itt blogs instruct you how to be a man

Dude not uncuet otherwise although I feel like those are the shoes of a tool.

also, people who should know better, misusing their color terms! i know this is a nitpicky peeve of mine but if you are a fashion professional you prob shouldn't be saying 'hue' when you mean 'value' imho

COLLAR ---> POPPED

He's like some miraculous Gap Truman Capote.

i know this makes me a bad person but i dont care about these blogs terrible attitudes towards gender/sexuality or their tedious consumerism or class fetishism or any of that it just makes me mad that they suck at clothes, that they help other ppl suck at clothes and that they think they dont suck at the clothes

like cool walk around thinking that woman are objects like pocket squares and if you get a beautiful pocket square than youll get a beautiful woman but yr still a dork in an ugly pocket square you paid too much money for

rolled up sleeves + unbuttoned cuffs nagl fwiw

okay if they are actually "in" the pocket square they have many more pressing issues to deal with, like public indecency charges

also that pic is cracking me up because dude looks a lot like a composer acquaintance of mine who is essentially the exact opposite of that

i get what u mean, lamp, i guess these blogger attitudes are all kinda gross in a particularly dull & commonplace sort of way that makes them easy targets for this type of cultural criticism, sure sure. maybe i am just resentful of a world where nerdy jerks who suck at clothes get paid for it. the angst of it all.

mostly i just think they serve to reinforce ideas about dress that are fundamentally conservative and uninteresting. not to ignore the ideas of class and gender and status that get coded by how we dress but itd be interesting to see more bloggers who werent so slavish to these received ideas i guess

can't believe i haven't mentioned 'nice try, bro' among the #menswear dudes i revile, i can't even start

that picture kind of looks like he is a tube of toothpaste and the scarf is toothpaste spilling out the top

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydj9ibuVb1qargt4o1_500.jpg

losing my shit over this right now, so many lols

what the hell

at least now I understand Ed Hardy shirts

haha that is actually a givenchy sweater, i've seen it around in streetstyle photos but lol lol lol FASHION FOR MENS

this thread makes me sad that killfile only exists on ilx

yo elmo nice try bro is awful but at least i understand what he's trying to do, kind of, and understand that he fails at it all the time. my most reviled just b/c i don't understand it at all is the most exerent guy. there's your bizarre privilege/class thing right there with the faux-pidgin english and the unfunny verbal/caption tics and and unholy amounts of money being spent on fabulously ugly $$$ bike clothing and snooty from-on-high maxims re: what to wear (written in the same faux-pidgin). one of those people that are so clueless due to their unearned-fortune insulation that even if were one to sit him down and heap abuse upon him he would just shrug it off. like a 13 year old on youtube shrugging off the haters.

that's the most frustrating part about all this--i feel like that if i had the opportunity to explain to one of these guys exactly how terrible he is all i would get in return is this combo blank stare/smug defiance-of-the-avant-garde vibe. and the internet stops being fun when one can't make one's displeasure colorfully known.

lol, that blog would be vastly improved if he would stop posting pictures of his goddamn cappuccino

I get the impression some of these guys think they are the avant-garde, like finding cool workwear or nice bespoke menswear or whatever is some sort of startling rediscovery

i think it's fair to say some of these 'gentleman' rules are submitted by girls, tho -- princesses in search of their prince charming or whatever -- which complicates things. sometimes i'll get a reblog with the comment "my future husband will dress like this :) :)" and the tumblr bio is "i love preppy stuff and dogs and jesus" and i'll be honest, it kinda freaks me out

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:54 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is what i was getting at upthread fwiw

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)

man that sent a chill down my spine.

i feel like the type of lifestyle advice w/r/t women as noted here is the flipside to "the game" but it's all part of the same movement, guys trying to be big men in the world, players who want to end up in the same place but use different methods. all commodification of women, this stuff here is condescension just disguised thinly as chivalry.

^^^^^^^^^^^
That is a good summation of why it rankles me when dudes (especially the sexist old attorneys that lurk around my workplace) make a big show of letting me out of an elevator first. These same guys have no compunction calling me sweetie or treating my like a secretary instead of a colleague, but damn they let me out of the elevator so clearly they respect women!!!

Letting women off the elevator first is one of those social conventions. People are afraid to break them, probably out of fear of being thought badly of, or they just learn a certain way and never think about it, or don't like breaking down their sense of how things are for "somebody else's benefit". Which I find pretty lame, but life can be pretty obnoxious.

I get that, but I can usually tell when the guy is going along to get along and when the guy wants a cookie for being such a respectful gentleman. I also know quite well which of these specific guys goes on to treat me like his personal assistant by virtue of my being proximate and having boobs, and which guys treat me as a professional equal. I interact with these same bozos every day.

I'm talking about a pretty closed environment here, not getting angry at the innocent men caught up in the system.

Although I don't really have any patience for people who perform certain social conventions by rote w/out thinking about them. Get one critical thinking, humans.

i'm always like "get me offa this death trap", gender be damned i'm the first one out the door, costanza stylee.

Fuck yeah.

I get the impression some of these guys think they are the avant-garde, like finding cool workwear or nice bespoke menswear or whatever is some sort of startling rediscovery

idk if they think of themselves as avant garde, but yeah, there is definitely an elevated sense of purpose among some that's kind of reactionary -- keepers of an imperiled tradition, with an exaggerated idea of just how good those good old days were

not sure if this belongs here but: http://www.michaeljamesmilton.com/

fuck this asshole:
http://mostexerent.tumblr.com/post/16450215130/better-to-be-the-1-which-is-not-like-99-of

Friend's boyfriend showed her one of the Man Rules, in bed, that said "a woman is never sexier than we she doesn't care" or give a fuck or something like that. She explained that he shouldn't push that angle because then he wouldn't have a place to live.

I was hoping that story would end with her saying "I am so glad you agree!" and then farting massively.

my suggestion was to stop shaving and bathing

Go off anti-depressants, stop washing hair, stare nonresponsively into space all day.

NEVER SEXIER.

You can never have enough pocket squares.

aw but doll, but I love when it's ~just you~, the **real you**, because you don't need to wear makeup or dress fancy or even exercise daily hygiene to convince me you're sexy, baby

lol @ that site

i wish it was parody

you'd think one of the pocket square dudes would work in a knowing handkerchief code reference or something

i mean okay, i won't knock the hustle, i like a few of those fabrics, and if you can get $25 a pop that's cool, good for you, but hahaaa the product writing is really... bad

Three furry loved ones reside and play while the sewing machine's pluggin' along, so apologies if a stray hair or three accompanies your order. If you're at all allergic, take heed to wash your items before usage.

absurdly unprofessional imo

allergy note: this pocket square processed on a equipment that also processes small mammals

may contain soy

hahaha

sorry about the occasional pubic hair, I sew naked

hahaaa the product writing is really... bad

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:39 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the dude is notorious for this...which is why i thought to put it in here. his whole schtick is d-grade parroting of design-will-save-the-world conventional wisdom, rendered in awful prose

tbh I also sort of had the impression that "pocket squares" were not proper handkerchiefs but smaller bits of fabric that were nonfunctional but looked nice when folded up in your vest pocket. would be way less annoying if they just called them "handkerchiefs" but I guess that's just a marketing decision to appeal to annoying tumblr bros

omg the rules of a gentleman are the exact same format and font as the "bro code" rules that every himym ends with.