The WAYWT Discussion Thread

[BubblyMasquerade]

Originally Posted by snake

On an unrelated note, my father is 68 and is learning how to use a computer for the first time this week. Phone's been ringing off the hook!

fail. trust me from exp. he will be calling you for years.

 

[Prada_Ferragamo]

To me, I think RO should be worn with other RO pieces to show the edginess. May be a different choice of shoes would have worked in the above post.

 

[max_r]

i wanna start wearing more non-denim pants, especially when its warm out, hopefully i'm not way off on these?

i think my shirt might be a bit tight for these pants though

 

[Reginald Bartholomew]

Originally Posted by berlin report

EG jacket
Bonser shirt
Folk belt
Lee jeans
Grenson shoes

This needs to be quoted again.

 

[ekstra]

/\\ /\\ /\\

That's the look I want in like two or three years. Nice

 

[PaulYAY]

^as above. Phenomenal.

 

[hendrix]

Originally Posted by Uncontrol

doesn't work IMO, nothing feels like it goes together

Originally Posted by Big Pun

I thought the colors in the sweater looked good with the gray. What do you suggest?

Honestly i think it just needs some boots and it'll look good.

 

[BB1]

Originally Posted by Big Pun

Rick Owens 3Sixteen PF Flyers
This feels like 3 very distinct styles have been forced together: Rick-esque, workwear, and skateboarder. If at least 2 of the styles were in the same genre it might be passable, and if all 3 were the same it might become truly cohesive. Also, I see a lot of people on here posting stiff raw indigo denim together with fancy sneakers (CPs, GATs) and it rarely looks harmonious, only passable. Yet nobody ever criticizes it. In most cases I feel a more rugged shoe or boot would mesh far better with such rugged "working man's" looking denim.

 

[hendrix]

Originally Posted by BB1

Also, I see a lot of people on here posting stiff raw indigo denim together with fancy sneakers (CPs, GATs) and it rarely looks harmonious, only passable. Yet nobody ever criticizes it. In most cases I feel a more rugged shoe or boot would mesh far better with such rugged looking denim.

yes exactly this

 

[Listi]

Lotta people wearing, for example, dior raws these days. Way different vibe than sugar cane or iron heart.

 

[BB1]

Originally Posted by Listi

Lotta people wearing, for example, dior raws these days. Way different vibe than sugar cane or iron heart.
True, and a totally valid point. However while raw Dior denim + stark white GATs might occasionally look ok, I've yet to see it look truly great. Reminds me of the raw denim + white CPs look that was so common a few years ago here. It always looked like a style clash in my mind and outside of this forum, I see literally nobody wearing combos like that. Look at how sq4you often pairs his fancy sneakers with gray jeans, black jeans, or jeans with interesting washes. Plain indigo denim is so strongly associated with blue collar working man's jeans, that the lux sneaker pairings are often difficult to reconcile in the audiences mind.

 

[Superfluous Man]

I don't see anything rugged or workwear about raw denim. Most people that wear denim to work don't wear colors/washes that look anything like that.

 

[Listi]

Can't really disagree with anything you're saying BB1, although I'll probably still wear patent CP's and raw jeans fairly often because I have no problem with it. Gray washes are probably the best for luxe sneaks.

 

[RFX45]

Originally Posted by BB1

Plain indigo denim is so strongly associated with blue collar working man's jeans, that the lux sneaker pairings are often difficult to reconcile in the audiences mind.

I don't get it either. I never associate indigo or raw denim with workwear, I actually associate them more with hypebeast skaters (no offense to anyone). Especially the way it is worn in this forum or others, skinny fit with huge stacks, just doesn't say workwear to me.

But saying luxe sneakers (or pretty much sneakers in general, most people can't even tell if one is luxe sneakers or not) can't be worn with raw denim seems a bit absurd. It's pretty much just a regular blue denim to me really.

 

[lmaozedong]

Originally Posted by BB1

True, and a totally valid point. However while raw Dior denim + stark white GATs might occasionally look ok, I've yet to see it look truly great. Reminds me of the raw denim + white CPs look that was so common a few years ago here. It always looked like a style clash in my mind and outside of this forum, I see literally nobody wearing combos like that. Look at how sq4you often pairs his fancy sneakers with gray jeans, black jeans, or jeans with interesting washes. Plain indigo denim is so strongly associated with blue collar working man's jeans, that the lux sneaker pairings are often difficult to reconcile in the audiences mind.
You see raw denim outside these forums? The once in a blue moon I ever see raw denim it's a pair of nudies on some hipster or hypebeast. If anything, I'd associate lighter, stonewashed pairs of denim with working man. Only repro cuts remind me of working class people--otherwise the generally dark color of raw jeans almost always screams fashionable or at least modern