Rolling Street Style / Fashion Blog Thread

Socks is high: this girl doesn't exactly look amazing in general, but the choice of gray socks is ... clever.

http://bp0.blogger.com/_v7ll7o_zYLE/RqpH_RvLiOI/AAAAAAAAACw/1c8URaJ7UcI/s400/haarlemmerstraat.jpg

What are those two things on his scarf??

http://www.oslostil.com/diaryphotos/152.jpg

Gray socks strike again (why because they look etc.)

http://mattancey.free.fr/minimi/paris/138.jpg

"Did you just call me a yuppie? Thanks, that's kind of the look I was working on!"

http://mattancey.free.fr/minimi/paris/118.jpg

don't forget

http://www.streetpeeper.com/

Picturing this man on a fashion blog is like announcing that you hate everything there is to hate about legs.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1250290023_3d53f5ec85.jpg?v=0

http://www.youcatwalk.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/152_pontus.jpg

Man, if I were wearing a collar that great, I would so not distract from it with those boots.

http://www.youcatwalk.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/125_anna.jpg

What are those two things on his scarf??

ipod headphones?

(was that rhetorical?)

No, I really couldn't tell! That makes perfect sense, though.

nabisco is not as good at fashion crit as the Tracer Hand is.

now do some don'ts nabisco

Tracer Hand aka Leatherpants McGee

Are you trying to create ILX's own Vice?

I love that girl's bag up there.

This is not do's + don'ts, this is poking around various blogs and discussing (with myself, evidently)!

Recommend justglitterlust.blogspot.com for peek into fashions of Tallinn, Estonia.

P.S. Anyone remember my timeline of the 00s where I predicted "skank saturation" and "skank backlash?" Can we consider this "skank backlash?"

http://bp3.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/Rtacqv4lLVI/AAAAAAAAB98/DQzkZ5xlJw8/s400/Wrapped.jpg

dude in the brown members only jacket looked like he stepped off the film set of Barcelona.

There were a ton of mannequins at Macy's this past weekend donning the gray knee high sock look.

Cuz he kinda looks like Chris Eigmann!

he does!

Maroon sweater man looks like Jack McBrayer.

I love maroon sweater man.

Someone needs to photoshop Maroon Cardigan so he's stepping off a plane onto a pre-statehood Hawaiian island.

There are at least three other guys in Stockholm who look basically like that -- one looked even better, due to shoe/shirt coordination -- but I skipped along.

Hello, Estonia!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1278/1313653222_ae44a7430c.jpg?v=0

Note, re: Maroon Cardigan: two bags!

One is a portfolio, Nabisco. For his art.

that woman is beautiful but clearly insane.

her cheekbones are delicious.

her yellow bow, however, is not.

I love the yellow bow, but not with psychedelic purple leggings so much.

Haha I might think she were terrific fun if we met! But to me, that isn't fashion. She's a mess.

bow over that hole in the dress doesn't do much for me. what is even going on there?

i've seen gray socks chick with librarian glasses at least three times on different fashion blogs - some kind of uncanny talent of casually running into street photographers?

Maybe that woman could hook up with this fellow Tallinner:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1169/1160233617_6b42c4ea10.jpg?v=0

xpost - probably a model, Roz!

WAHT IS GOING ON WITH HIS JEANS?!

The redhead w/ grey socks is so beautiful up above that she's physically hurting me...but the babyish stoop and the teal satin heels worn like Mama's dress up are making me want to slap her. You're going to force me to post snappy jpgs of my own in self-defense, aren't you.

xp ahahahahahahahha

Who here would have the joie de vivre to wear this?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1227/531237454_d919ee8692.jpg?v=0

I covet her shoes (beautiful redhead w/ gray socks + adolescent posture)

Good lord. I'm trying to find something positive to say about the purple faux bag lady but I am failing miserably. She's pretty. But damn, those clothes. You can't even say she raided her gran's closet, because, well, I doubt even in gran's time those clothes were fashionable. Her boobs look larger than they are because of the mix(up) and those leggings make my migraine attack explode in a million headaches.

Hey I know! She's a hooker and you can only practice safe sex by putting your penis through the hole!

contraceptive yellow bow? I'd buy that.

The thing about the purple dress girl is that I think if you weren't nice to her, she'd slap you and sweep all the drinks off your table with one arm. That's what her look is saying to me.

HA! Me too.

This would be so great, but the slim/shrunken jacket pulls at his shoulders in a way that winds up looking Frankensteinish -- apparently this is the one man in the world who is too tall for fashion?

http://bp3.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/RtLMMv4lLII/AAAAAAAAB8U/jfsz25AJyEk/s400/GQParis3.jpg

Oxbloods w/ red socks = WIN / WIN

But yeah, DNW wrists sticking out like chicken legs.

This looks great in a fashion blog photo, but if you were actually watching this guy walk toward you, you would absolutely think "WTF is he trying to do with those pants?"

http://bp1.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/Rs2Dhf4lK7I/AAAAAAAAB6s/VM4uO6t2-lk/s400/MadPlaid.jpg

Yeah, no. That guy is a perfect example of why people think clothes look good when PEOPLE look good. He's hot, okay? And again, red socks win. But overall...no.

i don't know why i hate the kneesocks and heels thing so much. to do the innocent/sexy knee socks thing you gotta do little girl shoes. the combo does not compute. it screams slutty halloween costume.

I think I hate the kneesocks and heels thing because I love heels. I just imagine the socks bunching around the ankle and uglying everything up.

Bell, I'm having the same problem, but feeling like I am just the grinch for thinking so. I rreeeally hate it. And it always goes with the WORST posture.

i can't really speak on the posture thing. when i see people wearing that, i assume they are just from LA.

the first girl with the white shoes is doing it right, i think. there is just a point where it stops being cute and starts looking like cosplay.

I like that high-waisted jeans are on the fashion comeback, but what exactly has gone wrong with this pair?

http://www.fashionhunter.net/wp-content/2007/02/jeans-vita-alta.jpg

Answer:

http://www.fashionhunter.net/wp-content/2007/02/monday.jpg

well the rise is all wrong.

I hate those jeans with a passion.

Sartorialist will take a picture of any dude wearing a scarf, it cracks me up.

Those jeans are baffling. The higher-waist trend is nice, though: it means people will finally quit calling me Urkel for not always showing asscrack.

agggghhh no. I don't like super-low jeans either, but high-waisted jeans are the work of satan. talk about completely shortening your torso!

is this going to turn into an superfuturistic WAYWT thread? uhhhh

people who shell out deep piles of cash so as to look like a designer scumbag are beyond me. "street style."

you can do it with heels, just a different type of heel than the idiot in the teal shoes is doing them with.

I like to wear pants around my waist proper, ie around my bellybutton. I am not all about wearing humpty-dumpty style high-waisted ones like above.

xp

p.s. -- destroy all sneakerheads (except well-beloved ilxor sleep)

i love high-waisted pants/skirts, but the rise on that pair that nabisco posted is just baffling.

The problem with those jeans is that they aren't high-waisted jeans -- they're low-rise jeans with an extra tube of material tacked on the top! Nice high-waisted trousers would have hips to them. (Or even pleats, in that early-90s high-waist style -- which I feel like I've been seeing here and there lately.)

http://bp1.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/RoNwRp7-NQI/AAAAAAAABeM/1Jfy8ks-tZk/s400/MarniW1.jpg

I love these shoes.

http://mattancey.free.fr/minimi/paris/118.jpg

^^^ I have this exact same members only jacket :\ popped collar is never ok, tho

Yeah, no. That guy is a perfect example of why people think clothes look good when PEOPLE look good. He's hot, okay? And again, red socks win. But overall...no.

i think this is my problem w/ the sartorialist. guy is too humorless to just say "i took a photo of this guy 'cos i fancied him". on the other hand i do kinda like this guys outfit, just if the pants were rolled up more beatly it would rock. good to see stuff from other blogs so give me links if you have them!

beatly = neatly.

Check the sidebar at facehunter.blogspot.com for a list of blogs, by city -- I just wish they'd clean up a little, cause half of them are like "I wanna do a street fashion blog for Cleveland!" and then two weeks later it's just ZZZZZZZ

http://ventnorblog.com/copy_images/skating-priest.jpg

English cool-kid style irks me for reasons I can't pin down -- it always feels too music-based to me, maybe? It's all stuff Kate would probably go for, though:

http://bp3.blogger.com/_3lEWkRDQ96E/Ro61XrX1GnI/AAAAAAAABnY/WaBeCdqbA2o/s400/red.jpg
http://bp1.blogger.com/_3lEWkRDQ96E/RowT-rX1GlI/AAAAAAAABnI/q4qc_avWIk0/s400/mod.jpg

Except for this girl, whose bag is probably full of Wodehouse:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_3lEWkRDQ96E/RolsrrX1GkI/AAAAAAAABnA/9ckewRgArpU/s400/cabaret.jpg

Haha, that first kid looks like he stole my mom's maternity shirt she wore through all five pregnancies.

Barcelona -- this is one of those outfits that require you to be really cute:
http://bp1.blogger.com/_jBtRq4fSBKc/RpFpk3gngcI/AAAAAAAAAFU/2gpxm6DFo3w/s400/iqan.jpg

Zurich -- this one benefits from Zowee Awesome Hair:
http://playlust.net/blog/blogs/media/goodhairday_3.jpg

Zurich -- this jacket would come off great if it didn't make its wearer put on a douchey face:
http://www.playlust.net/get_galeriebild_gross.php?id=136

(Playlust seems to experience grand confusion between "person wearing good clothes" and "person who is just good-looking, and you can't even see their clothes in the picture so WTF were you thinking.")

