Uncomfortable Truths

[TheFoo]

I love it: another hate thread!

Here's an uncomfortable truth: RJman's snarkiness is an expression of incurable bitterness for those he perceives to be better off than him in even the tiniest, most superficial way. He doesn't want a Florence Knoll sofa or bespoke shirt from Anna Matuozzo--he just doesn't want you to have one. Unless you're Bill or Matt. Then it's okay and he looks up to you.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

What about Lanvin?

My experiences with Lanvin always took the place around the times when I had brushes with insanity.

Originally Posted by mafoofan

I love it: another hate thread!

Here's an uncomfortable truth: RJman's snarkiness is an expression of incurable bitterness for those he perceives to be better off than him in even the tiniest, most superficial way. He doesn't want a Florence Knoll sofa or bespoke shirt from Anna Matuozzo--he just doesn't want you to have one. Unless you're Bill or Matt. Then it's okay and he looks up to you.
Ooh! Keep going, please! I'm sure you can accuse me of a Napoleon complex, of being gauche caviar, of being pseudointellectual, vain, pathologically insecure, narcissistic, and probably secretly **** too.

FTR, I used to want a Knoll sofa.

Also, no one actually looks up to Bill. He tries too hard.

PS: thx for teh new sig. kthxbai

 

[ysc]

No matter how much forumites might praise your Aldens/C&Js/Vass/Lobbs/whatever and you take pride in the perfect elegant shape of its last, the exquisite antiquing/patina most people will prefer the shoes on some guy wearing square toed Kenneth Coles, more chicks will dig them too.

 

[grimslade]

Originally Posted by RJman

Also, no one actually looks up to Bill. He's too short. Except for foof, maybe.

FTFY.

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by RJman

Ooh! Keep going, please! I'm sure you can accuse me of a Napoleon complex, of being gauche caviar, of being pseudointellectual, vain, pathologically insecure, narcissistic, and probably secretly **** too.

Of all those things, only the insecurity is something I pick up on. The rest is too easy to project when you want to think poorly of someone. For whatever reason, you fixate on my conspicuous consumption more than anybody else's conspicuous consumption on a forum you'd only participate in if you were interested in conspicuously consuming things. You do your grocery shopping at Charvet, yet yelp on and on about some random junior attorney on the internet who has a sofa you used to want. I bet Brown did it to you. The place is largely filled with two types of student: (1) those who are not well-off and resent the well-off while desperately trying to emulate them (aka Democrats who want to be wealthy), and (2) those who are well-off and resent themselves for not being the bohemians they don't really want to be (aka wealthy Democrats). So, sadly, I understand where you're coming from more than others. But that doesn't make any of your fixation less annoying.

Can't we just be friends? Sheesh.

Originally Posted by RJman

Also, no one actually looks up to Bill. He tries too hard.

I have to look up to everyone. Hell, when I met Manton, I don't think I even got a look at his face. All I could see was torso.

 

[DocHolliday]

• Most handwork in RTW is pointless, except as a way to drive up the price tag.

• Most handwork in general is pointless, except that it's pretty. If you look really, really closely.

• No one but clothing fiends notices handwork.

• Buttons don't button any better if they're fat MOP. But they look nice.

• My linen shirts from H&K and the like have no practical advantage over the cotton-linen ones I bought from Old Navy. My favorites actually came from Old Navy, though H&K has nicer buttons.

• The main advantage of "good shoes" is that they're pretty. As such, buying ugly shoes on sale is no bargain.

• We're largely paying for aesthetics and prestige.

• Buying at full retail no more guarantees a properly fitting, tasteful wardrobe than buying at a discount guarantees a bargain. You either have taste and a commitment to fit or you don't.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

Of all those things, only the insecurity is something I pick up on. The rest is too easy to project when you want to think poorly of someone. For whatever reason, you fixate on my conspicuous consumption more than anybody else's conspicuous consumption on a forum you'd only participate in if you were interested in conspicuously consuming things. You do your grocery shopping at Charvet, yet yelp on and on about some random junior attorney on the internet who has a sofa you used to want. I bet Brown did it to you. The place is largely filled with two types of student: (1) those who are not well-off and resent the well-off while desperately trying to emulate them (aka Democrats who want to be wealthy), and (2) those who are well-off and resent themselves for not being the bohemians they don't really want to be (aka wealthy Democrats). So, sadly, I understand where you're coming from more than others. But that doesn't make you any of your fixation less annoying.

Can't we just be friends? Sheesh.



I have to look up to everyone. Hell, when I met Manton, I don't think I even got a look at his face. All I could see was torso.

What floor is the food hall on? I missed it.

 

[emmanuel]

The more posts one has, the more respect is given... even if they are way off base

 

[dkzzzz]

Regardless of all the drape and waist suppression you still just an ape wearing Kiton....

 

[TheFoo]

Originally Posted by Manton

What floor is the food hall on? I missed it.

They wouldn't let me passed the ground floor after they learned I was only a first year associate.

 

[dfagdfsh]

Wearing expensive workwear makes you a trend whore, not a man's man.
2 inch cuffs look bad on most people.
Bespoke isn't for everyone.
Most people should be buying suits from H&M for interviews, not RLBL.

 

[Douglas]

-Everyone who posts on this site probably has a little bit of the taste for the kack, even if they haven't fully embraced it yet. Yes, this means you, too. There's a meetup in your town soon.

-There's something not right in your outfit today, and you hoped nobody would notice. But you know, and now you know I know also, and that's sad.

-You really can't afford most of what's in your closet. It really would have been better put into a savings account or your kid's college fund.

 

[Ich_Dien]

We were all born in the wrong age.

 

[dfagdfsh]

It doesn't matter how on point your suit is if your hair looks like absolute **** (THIS I DIRECTED AT SOME MEN'S CLOTHING WAYWT POSTERS).

 

[rach2jlc]

Originally Posted by RJman

• Even the best bespoke clothes cannot make you skinnier/handsomer/younger/more muscular.

• 
  I liked all of them, but especially this one. Some of the $5-10K suits worn on here are by men so unattractive that I wonder why in the world they bother. The 95% off one, too, is spot-on and I doubt that most who require sucha discount actually give two ***** about the brand itself. They want it... whatever "it" is... on discount and will often be an absolute pig to get it. For me, the most "uncomfortable" truth is just to realize that in the grand scheme of things, getting worked up about clothes, accessories, etc. is a really hilariously dumb thing to do. For all this posting, think of the great books we could be reading, places to which we could travel, meals we could eat, friends we could make, or exercises we could do. Instead, we talk to strange men on teh interwebz and buy poofty garments that rarely are "superlative' or great as we pretend they are.