ils thread for general menswear and men's clothing ish

laughed way too hard at "business moomoo"

do we believe that style should speak a social language as in this thread? or can we have a little bit of "art project" as a treat?

there's a very painful period when you see guys start to pay attention to clothes and they start to dress worse than they did before they started paying attention to clothes pic.twitter.com/RWNGjiv6SB

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) December 18, 2022

style always speaks a social language either way, whether you are consciously doing it ot not ihibidtae

yeah i think thats right mainly social art project as a treat xp

maybe it's that always knowing it's a social language makes the art project part either good or bad i guess

also if you're going to color outside the lines you better not wear sad tan loafers with mile long shoelace loops

ha i noticed that too

its pretty funny this guy claims he representing traditional masculinity by wearing a suit when hes out there dressed like the joker

Or Two-Face

true

one thing about the guys newly into clothes who have no taste or social understanding is theyre peacocking like crazy just cannot chill in their cool new clothes, look how comfy and depressed he was in his old normal clothes, wasnt telling anyone about the little pictures of a billionaire on his tie

im going to have a stroke pic.twitter.com/r94Vk1t3Fc

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) January 3, 2023

almost shocking how unsexy this guy is for a fascist, there have been some sexy fascists

in this theory of fascism, peterson goes in the loser creep wing

I have been doing a lot of research and want to briefly share one observation: Nazism has weird loser creep vibes, but Italian Fascism has douchey jock vibes, fascism was at its heart a nerd-bully alliance

— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) September 22, 2022

There was a store near me in Queens that sold those clownish suits and dress shirts in styles like that, always Italian-sounding makers I had never heard of

Like the guys in Curious George who have the yellow suits.

"What kind of meatball would buy these?"

no talkin bad bout the man in the yellow hat now

i recently bought these ott wesco engineer boots and i didn't have anything that i could wear them with, so a few months later i ended up with camo-pattern duck dynasty utility pants and a buffalo check flannel in ice blue, both from taylor stitch, and i wear the outfit to work and the boots, the camo and the pattern clash are something lol. def 'my job is boring let's see what i can get away with' vibes.

with notes of embarrassing masc midlife crisis in female dominated career. oh well!!!!!!

i feel like you absolutely gotta grow a beard and keep it luxuriantly waxed for an outfit like that

beard: check. waxing: great idea, will probably get into it!

lol, I remembered one of the shops from Queens (there were actually two, but this one had its own clothing label)

https://www.anthonyforesthills.com/

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1032/1561/files/SHIRT_2_720x.jpg?v=1614341196

maybe it's that always knowing it's a social language makes the art project part either good or bad i guess

― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 5:40 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is right! you have to be in conversation with *something*

xp The peacocking-menswear shop where I live was also called Anthony! Maybe they are all called that.

I am very pro throwing things together and just seeing what happens...I did go through a phase of wearing two shirts at once in my younger "does this work" days, I looked pretty stupid most of the time but it was fun. Obviously to be done with the right attitude to life.

some good advice from the fashion specialist https://www.anthonyforesthills.com/pages/fashion-specialist

do we believe that style should speak a social language as in this thread? or can we have a little bit of "art project" as a treat?

idk, what makes fashion fun isn't the part he's calling an "art project", it has nothing really to do with arranging colors and shapes, it's more theatrical. Clothes are an important vehicle for transformation specifically because they're so deeply encoded with social signals for something so easily acquired and shed. And that appeals to my playful sense, sure, but it can also be kinda serious? I just feel like, to achieve the confluence he's talking about between fashion choices and lifestyle/personality isn't making good on that transformative potential. imo what's more interesting than wearing clothes to articulate your personality is not to. The exciting part isn't being able to define yourself, it's being able to sidestep a designated or chosen identity, to constantly undermine yourself and step into new and unfamiliar roles.

Besides all that do we really want Jordan Peterson to disguise himself as a normal academic in the name of 'good taste'

If the guy's position is clothes should describe something about the wearer, i'm getting 'unhinged, possible sociopath, makes his living "thinking" but nobody asks to see the credentials' from Peterson's new look

all of that otm

uh oh i ordered my first filson item, a trucker hat :| . mission outdoor daddy realness is moving ahead and not all my inner voices like it, but fuck em!

they do make nice stuff

i joined like 4 filson buy / trade fb groups lol

ha nice

the hat is great - didn't think a trucker hat could feel "good" and "substantial" when worn.

there's this party we go to every year, it's formal dress but also kind of not, lately I've been going in more and more ridiculous outfits

this year I decided what I want to wear - I want to wear that stupid black and white checkered shirt and white cowboy hat that Garth Brooks is wearing on The Chase album cover. one of the most iconic dumb looks of all time, I think.

but I can't find the shirt! surely it must exist somewhere? all I can find are shirts with the album cover on it, sometimes checkered in the same pattern, which is kind of funny. but not what I'm looking for. where might I find something like this???

close… https://www.walmart.com/ip/Berlioni-Italy-White-Collar-Cuffs-Mens-Two-Tone-Dress-Shirt-19-Colors-Sizes/142990630

Quick google search reveals it's a vintage Mo Betta western shirt. Search ebay/etsy/poshmark etc for Mo Betta i guess. Looks like they're all equally ridiculous even if you don't find the exact shirt.

need to talk to this guy

Let’s get to the stories behind the albums and some things I have never even seen before! Join here https://t.co/h5tx2O7Ie2 love, g#GARTHonVINYL is ON SALE now. Pre-order YOUR limited numbered edition while supplies last pic.twitter.com/76cuPYMuJb

— Garth Brooks (@garthbrooks) April 12, 2019

holy hell those shirts are HIDEOUS!! I must buy a few

filson fb group scene report: these guys are kind of weird, definitely richer than me, somehow i doubt any of them are like regular hunting season types, i mean i'm also an outdoorsman fetishist but not straight. filing my flirtation with filson for 10 years from now when i finally live in the pacific nw and have a job that pays me significantly more than 45k a year.

after hating turtlenecks my entire life…. it’s time

It is NEVER time for turtlenecks, rock that below the neck V!

well i do that too

hey all, would anyone object to a part II to this thread? 10k posts feels like the right time.

Sounds good!

No objections here...

good idea

It is NEVER time for turtlenecks, rock that below the neck V!

Sometimes my wife and I have this conversation like, "do you want Chinese food" and the answer is like, "no, we had Chinese food last night" and then somebody is like, "you know Chinese people eat Chinese food every day."

I wonder how turtles feel about turtlenecks. Like, "dude I wear a turtleneck literally all the time."

- Bob Marley

let's take it over here guys: ils menswear and men's clothing part 2: 2023 until we all need stillsuits