lol my current style tip is "try not to look homeless"
I've been trying and failing to get my husband to follow that advice for quite a while now.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 28 May 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
this is another tack at what I was trying to get to by the way - what I would want to teach the world of young duders is to look at this picture, borrow or don't (probably very don't) but look at how they are kind of pulling it off, and understand that the pulling it off is far more important than what you're putting on. If that makes sense. If it doesn't let's start over from the top.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Time_Crash.jpg(also seriously this picture, what, how is this 8 minutes of gold not available on my Roku)
I like that there's a bit of yoda in sprezzatura, there's no trying to have style (trying is super verboten), there is only having style. You can accomplish this lots of different ways. Failing is okay, you can wear a brown coat with black boots and it might work with the right shirt or it might not, but baggy gray suits or khakis with blue shirts every day is no way to live.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 July 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
skate shoes (or any canvas CVO really) with a twill blazer is horribly underrated imo
if anybody made exciting argyle socks that were the least bit comfortable, I could see that being a thing for me to try out, but the price for the fabric on what I've seen is a bit more precious than I can endure
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 July 2011 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like style guides are there to cause the brain to think abt clothes, eventually the thought one has is am i pulling this off, so its a process imho
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 July 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
of course ive never read a style guide cause im already a pimp ass gangster
i think if you order in bulk you can get some decent stuff @ happysocks for... well i mean socks are p cheap already so theyre hardly a steal but yknow, a reasonable price.
i run through socks too quickly to ever justify buying nice ones but i used to pick up paul smith ones @ barneys when they went on sale
― σ( ~̀..́~)σ -*TOT MOM*- (Lamp), Thursday, 7 July 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
argyle is too much pattern for me
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 7 July 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
whenever this thread shows up on new answers i think it is going to be about, like, the oxford comma
― thomp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
I like that there's a bit of yoda in sprezzatura, there's no trying to have style (trying is super verboten), there is only having style
yeah see i think that a sense of effortlessness can definitely elevate a look, but seeing style bloggers talking "how to sprezz" (no really) just seems completely laughably ass backwards
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 July 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i understand that sprezzatura is a sort of affected carelessness, but i just don't think it's always stylish. honestly i don't think it's bad to look like you put deliberate and fastidious care into your appearance!
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 July 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
However fashions change ultimately clean bright clothes are always a good look.
― 0pal_3ss, Thursday, 7 July 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
that's not exactly what i mean...
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 7 July 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
how to blog nonchalantly
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 7 July 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, and theyre having a clearance sale, buy 10 socks get 50% off. so like $50 for 10 pairs? not bad. i got like 25-30 pairs of them already though.
― phil-two, Friday, 8 July 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
honestly i don't think it's bad to look like you put deliberate and fastidious care into your appearance!
"appearing effortless" is not the same as "appearing as if you put in no effort"misinterpretations of sprezz are exactly as horrible as trying too hard
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 July 2011 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
fucking style guides for clothes are almost as bad as style guides for writing, I think is what we've learned here (replace "never use passive voice" with "sprezzy!")
― El Tomboto, Friday, 8 July 2011 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
no offense but aren't most of you lol old? who cares
― bros -izing bros (k3vin k.), Friday, 8 July 2011 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
idc im totally sprezzy abt all this
― ice cr?m, Friday, 8 July 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
honestly idk "sprezz"
or "swag" for that matter
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Friday, 8 July 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
just realized my jeans are stained with fake blood #sprezz
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Friday, 8 July 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
reading these guys proclaim the rules like they're set in stone and then seeing them post pictures of themselves looking like dressed-by-numbers cornballs is pretty entertaining. I'd also enjoy seeing how many of their Style Commandments would survive one single Carolina summer.
