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Is The End of Selvedge Near?

Simion505

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Originally Posted by Uncontrol
how is clothing not a "hobby"
I take time choosing my clothes so I look good in them, but I don't consider it a hobby. I consider my cycling, guitar playing, painting, occasional chess playing and digital art to be hobbies. However all a hobby has to be is something you do in your spare time to relax or have fun, so it's a perfectly valid thing to call a hobby. To be honest the jeans look fairly nice, I'm not going to make any comments on how fair the price is cause I haven't tried any in person - but if I got some for free I'd be happy to wear them. It's not like they have A&F written all the way down the leg. The huge logos everywhere has always been why I've disliked A&F, Jack Wills etc.
 

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Originally Posted by Simion505
I take time choosing my clothes so I look good in them, but I don't consider it a hobby. I consider my cycling, guitar playing, painting, occasional chess playing and digital art to be hobbies.

However all a hobby has to be is something you do in your spare time to relax or have fun, so it's a perfectly valid thing to call a hobby.

To be honest the jeans look fairly nice, I'm not going to make any comments on how fair the price is cause I haven't tried any in person - but if I got some for free I'd be happy to wear them. It's not like they have A&F written all the way down the leg. The huge logos everywhere has always been why I've disliked A&F, Jack Wills etc.


Some people come here to look good in clothes and then go on with their lives, but clothes are a point of interest in themselves for many here.
 

Simion505

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Originally Posted by c00kz
Some people come here to look good in clothes and then go on with their lives, but clothes are a point of interest in themselves for many here.

Yeah thats what I'm saying I guess, I don't think of it as a hobby myself - I fall into the first category, while I understand people who fit the second category.

Brigden seemed to think that clothing wasn't a legitimate hobby in itself.
 

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Originally Posted by Simion505
To be honest the jeans look fairly nice, I'm not going to make any comments on how fair the price is cause I haven't tried any in person - but if I got some for free I'd be happy to wear them. It's not like they have A&F written all the way down the leg. The huge logos everywhere has always been why I've disliked A&F, Jack Wills etc.
Agree. The jeans look nice. No jeans of that type really appeal to me, though. At this point, prewashed prefaded denim is ubiquitous, the Converse high-top of pants, and no similar pair of jeans (selvage or not) is ever going to strike me as particularly cool. At its best, this kind of jean is a null value, something that the eye just glides over on its way from your shirt to your shoes; at its worst this kind of jean is trashy, over-the-top advertisement of a useless lifestyle. I'll put the A&F ones cautiously in the first category.
 

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Originally Posted by bma
that's a pretty nice wash.

yeah im looking for a pair of washed jeans pretty much exactly like that
 

johnH123

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Originally Posted by Makeshift_Robot
Agree. The jeans look nice. No jeans of that type really appeal to me, though. At this point, prewashed prefaded denim is ubiquitous, the Converse high-top of pants, and no similar pair of jeans (selvage or not) is ever going to strike me as particularly cool. At its best, this kind of jean is a null value, something that the eye just glides over on its way from your shirt to your shoes; at its worst this kind of jean is trashy, over-the-top advertisement of a useless lifestyle. I'll put the A&F ones cautiously in the first category.

I might buy it if it went on sale, A&F denim on sale can usually be had for around $49 or so.

Raw denim is all fine and good, but nothing wrong with a prewashed pair here and there (I've been looking for a decent light wash selvage jean for a while, to no avail).
 

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cue pic of grotesque ceo
 

phildo

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Originally Posted by Makeshift_Robot
Agree. The jeans look nice. No jeans of that type really appeal to me, though. At this point, prewashed prefaded denim is ubiquitous, the Converse high-top of pants, and no similar pair of jeans (selvage or not) is ever going to strike me as particularly cool. At its best, this kind of jean is a null value, something that the eye just glides over on its way from your shirt to your shoes; at its worst this kind of jean is trashy, over-the-top advertisement of a useless lifestyle. I'll put the A&F ones cautiously in the first category.

i dunno i think the opposite, unwashed denim is ubiquitous
 

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Originally Posted by jet
cue pic of grotesque ceo


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sadly I could not find the brilliant willy gif of him cackling
 

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