Ezekiel said: Forgive -- is that you? -- but said ensemble screams gun.
Yes, it is.
Screams. To who? You? Screams suggets a rather obvious appearance. My experience suggests just the opposite. You suggested I must look scruffy and unkept with a baggy shirt to obscure anything OWB. I disagreed, an offered an example of an alternative. And these garments certainly do not take on the appearance of a photographers vest.
Perhaps they just don't care, which is fine, but I wouldn't consider such carte blanche that they do not know.
"Most of us here would know", is my guess. To each their own.
Were you and I to meet in person, you might conclude I were armed. I did point out that you would probably be the only one in the room who arrived at that conclusion - you implied that "You know what to look for". I must conclude you walk about society looking at people trying to figure out who is so armed.
People just don't do that. You might. But people generally do not try to determine if everyone they encounter is armed. If that is the standard you are trying to overcome, deceiving everyone, it is impossible. Everyone with pockets on a pair of slacks could be secreting a weapon in it. Now, if by conversations with others I advertised my interests, then I might give someone reason to suspect such a thing. But I don't, and I doubt the reason I don't raise suspicion is because they just don't care. I have worked armed alongside some very anti-gun co-workers who either through career-advancement or simple maliciousness would go to HR with a complaint if they knew.
I made the decision several years ago that I was going to train with what I carried daily. That meant either I trained with a subcompact or J-frame that was in a pocket, no decent light, and reloads stuffed in my other pocket, or none at all. After a year of training sessions at our monthly study group and shooting the NTI event stages with a J-frame, I concluded this wasn't acceptable to me. Nor I was content to resign myself to leaving the $2000 I had invested in leather, good equipment, and any one of several better handguns at home in my safe just to walk around with a $300 compromise. I could bring it out for play, but I was fooling myself if I thought it was training. If it wasn't going to be what I had available if I faced a confrontation, its not training.
I relate it to swimming. I can tread water with the doggy paddle. But I wouldn't call it swimming. It keeps me from drowning, but I wouldn't want to swim laps in the pool with it. I consider a subcompact or J-frame in a pocket the equivalent of the doggy paddle. It works, but its not what I'd want if I had to use it.
Until I swim a 500 meter only using the doggy paddle, I might think it is acceptable. Until I trained with limited gear and tested it, I was deluding myself of its true effectiveness.
I mentioned it here before, and I'll point it out again. You are self-conscious about obscuring your arms, and are worried about who might notice. Through my support group meetings I know folks who have an ostomy. I suggest they are more self conscious that you are about who might notice their appliance. And they have no option to leave it at home; they must go through their daily lives with it.
The last time you saw a man, or woman, walking down the street with a vest on, did you suspect they might be obsuring an ostomy appliance? I'll say this much - these folks aren't as suspecting as you that everyone they meet similarly attired suffers the same condition.