Random Fashion Thoughts (Part 3: Style farmer strikes back) - our general discussion thread

[constant struggle]

also - came here to say - it is crazy iron heart still sells out of so many different shirts with the price they are at. they are so smart to restrict sales, build hype, etc

 

[MickeyPunch]

i have so much to sell, so lazy to list
brand new iron heart denim
2x JMM sunglasses brand new
brand new vibergs
brand new new balances
tons of nikes
tons of lightly used things I don't wear

What JMM sunglasses? 🤔

 

[constant struggle]

What JMM sunglasses? 🤔

Molino 55 Bronze, Torino - Havana 6 - both brand new full kit - only tried on for a minute at my house

 

[RegisDB9]

Saw this with the caption E=MCFabulous 🤣

 

[RedVelvetWounds]

i have so much to sell, so lazy to list
brand new iron heart denim
2x JMM sunglasses brand new
brand new vibergs
brand new new balances
tons of nikes
tons of lightly used things I don't wear

If that seems overwheling at first just do it in parts. Make a draft (Grailed and Vestiaire have this option) with whatever information you know about the piece without having to pull it out of the closet. Designer, category, size, condition, description etc. You can take pictures at some later date. Then when you're done with that anything that doesn't need measurements like shoes and glasses can be listed. Then do the measurements later or immediately after taking pictures because you can't be bothered hanging everything back in the closet and then pulling them back out later just for some ******* measurements.

 

[ppk]

Saw this with the caption E=MCFabulous 🤣

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Wait. Check out those shoes.

 

[cocostella]

@constant struggle It is, indeed… a constant struggle.

 

[zissou]

What a crazy fun week hosting folks from Beams Japan and 2nd magazine. They made the trip because Shigeru Kaneko from Beams has a collection of hundreds of pieces of vintage outerwear from TNF, Marmot, etc., and he was researching them in our vast archive of outdoor catalogs. He’ll be writing a book about his collection and we’ll visit Japan for its launch next year. It was a whirlwind few days of running them around to meet local outdoor companies and experience classic American foods.

 

[blacklight]

Embarrassing but did some seasonal cleaning around my father's place this week and found the first ever serious menswear piece I ever bought with my own money, this being back in middle school circa 2009.

This was around the time of peak Polo craze among my generation and at that point I'd been begging my mother for a big pony polo for months. One day she had shown up with a bag from Macy's to surprise me with an all-white one with blue and orange accents she had grabbed on sale and at that moment I knew no woman could ever touch me the way Ralph had (peace be upon him.)

A few months later I got $100 from an aunt for my birthday and immediately ran to Macys to go blow it on a shirt ($98) I had been obsessing over for weeks, an entry in the seasonal Blackwatch collection then modeled by Nacho Figueras. Since my family didn't believe in ordering stuff online at the time, I was SOL when I found out they didn't have it at my local Macys, and so I settled for this one, with my mother adding the 7 or so dollars for the sales tax. At the counsel of my mother and the saleslady, I, at a whopping 5'9, 129 lbs. took home a men's L, following the logic that if I was spending so much money on just one shirt I should at least be able to grow into it.

Because I was waiting on some special occasion to wear it it went unworn in my closet for weeks until I found out the Herald Square location had gotten the new Blackwatch collection. Cue me begging for another couple weeks for her to take the train with me back to the city so I could exchange what I had bought for the one I wanted. Thing saw every special occasion of mine for the next year – my mother's 40th birthday party, the first day of 8th grade, numerous parties, etc. Haven't worn it in years of course but suspect I'll have it forever. 14 years and counting. And hey, it finally fits. Lol. Crazy seeing the RL website now sells some of the specific pieces kids I know used to beat each other up for back in 2009 for $300 as part of its vintage legends collection. Every 10th kid in Brooklyn had this exact shirt.

 

[conceptual 4est]

Awesome story, thanks for sharing

 

[RegisDB9]

I hoped you popped dat collar

 

[LA Guy]

Embarrassing but did some seasonal cleaning around my father's place this week and found the first ever serious menswear piece I ever bought with my own money, this being back in middle school circa 2009.

