ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

Glerups. The vibrams were a horribly formed joke

i thought maybe you were super hyped on the (three year old) vibram x hr giger collab

http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.gearjunkie.com/uploads/2015/08/Furoshiki-vibram.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.gearjunkie.com/uploads/2015/08/vibram-wrap-shoes.jpg

wha da f

sexy

i'm wearing my glerups right now btw 😎

i like that foot bikini

Finally superhero inspired menswear

Can anyone help with some black derby-type shoes recs?
Need some new shoes that can look cool at the office AND at the... anywhere else I go? Thinking about the 1461 Docs but something tells me not to do that. Maybe I'm too old or something. Or Docs have peaked again.

I never know which outrageous footwear innovations lagoon will embrace, or scoff at

tbf i dont really like those shoes but i like the idea of them, i want a sleeping bag shoe but those ones r too busy / dont really like the toe etc, basically i want a simplified vers of those thatre a slipper-sneaker m/l, like i have sneaker-boots i have sneakers i want the whole spectrum

slippers -> slipper-sneaker -> sneakers -> sneaker-boots -> hiking boots -> big boots

something like that and i have it all except the slipper-sneaker

there is conceivably another boot between sneaker-boot and hiking boot kinda a sneaker hiking boot if you will i think u know the ones i mean, i dont really care about those tho i dont think

i literally just got back form a hike in my sneaker boots that basically have vans soles tho fwiw, theyd prob get destroyed if i did too many hikes in them tho

tbh my hiking boots are more for fashion theyre old school, imo trail running shoes are the best for hiking, tho today i was hiking in snow so u want a boot, there are trail running boots too which i might want to look into since i generally do a lot of running in the winter and there are many trails where i am now

Do u feel yr footwear is an accurate representation of yr id

xxxp yes I visit a deals site that always has good deals on sneaker-boots, usually NB, sometimes Nike. they are ugly and yet... intriguing somehow. but it's moot point, I live in tx, don't need 'em

in my mind, one of the orange tevas is saying "wear us in the woods next time you go camping/hiking" and the other one says "but be careful not to get us wet, and don't step on any rocks!"

Do u feel yr footwear is an accurate representation of yr id

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theres def some sort of resonance there

i went on a footwear spree last weekend, got a pair of navy jordan 1s from stadium goods and a pair of rugged casual boots at allen edmonds--100 bucks off during their annual sale. i'm going to rural france in december; what better excuse for new boots?

nice

don't normally rec/rep vice stuff but this is kinda lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jolbYvAMorY

here's an example of weird ugly but kinda cool sneakerboots (at a nice discount!)

oops i mean here

The internet raw denim subculture is hilarious.

There is one pair of jeans made by naked and famous nicknames “the Monster” that cost over $500 and are 32 oz per square yard. (Most jeans are like 12-15). They stand up on their own. People call them the “Mount Everest” of jeans because they’re so hard to break in and post pictures of themselves like 1, 2 and 3 years in, after daily wear and barely any washes, commenters gathering around in awe of the “sick fades.”

The fades are pretty sick tbf but the jeans still look like they’re made of hard plastic and I’m sure it’s impossible to sit down.

FP’d

flagged for post of the year

now I just want some chucks made out of broken-in selvedge sleeping bags

that was the point of this thread from the beginning, wasn’t it

there is a whole universe of these raw denim fade-bois

out there raw dawgin some pants, its a lifestyle

Commando jeans

Ugh, want a Patagonia retro x, pref in cream or moss green but the insane markup on vintage ones atm I mean. Also paying so much for 100% polyester is ridiculous. What are the decent knockoffs???? Gotta be a lot of this right now given that every UCL undergrad I see is wearing one

I really don't get selvedge denim. It looks bad until it fades, and when it fades it looks like any other pre-faded jeans.

you’re confusing selvedge and raw

yeah

wanna be clear that i dont care about this but it fades —to your body— so it looks better than a store bought fade

i mean i like the way it looks before it fades, and as it fades i like the fades much more than any pre-faded pair i've ever worn. don't mean to be captain raw up in here but i have been wearing almost only raw denim for the past few years and i really enjoy it. also really forms to your body and feels properly comfortable in a way that buying a new pair of cheap jeans and wearing them til the crotch rips and starting over never quite does. (i have had to get rips repaired before, which feels great cos the jeans feel good as new and still fit you like they did before)

actually wearing a pair of big john jeans that a friend gave me for free (!) right now -- been wearing them for quite some time and they really haven't started to fade at all yet, and they're in that kinda 90s jerry seinfeld almost-cerulean blue, and i gotta say i am ok if these things never fade.

they're in that kinda 90s jerry seinfeld almost-cerulean blue

Now this, otoh, is something I've been seeking out -- the perfect unfaded medium blue. But my understanding is that that's a "wash" look rather than raw, no?

this is the denim i have (although they are not that baggy lol) -- after a month or two they get way less "shiny," kinda just leaving you with that nice blue colour. apparently they fade like this but i'm nowhere near that (and probably won't be for a very long time -- i'm assuming those were worn in indonesia or malaysia or something, where ppl are obsessed with raw denim and it i guess fades super well because of the heat or humidity or some other thing made up by denim nerds)

i'll try to get a pic of mine at some point today if i can find time and light!

I actually really like the idea of getting one really good pair of jeans, maybe expensive. But I worry that at the rate I would wear them (maybe once or twice a month?) it would take something like 20 years for them to break in.

We r all gonna fade 1 day

i got some levi's 511 "rigid dragon" which is apparently raw but "sanforized." they're really dark, barely even blue, i love them. that's how i started googling raw denim and getting into this rabbit hole.

by the by, check this selvedge kimono

https://www.heddels.com/2015/01/naked-famous-selvedge-lyocell-kimono/

Aw I was really hoping for a proper full length kimono. Possibly to be dismayed by.

I really like that, its a much more like hanten than a kimono though. I've been looking for a hanten style jacket as I think they look really good.

most raw denim is gonna be sanforized! unsanforized is for people far more intense than me, those are the ones you have to buy big and then soak and wear soaked for a day so they shrink to fit, too much commitment for me

But I worry that at the rate I would wear them (maybe once or twice a month?) it would take something like 20 years for them to break in.

maybe, but once they start to break in they're gonna feel soooo good for the rest of yr life

Can't find a mirror to get a regular ass photo so enjoy this image of me pointing my camera at the floor to see color of jeans here

We dont wanna c yr ass dawg

if that's my ass, then my feet are supremely fucked up

also said i was gonna get the color of the jeans for man alive upthread so idk can you kiss my ass without seeing it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