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

[gdl203]

Re seed tees, I think we need @gdl203 up in here.

I don’t have much of an opinion. I think they are fun and often look good (better than other graphic tees) in fits poking under an open shirt or jacket.

We always stocked them when Niche offered them and they always sold out quickly so they must strike a chord (probably because of the stated-above fact that they often look good in fits).

I didn’t even realize until today they were a source of debate. If you enjoy wearing yours, I mean who cares what other people who don’t think about them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it’s just a colorful tee with flowers on them.

 

[hoodog]

Cowboy + Japanese Americana

Way ahead of you there bro. Cowboy + stuff like Kapital is where it's at. ??

 

[hoodog]

I don’t have much of an opinion. I think they are fun and often look good (better than other graphic tees) in fits poking under an open shirt or jacket.

We always stocked them when Niche offered them and they always sold out quickly so they must strike a chord (probably because of the stated-above fact that they often look good in fits).

I didn’t even realize until today they were a source of debate. If you enjoy wearing yours, I mean who cares what other people who don’t think about them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it’s just a colorful tee with flowers on them.

Seems like an opinion to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How the motherland treating you?

 

[BlakeRVA]

Seems like an opinion to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How the motherland treating you?

I'm liking all the sass recently

 

[hoodog]

I'm liking all the sass recently

It's part of my cowboy fits. ?

 

[dieworkwear]

Paris art scene, 1950s. An amazingly cosmopolitan place full of really well-dressed people

Chinese painter and modernist Zao Wou-Ki in the back with art dealer Pierre Loeb (seated with sweater), artists Maria Elena Vieira da Silva (left), Germain (with cigarette), Georges Mathieu (front, left), and Jean-Paul Riopelle (front, right). Look at the curvature on Germain's lapels!

The friends in front of empty wine bottles.

Argentine artist Sergio de Castro in his studio. Now buried near his friend Samuel Beckett. Cool but simple sport shirt here and almost Garrett Leight-ish glasses.

Bernard Buffet, French Expressionist and member of the anti-abstract art group L'homme Témoin (the Witness-Man), drinking at Café 'Chez Constant" in 1950.

Buffet with friends Maurice Garnier & Agnès Nanquette. Looks like Buffett is wearing a Mackinaw or jeep coat. You can sometimes find similar coats on eBay if you search for "French hunting coat," but I have no idea if this style was actually used in France for hunting. It's just how I've seen one or two sellers describe the garment.

Joan Miró, Hans Hartung, Wifredo Lam, Alberto Giacometti, and Nicolas de Staël in their studios in 1954. Giacometti's inverted tie is very sprezzy. Lam's trousers are enviable. Hartung looks like he could talk to you about A Continous Lean.

Jean-Paul Riopelle in his studio in 1952. Close up of his shoes. Very 2021 Wallace & Barnes ad campaign.

Michel Seuphor, Marguerite Arp, Denise Colomb, and Jean Arp in Arp's studio in 1954. Check out Seuphor's Ivy-ish light socks with penny loafers. Mid-calf! Not following the rules.

Surrealists Leonor Fini & Leonora Carrington in 1952.

Hungarian painter Arpad Szenes in Maria Elena Vieira da Silva's atelier. The two were married. Nice chore coat.

The photographer behind the lens, Denise Colomb, with her Rolleiflex in 1953.

More photos in the book Portraits D'Artistes, Les Années 50/60

 

[OccultaVexillum]

These are straight from the DBF moodboard right?

 

[Superb0bo]

Almost like the animosity reveals an unconscious fear that the seed tees just provides another example of how arbitrary cultural products become popular through bandwagon path dependence https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.pdf

How about an all black seed tee with black lilies on it and black stitching? Maybe, maybe, throw in some dark gray in there somewhere. But not too much of course. Wouldn't want to make too much of a distraction from the black.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

It's all just chat about hobbies, people. If my house burned down tomorrow, it wouldn't be my wardrobe I tried to save. And I wouldn't really have lost anything important if it did.

Which leads to a question: is there actually a piece of clothing or a pair of shoes etc. any of us would risk being burned alive to save?

 

[hoodog]

Almost like the animosity reveals an unconscious fear that the seed tees just provides another example of how arbitrary cultural products become popular through bandwagon path dependence https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.pdf

I'll get my associate in charge of R&D and academics @Fuuma to analyze that report and get back to you with a comment.

 

[sinnedk]

What are “seed” ts exactly?

 

[skeen7908]

Are they literally copies of old seed packets ?

or are these actually freshly designed principally as a T-shirt print ?

 

[gdl203]

They’re not actual packets. They’re designed to resemble seed packets

 

[sushijerk]

I used to think the seed t pics were taken from pictures of old packets because the resolution on the print graphic is kind of low, but there's a bunch of variations on the same flower so I'm not sure?

I always wondered if the seed ts had any awareness outside of sf but then I noticed stussy knocked off the design earlier this year.

 

[sinnedk]

Pics plz