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bluemagic

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In my head I have many platonic ideals of clothes I'd like. Shopping for me is the pursuit of finding these things, at an affordable price, among the imperfect objects out there. This is proving impossible. Shopping used to be finding things that I like among the objects out there, so that the process was seeing objects, then finding the best ones among them. But now what I am looking for is so abstract that I can find something wrong with anything out there.

If there was not the issue of price, I think I'd go bespoke or made to measure for everything, or design my own line. I am not lacking for ideas. I have an entire mental wardrobe mapped out.

Does anyone else feel like this? Am I spiraling into madness?
 

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Your various whiny posts make me want to stretch out across the electronic medium and *****-slap you.
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Quite being a skirt already for crying out loud.
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This is dated 3/23/2006:

Originally Posted by eric glennie
In my head I have many platonic ideals of clothes I'd like. Shopping for me is the pursuit of finding these things, at an affordable price, among the imperfect objects out there. This is proving impossible. Shopping used to be finding things that I like among the objects out there, so that the process was seeing objects, then finding the best ones among them. But now what I am looking for is so abstract that I can find something wrong with anything out there.

If there was not the issue of price, I think I'd go bespoke or made to measure for everything, or design my own line. I am not lacking for ideas. I have an entire mental wardrobe mapped out.

Does anyone else feel like this? Am I spiraling into madness?


prepare yourself
 

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This is why bespoke is the way to go. You get exactly what you want. Buying most items off the rack is for suckers or people who need a label to feel like they got a good garment.
 

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Originally Posted by bluemagic
Am I spiraling into madness?

No, you are growing up sartorially, very fast . . . moving from whatever is out there to general principles to things that are very specific to you and your likings. Spend your $ wisely, because once you've figured out your specificities, getting them will be expensive.

Stay with it.

- M
 

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I like to eat apple crisp every leap year.
 

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Originally Posted by LabelKing
Apropos of this thread, I feel I need a pink suit.

I would love to see a LabelKing line. I feel LabelKing-worn Brioni or Etro or whatever is only a rough approximation (though a good one, since you've spent time selecting the best pieces) of the true LabelKing ideal.
 

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Originally Posted by bluemagic
I would love to see a LabelKing line. I feel LabelKing-worn Brioni or Etro or whatever is only a rough approximation (though a good one, since you've spent time selecting the best pieces) of the true LabelKing ideal.
My guess is that it would be a great collection of quality vintage items.
 

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