overplayed style

also last time I checked plymouth rock is in massachusetts... no idea how people itt from new jersey and new york are claiming their ancestors were on the mayflower... http://100ffc.com/forum/images/smilies/smiley-question.gif

haha i will freely admit that i am frequently styled upon but i just find it gross when luxury goods are marketed as investments -- you can justify pricing based on costs and labor and profit margins and marketing and creating an aura of exclusivity, all that seems far more honest and respectable than saying that it's an investment. some franklin mint shit right there imo.

Plax - yeah, I think I knew but just forgot that Primark was Irish.

also last time I checked plymouth rock is in massachusetts... no idea how people itt from new jersey and new york are claiming their ancestors were on the mayflower...

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good question ^^^

also are daria and daria-g the seam poster or

yep, one of them is from the time i was on travel and forgot my login and only had my phone, so i just kept it logged in with that one instead

getting tired of gingham tbh

overplaid style

^may not quite work for yankees

re: narrative in menswear

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/fashion/23CRITIC.html

just

in a room with a stuffed fox and a stale style
i stand, for this memorial's sake, alone

you know what else needs to gtfo

the urban gnome style (which is like horrible emo/lumberjack hybrid)

all floppy knit cap worn in the coronal plane, beard, flannel, and skinny stretch jeans that taper into slipper sneaks

elves on holiday to the city

this thread makes me uncomfortably calculate how many ppl roll their eyes at my outfit on a daily basis

can i just:

slacks with a button-up shirt, a tasteful tie, and loafers?

fuck you

lols ahoy @ 'urban gnome style'
easy to mix up with 'homeless guy style' imo

shaved my beard partially due to this thread. feel way cooler now tbh

Lazy beanies are the fucking worst

Look that hasn't been played enough: older black man style with matching suit, hat and alligator skin shoes (preferably in a garish color like purple or mustard)

that look just says "south side of chicago" to me

EXACTLY.

Judging by NYT Style coverboy Tim Lincecum, the stoner naif look is cresting:

http://sfist.com/2011/03/11/behold_tim_lincecums_new_york_times.php#

"adorable"????

Wo. That's a nice smile and everything, but taken feature by feature, more than a little bit grotesque. Deffo not adorable. Style completely aside. Whoah.

elsewhere on this board, he has been called the Pee Wee Herman of baseball:

http://thebiglead.fantasysportsven.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Tim-Lincecum-bow-tie-game-face.jpg

Is Wes Anderson his style icon?

good comp

waxed cotton jackets. they're nice, i have one, but seriously, can i find a jacket out there right now that's not?

oh i just saw this beeswaxed cotton jacket today. its awesome, but err, like $1400 at barneys... oh, but 'only' $900 on tresbien shop...

http://www.selectism.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/nigel-cabourn-parka-1.jpg

this one too:
http://cdn2.tresbienshop.net/media/catalog/product/cache/4/thumbnail/375x564/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/m/image_25688.jpg

maybe a bit too niche-oriented to be overplayed but with spring coming i am seeing this everywhere -- reversible bow ties: why? is a bowtie just not quirky enough for you? does it have to be made of two contrasting fabrics?

i feel the same about neckties with contrasting back blades. is it totally snotty of me to say it just looks gimmicky and downmarket? it's v tommy hilfiger and nagl imo.

fucking "lumberjack"

it's a PLAID SHIRT. to be a lumberjack you'd need to use like, fuckin, a log as your main mode of transport or something

a plaid shirt does not a lumberjack make, no. but add a beard, work boots, a chore jacket, and a watch cap and behold: you are still not a lumberjack.

elsewhere on this board, he has been called the Pee Wee Herman of baseball:

"I didn't bring an orange bow tie to Texas for fear it might jinx us," he says. Neukom's wife, Sally, bought one after the Giants won Game 4 and he wore it for the trophy presentation the next night. When he ran into pitcher Tim Lincecum later in the locker room, the team's principal owner -- who has four grown children of his own from an earlier marriage -- felt the tie in his jacket pocket and handed it to his star player.

Lincecum, whose long hair is in keeping with a "hippie" upbringing, asked Neukom earlier in the season to teach him how to tie a bow tie. Now the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner became a little boy again, examining the bow tie with wonder. "He looked at it and said, 'Is that for me?' " Neukom remembers. "That was a sweet moment."

Neukom is known for his bow ties. IIrc, Timmy was wearing a bowtie in honor of Neukom's b-day.

http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/10/07/sp-ratto08_ph1_0499261918.jpg

but add a beard, work boots, a chore jacket, and a watch cap and behold: you are still not a lumberjack.

haha i can't believe people do this

I even own a Carhartt chore jacket but I had to google to figure what the term meant - I have never heard it.

I could see a normal person doing all of those except the beard, if they were working in the yard on a cold day or whatever. The beard is what takes that over-the-top and into "you had better be a professional waterman or something" territory.

oh sure, they are all practical clothes for getting hard work done. but the original post is about the lumberjack look as urban street style, which is just silly.

Yeah, probably wouldn't mess with omre than two of those at a time then.

more

i'll be honest. i have worn all of them at the same time (i hardly ever wear watchcaps though), but there's a matter of costume that makes this go from stylish to corny. like compare these two pix.

imo, stylish
http://static3.slamxhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pointer-jacket-3.jpg

in everyone's opinion, i'm sure, hella stoops
http://images.nymag.com/guides/everything/urbanwoodsman/woodsman100208_560.jpg

If you know what a "chore jacket" is, you don't rly need one.

Otherwise you'd just call it "my jacket."

Possibly "my work coat."

ya. i had to look up what a chore jacket was and i got tons of workwear brands

i rock "urban lumberjack" ish all the time & i think i look p cute, but i agree its basically overplayed

oh ha! i just took a picture of the last guy in that collage, a few days ago on spring street. same cardigan and boots, without the hat...

Is that a carabiner in his belt loop?!

lol mw, please don't tell me you're surprised?

haha

All the rage w people who want you to know that they used to be bike messengers, before it was lame.

This reminds me of a story my dad told me about visiting NYC in '76. Being a hippyish ranger from Yosemite, he mostly wore jeans, woolen shirts and boots just like a certain segment of the gay population of Manhattan. He was really suprised that there were so many really friendly New Yorkers, given their reputation as surly, until my aunt, who was living there at the time, pointed out they were gay. Then my dad noticed that their boots were all impeccable and some of them ironed (?!) their jeans.

xpost speaking of overplayed style: bike messenger chic

when was it ever not lame?