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.
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I even own a Carhartt chore jacket but I had to google to figure what the term meant - I have never heard it.
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 April 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, probably wouldn't mess with omre than two of those at a time then.
― the best reggae summer club there used to be in Helsinki (kkvgz), Thursday, 7 April 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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, stylishhttp://static3.slamxhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/pointer-jacket-3.jpg
in everyone's opinion, i'm sure, hella stoopshttp://images.nymag.com/guides/everything/urbanwoodsman/woodsman100208_560.jpg
― jaxon, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
If you know what a "chore jacket" is, you don't rly need one.
Otherwise you'd just call it "my jacket."
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Possibly "my work coat."
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ya. i had to look up what a chore jacket was and i got tons of workwear brands
― jaxon, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i rock "urban lumberjack" ish all the time & i think i look p cute, but i agree its basically overplayed
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― phil-two, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that a carabiner in his belt loop?!
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
lol mw, please don't tell me you're surprised?
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― caek, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
All the rage w people who want you to know that they used to be bike messengers, before it was lame.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost speaking of overplayed style: bike messenger chic
― jaxon, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
when was it ever not lame?
― phil-two, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
like this, sheesh
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/files/2009/06/bike-messenger-280.jpg
― jaxon, Thursday, 7 April 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
haha. i see the first guy on this page around town all the time
http://www.fixedgearbikesarefuckinggay.com/fixie.html
― jaxon, Thursday, 7 April 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
btw I am wearing black double knee carhartts and a flannel right this very second
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Friday, 8 April 2011 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
fuiud
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Friday, 8 April 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yes but you live in minnesota, not brooklyn
― J0rdan S., Friday, 8 April 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i was also wearing thesehttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2607/3840570672_11f4507a1f.jpg
not cool
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Friday, 8 April 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
enough with the italian tailoring already
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
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
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 10 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
don't forget the whole camouflage-with-gold-embroidered-patterns-on-it thing
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link