ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

was going to say blackphobia might be most salient for those of an Irish complexion though I'm not sure what lg's strategy is here

I don't think there's any way for me to wear all black and not look like a reanimated corpse

ah i look like a reanimated corpse whatever i wear

pale skin/black clothes aka the reanimated corpse is an extremely classic look iirc

i do not have pale skin fwiw

Me neither *high five*

niice

2 swarthy 2 go goth

black + navy is way in this year

hmm kinda feel that's more about layering shades right now?

like black navy AND cobalt

could say the same for like idk greys/taupe/putty, beige/acorn/ochre, etc

thought some of that fourpins content might be interesting on the face of it (like the japanese shops thing) but then post click it seems to just be p ignorant poochie styled aggregator slop mostly

my default casual outfit lately is black jeans and a black hoodie but while they are black neither are REALLY black, more like charcoal for sure. I am not anti black and I think others can wear black v well but caek is otm in many respects, especially about black fabric looking cheap

Which is why faded and worn-in and broken-in black actually looks good IMO bc then it becomes charcoal. Fair to say tho that this only applies to casual clothes like denim or something. A faded black suit is nagl obv

black clothes are cool but a black suit makes you look like diplo

i never wear black clothes, because i prefer navy and have lots of navy stuff, since it doesn't go with black i don't buy many black items. dunno if everyone has this choice.

― Wantaway striker (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:20 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

navy shirts can go with black trousers very nicely

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 16:21 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is my big sartorial change in the last while, i've explained as much upthread. fascinating news.

thought some of that fourpins content might be interesting on the face of it (like the japanese shops thing) but then post click it seems to just be p ignorant poochie styled aggregator slop mostly

the main point of it is the jon moy daily run-downs of an item of clothing. most of the rest is fairly hard to take.

navy t-shirt + black jeans is one of my core looks

I was always told navy clashed with black but it's pretty much the only non-black/grey/brown color I f/with.

I don't like faded black so much, makes me feel all dingy and "street"

like crust punk... or dorky hand-me-down rural. idk

clothes, man

sorry LG i couldn't resist

maybe some seasons navy looks good with black.. and some seasons it doesn't, such are the mysteries of fashion

navy t-shirt + black jeans is one of my core looks

― flopson, Sunday, March 8, 2015 5:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

sorry LG i couldn't resist

maybe some seasons navy looks good with black.. and some seasons it doesn't, such are the mysteries of fashion

haha - i basically bought a pair of black jeans and my whole rule crumbled away. i am wearing all black right now.

love the dinginess of faded black tbh

As I think I said upthread, I'm now interested in trying out some more dulcet colours and monochromes, but I think wearing black takes a bit of work. It can be extremely stylish and edgy if done right or you can end up going into heavy metal D&D nerd territory. Kind of determined to find out how to swing more to the former, but as I don't have much black/white in my wardrobe as it is, it might be hard.

On a similar tip - leather jackets C/D and also, if classic, then what should a geezer look out for? I've seen some on people that look great but the cut and quality of ones I've seen (new and s/h) seems to vary a lot. Cheaper/secondhand ones look especially awful, like big ugly biker jackets.

leon @leyawn · 21h 21 hours ago
got my canada goose expedition parka and my fjallraven rucksack.. mountain climbing? No im going to sit in front of a computer for ten hours

everyone's wearing those fjallraven rucksacks in London now. Nice-looking, but my dorky, practical Swiss-mark commuter backpack works best for me.

not great at describing, but there's a kind of unstructured black suit senior-graphic-designer-from-the-1990s look that I quite like, but I suspect caek's point about needing good fabric is crucial to it working (and it's probably never for me because as per upthread, celtic complexion).

Leather is a great fabric for black for sure

Once you gets get JAMC swag you'lll look alright in black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgB__YratE

im constantly tempted to burn my wardrobe and rebuild it entirely in black

in honor of this thread i am wearing black jeans, navy sneakers, brown belt today

i wear brown birkenstocks w/ my black jeans everyday, dgaf

i feel kinda liberated tbh but i work at a "design school" so everyone here is either very consciously assembled or very consciously not

haha yea i work in academia and most people are very much not consciously assembled

I'm wearing a shirt with a navy/black/grey grid pattern

on leather jackets, asos is a good option if you don't want to spend 1k and you can't find anything good second-hand (pretty much impossible as far as i can tell, in london or online)

i got a leather bomber there last year for £150 - it's pretty good quality, seems to be wearing well.

maybe cheaper than that actually. they have good bikers too - i kind of like them but i feel if i wore a biker jacket it would signal midlife crisis (even more than the rest of my behaviour and hobbies)

good call on ASOS. yeah, so it's the style of jacket that i'm unsure about. and yeah, avoiding a MLC look is the tricky bit.

im constantly tempted to burn my wardrobe and rebuild it entirely in black

― max, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 8:14 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my man

I didn't have this thread bookmarked and just caught up on like a year of stuff

I just purged a bunch of old/poorly-fitting stuff from my closet. Between not being a mid-20s dude who has the body of a teenager (lol) and realizing I was buying medium shirts when very few medium shirts fit me now (got too swole, I guess, and I've always had disproportionately long arms) I am going to be doing some shopping.

I should just embrace my people and go health goth, right

by next winter this will be me
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_ragBoUcAAGASH.png

solid look

in seriousness, I did buy this shirt recently to replace another floral print one I should have thrown out years ago
http://cdn6.giltcdn.com/images/share/uploads/0000/0004/0477/404775087/674x898.jpg?oq=85

Black with dark brown is like my favorite combination btw, also black with black

Will try black with navy today! I think I might have a navy tee in my closet idk it might have a pocket too

we don't have a FUN SUITS thread iirc

http://cache.mrporter.com/images/products/511344/511344_mrp_ou_l.jpg

are they trying to illustrate the number of horizontal stripes that will make a model look fat?

guys guess who just got this fleece for $28 marked down from 145 at the polo shop inside the 34th st macys (its me) also picked up a ralph lauren overcoat 60% off on the fifth fl

http://i.imgur.com/7sDUuiG.jpg

chasing the fleece dream still, very nice work

i hope you got the green one