ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

Thanks everybody. I think I have a handle on this now.

I can't believe Stevie is 27. I remember when he was quite a bit less than that. Good luck Stevie.

thanks bub!

Here are the pumpkin pants and the shirt. I am thinking this combination of colors is prob not conservative enough for job interview (maybe? idk); I feel like I ought to select either the pant or the shirt to leverage for maximum productivity and then sunset the other one and pivot in another direction. Which do I do?

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/0ef02f86-919f-4abb-aae7-2b6a830b122b_zpshkchox71.jpg
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/fe8e6e04-719d-4bf0-a559-7085038d28f2_zpsjvp6ckpf.jpg

obv everything will be clean/lint-rolled/ironed/etc

looks nice man

protip for pilly sweaters shave them with hair clippers

is that the sweater i gave u btw

lagxxn it is indeed; it is is such a prime sweater

u sure the color combo is not too ~crazy~??

looks good imo

i got that sweater in nepal genuine pashmina namaste

feelin so validated, so sharp, thx u all

namaste

Yeah, Stevie, that looks really nice! Would hire.

yeah mane that is a fresh look. go forth & get paid

lookin good stevie! everything fits so well, nice

also if you wore black pants i don't you would have too much black on btw

can we talk haircuts a little? after 6 months of not cutting my hair and loving my curls i went to FL to visit my folks and felt really unkempt in the warmer weather. not wearing a winter hat all the time made my hair a lot look a lot puffier and longer than i thought. so i got a little fed up and buzzed everything down to an inch while i was there. it was a longer buzz but still much shorter than what i used to after 6 months of no haircut. feeling that regret right now, especially coming back to MA in this cold fucking winter.

i've been cutting my own hair all my life but all i've ever done is buzz everything the same length. i'm thinking i want, like, a real haircut, from a barber or a stylist or something. i want to grow out my curls again but have some kind of taper so it looks neat and not just like an overgrown haircut. freaks me out though, putting my hair the hands of other people. i've always been someone who feels major anxiety after a bad haircut and i think part of the reason i do it myself and cut it all one short length is because it is a little safe and predictable. even still though when i go too short i regret it instantly.

damn i hate getting haircuts, i've always wished i could like magically tell me hair to stay a certain length or grow a couple inches on demand.

It's very hard to find a good barber

You only get to try a new one every 2 months

i dont really have "advice" but i found a barber like 4 years ago who made good suggestions and cut my hair well and i have been going to him ever since and it is like a huge source of anxiety in my life completely gone. It Gets Better

max has good hair I've seen it

try going bald, it makes hairstyling questions easier

most of my bad experiences w/ barbers were from guys who didn't know how to cut curly hair. also what's the difference between a barber and a stylist?

xp joygoat i will definitely be there someday. not as soon as i thought but it won't be TOO long

re: the inescapable urge to cut your hair in Florida, I've got a lot of hair and it gets much bigger when it's humid and takes on a quality I call "wig hair" where it feels like a big dumb hot wig sitting on top of my head. So an advanced move you might consider once you find a barber/stylist you like is to talk about having him/her thin your hair a little bit to avoid the unpleasant experience of wig hair.

Does your spouse get her hair cut at a salon? If she likes it, I'd start there since it will be familiar territory. Another idea is to ask friends/colleagues whose hair you like where they get their hair cut. You will probably have some bad haircuts while you figure all of this out, but hair grows out and like max said, once you figure it out, it is a nice relief.

i agree w/max, i tried a bunch of places and eventually found one that i liked, that's really all you can do.

yeah get recommendations. if you live in nyc i have a guy.....

try going bald, it makes hairstyling questions easier

best thing that ever happened to me tbh

in boston, thanks though!

cad where do you get yours cut?

carl yes, it is totally wig hair! felt really gross in the warmer weather. my wife has a stylist come to our house and cut her hair. she does mens' cuts too, so she is a possibility.

you probably don't find yourself in davis square much but i go to dente's barber shop

i've been just walking in and going with whoever is available but they started offering appointments and that seems to be the way to go now

even bald though you still have to make some decisions, e.g. grow the sides long, short buzz cut on the sides, totally shaved, beard or no beard, etc. there is a big variety of bald hairstyles out there, it's only the top that's bald after all

yea davis is a little far. there is a cloth diaper shop in davis that i go to every couple of months, which i could time together with hair cuts!

i took the 'crop that shit all over then never think about yr hair another day in yr life' option several years ago and have been living the dream ever since xp

i got my hair restyled into a kind of undercut-pompadour and i love it... but... it's so different from my last cut and the stylist kept a lot of length (like 4-5inches) at the front which feels too long and difficult to maintain. Plus my hair gets wavy at a certain length so I end up with two big loose curls at the front that look like a cross between a flower and a ducks arse, so I've decided to go back in and get it calmed down a bit. shame really because i like the idea of having an idiosyncratic hairstyle, but my job is just a little corporate for me to pull it off.

also what's the difference between a barber and a stylist?

― marcos

in 2015?

a beard

I'm sporting an undercut-pompadour-New Republic Real Face of Rap style these days, too, and am having similar problems. I'm not good at styling my hair every day and the top is very full and the wig hair is going to be unstoppable once summer gets here if that ever actually happens.

hah, carl are you able to post a pic. i promise to do the same once i get mine trimmed properly tonight.

I'm not a dude so it is maybe not as useful as it could be but

High effort/hair:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7453/16395822059_b481fdafc7.jpg

Low effort/hair:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7298/16581691405_05b93f033c.jpg

The Real Face of Rap:

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8641/16394453448_90807061fc.jpg

I hit a new low today and put some goop in wet hair, pinned it in place with bobby pins, and stuck a hat on while I commuted to work. It looks... well, like I bobby pinned wet goopy hair under a hat and rode the train to work.

Sometimes I call that second look The Craig Kilborn.

God carl I don't understand how we have exactly the same hair. We do, though!

I confess. I took a picture of you to my stylist.

(j/k I got this hair by giving her free reign over my head and this is where we ended up.)

lol No but I mean it GROWS the same way (UP) and with a similar texture (yours might be thicker) and we have the same cowlick.

carl you look great!

One more tip marcos is find a barber of the same ethnicity as you

I Never Let White People Cut My Hair, is one of my rules of life

Thanks 龜!!!!

I found some p good barbers but the past 6 months I have just been buzzing my head with a #2 every other week or so, so I have few good advices to give

Looking good Carl.

yeah the guy who cuts my hair (feel funny calling him a stylist or a hairdresser as that's what he does, but he's a mate so...) said to try mousse and not hair drying it but I don't think he knows that my hair when left to dry NEVER looks good. struggled with it for years and years until I finally caved and bought a hairdryer. never looked back. I found that a bit of wax worked almost better than mousse too.

I found some p good barbers but the past 6 months I have just been buzzing my head with a #2 every other week or so, so I have few good advices to give

― thrifty grades of pay (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:21 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea the efficiency and savings of this can be hard to pass up. i've done everything from a #2 to a #8, i dig the longer buzz cuts more for my head but i love #2 on other people.

One more tip marcos is find a barber of the same ethnicity as you

I Never Let White People Cut My Hair, is one of my rules of life

― 龜, Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:18 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea it's true, or at least i need to find a barber who has curly hair himself or at least really knows how to cut it.

carl your haircut reminds me of
http://i.imgur.com/nZnM5LY.jpg

I've had the same barber for almost 10 years and around 2011 we started using 3 formulas (guard #s and hair lengths) that I keep in my notes app. I now have over 3 years of haircut data saved on my phone. It's awesome to have these cuts as pre-sets that I can order up.