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

[King Calder]

check your amex offers homies;

 

[double00]

a big reason i thrift , there is no value in the shipping *tax* it bites both producers and consumers

 

[sipang]

Beautiful posts sequence there

 

[BlakeRVA]

I may be an outlier but I hate packing items and going to the post office so much that I don't shop experimentally online even if returns are free. Maybe this is because I'm in the nyc area and can wait to try most things on at a store. I'm definitely more likely to shop at an online store if the regular shipping is free though.

Nope, hate any sort of back-and-forth hassle, even if that means a courier will come to pick it up.

I don't mind sending things back - I have a shipping service at my office with no lines and all supplies readily available. I think it's more the build up to buy something over a few weeks, obsessing over it, then eventually it arrives and I'm disappointed it doesn't fit / feel how I want it to. I usually only order things I'm 95% sure I am going to keep.

I honestly don't really like shopping in person. Whenever I found myself in like a New York or a LA at like Jeffey's, a Barneys, a Saks, whatever, I honestly have had more experiences in the past where I've been left cold and disappointed with the offerings than not. I distinctly remember being at a Barneys and checking out a Raf collection there, it was my first time seeing the brand in person, and just being really really disappointed. I typically don't like interacting with sales reps, don't like to be in crowded places, and have never connected with this idea of retail spaces "telling stories" or whatever.

I think shopping at Department Stores is largely underwhelming, but that's why boutiques exist - more tailored experiences (whatever that means). I've historically bought the majority of my clothes from boutiques, with about ~75% being local. I think if I lived somewhere like NYC / LA / Paris / Tokyo or wherever, I'd probably shop exclusively in person.

Yeah i agree with that. There aren't many shops i've visited and loved, and those that I have (Seattle Totokaelo, NY DSM) are more so because they have something specific I've wanted to check out in person.
But I want sales people to leave me alone and be available IF I have questions. Toto was good at that, a lot of places just follow me around and chime in when as soon I pick something up (oh what size you need? You want me to start a changing room? Jerry Van Ash is really cool huh?)

It's funny - I hated Totokaelo for the cold, indifferent, cooler than thou treatment the Sales Associates gave customers. I like to go in stores, nerd about clothes together, learn what's coming later in the season / next year, interesting stories. I also enjoy getting personal phone calls / emails when stores receive things I might like. Perhaps I'm old school, but I enjoy the relationship - as contingent upon spending money as it may be.

 

[patagonianwild]

i hate shipping back so much that i just take the loss and forget they exist

i think i've returned like one thing in 15 years

 

[ghdvfddzgzdzg]

I had positive SA experiences w various employees both times I went into Totokaelo. Also that NYC corner bank location they had ~2018 was just insane.

I never have had anything like a real connection with a salesperson at, for example, Barney’s. So I think there is a division between the department store SA interaction and boutique SA interaction.

I just spent a week in Charleston and had nothing but cool SA interactions. Shout out to Brett at Indigo & Cotton. You go in there and end up chatting about like Kapital sizing and Post Imperial shirt concepts.

Even in stores where all I was trying to do was find a feu du bois candle, which I did in a place I would describe as your great grandmother’s haunted closet, I had good interactions.

Btw there’s a womenswear place in Charleston called Worthwhile that has Rick and Guidi. They had an amazing alpaca robe coat. That place is fun.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

I generally don't like unwanted interactions with people - it's partly a neurodiversity thing, and partly just because I'm British... - so I prefer to have SAs leave me alone until I want to talk to them. If SAs approach me I generally say I don't need help, and if they are persistent I will just leave the store and never return. There are other downsides to online shopping but, for me at least, the lack of SAs is not one of them.

 

[sipang]

Nobody's watching, time for another film post.
Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985), gorgeous slice of life about in-between people and in-between times. Also with some very tasteful in-between fashion (with genuine casual tailoring extract in it)

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[xeoniq]

Really enjoyed Terrorizers (1986) from him as well. Lots of cool cameras in it for photography nerds.

 

[Baron]

I watched A Brighter Summer Day by Yang a few months back, it was great.

 

[King Calder]

Loved A Brighter Summer Day, haven’t seen Taipei Story yet.

watched the Insider tonight - last Mann movie I hadn’t seen. I enjoyed it - no Miami Vice but still worthwhile. Crowe was excellent, but the last hour dragged for me.

 

[Darkside]

Okay for those of you who enjoy literally burning money, any under-the-radar scented candle recs? I already have the DWW baseball glove candle.

 

[BlakeRVA]

@sipang How does one find fashionable movies? Do you stumble across them by watching lots of cinema?

 

[Baron]

Speaking of fashionable movies, I rewatched Eyes of Laura Mars recently. It's campy and cheesy but the fashion is pretty cool.

 

[blacklight]

Film discussion would make a pretty good thread by itself.

Goes without saying but:

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Also, since he was brought up earlier I thought Jonah Hill looked pretty fire playing the arms dealer in War Dogs. There's a natural presence that comes with being a bigger guy that I think you just have to own. Rick Ross has built his career off of it.