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

[ppk]

This is true. I’m rather tall and have had short guys try and pick fights with me at bars. They want to prove something.

This happened to me once. The guy was very drunk. He got up from the couch tripped over the low table and did a face plant. It was over before it started. For the record, I was ready to run.

 

[RegisDB9]

fight me outside uniqlo you tallie

Hey hey hey…only we can use that word bro

 

[whorishconsumer]

Imagine feeling like the only thing holding you back from success is some immutable random genetic factor, while you spend your life watching the lottery winners succeed.

I mean, I did have a series of like 5 bosses who were all the tallest guy in the business unit.

I’ve never given a $hit about advancing up the ladder but I’ve seen this play out enough to get that it isn’t coincidental.

I'm tall and suck at my career.

Hey hey hey…only we can use that word bro

That would be "tabi".

 

[Coldsnap]

Anyone know a good go to cheap 100% cotton zip hoodie and sweatpants combo? Need something for my treadmill and having a hard time finding pure cotton.

Also if anyone knows 100% cotton socks makers too..

 

[gettoasty]

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[MickeyPunch]

With Galliano gone it would be very Margiela to release shoes and boots that started out as tabi and then they got rid of the split toe and stitched it together, i.e. with visible stitches and all.

 

[wilz]

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The hoods on their hoodies are ridiculously huge, looks like a jedi hood. I had to return that, but I do recommend getting their sweatpants.

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

Anyone know a good go to cheap 100% cotton zip hoodie and sweatpants combo? Need something for my treadmill and having a hard time finding pure cotton.

Also if anyone knows 100% cotton socks makers too..

My go-tos for this have been Norse Projects and Saturdays NYC. The latter has too much branding now though.

 

[whorishconsumer]

Relevant to my recent inquiry around sizing, do any big bois out there have experience with Engineered Garments pants in a size XL? How accommodating is the top block, outside of waist measurement?

 

[MickeyPunch]

I was born in 1980, so a was a teen in the 90s. Back then I thought loose/baggy jeans super cool but I wasn’t so I stuck to Levi’s 501.

Does a 44/45yo have any business wearing baggy jeans in 2025? And I’m talking baggy, not just regular/straight. Also, in classic indigo wash, not in some brown tone a la Lemaire or whatever.

I bought a pair of rinsed Japan Blue J501 but they’re not wide enough. It doesn’t help that I sized down slightly from 32 to 31.

I still haven’t figured out what makes me like a pair of baggy jeans, because in many pics I just don’t like them; I guess the model matters a lot, and I think a substantial fabric helps compared to a lighter weight one.

With trousers I feel it’s easier, I’ve been wearing Dickies 873 (22.5cm/8.85in hem, I want to give 874 a go) and some Muji chinos last spring/summer, and I just got some COS that seem pretty wide too (haven’t tried them on yet, pic below, trying to achieve “Lemaire on a budget”) but jeans are trickier.

 

[mak1277]

Relevant to my recent inquiry around sizing, do any big bois out there have experience with Engineered Garments pants in a size XL? How accommodating is the top block, outside of waist measurement?

I’ve only tried their fatigue pants but they seem to run big and have a good amount of room. I’m a 36 waist normally and wear a medium in EG so you should be good.

 

[thatboyo]

Does a 44/45yo have any business wearing baggy jeans in 2025? And I’m talking baggy, not just regular/straight.

Isn’t this most of the 18East customer base?

 

[whorishconsumer]

I was born in 1980, so a was a teen in the 90s. Back then I thought loose/baggy jeans super cool but I wasn’t so I stuck to Levi’s 501.

Does a 44/45yo have any business wearing baggy jeans in 2025? And I’m talking baggy, not just regular/straight. Also, in classic indigo wash, not in some brown tone a la Lemaire or whatever.

I bought a pair of rinsed Japan Blue J501 but they’re not wide enough. It doesn’t help that I sized down slightly from 32 to 31.

I still haven’t figured out what makes me like a pair of baggy jeans, because in many pics I just don’t like them; I guess the model matters a lot, and I think a substantial fabric helps compared to a lighter weight one.

With trousers I feel it’s easier, I’ve been wearing Dickies 873 (22.5cm/8.85in hem, I want to give 874 a go) and some Muji chinos last spring/summer, and I just got some COS that seem pretty wide too (haven’t tried them on yet, pic below, trying to achieve “Lemaire on a budget”) but jeans are trickier.

I always avoided loose because I was skinny. But very recently I've leaned into loose. Have some Filson work pants with 9.5"+ hems that are pretty dope. I think having a somewhat fitted top block helps baggy pants from looking like the 90s boxer brigade.

Born in 85.

 

[symphvaria]

Does a 44/45yo have any business wearing baggy jeans in 2025? And I’m talking baggy, not just regular/straight. Also, in classic indigo wash, not in some brown tone a la Lemaire or whatever.

If anything, wearing excessively fitted pants seems like a bigger giveaway of being old than the opposite.

 

[double00]

I was born in 1980, so a was a teen in the 90s. Back then I thought loose/baggy jeans super cool but I wasn’t so I stuck to Levi’s 501.

Does a 44/45yo have any business wearing baggy jeans in 2025? And I’m talking baggy, not just regular/straight. Also, in classic indigo wash, not in some brown tone a la Lemaire or whatever.

I bought a pair of rinsed Japan Blue J501 but they’re not wide enough. It doesn’t help that I sized down slightly from 32 to 31.

I still haven’t figured out what makes me like a pair of baggy jeans, because in many pics I just don’t like them; I guess the model matters a lot, and I think a substantial fabric helps compared to a lighter weight one.

With trousers I feel it’s easier, I’ve been wearing Dickies 873 (22.5cm/8.85in hem, I want to give 874 a go) and some Muji chinos last spring/summer, and I just got some COS that seem pretty wide too (haven’t tried them on yet, pic below, trying to achieve “Lemaire on a budget”) but jeans are trickier.

also born in 1980 but I identify as a 79er .

by the 90s I was into levi's silver tabs which were well rinsed and ran baggy , at the time there were jncos and a couple kids at my HS worked at some local shop that did custom denim stuff so of course they'd flex these extreme anti-fit jeans .

today as an older guy I say why not ? I do disagree about the weight , I don't think that denim needs to be so beefy and I think the drape gets more interesting as you go lighter . even like a 2x1 fabric and have the denim washed to taste before it gets made up ...