overplayed style

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?

like this, sheesh

http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/files/2009/06/bike-messenger-280.jpg

haha. i see the first guy on this page around town all the time

http://www.fixedgearbikesarefuckinggay.com/fixie.html

btw I am wearing black double knee carhartts and a flannel right this very second

fuiud

yes but you live in minnesota, not brooklyn

i was also wearing these
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2607/3840570672_11f4507a1f.jpg

not cool

to the tumblr & blog dudes who post photos of their outfits laid out on the floor: ugh stop why

to the guys who include their FUCKING FIREARMS in these photos: good lord wtf is wrong with u

enough with the italian tailoring already

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