"Hi, I'm all rosy and Icelandic and have great legs, so I can pretty much just drape myself in anything bright and peachy and look awesome."
http://bp0.blogger.com/_kqtCX8rtWOI/RtyIC0ijNwI/AAAAAAAABJU/aBvFkEnp_9c/s400/CIMG1387.JPG

"Oh, no Icelandic man would be caught DEAD without a Lower East Side metallic circle purse."
http://bp2.blogger.com/_kqtCX8rtWOI/RtHdXEijNQI/AAAAAAAABFc/nYrxkR9Hpwg/s400/SNC12816.JPG

If you're looking for fashion that will never be a trend, you can't go wrong with the clip-on + hoodie combo:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_kqtCX8rtWOI/RszXN0ijMuI/AAAAAAAABBM/ahLlZxD9Ozw/s320/CRW_9832.jpg

So i take it no one wants to discuss my fave blog, tweefashion.blogspot.com again.

u_u

100% PRO (Lisbon):
http://bp3.blogger.com/_Q2a9whQVWW8/RkES66SFRxI/AAAAAAAAAEI/unS8tmrMJGA/s400/dirceu.jpg

100% ANTI (Lisbon):
http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7268/4252/400/593412/Carlos%20e%20Ana%20Isabel.jpg

Holy crap, there's a TWEE FASHION BLOG? That wasn't made by me???

It's horrendous..

..ly poorly updated.

It's v. funny, it's kids in normal clothes who happen to be wearing scarves, and he talks about the background like it's an accessory: "a red blanket looks very good with a blu t shirt."

Tweeness! Note dude creating a viable two-state solution for sneakers and suspenders:

http://www.tapemix.org/a/175.jpg
http://www.tapemix.org/a/145.jpg
http://www.tapemix.org/a/212.jpg

I think the whole thing's summed up, though, when he says "it helps if you are cute" -- this is basically a "cute girls with glasses and sweaters" blog. The commentary is horrible! "My friends tell me this is called a deep V-neck sweater vest" -- like you couldn't just sort that out in your head?

The commentary totally makes it.

http://www.tapemix.org/a/180.jpg

when talking on the phone a white tshirt looks really good with a colorful blanket in the background

some people wear suspenders because they need them but you can also wear them just because they look good.

Ohhh the Fred Perry and braces. I drool. Man, when hipsters and tweedom give up the ghost, the suedeheads & Co. will still be rocking it.

But yeah, DNW wrists sticking out like chicken legs.

some of us do not have a choice in this matter unless want to shop at the fred gwynn "tall man's" shiop

no mention of http://www.hel-looks.com/ yet?
http://www.hel-looks.com/photos/20070825_04.jpg
Johannes (25)
"The corner stone of my style is the golden chain. I couldn't live without my sunglasses and my mullet. Suburbs are stylish. Making music inspires me."

the helsinki one is the best for sure!
http://www.hel-looks.com/photos/20070614_01.jpg
"Tonight my style is "Jack Daniels meets the sticks". My boyfriend bought this shirt but I monopolized it. You cannot wear a shirt like this without a bum bag.

^awesome.

The problem; esp woth the girl in the XL jeans shirt and bum-bag,is that I remember a time when it first appeared on the scene. So I'm so not liking that outfit AT ALL. It could work if her thighs weren't so... uh... well, if they were slimmer. Those types of jeans only work when you have SUPERDOOPER straight legs. Sadly,she has my type of legs.

Is that 100%Anti guy carrying a LV bag? I don't care much for it. His shoes make his feet look like bunnies.

Ha, I quoted that golden-chain guy on the "someone explain Finland" thread. Also the girl who says "I am like a hamster" and the guy whose style is inspired by He-Man, Pasolini, Wu-Tang, and Foucault.

From now on my style will be inspired by Styx, Jackee from 227, the Smurfs, and Lenin.

Zurich -- this one benefits from Zowee Awesome Hair:

The boots however fuck it up. :-(

I like the slightly slouchy knee length socks in pumps. Miu Miu did this. The socks however have to be very thin and also, the legs have to be thin as well. So? I could never pull it off. Or rather I would have to pull'em off.

http://www.japanesestreets.com/photos/data/media/171/70715-4112.jpg

I need to go back to Tokyo.

http://www.hel-looks.com/photos/20070901_03.jpg

o, come on now.

His beard is hiding in shame.

"Businesslike and decent styles inspire me. Like having a poor background and trying to show through your clothes that you are a good citizen.

He-Man, Pasolini and Wu-Tang Klan give me inspiration, too. Michel Foucault is my style idol. I like his aggressively intelligent and academic style."

!!!!

I want grey socks now. I feel like such a victim.

i always wear grey socks. black socks repulse me, for some reason. hel-looks is my favourite.

Last night there were about half a dozen art openings on the same street in E2. I learned, or was told:

The girls who made the biggest impact were a pair of perfectly time-capsuled a-la Doris Day Japanese art nerds with clear-resin but proper '50s hornrim librarian specs. Anna could rock all these dresses without appearing that nerdlike.

Mario Testino has death breath.

Peopole *still* talking about Isabella Blow - the Dame Edith Sitwell type above is totally channelling Issy. There are a lot of baby Blows knocking around the artier side of fashion; I think it's a forgiving look when orthodonture is an issue.

The grey knee-high socks thing is DIY Miu Miu a/w 07. If you want ones that stay up, Wolford is your friend but many also go the Westwood route. I will let you know how it goes with Mary Janes.

http://www.tapemix.org/a/212.jpg

horrible.

hot-rible, morelike

Those trousers are not flattering at all, are they?

neither is the shirt, the cardigan, or the shapeless hair with half-assed barrett. the effect is beyond drab.

Is she SEVEN? Jesus. I mean, I understand how those clothes are friendly and unthreatening, but an adult person should hardly make a habit out of looking powerless and forgettable on purpose. Unless he or she is deeply undercover.

http://www.youcatwalk.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/152_pontus.jpg
This says, "I've never been mugged, but I think I might rather enjoy it!"

xp She must be a spy. For the...who still has spies?

http://www.tapemix.org/a/212.jpg
This girl's uber-cuteness makes me want to do perverse things with her.

guys being predictably into the is-she-14-or-just-developmentally-disabled girl non-shocker

I'm amazed - I'm with Lauren and Laurel and Bell on this one, she looks like all her clothes went up in a fire and she's had to borrow from her much shorter grrandmother. Her grandmother who believes that sex is dirty even if you're a married lady. Her grandmother who has a hopeless crush on the local vicar and bakes him good sensible cakes, but uses fancy doilies and then worries about seeming too forward. NO THIS GIRL IS NOT SEXY.

yeah she def crosses the creepy line

so bored of everyone in london looking like this: http://streetpeeper.com/?p=1775

altho i am wearing black cheap mondays right now as well :(

I have a question: What is the MASCULINE style, for those who wish to emphasize their MACHISMO?

no burgundy cardigans or wishy-washy scarves

but let's keep it tasteful ok?

Yeah, non-poncey male fashions plz

also fashions for AMERICANS (ie fatties)

there may need to be another thread for this

sorry

I can't post a pic of those amazing Prada 2 tone footless knee highs because my computer is a mess.

sorry, I forgot what fashion is. Just ignore me.

If she that mousy girl is serious about that outfit, she needs to rock a DIY hollowed-out Gideon Bible purse or something, just to push the envelope a bit. And/or a rosary.

man, i am so bad at proofreading my posts

"unsexy" / "dressed like grandmother" / "is she SEVEN" ==> IT IS A TWEE FASHION BLOG, PEOPLE, these points are a bit duh

Nick, I think my 100% pro guy from Lisbon is looking pretty butch!

I like her sweater. The rest of the outfit is dumb.

Quien es mas macho?
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1162/832858175_1df8a84955.jpg?v=0
vs.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1162/832858175_1df8a84955.jpg?v=0

Uh, I mean

vs.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1294/1047002098_58a93f62c8.jpg?v=0

(y quien es el mas gordo Americano - pienso que es yo)

Alternately:

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/magazine_030606.article.jpg

masculine american fashion, huh? i dunno, every full-grown all-american male casually dresses the same from age 7 upward. maybe a good start would be to step away from the baseball caps and the cargo shorts and the sneakers.

I do not wear baseball caps or cargo shorts.

sneakers are fashion, I have it on good authority

there must be a third way

that is good. (i did not intend to imply you did.) xpost

You guys aren't ignoring me very well.

http://streetpeeper.com/?p=1053

^^ haha i know this guy!! he combines this look with trying to chat like a proper teethkissin rudeboy. truly dreadful.

Also: the main indispensable thing about Satorialist is that he's actually interested in men's fashion, rather than just shooting any cute or tall guy who seems to be trying to look cool. That and old men.

Manliness, March 2006:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/RgrgmQAshsI/AAAAAAAAAuI/k50fSxe0fso/s400/Pittiscarf.jpg
http://bp3.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/RgUjx-cdFCI/AAAAAAAAAoY/kJAHf_oZMak/s400/Baltwo.jpg
http://bp1.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/RgJ_2OcdEuI/AAAAAAAAAl4/JR8bUpxbmwE/s400/SleeveLengthPort.jpg

New thread for side discussion:
What is the MASCULINE style, for those who wish to emphasize their MACHISMO?

3-image rule just cut out the bulk of the manliness :(

Come now, Nabisco, you submitted her photo for consideration, no one ever promised to "mind the twee" and sidestep the critital eye of FASHUN! There is tons and tons of "I raided my grandmother's closet ooh la la" fashun that is AWESOME, but it helps if yr grams was her taste from somwhere besides her tongue in the first place. And even if Grams DID have a crush on the vicar, it's your responsiblity to do better. Improve the genetic stock, give the next generation something to live up to!

xp Sartorialist is GENIUS for proper men's fashion...not so much for counter-culture hot BOYZ.

That first Sartorialist photo is OTM

I mean the first of those three Nabisco just posted

fucking cargo shorts

that was an xpost

i too love the sartorialist - he got me obsessed with finding bright magenta socks

yes. that tweed jacket man looks very... suave.