― Kerm, Friday, 8 July 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Let's just acknowledge that real style was never possible until converse all-stars opened a website that allowed the hoi polloi to order custom shoes for under a hundred buckos
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
the other day i was thinking about doing a fuckyeahmenswear thing but for mens fitness type shit like
dont come at me with those fucking salads sprezz-dawgi just ate at fucking baja fresh. twice. cuz i just eat fried shrimp like that.i see you in the morning running through park like a chump hampster when im fucking w/ all you can eat breakfastfor three hoursi got these abs when i bent down to pick up a pen i dropped. the only crunch i know is the captainso walk the plankfuckers tryna impress they dates with some kale and kidney beansput that quinoa away ive got genetics keeping me regular im fucking speedboat-dating supermodels while i get calf definition from just being so gd fly
― # (Lamp), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
haha for some reason i thought this was the thread where we talked about that site, guess not...
― # (Lamp), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lochv0dhS51qznrwro1_1280.jpg
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
durr
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/allocryptic/51309172.jpg
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 14 July 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
why are sarah palin's "girl parts" distressed
― max, Friday, 15 July 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
is that a wrinkled pussy joke?
― horseshoe, Friday, 15 July 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
sarah palin isnt that old!!
― max, Friday, 15 July 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
look it's not my wrinkled pussy joke
― horseshoe, Friday, 15 July 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
been thinkin about this a lot tbh
would it be too obvious and undergraduate of me to conclude the essential function of men's style guides is to police masculine gender hegemony and economic class privilege
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
i feel that is a boring thing to conclude, seems obvious to me but idk
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but its still p much true!
where w/e you want just be really handsome
this is still my one sentence style guide btw
― Monstrous TumTum (Lamp), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
oh totally
*reblogs old mcqueen photos*
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
*steve, i mean*
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Alright elmo, quincie, and anyone else: I put that style guide poll up FINALLY. Have at it.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
I completely agree with elmo's shit up there
disappointed that I missed the poll
fwiw the international cybersecurity practitioner style guide includes a LOT of not ironing anything, chuck taylors, non-shiny ironic "ha yeah like this is a tie but not serious" ties and shell toes. everybody is totally surprised
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like there should be a whole style guide just telling nerdy dudes how to be more like the last couple of dr. whos so they can get out of the black tshirt and doc martens hole we've been in for decades
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
You will have to leave Eccleston out of the guide then
― The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah yeah I meant smith and tennant. eccleston is exactly the problem (and more or less how I dressed during most of my 20s)
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
WILSON'S LEATHER
― The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
have been thinking about this quite a bit today, again
at this point, i have temporarily dropped out the blog circuit because the it was causing more resentment than enjoyment
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
i pretty much am a style guide now
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
j/k
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
I am a lot happier now that I've stopped looking at style blogs, geek li
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
whoops thar was supposed to say
feel like sometime last year I just figured out what I like and was able to start ignoring blogs, magazines, etc
what I like turned out to be dressing like my dad btw
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
I feel silly posting that because it makes it sound like I've figured out style, which i haven't, I think a lot of the time I look merely passable , functional, anonymous etc
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
ok, so i guess what i'm getting at is something my friend said. my friend, who i haven't spoken to in a long time, so let's call her acquaintance, was some sort of big stylist type. like one year she did all the branding for window displays at the gap, and one year for j crew, and one year for madewell, etc etc. and her advice was always "wear what you feel". like, wear clothes that feel like you and that feel how you feel, and don't wear clothes that don't, no matter how intellectually good they seem. she doesn't look like a model at all, in fact, she's pretty unglamorous looking, but she does always comfortable in her skin because she "wears what she feels", i guess.
i guess this is the problem w/ style guides, is they're based on what someone else feels, what "the mood of the season" is, etc
and i guess what i'm getting at is thank fucking god i finally feel comfortable enough to be able to wear what i feel, and to (vice-versa) know what i feel like, which is like almost always white and navy, sometimes green and tan, never feel like red or orange, really, ok maybe a tiny bit etc. and it feels good to be able to trust in that rather than to try to feel out what feels good from looking at style guides.
this aging thing isn't so bad after all, i guess.
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
unfortunately all of the above reads like braggin so sorry in advance
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:32 (eleven years ago) link