12/24/2023 0 Comments Timeless style sa![]() ![]() Ignoring his suiting example entirely which is so misleading to the point of absurdity. In the same vein a lot of people are resistant to changing to 501s today, And it was seen as an off trend cut a decade ago. That exact example would have been heavily criticized as a dated look only 10 years ago (and it is dated, it's a tie worn with an OCBD without a jacket). ![]() ![]() It's not a coincidence he chose an example from the 1970s either, which a lot of current fashion is calling back to currently. Micro-trends are just as big a part of style. If my grandma had wheels she would be a bicycle. To use his example of OCBD and jeans, which is pretty terrible as he goes "if you change the outfit it could be a different time", like no shit. It's how it's all combined that places it. Most clothing items in men's fashion are enduring, no shit. Why would i take clothing advice from a guy who says this and why would you run a clothing website for 15 years if you don’t find that part of your life exciting at allįeels like he's playing semantics rather than engaging with the intent of the "timeless style". I’ve never related to the word boring, as in, if the opposite of boring is “exciting,” because I can’t relate to thinking about my clothing as “exciting.” It’s just not how I look at that part of my life, and to clarify, I’m a guy who is interested in personal style and have run a website that talks about clothing for 15 years. every regular has worked to change and add onto this narrative with different posts and essays and albums, however the BB is just what hit the sub at the right place at the right time with the right group of guys on the internet looking for fashion advice or style advice or whatever we want to call itĪlso huge props to the writer for dunking on himself like this: That is what is debated on this subreddit. The BB is still FINE to wear, but it is one specific style that is culturally relevant to one specific social identity - it is perhaps “timeless” for this one group (the average middle-class white-collar white male american) and merely a “trend” that hit in 2010 for everyone else, and why people who are not of that specific group moved away from it, feeing that it was not genuine to their “personal style” It was marketed to an entire generation of men seeking fashion advice online that, if you want to dress “timeless,” this is what you wear: a uniform that is only culturally relevant to one specific group of people - i.e., the basic bastard the issue on this sub, to use his terms, was the 2010s marketing of one specific style that was culturally relevant to one specific group of people of one specific social identity as “THE timeless style” - that is, the one specific style of the average middle-class white-collar white male american - illustrated by this whole collage he made However he misses the entire point of our debates. we want you to figure out what you want to wear, we want you to experiment, see what works for you, drop what doesn’t, try things on that you’d never try, etc. He equates “timeless style” to “personal style,” which as a concept, everyone here agrees with and exactly what u/kmn6784 says in the reddit post this author links. This whole essay is based on a misunderstanding of the big overarching MFA debate ![]()
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