can i just say that i just spent ten minutes looking at a facebook album where almost every single person was wearing checks?

WELL CAN I?

Critical mass if u ask me

What exactly does a check look like? I'm thinking of little checkmarks, like when you check yes or no on a tax form, but all over the place.

his checks = your plaid.

your checks = his ticks.

how did i kno this would b bamquern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_(fabric)

wait that's what plaid is?

Did you mean: Check (fabric)

I don't know what you mean, like, Who responded to my thread, I know it would have to be bamcquern because only HE would respond to my thread about people wearing checks.

Of COURSE he would want clarification as to what checks are. Lousy USian.

checks are nice. they're just little squares. plaid is different. checks are squares.

altho if you want to talk cereal, crispix anyday. but that's not the point :(

i dunno, i saw new answer and had a feeling u don't need 2 analyse it too hard

Oh, yeah, my mom called something checks that looks like tiny plaid to me. They were yellow and black checks, though, and not very attractive.

pics or it didnt happen

i read it (knowing it was you, bam) as a kind of inscrutable compliment. xxxxp

surm (::hugs for today::) is right really but i was trying to give a rough transatlantic translation.

I still don't get it, Dupin, but I certainly don't mind it.

xpost Yeah, I like plax quite a lot.

i do too.

<3 both of u guys! i'd ask u 2 join me in the fight against checks but I have like five shirts like this now and I wear everything until it is 2 ragged fashion bedamned so i'm not really fit 2 lead the crusade u no?

The plaid shirt my mom bought me recently I just love. If I had a bigger budget for clothes then I could dress sophisticated and model for street fashion bloggers.

why do these exist?

Which things are you referring to?

street fashion bloggers. Is it just people wanting to see pictures of themselves or people they aspire to be?

will admit that i like looking @ the sartorialist

found my future husband there

http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/9199nightblue1739Web.jpg

^^ he looks a bit like my soon-to-be-ex when we met.

not the same guy tho

Street fashion bloggers are people taking pictures of well-dressed people on the street! It's probably the only thing tangentially to do with the fashion industry that I think is pretty cool, even if I don't follow any regularly.

xp - no, my soon-to-be-ex has a lot less hair now.

unless its just pages and pages of ppl wearing cheap mondays

but a lot more cheek. xp

a lot more something ...

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9591/161888cka.jpg
Page 1 of Cheap Mondays

i think it's good/refreshing in a way that there is an outlet or avenue for pictures of regular well-dressed people as opposed to high fashion/unattainable models in more traditional magazines. But I think part of the appeal is definitely aspirational in a "it could be me in that picture" sense, and that there's an element of narcissism at play - not that that's necessarily bad.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/01/what-can-we-do-to-help-contorted-alts.html

I like checks. Have def seen whole group photos in which every person was wearing either a check or a plaid -- kind of the nature of dress shirts, if you're not big on swirly or floral patterns.

xpost Remember when we were talking about the hall of mirrors effect, Sarah? That blog's a perfect example.

I think there are many street fashion blogs that are adorable and unaffected. And even if the blogger participates, and shows (usually) her own outfits, her own narcissism, which is implied, is not necessarily a repellent character trait. Her narcissism, for instance, may be just as healthy (or unhealthy) as my narcissism, even though I don't have a photoblog.

Because that guy has to participate more heavily than the people he satirizes/spoofs/insults in order to do what he does.

So his hands are not at all clean.

Except that's not actually what I meant about hall of mirrors, so I'm off topic.

hipster runoff? yeah, that was one of the things i was thinking of in terms of that discussion and layers/folded-ness.

mfing CHEEEEEEEEEECKS

On second thought, I don't understand this thread at all.

it's about cats.

if you mean plaid.. guilty! wearing a plaid scarf right now. i wear a lot of it. idk, i noticed a lot of french fashion bloggers were wearing it starting a year or two ago, and then there's this whole classic americana pendleton workwear revival type thing..

i just happen to like it. my dad was always the well-dressed one in our family, so i've been super fond of menswear fabrics esp tweeds, plaids, houndstooth and pinstripes, ever since grade school.

ok i'm guessing its not as bad in us from ur posts but here every single clothes shop is check-town

This stuff looks way hot on women. Makes them look bookish, which drives me up an erotic wall.

xpost

thank u 4 that xpost

pinstripes are pretty awesome - vertical ones also are slimming.

