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[GraphicNovelty]

Drew could you possibly proxy me some magazines?

 

[impolyt_one]



Drew could you possibly proxy me some magazines?

no, shipping is too high.

 

[GraphicNovelty]

http://www.yelp.com/biz/kinokuniya-bookstores-new-york-2

well now.

 

[impolyt_one]

yes. and you can also find scans for free to download, if you're not picky about getting this week's latest issue.

 

[ceoceo]

Shame, Japanese magazines make fabulous summer pillow with their sheer volume.

 

[impolyt_one]



Shame, Japanese magazines make fabulous summer pillow with their sheer volume.

That's called visvim and Mastermind Japan ad placement money. Mens Non No is propped up entirely by the Paul Smith Japan/R. Newbold thing.

 

[impolyt_one]

Here's some funny, but I feel true trivia regarding the graph:

- Most guys in Japan, whether they think so or not, generally start off at a similar point zero, a point of no real defined style. Many take this up towards the end of high school or maybe even after high school, but whether they're rich and go to a high end school (okay, for these guys maybe less so, but still) or poor or go to a poor school, they all kinda start off as styleless zeroes and file into a style that they feel works.
- A lot of guys in Japan tend to migrate to 'street' not because they're from the actual streets obviously, but often because they're fat/short/consider themselves ugly - they may wear the clothes but not prescribe to the lifestyle. In other words, the magazine doesn't rule their life, but does style their outfits. Street gets latched onto because they're loud and kinda free-sized clothes suited to fat guys, etc.
-SZ for sure, SF sometimes (with all the 'baller' threads) tends to stratify, segregate, **** over, worship, etc based on pricetags - there's obviously some amount of pricetag worship in Japan because it's money, but it'd never be fetishized like it is on these American-based boards with a baseball card collector's mentality. Why? Because a) basically everything in Japan is expensive, and b) If you got the money (which many do here, on SF, and in Japan) you could shop in the same neighborhood and fit 5 or 6 aesthetics, there is NO rarity value in Japan. A weekend afternoon in Shibuya and Ebisu could mean a stop at Lift Etage and you'd get a SZ outfit that they'd jack off to, and then maybe one or two more shops would get you an SF-approved outfit. As much as SZ wants to make their clothes sacred, that's just not happening. Especially since half of their **** smells like Marlboro menthols and Soy sauce because it came from yahoo auctions, where the clothes actually hung on some Japanese person's drapes for a few years, just like they look in the auction pics. lol. CCP is celeb clothing. done.

 

[Cahrin]

Is there something about SVB's style (or more generally the Epaulet/WvG style) that's inherently unpaletable, or is it more a case of it not overlapping with the ToJ aesthetic?

 

[impolyt_one]



Is there something about SVB's style (or more generally the Epaulet/WvG style) that's inherently unpaletable, or is it more a case of it not overlapping with the ToJ aesthetic?

He dresses like the 40 year old virgin.

 

[pronxs]



He dresses like the 40 year old virgin.

he has a pretty hot gf though kudos to him.

 

[Dbear]

Epaulet style is easy. You are confined to some dress code (biz cas) and you discover Epaulet that has a great product with above excellent customer service, and you go nuts. You buy everything there, it's a one stop shop. It's the best you can do while confined to some arbitrary restriction (I have to be able to wear this to work).

While it looks nice, it's not really in the same ballpark of style as if you had a blank slate and no restrictions you had more freedom to be creative.

 

[impolyt_one]



he has a pretty hot gf though kudos to him.

well, he's tall, caucasian, and seems to have a promising career in law - he could even be our next president, but style is not getting checked off the list right now.

 

[dibango]

TOJ
-mode-kei: mode (styling, lifestyle)
-men's non-kei: young, mid-priced
-ita-oya-kei: italian old guy style (knowledge, lifestyle)
-ame-oya-kei: americana for old guys (knowledge, fashion)

seems pretty spot on to me, except i dont get the men's ex connection (or italian style) with TOJ

also wondering where you'd put DLester and synth.

 

[notwithit]

I don't have a problem with SVB's current aesthetics - one straight-up MC, the other a better version of MC-casual, both relying pretty heavily on Epaulet - but he seems like a good candidate for developing a third, more streetwear-oriented aesthetic, with the hint of bad-assery that the other two lack.

 

[pronxs]



Epaulet style is easy.  You are confined to some dress code (biz cas) and you discover Epaulet that has a great product with above excellent customer service, and you go nuts.  You buy everything there, it's a one stop shop.  It's the best you can do while confined to some arbitrary restriction (I have to be able to wear this to work).  

While it looks nice, it's not really in the same ballpark of style as if you had a blank slate and no restrictions you had more freedom to be creative.  

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