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MrMister
Jesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered User regular
Jesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered User regular
Fashion! It's this whole thing people do where they choose their clothes based on strange and fascinating criteria, often sinking incredible amounts of money into their wardrobe. What an interesting social phenomenon--let's have a thread. Some ideas for things we can do:
1) Post awesome clothes we find online
2) Post awesome deals we find online
3) Debate styles (preferably with pretty example pictures)
4) Ask for fashion or style advice
5) Post pictures of ourselves all decked out in mad style
I'll kick off by sayin' here are two hoodies I am salivating over. Too bad they cost your soul! The first one is especially a-fuckin'-mazing, but it's also $140. I know, what the fuck.
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more shots are here. Urban outfitters is a fun site because they have lots of ridiculous shit interspersed with the cool shit, and it's interesting to see the stuff that walks the line between being cool and just being retarded.
Like, what the fuck were they thinking here???
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Seriously.
1) Post awesome clothes we find online
2) Post awesome deals we find online
3) Debate styles (preferably with pretty example pictures)
4) Ask for fashion or style advice
5) Post pictures of ourselves all decked out in mad style
I'll kick off by sayin' here are two hoodies I am salivating over. Too bad they cost your soul! The first one is especially a-fuckin'-mazing, but it's also $140. I know, what the fuck.
, more shots are here. Urban outfitters is a fun site because they have lots of ridiculous shit interspersed with the cool shit, and it's interesting to see the stuff that walks the line between being cool and just being retarded.
Like, what the fuck were they thinking here???
, Seriously.
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Not that I want to turn your thread in this direction, but I can't conceive of paying $140 for a piece of clothing. maybe as much as $50. maybe.
(I like the thread)
Yeah, I've been going through a process over the last couple years wherein I've become more and more aggressive about how I dress. In high school I wore exclusively solid blue, black, and gray baggy tees along with baggy jeans. A lot of 'pulling things off' is just being brave enough to wear them in the first place.
Well, except some clothes really do require you to have a great body, or do require support from the rest of your wardrobe (and will look awkward if you wear them with just plain jeans or something). But generally, just about everyone can pull off wearing somewhat more interesting clothes.
Yeah, although one thing about the bottom left one is that it's by the same designer/whatever as the top left one. It's also kind of cool looking fabric and pattern in some of the close up shots. Check it out:
The thing is that when you're not looking at the close up, it just looks like someone ate their grandmother's afghan and then puked it onto you.
Cases like that are interesting, because on one hand you're tempted by one cool aspect of it, but then there's this other aspect that might just make you look like a ridiculous tool. Before I generally endorsed trying new things instead of doubting yourself, but in this case the alarm bells are right. Second opinions are nice if you have someone you feel like you can ask who you trust to not laugh in your face for thirty minutes straight.
Yeeeeeah. I'm a pretty cheap person, generally, though, so I need something to blow my cash on, and it can be a confidence boost to know that your jeans really are just that expensive. $140 for a hoodie is pretty fucking absurd though.
That bottom right one is so amazingly dowdy it's absurd. I mean, you can criticize the top right one for trying too hard, but at least it doesn't look like you're giving birth to a lumberjack.
This thread reminds me that I need some new clothes. ;-)
I like the top left one a lot. So, the pattern is really cool--it's eye-catching and the color is pretty strong, but it's not obnoxious or loud. It's also got a cool zipper, and it looks good from the back:
Overall, it's just a very pretty hoodie. I think it's the perfect example of a piece of clothing that's really noticeable without being absurd or in-your-face.
I like the other one less, but I like the colors, and I think the design adds interest. Plus, I really like how the ties on the hood are the lighter blue, which is a cool contrast. From the back you can see how it's just a kind of nice hoodie with the design on front, instead of relying entirely on whatever that building thing is to be cool.
Of course, this largely has to do with my taste--I'm not trying to be an authoritative source here. Just sayin' what I like.
I didn't see the stripes on this one before. That is kind of classy.
Does anybody EVER wear those crazy fashions we see at fashion shows? like the ones with totally see through tops, or masks or something.
Nobody ever does (or will)
Librarians harbor a terrible secret. Find it.
I'm not into that stuff, but I think that the people who are mostly do it as art. It's not for you (to wear on the street).
I'm gonna do homework or sleep or something, but before I go, might as well mix things up a bit from all this hoodie business. Here are some jeans I like:
Maybe I'll buy them when I'm fabulously wealthy.
Basically, most of if comes from Old Navy because they stuff they have their is nice and plain, which is how I like it. Though I can't even buy jeans there anymore because they're all tarted-up with acid washes and artificial wear and tear, and stuff like that.
- Several pairs of Union Bay cargo pants that look exactly the same
- 2 pairs of normal carpenter jeans that are exactly the same + 1 other pair of jeans that look kind of cooler... but still cheap stuff
- T-shirts: 90% of which are either Hard Rock shirts or Threadless shirts
- Fleeces or hoodies, my hoodies being either my college one or the 2 Billabong ones I've had for the last 6 years or so.
How boring. I haven't grown since seventh grade, I don't buy new clothes often.
