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

[BlakeRVA]

Honestly makes me angry that any store would sell this. This might be the most impractical item I've ever seen. And that includes the Jil Sander paper bag.

I'm trying to even imagine how this would go. I wear it a few times max, it gets gross, and then I... pay $100 to have a fur cleaning specialist clean it? With the cleaning costs, this might be the first garment I've ever heard of where the cost per wear actually goes up every time you wear it.

Aside from the impracticality of care, I doubt it's even comfortable! It's not a knit, so putting it on and taking it off is probably a giant pain ********** too. Maybe, just maybe, it has hidden side-seam pockets to add some kind of value but I refuse to believe someone willing to make this monstrosity would add that level of practicality to it.

Oh, and not to mention, but it's probably uncomfortably hot, with no easy way to vent heat like a jacket would have.

The only thing I could see the point of this item being, given that it's both expensive and incredibly impractical, is some kind of conceptual piece. So fine. Let's hear the concept. If I'd studied art history, I might tell you that the difficulty of pulling this cash-burning straitjacket on and taking it off is a metaphor for the rigidity and lack of mobility of social classes. But I didn't, so, **** this thing for existing.

Also, I would love to hear someone try to prove me wrong on this. Tell me just one redeeming quality.

I'll take a designer putting out a leather sweater over another brand doing loungewear or "me too" (small variation of the same look) type designs. This particular sweater doesn't quite hit the nail on the head, but it's progress towards something interesting.

 

[King Calder]

 

[Michigan Planner]

@LA Guy

It may be early, but any idea if there will be a Ronald McDonald House charity auction this holiday season? I always look forward to it each winter and was saddened when there (understandably) wasn't one in 2020.

 

[K. Nights]

J.Crew claiming it's $128 cashmere sweater is "sustainable", "responsible", and the "best in cashmere" is pretty

 

[bry2000]

Would you like it better if they were to charge 6x the price?

 

[K. Nights]

Would you like it better if they were to charge 6x the price?

No, but in that case I wouldn't be able to outright dismiss those claims

 

[OccultaVexillum]

I don’t see the issue with it?
I’d assume the sustainable route is Brendan putting his stamp and infusing his ethics into it, and at J Crews size they can probably negotiate better margins / larger orders that let them price it better than Noah (or whatever smaller brands).
Claiming it’s the best is just typical brand hyperbole and marketing.

edit: I suppose none of that takes into account responsible labor and wages

 

[K. Nights]

Greenwashing in general just bothers me

 

[whorishconsumer]

Speaking of cashmere, would anyone like two William Lockie x Frans Boone cashmere crewnecks for a fair price?

 

[Michigan Planner]

Speaking of cashmere, would anyone like two William Lockie x Frans Boone cashmere crewnecks for a fair price?

What colors and size?

 

[whorishconsumer]

What colors and size?

Hurr and hurr. Both in a 44, which is like a (trim) Large.

 

[sinnedk]

My only other thought on the leather sweater is that I can think of several hundred better ways to spend 1.5K

do tell

 

[London]

I don’t see the issue with it?
I’d assume the sustainable route is Brendan putting his stamp and infusing his ethics into it, and at J Crews size they can probably negotiate better margins / larger orders that let them price it better than Noah (or whatever smaller brands).
Claiming it’s the best is just typical brand hyperbole and marketing.

edit: I suppose none of that takes into account responsible labor and wages

Brendon’s stuff doesn’t come out until 2022

 

[OccultaVexillum]

Oh really? Is he working with them in any capacity at the moment?

 

[double00]

those shearling sweaters are pretty neat but would have been sweeter to have turned some of the seams out to get a bit more shearlingness and sweateriness