NORMCORE THREAD

[CH∆RL∆T∆N !!331ccN+/IXa No.8174424]

From wikipedia:

Normcore is an emerging cultural trend focusing on "coolness that opts into sameness." It is in response to hipster subculture. Jeremy Lewis, the founder of Garmento calls normcore “one facet of a growing anti-fashion sentiment.”

do you believe the hype?

Is this all a ruse by poor people wanting to be fashionable?

How do you plan to not stick out?

[Anonymous No.8174429]

Im too ugly to not dress myself up

[Anonymous No.8174433]

>>8174424
It seems like a straight up rejection of expensive clothing dressed up in such a way that people bandwagon it.

"We're rejecting external influence by being homogeneous" translates directly into "I'm going to wear cheap clothes and claim to be the height of coture"

[Anonymous No.8174445]

>>8174433
the problem here is over-branding. if people could get cheap, unbranded clothes with quality that was decent enough normcore would make a lot of sense.

[Anonymous No.8174450]

normcore is pretty retarded tbh

[Anonymous No.8174467]

>I wanna stand out and not be "hipster!"
>I know: I'll wear shitty clothes ironically and espouse some contradictory and nebulous manifesto about being cool by not being cool!

[Anonymous No.8174479]

>>81744
I agree, it seems like it was designed with nike/levis/etc. from the very beginning.

Though this begs the question, if people COULD get quality cheap clothing, where does that leave the brands that form the backbone of fashion?

[Anonymous No.8174500]

it's a trend, a concept really, that began as an idea someone at KHOLE had
then brooklyn trend-hoppers joined in
now it's reviled/adapted by the tumblr using internet fashion dweebs on /fa/ or sufu or whatever
it's a lot more interesting than just thrifting some dad jeans and reeboks but that concept is lost on the idiots who slap on light wash jeans and vans and think they get it. Do I get it? probably not. I can tell you that there's more to it than what you see the nerds on here doing
check the archive for 'normcore' threads, they're all instagrammed pictures of dudes in Ervell and shit

[pigfuck !!F1hg9EtV7MP No.8174506]

>>8174500
>I can tell you that there's more to it than what you see the nerds on here doing
theres nothing to it, delete ur brain fucking moran

worst post 2014 10/10 would spit milk on me mammies screen again

[Anonymous No.8174556]

>>8174445
It's not about over branding or plain basics or any of that shit. It's about looking like a middle american tourist.

[Anonymous No.8174631]

I don't believe the hype.

It is like going to a costumes party with street clothes and say that you are disguised as a "normal person". No, you are not, you are boring, you have no imagination, please an hero.

[Anonymous No.8174764]

>>8174424
This is the most retarded thing ever.

[Anonymous No.8174817]

apparently Norm-core wasn't intended to be a fashion trend in the first place.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/19118/1/everyones-got-normcore-totally-wrong-say-its-inventors

it's about fluidity in someone's personality that allows them to effectively change their style in order to fit into different situations. basically wear what everyone is wearing where you're going.

I think its horrible the more I read about it. its about destructing the individual and embracing peer pressure.

[Anonymous No.8174837]

This isn't about poor people. It's about rich suburban kids at University wanting to be poor and have hard lives when really they couldn't anything less than what they are

I think it's gay and stupid

[Anonymous No.8174841]

Is normcore

1) dressing like 'normal people' but in the best way possible: normal brands but actually wearing the right size of tshirt, and slightly fitted jeans (not a baggy tshirt and hugely saggy levis)? With a slight preference to early 90s trends?

or

2) dressing completely like normal people in all flaws and every way so as to be indistinguishable from norms?

[Anonymous No.8174847]

>>8174506
agreed

absolutely the worst fucking post of 2014
there is less than nothing to it

just edgy assholes

can't make something out of shit, you can just make sculpted shit

[Anonymous No.8174867]

>>8174467
This is what I hate about normcore. I actually don't mind the aesthetic but the sentiment behind it is so pretentious it hurts.

