overplayed style

these are both super overplayed and mostly populated now by try-hards and bloggers

you know what never goes out of style is a top hat

btw i dress "lumberjack" because those are the clothes my girlfriend picks out for me

today i wore a longsleeve henley top, grey hoodie, filson vest, jeans, boots, top hat

A recent Apartment Therapy House Tour featured one of those painted-handle axes prominently displayed in a shot, as, like, a dining table centerpiece? So gross.

/i follow a lot of the menswear tumblr blogs that do this kind of thing.../

got links?

sure will look when I get home, on my phone at the moment. but #1 is ' how to talk to girls at parties'

somehow they don't annoy me as much as some of the truly dopey womens blogs that are all about big retail stores and their clothes often don't fit properly

note I have a lot of clothes from like j crew and such but I don't feel compelled to blog about constantly buying more.

also the lumberjack thing- i like it when it is like the uniform of the early 90s, that is always cool. but at the time I felt like a dork for buying flannel shirts from llbean instead of goodwill- cannot imagine people obsessing over the labels of any of it.

yeah i got a padded flannel shirt in pennys which is primark in the uk bc it was new years day and i was hitchhiking back from dingle and i was freezing by the time i made it to limerick and it cost €7 and i love it and wear it all the time. i only like things w/ mystical animals on it btw.

i saw some of his mystical animal shirts btw - p great

wait Primark is called Penny's in Ireland? I was not aware. I sort of love Primark for cheap accessories and tank tops. I am not ashamed. OK, maybe only a little.

I kind of love this flannel
http://www.ironheart.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=108&zenid=7e9f1d4d155d7838ed94309939362b34

But it's $350!

Yet when I go to the mall or look at llbean/Land's End/etc. no one is selling a flannel that looks half as good. All that patterns are smaller and old-mannish, the colors are duller and/or uglier. But I'd rather freeze to death (unlikely in TX) than drop $350 on a shirt.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8rmf1PKg21qbhnx1.jpg
Filson Mackinaw Cruiser, $300
“Originally designed to protect timber cruisers during long days in the woods, our rugged Mackinaw Cruiser soon gained fame for exceptional warmth, comfort and durability. It’s famed for function too, with 4 front utility pockets, a 3-slot pocket, 2 hand warmer pockets, an open inner pocket, and a full-width map pocket in back. Made of our thickest, heaviest Mackinaw Wool, a proven barrier against wind, rain, snow and cold.”

puts calluses on your hands too i bet

lol i mean

A couple of years ago Gap and J. Crew were all about solid-color earthtone shirts (utility, safari-style, etc.) - first they started ruining them with epaulets then they stopped doing them at all.

It is surprisingly hard to find a casual solid color men's shirt in a good green.

i have a green corduroy shirt

This thread reminds me that my ma owes me a plaid shirt. I'm still on the lookout for the ever elusive giant checked 90's plaids

http://i.imgur.com/NH5ru.gif <----nice gif

agreed

tehres; another version of that i saw years ago, where theres another dancing guy and they have boxing glvoes on and they dance around and box and it ends with them hugging, it was called BoxingQueers.gif

this is kind of cool for a 1950's plaid
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7958/plaidx.png

idk maybe i'm prone to overthink this sort of thing but i find myself wondering what roland barthes would make of the "fashion system" of menswear blogs

Pretty sure anyone still on or around Mackinaw Island in February is wearing more than a wool jacket. Fuck a $300 in the ear.

but laurel -- it has a map pocket; where else am i going to put all my maps? in my ipad case make of a recycled 1940s work apron? i don't think so

do you expect me to put my maps under my top hat? pshaw

It's true, maps certainly aren't going to fit in the breast pocket that's been stitched down to suggest that it would feel much more self-actualized if it were stuffed with shotgun shells.

The funny thing is that I have a grey wool overshirt almost exactly like that one, but it doesn't have the shotgun pocket or the map pocket, the pockets don't have snappy flaps, and I got it in the outlet store in Batavia, NY for a song. Like MAYBE it was $15.

yeah see i stuff my shotgun shell pockets with d cell batteries so i can get that real authentic look

D batteries you salvaged from an abandoned steel mill as you photographed your way across the rust belt, you meant to say.