I hate that guy.

dear style bloggers,

you dont have to focus exclusively on people who are trying way too hard.

xo

jhoshea otm

what fashion / style blogs are do you folks read besides the sartorialist & others mentioned upthread? i wanna inject some fashion into my google reader

i reallly wish i had money/time to put into dressing up everyday. these people either don't have to be into an office at any particular time before noon, are students, or idle rich, and god bless them, but yeah. these types of blogs only make me feel like crap.

this girl i would fuk tho

http://mattancey.free.fr/minimi/paris/138.jpg

I feel like S-list and the other blogs do better in the menswear, because it still has RULES, there's still a CODE that, if followed creatively, results in a truly impressive appearance. Women's fashion is so...up for grabs, re-invent the wheel, wear a tea-cozy over each breast and call it edgy...that ultimately appreciation of it is far more subjective.

someone linnk me to a blog celebrating hot commuters in frumpy office clothes pls

jhoshea otm

but who else are we going to look up to?

god i love street style blogs

are you saying this guy isn't completely rocking kashmir??

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4686/1648/400/PSMaroonsocks.jpg

MANLY

This reminds me to go post 100,000 pictures of aging Teddy Boys on Nick's thread.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_3lEWkRDQ96E/RowT-rX1GlI/AAAAAAAABnI/q4qc_avWIk0/s400/mod.jpg

Dog Latin?!?!?!

http://bp1.blogger.com/_3lEWkRDQ96E/RowT-rX1GlI/AAAAAAAABnI/q4qc_avWIk0/s400/mod.jpg

That look is HORRIBLE. Is that belt a prostate cancer fundraiser item?

Also, I liked the girl all the girls hated.

I did finally buy a decent pair of trousers recently - I think Nabisco's previous posts might have subconsciously inspired me to do so.

youo know what i'm looking for? gray trousers, preferably made out of nice wool. doesn't that seem simple? IT'S NOT. i just want them to fit, and have no pleats. WHY IS THIS SO HARD.

What kinds of shorts are acceptable?

Mine are dark gray and made out of (I guess?) nice wool. they do have a pleat but it's a pretty thin pleat and the cut of the trouser is nice enough that it doesn't smack you in the face with pleatedness.

well GOOD FOR YOU. DAMMIT.

Tracer, haven't you been looking for grey wool trousers for like three years?

Get off yr ass, already.

yeah i go shopping for clothes about twice a year, max.

I had a really great pair, but they were attacked and devoured by vicious moths. :(

Wait, Tracer, are you looking for a thick wool, like winter pants, or lighter weight (possibly patterened)?

Cause this kind of thing (the latter) isn't that hard to find:

http://cdn.is.bluefly.com/mgen/Bluefly/prodImage.ms?productCode=2058713&width=300&height=300

TRACER HAND, APC. COME ON.

does apc run true to size pretty much? i was about to buy some black trousers there.. waiting for them to get back to me on whether or not the inseam is too short on the pair i want

wait there is a street style kashmir blog???

I can only speak for men's, but APC runs true to size for Norwegian elves.

Wealthy Norwegian elves.

APC runs european sized (aka "true-sized"), not american-style "vanity-sized".

I've pretty much been told at APC that none of the pants are going to fit me. I have a 28-inch waist. Norwegian elves. Maybe once they get over skinny legs I'll drop by again.

they should carry 28, that's a pretty basic size albeit on the low end of the size scale. also try earnest cut & sew in meatpacking for nice wool trousers in fringe sizes.

It is impossible to find any men's clothes that have smaller than a 34" waist here. It makes my boyfriend pissed the entire rest of the day after we go clothes shopping. He's written letters to store heads before out of fury.

yes, i'm aware it's european sized but different labels size differently according to who buys them.

it's done according to what size the typical customer is, and a range from that basically.. so american sizes are skewed not to appeal to vanity, but because the average customer for american clothes has gotten bigger so the range is not what it was

what do you mean by norwegian elves though? maybe i should take it as a sign the clothes will suit me, my background is scandinavian.. i'm worried the apc trousers will be too short

Steve, my point was that my 28/29-inch-waisted body was deemed TOO BIG to fit comfortably into any of their trousers.

Usually I have that opposite problem, yes: I needed a clean pair of khakis recently, and learned that Banana Republic doesn't carry anything under, like, 30 in actual stores.

I'm not certain of my waist size. I should probably be 32, 34 or something like that, but I believe I'm probably closer to 40. Great Tao, do I not want to actually have a 40 inch waist. Even for a guy just short of 6'4" that's getting into the 'lol fattey' zone.

Which brings up the question - not to be over-nosey, but how tall are you folks with 30 or smaller waists?

The men, I mean. I'm not really interested in shopping for lady clothes. Unless, you know, they're REALLY cute.

5'8

You probably eat healthy food and excercise regularly, too.

jerk

nabisco seems to be sort of, well, otm in that dept

hahah

what fashion / style blogs are do you folks read besides the sartorialist & others mentioned upthread? i wanna inject some fashion into my google reader

I gawk at Net-a-porter, Style.com and fashionologie.com. I also just ordered Dana Thomas' Deluxe. I still buy Vogue (US) tho for what reason I'm not sure. I guess I wanna be close to Wintour. ;-)

I mostly eat Payday bars and mayonnaise, and I get tired climbing stairs. I just have a small waist, I think. I got big thighs instead. Plus, a year or two ago, I was in that rationalizing spot where you're like "maybe I'll buy a 34, you know, just for a baggy look, just for when I want to be really comfortable," and then something happened and I suddenly shrunk a bunch. Invisible tapeworm.

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/0/8/3/4/13434380-13434382-large.jpg

oh dear

i'm a 30" waist at the moment, and am 5'9" - am trying to put weight back on though. my jeans are all 32" waist, but they seem to give after a while and are all hella baggy now.

Xpost oh dear at andre leon, britney or kimora? god, (i repeat what i said on noiseboard): am i not sad for knowing all these people/names? :-(

This might be stating the obvious, but I had a style epiphany looking at this guy on the subway last night. He was wearing very ordinary looking light khakis and an ordinary oxford blue shirt (not even an especially nice one), but he had really awesome black shoes with some kind of aligator-like pattern, a sharp-looking beige jacket, cool (though not necessarily expensive) rectangular glasses and a really nice woven hat with a feather. He looked amazing but it was all in a couple of right touches.

cutie from here

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1391/1346295937_7671f72cf5_o.jpg

Does this mean that horrible new rave fashion is over? Never have I felt so alienated by a trend. Here's hopin' grandad chic is coming back in!

now available in top man, as seen by some twat in edinburgh who paired it with tight black jeans and white pointy shoes:

http://www.topman.com/wcsstore/TopMan//images/catalog/71Y12QWHT_large.jpg

thankx for the tipz gaiz

ugh, yeah, wtf you people. didnt you see lauren's post? go play around on Street Peeper. It's my street fashion website.

THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE

"I guess my style is a bit messy and slatternly."
http://hel-looks.com/photos/20070905_01.jpg

"clean homeless"

my best friend made the Men's Vogue fashion blog:

This guy is kind of half preppy (plaid shirt, boat shoes), half street (messenger bag, rolled jeans, graffiti). I like his undefinability. Brooklyn, NY, August 2007.

http://mensvogue.typepad.com/clothing__in_her_eyes/images/2007/09/05/bl_brooks_cowboy13.jpg

yes! i love the way the graffiti you are standing near contributes to your look's undefinability!

haha
but it is a good look!
the writer is right in the article re: robert redford pwning this look - hot (xpost with thread abt masculine machismo etc style)

i'm going to start a street-style blog about things that require one to be totally hot (not nec conventionally but y'know generally hotness) in order to wear
e.g.
http://bp0.blogger.com/_6UzdmF8O-Oo/RuQQ7vKQa9I/AAAAAAAADW0/-ry9aF-RVKU/s400/R0088890.jpg

omg it is a young beth parker! crazy!
http://bp1.blogger.com/_6UzdmF8O-Oo/RuQQ7_KQa_I/AAAAAAAADXE/PJknOyVtZqY/s400/R0088863.jpg

whahey phil, that's a great site! nice job!

collarless shirts - classic or nay? i just received a linen one as a gift and i was dubious. i still don't like it on its own, but underneath a jacket i think it looks pretty sharp.

i think collarless goes well in linen - as long as it's not to blousy? i've seen it look really good!

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/Jyri.jpg

Please confirm that the sex of the above individual is male. At first glance I thought female but I think I've changed my mind. Jyri is very confusing.

I almost just sent this lovely pic as an attachment to my boss and five other senior colleagues. It seems I can't read while walking or browse ILX while emailing. I'm a non-multitaking pussy too.

People in Finland + wanting to dress like Japanese kids =

http://hel-looks.com/photos/20070915_02.jpg

ENBB -

I cannot be certain, but the hips to shoulder ratio does suggest skinny boy rather than skinny girl. Compare with the skinny girl that Nabis just posted.

The ragdoll is horrifying.

Do all finns have horizontally striped legs?

I think she's terrific! She's found the perfect look to turn her long face into a great big plus.

I mean, if you were that tall and lanky and had that long of a face, how would you dress? (And would it suit you as well as that suits her?)

There are an infinite number of style options that aren't Raggedy Ann meets Heidi porn, Nabisco, and plenty of lanky people choose them every day. Some of them are even good.

anyone who still thinks a plaid western shirt is still 'preppy' needs to get out more

i mean, lanky with longish face = every model ever!

If you must make everyone in the world look alike, feel free to try -- but I, for one, encourage Helsinki high-school students to dress up like Heidi all they want. (She made that herself, incidentally.)

It's weird, because Hel Looks is the one non-Japanese blog I've seen that has kids dressing up in Japanese lolita / decora-chan / J-rock styles. (And they all say "oh, we're really into Japanese styles" -- judging by Hel Looks, it's either that or Hanoi Rocks up there).

her face is not so long as her chin is weak. there is a difference.

i don't think it's particularly long or weak but that she is just dwarfed by that ridiculous turtleneck!

i mean, she probably is pretty hot but is obscured by all the ruffles and bows and stripey bullshit

Yeah, she has the kind of weak chin that leaves someone looking goony / goofy / friendly (Reason to Dress Up Like Heidi #89123)

Nabisco, I know this blog is for fashions that one likes, fair enough, and mostly it is your forum! Okay. But you like what you like, and I like what I like, and really both of us have pretty settled preferences. So please don't accuse me of trying to make everyone homogenous -- "twee" is not a whole spectrum, either.

