ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

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

btw i built my own bean tote medium all white long handles

i have an xl one too in traditional white/navy

w/zip top of course on both

fwiw I've been getting sick of the dry-cleaned outdoorsman look for a while now so I'm glad at least something else is taking over

dry clean the whole outdoors maybe?

but successful thrifting takes monomaniacal dedication i think

http://act.mtv.com//wp-content/uploads/act/2012/11/Macklemore-1.jpg

the elephant in the room

a tiger? i think

back when I first heard of normcore (this morning)

lol

east ldn in 2004 nah

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 21:17 Bookmark

uhh yuh huh

um

idk develop an eye for like virtually anything

It will be weird when normcore trickles down to actual normals and there's like an even normaler version of normal clothes as a result.

xp lol w/e go on enlighten me then

the most i'd cede is i might be out 2-3 years specifically but either way on no account has that look not been and gone a long time ago here

this thread reminded me of when sometime in like 2008 this girl who thought she was a really good artist told me that she was going to dress up as like 'a normal person, yknow in jeans and running shoes' for a costume party we were both attending. this made me think she was an idiot

ok im being unfair some of this yes but it is clearly lacking like parkas and shit

rtc how far back do you think normcores antecedents go in east ldn? i feel some people i met were doing the dev haynes thing in like 2011 but it wasnt quite like office drone ca. 1997 or wknddad stuff also all the ldn people i follow on instagram just started doing this like, 6 months ago

not really meant as a challenge just curious, stuff like this fascinates me all out of proportion to how much it matters

stuff like inner/outer shorts, everyone in 1461s, white socks black sandals definitely mean 2010ish. the jean jacket is p unacceptable tho.

me and lamp ahead of the normcore game

just be really handsome and wear only the t-shirts you get for free from yr work + levis 501s - mensstyle 2013

― the spectacular cow (Lamp), Monday, August 19, 2013 5:34 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rn im in the mood to just buy a lot of black jeans and black tees and only wear them every day forever

― max, Monday, August 19, 2013 5:35 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The trick is to wear jeans which make your asses most flattering to gay men.

"fuck it, I'm just gonna wear black jeans and black tees" is not a normcore move

Norm core is about fashion minimalism hurting

that kind of fashion minimalism is timeless and not in the spirit of normcore

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

lol

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There are people who unironically dress like this at my workplace.

They're computer scientists btw.