Should you stick to one aesthetic?

uh.. yes

switching it up is probably ok as long as you look comfortable in what you wear and can pull off different looks... it's probably just going to be more expensive to be able to switch looks and not look like you're wearing the same thing with each look.

i dont see why not unless you are emotionally tied to a certain style. I see clothes as individual entities, so its hard for me to put them into sub-cultures based upon how they look at face value. You can play around with many garments from many brands and create "aesthetics." In the end its how you use each piece to create your own; I'd like to think. I never bought into the belief that certain brands fit a certain aesthetic, and etc. It's their design and how you feel that gives meaning to them.

would love to see pics of a gothninja wedding

Better than a workwear wedding, that's for sure.

I switch between the urban edgy and the preppy americana. Mostly because of my environment, though. When I wish to dress casually I choose to wear skinny jeans and expensive hightops. When I am in business mode I dress preppier and I trade the hightops for desert boots and bucks and trade basic tees for buttondowns.

I think that's what they call a 'poser'.

i lol'd good shit

Dude, remind me about this idea in the summer and I will totally do 1 week of WAYWT's on the concept of emo monday, thug tuesday, western wednesday... what else to do? trad thursdays (look at this) fucking hipster fridays scary saturdays (gothninja) skinhead sundays I will straight up do it. Remind me this summer somebody please. (for the record I do think that doing this as anything other than a joke would be seriously retarded lmfao thug tuesday made me giggle like a schoolgirl) And I don't think one needs to stick to a single aesthetic, but its important to make sure that the aesthetics work... Swapping between gothninja and workwear isn't going to work well. It's too jarring. However, workwear and prep would be just fine. As would gothninja and baller. The idea would be that workwear and prep are both fairly "normal" and traditional/classical, so the appreciation overlap is quite evident. Gothninja and baller could go together too since they both have avant-garde fashion elements and stand out from the crowd. It can be expensive/difficult/boring to stick to one style of dress. I alternate between normal dude with fitted clothing and black drapey shit from spring to fall. In the winter, I wear normal clothes because I cannot afford an avant-garde winter wardrobe. $2000 winter coats with ungodly expensive cashmere knits and hand made horsehide boots would be fucking AWESOME, if I wasn't a poor student. So I make do with fitted raw denim, decent leather boots, and a peacoat. I'm not going to lose sleep over looking "normal" for a season.

You CAN dress however you want but most end up finding their own comfort level and sticking to it (gothninja chris. workwear Bobo, or mod dickhead Get Smart.) It can get boring and repetitive or conversely will force you to be creative within a very specific space. The tragedies happen when you start half-assing your elements, like the hypebeast deciding to be a cowboy for a day. I don't buy into the idea of a "confused image" if it's something you truly identify with. Some days you feel more aggro than others. Why not give a fuck and express it?

Stinger that can actually be a danger zone I think. Nothing looks LESS laid back and more contrived than someone wearing an untucked dress shirt with a loose tie and unbuttoned collar. (NOT trying to say this is you or what you're suggesting! Just posing an example of stuff I've seen.) It's like the idea of dressing up is straining them so much, that they have to fuck it up just to be comfortable. I'm not saying I think there is anything wrong with wearing button downs casually, or untucked shirts... Just that you should not think of such outfits as dressing up or formal, but just normal casual wear. The best way to look laid back dressing up is to do it fucking perfectly, cut no corners. Do your tie up perfectly, pressed shirt, starched collar, fitted jacket, the whole nine yards. Make it look like you're a practiced expert who's been doing it for years. Go beyond trying hard to the point where it looks like second nature. I dress up for fun all the time. There isn't really a second thought about it, people who know me well don't even question it. If I'm ever asked about it, I usually say "Well I bought it... I might as well wear it." or "It was the first thing I saw in my closet this morning." You're already overthinking it a little...

You know this thread makes me wanna put on this pink shirt I hate that I bought on impulse. It would be funny cuz I wear so much dark/neutral colored shit.