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New [Fashion] thread. Quite stylish.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User, Moderator mod
    sundresses do seem pretty timeless to me but I'm an old so I can't trust my own judgement either

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Not I! I am a lithe and supple youth!

    I am cool and hip and do not make noises when I stand up I don't goddammit, I do not.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    every dude I know gets all googly eyed in sun dress season

    I would wear them more but they tend not to be bike-friendly.

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    every dude I know gets all googly eyed in sun dress season

    I would wear them more but they tend not to be bike-friendly.

    Sundresses are pretty ok

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    More of a moondress person myself.

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    every dude I know gets all googly eyed in sun dress season

    I would wear them more but they tend not to be bike-friendly.

    So is there guy clothing that is generally considered to make a good portion of women go googly eyed?

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2020
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    edit: dunno really. A well-fitted tux is appreciated in certain circles.

    tynic on
  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    A bold choice. I respect that.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    more seriously i think the closest sartorial equivalent is probably something close to a james dean look but I dunno if there's anything as monolithic as sundresses seem to be for dudes.

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    every dude I know gets all googly eyed in sun dress season

    I would wear them more but they tend not to be bike-friendly.

    It's such a thing that I've never quite understood

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    Ok so this is just me, a very simple -one might even say dull- man, and absolutely from a super duper straight as hell perspective, but I think something about a nice summer dress accentuates the female form in a way that feels very artistic. When I'm out and about on a sunny day, blue sky overhead, and I see a lady in a brightly colored summer dress, maybe a breeze so the fabric is gently flowing around their body I think, "boy, this could be a painting."

    I also don't see them much these days so when I do it's even more magical.

    Edit: that said I also feel the same way about ladies in: jeans, yoga pants, overalls, oversized sweaters, those pants that unzip into shorts, a karate gi, ballistic vests, satin bodices, basketball shorts, a barrel with straps on it, and strategically placed leaves.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    more seriously i think the closest sartorial equivalent is probably something close to a james dean look but I dunno if there's anything as monolithic as sundresses seem to be for dudes.

    You just described, @Grey Ghost 's entire aesthetic.

    ...so yea, that tracks.

  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    more seriously i think the closest sartorial equivalent is probably something close to a james dean look but I dunno if there's anything as monolithic as sundresses seem to be for dudes.

    hawaiian shirt and khaki shorts, aw yeah baby

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    more seriously i think the closest sartorial equivalent is probably something close to a james dean look but I dunno if there's anything as monolithic as sundresses seem to be for dudes.

    You just described, Grey Ghost's entire aesthetic.

    ...so yea, that tracks.

    Oh, stop

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    more seriously i think the closest sartorial equivalent is probably something close to a james dean look but I dunno if there's anything as monolithic as sundresses seem to be for dudes.

    hawaiian shirt and khaki shorts, aw yeah baby

    You pair some socks and birkenstocks with that ensemble?

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Holy shit you guys



    (to be clear this is not a real vogue cover it's part of a meme going round about reimagining Vogue with more black cover models but ANYWAY HOLY SHIT)

  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    these shoes

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    I want these shoes

    from the official website they cost 225 USD incl. shipping

    from amazon they cost 125 USD incl. shipping; they just won't ship them here

    WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO, BEZOS

    so I did end up getting these, for "only" 160 USD incl. shipping

    thing is though, I'm usually a size 13 Wide US, which is about 46 european in shoe size

    but maybe Cole Haan goes by UK shoe sizes for some reason, because even though they shipped from the states I am SWIMMING in these babies

    is there any good way to shrink suede shoes, or do I have to take them to a... shoe-ist? cobbler? leather worker??

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Suedesman

  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    I exclaimed out loud at the 3rd image. That hashtag has some absolutely stunning, gorgeous fashion/portrait photography.

  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Yeah I'm loving going through these. So rad. The gold one especially for me, holy cow.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Fashion-related I don't know if anyone else has noticed but the reigning women's fashion trend this summer heading to fall appears to be "like a giant baby, or a really horrible doll you find in grandma's attic."

    I am struggling.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I have not noticed that no

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User, Moderator mod
    I request an example, I must know

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2020
    Fashion-related I don't know if anyone else has noticed but the reigning women's fashion trend this summer heading to fall appears to be "like a giant baby, or a really horrible doll you find in grandma's attic."

    I am struggling.

    One great advantage of lockdown is I haven’t seen any shop windows that aren’t boarded up in three months. So, nope, missed it!

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  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Aight but y'all asked for this.

    These are all ones I grabbed literally in the last fifteen minutes from two Korean fashion websites (10x10 and A*Land), Ssense, FarFetch, Financial Times' How to Spend It, The Birdcage (Australian) and Vogue UK.

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    Gingham, fluffy whites, poofed sleeves, frills, Barbie swimsuit-ass, Pippi Longstocking-ass, Haunted Doll You Found In the Basement-ass infantalizing buncha nothanks

    Also motherfucking CROCS are back in fashion (A*Land has two separate ripoff brands and there's an article in Vogue) so just give up on everything, guys

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Oh these are ghastly! Awesome.

  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    You did not disappoint

    These are terrible

  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    edited June 2020
    I really keep coming back to the dresses that look like they're made from a mattress pad stripped off of a youth hostel bunk

    But honestly genuinely someone explain to me in the year of everything's-a-disaster 2020 why women should be dressing like they're babies or dolls that need to be swaddled and cared for and packed in cotton batting? Is that really the message we're wanting to send? Somehow?

    Some of it is okay and I'm not 100% anti-gingham or rouching or frills (there's a super bizarre pop-art babydoll teen fashion line called Rolarola in Korea that I'm into but also horrified by), but the degree to which I'm seeing high fashion outfits that are essentially the dress the ghost of Christmas Past wears in A Muppet Christmas Carol at worst and at best Kirsten from the American Girl doll catalog... it's grossing me out.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Most of these style lines will have been sent to factories last year, or January at the latest, and I bet the designers are now utterly kicking themselves for not steering into protest chic.

  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    I am very much not qualified to comment on women's fashion beyond the most personal and simple 'oh yeah I think that looks cool / that looks like it's bad maybe?' so I'm glad people with actual fashion sense can confirm that those all seem very bad

  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    To all of that I say

    Nope

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Most lasses I know who don't have an aesthetic taste which is really influenced by a subculture tend to like dudes in a nice shirt with the sleeves rolled up. Pretty common. I dunno if it's like sundresses for guys (sigh....) but still

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    (The rest are goths. A goth selects a mate based on the chunkiness of his boots, the quality of black long-sleeved top he wears, and for the local cybergoth variety, the shininess of his custom rebreather)

  • EinzelEinzel Registered User regular
    There is a lot of early 90s house furnishings energy in those odd outfits...

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Picture #2 seems very comfortable and I would like to lie down and take a nap on one of those ladies.

    I wonder if that mattress dress comes in a memory foam option?

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    webguy20 wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    every dude I know gets all googly eyed in sun dress season

    I would wear them more but they tend not to be bike-friendly.

    So is there guy clothing that is generally considered to make a good portion of women go googly eyed?

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    Ladies

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Obviously unreasonable as things to purchase or use

    But I'd love it if I saw it in a contemporary art museum

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