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

[LA Guy]

Does anyone know of a proxy service in Paris?

I mean, I've never used these guys before, but it might be worth a shot. You'd be paying VAT though:

Shop from France - Buying & shipping service worldwide - We shop France

We buy for you from online shops or shop online by yourself & get worldwide shipping to the USA, UK, or anywhere from our France parcel forwarding service!

weshopfrance.com

 

[whorishconsumer]

I've got an extraneous canvas shower curtain and am wondering what it might be repurposed for or made in to (avoiding the Ajax stains).

 

[mak1277]

Interesting read

Styling It Out: Or, Using Your Sunday Best as Armor Against Hostility and Racism

It was the late 80s: I’d just turned eighteen and, desperate to establish my own identity, I had decided to reinvent myself before meeting friends in town. De La Soul had just released Three Feet H…

lithub.com

 

[OccultaVexillum]

@msg yeah I used we shop France a couple of months ago.
it was “ok”
But the thing I had them order was a pair of boots that were listed as a size 12, and when I got them they were a 9.5
They told me “next time you can ask us to verify the size before we forward it to you” which just seemed like it would have been a standard practice for a proxy service but apparently that’s my fault for assuming.

 

[LA Guy]

@msg yeah I used we shop France a couple of months ago.
it was “ok”
But the thing I had them order was a pair of boots that were listed as a size 12, and when I got them they were a 9.5
They told me “next time you can ask us to verify the size before we forward it to you” which just seemed like it would have been a standard practice for a proxy service but apparently that’s my fault for assuming.

Well, it is a French service, so take that into account. If I were to rate services, I would say that the very best, nearly across the board, are Japanese proxy services. If the online and in person service levels are correlated, I would put French and Italian right down there at the bottom. The flavor is different though. French in store service, you sometimes get the distinct feeling that they think that you are some type of idiot, but not sympathetlic enough to merit help. I've been in numerous Italian stores in which the store attendants have seemed visibily angry that I would be so inconsiderably as to disturb their day by requiring basic services like being rung up.

 

[cb200]

Interesting read

Styling It Out: Or, Using Your Sunday Best as Armor Against Hostility and Racism

It was the late 80s: I’d just turned eighteen and, desperate to establish my own identity, I had decided to reinvent myself before meeting friends in town. De La Soul had just released Three Feet H…

lithub.com

" Even now, in my early fifties, rather than fading into the background in regulation “dadwear,” I still like to push the envelope a little, much to the amusement of my two teenage daughters."

I liked these interviews with men. GASP. over 60.

https://www.mrporter.com/en-ca/jour...e-sixty-plus-generation-style-2022-_-12-08-22

 

[ghdvfddzgzdzg]

I've got an extraneous canvas shower curtain and am wondering what it might be repurposed for or made in to (avoiding the Ajax stains).

make throw pillow cases
make totes
patch a damaged pair of pants
try making yourself a pair of pants

 

[Parker]

picnic blanket for park hangouts

 

[LA Guy]

I've got an extraneous canvas shower curtain and am wondering what it might be repurposed for or made in to (avoiding the Ajax stains).

A cape.

 

[Reginald Bartholomew]

What belts are you urban cowboys wearing with your western wear?

 

[LA Guy]

What belts are you urban cowboys wearing with your western wear?

I don’t really wear westernwear, but I do wear a thin embossed leather belt from Needles.

 

[RegisDB9]

A cape.

 

[whorishconsumer]

What belts are you urban cowboys wearing with your western wear?

Graham Ebner.

 

[troika]

Fok after inventing forum subscriptions

 

[LA Guy]

Fok after inventing forum subscriptions

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I honestly need to put more recent and better pictures of myself up.