I think it's both a weak chin and long face but c'mon she looks about 13 let's cut her some slack. The whole ensemble is definitely a lot more . . . creative then anything I would have worn at that age and takes some serious confidence usually lacking in the early teen years.

She's sixteen, she likes J-lolita style, and she made that herself! She goes home from high school and makes awesome gangly-girl Heidi outfits that cheer the world, and the Shakey Mos of fashion crouch behind keyboards and complain :( :( :( :( :(

Also that girl is phenotypically basically the face of West Michigan. :D

i think this just does not look good on a tall person. tiny japanese girls can pull it off not because it is any less hideous but because there is just LESS of it. it's like putting a sailor outfit on a kitten.

That's true of a lot of the more cutsey stuff out there.

tiny japanese girls can pull it off not because it is any less hideous but because there is just LESS of it.

Less of what? Have you ever seen troupes of Japanese girls dressed like that? I have. I'm probably showing my age, but I reallu don't consider it fashion, really, just... well, FUGLY. Yes, I know, I hate fun. :-(

I don't mean that tall girls oughtn't to wear anything whimsical, ever! And I like her sewing, of course! But dressing up as a cartoon character isn't fashion for life, you can't take it out into the world unless you want that to be the only thing you're known for, all the time. I suppose high school is the right time for cartoon characters if you must, though, it is true.

i meant less per person - i'm sure i would run the other way if a troupe of nordic lolita heidis were coming down the street

fwiw i am totally dressed "street" today

The funny thing is that the whole thing I like about her is how she's way more subdued than the way Japanese teenagers would do this -- for starters, she's wearing two of the same shoes, and is not carrying a black parasol or anything.

What do you mean by dressing "street," Elmo?

tight jeans bright t-shirt utility belt high-tops

pale yellow esoteric-themed graphic print tee
cyan & black buffalo-check flannel
black belt w/ hot pink pyramid studs
grey skinny low-rise jeans
& zip-up combat boots with novelty black & white laces

ok i ruled at pretty much guessing that

I guess she's subdued compared to those J-lolitas. But who the fuck isn't compared to'em?
Deep down I guess I'm exceptionally conservative about fashion. :-( I don't really get it. Which means I'm the perfect parent. *fastforwards 15 years* Ophelia has decided to dress like this. *EEEEK*

:D

Then again, what's worse? That Heidi or the top pic? That girl is so washed out...

xpost - Yeah but how is that "street?" That word still rings as hip-hop / "urban" / black to me, when used in this context ...

the term 'street' has pretty much become a cypher, i think, but as I've seen it used it's a 'style' that appropriates freely from hip-hop, skater, and working-class style

Huh: I feel like that might be an accidental etymological offshoot of having things like "street style" blogs! "A blog about the styles that people wear on the streets" ==> "a style like that often seen on street-style blogs."

i mean, there are "streetwear" labels -- i'm not a designer fetishist so i'm not really up on them -- but companies like bape, supreme, alife, mishka, ice cream, etc. come to mind

I always wondered what Alife was. they have boring-ass plain black and white stickers plastered all over new york. never seen the clothes.

i think it's a label? or a store? something

it's a store/label. on Rivington St.

i'm pretty tired of the pattern / graphic hoodie things, but some leroy jenkins stuff is pretty inventive & hilarious so gotta give some respect:

http://www.lionsden.la/bandaid/content/store/1/2119/LJ_ltblueA.jpg

http://www.lionsden.la/bandaid/content/store/1/2713/leroyjenkins_redA.jpg

http://www.lionsden.la/bandaid/content/store/1/2117/LJ_royalblueA.jpg

florida grandma street!

So THAT'S where Laura Ashley's ghost went.

if it were spring i'd be all over those cargo shorts, really

oh we know

hey what are you implying??

:)

if you mean that i am a sucker for bright colors & vistorian rose chintz, then you would be correct

baggy, elephant-like cargo shorts with sidepockets and drawstrings etc. please die already so i can buy a different kind of shorts kthx

even the shorts up there, brightly patterned with no pockets - still too baggy

Tracer, there was a big resurgence this summer in narrow, knee-length, nice-trousers shorts, some with a slight cuff at the bottom! I assumed they'd be easier to find in Europe and the UK than they are here, but maybe not.

yea, i definitely saw some slimmer cut shorts out there this summer, as well as skinny jean shorts, but it may take a while for the trend to snake its way down the retail ladder xpost

guys don't wear shorts in the UK unless they're trying to look american

wait, KNEE length? that's practically pants!

short pants!
and then you put knee socks on and some sensible walking shoes!
it is a style

american apparel started making the OP style short corduroy shorts, which bums me out because i cant take as much pride in finding vintage pairs.

I bought a pair of those, and did not / do not regret it.

(There was a twinge of nostalgia involved for the grade-school summers I wore nothing but OP corduroy shorts and OP cabbie hats.)

I bought a red terrycloth headband for playing soccer (I hate face-sweat) but I enjoy wearing it so much I might just wear it out of the house for non-soccer-related activities one day. The fact that my hair is now getting into that feathery 80s tennis territory is... err... relevant, too. That may make it worse or better.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/09/12/style/tmagazine/16original-450.jpg

well that's a look

omg girl in yellow rrobyn posted is an acquantance of mine. She makes AWESOME drawings.

That guy wins the universe.

Seriously. Who is he?! He's amazing.

He was in last Sunday's NYT Magazine (Men's Style) issue and he is the editor of some Japanese magazine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/style/tmagazine/16originals.html?ref=tmagazine

With Iran being all the rage right now, I'd like to take this opportunity to say how incredibly sexy I find it when Tehrani women wear designer headscarves:

http://www.polarisimages.com/Polaris-News/archives/11.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/08/18/tehran19806_narrowweb__300x416,0.jpg

http://www.persiancultures.com/iran-woman/iran_fashion/tehran-veil-police.jpg

veil crackdown = Ahmadinejad is teh gay

those sunglasses (in the first pic you posted) are so fugly.

i didn't notice my beloved miu miu pumps in the store anymore. :-( i can't buy'em now, bloated feet due to pregnancy, so i'll have to resort to... net-a-porter. bah. husband promised me a pair though. YAY!

yeah, on an American woman I would find them fugly. But something about the rebelliousness and flirting with the limits of the law is so HOTT

You're right. Also, it's probably because I can't see her, bound to be beautiful, eyes.

http://manolomen.com/images/Boy%20George%20with%20Jewish%20bling.jpg

karma karma karma karma karma chameleon
shabbat shalom... shabbat sha-lo-o-o-om.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahaha

culture club ==> reggae ==> Rastafarianism ==> fake-Ethiopianism / fake-Judaism

PS I am seeing the gray knee socks all over NYC, but used in the absolute WORST you're-doing-it-wrong ways: when you've got them paired with like four-inch platforms and a tiny denim skirt and a t-shirt and cap, you just look like a stripper at a baseball game

http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/episodeguide/season04/ep46_01.jpg

if those hats are coming back i am all in favor

men's hats: fashion? i wish i could squeeze my oversized noggin into a snazzy hat, but I've never found any to fit my head and my style at once.

I have the same problem

I love porkpie hats. I'm all for it.

those make me think of overweight ska musicians.

Oh hm I kind of missed ska so I don't have that association. Sorry, L.

The problem is that every time men's hats become a Thing, every dude in the world decides it will be totally awesome to wear a hat, and the whole thing gets really lame, and eventually you're sitting on the subway next to the classic role-playing geek in bad jeans and a fedora, and a dude in track pants and a wifebeater and a porkpie hat, and a fratboy in some kind of Urban Outfitters tweed Homburg, and some kid who's dressed like Pete Doherty, and it's just like ... I don't want anything to do with this anymore.

I have a nice black Stetson Homburg, but it makes me look like I can't decide whether I'm Amish or an Orthodox Jew (I have actually had two different people decide I must be Israeli because of it)

PS "every time men's hats become a Thing" = happened sometime in early summer and already bad, though I suspect the weather getting colder will suppress some guys' urges to go out in a jaunty lid

(dudes are also saying "lid" to sound cool)

Are those hats Fedoras? I'm not too on the up'n'up with this stuff alas? My gran was a hatmaker but I don't know the names. :-(

PS I am seeing the gray knee socks all over NYC, but used in the absolute WORST you're-doing-it-wrong ways: when you've got them paired with like four-inch platforms and a tiny denim skirt and a t-shirt and cap, you just look like a stripper at a baseball game

And, pray, what is wrong with that? Unless it's my daughter, I have no problem with that look. ;-)

You think you got problems? I never have a chance to wear my kente cloth kufi.

Nabisco, the only cure for oversaturation is to GO ON wearing your awesome hat through thick and thin, so that in the interim when hats are "out", you are the living embodiment of not-caring, and when they're back in again, you have the angle and the jaunt and the level of worn-ness just perfect while everyone else is trying to catch up.

they are in??? i hate new york

It requires commitment, though, yes! Style is a LIFEstyle, maaaan.

one thing ive noticed abt this hat trend is that absolutely no can pull them off - they all look like theyre dressing up like grandpa.

except for nabisco who just looks amish

I can without a hint of self-doubt say I look GREBT with a hat.

wtf, man, how you gonna give somebody the high hat if you ain't got no hat?

That photo is from The Wire guys

dude, old-man style is in this fall, or hadn't you noticed? CARDIGANS.

lil kevin gets the red hat

hats are for dads, or weird high school kids who smell bad

seriously, I would love to be able to rock the steez of a NASA Mission Control circa 1962

elmo my point wasnt abt the particular style (although i dont find old man anything to emulate) but more the dressing up like part aka faking the funk lookin dumb

I like the flowery jackets that elmo posted.

jho, that just means those people don't know how to wear clothes, ie LOL CLOSE WEARING THEM AMIRITE?

yah and everyone wearing those hats is damning themselves

dudes in middle school i had HOLSTERS.

on the real, like tiny wrist holsters just for my hot sauce that i would bust out at the lunch table.

i shit you NAUGHT.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:32 (1 hour ago)

were you the guy that wore a fedora too?