[Anonymous No.8174879]

>>8174841

1, but we've been heading that way for a while with designers trying to make previously tacky shit like cargo pants, sweatpants, floral prints, and socks/sandals cool.

[Anonymous No.8174890]

If they were really striving to be "normal" shouldnt they be wearing hollister and all the other stuff most 20-30 years wear instead of dressing like the fashion equivalent of vaporwave?

Its all tied into this recent obsession with 90's kitsch and corporate culture. Fucking windows 95 themes on tumblr etc

[Anonymous No.8174896]

streetwear rebranded by dudes desperate to latch on to cutting edge relevancy

basically fashion's version of those dudes whose personality relies on memes and family guy quotes

this shit is as stupid and forced

[Anonymous No.8174931]

>>8174479
Fuck that overpriced shit.

[Anonymous No.8174941]

>>8174896
>fashion's version of those dudes whose personality relies on memes and family guy quotes
god, thats horrible, almost as horrible as a scary story or a very scary legend

[Anonymous No.8174946]

i seem to be the only one who likes it. Lol

[Anonymous No.8174962]

>>8174424
I'm not particularly trying to hard to look shitty idea, but as dumb as it sounds, some parts of normcore can be really appealing in a non-ironic way. pic related is a fit i saved from a waywt.

[Anonymous No.8174967]

I own three pairs of pants
two dark gray/blue
one olive
and only wear white shirts

when its nice out i wear shorts

I've been doing this for two years
>>walk into dinning hall
>>try hard fa walks up to me
>>fixes his posture and hair
>>what do you think about this anon
>>um wear what ever you want
>>you are right! Man you pull normcore off so well
>>wtf is normcore
>>its your style
>>kid I don't care about style
>> but your hair, and your weight and your dress
>>I haven't cut my hair in over a year, I shower less than twice a month and I wear the same clothing every god damn day. I have 'style' not because i wear a style or labels. Its because I love how i live my life, I'm comfortable living as me.

I hate fa
and clothing
and trends
and styles
and scenes

sell yourself some more kids, and then use your own power and energy to be the little marketing puppets for them. ( every thread ownes or some other shit you fuckes shove down our throats so hard I don't even think half of you are people)

[Anonymous No.8174968]

>>8174962
particularly into the trying too hard to look shitty*

[Anonymous No.8174969]

>>8174962
this is just nice, not normcore

it's normal nice

[Anonymous No.8174988]

>>8174962
but that looks bad

[Anonymous No.8174996]

>>8174988
It just looks normal, it's not a certain style. It's just normal and it looks nice

Normcore isn't nromal

[Anonymous No.8174998]

>>8174962
the issue is that people have been doing that look for a while (hello japs with the jeans/white socks/nb's) but for some reason people now want to credit normcore for pioneering this "cheap-chic"

if you really need a label, let it fall under streetwear or something
if you really want to follow normcore or its ideology, don't use any arbitrary label like normcore or streetwear

[Anonymous No.8175010]

legitimately awful. a fashion movement about not having a fashion movement makes literally 0 sense and it just a++++ pretension

[Anonymous No.8175014]

>>8174998
i would say this looks less streetwear than what's been popular in japan, and i rarely see the stonewash jeans in japanese streewear fits, but yeah it's also not normcore, because that label has become associated with a pretty particular image. i think it kind of stays truer to the no aesthetic idea of what I think normcore should be.

[Anonymous No.8175016]

>>8174967
that happened

[Anonymous No.8175041]

>>8174967
i had to stop like full ten minutes just to digest this post

what exactly are youtrying to say? that youre some basic vapid cunt with actually no particular taste in almost evrything? or just one well executed b8?

