Random fashion thoughts - Part II (A New Hope)

[brightorangetrousers]

TOJ, Lawless Denim...who's next?

 

[habitant]



If anyone calls you out, you can just tell them that it's a Margiela, just like Kanye wears.

Also, the only way I know wtf my Editor-in-chief, @Synthese
 is doing, is to follow the Styleforum Instagram.  I, on the other hand, am prepping for Vancouver.  Roden Gray should be fun.  The last time I met up with Rob Lo (the owner), it was about five years ago at the Ace Hotel, in the "Wings+Horns" suite.  He tricked me at arm wrestling, and then I put him in a front choke.  Then we did a bunch of shots and ate snacks.  I think that we are both too old for that now, and we are meeting at 11:30 in the morning before the store opens, but who knows?

What are you doing in Vancouver? I will be there Saturday night.

 

[zissou]



TOJ, Lawless Denim...who's next?

Who knows, but both of those sagas are epic. They should be recorded in the annals of SF.

 

[LA Guy]

What are you doing in Vancouver? I will be there Saturday night.

Working, but I've made it into a working vacation, and am driving up with my family. So... probably not a lot of night activities. Except eating, which all Chinese people do a lot of.

 

[LA Guy]

I know you're joking. I am very sarcastic and just enjoy stirring **** up. It gets me in trouble at times.
Was teasing you about working out too; I think you mention it a few times a week at least. I've got chronic tendon pain as well, it sucks but I rather keep active and work around the pain than give up one of my favourite hobbies.

The tendon at my right elbow has always been injury prone, and it is again. I really can't do curls on a sustained basis. It's like some fate is preventing me from realizing my inner bro.

 

[Bortelli]

Hey. Don't usually post here. Thought Id get some insight from guys who have been in the style game longer.

How do you guys like to rock your pants? I can never seem to be satisfied with the fit of my pants chinos anything bottom related.

I kinda like my jeans skinny with no break, but I see some guys like cotton dockers rock cuffed and slightly slouchy?

How much do you taper your pants?

 

[LA Guy]

Hey. Don't usually post here. Thought Id get some insight from guys who have been in the style game longer.

How do you guys like to rock your pants? I can never seem to be satisfied with the fit of my pants chinos anything bottom related.

I kinda like my jeans skinny with no break, but I see some guys like cotton dockers rock cuffed and slightly slouchy?

How much do you taper your pants?

If I ever wore chinos, I'd do that.

 

[LA Guy]

Hmmm... now I sorta do want some La Portegna slippers... But they don't reach that threshold to get me a discount. Maybe I should get my dad a pair.

 

[Mulan]

As @Synthese and others like @Parker know, I'd probably tell you you look like a *******. But that wouldn't preclude us from getting along.

What about guys with an actual full head of hair tied back?

 

[Jabonator]

So, I'll be starting professional music studies next year. **** yeah!

 

[Fuuma]



So, as usual, I am using a term wrong.  I know what the term means, but I always thought that the connotation was essentially "French douchebag fashion", like... Beckham.  

Franchouillard merely means typically/cliche french and related to working class people. Envision red wine, berets, baguette and sausage + no interest in other cultures. When I used the term "franchouillard modasse" to talk about someone's look I basically perverted its use. I merely meant someone who dresses in a typical creative class Parisian look and used the franchouillard term to relay how pejoratively I saw it (I ******* hate that look). A few yrs ago it was Lanvin hi tops, slim raw jeans, white shirt too many buttons open, unshaved face, designer jacket and a readyness to invite young girls over to your apartment for a coke afterparty.

 

[Fuuma]



wife won some kind of plane tickets with her business plan competition. Gotta use this before the end of the year. Going to Singapore and Sri Lanka in December and busy with work in Oct-Nov, so maybe Aug or Sep? Which of these destinations are nice that time of year? Where can I buy clothes??

Isle of man!!

 

[LA Guy]

Franchouillard merely means typically/cliche french and related to working class people. Envision red wine, berets, baguette and sausage + no interest in other cultures. When I used the term "franchouillard modasse" to talk about someone's look I basically perverted its use. I merely meant someone who dresses in a typical creative class Parisian look and used the franchouillard term to relay how pejoratively I saw it (I ******* hate that look). A few yrs ago it was Lanvin hi tops, slim raw jeans, white shirt too many buttons open, unshaved face, designer jacket and a readyness to invite young girls over to your apartment for a coke afterparty.

Huh. I have heard it used, and I always thought that it was used in the same way that someone says "Football casuals" or "Liam Gallager" in the UK, very "Northern Flash", type of way. The way you've described it, it just sounds like a clubber in LA in 1999, minus the high tops.

 

[DLester]



When I used the term "franchouillard modasse" to talk about someone's look I basically perverted its use. I merely meant someone who dresses in a typical creative class Parisian look and used the franchouillard term to relay how pejoratively I saw it (I ******* hate that look). A few yrs ago it was Lanvin hi tops, slim raw jeans, white shirt too many buttons open, unshaved face, designer jacket.

ha that is pretty much how I dress sometimes. oh well...

 

[hennree]

I did a google image search on 'franchouillard modasse' and saw a familiar face.