-- gff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:34 (1 hour ago)

jhosh, I dig you, your accessories really do have to match your look, but I think a large part of fashion IS faking it. it is crucial to have a peer helper to tell you when your style has gone wack, tho.

re: those hates... if you're gonna have something in the hat-band, though, please take the factory-issue pimp feather out and substitute something a little more personalized.

hahaha those hats, I mean

i got a black wool cloche for fall/winter. very happy about it.

hats are for dads, or weird high school kids who smell bad

-- n/a, Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:51 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

contrary to nabisco i feel like this hat look could only truly come back if everyone was wearing them ... it became a part of the proper uniform

yah elmo usually i wouldnt be so picky abt it but theres something so gauche and contrived abt these hats. i havent really felt this way since the glory days of the ribbed turtleneck/cargo pants combo.

n/a, shortly after posting those I went all impulsive and ordered this one:

http://www.karmaloop.com/Vendor/LER/zoom/1100--01-00Firezoom1.jpg

it's lined with pink-on-black polka dots, but sadly, not reversible. i am a total whore for color. :\

sweet

hahaha, jhosh, ribbed turtleneck sweater + cargo parts + tiny sissy GAP hat + monkstrap shooz???

bonus points for dreadlocks

I like that one, but I prefer the light blue one with the pink flowers.

Seriously, I could never wear hats because they are a major part of my dad's "look."

let's all just be glad that we have years before someone decides that the bucket hat is worth revisiting

"every time men's hats become a Thing"

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_edin_t/0_edinburgh_transport_trams_pilrig_tram_and_crowd.jpg

das alota hats!!!!!!

i also hold those military-style caps in great contempt. just as bad as a baseball hat, you're not fooling anyone, you urban outfitted jerks.

agreed

There's a really transparent visual difference between hats worn in a standard-male-attire way and hats worn in a "bet I'd look cool in a hat" way.

A large part of that difference is that lots of guys now don't seem to really get that hats are, like, clothing: they appear to say to themselves "you know what would make me look kinda slick? A HAT," and then they go out wearing the same baggy jeans and Sketchers and oversize t-shirts as before, except now with a fedora on top. There doesn't seem to be much notion that one's hat choices are actually supposed to work in concert with whatever else one is wearing. A hat does not make you look like Bogart if you're wearing American Eagle everywhere else.

You know what else is getting sold all up everywhere suddenly, is vests. Pinstriped vests. Everyone who was on the edge about the suspenders will hit these up, which in boy-cases is just more looking-like-Pete-Doherty but in girl-cases is part of that slight resurgence of Helen-Hunt-in-1994-wear.

ok i agree totally about the poor choice of hats in that circumstance then
i was thinking more in a suit + slacks way

http://zer0control.com/fits/0182007/ininterest.jpg
http://www.epiccentre.com/doky/waywt/waywt091707.jpg

HATS for FALL 2007: the jazz musician junkie look is IN

haha, bonus vest in that first photo

i've also noticed a resurgence in suspenders & braces. old man style, i tell ya.

elmo, where did your first pic come from? that guy posts on a fashion message board i read sometimes.. him & a girl who is one of the most stylish people ever (though i wish she would smile occasionally!). is from superfuture?

on second thought maybe that's not him just someone trying the same style?..

and lauren where did you find a cloche hat? i want one but the vintage ones are usually too small!

daria, i grabbed it from the waywt thread on superfuture, yah

The reason most young people look bad in hats is that they don't wear them with proper clothes.

That kind of stuff is so universal across chain-level stores lately that I've more or less decided to just dress like Hugh Laurie in the BBC Wooster and Jeeves adaptations. Most recent clothing purchases: corduroy country trousers, tweed painter's jacket, Oxford shirts, Oxford shoes

Once cold weather hits and I can switch to fitted wool jackets and silk scarves and pumps etc I fully expect to land on a street fashion blog. PHIL, ARE YOU LISTENING?

I will not, however, be able to ride a bike in that get-up, which is sad.

omg we should start an ilx fashion blog!

it would be terrible!

daria, i bit the bullet and got one at agnes b after quite a bit of fruitless searching for a less expensive model.

can someone recommend me a fall jacket

re:porkpies
fuck a porkpie
that is all

I saw that in a movie once.

i would only endorse an ilx fashion blog if it could be full of tyra.gif

What kind of fall jacket do you want, D? Like a short zippy one, a light wooly thing, a longer raincoat, something more park-y? Do you tend toward natural-looking fabrics or more casual/sporty stuff?

park-y should be PARKA-y

not sure what i'm going with exactly, something i can wear when going 'out' as well would be ideal tho so nothing too heavy or raincoat-esque i think

hah i was confused about that, not parka-y i don't think. something a bit lighter.

i have a medium-husky build 5'9 175lbs so some shorter jackets can make me look shorter than i am

http://imgs.yoox.biz/41/410559622C_2.jpg

pinstripe belted blazer? hmmmm

fwiw, i hate hate hate how men's designer fashion is made for waifs & midgets

i would look silly in that

it's a pretty silly thing

Speaking as someone who tends more toward rhino than gazelle, I certainly agree.

xpost - I agree with Elmo.

I think by "midgets" you mean REALLY REALLY TALL PEOPLE

yah wtf

actually, no, by midgets I mean "people of average height and stature"

I just had a selection of jacket styles for D to look through, but freaking ILX can't seem to post the links without hitting an error.

I think my favorite of them was this Paul Frank one, which looks like it'd be comfy and casual for fall, though its hoody-like qualities might defeat the purpose for some people:

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=7976839263081328355&itemdescription=true&itemCount=-1&id=13521265&parentid=M_APP_OUTERWEAR&sortProperties=%2Bproduct.marketingPriority%2C-product.startDate&navCount=7&_D%3AnavCount=+&navAction=poppush&color=&_DARGS=%2Furban%2Fcatalog%2Fcommon%2Fitemlink.jsp

that looks good, along the lines of what i'm thinking. is there a more formal alternative you saw?

what is the consensus on tie-dye? i've been noticing the sort of sloppy, home-made looking dyes and bleach treatments making an appearance here and there on fashion blogs and retail stores, but I get the feeling tie-dye will never outlive its hippy-dip collegiate stoner reputation.

i like tie-dye, fwiw.

(full disclosure: i work for a tshirt co. that specializes in tie-dye but most of our stuff is, to be honest, horrendous unwearable shit)

D, I think the more traditional item along those lines would actually be kind of like a toggle coat, wouldn't it?

i love my hoodies, but if you're going to get a jacket, i'd say go for one without a hood

like, go for classic first

Oh wait, no -- last time I was at UO, they had a more tweedy / military-jacket thing along those lines, which might work for you. But I can't seem to find it on the website. Although one advantage of that Paul Frank one is that it'd be decently made -- the UO store brands are always a little overpriced for stuff like jackets, and not exactly constructed in a keep-for-years kind of way.

Hoods are handy in places where it's sometimes cold and windy on the ears! Also if you're an umbrella-loser.

umbrella loser!

They have some nice jackets at H&M right now. I just got one. I was going to post some pics but their website is really stupid.

yeah i guess i was thinking more about sport coats than fall jackets there
but it's true that a collar without a hood on it tends to look more grown-up/dressed-up than one with a hood. i do love hooded fall jackets though! and corduroy ones. i like the blend of formal and casual and cute

omg the hooded coat-jacket is a fashion mullet nooooo

that's because it's coded by illiterate bengalis for 10c/day

oh sorry i'm wrong, that's just the clothes

xpost

Oh god yeah you don't want, like, a topcoat with a hood!

But it's one of the fun perks of fall + spring jackets that a hood is A-OK. (I think this is because a jacket jacket in spring/fall has an inherent casualness to it -- if you wanted to look trad dressy you'd just throw on a blazer!)

Hoods on jackets are ok, but hats with coats are taboo.

Okay, you maniacs.

Huh? I think people were more objecting to nice hats with, like, crappy t-shirts

Hideous:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MEPOD/10077493%7ECatulle-Mendes-French-Writer-in-His-Hat-and-Coat-Posters.jpg

Stylin'!

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1996/unabomber/unabomber-fbi.gif

xpost and broken image link, AND scolded! TRIFECTA!

http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/p-4214.jpg There, that's pretty close to my first image.

should i go w/ a blazer instead? decisions decisions

Anyway, I do agree with the idea that hats should coordinate with outfits. I have one friend who believes that hats should only be worn with suits, though, and he's out of his mind.

Hat-coordination exceptions: hats worn primarily for shade in hot, sunburny summer months. Sometimes you just do what you gotta do.

Deej, you should have a decent blazer either way -- corduroy ones are good if you're gonna wear them in a jacket-y way (looser shape) -- but an actual jacket-jacket comes in handy if some sort of weather is threatening to chill your chest and sternum ("the blazers, they do nothing")

i have a blazer but lost like 20 lbs this spring and its fit is ... different. i think i need a new one.

i hear that, i need to take all my blazers to a tailor to be taken in before i can wear them out this fall

("the blazers, they do nothing")
haha but then you just wear a big scarf and be photographed by sartorialist blog guy!

dude in the brown members only jacket looked like he stepped off the film set of Barcelona.

-- molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:33 (2 weeks ago) Link

Cuz he kinda looks like Chris Eigmann!

-- nabisco, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:35 (2 weeks ago) Link

No one realized that Nabisco also found a Taylor Nichols:
http://www.playlust.net/get_galeriebild_gross.php?id=136

Ha: I'm currently trying to work out whether I should switch things up from the previous 7 years of my life and actually NOT wear a scarf 24/7 from October through approximately May

i think you should take if off for showering

you should check out the Heimstone girl, N. I think she could be your new obsession.

she has a weird alternate universe winona ryder thing going on.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Bakert.jpg

Nabisco?!!?

cute

there is an awesome grey sweater-jacket on the heimstone site (under 'vestes') that is a nice alternative to fall jacket/blazer/hoodie. i've seen that kind of jacket for guys too and it looks good. i really want one.

the heimstone girl is making me want to cut my hair. and buy all new clothes and shoes.

