Clothes

[empty mirror]

yeah, i am not a proponent of fast fashion at all. i am trying to build a wardrobe that will last me 30 years! i am in the habit of buying american dress shoes (and US work/hunting boots) that are welted so that they can be resoled and recrafted.
i do take care to restitch tears and holes by hand, replace buttons, etc, instead of throwing away and replacing gear. this kind of thinking makes it easier to shell out a little extra on quality clothes---Cost Per Wear!

 

[nomadthethird]

in my part of boston (newton, aka "lake") it was "mushes"... (google it)...

nice guido breakdown... all of us who have lived thru it can define it... all others, step off....

want to see some guidowear? check out marc ecko's star wars gear... so sad... i mean, for a dude who was on the cutting edge of streetwear for a sec, this sucks so bad,,,

http://www.shopecko.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3054996&cp=2441351.3165999&view=all

I knew you were from Boston but for some reason I didn't realize that's where.

OMG.

Never in my life.

This one guy I dated from Boston when I was about 17 or 18 grew up in that neighborhood where Irish and Italian people are still like stabbing each other over nothing and he seemed kind of proud of it.

 

[empty mirror]

"guido" entered my vocabulary in 1991 and it signified those kids (of distant italian extraction [ideally]) that wore Z. Cavarrici pants and Cross-Color clothes, and like, tons of gel in their hair:

i think they listened to Color Me Bad and Bel Biv Devoe (POISON!)

 

[nomadthethird]

"guido" entered my vocabulary in 1991 and it signified those kids (of distant italian extraction [ideally]) that wore Z. Cavarrici pants and Cross-Color clothes, and like, tons of gel in their hair:

i think they listened to Color Me Bad and Bel Biv Devoe (POISON!)

And Living Color!

 

[nomadthethird]

thats a funny look, marooned somewhere between the 80's the thompson twins, bananarama and madonna and the 90's, something like swingbeat/hip hop style, but not quite.
Yeah the kids in london rock the almost hip hop, or bright hooded top over cap, skinny jeans, trainers, the big giveaway that they're indie kids in disguise is the slight keeling over and the hoodie over hands like a cardigan though, ala 80's indie softies.

Yeah, usually she looks more like jazz in the 30s, I've never seen her wearing plaid before but there you go. Also they must have really amped up the contrast on that photo because it looks all sharp and barely does her justice. She was a model until she got too "old" at 21.

 

[Bettysnake]

Yeah, this is also a kind of Puerto Rican inspired shaved down "beard" thing.

I'm feeling like this Guido thing is well represented by Mister Andre - seen here with his fragrant wife Katie

 

[swears]

Posh and Becks are guidoed to the max, too.

 

[nomadthethird]

Seems like the super tan thing was big in the 80s, not big in the 90s, then came back with a vengeance a few years ago.

I never understood until a stripper explained it to me:

The reason why people get the extreme spray tans and such (at least in the entertainment biz) is because as the quality of digital video got sharper, the tan did a lot to hide blemishes and stretch marks and such. (She said she got spray tans to hide cellulite)

This makes a lot of sense vis-a-vis hardcore porn.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I'm feeling like this Guido thing is well represented by Mister Andre - seen here with his fragrant wife Katie

Haha, the guy posted up the page rerminded me of Peter Andre. Who is made of burgers, by the way. I mean, visually.

 

[mistersloane]

PS I think you must look great in 90s hiphop. Mike used to have these really great pro-Ked hi tops that were remakes of the originals that were awesome.

It's all about workwear, and that 30s depression chic, this was me at Xmas

 

[Mr. Tea]

Brilliant, very T. S. Eliot.

 

[mistersloane]

Brilliant, very T. S. Eliot.

"A heap of broken images"....

Never anything on TV at Xmas!

 

[nomadthethird]

Amazing photo. (Looks much nicer than my Christmas, which my family spent filling out police reports and towing my brother's car off the freeway after a 6-car pile up.)

Sorta reminds me of this:

The coolest guy ever.

 

[pajbre]

there is a massive vintage u.s. workwear market in japan. see 'free & easy' magazine, which is an obsessively detailed monthly which pours over chambray shirts and boots down to the construction and stitching. and it's not even a trade magazine! some of it is so funny, like tips on how to wrap a scarf around your neck or 'properly' fade your 501s.

there is a store here in LA called mister freedom, which is basically the concept mentioned above, but in addition to all of that, they sell vintage midcentury japanese textiles as well as indigenous pattern-based woven & embroidered jams from central & south america, as well as 70$ back issues of free & easy. american vintage at japanese prices, what's not to love!

interestingly, there is a house brand, sugar cane, which is run by folks from japan, but is manufactured (again, on japanese looms) upstairs at mr. freedom and then sold back to the japanese market for a handsome sum.

 

[empty mirror]

^ yes!

here is a photo of me in my sugar cane hawaii's (the natural indigo ones):

 

[Ness Rowlah]

old-town.co.uk: "using British cottons, woollens and linens wherever possible".
I guess this is where Billy Childish gets his clothes

 

[empty mirror]

i have been curious about old town for a little while now
have you any?

 

[nomadthethird]

^ yes!

here is a photo of me in my sugar cane hawaii's (the natural indigo ones):

Is that a vest under your jacket? I like it.

 

[empty mirror]

thanks! it is a fatigue shirt jacket by engineered garments
i actually do have a shawl collar vest by eg that i wear all the time too
great brand----they use largely deadstock fabrics, the garments are constructed in NYC; great functional clothes. they stand behind their product, too; i've sent back that very shirt jacket because of a bad rivet and they replaced it (the rivet) and paid for shipping

 

[nomadthethird]

thanks! it is a fatigue shirt jacket by engineered garments
i actually do have a shawl collar vest by eg that i wear all the time too
great brand----they use largely deadstock fabrics, the garments are constructed in NYC; great functional clothes. they stand behind their product, too; i've sent back that very shirt jacket because of a bad rivet and they replaced it (the rivet) and paid for shipping

wow this looks cool do they have a boutique or something?