Random fashion thoughts - Part II (A New Hope)

[MickeyPunch]

I'm kind of astonished by the wholesale adoption of ripped / destroyed denim. Obviously the raw denim thing has been over for a while, but I feel like we're back in the aughts with skinny jeans from JE+Co and SLP replacing the bootcuts from 7FAM and True Religion.

Even worse. You see guys wearing stuff like this:



But they're on the shorter side so those huge holes end up mid-shin.

 

[notwithit]



Hmm, I wonder if the raw denim thing will ever really be over over.  It's not exactly the new thing anymore, but it seems to still have quite a following, and I could see it holding on among certain people.  I know I'm old enough that I don't ever see myself putting on a pair of ripped jeans again.

Not over over, but it's kind of had its moment (I say this as someone who's worn raw denim just about every day for the past six years). It's no longer shiny and new, and we're probably past the days where anyone with a roll of selvedge denim and a dream could launch an internet startup and have a reasonable expectation of success.

See also: reddit ngram: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...edge&start=20071015&end=20150831&smoothing=10

Very true...it's either SLP or reddit or suits, I very rarely see anything remotely interesting. For this reason I couldn't nominate SF as a fashionable city, for the most part it's just people following some pre determined aesthetic and not daring to stray from it

I'll counter and say at least people are going for any aesthetic at all. It's always going to be a relatively slim segment of the population that's going to experiment with anything remotely unique. Here (Philly) people pretty much just wear mall-brand stuff, logo tees, &c. Unintentional normcore, maybe? It was almost a relief when I started seeing reddit-ified people around town in the past couple of years. Sure, they're not trying anything interesting or new, but at least they're trying.

 

[drmmr]



I'll be in Singapore at the end of this month - any recs for food and stuff to see/do? open to anything at the moment.

@penanceroyaltea *think* you live there?

How many days are you here for? Think there are a fair few Singaporeans on both swd and cm.

Most of the good food are in central/east side. It's been raining pretty much every day this week (monsoon season) so keep that in mind when packing.

 

[OccultaVexillum]

Siki Im SS17 looks really good, too bad it'll be impossible to find to buy anywhere

Yeah it looks really good.

Ssense still stocks him. Ecole has bits and pieces

Mostly only the Den Im stuff though, mainline Siki is essentially impossible to find unfortunately. Machus occasionally gets some of the Den Im line too and The Celect seems to have the most.

 

[Severisth]

Really like these 2 Siki looks off of Instagram

 

[momentoftruth]

i was big into raw denim for a while, then a couple years ago swore by Acne's stretch denim, and now I'm wearing Outlier Slim Dungarees any chance I get. It's hard to see yourself going back once you move on, but some people really like the story and personalization of raw denim

 

[gustavobradley]

Really like these 2 Siki looks off of Instagram

I'm really loving the look of cuffed sleeves on jackets that's been popping up a lot lately. Definitely adding that to future top coat/jacket criteria

 

[OccultaVexillum]

I know this has nothing to do with fashion, but I thought it would be worth asking here.
Is there a good, easy place to sell CD's? I don't feel like listing each individual cd on eBay or anything like that and even small stacks of the same artist is a chore. I'll take like $1-$2 each and have about 500+ to sell. I already unloaded about 300 at a cd/dvd resell place locally but they only took the more mainstream ****, the rest is all underground hip hop mostly from 2000-2010 (def jux, Rhymesayers and similar).
Is the best bet just garage sale for $1 each or is there some kind of online consignment shop that would pay me for it upfront?

 

[cocostella]

Amoeba Records if you're in SF, Berkley or LA.

 

[hennree]



definitely hit up some hawker centers, if nothing else.

geylang is an, uhh, interesting area

@hennree Assuming that you're just hanging around the city centre:

Food
Putien (Chinese. Several outlets in town)
Rumah Makan Minang (Indonesian)
Koh Nang Kam (Thai Muslim)
Nobu-ya (Japanese Izakaya. Reservation required for weekends. Ordering of alcohol is a must, else you'll be turned away)

Drinks with view
1-Altitude
Level 33
Smoke & Mirrors
Lepark (a slightly different kind of view)

Things to do
Enjoy sunset at Marina Barrage Rooftop
Rent a bicycle and cycle from the Marina Bay area to Changi Village (somewhere near the airport) on a coastal bike path. You don't have to do the entire route naturally.

If you have the budget, stay a night at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, just to have a swim in the infinity pool

How many days are you here for? Think there are a fair few Singaporeans on both swd and cm.

Most of the good food are in central/east side. It's been raining pretty much every day this week (monsoon season) so keep that in mind when packing.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Some of those rooftop bars look great & yeah I'm gunna be spending a lot of time at the hawker centers.

I'll be there for 4 days. I've been checking the weather for a while and according to BBC it rains in Singapore 24/7.

 

[Darkside]

Not over over, but it's kind of had its moment (I say this as someone who's worn raw denim just about every day for the past six years). It's no longer shiny and new, and we're probably past the days where anyone with a roll of selvedge denim and a dream could launch an internet startup and have a reasonable expectation of success.

See also: reddit ngram: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...edge&start=20071015&end=20150831&smoothing=10
I'll counter and say at least people are going for any aesthetic at all. It's always going to be a relatively slim segment of the population that's going to experiment with anything remotely unique. Here (Philly) people pretty much just wear mall-brand stuff, logo tees, &c. Unintentional normcore, maybe? It was almost a relief when I started seeing reddit-ified people around town in the past couple of years. Sure, they're not trying anything interesting or new, but at least they're trying.

Isn't "unintential normcore" just normal?

 

[OccultaVexillum]



Amoeba Records if you're in SF, Berkley or LA.

I'm in Syracuse, NY

There's 2 places here and they only take the "know" stuff. Has anybody used "Decluttr"?

 

[notwithit]



Isn't "unintential normcore" just normal?

Yes, but more fraught with meaning.

 

[the shah]

anybody in nyc saturday i might get together with @snowmanxl

 

[Biggskip]



anybody in nyc saturday i might get together with @snowmanxl

No, but if you're driving, hit me up on your way back to AA.