What does "Style is timeless" mean?

[reprehensible]

Almost nothing is really timeless, right? Go back or forward a few hundred years, and it doesn't work. The expression seems to make sense over the span of a handful of decades, because clothes haven't changed that much in that time.

Style seems to me to be about taking the range of clothing that the culture is supplying to you and assembling/wearing it in a way that suits you. The sense of doing that can be timeless, but any particular expression of it is going to be time-limited.

 

[j]

When everyone else shows up in Federation issue unitards, you'll get yours.

 

[soulstylist]

style: I throw it away cause it's worn out and want to replace it with an identical item
fashion: I throw it away cause I can't stand the sight anymore

 

[Get Smart]

Originally Posted by soulstylist

style: I throw it away cause it's worn out and want to replace it with an identical item
fashion: I throw it away cause I can't stand the sight anymore

damn, there it is in a nutshell

/thread

 

[LA Guy]

Originally Posted by soulstylist

style: I throw it away cause it's worn out and want to replace it with an identical item
fashion: I throw it away cause I can't stand the sight anymore

FTW?

 

[mack11211]

There are a few ways to go with this.

Literal timelessness is not the issue. For most humans, a decade or two is enough.

If you want to see what lasts, check old clothing or an old book on clothing. For instance, in the early 80s I had the Alan Flusser book that was current then. It had a guide to an essential wardrobe. I looked at it again a few years ago. A lot of the pieces still work. In the early 80s, I wore a white b/d oxford shirt, Levis 501s, and white tretorns or bass weejuns. Nowadays, the shirt would be more fitted and denim might be another label, but if I wore the old stuff it would still look good.

The other sort of timeless style, as exemplified by the Labelking photo, is something so powerfully eccentric that it existed out of time to begin with, and will aways remain so (cf Dali, Liberace, etc.).

 

[Magster]

Originally Posted by mack11211

(cf Dali, Liberace, etc.).

Wow, just wow.