Fashion Trends/Faux Pas'... What do you dislike?

[thestrangequark]

Fashion is the clothing industry's way of getting people to spend money on new clothes instead of continuing to wear the clothes that still look the same as they did a year or two ago. The whole thing is based on the principle that the manufacturers and retailers don't make any revenue off the clothes that are already in your closet. Fashion makes it irrelevant that the clothes in your closet are stain and soil free, not torn, have no holes and pretty close to the color they were when you bought them.

That is a part of it, but only the blandest, most cynical, uncreative part -- and only the most recent part too. Fashion has been around a lot longer than industry, after all. People like to decorate themselves, and always have. It may have started out as instinctual, like those little birds that decorate their nests to attract mates. It certainly springs from necessity as well. Wherever it comes from, it is distinctly and wonderfully human. So frivolous and yet so significant: culturally, traditionally, religiously, historically -- fashion played it's role in liberating the western woman, after all!
Fashion, like all other artistic pursuits, helped to develop mankind's skill and industry, and in its turn inspired so many other forms of art, from oil paintings to architecture. It is a very important part of all cultures, no matter how much people try to deny it.

Besides, you're only talking about one kind of fashion: disposable. There are all sorts of different fashion sensibilities, and some of the most fashionable pieces are indeed fashionable because they never go out of style. I have a fine pair of Italian boots that I bought ten years ago, and they're as stunning today as they ever were.

 

[thestrangequark]

I have recently discovered that I look awesome in Army colors. Browns, khakis, and greens.

I'm quite lucky in that I look good in any color -- pastels, deep colors, browns, grays. The only color I can't always pull off is black, oddly enough. I think it's too severe for me. If I wear a very feminine black piece -- the little black dress, for example, I can work it. I couldn't do a black suit, though, I wear my suits in grays and browns.

try black and shiny

No, I'm too "cute" for it. Black looks overly severe on me unless it's very girlie. There are two looks I could never pull off: the cutthroat power suit, and goth.

 

[Data Holmes]

When are we going to get the counter to this thread, fashion trends/faux pas that you support/commit?

 

[Sephiroth]

I whole-heartedly disagree, you'd make a very cute goth

 

[Data Holmes]

I whole-heartedly disagree, you'd make a very cute goth

She could try out the look this halloween. See if it works or not.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

They don't like you for what you wear. They like you for caring enough about yourself to put effort into how you look. If you dress like a slob, people will think you're lazy and don't give a shit.

I do NOT dress like a slob. I wear clean clothes and keep myself looking presentable. What I do NOT do is follow silly trends. I don't do frivolous. I dress strictly for functionality and practical use.

If I'm at a game, for instance, I may put on a shirt that supports the team of my choice, but that's not fashion. It's called being a fan. There's a world of difference there.

The fashion industry may look down on people like me because I'm not rich or sophisticated enough, that I don't buy the latest styles every week. Fine. I get that. I guess I should expect them to act that way. But the difference is, they look down on me because I'm not like them - because I won't wear what they tell me to wear. I don't expect everyone else to dress like me. That is, IMHO, an important distinction.

 

[Shazam!]

If you look boring and like a slob then no women....

Fuck off, since when is not sporting a twatish haircut and skinny fit jeans considered looking boring and like a slob?

 

[Kestra]

If you look boring and like a slob then no women....

Fuck off, since when is not sporting a twatish haircut and skinny fit jeans considered looking boring and like a slob?

I love how you completely added in your own interpretation to what he said.

 

[JonathonWally]

But the difference is, they look down on me because I'm not like them - because I won't wear what they tell me to wear. I don't expect everyone else to dress like me. That is, IMHO, an important distinction.

No, they don't. That's just your massive persecution complex.

 

[sidious618]

If you look boring and like a slob then no women....

Fuck off, since when is not sporting a twatish haircut and skinny fit jeans considered looking boring and like a slob?

See your staying with your status quo posting style. Your reaction to that post sure says a lot about you.

 

[trampledamage]

What I do NOT do is follow silly trends. I don't do frivolous. I dress strictly for functionality and practical use.

There is more to fashion than silly trends and frivolity. You can dislike the silliness without needing to dismiss the entire fashion industry.

I don't follow trends myself, but my sister does and she's about as far from frivolous in her clothes as you can get.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Oversized shorts. I know a guy who wears + size shorts, and they look more like pants than shorts. In the process, it makes him look bigger, as in wider. Can't say it's very flattering.

 

[Holdfast]

When are we going to get the counter to this thread, fashion trends/faux pas that you support/commit?