This was around the time of peak Polo craze among my generation and at that point I'd been begging my mother for a big pony polo for months. One day she had shown up with a bag from Macy's to surprise me with an all-white one with blue and orange accents she had grabbed on sale and at that moment I knew no woman could ever touch me the way Ralph had (peace be upon him.)

A few months later I got $100 from an aunt for my birthday and immediately ran to Macys to go blow it on a shirt ($98) I had been obsessing over for weeks, an entry in the seasonal Blackwatch collection then modeled by Nacho Figueras. Since my family didn't believe in ordering stuff online at the time, I was SOL when I found out they didn't have it at my local Macys, and so I settled for this one, with my mother adding the 7 or so dollars for the sales tax. At the counsel of my mother and the saleslady, I, at a whopping 5'9, 129 lbs. took home a men's L, following the logic that if I was spending so much money on just one shirt I should at least be able to grow into it.

Because I was waiting on some special occasion to wear it it went unworn in my closet for weeks until I found out the Herald Square location had gotten the new Blackwatch collection. Cue me begging for another couple weeks for her to take the train with me back to the city so I could exchange what I had bought for the one I wanted. Thing saw every special occasion of mine for the next year – my mother's 40th birthday party, the first day of 8th grade, numerous parties, etc. Haven't worn it in years of course but suspect I'll have it forever. 14 years and counting. And hey, it finally fits. Lol. Crazy seeing the RL website now sells some of the specific pieces kids I know used to beat each other up for back in 2009 for $300 as part of its vintage legends collection. Every 10th kid in Brooklyn had this exact shirt.

I grew up in what I assume was a very different environment, and was in middle school 20 years before you. My friends and I were obsessed with Ralph Lauren at the same age though. We were highly influenced by “Stand by me", and Polo + tight rolled jeans (only Levis and only 501 red tabs) + high top Chucks were everything. We had a few independent men's stores that carried Polo, and I would browse as much as I could. My parents were thrifty immigrants and spending $45 on a polo shirt was anathema to them, so I had only a few brand name things, Polo and Benneton, but also some preppy Canadian brands that were locally popular, all gifts from relatives and family friends who sympathized with my cause that I had to make last the full week. A navy polo with the pink horse and a forest green Benneton sweatshirt got worn a lot. A few years later, and grunge became everything, and Polo was the Man and everything we stood against, at least stylewise. Plus, Polo button downs were basically an unofficial part of the official school uniform. So you would never wear that unless you wanted to be mistaken for having forgotten that it was non-uniform day, which was the lamest. I know that guys like @dieworkwear talk about the Lo-heads, etc... but we had about as many black people at my high school as Asians as Hispanics, which is to to say, about 2 of each at any one time. In our United Empire Loyalist small city, Polo was firmly the uniform of the white upper middle class. The city was the site of the Montreal Olympics sailing events, so boat shoes were actually worn on boats.

It wasn't until i graduated university in the late 90s that Ralph Lauren was acceptable again, and for me, it was all about

Even to this day, I can't do preppy without feeling very middle school.

 

[conceptual 4est]

I have a strong desire for some Nike Sock Darts again but I don't think they've made them in like 10 years so I'm sure they're all yellowed and nasty. I threw all of mine out a few years ago for that reason. What's a boy to do

 

[PeteyPajamapant]

I have a strong desire for some Nike Sock Darts again but I don't think they've made them in like 10 years so I'm sure they're all yellowed and nasty. I threw all of mine out a few years ago for that reason. What's a boy to do

throw a strap on these bad boys

 

[blacklight]

@RegisDB9 Some sort of collaborative installation on the way between Maison Margiela and Tite Kubo (Japanese mangaka, best known as the creator of Shonen Jump's Bleach, the anime version of which recently returned from a decade-long hiatus.)

He's pretty frequently celebrated among the best if not as the best manga artist specifically as it pertains to character design and at least IMO, a lot of Bleach's character looks aren't terribly far removed from what old Margiela might've sent down the runway, so this one perhaps isn't quite as shameless as it seems.

Character from the collaboration announcement is Saitō Furofushi ("deathless, undying"), from an as-of-yet unconfirmed and unreleased story arc. Really interested to see where this one goes.

Bleach character sketches: