style before it came into style...