Random fashion thoughts - Part II (A New Hope)

[dieworkwear]

Crazy to think how ten years ago, there used to be threads for slim fit clothing because people had no idea where to turn (remember the absurdly long thread for slim fit dress shirts? Where guys would post endlessly asking where can they get a dress shirt that fits slimmer and slimmer and slimmer and slimmer and slimmer).

Now nobody knows where to find baggy clothing.

 

[LA Guy]

Crazy to think how ten years ago, there used to be threads for slim fit clothing because people had no idea where to turn (remember the absurdly long thread for slim fit dress shirts? Where guys would post endlessly asking where can they get a dress shirt that fits slimmer and slimmer and slimmer and slimmer and slimmer).

Now nobody knows where to find baggy clothing.

Well, people's tastes change/evolve/however you'd like to be characterized. The Savile Row obsession turned to Neapolitan obsession, fat ties turned to skinny ties back to more normal ties. Really high notches and gorges turned to more normal ones, and now seem to be turning back to lower ones that are reminiscent by not identical to those from the 80s and early 90s. Armani was really terrible and passe and now it's back. Jean rises got lower and lower until you had to manscape to be considered decent, and then got higher and higher, etc...

This forum is a pretty good testament to all of this. Hopefully, in a century or whatever, some scholar will turn to our database, and be able to map how various trends start, catch on, propagate through a population, become diffused, peak and ebb, and so on. Would be a cool project,.

 

[whorishconsumer]

Well, people's tastes change/evolve/however you'd like to be characterized. The Savile Row obsession turned to Neapolitan obsession, fat ties turned to skinny ties back to more normal ties. Really high notches and gorges turned to more normal ones, and now seem to be turning back to lower ones that are reminiscent by not identical to those from the 80s and early 90s. Armani was really terrible and passe and now it's back. Jean rises got lower and lower until you had to manscape to be considered decent, and then got higher and higher, etc...

This forum is a pretty good testament to all of this. Hopefully, in a century or whatever, some scholar will turn to our database, and be able to map how various trends start, catch on, propagate through a population, become diffused, peak and ebb, and so on. Would be a cool project,.

At that time we will all be wearing silicone potato sacks issued by our computer overlords.

 

[UrbanComposition]

Now nobody knows where to find baggy clothing.

I’ll ask the carpenters on my job where they get theirs.

 

[Lorcan7]

Late to the workwear party, but has anyone had any luck getting Nigel Cabourn baggy type silhouettes for pants, on the cheap?

Can this be achieved with anything by Stan Ray. Or would I get pretty close with buying vintage/Milspec and tapering?

I've been tempted by those Cabourn pants. You can find vintage fatigues with a tapered leg or drawstring hem. Probably still not quite as modern fitting as Cabourn though. Might have better luck with 1960s Euro (like Belgian, Dutch, Italian) rather than US fatigues. fun camo patterns too.

http://brut-clothing.com/surplus-army-store-paris-vintage/vintage-camouflage-archive-paris-showroom

or these are in more sizes
http://brut-clothing.com/surplus-army-store-paris-vintage/italian-paratrooper-pants

 

[the shah]

Now nobody knows where to find baggy clothing.

 

[LA Guy]

At that time we will all be wearing silicone potato sacks issued by our computer overlords.

Slim fit, slouchy fit, or baggy?

 

[UrbanComposition]

Anyone know where to get sweaters with interesting but not crazy patterns on them? I like the idea of something mildly interesting underneath outerwear. I’m not talking about fair isle, more abstract/streetwear.

 

[UrbanComposition]

As an example:

 

[Synthese]

Crazy to think how ten years ago, there used to be threads for slim fit clothing because people had no idea where to turn (remember the absurdly long thread for slim fit dress shirts? Where guys would post endlessly asking where can they get a dress shirt that fits slimmer and slimmer and slimmer and slimmer and slimmer).

Now nobody knows where to find baggy clothing.

Just last night I met a guy st a Christmas party who started complaining about not being able to find dress shirts slim enough - the one he was wearing didn't look like it could get any tighter. Untucked, cuffs turned back, dark wash denim and bicicyle toes. It was almost surreal.

 

[OccultaVexillum]

Evan Kinori has those shallow pleated pants that look really nice and relaxed like that.

 

[LA Guy]

Just last night I met a guy st a Christmas party who started complaining about not being able to find dress shirts slim enough - the one he was wearing didn't look like it could get any tighter. Untucked, cuffs turned back, dark wash denim and bicicyle toes. It was almost surreal.

Trends have about a full decade in lag time. The boutiques that we talk about here are nearly all considered to be on the "bleeding edge". The fits are generally not that accessible, the prices are high (remember that $100 for a shirt is considered dedadent by the vast majority of people, anywhere.), the styles require special vocabulary to describe - ask someone what they think of sashiko and boro, and watch their eyes get that confused expression before they glaze over as you describe the scarcity of cotton in Edo Japan. I'm guessing that that guy was in his late 20s through early 30s. By that time, most people's ideas about fashion, music, etc... have calcified.

That said, bicycle toes are pretty old school. That's some late 90s stuff.

 

[dieworkwear]

As an example: View attachment 889503

Wooyoungmi often has stuff like that, but I do't see anything right now.

 

[Gus]

Crazy to think how ten years ago, there used to be threads for slim fit clothing because people had no idea where to turn (remember the absurdly long thread for slim fit dress shirts? Where guys would post endlessly asking where can they get a dress shirt that fits slimmer and slimmer and slimmer and slimmer and slimmer).

Now nobody knows where to find baggy clothing.

The right time for the return in popularity of the Comes de Garcon Forever Shirt Wide. I think this in white, worn with jeans or khakis and black derbys is a classic look.

 

[robinsongreen68]

i really really really hope that hundred-year-in-the-future scholars will have found something better to do than trend mapping