Ah, the whole trick there is that most of those you see for guys are very business-casual or LL Beany or Brooks Brothersy, which makes a guy forget to look for more stylish ones.

(The other thing I always wear in the cold is actually a knit sweater-style hoodie with a ton of lining; blurring the distinctions between knit sweaters and outerwear is a noble autumn pursuit)

http://www.tendances-de-mode.com/dotclear/images3/Mode-132.jpg
ok. i want to be this girl.

You aren't?

i know i've mentioned this somewhere before, but my mom knit a replica of that exact dr. who scarf for xmas a couple years ago for my brother.

haha srsly! i don't think it would be too hard for you to be!
xpost

i like yr crazy new hoodie, elmo

also your mom is rad

she does kind of look like me 5 years ago with better clothes (among other things)

you have to watch the heimstone video with the sound off.

yeah i watched it with the sound on :/
unless you are naturally that skinny you def do not be that skinny to be that girl, btw, l

she is much cuter in the video than in the photos!

so you can just stay your beautiful self, l, and wear hot clothes and belts and not get kind of weird looking in the jaw area

there's definitely no worries of me getting as skinny as her but i do still kind of want her haircut!

her haircut is also making me want to cut my hair! but i'm gonna hang on

me tooo. but only because it's the longest it's been since highschool and i'm digging it.

you two

we really need a clothing, style, nabisco scarf, hair board.

I was thinking about buying one of the heimstone dresses at Jumelle on Bedford and then realized I could just go to Paris for the amount of money and then I remembered I don't really love Paris.

OMG no I would never get another lick of work done.

haha xp

we really do. because if we did maybe I would actually sew more because I would want to post pics.

Don't talk to me about sewing, every black skirt I own is currently in the "needs to be hemmed" pile.

I just got all my awesome tights and my prada-like socks from Tabio so I have all these long dresses and skirts that I have chopped off to be shorter.

i would also never get any work done if we had that board omg
i srsly almost wrote my thesis on fashion and tech but then changed my mind for some reason long ago, which was pos a mistake but did save me from having everything in my life be about fashion and then making me crazy and pos making me hate fashion in the end. i do not know.

hey guess what tho? i have a job interview next week! for which i will have to wear something nice! b/c it is not a hippie job! whoa. i do not know what to wear.

xpost
i also have a couple skirts that require hemming

xpost (sorry, catching up)

elmo i love tie-dye! i just got the most gorgeous silk tie-dye scarf imported from thailand on ebay. it's fantastic, i might get some more. i'm also considering tie-dying myself a long sleeve shirt a la balenciaga, maybe not a turtleneck.

ebay had the most awesome ever vintage anne demeulemeester boots in suede with a tie-dye design, in my size even, but when i found them they were bid up to about $250 with a few days left.. can't afford :(

i actually mentioned this today on a different thread

i would like an i love shopping board! i don't even really love shopping but there are lots of people here i want shopping tips from.

-- bell_labs, Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

pics please of so-called fashionable tye-dye!
i think i know what you mean but am not sure

it should be, like, an i love style! board maybe?

http://65.254.42.84/%7Emstephen/images/silk/62984a.jpg

Okay, I can see how that might redeem tie-dye but I will not accept any other variant, and Elmo that goes for yr Tshirts, too. :( Sorry, kitten.

mine is violet-blue and dark maroon and white. i don't wear it like a shawl though, just like a regular scarf. the colors are a little hard to match but it seemed to work with these caramel slim trousers + a burgundy vintage 40's cardigan over a black shirt.. last week, when the weather was cold. it's in the 80s again here though

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/243505346_3d39c4a0f3.jpg

you can't really see it very well, but it's the only photo I have of me wearing it -- it's from last year. it's a really intricate (lots of knotwork & bleaching involved, I think) v-shaped dye that terminates around mid-torso -- inherited from my dad :)

board should be called "I GOT STYLE" xpost

http://i10.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/b6/42/a6f3_1.JPG%3Fset_id%3D7

sold, for $290 :(

i could get into some really complex tye-dye maybe

haha i like I GOT STYLLE

damn, can't hotlink the image - here - anne d boots

i am pilfering a sample dye from work today -- really wild krinkly type stuff... let's see if i can get a photo up...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/allocryptic/0925071724.jpg

there we go

nice! i like

my issue with tye-dye is that i want the colours to be more clear or vibrant or something. i think what i would like is a false tye-dye with really clear edges. made by computers.

we do need a style board so we can post things such as:

i really like this dress

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1433/1409511944_302be50ed9_m.jpg
or this guy.

OR THAT GUY

he is so dapper!

michael white in dog form

so came across Face Hunter ( http://facehunter.blogspot.com/ ) and saw this massive listing of fashion blog links on the sidebar. gonna load me up feeds into g.reader, hells yeah.

---

other street style sites

* amsterdam (damstyle)
* amsterdam (fad tony)
* athens (athens wear)
* athens (we need fashion)
* austin (austin style watch)
* australia (now now pics)
* barcelona (picturing fashion)
* barcelona (mujeres con estilo)
* beijing (make cute snap)
* berlin (stil in berlin)
* brasil (curitiba street fashion)
* bucharest (bucuresti looks)
* bucharest (lookarest)
* buenos aires (buenos aires street style)
* buenos aires (cityrunway)
* buenos aires (b. a. in da house)
* buenos aires (ciudad stencil)
* caracas (streetwide)
* chicago (sundays best)
* chicago (calle moda)
* colombia (iconiablog)
* copenhagen (copenhagen streetstyle)
* copenhagen (cph street fashion)
* gothenburg (pose and click)
* hamburg (stilvorlage)
* helsinki (hel looks)
* ireland (fashion filosofy)
* italy (fashion hunter)
* istanbul (istanbul street style)
* korea (the look)
* leipzig (tragfläche leipzig)
* lisbon (lisboa closet)
* lisbon (street confetti)
* liverpool (hoy fashion)
* london (savvy london)
* london (style scout)
* london (oh! you pretty things)
* london (apparel web)
* london (london street fashion)
* london (glam canyon)
* lorena brazil (is blog)
* los angeles (l.a. looks)
* los angeles (street seen)
* los angeles (trends west)
* madrid & barcelona (cool people)
* manchester (manchester looks)
* manila (manila style)
* mexico city (zamuraika)
* milan (prada and meatballs)
* minneapolis (the minneapoline)
* montpellier (the smf)
* moscow (look at me)
* moscow (moscow street fashion)
* melbourne (melbourne runway)
* melbourne (kids in melbourne)
* midwest (the midwasteland)
* montreal (mtl street)
* munich (style clicker)
* new york (the sartorialist)
* new york (altamira nyc)
* new-york (apparel web)
* new-zealand (crowd couture)
* oslo (oslostil)
* paris (dans paris)
* philadelphia (broad&market)
* philadelphia (faceadelphia)
* poland (polish street fashion)
* portland (patricia.no)
* reykjavik (reykjavik looks)
* rio de janeiro (rio style)
* san francisco (streetfancy)
* sao paulo (sao paulo style)
* seattle (pike/pine)
* seoul (your boyhood)
* shanghai (fashion trend disgest)
* shanghai (apparel web)
* shanghai (creative research workshop)
* singapore (the clothes project)
* stockholm (sthlm stil)
* stockholm (stockholm streetstyle)
* stockholm (you catwalk)
* tallinn (just glitter lust)
* tel aviv (the streets walker)
* tokyo (apparel web)
* tokyo (tokyo street style)
* toronto (toronto street fashion)
* ukraine (street style)
* usa (street seen)
* utah (the beehive state)
* vancouver (vancouver streetstyle)
* vancouver (the commodified)
* warsaw (visions of warsaw)
* warsaw (warsaw streets)
* warsaw (colors of warsaw)
* washington d.c. (panda head)
* winnipeg (hooks n' pegs)
* zurich (playlust)

and that's not all! these links should get this thread going

loving this look:

http://bp0.blogger.com/_rKFvPxxi9A4/ReoraFxMMzI/AAAAAAAAASw/M0S7KP_Nc3o/s1600/stella.JPG

THAT BOXER IS AMAZING!!!

the two chicago blogs: one is dead, and the other is WACK

http://bp1.blogger.com/_7qJu2wxfrAM/RdqSOEd13CI/AAAAAAAAAHk/Pe9fVaKHuCY/s320/5.jpg

come on

90% of them are taken at sonotheque for christs sake

and several are of uffie

also last updated in april.

chicago does not spring to mind as an epicenter of fashion.

yeah facehunter blog list is hit and miss
i used to really like helsinki and copenhagen ones but it's gotten samey. i mean, i can only take so many tight jeans and layers of bright t-shirts. mix it up. also, all these blogs need more people who are not aged 16-20.

and if they are not aged 16-20 are not yuppies or hipsters or hipster-yuppies.

i ask a lot

...or hamsters.

Where is fashion blog for people who look put-together and authoritative and strong but also INTERESTING, who have not given in to mainstream fashion mags/trends???

Of all the global blogs I've checked lately, S-list came the closest but even he tends toward the Vice mag style of hot-checking (ie whatever clothes on hott boy/girl).

i'm also kind of cold on this particular hair half-up trend. i don't know, it kind of looks like they've clipped their hair back so they can wash their face. but maybe it's b/c i don't think it suits my face, or a lot of people's faces. and it's like a backlash to the bang trend. and i like the bang trend.

lol hamster street style

btw big list of fashion blogs ohno

Holy fuck, THIS = YOWZA:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/RvUo7t-8PAI/AAAAAAAACJQ/IuEQmIkh8WQ/s1600-h/RedBikew.jpg

Hm sorry,

....THIS!