[Anonymous No.8175043]

>>8174962
the sillhouette is nice but the rest is pretty boring

[Anonymous No.8175051]

>>8174996
>It's just normal
>it isn't normal
wat

[Anonymous No.8175070]

>>8175041
Vapid is a word I had to look up
and I'm not sure you are using it correctly but again I just learned that word

Um what I'm trying to say?
Maybe to you?
And to all of fa?
is that?
maybe?

you sheep are caught in the cycle of consumerism so much so that marketing for brands doesn't even occur through the brand any more it occurs through you and all the posts and links that spam this broad

Clothing that is made, perhaps through some argument is art

you putting it on is not, you are not elevated by any standard by your shoes. The standard is in your head, fueled by the need to have things and to rank things based on price

if you stopped caring about yourself, there is so much more out there that could use your time and energy

[Anonymous No.8175074]

>Not using your clothing to project a personality and dominate other people
All social interaction can be boiled down to power, I assume people into "normalcore" are probably the kinds of people who like being chained up during sex and stuff like that. Wouldn't want to associate myself with them.

[Anonymous No.8175081]

>>8175070
yes i used the word vapid into its full extent, ur one dull broing tedious piece of shit

>implying i dont have my own taste in arts
>implying i didnt build my own clothing style based on many brands
>implying i dont have my own personality

nigga pls, i bet you listen to the shit they play on the radio 24/7

[Anonymous No.8175100]

>>8175081
dude the only thing I was implying is that maybe just maybe you don't have your own anything.

You're influenced by everything all the time, but to be enlightened enough to remove yourself from an influence that is clearly, very fucking clearly, fueled by money is arguably worth leaving.

I don't think i'm boring , nor do i listen to music with lyrics, because well selling your voice to me has no appeal. Lyrics even when good take themselves to seriously, like poems, and when I listen to music I don't want to hear words, I'm imaginative and creative that music speaks to me far more powerfully than some words you wrote to pay for that new jacket.

[Anonymous No.8175103]

>>8174962
show me ur anne d's plz
also why don't u trip yet

[Anonymous No.8175215]

>>8174967
Normalcore sounds really interesting. I think it has something to do with minimalism and oversaturation in our society. I see it in two ways.

The first is a challenge to the individual who likes to express himself. How will he do it, when clothing is removed form the equation? I think that's when personality, physique, gestures, voice and hobbies come in, to define his vision of fashion.

My second thought is about how we all look the same. Like when you add too many colors to something, it becomes gray. It's oversaturated to the point where it's become pointless to dress in a certain style or way. No matter what, you still look like all the others. That's where Normalcore comes and instead of trying to differ and distance itself from this similarity, it accepts it and denies clothing as a from of fashion.

[Anonymous No.8175831]

NEED 2 COP JACKET. BEEN LOOKING FOR ONE LIKE THAT FOREVER

[Sieg No.8175853]

>>8174424
How to differentiate nor core from badly dressed neckwear divan

[Anonymous No.8175860]

>>8175103
the pic is of the trip Tessalate
>>8174962
there's nothing normcore here
light wash jeans can be but not with that pinroll
new balances are too sleek, aren't ugly/chunky enough
upper half is way too nice, should be north face fleece/pull over or a woolrich coat with a graphic tee or something
socks should be white athletics

[Anonymous No.8175864]

If no one ever invented the word hipster none of this would've happened

Every other generation: "I'll dress different to go against the grain of society"

Our generation: "You dress different and unique>!! UHH UHH UR A HIPSTER"

So fucking gay, I'd rather have my own style and cool interests and good taste, call me a fucking hipster.

[Anonymous No.8175875]

normcore is over already, i suggest u guys get on the seincore train

[Anonymous No.8175884]

>>8174890

nigga normcore isn't vaporwavecore

fuck off

[Anonymous No.8175890]

w2c light wash jeans

[Anonymous No.8175900]

>>8174467

[Daniel de Nimes No.8175904]

>>8174467
Remember when Generation X folks dressed like they hated yuppies, had no job, and gave no fucks because they legitimately did hate yuppies, actually were unemployed really truly gave no fucks?