guys i mean i feel you but come on

i think the weird thing w/the whole mid century outdoorsmen look is how many have embraced it so wholeheartedly - its not like theyre just adding a pair of redwings to their wardrobe or wearing an occasional flannel - its going whole hog down to how particularly the shit is rocked like cuffing yr selvage just so or w/e - and then theres j crew opening up menswear stores completely catering to what at this point seems more a statement of intent than a style - its saying weve occupied ourselves w/prissy nonsense for too long, lets get manly yall - but of course its not manly to obsess over w/e vintage eyelet detail in yr hiking boots so it just comes off vaguely drag queenish

also i feel like there are many long time standards in my wardrobe - woolrich jacket, wool sweater, beard - that i pair w/sneakers as is my habit and now i just look like some entry level vers of this guy

but w/e ive only been in ny like 1 month of the last year so i dont really have to worry abt it i guess

btw i think overall its a p nice look

Haha I just wrote and deleted a couple of lines about how people who are actually FROM the North Country or whatever semi-fictional places this gear is supposed to be worn, those people are more likely to be found wearing local state university sweatshirts and probably a garish ski parka. Even at the most woodsman-ish end of the spectrum, LL Bean, maybe Woolrich are about the most "authentic" you're gonna find.

like this is the ll bean boot youre likely to see people wearing from where i type in n vermont

http://grab.by/8XHn

lol yes EXACTLY!

maybe in 30 years nyc ad agency employees will be obsessing over nascar tshirts and photo realistic camo gear

i guess the glib thing 2 say is that menswear is infatuated w/ any culture that signifies tradition/craft/heritage/permanence bcuz of the instability & uncertainty around men's identity 'in the modern world'. like these clothes were 1st worn by men w/an unthinking sort of command & mastery of their milieux or w/e. prep is less tiresome bcuz its still connected to its own essential nature & culture whereas the workwear thing is just gross now.

im p sick of both of these tho been torrenting old episodes of friends to jack chandler 95s style

otm re: statement of intent over style -- it's not so much the style that bugs me as how the garments are held as fetish objects of authenticity & masculinity. like if i have to read another graph about the naval origins & functional design of the peacoat then i will barf. yes it's a perennial classic look, it crops up every couple years, the only thing new this time is the emphasis on functionality when it is really no more or less functional than, say, a nylon parka

yeah were in a stage where men generally are getting more into clothes but there seems to be the need in order to maintain a comfort level to quantify the experience via stats and history as far as how well it withstands the elements or like the fact that this pocket could conceivably be used for something that youll never use it for - its the rei outdoor gortex wicking headlamp gear mentality which imo is a v low form of materialism - guys should just admit to themselves that they like beautiful things and want to look beautiful - i think at that point theres room for powers of discernment to go way up

i guess the glib thing 2 say is that menswear is infatuated w/ any culture that signifies tradition/craft/heritage/permanence bcuz of the instability & uncertainty around men's identity 'in the modern world'. like these clothes were 1st worn by men w/an unthinking sort of command & mastery of their milieux

Elephant in the room, totes obvious but hardly ever mentioned. And something I'm really conflicted about have v much appreciation for since that so-called "mastery" was at the expense of every group that wasn't Them.

hey it was a good time to be a white american male *lights cigar, gazes toward the setting sun*

spotted @ the ri antiques mall: watch cap, checked shirt, canvas work vest, selvedge, red wings; dropping $$$$ on a midcentury teak sideboard like it wasn't even a thing

ballin

guys should just admit to themselves that they like beautiful things and want to look beautiful

yah theres a definite need in menswear for a 'narrative' - you can pay a grand for a pair of shoes if you know the detailed history of not only the wizened englishman who handcrafted them but the cattle that gave their lives too - whereas a girl can pay a grand for a pair of heels bcuz they make her ass look good

haha last fall i got an amazing midcentury teak credenza for $170 bucks

this is like the time i saw pants i own on fuckyeahmenswear isnt it?

I rly like a lot of boy's adventure stories from the turn of the cent through the mid-cent, plus lots of light adult fic, esp exciting now that so much of it is avail as ebooks in public domain, for FREE, and I gotta say, the modern analog of the 1920s woodsman or whatever is totally not who or what Filson customers think it is.

spotted @ the ri antiques mall: watch cap, checked shirt, canvas work vest, selvedge, red wings; dropping $$$$ on a midcentury teak sideboard like it wasn't even a thing

Must have read this 5x as "teak skateboard" for some reason and that still didn't even surprise me.

with prep style, tho -- i always thought one of the keys to the look was a privileged indifference to trad rules of formality -- eg sockless loafers or like showing up to luncheon in tennis whites or w/e -- but now i see bloggers wearing blue blazers over long sleeve rugbys over a collared shirt w/ the repp tie peeking out -- too much, dudes

teak skateboard, hand foraged steel trucks nbd

http://www.proteak.com/images/skateboard.jpg

are we bagging on midcentury furniture now too!!! my lifestyle is under attack/dont h8 the player h8 the game

i mean it must be p cool to be a wealthy neapolitan and the clothes sure are nice but tbh i'll be glad once the menswear set finds a new obsession, kinda sick of looking at one billion blue blazers every day

camouflage, i guess? i don't hate it and i like that designers are looking to prints and patterns but tbh it's getting to be pretty worn down as far as masculine signifiers go

don't forget the whole camouflage-with-gold-embroidered-patterns-on-it thing