Let's Talk About Bookcore

[MythReindeer]

T I M E L E S S

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

You just know with the 1930s thing what kind of problems they had with people posting uniforms of "timeless elegance"....

Hugo Boss make a killing out of that…financially speaking.

 

[Daniel Hakimi]

You just know with the 1930s thing what kind of problems they had with people posting uniforms of "timeless elegance"....

You also have to know that the averge guy there has no idea what anybody wore in the 1930s and just puts on ill-fitting suits and assumes those are on point.

 

[Daniel Hakimi]

Hi all. I wrote this article partly as a result of seeing @dieworkwear's category of "Ugly Shoes" in the Bookcore article, partly in light of discussions on the Style and Direction discord, partly in repsonse to the conversations elsewhere on SF about wearing oxfords casually, and partly just in light of my own changing tastes with regards to things like minimal white sneakers and tyrolean shoes. I hope you can enjoy it!

The Ugly Shoe Paradox

 

[Jlord]

Hi all. I wrote this article partly as a result of seeing @dieworkwear's category of "Ugly Shoes" in the Bookcore article, partly in light of discussions on the Style and Direction discord, partly in repsonse to the conversations elsewhere on SF about wearing oxfords casually, and partly just in light of my own changing tastes with regards to things like minimal white sneakers and tyrolean shoes. I hope you can enjoy it!

The Ugly Shoe Paradox

Dan, this is great. Thanks!

 

[Daniel Hakimi]

Found a few more rumblings about bookcore:

this blog post

this blog post, which referred to this tweet

this post from some foreign-language magazine, not sure if Derek caught this one already but it doesn't seem familiar.

 

[Spinster Jones]

this post from some foreign-language magazine, not sure if Derek caught this one already but it doesn't seem familiar.

Swedish trade magazine for the book industry. It has reached Norway as well. I think DWW hits a nerve. Albeit I've only, so far, seen the follow-up to the dadcore-look a couple years back - fugly white sneakers and ill fitting chinos - mixed in with the uprising of Patagonia fleeces. As have been pointed out. But I think I might have to reconsider it; as a regular is unironically wearing berets and large coats.

Haven't really seen it going the rugged-Ivy route, as Derek mentioned in the article. Probably because bookstores here doesn't operate with the same principles, or have the same aura or affliction with scholastic attire, as the US does.

 

[Spinster Jones]

And the Community Bookstore finds it Norwegian counter-part at this antiquarian bookstore.

Only difference is that the guy won't allow cellphones inside, and he's a bit of an eccentric, but that's just pure bookcore.

 

[NorCal]

Bookcore meets Dogcore.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

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Bookcore meets Dogcore.

That dog does not look like an Existentialist!

 

[double00]

much dogecore

 

[NorCal]

That dog does not look like an Existentialist!

Dogs Idealists, Cats are Absurdists.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Dogs Idealists, Cats are Absurdists.

Dogs in my experience are basically phenomenologists…

 

[krudsma]

Nice little piece in NYT this morning about the lost Fourth Avenue bookstores dww mentions in his article:

Remembrance of Bookstores Past

 

[krudsma]

Absolutely loving the look of the guys that just bought my favorite bookstore:

They Spent Years Selling Books At Myopic Books, An Iconic Wicker Park Store. Now, They Own It

WICKER PARK — When J.R. Nelson and Matt Revers moved to Chicago, both made a beeline for Myopic Books in Wicker Park. For Nelson, it was in the mid-'90s,

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