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

like, i can understand becoming a brand enthusiast because you know that their shirts fit your body type perfectly, or that their shirts are durable and won't come apart in the wash, or even that their styles projects a certain image that you like also to project. the article goes beyond that, though: like there is an emotional reliance on a certain brand to constitute or support your sense of self. huh? i don't really get that.

clingy white Pucci

this is such a gross string of words

not bcuz of materialism or w/e but for some reason it's stomach churning

clingy white Pucci

this is such a gross string of words

― yologram (J0rdan S.), Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:02 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

could be a riff-raff hook

what had induced him to come in a clingy white Pucci?

I think a lot of people don't follow trends or styles and finding a brand that they enjoy wearing kind of outsources the trust to that brand with the assumption that instead of knowing what looks good you just go in and buy three shirts from that brand

i just am baffled by these ppl who apparently only shop one brand at a time, what is that

Department stores sometimes arrange their clothing sections by brand!

clingy white Pucci

sounds like a codependent poodle

xp and the more expensive the store, the more likely it is that they do separate by brand!

True, the largest brands even have flagship stores.

Or, you know, lower end brands that ARE stores.

Like people who buy all J. Crew or The Gap or Banana Republic are doing one-stop shopping. Of course you're shopping for one brand at a time -- that is all that is in the store.

what's the difference between a "flagship store" and a regular store?

a flagship store has a huge flagship docked beside it

flagship stores are larger and tend to have more bells and whistles, also where they drop short run pieces or high end stuff

http://static.starcitygames.com/sales/cardscans/MAGART/predator%20flagship.jpg

^^^ J. Crew's flagship

guys you're not telling me anything i don't already know! i work in retail! i mean like the dude in the article who is basically described as sourcing his entire wardrobe from APC because he identified as an APC kinda guy.

xp I think of things being flagship stores if they typically are high-end brands sold by more boutique-style clothing stores, tend to only have a handful of stores in larger cities, don't really exist in shopping malls.

As opposed to stores that are in every mall, where the only place you get their goods is their store.

yeah elmo the guy makes little sense

i'll admit i'm a bit of a carhartt guy. but its not like thats all i wear.

i don't know what the hell i wear. i have like no clothes. i end up with stuff.

wearing carhartt jeans at the moment...in ugly green.

'Clinton is a lecher' indicates writer who is describing how visible the underwear is through a woman's clothes.

That J Crew article is comedy gold. This is the funniest thread ever. The baffling absurdity of the modern human condition.

does sting wear underwear? seems unlikely.

i'm in no way immune to branding or anything, i'm really not, but wearing all one brand head to toe would make me feel v self-conscious, like someone would notice! "hello i am mannequin, pleased to meet you, buy one get one today only"

(xp) A flagship store is one of the focal stores of a brand, and the term is usually only used when the brand has a good number of stores in order to differentiate it. They're usually in very large cities, are bigger than the other stores, have a different higher-end design, and focus more on selling the image of a brand. Where is is on the cost scale doesn't matter as much as the identity and focus on retail branding - some brands have no flagship locations, Prada has made a huge deal of theirs but companies like Nike also have them.

oh, well there you have it

i'm in no way immune to branding or anything, i'm really not, but wearing all one brand head to toe would make me feel v self-conscious, like someone would notice! "hello i am mannequin, pleased to meet you, buy one get one today only"

― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:28 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

in middle school you'd get shit if you wore mismatching brands i.e. nikes with adidas

I guess we are not in middle school tho anymore

uniqlo flagship across the street from me right now

Love Uniqlo. Wish I had more money so I could go buy more black and grey t-shirts and black pants.

rly I remember in middle school getting called out for wearing too much of the SAME brand (the time I remember getting shit for it was when I had like champion shorts a champion tee and champion socks -- never made that mistake again).

trust me if you had been head to toe in GUESS you would have been okay

haha I remember when guess jeans became big and it was like "Holy what the fuck forty dollars for jeans?"

"designer jeans" was still sort of a punchline back then

I think I had some Guess jean... shorts

haha I remember when guess jeans became big and it was like "Holy what the fuck forty dollars for jeans?"

Yes. Only the truly rich girls in my junior high wore Guess. The seething throngs of middle class aspirants had to make do with Jordache.

I couldn't even afford jordache. It was a source of so much social embarrassment.

I had a pair of Esprit jeans that my mom and I found on sale, and when I wore them to summer camp all the other girls were shocked that someone as obviously uncool and loser-ish as me would have a good label.

They were pink jeans, iirc.

I had one pair of totally sweet two-tone Jordache jeans (acid wash on the bottom with a grey denim yoke at the top) and I wore the shit out of them such that the Guess girls would comment on it. BUT I AM OVER IT NOW.

nytimes explains the mysteries of the turntable. warning: features non tri-state hipsters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/technology/personaltech/how-to-enjoy-turntables-without-obsessing-over-them.html

there is an emotional reliance on a certain brand to constitute or support your sense of self. huh? i don't really get that.

elmo this is the entire foundation of modern capitalism, you should try to get it

“Young people didn’t grow up with turntables,” said Kenny Bowers, manager at Needle Doctor, a Minnesota store specializing in turntables. “It seems mysterious and complicated because you don’t just push a button and have it play for you.”

haha what

i am suspicious to say the least that "young people" are baffled by turntable technology

“There is a fuller sound to it, and more depth to the sound,” said Ryan Holiday, the New Orleans-based marketing director for American Apparel. He’s a new devotee of jazz and David Bowie, thanks to LPs. (For the youngsters, that stands for long playing, as in long-playing record; there were also small records called 45s). “I could hear hands going up and down the frets, and stuff that they probably didn’t want you to hear. Which is a nice little surprise,” he said.

jfc

RYAN HOLIDAY YOU ARE A MORON

lots of people have never had one though! young people.

x-post

ryan holiday otm.

i lost heart after that, it is literally the worst article about vinyl in the history of time.

hooking up my first turntable-receiver-speakers setup was pretty wild after always having the CD-player packages they sell at Best Buy