ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

my father-in-law bought this country-style dining room table for their house in VT and told me "the best thing about this table is that it doesn't matter if it gets knicked, the style is 'distressed'!!"

dads dream of a thing its ok to not care about fulfilled

xxp noticed the same thing about lima peru and santiago chile -- thick black hair everywhere and there were some really crazy cuts. lots of bad mullet-style cuts though too

although i personally dislike long hair on men i can understand why its desirable rn just moving away from the whole 'digital creative' look

lol @ digital creative

what if u r a digital creative tho plz advise

Good news you have a gr8 haircut

thank gosh

xxp noticed the same thing about lima peru and santiago chile -- thick black hair everywhere and there were some really crazy cuts. lots of bad mullet-style cuts though too

― marcos, Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:16 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sometimes I wonder about whether haircuts in other countries are ironic but I just miss the irony bc of lack of context

Irony is kinda a western concept tbh

yea it's hard to know. the mullets seemed too common to be ironic though, they were very popular among 18-20 year olds

my hair is too curly to ever have that long seattle style stoner metal-style hair that i admire on people like merzbow or j mascis. the longer my hair gets the more i look like those two dudes from at the drive-in, which was definitely a look i rocked in college though, it worked

can u imagine what the world will look like when asia goes ironic my lord

God I hope not

They are having so much fun right now

Don't want them to become dour and serious

sorry too bad this is why we do colonialism

We have to prevent Iran from developing Irony

irony is a force for good and democracy

can we dig a lil deeper into the post digital creative look, feel like the pants are still tapered but a lil more relaxed, like thye look like they could maybe have some paint splatters ont hem

also feel like in post digital creative, those standard black frames buddy holly glasses are a little out - people are going for more colorful frames or going for more natural brown type frames maybe? really like these types i've been seeing a lot:
http://cdn.oliverpeoples.com/system/gemgento/assets/attachments/000/066/640/detail/open-uri20141023-18879-77of9l?1414103835

i have confidence my collection of crewneck sweatshirt will carry over seamlessly into the post digicrea era

my vision for the future is how i dress now

Thick black plastic frames have been out for a while now imo, Warby Parker not withstanding

I saw an older lawyer rockin' the thick black frames recently and making it work really well, but old lawyer style is its own separate thing.

yea on older folks i think black frames can look very good

there is this lawyer at the university i work at who has a totally shaved head and wears HUGE black frames, he's probably 40 or something

Reference point here is Foucault, obv

I recently bought a vintage pendleton B&W herringbone pattern coat that has very not-contemporary lapels and I'm kind of liking it. It has slightly odd pockets too, and also those big black old-man buttons which I have always loved. And the shape is a little straighter and more "sack" like than the super-tapered coats you see around now. Just kind of liking having a coat with some features that are not standard right now although the pattern looks very much in line with a lot of coats I see.

ohh a colleague had a coat yesterday that totally had that "sack" look and it looked great! it was wool and had a green tweed kind of fabric, i totally dug it

i went to the j press sample sale today and tried on a $2400 coat

reduced to $400 but it was too big

and it made me look like a FIFA board member

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Kustodiyev_Shalyapin.JPG/482px-Kustodiyev_Shalyapin.JPG

caek irl

agl

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/OJJuice.jpg

I didn't wanna mess up this thirty-seven hundred dollar lynx coat
So instead I chilled

i actually was quite similar to that one xxp

it weighed about 30 lbs

thanks to this thread i bought a bunch of shit today while i was supposed to be xmas shopping

did not buy but wanted to a pendleton carpet bag

hey look some assholes have a kickstarter for slim-fit urban overalls

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rousersoveralls/rousers-overalls-for-the-modern-urban-man

http://www.businessverycasual.com/lookbook/

Fantastic

haha

thing is i actually like overalls! huge doubts whether i could pull them off though. but yea those are dumb. basically i think overalls only work if:

-you are in a bluegrass band
-you work or live on a farm
-you are doing some kind of work that requires the coverage of overalls, e.g. woodworking, carpentry, construction, etc.

-you are in Color Me Badd

think if i lived on at least a half-acre, preferably more, of land in western MA i could wear overalls around the house and yard.

oh right lol xp

I can't find a picture of it, but the Brioni store window in midtown has this kimono-suit right now, it's like a charcoal wool business suit only the jacket is a wool kimono. IDK if that's cool or dumb, but I thought it was kind of funny. I do kind of covet Brioni suits tho. I have a Brioni tie that is my bigshot power tie.

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/00/f7/54/00f754461ce388d21cc9f59a39bc5f09.jpg

Was a popular look when I was in 8th grade.

kimono suit sounds like a power move if ever there was one

Yes, I was going through am old yearbook recently and was surprised at all the overalls. I don't think I noticed anyone who didn't wear docs at the time.

also made me think of "open the kimono" xp. Now picturing a movie scene in a boardroom where guy at the head stands up and says "I think we ought to open the kimono on this one" *opens kimono suit jacket, pulls out machine gun, guns down entire board*

i had docs and overalls