/fa/ - Fashion

>people who perform manual labor
>people who browse /fa/

>>7576451
>implying people work in workwear
http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/269189-Is-the-overpriced-boot-some-sort-of-hipster-thing

>>7577057
that thread holy shit
>stop wearing things because they look good!

>>7577552
not really, its more, "stop paying 300-400 dollars for "quality" work boots like wolverines or iron rangers that won't even last a year of hiking."

>>7577592
>I noticed in downtown Sacramento they seem to be prevalent among the young, pipe smoking hipster crowd, so I figured that must be a part of it. Please...if that's the case, don't. Just don't.

>I get pretty annoyed at people wearing motorcycle jackets that don't ride. Or motorcycle boots that don't ride. Or when people buy pre-distressed items.

Yeah they're clearly not judging, they just want everyone to get good value.

>>7577611
You had to scour out two vague lines in an entire thread to make your point, and that second line isn't even from the OP post.

Did the thread strike a nerve? Hit too close to home and you start to feel defensive or what?

stop arguing. post clothes.
can anyone point me to a nice denim shirt? The ones I usually find are made of really shitty material.

>>7577665

>>7577681

>>7577665
wtc pants

>>7577592
They aren't work boots though. They are made for fashion.

>tfw when you will never be this cool.

>>7577732
im eyeballin that chair

I really need to study now, so I'll dump more later.

Have this in the mean time: http://plaidndenim.tumblr.com/archive

>>7577759
oh god I hate this kind of workwear blog

manly men and motorcycles and good-looking women and so on

what's the point? it's a "lifestyle" blog or something? so lame

at least that one doesn't have food. if someone reblogs pictures of pastries and shit that's the worst

>>7577643
>Did the thread strike a nerve? Hit too close to home and you start to feel defensive or what?
Struck a nerve, maybe. Those sorts of people are insufferable to me. They probably wear sports sunglasses all the time too. I wouldn't say it hit too close to home since I don't wear any of the articles of clothing mentioned.

Granted most of the thread are people defending such choices, but the OP and a couple subsequent posts really rustled my jimmies.

>>7577804
>some tasteless tripfaggot doesn't like a blog that isn't about wearing angsty over priced black clothing that he can't afford

Get the fuck out, pleb.

>>7577804
we all know it's you sieg

>>7577818
you have no idea what my taste is so shut the fuck up dadcore faglord

>>7577842
>assblasted gooftard mad cuz some people on this board still have taste

I bet you own knock off geobaskets.

>>7577857
>>7577836
you guys caught me

I'm Sieg Heil, the gothninja

>>7577857
as for my knocked off geobaskets, you're absolutely right. I wish I could afford Red Wings and raw denim.

there must be something wrong with me for not appreciating stuff like this! he's so manly ~ ~ ~ ~ <3

>>7577911
oh god that blog is fucking terrible
dont rip on my red wings tho

>>7577931
nothing wrong with red wings, I've got two pairs

I just find it rich that this guy thinks I'm some kind of small-minded all black fuccboi with dreamboxes because I don't like that shitty blog

>>7577940
im sure everyone but him and the guy that posted it thought it was shit.
its below what even mfa would define as cool.

>>7577940
i usually dont care much about trips but i kinda like you

I remember some dumbass in my welding class use to dress stylish like some hipster... He wore Iron Rangers and 200 dollar jeans... By 6 months in his boots were fucking ruined and his jeans were dirty as shit...

This is why you buy actual decent steel toes that are CERTIFIED and 10 dollar jeans...

>>7577911
That looks like the guy from American Pickers. He's not very /fa/

>>7578009
that is mike, lol.
he restored the indian he got in one ep.

>>7577804
>>7577911
Dude, why does it bother you that much?
Like specifically - I'm genuinely curious

I agree its generic and lame, but it doesn't make me mad at all. There's even a few nice looking boots & some decent jeans inspo on there.

maybe its cause I don't follow enough workwear blogs to be pissed off by bad ones...

>>7577954
a lot of blogs are like that though

I mean, there are bad tumblr blogs for every type of 'aesthetic' but those are the kind I see the most because there's some overlap with them as far as brands I like

I see a lot of blogs with homestyle pancakes and wholesome country girls and sick choppers and would-be-J Crew ads and #denim and I feel like I have to say something when I see them because people need to stoppppp

I'm not even all about 'Europe'. The USA is, in my opinion, the greatest country in the world. I just think Americana as a whole aesthetic vision gets boring, and more than that, I think blogs should make some effort to not be about more than two things. either I want to look at a blog about clothing or I want to look at a blog about food.

>>7578057
I might need you to define "that much". They don't make me angry, I just think they suck

I don't follow workwear blogs at all, but sometimes they follow me or reblog something I posted so I end up looking at them

>>7577968
hey, to be fair, there are some good trips on /fa/

r.i.p. poet

>>7578072
imo americana is amazing, theres just a limit, and "sick choppers" and shitty tattoos cross that line.
If only there was some kind of artistic/americana fusion that wasn't just bad photography of frumpy average joes.

