Something Completely Different

What are the fashionistas of this website wearing right now? What styles are you into, your blue suede shoes or your raspberry berets? Are you one of those people who just wears what is fresh and clean at the time or are you a dedicated follower of fashion?

Describe your style if you wish.

A pair of sweats. It's late :laughing:

Oooh! This is the thread for me!

I've been slowly bitten by the vintage fashion bug over the past few years. I dressed punk in high school, and slowly morphed into a very soft feminine style over the next 15 or so years.

I exclusively wear dresses and skirts, and I think the next evolution is to go hard into the 1950s vintage aesthetics. I've loved feminine fashion of that era (late 40s through early 60s) for around 20 years but I never believed in myself enough to think I could pull it off. I'm not great at getting a good hair look for that style, but it'll be a fun challenge.

A few of my fashion mainstays include floral dresses, more professional looking button up dresses, lots of heels, maxi skirts, sleeveless ruffled tops, and so on.

The modern fashion world is too much for me to follow honestly. I just do what I like and think looks good on me.

That last bit is what I do, Miss Synth (if I can call you that). I just dress in what I feel comfortable in. People probably look at me and think I dress like a yob but I don't care.

Vast majority of what I wear is sports clothing. Most of it is black, and I wear some band t shirts.

I hate jeans!

Casual clothes.

I wanna look smart for work, so generally go for shirts. tucked into jeans and a nice jacket. The real me is much more your average slob. If the weather is warm, I prefer shorts and sandals. Perhaps a singlet with a less "professional" shirt over.

I've dressed that way for years, so it has nothing to do with fashion 😅 One reason why I like sandals in the summer is we're often close to water and I like to be able to walk into a river or catch a crab without worrying too much about my footwear.

Most annoying trend right now in the UK, the 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut.

This haircut, Nike tech fleece tracksuit, Jordans and a man pouch. Spotted on young males (early 20s and down) all over UK city centres.

https://deavita.net/meet-me-mcdonalds-haircut-hairstyle-extreme-fun-rebellious-256242.html

(https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/little-t-1249410.jpg)

(https://preview.redd.it/3rvr5rdhrxl41.jpg?auto=webp&s=aa019f0511af068860006cce82b106f9e87bbb8f)

(https://mediacloud.theweek.co.uk/image/private/s--NJtDtGgW--/v1604767148/theweek/2018/02/myles_stephenson.jpg)

Why is is called meet me at McDonald's?

I was wondering the same thing. Man, it looks stupid.

I have no idea.

If there's one thing I hate it's everything.
But no: people (women, almost exclusively, mostly young) going out in pyjamas. I mean, how can that look good? They literally look like they just tumbled out of bed, and they probably did.  It's the look that says "I could not be bothered to get dressed, but I have to go out so fuck you". Idiotic.

Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 15, 2023, 12:03 AMMost annoying trend right now in the UK, the 'meet me at McDonald's' haircut.

This haircut, Nike tech fleece tracksuit, Jordans and a man pouch. Spotted on young males (early 20s and down) all over UK city centres.

https://deavita.net/meet-me-mcdonalds-haircut-hairstyle-extreme-fun-rebellious-256242.html

(https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/little-t-1249410.jpg)

(https://preview.redd.it/3rvr5rdhrxl41.jpg?auto=webp&s=aa019f0511af068860006cce82b106f9e87bbb8f)

(https://mediacloud.theweek.co.uk/image/private/s--NJtDtGgW--/v1604767148/theweek/2018/02/myles_stephenson.jpg)

:laughing:

Reminds me of Terry Hall from The Fun Boy Three...

The lads who sport it can be seen fighting each other and diving over the counters of ASDA to buy bottles of Prime.

If anyone here is not aware of the Prime drink craze at the moment, you will be lost for words when you find out.

She became a household name in 60s Britain - singlehandedly changing fashion with her unprecedented mini-skirt designs:-

Pre-Mary Quant: (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQiKTTS6lvG0r5HnuEKxmv81JpvzznKu1AtbF4lmb1iBUtappAi3aHVF-KcIwfk6fU2XEM&usqp=CAU).  A Mary Quant design: (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSqm37WKSl3pKRfsxUCQrJ6GVhqGp6w4SBLyw&usqp=CAU)

Some people were outraged by the startling new design ideas, but, being an adolescent boy at the time, I wasn´t entirely hostile to the style she invented. And now, unexpectedly, I owe a new kind of "thanks" to Mary Quant: she has died at age 93, reminding me that I could have plenty of years of life left.

Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 15, 2023, 03:04 PMThe lads who sport it can be seen fighting each other and diving over the counters of ASDA to buy bottles of Prime.

If anyone here is not aware of the Prime drink craze at the moment, you will be lost for words when you find out.

I'll take a guess that McDonald's is a popular meeting place for daft teen males in the UK.

From what I gathered from my quick search, 'Prime' looks like a ridiculously overpriced caffeinated "energy" drink.

Quote from: Psy-Fi on Apr 15, 2023, 03:33 PM

Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 15, 2023, 03:04 PMThe lads who sport it can be seen fighting each other and diving over the counters of ASDA to buy bottles of Prime.

If anyone here is not aware of the Prime drink craze at the moment, you will be lost for words when you find out.

I'll take a guess that McDonald's is a popular meeting place for daft teen males in the UK.

From what I gathered from my quick search, 'Prime' looks like a ridiculously overpriced caffeinated "energy" drink.

Selling for crazy money on eBay, like 50 quid a bottle. It's some shit drink that two YouTube celebrities put their name to.

There is a guy who has become a celebrity selling cans of it for 100 quid from his shop. Called Wakey Wines.