EDIT: Though sometimes, when it's warm out, I wear obscene Hawaiian shirts for the hell of it.
I ended up ordering online from a place that does bulk blank garments for t-shirt printing. I haven't been able to find wearable clothes in High street stores since the "gay teenager" look became popular.
I have a date in New York tomorrow, and he doesn't want to reschedule since he bought his train ticket before the terrible winter weather was forecast and he does not want to go through the trouble of the refund.
We are going to some fancy place for dinner, and then going to see Phantom of the Opera somewhere. I don't know, that latter part is probably fancy too in some respect.
Unfortunately, we are supposed to get like 3-6 inches of snow in the city overnight and, even if not, it's going to be like 35'F.
Strangely enough, I've never had to dress up in such a wintry situation. I am unsure how exactly to go about this. I'm 19, so I figured I could get by with something really simple, just like
nice-ish mid-line dress, black wool leggings, boots, nice belt, uh
one of those coats that is like, longish, and cinches at the waist but is then like a bell underneath the waist
I mean, is there some other solution here? This idea still seems like I'm just a teenager bumbling around the big city, but I guess I need to ask if that's such a bad thing to look like when it is what I am?
Pretty much all my shirts are from Threadless or Homestar Runner.
PS- That sky-pattern hoodie is AWESOME
I will maek poast after I study Chinese for four hours.
For now though, Pumas are the finest in shoes. The Munichs at the top of this list are going for $60 at the Buckle, and I wish only that I had the willpower to buy an extra pair, should anything happen to the Munichs I already have.
The Communist Party shirt is my favorite (though perhaps not the best), but they never fucking reprint. Or, when they do, they sell out in a goddamn hurry.
Yeah, non-baggy ones are easy to find. I think tight jeans look retarded though, and can never understand why they became popular among dudes. Even non-tight, straight cut jeans look bad on me.
My style is fairly boring, being darkish jeans and long sleve T-shirts though I do really like jackets. Couple of years ago they had some really nice ones at Reading Festival going cheap and a hideously expensive one in Burton's (£170 I think) - this is sort of the thing it was but the design also went down the one sleeve. I've not been able to find anything like that anywhere since.
I keep thinking about making my own, have quite a few cheap plain jackets that I've been given over the years - think the 'make you're own T-shirt' places would be able to put a design onto one side of one? I just can't bring myself to experiment, but then I cringe at the thought of highlighting textbooks.
So what are some good places to look for clothes that are 1.) at least moderately nice; 2.) not grotesquely expensive; and 3.) actually fashionable on a 23-24 year old female? I mean, at places like Kohl's and the other department stores I can't fit into the cute Juniors stuff any more and if I try on almost any of the adult women's stuff I look like someone's mom.
I gotta say, I've always been enamoured with the Gothic Lolita fashion. I don't care much for the more elaborate outfits, but the rest is total love to me. Any of the dresses on that page I would love to recieve as a gift, or buy if I somehow came into the money. Even if the dresses on there seem expensive, comparable imports are usually twice as much, if not more. I especially love the Clara dress there, which is new... I would kill to get that in red and black, or even the black and white one shown there.
My usual clothes, though, consist of blue jeans or tan pants, and concert/musical swag and Hot Topic clothes for tops. Also, anything from the past six years still fits me, so I really have no need to buy new clothes, so my wardrobe has remained pretty stagnant.
This one gave me a laugh: Link
Like, an outfit each every two years. It's exhausting, because we insist on fitting everything perfectly and the patterns are a pain to modify. Anyway, for internet stuff I also like http://www.babyssb.co.jp but there's really no substitute for hand-made stuff.
We do commissions, but the cost is not that much different than what you would pay online. I don't have any pictures of what we've made (new laptop), but we do the whole gamut from dresses to parasols to tiny crowns.
EGL tea parties are probably the most exciting thing on paper. Then, they're exciting for like the first ten minutes while everyone dotes on your outfit, then they just become this wonderfully-exciting passive-aggressive bitchfests while girls bicker about who's kickin' it cutest.
It's awesome!
Doors, though, are your enemy. No matter what sort of door it is, or how big, rest assured there will be some niggling edge or hook that part of your outfit will catch on. ;P
Myself, I just wear Old Navy jeans... Regulars and Carpenters, nothing too fancy. Other then that, Threadless shirts and band shirts. I've got this tan (non-pattern) military tunic that I wear over a black hoody, sometimes I wear a tie with that.
I want to get some metal pauldrons, paint them black, and put fancy designs on them. It will look too cool, but everyone who sees me will think I'm crazy.
Hats are where it's at for me - I love my faux (I think) fur hat with earflaps, and my Australian Kakadu, which looks a bit like this:
I like
That shirt's pretty cool--perhaps my favorite novelty Tee is from thinkgeek though:
It's only $10 so I might pick one up soon. I would have already but it's a bitch figuring out my size, registering an account, and ordering etc etc.
They are popular for guys for the exact same reason that they are popular for girls: they are hot.
I'm interested in what people who do alterations/make their own clothes are able to do, and for how cheap. It seems like it'd be pretty sexy if you could get a plain $20 jacket or hoodie and then tart it up with some amazing pattern for another few bucks.