quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsT__k9dAU

Dieter Lazer Blake Itzler

lazer blake itzler, spanx scion

He is a self-described "frat-rap" artist.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, April 16, 2012 4:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't he only 3?

― sarahell, Monday, April 16, 2012 4:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

underrated lol here

Sara Blakely's mom sent our son a really nice (and crazy expensive) outfit after he was born. My mother-in-law went to boarding school with Blakely's mom.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/baby-spanx/1255812

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/fashion/trudie-styler-is-so-much-more-than-mrs-sting.html?_r=1&ref=fashion

"AT home earlier that week, dressed in pale Céline sweater and jeans so new they stained her hands indigo, Ms. Styler exuded serenity and a practiced candor."

A+ quiddity prose right there, good find.

Exuding is a popular pastime of the ruling class.

yeah that's more like it. willing to stain your hands for your lifestyle.

those jeans are probably also staining that pale celine sweater indigo but she doesn't even give a fuck, what a lady

when i see pictures of them, sting and trudi kinda ALWAYS exude smug richness and yet...i don't hate them!

"AT home earlier that week, dressed in pale Céline sweater and jeans so new they stained her hands indigo, Mrs. Romney exuded serenity and a practiced candor."

isn't "indigo" a rich person's color

jeans so new
jeans so new
jeans so new they stained her hands!

"AT home earlier that week, murdering an immigrant in jeans so bloodsoaked they stained her hands incarnadine, Mrs. Romney exuded serenity and a practiced candor."

looool

jeans so new
jeans so new
jeans so new they stained her hands!

^^^ X-Ray Spex lyrics

jeans so new
jeans so new
jeans so new they stained her hands!

^^^ X-Ray Spex lyrics

i really enjoy the the understatement of how 'jeans so new' means 'expensive indigo-dyed raw denim so new.' but 'jeans'! subtle.

Then there's this gem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/fashion/breaking-up-with-a-clothing-brand.html?ref=fashion

Ms. Begien’s breakup was relatively easy, she said, but Audrey Brashich’s with J. Crew not so much. Ms. Brashich’s high school job was at the company’s first store, at the South Street Seaport. “I was in love with the clothes and became a devotee,” said Ms. Brashich, 41, a writer who now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. “I considered myself a J. Crew person.” But over the years, she said, she found the clothes became “too refined” for her lifestyle.

It was as devastating as a romantic breakup, she said, only half in jest. First, she felt anger. “I would go into the stores and tell the manager, ‘I’m your target customer; you’re losing me.’ ” Then she felt depressed. “I don’t have my brand anymore,” she said. “I don’t know where to shop. If I need new, hip khakis, I don’t know where to go.”

J. Crew shirts have shitty collars IMO

otm, j. crew shirting is awful all around imho

"Ms. Begien’s breakup was relatively easy, she said, but Audrey Brashich’s with J. Crew not so much."

in hades, long-dead nyt editors are like weeping and junk.

Breaking up with Marc Jacobs was “a metaphoric putting my foot down and creation of boundaries,” she said. “I’ve felt for a long time that fashion often is the only place in a woman’s life that she doesn’t have to compromise or where her voice is most heard.”

“I would go into the stores and tell the manager, ‘I’m your target customer; you’re losing me.’ ”
FUCK OFF

"If I need new, hip khakis, I don’t know where to go.”

then you should kill yourself. its the only way out.

forks and scott otm

oof.

i understand having a relationship with a beloved garment, having an conscious emotional connection to a ~brand~ is kinda heavy shit

“I’ve felt for a long time that fashion often is the only place in a woman’s life that she doesn’t have to compromise or where her voice is most heard.”

...

“I’ve felt for a long time that fashion often is the only place in a woman’s life that she doesn’t have to compromise or where her voice is most heard.”

every woman reading this should go stencil it on a pillow and then take that pillow and smother to death the person who said it.

I completely understand loving a brand (sez the dude whose high school wardrobe revolved around a coveted Generra sweater and many pairs of Levi's and hand-me-down Girbaud jeans) but I think that once the phrase "hip, new khakis" non-ironically comes out of your mouth, it is time for some serious self-examination

xp looooool scott

It's awesome that this article seems designed to inspire hate crimes against women and gays.

It's called you got tired of a product and decided to try something else. It's not a "break-up." Why do these people suck so badly at life?

don't make me get the pillow

You'll have to pry my Banana Republic longsleeves from my cold dead hands

i understand having a relationship with a beloved garment, having an conscious emotional connection to a ~brand~ is kinda heavy shit

The entire marketing and retail industries depend very, very much on this.

yeah it's pretty hard to get people to pay $200 for a shirt w/o emotions coming into play

having just recently gotten over paying more than $300 for a suit and more than $100 for a pair of shoes, I imagine I will be ready to drop $200 on a shirt by the time I'm 85

maybe it's just a really nice shirt

does it come with seven other shirts, because if not GTFO

signed, dude who bought 3 shirts from Marshall's for $43 earlier this week

I have paid as much as $90 for a shirt.

i finally fucking bit the bullet and bought a suit, two suits actually, and ended up buying a few 80 dollar shirts in the process
the weird secret is that suits are seriously comfortable. i assumed they'd be like corsets but it's more comfortable than my regular clothes.

My standard shirt gambit is to wait for the Brooks Brothers and Charles Tyrwhitt sales and then buy a bunch at what usually amounts to $30-50 each. But I work in an industry where boring is not only accepted, it's encouraged.

I've purchased $70-$80 shirts when buying suits, which is why I only wear those shirts with said suits

having said that, I realize I'm wearing a $40 Penguin polo today I bought at an outlet for the "bargain" price of $40

isn't it a stereotype of americans that we're supposed to be constantly bragging about what a great deal we got on things?

I realized I prefer blowing money on a nice shirt than on music or books, especially when I can either one online for pennies.

*buy either one

isn't it a stereotype of americans that we're supposed to be constantly bragging about what a great deal we got on things?

― mh, Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

quiddities of the middle class

Yeah that is pretty much the hallmark of things, although some newly-moneyed people still go on about it or are bizarrely thrifty in other ways.