"Breaking news: A pretentious douchebag was murdered at a Halloween party tonight..."
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was going to say, more like if I'm ever at a party with someone who says that I'm going to "spill" a drink on them.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
follow up with "now you can say you are dressed as a wet blanket"
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Clever!
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I never wear a costume but I never try to be clever about it either except for that one time when I quoted Wednesday from Addams Family
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Straight Talk: A New Breed of Fashion Bloggers
here are some male fashion bloggers who can tell you how to dress nice but not get all faggy about it (honestly, they are totally macho and tough, you bet. yup.)
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
did this already get linked
http://www.gq.com/style/profiles/201112/menswear-street-style-oral-history?printable=true¤tPage=3
basically you should read the first bit of that so you "get" the joke and then read this
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/An-Oral-History-of-the-Time-We-Read-emGQems-Oral-History-of-Menswear-Blogging
― max, Friday, 13 January 2012 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good job Justin Bishop gives us a heads-up on his heavy sarcasm.
― ledge, Friday, 13 January 2012 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm a lady, and maybe this is upthread, but I find The Art of Manliness pretty interesting sometimes.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like that the nytimes article elmo linked justifies my belief that these guys have the most boring tastes outside of fashion, and that says something about their tastes in that realm.
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Hi I would like some clothes that smell like stuffy old rooms full of leather or whale fat and the patriarchy, please"
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
the only blogger i care about in that article is mister mort tbh
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
mostly because he's not really "fashion" i guess? at least not at all in the others are
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey elmo, are there actual men fashion/clothing bloggers outside of the hypebeast-type people who are into modern materials/new stuff? Can't think of anything too much in the way of examples, maybe something like the arcteryx veilance line?
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
my general feeling is that there's not a lot of interest in invention or new technology from men's style blogs atm? at least among the blogs i've been paying attention to. tradition and heritage and craftsmanship and all that are still the prevailing influences and people only really get excited about technical fabrics when someone makes a sport coat out of one
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
but! that is just my view, there may be that stuff out there but i'm not sure where
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
i completely understand the backlash against/hatred for the sartorially inclined double monkstrap "blogger blue" db blazer types. the weird rap blog dialect thing, the circle jerking, stfu abt "pitti," etc etc.
what i don't understand is why no one is talking shit about the put this on guys. especially the main one. the wet eyed fat faced goon. maybe he makes ugly/dumpy internet types feel like they can play too? the guy just skeeves me out.
these dudes are mostly useful for pointing out sales without having to trudge thru styleforum threads.
i do like "an affordable wardrobe" and "a suitable wardrobe" quite a bit. those dudes have some good ideas on how to live.
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
also, dudes
and harris tweed diemme hiking boots come on guys
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh man, i hate put this on so much, i'm sure i've posted lots about it on ilx
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
an affordable wardrobe i can get down with but a suitable wardrobe is completely insufferable imho
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
the guy is fucking nuts tho. he's making these proclamations abt the well-dressed gentleman like $500 at a time. "well ah yes naturally one will want 14 pairs of bresciani socks to wear with one's $350 velvet house slippers." i guess he writes for forbes or something? and is paid in diamonds and rare works of art? b/c there's no way he can be that rich just from selling ludicrously overpriced "gilets" to people over the internet.
i dunno, he's a window into this totally square clueless white guy fantasy world and even if he's just faking/aspirationing it he's very convincingly square and clueless.
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
see also "mostexerentbrog"
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol exactly. the yeah die workwear / ASW / PTO / most exerent style of menswear blogging really just irks me endlessly, I feel like there's a barely veiled class antagonism underlying all of their commentary
but whatev, i lol @ the time the die workwear dude got quite butthurt when I implied he was classist
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
somehow i knew exactly who you were talking about: i tried watching the first episode a couple years back and i just could not believe that this guy was serious. sure, he was wearing expensive nice things but he just looked like a crepey dweeb who took men's fashion blogs waay too seriously
but then again, what do i know? my relationship to men's fashion just basically boils down to subscribing to a bunch of feeds, flicking through the pictures, and absorbing the styles and trends through osmosis
― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm looking on the NYT piece, just the title, "STRAIGHT TALK" like hey can you BELIEVE that these MALE FASHION bloggers DON'T SUCK DICK? i know, right? weird!
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wonder how some of these guys would react if there was a woman who really liked the styles they post and was wearing them. AS A WOMAN! What if she was even hetero!!
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
'wet faced goon' redeems this thread
― 404 (Lamp), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno that it's classist--like i said the most useful shit these guys do is point me to sales where these clothes/shoes/etc are just at the upper bound of what i can reasonably spend on clothes/shoes/etc--so much as it's a redirection of typical nerd hyperfocus onto cultural producers unused to that kind of uncritical scrutiny, which becomes this insular infinite loop of self-love very quickly. which is why the NYT piece is so weird. these aren't really football, beer, bro-down guys, these are guys who in a more perfect world would have 6 maxed-out world of warcraft characters.
i may be projecting here, as whatever nerdiness with which i approach clothing is the same nerdiness with which i approach comics or mtg or food or whatever else i get into. it's just more acceptable to the wider world.
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno, i definitely see some class issues at play, but it's less about the actual price point than being able to discriminate the quality, timelessness, and luxury. the rules of style they pass down are established by the formality of ruling classes, and there's a working assumption that in order to dress better you have to dress wealthier.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
not a blanket statement but i feel it definitely applies to ASW / PTO / most exerent
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
but enough of that, fight the real enemy:
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol someone I know irl is 'obsessed' with getting custom made double monkstrap shoes
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
probably reads a lot of instructional blogs
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
double monks make people feet look like action figure feet imo. like plump little torpedos.
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good lord, are monkstraps having a revival?? What fresh hell.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
double monkstraps in particular, if you can believe it
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess it's in bad form to make fun of dumpy lookin' ppl for just lookin' as dumpy as god made them -- but holy jesus lol @ this dude's creepstache
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg came here to post that pic, that fkn guy
― adam, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
i feel a little bad making fun of dude for being ugly but i don't think i would even notice if the rest of his steez weren't so ridiculously affected, he always looks like he's in costume
― adam, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
While we can't all have M White's impeccable bone structure, that guy up there does not need to look as droopy and completely ineffectual as he does. Those are carefully considered style choices, is what is amazing.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
IMO dude can have either the Charlie Brown hair swirl or the molesterstache, but not both
― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does he look like someone who spits when he talks? His lips are probably always wet with spittle.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
*shudder*
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jesse Thorn is pretty cool imo. Who cares if he's ugly.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think he's "ugly," I think his style choices are lamentable, and you know they were exceedingly carefully considered, which is even worse. They all work to accentuate his flabby-seeming, overly precious overgroomed-ness. It's like he's running toward his own annihilation with arms wide open.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
That PICTURE, gah! The turtle-like head poked forward, everything so affected.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink