ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

the slipperiest of slopes

I guess I don't really mean biz caj, I just mean some timbs that don't look like the classic work boots but are still usable as snow boots.

i wear black Blundstones to work in a bizcaj office, sometimes i even forget to take them off and no one's ever mentioned it. wear thick socks and put cow goo on them to protect the leather. going into second Québec winter looking good as new

http://www.zappos.com/images/z/7/5/7/6/3/8/757638-5-4x.jpg

yah a chelsea boot works pretty well

I wanted some non-insulated higher boots last year and just grabbed some of the matte doc martens

love boots. winter fashion generally is so much more fun - i realised this year that in the summer i just feel like tintin for the duration, shorts and sneakers and a t-shirt or whatever, comfortable but almost impossible to feel you're actually dressed well in any sense. whereas stomping out of the house in boots, coat, scarf and a big knit just feels so much better.

I love boots. They're my default & I've got enough variants on the brown boot to cover everything short of high summer.
Sometimes wish I could justify lined boots. I see Loake Wolfs with a third to a half off now and again, but I know I sit in an office and my feet would get far too hot.

Also I don't think the English winter is cold enough. But I might hunt for a nice pair of heavy, veldtschoen-welted boots in the sales.

haven't worn boots in a long time. my default winter shows are some Nike Air Force Ones that are actually quite bulky but manage to keep the wet out while still being bouncy enough to chip around in quite comfortably. I find footwear the hardest thing to shop for. wouldn't mind getting some boots though.

feel like boots need their own thread before this turns into str8 fire kix pt 2 arctic shuffle

i'd care more if i had to walk outside for any great distance

minus 13 degrees celsius this morning. stay warm, fellows

hitting minus four in dublin tonight, which is cold for these parts.

ive been tossing around the idea of getting some modern military boots this winter, something along the lines of these:

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

sometimes i think they look cool as hell, sometimes i think they look too "tech". any thoughts?

I can't believe what you can get away with in uniform now

https://www.shopmyexchange.com/browse/shoes/shop-tactical-military-approved-boots/military-approved-boots/_/N-105359

when I was in it was basically just the black corcorans and a big can of kiwi polish

xp I think the word you're looking for is "tactical."

kind of want
http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pd/nikelab-acg-air-zoom-tallac-flyknit-mens-boot/pid-11167782/pgid-11621588

those are awesomely hideous, you can see why the moisture would want to stay away from them

unfortunately nike acgs fall apart ime, and not like on a normal "oh well my boots fell apart" schedule

starting new boots thread

iirc they rebooted "acg" as a brand so it's not even the same product line

i need to order Levi's like it's my job

Have been stubbornly anti-puffer-coat for some reason, but my winter coat ripped and I got this off ebay in pretty close to new condition for $48. It rules. I love wearing a sleeping bag around and I feel silly for ever knocking it.

http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/d/l200/pict/252675480347_1.jpg

(pictured: seller, not me)

maker is vince camuto

puffer coats are nice bc they have the warmth without the heaviness, they are so light

its a parka guys

Love them for layering. I have the medium weight uniqlo one with a hood.

me too, when it is really cold i wear one under a wool coat

via localgarda

https://twitter.com/noahvjohnson/status/811599701942353920

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0Nhn_AW8AQdMMH.jpg

ha i saw that on twitter dot com and hadn't clicked the image to see below the waist. nice shoe/sock combo too.

its a parka guys

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:21 (eight minutes ago) Permalink

Yeah I mean specifically bubble coats though. I think i was put off them by all of the bad shiny ones I had seen in the last few years.

I wonder if he got tired of being cast as very grim characters xp

shannon look is a curious astrology of fucks given. like why the undershirt if etc

it almost kinda works as a meta commentary on the misfortune of having a giant granite head not matching its body

i need to order Levi's like it's my job

― surm, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 15:48 Bookmark

couple months ago i was overcome with a deep boredom towards the wearing of jeans of any type so now i don't. it's going p well really

not saying that to make a snooty value judgement, just my personal journey to nothing/escape from... something

Yeah I mean specifically bubble coats though. I think i was put off them by all of the bad shiny ones I had seen in the last few years.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, December 21, 2016 11:31 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im not sure if any of this is facts and prob usage varies but im just gonna offer my understanding:

puffer coats = those new ultra light down coats that can be smooched up into a tiny ball but are oddly warm, the wale (just gonna call the puffy sections of the coat in between the seams that its prob not the right word) is much thinner than yr standard down coat

parka: a big warm jacket with a hood that extends down to mid thigh, doesnt have to be a down coat but often is, a down parka is usually just called "a down parka"

bubble jacket: a down coat where the wale is particularly raised and rounded, it generally refers to a coat that stops at the waist and has no hood

in conclusion the jacket u got can be most accurately described as a down parka (assuming it has a snap on hood not sure what to make of the thigh length jackets with no hood), its old school def not a high tech weightless thin wale puffer coat, and i feel like its not a bubble jacket either as its wale is pretty flat and not bubbly

i own a black down parka btw too its nice

yeah I guess I am just referring to the quiltedness of it. Also the item description called it a puffer, but now when I'm looking at similar VC items they call it a quilted parka.

FWIW it's actually not black it's charcoal with a very light cross-hatch print. I felt sort of weird about having a cross-hatch print on it at first but it has a good visual effect overall and only bothers me when I put my face right up to it.

cant trust those ebay descriptions lol nike adidas jordan basketball air force one sneaker shoe mens free shipping

lagoon ur descriptions seem right esp re "parka" and "down park" but ive seen puffer coat/puffer jacket/bubble jacket used mostly interchangeably. well then thin "wale" coats are not called bubble coats but anything down i see nowadays is often called puffer

ppl trying to hop on the puffer bandwagon with their regular down coats smh

I got this jacket on deep discount a couple years ago, it's pretty good
https://www.aetherapparel.com/products/highline-jacket?variant=349271735

also parka imo doesn't require a hood? or does it? parka to me requires the length that goes down to mid thigh and has those big pockets

that sounds about right

man alive

that looks like this down coat from uniqlo: https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/men-seamless-down-coat-172993.html

who cares about the precise names for these things

dammit i want that but i have many coats

parka def requires a hood u lunatics cant believe this

i have a non parka down coat from uniqulos j+ line that i love, its very soft an minimal

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

what's that word the british people use... anorak?

anorak is hooded pullover w a pocket in the front generally a windbreaker type thingy

no

yes