itt blogs instruct you how to be a man

if I don't wear a costume, I always tell ppl I'm dressed as a douchebag

Austin Wong more liek Austin Wrong.

his tone is national review online-esque and reminds me of religious anti-halloween types, except replace "god" with "self-involvement."

Damn, dude, if you don't want to dress up for Halloween, don't dress up. You don't have to write an article to justify it.

Like I bet that guy is just tiresome.

Last year, I took the risk and wore the "ultimate costume." Some girl asked me what I was, and I replied "the desiccated husk of a man, forevermore devoid of joy and wonder"

Another good one is to look the person in the eyes and deadpan "You're worst fucking nightmare." Although there could be some creepy gender dynamics there so use it wisely.

Also be certain to use the correct "your."

depending on intent, your first version was also correct

"Breaking news: A pretentious douchebag was murdered at a Halloween party tonight..."

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.

follow up with "now you can say you are dressed as a wet blanket"

Clever!

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

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.)

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

Good job Justin Bishop gives us a heads-up on his heavy sarcasm.

I'm a lady, and maybe this is upthread, but I find The Art of Manliness pretty interesting sometimes.

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.

"Hi I would like some clothes that smell like stuffy old rooms full of leather or whale fat and the patriarchy, please"

the only blogger i care about in that article is mister mort tbh

mostly because he's not really "fashion" i guess? at least not at all in the others are

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?

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

but! that is just my view, there may be that stuff out there but i'm not sure where

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.

also, dudes

and harris tweed diemme hiking boots come on guys

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxpcimY3WN1qdfusyo2_500.jpg

oh man, i hate put this on so much, i'm sure i've posted lots about it on ilx

an affordable wardrobe i can get down with but a suitable wardrobe is completely insufferable imho

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.

see also "mostexerentbrog"

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

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.

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

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 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!!

'wet faced goon' redeems this thread

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.

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.

not a blanket statement but i feel it definitely applies to ASW / PTO / most exerent

but enough of that, fight the real enemy:

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx2sa633051qj29d6o1_500.jpg

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.

lol someone I know irl is 'obsessed' with getting custom made double monkstrap shoes

probably reads a lot of instructional blogs

double monks make people feet look like action figure feet imo. like plump little torpedos.

Good lord, are monkstraps having a revival?? What fresh hell.

double monkstraps in particular, if you can believe it

http://monroe.ilgenweb.net/lemen/scan0003.jpg

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.

http://zacxwolf.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Put-This-On-15.jpg

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