Random Fashion Thoughts (Part 3: Style farmer strikes back) - our general discussion thread

[Parker]

nada

 

[RegisDB9]

This artisanal ink blot shirt thing.....I wants it

 

[Purplelabel]

This artisanal ink blot shirt thing.....I wants it

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That would **** with my mind all day.

 

[MaiLam]

@dieworkwear I read your blog post a few days ago about Genuine Scottish Knits and their potential link to ESK. Bought something from them this morning and the paypal address paid was 'ESK Valley', think that's that confirmed! Cashmere/silk blends for £49 is kinda nuts.

 

[Purplelabel]

@dieworkwear I read your blog post a few days ago about Genuine Scottish Knits and their potential link to ESK. Bought something from them this morning and the paypal address paid was 'ESK Valley', think that's that confirmed! Cashmere/silk blends for £49 is kinda nuts.

Goes to show that brand name is a massive mark up. I'd be interested to know how fine the cashmere is?

 

[mythage]

I'd be interested in sizing on genuine scottish knits

 

[notwithit]

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/...ly-cool-you-down-when-you-get-hot-and-sweaty/

 

[OccultaVexillum]

This artisanal ink blot shirt thing.....I wants it

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This is the kind of **** that makes me hate Margiela...
Why is this good?
I'm not trying to **** on things that other people like, but there a certain things I don't understand.
This is equally as corny as that lipstick shirt to me.
I can get behind an all over print that is an ink blot but just having one single spot of black birdshit on your shirt is silly.

 

[notwithit]

It's a little less gross than the RO 'bleach vomit' tees, at least.

 

[RegisDB9]

This is the kind of **** that makes me hate Margiela...
Why is this good?
I'm not trying to **** on things that other people like, but there a certain things I don't understand.
This is equally as corny as that lipstick shirt to me.
I can get behind an all over print that is an ink blot but just having one single spot of black birdshit on your shirt is silly.

I have this convo with my lady all the time over “Martin Margelly”

My answer is ....I just like it haha. That lipstick shirt is one of my favorite Margiela pieces ever btw

 

[FlyingMonkey]

I can't see that it's any more stupid than any of the other fake ageing, patching, staining etc. that is everywhere in the clothing industry from basic washing of jeans through 'paint-splashed' workwear to Kapital's entirely fake boro stuff that looks like it was taken from the body of a murdered rice farmer from the nineteenth century. If anything, it's more interesting because it deliberately draws attention to its own fakeness and thereby comments on the whole phenomenon more generally, while still managing to look kinda cool (which is Margiela all over).

 

[Callusing]

It's a little less gross than the RO 'bleach vomit' tees, at least.

I really liked a couple pieces from that collection. Especially the Ramones.

Not enough to pay mainline prices for them (retail was ~$1100), but if I owned one pair of Ramones it would probably be those. I like em enough I briefly considered paying $400 for em. But I rarely wear hightops these days.

 

[smittycl]

Needed a good running shoe in wide with max cushioning. Usually wear Hoka but thought I'd give these a try. I only wear sneakers for athletics and don't aim for style but not a bad looking shoe, really.

 

[zissou]

@dieworkwear I read your blog post a few days ago about Genuine Scottish Knits and their potential link to ESK. Bought something from them this morning and the paypal address paid was 'ESK Valley', think that's that confirmed! Cashmere/silk blends for £49 is kinda nuts.

Some of their patterns look the same as ESK Cashmere knits that I own, so I'm not surprised. I don't think ESK Cashmere is particularly profitable, so it makes sense that they also produce a "budget line" under a different name. Some of the sale items do seem to be a good deal for the yarn. @dieworkwear I am reasonably certain that GSN is not past season ESK. Many of those yarns and colors did not appear on the ESK site.

Goes to show that brand name is a massive mark up. I'd be interested to know how fine the cashmere is?

It's not just a mark up. Most of the yarns used for GSN, including shetland and lambswool, can be generally boring and itchy. My ESK Cashmere knits are mostly camel hair and chunky extrafine merino, which are considerably more expensive. If you want to talk about markup, compare ESK Cashmere to Nigel Cabourn (produced by ESK). I bought the same Norwegian knit in chunky merino from ESK for half the price from Cabourn. Plus, if you can catch an ESK sale (didn't seem to happen this year), you can get some really nice deals on beautiful knits.

 

[OccultaVexillum]

@RegisDB9 that’s a perfectly legitimate answer and honestly the only one that would make sense to me. Personal preference.

@FlyingMonkey I don’t understand that reasoning at all. That other stuff you mentioned is awful as well. And you just it’s no more stupid than all that other stuff but still said that the Margiela is cool.