ts: ed hardy vs affliction

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ed hardy 3
affliction 2


omar little, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

hey guys pay attention so these shirts are the new thing to hate on, in case you were just noticing them right now

you are supposed to hate them as much or more than stripey shirts okay?

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Friday, 26 September 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

where are people buying all those ed hardy shirts? urban outfitters? the internets?

gabbneb, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

at cool parties

s1ocki, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

see, the objective here isn't so much to prove you have any sense of tase, but you MUST prove that you are "with it"

p.s. i sure do hate those frat boys

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Friday, 26 September 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

you have a real problem with these shirts!

omar little, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

it's a work thing for me

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Friday, 26 September 2008 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

it's getting increasingly difficult to find a simple plain t-shirt in los angeles or even a dress shirt that looks dope in the front but then you whip it around and OHHH a stamp of a ferocious tiger.

omar little, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

bad form on the last sentence but you get me meaning.

omar little, Friday, 26 September 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

I was in NJ last weekend and saw more Ed Hardy shirts than I'd ever seen in one place. Yuck.

Fr. Jemima Racktouey (ENBB), Friday, 26 September 2008 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

ya i mean elmo i feel u on the bandwagon jumping but lets be real, these shirts are fucking ugly and frat boys are douchebags

max is ever so fed up with all these cheeky display names!! (max), Friday, 26 September 2008 20:57 (seventeen years ago)

fratbags are doucheboys and i cannot dispute this, and yes, blame the consumers but i am in the position where i get to take their money so it's easy for me to say that

that they are ugly is only secondary in the reasons why this shit bothers me. what gets my foil-printed, rhinestone encrusted goat is that these designs are totally arbitrary, but an assorted grab-bag of heavy uber-masculine signifiers, it's just moronic in the technical sense of that word

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Friday, 26 September 2008 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

like, when you are a little boy all your clothes have trains and fire engines on them and when you reach puberty you trade them in for skulls and wolves or some shit

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Friday, 26 September 2008 21:06 (seventeen years ago)

my girlfriend shamed me when she moved in earlier this year by going through my closet and noting all the shirts that had skulls on them. they were more "subtle" than this shit but i was kind of horrified at myself nonetheless.

omar little, Friday, 26 September 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

lol u live in LA

max is ever so fed up with all these cheeky display names!! (max), Friday, 26 September 2008 21:09 (seventeen years ago)

anyway, i cast my vote for those fucking prayer beads the ed hardy model is wearing. THOSE THINGS ARE STILL AROUND.

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Friday, 26 September 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

i didn't note whether you're supposed to vote for what is better or worse because i figured either way we all lose

omar little, Friday, 26 September 2008 21:13 (seventeen years ago)

Seen today on campus:

1 Ed Hardy shirt
0 Affliction shirts
3 or 4 Obey shirts

Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 September 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)

^^ OH SNAP

rogermexico., Friday, 26 September 2008 23:30 (seventeen years ago)

at cool parties

When we were in Las Vegas last weekend we encountered "Christian Audigier: The Nightlub" at Treasure Island. They were advertising a guest appearance by The Hills' Lauren Conrad or someone like that.

felicity, Friday, 26 September 2008 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 3 October 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 4 October 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

I kind of like the Ed Hardy skull (and other traditional tattoo art), by itself. Gimme a mostly plain t-shirt with that graphic on it somewhere small? I'm in.

sad man in him room (milo z), Sunday, 5 October 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

Just what the world needed:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-04/46542317.jpg

As for the wine, it's really not half bad. It's bottled in France by the Castel Group and imported by Nicolas Wines in Connecticut. The Ed Hardy label goes for $10, and the Christian Audigier label goes for $20 at Costco.

The Ed Hardy label helps address a specific problem in the wine business, according to Nicolas Vice President Gene Schaeffer.

"There's nothing really new and exciting in the wine business," Schaeffer says. "When this idea came along I thought we could develop new wine drinkers."

Claude Ruau-Choate, the wine buyer for Whole Foods in California, says the same. "In the long term, we're trying to build an audience," Ruau-Choate says. "This is the perfect introduction. It's fun. Wine doesn't have to be difficult."

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

man, the Affliction shirts are annoying. I'm trying to enjoy rocking my Beherit and Burzum and Darkthrone shirts and now a buncha meathead bros have to rock skulls and shit and I have to sadly fold my tents and go home.

Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

my girlfriend shamed me when she moved in earlier this year by going through my closet and noting all the shirts that had skulls on them. they were more "subtle" than this shit but i was kind of horrified at myself nonetheless.

