overplayed style

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