[quote]KBCThird wrote:
Brother Chris wrote:
How about we wear the same fucking thing we wore this year and the same thing we’ve been wearing for the past 80 years. What’s wrong with a tailored suit,
It’s stuffy and for self-important queers, that’s what’s wrong with it.
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Completely disagree. A well-tailored suit should not be stuffy at all, and it should exude confidence, status, and power. When I get myself into a nice suit… testosterone flows like the Nile.
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
I didn’t realize this was anything new. Every season, designers send models down the catwalk in hideous outfits that your average person would never wear. The fashion magazines praise their creativity while the average person is left wondering where the hell anyone would wear that, outside of a fashion show. [/quote]
exactly. that’s why there are courture lines and ready-to-wear lines. 99.5% of people will only ever wear the latter.
[quote]iamthewolf wrote:
buckeye girl wrote:
I didn’t realize this was anything new. Every season, designers send models down the catwalk in hideous outfits that your average person would never wear. The fashion magazines praise their creativity while the average person is left wondering where the hell anyone would wear that, outside of a fashion show.
exactly. that’s why there are courture lines and ready-to-wear lines. 99.5% of people will only ever wear the latter.[/quote]
That is because what most couture lines have does not look good, and not really because people do not have the confidence to wear it.
[quote]buckeye girl wrote:
I didn’t realize this was anything new. [/quote]
You don’t understand; some here believe metrosexuals (or whatever the latest trendy name for this phenomenon is) is something new and is eventually going to turn all the following generations of men in limp wristed emo twats.
I mean, if things are like this now it can only get worse, right?
Well, let me ease the mind of the fear mongers out there. This shit is CYCLICAL! To most teenagers what their daddies and mommies found cool aren’t going to be cool to them… Guys currently in their late 20s to late 30s are more likely to dig big muscles than the generation BEFORE and AFTER theirs because Arnold was a huge influence in Hollywood and helped define masculinity for those of that generation.
The generation before probably thought anyone with a “bodybuilder” look to be a homo… The current generation has their own definition of masculinity… And guess what? The generation after theirs will rebel against whatever the previous generation liked… so muscle men will probably come back in vogue.
As far as skinny jeans and emos? Who gives a fuck about them… Some of you forget about the goth kids that came before them… Sure their hair was a bit longer but ultimately it was the same shit.
None of this shit is new… and the sky isn’t falling.
[quote]CrookedCrown wrote:
KBCThird wrote:
Brother Chris wrote:
How about we wear the same fucking thing we wore this year and the same thing we’ve been wearing for the past 80 years. What’s wrong with a tailored suit,
It’s stuffy and for self-important queers, that’s what’s wrong with it.
Completely disagree. A well-tailored suit should not be stuffy at all, and it should exude confidence, status, and power. When I get myself into a nice suit… testosterone flows like the Nile.[/quote]
You’re worried about what your clothing “exudes” … i think all that needs to be said has been said
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
iamthewolf wrote:
buckeye girl wrote:
I didn’t realize this was anything new. Every season, designers send models down the catwalk in hideous outfits that your average person would never wear. The fashion magazines praise their creativity while the average person is left wondering where the hell anyone would wear that, outside of a fashion show.
exactly. that’s why there are courture lines and ready-to-wear lines. 99.5% of people will only ever wear the latter.
That is because what most couture lines have does not look good, and not really because people do not have the confidence to wear it.[/quote]
i don’t think it’s a matter of it looking good. there are both ends of the spectrum, some of it is pretty sweet, and some of it is over-the-top rediculous. although to be fair, haute courture is all about being over-the-top. really, the two main reasons people don’t wear are:
a) it’s too expensive
b) they don’t fit into it
Trends like this shit happen with every generation. It’s nothing to be surprised by. We could call it modern day Fop if we wanted to. Mens clothing hasn’t really changed much in the last 150 or so years. The same basic pieces are the same. One quick look through old civil war era photo shows this pretty clearly. The cuts are obviously very different, but it’s still a jacket, vest and pants. (The 3 piece)
And it’s a style that will probably never really go out of style because all men, almost without exception look good in a well tailored 3 piece suit. Runway shoes are the fashion equivalent to a car show, concept ideas as well as production models are shown.
Why make shit no one’s wearing? Seriously.
There’s pretty much no benefit to mankind as a whole from shit like that and yet it persists.
[quote]Jeffe wrote:
Trends like this shit happen with every generation. It’s nothing to be surprised by. We could call it modern day Fop if we wanted to. Mens clothing hasn’t really changed much in the last 150 or so years. The same basic pieces are the same. One quick look through old civil war era photo shows this pretty clearly. The cuts are obviously very different, but it’s still a jacket, vest and pants. (The 3 piece)
And it’s a style that will probably never really go out of style because all men, almost without exception look good in a well tailored 3 piece suit. Runway shoes are the fashion equivalent to a car show, concept ideas as well as production models are shown. [/quote]
Yeah, except the difference between a car show and couture is that as long as I can fit in the car, most of the cars I would buy.
[quote]B rocK wrote:
How about we say “fuck you clothes” and go this route?!
edit: works just as sexy-ly for men.[/quote]
to use my quote and myself at proof…
the thing is courture has to viewed as half conceptual art and half fashion experiment. there’s really only so much a designer can do to clothing before people stop seeing it as something they would wear. this means that in order to express any kind of individualism or creativity a designer has to go far beyond the practical. this can be done any one of a thousand ways, but nearly all of them are something out of the ordinary to normal clothing. take someone like hussein chalayan. he’s a crazy, off the wall designer, but he does things that are super interesting from an artistic point of view. practical? no. wearable? barely. will ever be sold to the public? not likely. a perfect example of it is his spring / summer '07 collection…
he works with light, movement, mechanics / electronics. fashion as art is what it boils down to.
[quote]B rocK wrote:
B rocK wrote:
How about we say “fuck you clothes” and go this route?!
edit: works just as sexy-ly for men.
to use my quote and myself at proof…[/quote]
I hope you didn’t make that outfit just for this specific thread … if you did your commitment to this website compared to bettering yourself in real life is enormously askew and needs to be re-evaluated
[quote]Buff_mailman wrote:
Those fucking outfits should come with knee pads[/quote]
Hahahaha, I LOL’d!
you know those shows arent intended for what people are actually going to be wearing right? its just like showing shit off, like how car companies do concept cars, fashion companies do runways. like you might see some of those pieces sold but no one is going to wear them as theyre being displayed.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
B rocK wrote:
B rocK wrote:
How about we say “fuck you clothes” and go this route?!
edit: works just as sexy-ly for men.
to use my quote and myself at proof…
I hope you didn’t make that outfit just for this specific thread … if you did your commitment to this website compared to bettering yourself in real life is enormously askew and needs to be re-evaluated[/quote]
no i didn’t.
i made it for you.
see you later, stud.
Man the model in the white shortpantssuit looked PISSED. Understandable.
[quote]B rocK wrote:
polo77j wrote:
B rocK wrote:
B rocK wrote:
How about we say “fuck you clothes” and go this route?!
edit: works just as sexy-ly for men.
to use my quote and myself at proof…
I hope you didn’t make that outfit just for this specific thread … if you did your commitment to this website compared to bettering yourself in real life is enormously askew and needs to be re-evaluated
no i didn’t.
i made it for you.
see you later, stud.
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YAHTZEE
I don’t much care for the rest of the stuff on runways, but bow ties are fucking awesome. Always will be.
I wear a scarf. But then again, it’s winter and I like my health.