Random fashion thoughts

[dwyhajlo]



Would you like a leather jacket with a giant fur collar?

I'm not really sure I have a direction, just that the pieces that attract me now aren't the pieces that attracted me a year ago. I saw a red snakeskin shirt today and I didn't even want it!

I'm good, thanks!

I guess direction was a bad choice of words on my part. I'm not even sure what I want to wear at this point, or even if I should just give it all away and start over.

Do you have a pic of that thing perchance ?

Right here:
http://ateliernewyork.com/designers/label-under-construction/?pid=14420

 

[LA Guy]



Most research in this discipline basically states that peeps dig them consumption myths, I know it sounds pretty intuitive to you but "hipsters" as we see them are a relatively recent phenomenon and most research focuses on cultural or economic capital that is more heavily transferable and mainly linked to "class" not "subculture".

Read this, for example:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/209523

1) I actually do some of this type of research.
2) Approximately 99.99% of all these conclusions are intuitive to any reasonably astute observer of pop-culture.
3) Social scientists are generally nerds who are non particularly astute observers of any type of social phenomenon, and these types of analyses are their desperate attempts to people with borderline Aspergers trying to figure out how the **** people operate.

The one thing that I get out of all this is that saying "Cultural Capital" is pretty cool. Saying "consumption myths" just makes you sound like a pinko.

 

[horse's_ass]



3) Social scientists are generally nerds who are non particularly astute observers of any type of social phenomenon, and these types of analyses are their desperate attempts to people with borderline Aspergers trying to figure out how the **** people operate.

Hey mang! As an actual social scientist who uses statistics and math and that sort of stuff, well, I would have to say I disagree. However, you're spot on if you're talking about humanities and critical sociology type folks who like to waste their (and everyone else's) time crafting bloated, polemical arguments about essentially nothing.

 

[LA Guy]



Hey mang! As an actual social scientist who uses statistics and math and that sort of stuff, well, I would have to say I disagree. However, you're spot on if you're talking about humanities and critical sociology type folks who like to waste their (and everyone else's) time crafting bloated, polemical arguments about essentially nothing.

Fine. This. But honestly, some of the tools we use, like narrative analysis and thematic content analysis, are essentially there because we feel like we need a quantitative measure of something that can easily be qualitatively observed. Same thing goes for things like modified graph theory. My wife is a mathematician, as is my brother. A handful of people excepted, mathematicians have no idea how the **** people act and think either.

 

[horse's_ass]



Fine. This. But honestly, some of the tools we use, like narrative analysis and thematic content analysis, are essentially there because we feel like we need a quantitative measure of something that can easily be qualitatively observed. Same thing goes for things like modified graph theory. My wife is a mathematician, as is my brother. A handful of people excepted, mathematicians have no idea how the **** people act and think either.

Of course mathematicians have no idea how people operate - that's why they're mathematicians. And, while I get what you're saying, narrative analysis generally isn't a type of quantitative analysis and content analyses don't purport to describe human behavior outside of manifest media content.

My half-hearted defense of the quantitative social sciences is as follows: in our lives, across any task, most people just sort of blur into an amorphous blob. We, of course, have the outliers, the few folks that blanket the majority with either their stupidity or their splendor. That's human behavior in its essence, no? The bell curve is a spiritual thing.

 

[hazelnice]

I want vintage!

 

[LA Guy]



in our lives, across any task, most people just sort of blur into an amorphous blob. We, of course, have the outliers, the few folks that blanket the majority with either their stupidity or their splendor. That's human behavior in its essence, no? The bell curve is a spiritual thing.

Quit now and become a writer.

 

[horse's_ass]



Quit now and become a writer.

Ha, tried that. Pays like **** and all the other writers are dickholes.

 

[notwithit]



The one thing that I get out of all this is that saying "Cultural Capital" is pretty cool. Saying "consumption myths" just makes you sound like a pinko.

I love cultural capital.

 

[wogbog]



The bell curve is a spiritual thing.

New favourite sentence.

 

[tween_spirit]

here's all the cultural capital I need:

*slaps dick onto tabletop and all the hipster babes start swooning*

and inspectah decks verse from Triumph is playing in the background

 

[LA Guy]



here's all the cultural capital I need:

*slaps dick onto tabletop and all the hipster babes start swooning*

and inspectah decks verse from Triumph is playing in the background

^ Defining try hard.

 

[colabear]

Around 6:00 PM this evening I was deciding between going to Zara and H&M. I chose Zara. At Zara, I saw a camel cotton trench coat with a shawl collar lined with black sherpa. For $ 298, I thought it was a good deal for a lot of construction done with the coat and the material is decent. the trench coat runs small and I left the store with an oversized black skully.

My friend who does visual merchandising for H&M just informed me that Britney Spears was at the store shopping for kids clothes during the time I was at Zara

 

[Islander]



My half-hearted defense of the quantitative social sciences is as follows: in our lives, across any task, most people just sort of blur into an amorphous blob. We, of course, have the outliers, the few folks that blanket the majority with either their stupidity or their splendor. That's human behavior in its essence, no? The bell curve is a spiritual thing.

A+ post

Around 6:00 PM this evening I was deciding between going to Zara and H&M. I chose Zara. At Zara, I saw a camel cotton trench coat with a shawl collar lined with black sherpa. For $ 298, I thought it was a good deal for a lot of construction done with the coat and the material is decent. the trench coat runs small and I left the store with an oversized black skully.

My friend who does visual merchandising for H&M just informed me that Britney Spears was at the store shopping for kids clothes during the time I was at Zara.

I had the same nightmare a while back.

 

[colabear]

after I came across Zac Efron last month, I made sure to bring my camera whenever I go downtown. And I love Brit Brit