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Originally Posted by Lel
I've been thinking about this for a while but now it makes more sense:

Fit is subjective. Yes, duh. But fit is objectively subject, in a way. Because really, height matters. A 6"3 person looking down at a 5"9 person with "skinny" jeans (say normal-SF slimness) will think the jeans are skin tight because they're looking at a downward angle that distorts the shorter person's distortions. But say a person of the same height, or a girl who is shorter, wouldn't have that same distortion since they are at/below eye level so what might jump out more is how slim the jeans are in proportion to the rest of the body so in their mind it's more of a normal height person with proportionally long slim legs.

And obviously your frame of reference is your own height and looking into a mirror.

Anyways, what I might have said is probably just a big "DUH" especially, I'd imagine, to photographers (angle of camera, height of camera, etc).

But if anything I think it says that taking WAYWT pictures at least helps you get a sense of your own fit from an objective point of view, at least one other than your own.


I think the main practical conclusion to draw from this line of reasoning is that photos don't really lie, or that they are at least closer to the objective reality than someone's self-opinion (by this I mean that when someone posts a picture in WAYWT, and says, oh, I'm not actually this fat, the fit looks much better IRL, they are just deluding themselves).
 

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Originally Posted by bluemagic
I think the main practical conclusion to draw from this line of reasoning is that photos don't really lie, or that they are at least closer to the objective reality than someone's self-opinion (by this I mean that when someone posts a picture in WAYWT, and says, oh, I'm not actually this fat, the fit looks much better IRL, they are just deluding themselves).
Not really. It goes both ways. If you took a photo of yourself with a wide-angle lens (or just zoom out on your P&S) at a close distance, the perspective distortion will definitely mess up your proportions, even more so than what you see when looking in a mirror. Example: http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...ostcount=16824 Now just put that camera at waist level, and boom, your belly will look huge (just as his head does in that pic). Not saying people actually do this, and the pic above is obviously an extreme example, but it's entirely possible.
 

KitAkira

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I'm going to start taking WAYWT pics and only use a fisheye just to piss all of you off
 

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Originally Posted by asobu
i have no inspiration. right now i feel like getting a few oxfords/bd's on sale at muji, wear them with a pair of trousers, lace-ups and just spend all of my yens in jazz bars.

nice
 

Lel

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Originally Posted by bluemagic
I think the main practical conclusion to draw from this line of reasoning is that photos don't really lie, or that they are at least closer to the objective reality than someone's self-opinion (by this I mean that when someone posts a picture in WAYWT, and says, oh, I'm not actually this fat, the fit looks much better IRL, they are just deluding themselves).

Yes.

Originally Posted by aqhong
Not really. It goes both ways. If you took a photo of yourself with a wide-angle lens (or just zoom out on your P&S) at a close distance, the perspective distortion will definitely mess up your proportions, even more so than what you see when looking in a mirror.

Example: http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...ostcount=16824

Now just put that camera at waist level, and boom, your belly will look huge (just as his head does in that pic). Not saying people actually do this, and the pic above is obviously an extreme example, but it's entirely possible.


Also true. I know nothing about photography so I should try to say as little as possible but people should try to place their cameras in the most objectively neutral place they can and from a fair difference. It might be a useful tool for people to get a second opinion on their fits and how they work out in terms of overall proportion.
 

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Someone buy my stephan schneider shirt waddup sipang, nil.
 

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Originally Posted by jet
Someone buy my stephan schneider shirt waddup sipang, nil.

Just copped the purple/pink/grey/whatever version of that one otherwise I might have been interested.
 

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^No sweat du.

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Well wtf is the p2p?

p2p is 21, shoulders are 18 jdm
 

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The last couple of denim jackets fits in waywt have proved to me atleast that it's one of the hardest items of clothing to pull off, i only see runway guys or super-steeze individuals like josh of SE pulling it off well.
 

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^^^it's so easy if they fit well and broken in a bit. Throw a white v neck underneath...perfect. My go to style for the most part.
 

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Originally Posted by Biscotti
^^^it's so easy if they fit well and broken in a bit. Throw a white v neck underneath...perfect. My go to style for the most part.
Once you get beyond just a white shirt it gets really hard to do right (as the Denim Jacket wearing culprit on WAYWT)
 

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Originally Posted by AndrewRyanWallace
+1, some of you guys are pussies complaining about -10 degrees celsius. That's 14 in Fahrenheit, I just had a back surgery in St. Louis, I walked out of the hospital to the same temperature five days later in my generic surplus crapy ass plimsoles, kmw jeans, a uo t-shirt, dunderon hoodie and my cheap ass nordstrom house brand coat and I was fine. Nothing is more brutal than the 100 degree Florida summer with 100% humidity.

Which hospital in StL? Barnes?
 
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