>>7578072
poet was a fucking nutcase.

>hurr durr im so philosophical just look at my tripname poet hurr durr some1 kill me

>>7578072
wuts ur tumblr mayne?

>>7578119
it's kinda shit but here

http://jockpark.tumblr.com/

I don't post very frequently

>>7578127
followed
got some good shit on there

mine's all art

>>7577681
w2c those boots

>>7578154
red wing 877

bump for interest

>>7577759
WTC jacket?

>>7576295

Somewhat related, but I'm not sure it deserves it's own thread
how do I into utilitarian core?
How does it differ from workwear?

I don't understand /fa/ anymore: so, insufferable workwear wearers are better than fedora'd dadcore wannabes?

They both look bad, but I'd take a nerd with no sense of style but some hobbies over some vapid, pretentious workwear hipster any day.

>>7578127
I dig the blog, I gave you a follow. Would you recommend Yuk mocs? I've been thinking about pulling the trigger

>>7579497
my experience with yuketen has been pretty good, overall

they're a little bit overpriced, but if you get a sale price, they're pretty good. unfortunately sale prices seem to be worse this season than they were last season, as far as I can tell.

they tend to be relatively long, which doesn't always work well with my relatively wide feet, but other than that, I can't complain

I cannot comment on their long-term durability. I have something like 5 pairs of boots and 6 pairs of shoes in rotation right now, so I don't use any of my footwear very heavily. I can say, however, that I've never heard of a yuketen warranty, or any options for repairing them. I don't think I could recommend yuketen as your only pair of shoes. They're perfectly good for supplementing a collection that already covers the basics, though.

something to keep in mind is that a wide variety of manufacturers make yuketen's products. I think some are made by quoddy judging by what I've seen, but I don't know that for sure. They do some collaborations with Heschung that are labelled as such, but some of theirs, such as a collaboration with a Canadian manufacturer (which one assumes is Viberg, but the prices aren't comparable), and work with a Mexican manufacturer, are not attributed to a named entity (AFAIK).

the other thing one should understand about Yuketen is that Yuki Matsuda likes to capitalize on Made in America because it pays off in the Asian market. don't expect commitment to US consumers

>>7579584
well shit. What would you recommend for mocs?

>>7579497

Yuketen, Quoddy, and Alden are all great places to start. The real advantage you get with Yuketen is the styling, really; it's going to be more progressive than a lot of other heritage-focused footwear brands.

>>7579603
that's a tough question

I don't own any Quoddy but I have a friend who has a pair with a fucked up sole and he's been contacting them to try to arrange sending them in for repair, and it has been months and they haven't responded. I sense that they don't know what they're doing. That said, they're pretty reasonably priced for what you get

Oak Street have been pleasant, in my experience, to deal with. But I don't know what they'd do if there was a problem in the long run. That said, it's a good product for the price.

Rancourt's shoes are not finished to quite the same standards, but they offer repair services for when the mocs get fucked up. You pay for them, but at least you know they exist.

the aforementioned Alden make great shoes, but the moc toe shoes they do make don't strike me as moccasins. and they're a lot more expensive than anything else (they're similar to yuketen at retail price, but yuketen goes on sale frequently)

Russell Moccasin makes serious shoes; to my knowledge, their main market is hunters. their shit is expensive, and takes ~20 weeks to make, but supposedly it's worth it. I wouldn't know. in any case, it's worth checking out. their website has terrible pictures; japanese stockists have better ones

other than all that, I don't know much. new england outerwear makes mocs in the US, but I know very little about them.

pictured: russell moccasin, almost ordered these but didn't

>>7579643
this is accurate

yuketen are nxtlvl; just expect that they will be 'fashion shoes', nothing more, and you'll be happy with them

>>7578110
>poet
>nutcase

"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."

>>7577689
He always puts a cap on his cup because people kept dropping change in it.

>>7578110
What a genuinely retarded post

>>7580866
it had a grain of truth in it

I think it's not true to say that poet ever claimed he was a poet or a philosopher. he may have aspired to being a poet, he certainly aspired to saying wise things, and those are noble goals. it's not fair to dismiss him as a failure in those respects; but in relation to his reputation, it makes some sense to say that he was not all he was believed to be.

>>7580828
#rekt

>>7580369
You're a stooge that doesn't understand this quote because you never read the book.

>>7580884
you... i like you..

i am keen to get a boot, a really good shoe that will be my main one, but ive never ordered a big investment online before, and have been thinking about oak street trench boot. how do you like oak street or ordering pretty pricey stuff online? i mean, you have more shoes than i think ill ever have, but were they worth it; would you cop again?