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

[hendrix]

My last words on the subject. Folks, please do research on saturated fats and don't listen to Hendrix(But Jimi yes!). Or me for that matter. Polyunsturated fats(which are prone to oxidation-think "rancid") like Canola, veg oil, seed oils etc.cause heart disease(among other lifestyle factors).

Canola Oil-Eat it at your own peril:

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/know-your-fats/the-great-con-ola/

Your sources so far include an Acupuncturist and the Weston A Price foundation, an organization of quacks that has been routinely criticised by actual scientists and dietitians.

Will you link to the flat Earth society next?

 

[UrbanComposition]

Hoodies under bomber jackets, DRs, and topcoats was kind of a douchey look until Kanye did it. Now you see it everywhere. Not to say he invented the look, but he brought it into cultural relevance. And he has that cultural capital because of his music.

Similarly, Mad Men played a huge influence on fashion trends. Tons of guys favoring that slimmed down 60s thin lapel look with a clean white pocket square because of that show.

I think there's still a huge connection between culture and fashion. It's just that cultural influences are harder to contain.

When you see purely fashion-driven trends -- like, say, the purposefully ugly fits right now or dad clothes -- that stays pretty well contained within the community. But bigger shifts are often about what's happening in culture outside of fashion. What's Kanye wearing, the Kardashians, Rihanna, etc. Even the chunky sneaker stuff right now sorta spread through music (Travis Scott in Ozweegos, etc).

I agree that musicians continue to influence fashion trends, but it’s much less compartmentalized than before. Wearing X used to mean X, but people now appropriate looks across the spectrum, and flannels with Birks no longer means you like the Dave Matthews Band.

 

[dieworkwear]

I agree that musicians continue to influence fashion trends, but it’s much less compartmentalized than before. Wearing X used to mean X, but people now appropriate looks across the spectrum, and flannels with Birks no longer means you like the Dave Matthews Band.

Case in point:

 

[Patrick R]

I agree that musicians continue to influence fashion trends, but it’s much less compartmentalized than before. Wearing X used to mean X, but people now appropriate looks across the spectrum, and flannels with Birks no longer means you like the Dave Matthews Band.

I feel like that’s more due to a change in the music industry. Flannels and Birks in the late 90s might have meant you were into DMB and/or Phish simply because that was the outer limits of accessible music within a genre (clearly overstating for purposes of clarity/simplicity). I think it is still pretty easy to tell whether someone is influenced by country, hip hop, boy bands, Latin music, underground punk, etc. based on what they wear.

 

[notwithit]

So there's a place in DC that serves a breakfast sandwich that's a piece of fried chicken on a savory donut with honey butter, hot sauce, and a fried egg. I could only eat about a third of it and it probably took three weeks off of my life, but I'm pretty those weeks would've sucked anyway, and the sandwich was goddamn delicious.

 

[dotcomzzz]

would eat the **** out of that.

 

[FrankCowperwood]

I would eat that.

And I do think that if you were to go see Katy Perry or Kanye or ZZ Top it would be pretty easy to differentiate the crowds based on how they dress.

And I’m sure even with acts more closely related in genre there are more or less obvious differences. Probably more obvious to the trained observers in those audiences.

 

[clee1982]

So there's a place in DC that serves a breakfast sandwich that's a piece of fried chicken on a savory donut with honey butter, hot sauce, and a fried egg. I could only eat about a third of it and it probably took three weeks off of my life, but I'm pretty those weeks would've sucked anyway, and the sandwich was goddamn delicious.

I don’t know, as I got older the less I appreciate on creamier/heavier stuff. I don’t worry about weight blah blah but it just feels overly greasy afterwards

 

[noob in 89]

Met a dude wearing backwards jeans yesterday who’s never even heard of Kriss Kross.

 

[UrbanComposition]

At concerts, sure, people usually dress a certain way, but I’m sure they have other styles in their closet. My point is not that people from a certain subculture don’t dress a certain way, the point is that individual pieces from subcultures are being incorporated into everyday dress of the masses, thus diluting its attachment and meaning, e.g. hoodies, skate shoes, Timbs, workwear, double riders, and so on.

 

[double00]

wiggity wiggity wiggity wack

 

[santaclara]

Doesn't get old though

 

[LA Guy]

Hey Health dorks:

Being a little fat might help your chances at living longer:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2520627

But then, it's unclear
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-a-few-extra-pounds-help-you-live-longer/

Eh, well, we don't really know:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...g-some-extra-pounds-may-not-be-good-after-all

tldr; science is like, really hard, dudes.

 

[baltimoron]

can this get its own thread yet

 

[LA Guy]

I don’t know, as I got older the less I appreciate on creamier/heavier stuff. I don’t worry about weight blah blah but it just feels overly greasy afterwards

I don't know how old you are, but man, that has not happened to me. I'm actually craving Lobster Thermidor right now, and wishing that I could teleport the Tadich Grill into Moscow Idaho.