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

[zissou]

Just what I’ve always wanted- unlined Harris Tweed jeans!

 

[K. Nights]

This weekend a friend's kid referred to my 501s as "skinny jeans".
The pendulum has swung too far.

 

[conceptual 4est]

margiela needs somebody who breathes textile and can engage the conceptual .

Masayuki Ino from Doublet!

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

This weekend a friend's kid referred to my 501s as "skinny jeans".
The pendulum has swung too far.

It's time to break out the Band of Outsiders and show these kids what's up

*sorry, "J. Crew tailored to look like BoO"

 

[RegisDB9]

I wonder when the pendulum will swing back to the good ol days of the SF approved Dior 19cm sized down 3

 

[LA Guy]

I wonder when the pendulum will swing back to the good ol days of the SF approved Dior 19cm sized down 3

I had those, though not sized down. Even so, it was actually hard to figure out how to get on my bike. Sorta had to tilt the bike and step over and then pull the bike vertical again. Oh, how we miss you, Hedi.

 

[MickeyPunch]

It’s fascinating to me how cyclic fashion is. I posted a meme of Jurassic Park’s character Ian Malcolm yesterday and got me thinking, man, 10 years ago he’d been ridiculed for wearing a leather blazer, unbuttoned tucked shirt with a silver necklace (Chrome Hearts? lol) and regular jeans but these days he’d be the coolest guy in the bar. And Jurassic Park was over 30 years ago. Perhaps too monochrome/black/stylezeitgeist (it’s explained in the book how he didn’t want to think about what to wear every day so he only had black and grey clothes, which go well together) but anyway, I see wbaker getting 30+ thumbs with this fit (including some JMM jeffs lol).

My theory is that it boils down to kids absolutely not wanting to dress like their parents. Because when you’re a teenager, your parents are the uncoolest thing ever.

 

[Texasmade]

It’s fascinating to me how cyclic fashion is. I posted a meme of Jurassic Park’s character Ian Malcolm yesterday and got me thinking, man, 10 years ago he’d been ridiculed for wearing a leather blazer, unbuttoned tucked shirt with a silver necklace (Chrome Hearts? lol) and regular jeans but these days he’d be the coolest guy in the bar. And Jurassic Park was over 30 years ago. Perhaps too monochrome/black/stylezeitgeist (it’s explained in the book how he didn’t want to think about what to wear every day so he only had black and grey clothes, which go well together) but anyway.

Life finds a way.

 

[MickeyPunch]

Life finds a way.

Lol, it does indeed.

 

[StanleyVanBuren]

My theory is that it boils down to kids absolutely not wanting to dress like their parents.

I generally agree with that.

Lately, however, I've been noticing a different trend. I see what I assume is a 14 year old and they dress exactly the way I did when I was 14 in 1996. Now, I don't have children myself, but at 42, I have to imagine that many of these 14 year olds have parents my age, and they've just adopted the entire 1996 look wholesale, with little to no updates.

To your original point, it would be like if I were dressing like it was 1961 when I was 14 (going off my dad's age--born in 47). No one was doing that. Or maybe the weirdest person at your school was, but not the entire class.

In fairness, no one my age still dresses like it is 1996. So the kids aren't copying their parents current style, but it's still just really weird that we had about 20 years of kids dressing differently before the style became not just a repeat of some former fashion, or a typical pendulum swing, but the exact thing that their parents would have worn at their same age.

Did I say 20 years? ****.

 

[Keyser_Söze]

I generally agree with that.

Lately, however, I've been noticing a different trend. I see what I assume is a 14 year old and they dress exactly the way I did when I was 14 in 1996. Now, I don't have children myself, but at 42, I have to imagine that many of these 14 year olds have parents my age, and they've just adopted the entire 1996 look wholesale, with little to no updates.

To your original point, it would be like if I were dressing like it was 1961 when I was 14 (going off my dad's age--born in 47). No one was doing that. Or maybe the weirdest person at your school was, but not the entire class.

In fairness, no one my age still dresses like it is 1996. So the kids aren't copying their parents current style, but it's still just really weird that we had about 20 years of kids dressing differently before the style became not just a repeat of some former fashion, or a typical pendulum swing, but the exact thing that their parents would have worn at their same age.

Did I say 20 years? ****.

I will counter you and say they adopted the 1996 look book but do it half ass. It was MUCH better in 1996.

 

[MickeyPunch]

I generally agree with that.

Lately, however, I've been noticing a different trend. I see what I assume is a 14 year old and they dress exactly the way I did when I was 14 in 1996. Now, I don't have children myself, but at 42, I have to imagine that many of these 14 year olds have parents my age, and they've just adopted the entire 1996 look wholesale, with little to no updates.

To your original point, it would be like if I were dressing like it was 1961 when I was 14 (going off my dad's age--born in 47). No one was doing that. Or maybe the weirdest person at your school was, but not the entire class.

In fairness, no one my age still dresses like it is 1996. So the kids aren't copying their parents current style, but it's still just really weird that we had about 20 years of kids dressing differently before the style became not just a repeat of some former fashion, or a typical pendulum swing, but the exact thing that their parents would have worn at their same age.

Did I say 20 years? ****.

Yeah I agree; kids don’t want to dress like their parents now, but they’re definitely ok wearing what their parents wore before they wore born.

 

[whorishconsumer]

I wonder when the pendulum will swing back to the good ol days of the SF approved Dior 19cm sized down 3

Not as long as I draw breath

 

[LA Guy]

Yeah I agree; kids don’t want to dress like their parents now, but they’re definitely ok wearing what their parents wore before they wore born.

My kids raid my closets regularly. Sometimes one of them will twin with me on their sneakers. Latest are Adidas x Neighbourhood shelltoes.

 

[the shah]

Where is our man jet to fill in on some MM knowledge

Selling artisanal nuts and bolts in a hardware shop I think