huh? but they're just plain colored tees and tanks?
huh? but they're just plain colored tees and tanks?
No, but I may well go this weekend having just been paid! Cheers for the tip...
Grevious Angel, as to what I like at Paul Smith - all of it pretty much. The shirts are great, the sweats and casualwear are really nice also, even the accessories are a step up. I think what I like about it just the quality - the few bits I have had have seemed to wear ten times better than anything else I own. Never tried their strides but I'm reasonably confident they'd be a bit better tailored than elsewhere ....as they should be for the price.
viktorvaughn
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Some assorted niceness -
Edwin Nashvilles, my fave jeans. They come dark and raw and you wear them into a beautiful fade.
Shofolk shoes
Visvim Shakers
Edwin Nashvilles, my fave jeans. They come dark and raw and you wear them into a beautiful fade.
Shofolk shoes
Visvim Shakers
favorite denim is prolly a topic deserving of its own thread but since we doing it here:
my current favorite pair are Tavernitis. i usually go for simple and minimal but these have some sick detailing in the front as well as back and fit SO damn well.
ass pocket looks more or less like first pic and fits like second (a little more straight):
so what's everyone done with all your old pairs of boot cut jeans that you wore from 1997 to 2005?
are you secretly keeping them in a big bag in the closet and thinking that maybe they will come back within your life-time? (I am. in storage)
i've altered one pair to get rid of the flair. but it's still a bit crap so i almost never wear them.
my current favorite pair are Tavernitis. i usually go for simple and minimal but these have some sick detailing in the front as well as back and fit SO damn well.
ass pocket looks more or less like first pic and fits like second (a little more straight):
so what's everyone done with all your old pairs of boot cut jeans that you wore from 1997 to 2005?
are you secretly keeping them in a big bag in the closet and thinking that maybe they will come back within your life-time? (I am. in storage)
i've altered one pair to get rid of the flair. but it's still a bit crap so i almost never wear them.
viktorvaughn
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Bootcut is EVIL.
Flares are EVIL.
Real men wear straight-leg jeans. Standard.
I love denim - I started a thread before here http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=6316&highlight=denim
Flares are EVIL.
Real men wear straight-leg jeans. Standard.
I love denim - I started a thread before here http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=6316&highlight=denim
UFO over easy
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I wear jeans low enough that boot cut/straight or whatever is kind of beside the point
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Plenty of slebs flogging H&M!
Bootcut is EVIL.
Flares are EVIL.
Real men wear straight-leg jeans. Standard.
I love denim - I started a thread before here http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=6316&highlight=denim
bootcut jeans can suit some people.
they do not suit me at all and are really not my style anyway.
the tryanny of men's fashion is pretty mind-boggling tho.
hmmm, the big debate today is what cut of trousers we shold ALL HAVE TO wear...
women really do have it much better when it comes to clothes.
UFO over easy
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I know, I reckon I only think of it because when uniqlo opened up you couldn't take the tube anywhere without seeing several giant photos of dizzee rascal in a cardigan plastered all over every station in the city
viktorvaughn
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Quite a few women I know say it's much easier to dress as a man...
What is the tyranny you refer to? Flares and bootcut are available if one still wishes to buy them.
Leo
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was recent shopping in nyc for a suit for my wedding this summer (!), splurged on a dark blue linen paul smith suit that looks/feels amazing. slim cut and long jacket style is perfect for my tall/lanky frame. in fact, the only tailoring to be done was to hem the legs, nothing on the waist and jacket, which is amazing because i'm skinny as a snake and most suits have to literally be deconstructed to fit.
now tempted to do a paul smith shirt/tie as well, except they are outrageously priced here...$249 for shirt, $130 for tie. yikes!
hey, you only get married once, right? hopefully...??
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
FUK seems to be quite good on secondhand trendy togs if you can't be bothered navigating ebay
http://www.fuk.co.uk/classifieds
prices seem very reasonable for the stuff offered. I'm in last years clothes this year, all my dosh has gone elsewhere. Please let my boots last til the summer.
http://www.fuk.co.uk/classifieds
prices seem very reasonable for the stuff offered. I'm in last years clothes this year, all my dosh has gone elsewhere. Please let my boots last til the summer.
Suit sounds lovely Leo, I think you should go for the shirt and tie. It is your wedding. G'wan...
Notice you didn't post the price of the suit though!
I talked myself out of buying a Paul Smith polo shirt this evening. Lovely but it was fifty fucking nine quid. Someone slap me if I ever succumb.
Notice you didn't post the price of the suit though!
I talked myself out of buying a Paul Smith polo shirt this evening. Lovely but it was fifty fucking nine quid. Someone slap me if I ever succumb.
Leo
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i try not to think about it...um, let's say about 140 12" singles.
mistersloane
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I'm never sure about it, anything that personal - like architecture or law - anything that intrudes upon the personal in the way that it does, I'm never sure how linguistic it is, and how much is really just purely based upon power, I'm not sure that power ever has a linguistic base.
In the spirit of discussion, I'd probably want to take issue with this statement on a couple of points.
- Abstract art is not really all 'guesswork.' If you spend enough time immersed in the traditions, there's an entire universe of criteria and topics in which knowledgeable and coherent discussion can take place: technique (line, drip, pour, color, materials, visual plane, etc), form, object-ness, genre (sculpture, painting, installation, sound), etc. Sure there's aesthetic preferences -- it's an aesthetic domain after all, not mathematics -- but plenty of critical discussion can lead to the articulation of genealogies, schools, approaches, methods, successes and failures in various experiments, and so on, which can move a community of viewers a bit farther beyond mere 'guesswork.' In other words, critical traditions spring up around artmaking pretty much as soon as any group of folks become devoted to it.
- Fashion of course is similar in some ways (different in others). Even newcomers to fashion who spend a few episodes with reality tv fashion design-type shows can often come to a general consensus on who's pieces are better designed and executed than others, primarily by looking carefully, comparing, being attentive to what's in front of you. Though of course, yes, taste plays a large role too, but that's one of the things that leads to diversity, and that can make it so much fun to follow
One thing that always looms as important to me is the fact that taste can be specified, articulated, and discussed, to a large degree, if the observers are informed and have spent some time with the objects and vocabularies produced by the communities thinking about/making said objects.
- Linguistic rules tend to be downloaded by immersion in a speech community, which is different in some ways too. People don't tend to seek out third plural pluperfect passive verb forms and say, 'hey, I really need to learn how that verb works,' the way people might look at, say, Morris Louis or Helen Frankenthaler and ask how the fk they made the painting the way they did. Linguistic rules seem to be assimilated by immersion and participation, often completely unconsciously, usually as children, except of course in the case of active new language/foreign language acquisition and so on, which is another matter altogether.
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