everybody on ilx complains about reddit

Wearing a fedora just makes you look like one more unoriginal guy who reads icky pickup shit on the internet.

Yeah, the problem is that even if you just like fedoras, you have to be pretty oblivious to not realise that they belong to this creepy subculture now. 'Eccentric fashions' are fine, and not always peacocking (I wear some stuff that people might think is a little unusual, but it really isn't an invitation for strangers to talk to me, at all), but when those fashions are tied to a group, you will be perceived as part of that group, for good or ill. And usually that's fine - I wouldn't judge a punk or a steampunk or a cybergoth as having any particular personality trait, but rather 'oh they like this stuff'... but a fedora is tied to creepy behaviour and regressive attitudes.

Yeah, I am totally a fan of eccentric fashions and individual style when they are individual to that person. And I don't care if it's peacocking or whatever, because those kinds of signifiers can function like stylistic flags to the kind of person who is able to read them. This is a funny story that will make at least one person on this thread laugh, but the first ATP I ever went to, there was this person walking round with long, Krautrock looking hair and a massive Russian fur hat. And me and my keyboardist were a tiny bit ~obsessed~ with this person, and every time we saw her, we were just "she looks like she would be the coolest and most chill person to hang with, ever". (My keyboardist was really obsessed with Russia.) I'm sure Reddit snobs or whatever would have said that was an affectation or peacocking, but a year or two later, I did meet her properly, and she was totally the coolest and most chill person, with the most amazing taste in music.

BUT if you pick a signifier of creepiness, then you have to deal with what that piece of sartorial language is saying about you.

Been thinking about this recently, because I used to have an ex-boyfriend in NYC who was really into military paraphernalia, and would often wear old fashioned uniforms both onstage and round to gigs/scene parties. And he had this perfect WWI German officer uniform, with an iron cross and everything that I used to have to beg him not to wear (let's not get into my totally questionable taste in boyfriends during my 20s, OK?) because I don't care if Brian Jones and Ron Ashton did it first, when he would go to a party dressed like that, I would have to go round explaining my questionable taste in boyfriends as he blithely told horrified party guests "don't worry, it's totally fine, it's not Nazi, it's WWI, it doesn't matter if you're Jewish, why are you so offended?"

Not to compare a fedora and creepy PUA antics to, y'know, quasi-Nazi uniforms, but still.

I was a boring young person but I feel my dress sense is getting ever more 'eccentric', I kinda worry that soon I'll be some subcultural equivalent of fedora guy.

I'm successfully fighting off my bizarre desire to buy galaxy-print leggings, at least.

i always used to see a woman slumping the village w/ purple hair + a black cape w/ a print of an anime woman on it. what's the opposite term of peacocking? porcupining?

Ha, porcupining is good. She sounds pretty rad, tbh.

I feel bad about this, because I know dressing for "leave me the fuck alone" really means, leave me the fuck alone, but for real. When I see someone "porcupining" what I am really thinking is "OMG, be my friiiieeeennnd, u r awesome."

Ha, yes.

I am not good at dressing subculturally and always envy those who pull it off, but I am good at looking like an unapproachable sourpuss, and then going "whyyyy is nobody talking to me", even though when they do talk to me I run away and hide. perhaps I should try to accessorise this cycle more creatively

there was a brief period in college when I wore a leather cowboy hat

did u listen to a lot of Tool: y/n

i used to wear a fedora with jorts.

I didn't! tbh I've never listened to Tool

the look was more country than trenchcoat

i bought a bowler hat when i was 15 but never wore it

oh shit I forgot when I was on a school trip my freshman year of high school I bought a black beret. like, the frenchy kind with the little tab on top. and wore it most of that trip, despite the fact we were in florida

bahahahaahahah

disney world, even

god I thought I had no embarrassing hat stories, can't believe I forgot

I tried to find a porkpie hat circa my PICK IT UP PICK IT UP PICK IT UP phase but thankfully e-commerce wasn't a thing and no local stores had completely given in to ska

So all the bell-ends from reddit atheism came and set up camp in reddit debatereligion recently and it's been pissing me right off - never posted there but used to enjoy reading that one. They're now downvoting not only anything non-athiest but even anything that questions the premises of a blatantly leading-question thread.

I would like to mention the tech columnist for the chicago sun times
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ihnatko/photo

sweet hat

don't forget the wolverine sideburns

http://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/1wvx09/subreddit_squatting_a_phenomenon_where_users/

A couple of weeks ago, a /r/badhistory user discovered that the domains for /r/holocaust, /r/shoah and /r/jewishstudies were all owned and run by a group of Holocaust Deniers, a phenomenon which is morally abhorrent for obvious reasons. Several of us realised, however, that the mod team was largely inactive beyond using the sidebar to link to Holocaust Denial websites and "resources" and having a few old posts lingering on the page.

free speech

http://youtu.be/AAB858elJOw

When I was a teenager, there was a bloke at the local grocery shop that my Mum called "that man who dresses like Mozart" so, really, nothing you might have done would come close to that.

Jon Pertwee?

ok I JUST watched a clip of Jon Pertwee

No, I mean ~dressed like Mozart~ - the full Amadeus - knee length breeches, stockings, buckle shoes, foofy linen shirts, embroidered waistcoats. Went to work in full 18th Century clothes every single day. He was really quite admirable, to be honest, because he never seemed to be the slightest bit showy or show-off about it, in fact he was quite shy and retiring. He just went to work every day, dressed like Mozart, like it was no big deal. I truly admire people like him.

prob a time traveler tbh

Vampire, we reckoned. We used to joke: Lemmy's Market, If It Exists, We Employ It as a parody of the motto painted over the door.

i used to see this pirate looking guy around town (black tights, bandanna over head, long curly hair), then one day i saw him hanging out with this guy in a white peaked cap.. It was awesome, just two nautical bros

just reminded me there used to be a pirate we'd see round here every now and then. also there was this orange guy who was semi-famous as the alleged result of some kind of tanning tablet overdose

This close to starting a rolling Fedora thread, just can't think of a good title

http://i.imgur.com/QkD0zZr.png

Didn't realize "m'lady" was a thing among Fedora'd gentlemans but I'm slowly putting two and two together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rzmwPjZ0ug

Fake, right? I feel like citing the wrong play has to be a piss-up.

definitely a piss-take.

definitely taking the piss

def piss took

gettysburg college is my alma mater. "the fedora'd gentleman" is a plausible character for that campus

i suspect that post is going to "open up a dialogue" on campus about the sexist underpinnings of the "friendzone" as a concept. it should be an exciting time.

plausible characters

;-)

https://31.media.tumblr.com/ceff6b766bdebe4d37a6efdcf23ce6d3/tumblr_n13rk8nFoJ1rootrqo1_500.jpg

via http://brightspiral.tumblr.com/

hey turtles we still dont have a rolling fedora thread but you're still invited to join the YouTube Vloggers Paradise thread.

Come on, let's have a rolling fedoras studies thread. You know you want to.

mb something with "fedorable" in the title?

m'aybe

Fedora-l Bureau of Investigations

Fedora Live: You're Coming With Me

A dude who wears a fedora in his profile picture refused to 3d print something for me at makexyz.com

Thought about calling the fedora thread "The Friendzone"

I'm afraid this meme has just about used up all its meme juice though

meme juice from a meme stone

some of these guys are freaks and geeks fans. i think maybe we should all just cool it.