My boyfriend gets a bit testy when I note that a lot of his shirts have skulls on them - also more subtle than those pictured above - I think it's cute. But I wonder if his defensiveness somehow stems from the implication that it's a teenage boy aesthetic as opposed to an adult male aesthetic?

giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:19 (seventeen years ago)

no aesthetic

Long, helmet-defying hair (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

"There's nothing really new and exciting in the wine business,"
"There's nothing really new and exciting in the wine business,"
"There's nothing really new and exciting in the wine business,"
"There's nothing really new and exciting in the wine business,"
"There's nothing really new and exciting in the wine business,"

~*GAME 2 SNYPA*~ (omar little), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

ed hardy will finally get people to drink wine

~*GAME 2 SNYPA*~ (omar little), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

i think the general look of trad tattoo stuff is kinda cool, but it seems it's been hijacked by douchebags and made into really tacky clothing and branding.

That's when their cover of "Come On Eileen" came on. I think I came. (circa1916), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

there's a huge fat guy where i work who wears almost exclusively shit like this. i want to punch him in the throat.

LaMonte, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

lol where tha fuck are u ppl buying "subtle" skull shirts

Dr. Phil, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

Lol I have a skull shirt. It's a Homostupids T and I think it's a pisstake as much as it embraces it, but still I feel like I'm being judged everywhere I go.

invitation to rabies (╓abies), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 01:39 (seventeen years ago)

Lol and I just remembered a time out to dinner with my gf and her friend in which they had a brief exchange that concluded skulls on clothes=played, both oblivious that I was wearing a shirt with a neon skull/lightning bolt.

teeears

invitation to rabies (╓abies), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

this is one of those things where you hate them because of who's wearing them, because idk if there's anything inherently wrong with these designs for the most part

wein flu (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

are you blind

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

jesus dude

GOON carter cash (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

for instance whiney, if you started wearing ed hardy and affliction i wouldn't hate you

GOON carter cash (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

i think this should be a thread - whiney goes to a brooklyn loft show in an ed hardy tee - will his friends and colleagues hate him? an interesting social experiment imo

GOON carter cash (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

They sell Ed Hardy temporary tattoos at Michaels.

tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

i mean they're just a douchier, more crowded version of graphic design I already like in metal

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zpB9ZEe8p8k/Rw_ti52MTgI/AAAAAAAAAAw/3iBMGl4Dfjw/s400/ISIS_sos_boxcover_preview.jpg

wein flu (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

yeah guys it's a douchier version of something good so obviously it's ok

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

take away the hideous logo and shrink the whole design so it's not spilling all over the sleeves and it would be a pretty dope shirt imo

http://www.okayfans.com/p_images/aff-ts/affliction%20t-shirt-33.jpg

wein flu (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

except for that isis design isn't printed w/ foil and doesn't have a huge rose over the top of it

GOON carter cash (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

dude

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

whiney

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

"this design would be fine if we just changed it!" is not an argument

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

This is like when Alfred said he liked Kate Capshaw's performance in Temple of Doom.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

challop ... failed

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.afflictionclothing.org/afflictionthisrt/affliction-man-t-shirt/affliction-t-shirt-wholesale-supplier%20(37).jpg

wein flu (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

its only a matter of time, art school kids will be wearing this ish soon enough

― *gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:48

already happening in london, saw a girl wearing a christian audigier t shirt over a vintage ballerina dress in new cross the other day, kid i know at goldsmiths is incorporating ed hardy style stencilling into his shit too

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

gross

‎\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

came to post basically what deej did. the gravewave kids are gonna be all over this stuff come 2015

bear, bear, bear, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

xxpost -- Surely that's just explained by being in London.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

i've noticed a lot of girls' converse have the totenkopf on them

difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

idk i'd guess it's already happening in american h____r enclaves, surprised deej hasn't seen it yet

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

wearing this shit ironically is 10x worse than wearing it jersey shore style

‎\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 21 January 2011 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

http://bentcorner.com/wal-mart-is-selling-shirts-with-a-nazi-ss-skull-on-it/

goole, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

how can one tell if it's first-wave sincerity or second-wave irony, can we see the forest for the trees yet w/r/t this particular issue

omar little, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

how can one tell if it's first-wave sincerity or second-wave irony

whether the pecs and tris fill out the shirt or not

goole, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

there's something about the way super-tough dudes have to peacock like this which is weird. sometimes it hits on actually cool styles, but sometimes you end up looking back at photos and you're wearing the stuff new kids on the block told their stylists to return to the store.

― omar little, Friday, January 21, 2011 4:53 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

hdu donnie wahlberg is a mensch

David Warner (Princess TamTam), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

http://bentcorner.com/wal-mart-is-selling-shirts-with-a-nazi-ss-skull-on-it/

haha i was basically kidding. i dunno, i mean, i get why people flinch (i flinch more at the iron cross than i do at the totenkopf) but this stuff waaaaaaaay predates the third reich and i feel like people probably oughta err on the side of not caring.

difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:01 (fifteen years ago)

there's something about the way super-tough dudes have to peacock like this which is weird. sometimes it hits on actually cool styles, but sometimes you end up looking back at photos and you're wearing the stuff new kids on the block told their stylists to return to the store.