Plenty of videos of long queues at 6am and other stupid times of kids and families waiting in line to buy a bottle of this drink then storming the shops and fighting over it.

Videos of kids at Christmas getting Prime as a present and crying tears of joy.



Fucking bizarre. It's one thing to queue for the new iPhone or a console when they're released but a £2 drink?

That is both sad and bewildering, jimmy jazz. Can people really be so obssessed with something that goes down the gullet in a couple of mins ?

Quote from: Lisnaholic on Apr 15, 2023, 04:55 PMThat is both sad and bewildering, jimmy jazz. Can people really be so obssessed with something that goes down the gullet in a couple of mins ?

Staggering isn't it. It's no different to a bottle of Coca Cola or Lucozade but because some YouTube guys put their name on it they're treating it like liquid gold.

You know these YouTube guys sell out arenas having boxing fights against each other? Boxing fans aren't interested in it, it's today's kids. Youtubers are the new celebrities.

Quote from: jimmy jazz on Apr 15, 2023, 06:18 PM

Quote from: Lisnaholic on Apr 15, 2023, 04:55 PMThat is both sad and bewildering, jimmy jazz. Can people really be so obssessed with something that goes down the gullet in a couple of mins ?

Staggering isn't it. It's no different to a bottle of Coca Cola or Lucozade but because some YouTube guys put their name on it they're treating it like liquid gold.

You know these YouTube guys sell out arenas having boxing fights against each other? Boxing fans aren't interested in it, it's today's kids. Youtubers are the new celebrities.

I was thinking of the Coca-Cola comparison, as well.

Fools and their money.

I wonder how many of the people buying that crap are buying it to resell, thinking they are going to make a small fortune?

Yeah well I have to say it, don't I? A Prime example of human stupidity, gullibility and sheep mentality at its worst.

I mentioned in the hobbies thread I started that my entire wardrobe comprises vintage articles from the Victorian era to 70s disco. Lots of shag faux fur, fringed garments, vintage blazers and vests, suede outerwear, ultrasuede suits, polyester disco shirts, giant bell-bottom trousers, and a metric f*ckton of velvet.

I adore accessories so I have over a dozen 12ft long shag and crocheted wool scarves, an array of haberdashery including vintage wide-brim fedoras, flatcaps, and antique beaver fur top hats, and custom-made jewelry I've fashioned from old typewriter and amplifier parts, as well as typewriter cufflinks and skeleton magnifier pocketwatches. I have vintage wingtips and Chelsea boots for every outfit and I have spectacles and walking sticks to match all of my ensembles.

Working from home since COVID, I haven't had as many opportunities to get snazzy, but I dress in my finest every weekend even if only to fetch the post or grab a coffee at the local cafe.

From page 201 of cultural critic Simon Reynolds' book Retromania he states:

Remember the Pop Boutique store in central London with its slogan 'Don't follow fashion. Buy something that's already out of date'? Just as vintage can have an undercurrent of recalcitrance towards fashion, similarly it is possible for rock nostalgia to contain dissident potential. If Time has become annexed by capitalism's cynical cycles of product shifting, one way to resist that is to reject temporality altogether. The revivalist does this by fixating on one era and saying: 'Here I make my stand.' By fixing identity to the absolute and abiding supremacy of one sound and one style, the revivalist says, ' This is me.'

That's my stance on fashion.

Love these:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/90/2f/14902f83302383b1db5408f30cb429f7.jpg)

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fc/b3/23/fcb323e1c06f41009c8fb1da9ded7448.jpg)

Dirndls.

Not on me, but I think they look lovely on the German women.

Makes me want to go to Oktoberfest.

Quote from: jimmy jazz on Sep 20, 2023, 09:34 PMLove these:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/90/2f/14902f83302383b1db5408f30cb429f7.jpg)

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fc/b3/23/fcb323e1c06f41009c8fb1da9ded7448.jpg)

Dirndls.

Not on me, but I think they look lovely on the German women.

Makes me want to go to Oktoberfest.

:beer:

I happen to be wearing a t-shirt with this image on it at the moment as I type this...

:laughing:

She looks very thirsty!

I should post pics of my vintage glam outfits. Not exactly Oktoberfestcore, more like mid-century suburban momcore, but if you all like aprons and swishy dresses I've got you covered.

I'll see if I can model some of that tomorrow.

Why is it that NBA 'jerseys' always come with player names on the back?

I'd like a couple for showing my gainz off in summer but I don't want some guy's name all over my top.

Everywhere I've looked there literally is no option for them.

Why is this?

Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 06, 2024, 05:42 PMWhy is it that NBA 'jerseys' always come with player names on the back?

I'd like a couple for showing my gainz off in summer but I don't want some guy's name all over my top.

Everywhere I've looked there literally is no option for them.

Why is this?

I've seen "customizable" jersey listings that give you the option of adding your own name and a number of your choosing. Not sure if you could order one without a name and/or number, though.

Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 06, 2024, 05:42 PMWhy is it that NBA 'jerseys' always come with player names on the back?

I'd like a couple for showing my gainz off in summer but I don't want some guy's name all over my top.

Everywhere I've looked there literally is no option for them.

Why is this?

Why not some other kind of sleeveless shirt? NBA shirts look childish imo

Quote from: grindy on Mar 06, 2024, 06:42 PMWhy not some other kind of sleeveless shirt? NBA shirts look childish imo

Material mainly.

So it's about sweat?

Na, the fit.

I suppose I could look for similar ones but they'd be harder to find I reckon.

Quote from: jimmy jazz on Mar 06, 2024, 06:57 PMMaterial mainly.

There are similar shirts but not from some specific league. I remember having one from Nike as a kid. Might want to look into that.