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/RedBikew.jpg

Can we agree that she defies the "half-up" crappy hair trend, Rrrobyn? B/c I agree with you normally, I think pulled straight back the hair does NOTHING for anyone...if you still look good that way it is because your beauty TRANSCENDS the unflattering angles...which is quite possibly the point but still...meh, I say.

haha i was gonna post that last week on the girls in skirts riding bikes drinking beers thread and realized that really her only qualification for that was girl + bike. but yes! this is totally HOT AND AWESOME!
xpost

That was a popular hair style for little girls when I was 5 or so.

i'm having trouble believing that is street fashion and not a modeling shoot. it just looks too perfect and posed!

i think her hair is more pulled back from lower on the sides than in examples i previously posted where hair is more pulled back from top. but yes you are right - she is owning whatever she is doing

haha yeah if i do that with my hair i kinda do look like i'm 5!

matte finish crimson lip == win

Bell -- I know but Sartorialist said he snapped her on the street on 10th Ave!

her lips match her modeling portfolio or whatever that notebook is

Altho apparently she IS a model who speaks seven languages.

Satorialist has done an accessories shoot in this month's British Elle. He picked the girls, they wore their own clothes and the Elle team did hair and make-up, gave them handbags etc. This could be one of those, but I'd have to check in the magazine.

a beautiful model who speaks seven languages?! i hope she is a total bitch at least.

As long as it's not the over-entitled kind...I quite like no-nonsense-y difficult people, which is certainly the look she's giving off.

if you tell me she also tutors inner-city youths in math i might just shoot myself.

haha

she's got the cure for cancer in her notebook

Dudes, the cure for cancer is obv magical hottness + hardass BMXing. Bell, time to get you a bike, girl.

McArthur Genius Grant goes to - that redheaded hottie cyclist with the awes boots.

Yeah, the fact that it's a DIRTBIKE is kinda the clincher.

(But 10th Ave? I thought that was Houston)

Oh wait, of course it isn't Houston

http://bp3.blogger.com/_kqtCX8rtWOI/RtyMzkijNzI/AAAAAAAABJs/4soMhnKA2yw/s1600-h/CIMG1368.JPG

yes hello i am from iceland...?

http://bp3.blogger.com/_kqtCX8rtWOI/RtyMzkijNzI/AAAAAAAABJs/4soMhnKA2yw/s1600-h/CIMG1368.JPG

^^^ this

I thought the hair half up is just a traditional hairstyle. How can it be in?

I thought every girl wears this hairstyle at least 1-2 times a month.

No, like when just the bangs are pulled straight back -- a very Mandy Moore sort of thing.

the straight, half-up style is so not a new trend! if anything, i think it's lost ground over the past few years as the pin-straight blowout has ceased to be the default hairstyle.

Yeah, I remember it being on Popular years and years ago, plus plenty of mod examples as well. I still don't like it done too tightly, although as part of a set with lots of volume in the crown, well...maybe.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_kqtCX8rtWOI/RvF4eABrSEI/AAAAAAAABLc/8JgMjJfLQcI/s1600-h/CIMG1503.JPG

^^^ it's a very, uh, advanced look, but i think this fellow demonstrates a successful deployment the man-hat

BTW, Nick's "What is the MASCULINE style" thread needed this:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_qjpwnPW4c1o/RvPFAd-8O7I/AAAAAAAACIo/amqtxsZqrO4/s400/GreeneSt..jpg

It totally did, I saw that guy today and drooled a little.

Classic example of that hair, btw:

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=66092&rendTypeId=4

i think the fact that the classic example is deneuve should be a hint that it's not the easiest look to pull off.

Haha. Thank you. Let's all agree that fewer people should do it.

not that i'm against people trying things, mind you! it's just that... well, for example: sarah jessica parker used to do it fairly often with the end result being an even more pronounced equine quality.

MULE

OK, from the hel-looks archive, this is just a great photograph:

http://hel-looks.com/photos/20060121_01.jpg

Horizon should be lower!

Tuomas (28)
"This jacket is my first warm jacket for years. I thought it's time to stop freezing this winter. Before I used to wear too tight leather jackets... My sunglasses are Prada and jeans Acne. I've got many pairs of Converse and I usually wear the full-black ones. I have a collection of oddities: last summer I bought four second hand riding helmets. Who knows – some day I might need them!"

You guys I'm gagging for these boots but they're pull ons-only and I'll bet you money that I can't get my ankles or calves into 'em. SOB

http://www.fryeboots.com/subpages/images/77186BAR.jpg

I think if you were more encouraging and supportive toward your calves, and really believed in them, they just might show you they can achieve anything they put their minds to.

Maybe if I encouraged them with a steak knife, like Cinderella's step-sisters....

I'm not an expert on anatomy or anything, but aren't calves and ankles supposed to support the person, not the other way around?

http://www.fryeboots.com/subpages/catalog-detail.asp?sn=77985&col=BLK&fcp=catalog.asp?cat=SEASONAL@sty=@gen=1@goToPage=1

i like these ones.

mmm frye boots. i've been wanting a pair for years but cannot justify the expense!

i bought a pair of these like a year ago, but i kind of feel too industrial in them

the zipper on the side is very big and silver

nothing to do with shoes, but i was just looking at the chloe site. bright burnt orange is one of the prominent colors. i might have to add this to my wardrobe palette.

I keep looking at these

My sad shoe thing -- I keep meaning to buy a pair of these ...

http://i.onlineshoes.com/images/br095/62924_200_45.jpg

... and yet I've developed some kind of phobia that keeps me from actually purchasing sensible shoes without weird details on them.

I'm not sure I like my gradual slide toward being the only guy who checks this thread ... where's Cutty when you need him?

CAREY I was just looking at those!! I saw them somewhere online NOT Topshop.

you've still got elmo, nabisco

Prob shoes.com honestly.

i was so in love with those spring chloe triple strap black flats. you could never find them in any store in black though, only brown. I finally gave in and got the inferior but $500 less pair from
dolce vita

ooh cute

i seriously can't choose which frye boots are my favourite!
but i do like these shoes
http://www.fryeboots.com/subpages/images/72720SAP.jpg

i'm here! I just don't post much.

caz, let me know if you ever end up ordering from ts. we could do one order and save on shipping.

OH NO!

ok.

I've got it bookmarked and I've been checking it, nabisco, only I just kind of skim it- I enjoyed the Tuomas bit- but I'm kind of in The Third Age of Men's Fashion at this point, so I don't have anything to add.

The Third Age of Menswear?

nabisco, i think the shininess of those shoes makes them less plain
sometimes we need plain shoes. i guess.

Lauren, after you guys left the pencil factory I drunkenly went over to Alter and bought these
http://bp2.blogger.com/_4c8ipv24LdU/RuLqhjMANjI/AAAAAAAAAkg/btF_DkeTRA0/s1600-h/pierre+dumas+dolce+flats.jpg

ruh roh

The Third Age of Menswear?

what

the menaissance

i really love that show Men in Trees.

Carey, I know those boots with the two top snaps are avail domestically. Trying to find on shoes.com but try Zappo's, too.

oooh, nice. franz didn't intervene at all?

i love how i'm like, "we can save on the shipping," as if i'm actually being frugal by suggesting that we order clothes we don't need and can't try on from a british web site that sells in GBP.

xpost

i have a thing for these fryes, if only b/c i have never owned cowboy boots and these look like ones i could wear until the end of time
http://www.fryeboots.com/subpages/images/77325BRN.jpg

(uhoh this is not a shoe thread sorry)

I shouldn't buy more shoes, but I ended up selling my saxophone for more than I thought I would get on ebay..

I bought franz a shirt and the shoes were only like 38 bucks. and I feel sorry for shopgirls in small indie boutiques.

haha menaissance
i like those topshop boots with teh snaps/buttons - they are actually what my 'ooh cute' xpost was to upthread but paying in gbp + shipping = ugh

they take off the vat though.

I know I just got my Tabio tights and sock sent and I had paid in pounds and it was surprising how bad the dollar is. But my tights are so soft and strong that it is worth it.

I can justify Frye boots if their standard measurement around is 15.5 or 16 inches, actually! Thank goodness for shaft measurements on zappos.com.

what denier of tabio did you get? the really heavy ones?
i need new colourful tights
xpost

what colors did you get? i want rose pink and dark orange.

heh, "shaft measurements"

(just trying to keep the thread as man-friendly as possible)

hehe shaft measurements hehe
xpost!!

omg look how cute!
http://tabio.com/uk/detail/?hinban=27123

My cat's name used to be Shaft.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1373/1436709811_502ffc6e5f_o.jpg

okay, the more i see of them, the more i am convinced that these super-high waisted jeans are just cruel and wrong

Wow, even worse, those stick you with points right in the undersides of breastsesses. Excellent, just what we needed.

so cruel and wrong

xpost - did you ever measure your cat?

you know where there are good socks and tights? japan

I got 80 (grey, ribbed dark blue? i think) and 110 denier (red, dark yellow, teal and another blue). And then I got 2 pairs of those knee high socks with the diff color band across the top and across the foot (like thicker non footless prada socks).

oh yeah, Tabio is a japanese company I think.

Her gloves look perfect for murdering someone.

That photo is from an Estonian Street Fashion blog o_0))!????

i read style thread too, just too broke to really get into the spirit :-/

someone shd do the equivalent of 'dollar bin finds' thread on ilm for common thrift store clothing that works

Thee climate yes? ees cold in Eesti Vabariik.

deej, dear, if it were common, it wouldn't be working.

I'm sorry, that was totes obnoxious but I had to. I mean, c'mon!

individual pieces can be common, its the overall effect yr going for

I love when Laurel turns into Mae West.

My friend bought a children's North Face down jacket for 4.99 yesterday at the thrift store, it will work perfectly to keep her toasty warm on the supah cheap tip. Good work, Friend of Mine! Not for the fashion thread, though.

oh man, i'm totally going thrift shopping after work

i keep meaning to hit up all the rich old lady consignment shops near my work (UES). they are all up on the second floor and you have to buzz to get in and that always makes me a little intimidated.

by which i mean NOW

Sorry, deej, what I mean is NOT AT ALL that awesome things can't be had at the SA or for cheap because lord knows I have found some winners (hi there Paterson NJ Red, White & Blue, I'm looking at YOU), but that each of them would be unique, so basically we could all photo-document our thrifting and show off our finds, but otherwise...I think it's best to cut your tastebuds on the pricey stuff as inspiration, and then go looking for things you can afford with your own spin on them.

