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

[troika]

Yo was this a Division Road joke?

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I just watched the video - this is RIDICULOUS.

I can't wait for them to start carrying Southern Tide and trying to match vibergs to vineyard vines ties.

This is the kind of "heritage" that was never really about the heritage.

 

[cb200]

This recent article on HS made me nostalgic for the "good 'ol days"

Superfuture and the Fashion World of the Secret Internet

In the early 2000's, Superfuture became one of the centers of commerce, celebrity and aesthetics. Today, it may offer a radical escape from Big Tech.

www.highsnobiety.com

Any sufu heads still on here?

I was definitely educated by the forums. GQ style and AAAC to SF and Sufu

Nice read. One thing that stuck out to me was, "and micro-trends from trad to babycore exist on TikTok and Instagram and have a shelf-life of a few months max before they’re poached by cool-hunters"

It immediately made me think of the first mention I heard of "cool hunting" in an article in the New Yorker a million years ago... it brought up a similar issue in that cool hunting was accelerating the speed of the new. It's absurdly fast now.

Just looked up the article date - it was almost 25 years ago. Wild. Talk about acceleration. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/03/17/the-coolhunt

 

[jaaz16]

^ I remember reading that article in college and it really stuck with me. It’s intuitive and almost obvious if you follow that side of the industry, but I thought Gladwell did a good job synthesizing it into a compelling narrative.

 

[DLester]

I just remember SuFu as a bunch of grown men being aggressively protective of an identity while denigrating others and making lurid remarks about women.

What was that other site with all the Rick/dark gothy stuff from around 2010? I remember people were always getting banned from there. Someone named Faust or something like that ran it.

 

[Mulan]

@DLester
StyleZeitgeist

 

[sinnedk]

Yea he ran it into the ground

 

[Mulan]

One time Mr.Moo posted an all-black fit pic on their site (leather jacket included of course). The styling won praise before he mentioned that his jacket was Armani.

After much criticism, Faust argued the outfit was bad because it wasn't "culturally relevant."

 

[sinnedk]

One time Mr.Moo posted an all-black fit pic on their site (leather jacket included of course). The styling won praise before he mentioned that his jacket was Armani.

After much criticism, Faust argued the outfit was bad because it wasn't "culturally relevant."

I remember that, moo, synth and I had a good laugh about it at a bar in SF

 

[dieworkwear]

This is a great time to talk about StyleZeigeist since @gaseousclay just learned this word

 

[DoubleDouble]

Love the way Mark Maggiori wears dress-y trousers in a casual way







Thinking of trying this out (sans cowboy boots) by thrifting PRL, and maybe getting something from Casatlantic, has anyone tried their pants?

 

[dieworkwear]

Love the way Mark Maggiori wears dress-y trousers in a casual way







Thinking of trying this out (sans cowboy boots) by thrifting PRL, and maybe getting something from Casatlantic, has anyone tried their pants?

I haven't tried Casatlantic, but I used to buy PRL pants when they were made in Italy. I think production has moved to Hickey Freeman (which may still be good. I just haven't tried them). The PRL pants back in the day were separated into two lines -- ones made in China and then ones made in Italy. The Italian ones had a fit that was similar to the Maggiori photos above. Looser, high rise, etc. You can taper them below the knee if you want to give the pants more shape.

IMO, "rustic" materials such as cavalry twill, whipcord, and Bedford cord work well for that sort of Maggiori look.

Cavalry twill is the top pair here:

Whipcord and Bedford cord here:

 

[dalevy]

Love the way Mark Maggiori wears dress-y trousers in a casual way







Thinking of trying this out (sans cowboy boots) by thrifting PRL, and maybe getting something from Casatlantic, has anyone tried their pants?

Just wore mine from casatlantic for the first time. got the linen cottton in the vanilla colo. Recommend. This is the pleated model with belt loops, the widest cut I think. I wouldn’t call these dressy exactly. They are fancier chinos.

 

[whorishconsumer]

“Afraid of zeitgeist, afraid of zeitgeist, Instagram, Division Road’s moving to the South, trickle down, stuck in the Cold War, give me money please.”

Given I now have the context of having watched the video, I dare say the above post by M. Gaseous was with trollish intentions. If not intended to simply stir the pot, then I should think it would be more cathartic to own one's position than dissimulate by ironically suggesting you are of the opposite position, or what you interpret to be the position you are coyly opposing.

Having said that, that video can best be summarized as:

“Afraid of zeitgeist, afraid of zeitgeist, Instagram, Division Road’s moving to the South, trickle down, stuck in the Cold War?, wine cabanas, give me money please.”

 

[DoubleDouble]

I haven't tried Casatlantic, but I used to buy PRL pants when they were made in Italy. I think production has moved to Hickey Freeman (which may still be good. I just haven't tried them). The PRL pants back in the day were separated into two lines -- ones made in China and then ones made in Italy. The Italian ones had a fit that was similar to the Maggiori photos above. Looser, high rise, etc. You can taper them below the knee if you want to give the pants more shape.

IMO, "rustic" materials such as cavalry twill, whipcord, and Bedford cord work well for that sort of Maggiori look.

Cavalry twill is the top pair here:
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Whipcord and Bedford cord here:

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Thank you sir, incredibly helpful as usual!

 

[gaseousclay]

This is a great time to talk about StyleZeigeist since I just learned this word

ftfy *adjusts monocle*