Okay yeah, I don't get this as an "issue" but I think wearing Ben Sherman every day is perfectly reasonable and I've owned a houndstooth couch, so....

I xpost because I'm civilized.

Well, "issue" is relative.

the issue is that checks and plaid are fashionable?

That they've reached a critical mass in fashionability, as if they're color change shirts in 1992 or something.

there doesn't seem to be as much plaid in us stores, i guess

ok looking around the room here.. madras plaid scarf, grey plaid faux-isabel-marant blouse, buffalo plaid coat (last year, gap), another tiny plaid faux-isabel-marant top, two wool plaid scarves, ll bean plaid flannel shirt from the kids' department, vintage pendleton wool plaid shirt, vintage plaid coat (going to sell that though, i don't wear it), and plaid vest. there's probably more around i didn't look too hard

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/checks.png

xp - hypercolor?

Hahahaha. Hahahaa. Hahaha.

i like the red & black shirt in the middle.

Laughter to plax's picture.

Yeah, Hypercolor.

Just got a duplicate post message.

i like the red & black shirt in the middle.

― sarahel, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:24 AM (30 seconds ago)

I own this exact shirt!

i just like it, fashionable or not, because it usually comes in excellent colors and is also good for mixing patterns with stripes or tweed. oh i have another vintage wool plaid shirt and a couple more scarves. would like some trousers but finding a flattering pair in a small enough plaid.. too much trouble and money

Ooooohhhh you mean like lumberjack-inspired flannels in various "hard-wearing" plaid colorways?

The first three are all tolerable in plax's pic, even if I'd probably only wear the blue one, but that photo's funny. Oh oh oh. I was at this dive bar in downtown Orlando watching some nineties style indie band and this girl made a googly face, maybe sort of unintentionally, and I laughed and sort of pointed at her, crooked my elbow I mean, and did so in front of her. My friend Katie overheard her and her friend talking:

"The one in the plaid shirt." (It was the same new plaid shirt I mentioned upthread.)

And Katie and I were later like, We're all wearing plaid shirts.

i have a couple of those! been debating asking my dads to buy me this shirt for christmas if it comes in a small enough size, also it is from small town minnesota mill, which is pretty excellent

xpost

Cos that looks like a return to "dad" shirts from LL Bean, if you ask me. Plus a bit of the 70s country-western thing on the left there, with the diagonal and the pointy pocket flaps.

Yes! u just call them check shirts and its understood here (i think) so i didn't really know what else 2 call them

xpost 2 laurel

this is how every single person i know including me dresses is all i'm sayin

Eh I hate this pattern/style, but I feel like it's so Midwestern it's giving me hives.

the blue one is ok too - the others are a bit too "contrast-y"

i don't care for the country-western or 70's style ones for myself. they're ok on other people just not my style. prefer the grunge ones/"dad" shirts & really love the one i have from ll bean actually, the largest sizes in the boys' department are nice and i think it cost less than $20.

actually now that i think abt it i'm pretty ok with this as a thing so...

life is change

Or so I've heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0

Oh Daria, you media hound.

Laughing at this clip with the sound off.

The quality and warm fuzzy factor of a really worn-out LL B shirt is undeniable, but I just can't stomach them anymore as a fashion thing. But then I never liked grunge.

i liked grunge a lot. i guess current outfit could pretty much be grunge years except i didn't get it from thrifts (striped sweater, plaid scarf, down vest, jeans). could be ready to go to marching band practice

Haha I didn't dress like that when it WAS the early '90s and I was in marching band, but then plaid flannels were never "out" in MI so grunge bringing them back was sort of unnoticeable from the status quo....

I think "indistinguishable" was the word I was looking for there.

looking at ebay postings for vintage plaid in which these 17 year olds are wearing exactly what i wore at that age XD ripped tights, combat boots, baggy plaid shirts, and denim cutoffs

kids these days! get a new style

a bit off-topic: i was going to complain about sartorialist these days but then i saw this.

http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/1039GreysBlcks2962Web.jpg

maybe they need some balances to go with those checks

(dumb joke to test out dumb new screenname)