Bell -- which ones? I always go to the Designer Resale men's shop on 81st, but I don't know of any second-floor ones.

Those places are one of my favorite things about NYC -- that your resale/thrift shopping can be for year-old designer stuff, not just actual ... thrift.

when i am next in nyc i am going to these crazy designer thrift shops ok?

i don't know the names off the top of my head but i always walk by them! one is on like, 84th and madison i think?

also i love these chloe boots
http://bp1.blogger.com/_B8d7lbGVH-o/RrDdpx_U9XI/AAAAAAAAAsE/ysF7H7f4yk4/s1600-h/85513_1.jpg

these ones

i really miss dressing nicely. This is what never leaving Williamsburg does to me.

Ha, I think there's a whole dozen-store nexus in the 80s of the NYC elite going "eww, that's so last year" and liquidating their designer buys!

I have had patchy luck lately with Tokyo 7, which used to be my favorite downtown resale. Although I did try on a Cardin sport coat there recently, which ... just perfect, I could have run for president in this thing. But it seems like their men's stuff gets progressively less great and the women's stuff progressively better -- or at least I walk around seeing not so much to like except for girls trying on awesome stuff they look hot in.

i used to find stuff all the time at tokyo 7, but never do anymore. i think it's cos they only buy size negative 300

xpost - I had an awkward moment there where this girl was deciding not to buy a skirt, and I had to exercise self-control to avoid saying "you realize you look ridiculously hot in that, right?"

xpost - ha, maybe it's not just the men's that goes downhill, then. Maybe it's just all picked over too quickly?

I think we should have one drinkey drinkey bartime funtime fap this fall in ev/les, so at least I can fall down again and flash nabisco my opaque tights like old times.

ha, i think there was something on jezebel.com where they got h&m jcrew and club monaco pieces of clothing and cut out the tags and sewed in designer tags and went to several places to see who would buy what and for how much. I think Tokio 7 was one of them.

http://jezebel.com/gossip/top/label-whores-hit-the-east-village-262000.php

that was pretty funny! i am tempted to go shopping again myself.. last time i checked one of my fave thrifts i got a wicked 80's daryl k black jacket with shoulder pads (not absurd football player style, but definitely a strong shoulder) for $5. most dc area thrifts are lame though.. awful 80's business suits and ann taylor and conservative stuff from department stores

i really wish that i could remember the name of the ues consignment shop mentioned in last year's new yorker style issue, in the profile of the guy who runs decades in la. it's one of the places that he sources from and sounded great - small, fairly dirty, not particularly organized, and filled with halston cocktail dresses for under $200.

those chloe boots are sick, btw. i'm on a boot quest at the moment and already terribly frustrated. i come over all goldilocks with boots, like "that heel is too narrow" or "that zipper is too noticeable" or "what is that ugly tassel doing there." and really, what i'm looking for is SO basic: plain black leather, just below the knee with a 2" heel and oval toe. i need to hit the vintage boot emporium on rivington, i think.

perhaps we need a thrift shopping thread? i got (1) cowboy shirt in a large-sized black plaid with white/pink/teal in it, (2) black & white houndstooth sport coat, very narrow lapel, (3) a grey & black geometric zigzag pattern sweater. and all for less than $20!

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/allocryptic/a.jpg

nice bob mug.

that bob mug is easily the most crucial accessory in my life.

(new coat and shirt v. nice, too.)

a, you look great! and nice job on the thrift shopping! i haven't been in soo long. seeing plaid shirts like that makes me never want to throw another piece of clothing out again b/c i had a couple great plaid shirts in the early-mid-90s and 'got over them'/fashion ended and they were so great and nicely worn and now they are gonnne :(

those chloe boots are basically IT to me. and i thought i didn't like gold and black, i thought i didn't even like gold. but i was wrong. they rule.

yes, very nice! i also got, last time i went, a men's (or boy's? it's quite small) grey, black, and red wool plaid shirt jacket - it's good quality and maybe 60's vintage, i think and a valentino r.e.d. ivory v neck sweater, not something i'd seek out in a shop but it fits well, at least. I've always been a fan of plaid..

i went to club monaco yesterday and they had black slim fit jeans with a super high waist, so i tried them on. actually not bad! i may have to get a high waisted pair (though not *super* high).. couldn't get the cm ones as the cut was a little off for me. i also dig the wide leg trousers but have yet to try a pair that didn't make me look four sizes bigger than i am!

i saw a girl with really nice super dark wide leg jeans last night and asked her where she got them. uniqlo! they were a reasonable cut, not voluminous, and not flare-y.

i just looked at them on the uniqlo site - they are nice! btw uniqlo website is difficult

well, it is weird - the jeans are 'index' number '49'

i know, right? such a tsuris.

word of the day!

Uniqlo jeans don't fit me:(

hm, so renting style?
at first i thought it was just bizarre but it's also totally brilliant

so that jacket nabisco recommended is only avail in XL and i don't see it anywhere but urban outfitters site! does it exist elsewhere? would paul frank store sell it?

i dont even know that i want to get it but i just noticed this

oh jesus. apparently there was a "peanuts" themed fashion show at NY fashion week?

http://www.ambrel.net/2007/0907-snoopy/index.html

http://www.ambrel.net/2007/0907-snoopy/IMG_2115.jpg

red baron.

http://www.ambrel.net/2007/0907-snoopy/IMG_2092.jpg

woodstock (by project runway season 2's laura bennett! woah)

http://www.ambrel.net/2007/0907-snoopy/IMG_2207.jpg

lucy van pelt.

hehe
i saw a guy with this yesterday:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XTRB4VZBL._SS500_.jpg

Was that guy you?

;-)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1039/1412846103_2dde9d3ba7.jpg

so this Matthew Williamson is not strictly tie-dye, it is a dip-dye, but i quite like the look. the shoes are all wrong, tho.

I have a bone-colored wool + cashmere winter coat that after like two years of NYC subways will never be clean again...and I've wanted to dip-dye it orange and purple/burgundy for ages. I'm just afraid of how the dye will take vs not take, and I only get once chance.

how hard is it to dip dye? i would like to do the same with a few shirts.. i haven't tried since summer camp many years ago!

with a coat like that, though, wouldn't the problem more be with getting it wet than the actual dye?

yeah, with wool & chasmere I imagine it would take a lot of dye to fully saturate the fabric. depending on how much gradient you want between the colors, you'd have to dye the second color while the first was still slightly wet. sounds like a challenge.

You can put things in the water to make it "wetter", to reduce surface tension so it doesn't bead up on wool etc. Other than that I'm willing to go crazy with the amount of dye...the problem is WHERE to do it, really. And yeah, I'd dip the purple while the orange was still wet, and then probably brush some stalagmite-shaped jags up and down so it wasn't an even line....or graduate the length of time in the purple so there's a fade...or something. It IS a challenge! Who wants to have a dyeing party?

purple + orange is one of my favorite color combinations.

brush some stalagmite-shaped jags up and down so it wasn't an even line

you might be able to get the same effect by gathering or loosely pleating the fabric and binding the coat just above where you want the dye to reach

Yes, that's the kind of know-how I needed. :D

So I don't want to sound like I'm lamenting the loss of any sort or regional fashion, because I'm not sure that's even the case -- But upon seeing so many similar looks photographed on people from in different cities and countires and continents: Do you think that more people are adopting the "street style" look because of reading the blogs? Or do these fashion bloggers exclusively favor / photograph people with this style?

Discus.

maybe it goes around more because.. culture in general being more globalized? there is an h&m everywhere.. maybe "fashionable" is a subculture itself

can we continue to agitate for I Got Style ?

i saw a girl with really nice super dark wide leg jeans last night and asked her where she got them. uniqlo! they were a reasonable cut, not voluminous, and not flare-y.

uniqlo jeans are cheap too. if I'm not careful my whole wardrobe will be from there :/

WANT

yeah, uniqlo is good value. the jeans top out at 59.50. i think the basic straight-leg style is 39.50, which is as cheap as old navy, and they look much nicer.

i'm digging this

http://bp0.blogger.com/_6UzdmF8O-Oo/Rv5D243lnQI/AAAAAAAADyw/a2M3DC1xi58/s1600/R0095810.jpg

this is what i'm digging

ilx and images... sometimes work sometimes not work sometimes sometimes work/notwork

http://bp0.blogger.com/_6UzdmF8O-Oo/RwC3BsWAbDI/AAAAAAAAD04/PGly5UnsP24/s1600-h/R0096391.jpg

RONG.

http://bp0.blogger.com/_6UzdmF8O-Oo/RwC3BsWAbDI/AAAAAAAAD04/PGly5UnsP24/s1600-h/R0096391.jpg

http://bp0.blogger.com/_6UzdmF8O-Oo/RwC3BsWAbCI/AAAAAAAAD0w/wqOt28uy64M/s1600-h/R0096305.jpg

damnit. ^^^both of these are RONG.

http://i23.tinypic.com/ftisf5.jpg
balmain s/s 08

i really like that dye, but i don't really understand the applique bits...?

i am glad you were not calling me RONG, a, but calling non-appearing images wrong. but yeah those styles are pretty out there, but if it makes them happy, why not

i am not sure about the tye-dye dress

sorry guys that dress is straight up hideous

the billowy tiered gown and the athletic fit on the bust makes it seem really like something you'd find at a resort boutique, which is not improved at all by tie-dye. and then the big metallic flowers are like WHAT?

i still maintain that the dye is beautiful, it was just used on the wrong garment is all.

rrr, i would never be so rude as to RONG you :D -- that knit (or is that a printed knit pattern?) hoodie minidress is pretty wild but i am confused that there seems to be ear slits in the hood?