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

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)