ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

first i was thinking the tneck is maybe a bridge too far but then like naah

ive been trying to find a good turtleneck to wear under a jacket for about a year now

so does anyone know where i can find a good turtleneck to wear under a jacket?

in my neighborhood you're more likely to see an actual 45-yr-old unironically dressed like that than a hipster on the cutting edge

i bet lamp knows xp

i think i first approximated this look as 'chandler from friends ca. 1997' but was excited to see how early 90s it had gotten lately. but calling it 'normcore' is just n/l

the only normcore look I rock is
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8KUBniOn9Ok/Trx9mb5UMHI/AAAAAAAAAJI/gWEVHNA4cm8/s1600/norm_peterson.jpg

the day i see a stylish young person rocking a mock tn is when i will know im truly old

the only turtleneck i own is a 90s black eddie bauer i found at value village that is appealingly boxy. various downtown workwear brands are making turtlenecks again if my instagram is anything to go by tho so you can probably find one with a contemp fit p easy

i have a friend who is actively trying to bring the mock neck back. it works, i guess. i dont understand fashion

any lol at being like "is this person in a fleece and stone washed jeans in soho a fashionista or normie tourist?!?!? i cant tell"

tuff call

i think this kind of stuff is part of the inevitable reaction to like, #suitup, the cult of 'tailoring' and other general menswear trends over the last decade? i think positioning dressing like this as 'just dressing like, yknow, regular people or w/e' is obv super disingenuous and i think that chinavision is right in saying the specifics arent necessarily the same but i think theres a general shared exhaustion with certain ideas of 'style' thats both part of fashions cyclical nature and the lifecycle of aesthetic moments

can i let my selvage age out or nah

ya i agree with that lamp, and chinavision otm upthread

but like did ppl stop thrifting over the last decade? these people all look like they were thrifting but picked out terrible shit instead of decent shit.

coincidentally, i started watching top of the lake yesterday and noted how snazzy GJ looked http://i.imgur.com/KfGrJ1D.jpg

people did stop thrifting i think or thrifting got too hard cause everyone was thrifting or something

like u can never find cool old jeans anymore, theyre all in the pipeline

the "real" thrift shop by me closed down years ago and now the only ones around are the curated vintage shops

and maybe the clothes that are old now are shittier quality than the clothes that were old 20 years ago idk just spitballin

its possible too im slightly more discerning now than when i was 16

this is obv a real thing tho depleted vintage stocks

The kind of crap I was willing to wear from thrift shops in college I would never wear now.

But yeah I definitely think the market has developed such that you just don't find "treasures" in salvation army stores. The employees also pick over the donations and sell/keep them.

oh well that all sucks, i know i'm too old for thrifting now because the idea of a used shirt is fairly gross to me.

ya didnt even think of the employee part, nice sideline xp

employee thing is only a side issue bc finding the right shops to vulture around should factor in staff profiling along with eloborate theories about possible stocks based on local populations depending on potential donations givers and competing customers.

certain things it seems insane and impossible when you pick them up for almost nothing like a v beautiful leather biker jacket i got about a year ago for not v much money, i mean there are things i can't imagine ever just like giving away like that I mean surely if you're too old to look dignified you would have someone grateful to have yr expensive calfskin leather trousers.

slideshow looks like east ldn 10 years ago idgi

http://i.imgur.com/KYpSP1d.jpg

lol

http://gothamist.com/2014/02/26/get_the_look_normcore.php

back when I first heard of normcore (this morning) dev is not someone I would have thought wore it

feel like it shd be normiecore, normcore has no flow

its kidna satisfying to say out loud tho i just tried it idk

normcorps

i guess mallcore fetishism was (is) def a thing in ldn tho... norm unnorm by displacement

employee thing is only a side issue bc finding the right shops to vulture around should factor in staff profiling along with eloborate theories about possible stocks based on local populations depending on potential donations givers and competing customers.

― plax (ico), Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is why consignment shops in rich but not trendy neighborhoods are often a good bet

doing it wrong w adidas 3stripe joggers, casual sportswear incorporation should be about approximating billowing 80s japanese designer silhouhettes w the nike loungers your brother bought but never wore this seems so obvious

im trying to get this look

http://i.imgur.com/MozSU70.jpg

the kind of 90s nostalgia i as a teen of the 90s am most disturbed by is people dressin like c&c music factory, hood by air, v-files wtf

i think thrifting hasnt really changed you just have less time and patience and higher standards that you did when you were 16

like this type of shit is current come on folks

http://image.dhgate.com/albu_447219048_00-1.0x0/fierce-metal-plate-snapback-cap-unisex-adjustable.jpg

nah the emergence of different standards of textile and clothing manufacture from the 70s and coming to a head with "fast fashion" means that thrift stores are now full of junk that was literally only supposed to be worn once

^ v much agree although i also think the other thing that changed thrifting was etsy.com

slideshow looks like east ldn 10 years ago idgi

interested in how true this is

east ldn in 2004 nah

tbf most of the thriftings i wore as a teen was awful cheapo 70s shit

yeah but w declining standards i mean cheapo 70s shit > worn out polo shirts from topman

true

Nothing sadder than a thrift store rack full of old navy imo