― omar little, Friday, 21 January 2011 21:53 (3 minutes ago)

discussed the uk versh of this demographic (the hated ~sports science bros~) in "Hipster" as pejorative.

basically they catch onto h____r trends from like 5-10 years ago, often in a kinda warped way, but it's def going in reverse....kinda uptight whiteboy roidhead/'thug' signifiers are going to catch on in a big way with the cool kids, i've seen this shit in like new cross, clapton, going to be in daltson and then become a kinda 'mainstream cool kid' style soon imo

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:01 (fifteen years ago)

i will never express anything but love for donnie wahlberg esp for still calling himself "donnie"

omar little, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

xp (not that i don't totally feel that bit in peep show where guy's like "let's just put a zip here, a swastika there. who knows what these symbols used to mean! who the hell even cares?")

difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

christ there's actually a 'hood named clapton over there

omar little, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

yeah it's like a crummy part of east london that some lame artbro types are tryna colonize cuz the og h____r enclaves are too expensive now

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

you sure seem to know a lot about it

‎\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

;p

‎\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

is hipster being img-replaced around here? guess i'll find out

goole, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

no idgi either

‎\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:07 (fifteen years ago)

yeah idk e, if yr observant u see these kinda things nahmean?

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

nah goole just can't stand typing it

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

first world problems

goole, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

hah yeah

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:09 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, nm was just a bad attempt at a joke from last week's whole K guessing where you live thing

‎\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

google hipster and find nakhchivan

omar little, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

Where I live kids wear $10 t-shirts and don't understand why people pay hundreds to look like a drug dealer.

Possession of Stolen Goods (pharoah slanders) (u s steel), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:10 (fifteen years ago)

an old folks home?

bump-tish

goole, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

how do we feel about this subtle variation, is the question

difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:11 (fifteen years ago)

isn't that the s totenkopf logo

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:12 (fifteen years ago)

with a bullet hole in the head tho

difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

looks like the severed skeletal head of princess leia

omar little, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf

that's possibly even more offensive than the swastika :x

ss were the worst of the fucking worst

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

obv

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

still think an old prussian military insignia based on about a million other military insignias and used by the ss amongst others is less unpleasant than the actual emblem of the nazi party but yeah i mean i'd prefer to just not see any of this stuff anymore

quibbling over the semantic power of different bits of nazi regalia seems like a weird but possibly inevitable direction for an ed hardy thread

difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:18 (fifteen years ago)

did yall know that in some cultures, the swastika means good luck

max, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

like in nazi culture eg

max, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

as in "good luck to us nazis on our holocaust"

omar little, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

quibbling over the semantic power of different bits of nazi regalia seems like a weird but possibly inevitable direction for an ed hardy thread

― difficult listening hour, Friday, 21 January 2011 22:18 (3 minutes ago)

the iron cross is all about hipsters empathizing with the kulturkampf of the bismarckwave, which spread like thru the teutonic lands with an alacrity not seen until the twin flanks of vice / twee hipster shite encircled christendom in the 2k0s

:-) max

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

do any art school kids dress like smash mouth circa 1997? some looks will just never be cool

― David Warner (Princess TamTam), Friday, January 21, 2011 3:52 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dunno this look is way more distinctive than, like, baggy cargo pants? idk wtf smash mouth wore

imo this is just male mom jeans (but worse)

*gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:49 (fifteen years ago)

i think it'll depend on when ed hardy falls off for normal dudes & starts hitting thrift stores real hard but i can totally see it

*gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

"normal"

*gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

dude it has happened already, ed hardy shit has been all over the place for years, it's def peaked as a roidbro style

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:51 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i mean i figured we were past peak but its not cheap as shit yet so there are steps 2 go

*gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:54 (fifteen years ago)

peak oil
peak hardy

related?

*gets the power* (deej), Friday, 21 January 2011 22:55 (fifteen years ago)

arguably

flopson fauxhawk (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 January 2011 23:00 (fifteen years ago)

goes like this:

1) trendy name-brand bullshit apparel first shows up on the more fashionable name-brand bullshit people
2) TNBBA trickles down and begins to show up on less fashionable people
3) TNBBA is abandoned by FNBBP and left to the hoi polloi, who revel in it, believing themselves fashionable
4) eventually, everybody move on and the once-TNBBA is universally abhorred, begins to show up on the homeless ("no fear")
5) piquant combo of cognitive dissonance and nostalgia intrigues younger hipsters, rehab begins

i think we're still a ways away from phase 5, re: ed hardy. somewhere between steps 3 and 4, imo.

normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Friday, 21 January 2011 23:14 (fifteen years ago)

i dont think it really works like that

*gets the power* (deej), Saturday, 22 January 2011 00:39 (fifteen years ago)

shhh, you

normal_fantasy-unicorns (contenderizer), Sunday, 23 January 2011 00:03 (fifteen years ago)


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