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

[zissou]

I’m debating a Tanto bladed CRK for super low profile when I’m hiking.

Definitely well worth finding the right low-profile folding blade for your front pocket when hiking. But, I don't go much over $100 for a knife I might lose. That said, I've had that 530 for about a decade.

 

[whorishconsumer]

As an aside, talking about bougie luggage has never seemed so pointless.

 

[troika]

Hey gang, auctioning off some grant stone loafers to benefit the ACLU here: https://www.styleforum.net/threads/grant-stone-official-affiliate-thread.518394/post-10232058

I know it's not SWD, or perhaps all that relevant. Just wanted to share in RFT in case someone here cares.

 

[LA Guy]

Definitely well worth finding the right low-profile folding blade for your front pocket when hiking. But, I don't go much over $100 for a knife I might lose. That said, I've had that 530 for about a decade.

I’ve not yet lost a knife, except to the TSA.

One of my (stupid) friends somehow forgot to leave a 4” automatic drop point and a balisong on a hiking trip to the Alps. Somehow this got through TSA but French customs caught them at CDG. The rest of us ate a full meal and pretended to be really interested in the Hermès scarves for a good half hour before he emerged, looking somewhere between puke green and ashen grey. We pitched in and bought him the special Hermès scarf from that season for him to remember that occasion by. Then we fed him a croissant and coffee. The rest of us all went out that afternoon and evening, but he basically just showered and slept. We brought him back a kebab.

Later, I saw that he had regifted the scarf to a girl he was dating. She told me what had happened in his interrogation, and while I had not been present, the account of the story she had been told had him somewhere between Steve McQueen’s “Cooler King” and Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises”.

 

[MarkI]

Anyone have any insight as to how Diemme sneakers fit? The slip ons in particular.

 

[LA Guy]

Anyone have any insight as to how Diemme sneakers fit? The slip ons in particular.

I don't have the slip ons, but I do have a few pairs of the backzip collabs that they did with nonnative. Those are more rounded and higher volume in the toebox than say, Common Projects.

 

[zissou]

I’ve not yet lost a knife, except to the TSA.

One of my (stupid) friends somehow forgot to leave a 4” automatic drop point and a balisong on a hiking trip to the Alps. Somehow this got through TSA but French customs caught them at CDG. The rest of us ate a full meal and pretended to be really interested in the Hermès scarves for a good half hour before he emerged, looking somewhere between puke green and ashen grey. We pitched in and bought him the special Hermès scarf from that season for him to remember that occasion by. Then we fed him a croissant and coffee. The rest of us all went out that afternoon and evening, but he basically just showered and slept. We brought him back a kebab.

Later, I saw that he had regifted the scarf to a girl he was dating. She told me what had happened in his interrogation, and while I had not been present, the account of the story she had been told had him somewhere between Steve McQueen’s “Cooler King” and Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises”.

That’s a crazy story. I’ve inadvertently done some crazy things on flights pre-9/11 that would get me in serious trouble today. I only tell those stories over beer, not over the internets.

 

[Joytropics]

Hey gang, auctioning off some grant stone loafers to benefit the ACLU here: https://www.styleforum.net/threads/grant-stone-official-affiliate-thread.518394/post-10232058

I know it's not SWD, or perhaps all that relevant. Just wanted to share in RFT in case someone here cares.

Do you think that raising money for an organization that pays its almost entirely white executives $350,000+ a year will help black people?

How do you think the ACLU’s recent fight against the rights of those accused of crimes on campus will impact young black men?

The ACLU Declines to Defend Civil Rights

The civil-liberties organization has taken a stand against stronger due-process protections in campus tribunals that undermines its own principles.

www.google.com

 

[Joytropics]

If you think black lives matter, why not give to an organization that’s saved tons of them?

Against Malaria

Against Malaria. People from all over the world raising money to help combat malaria

www.againstmalaria.com

 

[hendrix]

Probably because malaria is not a problem affecting black americans...

could be proven wrong I mean you guys have a pathetic public health system but even so I didn't think it was a thing over there

 

[troika]

Do you think that raising money for an organization that pays its almost entirely white executives $350,000+ a year will help black people?

How do you think the ACLU’s recent fight against the rights of those accused of crimes on campus will impact young black men?

The ACLU Declines to Defend Civil Rights

The civil-liberties organization has taken a stand against stronger due-process protections in campus tribunals that undermines its own principles.

www.google.com

Going to reconsider the organization, thanks. I want it to be focused on police brutality against POC.

NMWA releases their list of orgs after I posted, so I will change it to one of those.

 

[steveoffice]

If you think black lives matter, why not give to an organization that’s saved tons of them?

Against Malaria

Against Malaria. People from all over the world raising money to help combat malaria

www.againstmalaria.com

In extremely Charlie Kirk voice: these guys don't really care about black lives! they don't even care ****************** dying of MALARIA in Africa!

 

[Joytropics]

Police shootings of unarmed black people in America account for about 10 deaths a year.

Malaria accounts for about 435,000 deaths a year.

I understand and agree with the desire to reform American criminal justice...

But non-profits like the ACLU don’t do that. It’s a way to employ the friends and families of rich donors, and advocate for their political beliefs.

The Against Malaria foundation is the best way I’ve found to actually save many lives of disadvantaged people of color.

 

[Joytropics]

In extremely Charlie Kirk voice: these guys don't really care about black lives! they don't even care ****************** dying of MALARIA in Africa!

Actually it’s because of ethicist Peter Singer and Oxford philosopher Will McAskill.

 

[steveoffice]

Police shootings of unarmed black people in America account for about 10 deaths a year.

Malaria accounts for about 435,000 deaths a year.

I understand and agree with the desire to reform American criminal justice...

But non-profits like the ACLU don’t do that. It’s a way to employ the friends and families of rich donors, and advocate for their political beliefs.

The Against Malaria foundation is the best way I’ve found to actually save many lives of disadvantaged people of color.