smashwindow
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I almost always prefer dark brown navy to black.
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So I've been mulling it over a lot lately, trying to come up with a sort of go to uniform that involves only a little rotation between a few pieces but retains a basic coherence. It'd make it a lot easier to get dressed in the morning, and I think it'd finally get me feeling really comfortable in my clothes. The basic scheme is black outerwear/white or gray shirt/black pants/black boots
is getting dressed really that much of a chore?
I know Reedo said he wants to zero in on a uniform to make getting dressed in the morning easier, but for me a uniform isn't really about that.
It's about coping with the sheer number of aesthetics there are to choose from. It's about dealing with our dizzying postmodern condition where aesthetics aren't forced on us by social roles or tradition, leaving us as the sole judge over what we wear.
If SWD is about breaking/questioning the rules written by the old dudes who came before us, then this is the result we have to deal with. Moments where all sartorial possibilities threaten to have equal value. Where clothing that was previously separated by social or economic barriers is suddenly on the same level. And for all the creativity this gives us, it can also be confusing to the point of numbing my poor little brain.
Uniforms are like grocery lists, basically. The world is big and confusing, so sometimes it's best to create walls around ourselves, no matter how weird and arbitrary.
This is a good point and I agree, but I was more responding to the "comfort" part of the argument:
"It'd make it a lot easier to get dressed in the morning, and I think it'd finally get me feeling really comfortable in my clothes"
Getting dressed in the morning is pretty much knowing which parts of your wardrobe mesh together. Most of us have specific elements that make up outfits and wouldn't work with certain other pieces. When you understand how each item works - through learned intuition or trial and error - you become comfortable in your clothes.
I was chatting with simon at inventory the other day and he told me he basically wears the same **** all the time.. the jeans he was wearing were 14 year old LVC 47's..
EDIT.
Why is it okay to wear all black, but all navy is weird?
i actually really enjoy those types of people. basically shoes that they've found what they like and stick to that. whether it be drew's 5zip/apc/mmm (actually not sure what shoes drew wears) uniform or someone who wears EG/lvc/trickers or something like that. that, to me, is cool as hell.
i'm in a very similar position to reedo and have been searching a lot (too much) over the past few days for some more outerwear pieces (this started about 8 hours after i vowed to quit styleforum/sufu ) and i'm finding i'm consistently drawn to workwear brands. i know workwear is generally frowned upon on sf, and the prospect of the urban lumberjack is falling "out of fashion" or whatever, but i just enjoy it more. i honestly think it's because i kind of long for the outdoorsy type life i lived as a kid in rural new england while i'm stuck in doors reading science books.
@reedo you have your toj, why not imitate drew's uniform for a little bit? toj/jawnz/your moma boots. you have all the pieces and it looks good, is hard wearing, and is easy as ****.