Would be much more interested in that thread.

Gotta have the mood in there. I've got 5 base colors that I wear: White, Navy, Black, Olive Green, and Orange.

Low/anxious moods call for Navy or Black, better moods call for the other three.

I have recently discovered that I look awesome in Army colors. Browns, khakis, and greens.

I'm quite lucky in that I look good in any color -- pastels, deep colors, browns, grays. The only color I can't always pull off is black, oddly enough. I think it's too severe for me. If I wear a very feminine black piece -- the little black dress, for example, I can work it. I couldn't do a black suit, though, I wear my suits in grays and browns.

Your complex is too rosy for black, I agree. Charcoal and mid grey would look gorgeous on you though, esp. in a Dior New Look type of style.

^ I wear clothes that I *feel* like wearing. I don't let some moron on a catwalk tell me what to wear.

Fashion is all about wearing what everyone else wears, what everyone else thinks looks good, and allowing trends (which other people set) to dictate your own choices. I could really give a damn if there's anyone else on God's green earth who wears, or even likes, the same stuff I do.

'stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room... from a pile of stuff.

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

I am in no position to judge sartorial flubs, considering I'm a walking fashion faux-pas.

 

[K'Ehleyr]

Ok, Macloudt has just bought this to my attention. I'm going under 'faux pas'.
Anything, ok a bit harsh, the majority of the clothing that golfers wear.
Why the checks? Why the long socks with shorts? Why the diamond shaped covered jumpers? Why the pink on men? Why the orange?
I have to close my eyes when walking through the pro shop in order not to come out in hives!
I am in the wrong enviroment!

 

[JonathonWally]

When are we going to get the counter to this thread, fashion trends/faux pas that you support/commit?

Would be much more interested in that thread.

I'm quite lucky in that I look good in any color -- pastels, deep colors, browns, grays. The only color I can't always pull off is black, oddly enough. I think it's too severe for me. If I wear a very feminine black piece -- the little black dress, for example, I can work it. I couldn't do a black suit, though, I wear my suits in grays and browns.

Your complex is too rosy for black, I agree. Charcoal and mid grey would look gorgeous on you though, esp. in a Dior New Look type of style.

^ I wear clothes that I *feel* like wearing. I don't let some moron on a catwalk tell me what to wear.

Fashion is all about wearing what everyone else wears, what everyone else thinks looks good, and allowing trends (which other people set) to dictate your own choices. I could really give a damn if there's anyone else on God's green earth who wears, or even likes, the same stuff I do.

'stuff'? Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select... I don't know... that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually cerulean. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent... wasn't it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room... from a pile of stuff.

Now there's a movie you won't usually see me admitting to liking in public very often, but, I do.

 

[Holdfast]

Now there's a movie you won't usually see me admitting to liking in public very often, but, I do.

You sold your soul to the devil when you put on your first pair of Jimmy Choos, I saw it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

If you look boring and like a slob then no women....

Fuck off, since when is not sporting a twatish haircut and skinny fit jeans considered looking boring and like a slob?

One fashion you definitely want to follow is the fashion of not telling people to "fuck off" on TrekBBS. Otherwise you'll probably get a very cool and cutting edge Warning.

 

[thestrangequark]

When are we going to get the counter to this thread, fashion trends/faux pas that you support/commit?

Would be much more interested in that thread.

We could always do another What Are You Wearing!

I'm quite lucky in that I look good in any color -- pastels, deep colors, browns, grays. The only color I can't always pull off is black, oddly enough. I think it's too severe for me. If I wear a very feminine black piece -- the little black dress, for example, I can work it. I couldn't do a black suit, though, I wear my suits in grays and browns.

Your complex is too rosy for black, I agree. Charcoal and mid grey would look gorgeous on you though, esp. in a Dior New Look type of style.

Indeed, I look very good in greys, and wear a lot of it. My very best colors are grey, green (especially Kelly, and olive, which brings out my eyes), sapphire, and red.

 

[Starbreaker]

1. Giant sunglasses... who the fuck needs that much protection from the sun? It's VERY far away.
2. Pants that go over shorts that go over boxer shorts that are around your knees. Who the fuck wants to hold onto their crotch while they walk a mile to their friend's house? Buy a fucking belt or get a piece of string.
3. Lip and nose rings. I've come to tolerate a stud in the side of the nose, but actual hoops are weird. Do guys really want to make out with girls with lip rings? I don't.


Also, you know that one girl that's overdressed for a party? I hate that.