No of course not. What the hell am I thinking? Why would a bunch of grasping narcissistic yuppie wannabes remember anything like that at all?

[Anonymous No.8175909]

>>8174967
new ebin copy paste?

[None !rIzzOZ/zzI No.8175922]

>>8174817
I don't think the idea of embracing peer-pressure is necessarily negative. Doing what everyone else does, while doing it your way, and better than everyone else is, allows you to both fit in and not create discomfort, and look good.

There are just some contexts where an individual's preferred style isn't situationally appropriate, and there's nothing shameful about not wanting to be "that guy".

[Anonymous No.8175926]

>>8174967
>shower less than twice a month

Eww.

[Anonymous No.8175933]

>>8174867
Not only is it pretentious, but it's completely self-defeating. It replicates the initial 'rut' - i.e. lost in some clusterfuck of pseudo-irony - that people think needs to be escaped from in the first place.

God I hate people.

[Anonymous No.8175936]

Normcore as a movement is a stillbirth. There's still a stylistic social order between the individuals who are into normcore... They seem to overthink a lot.

[Anonymous No.8175969]

Making a spectacle of not making a spectacle. Height of pretentiousness. So over analyzed I can't believe people take it seriously.

>Ugh I can't stand being my exceptional self any more, let me wear what you regular plebs do, except in a way only I could.

All of the people doing this shit would have laughed at someone wearing those clothes a year ago.

[Anonymous No.8175979]

to me Normcore is a re-hashing of the grunge movement that came from the overstylized 80's. Since we are passing through an 80's revival right now its only natural that the next fashion trend be a response against it.

the whole "im not a hipster" thing is bullshit. This is the exact same as hipster fashion, its just people trying to carve out identity through clothing choice, which is what fashion is and always will be.

If you are consciously trying to dress normally and putting effort into doing so then you are no different than some hipster agonizing over raw denim and sneakers (though it is cheaper)

fun fact: despite what people think, Kurt Cobain spent hours choosing his clothes and cultivating his image. He was the same as Kanye except he pretended to not give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.8175982]

it never was a movement, wasnt intended to be, and only appears to be one because someone stuck a label on it

this isnt about clothes jesus fucking christ

[Anonymous No.8176011]

I wore some lusterous black fleecy fleecies and some poorly fitting, cheap fresh overwash denim from costco, and some baller fuckin CP's to walmart.

makin boyfriends mad and anxious dads

[Daniel de Nimes No.8176189]

>>8175979
I wish you kids would stop acting like Kurt Cobain was the be fucking end all of an entire generation's approach to clothing.


Pic fucking related.

[Anonymous No.8176216]

>>8176189
Do they read a bunch of foreign Vogue magazines faggot?
Kurt did, CAC

[Anonymous No.8176257]

>>8176216
No they didn't. Because where kurt was a poseur who wanted to look like he didn't give a fuck, stephen malkmus and the rest of pavement actually didn't give a fuck.


Protip: the one thing that a poseur can never successfully imitate is a non-poseur. They can never win.

[Anonymous No.8176434]

>>8174817
> its about destructing the individual and embracing peer pressure
No, it's about embracing other aspects of individuality by eschewing clothing.

[Anonymous No.8176444]

>>8174841
The latter. Doing the former telegraphs you as being concerned about your clothing and normcore is about forgetting you're even wearing clothing. Normcore is answering the question of where you got that shirt with, "I don't know, my girlfriend/wife/mom/etc. bought it."

[Anonymous No.8176452]

>>8174890
Normcore isn't about wearing stuff that was trendy in the nineties. Also, no one wears Hollister outside of teenagers and college students in Middle America. However, plenty of people wear Patagonia, stone washed denim, and cheap sneakers.

[Anonymous No.8176477]

>>8176257
>>8175979

Kurt cobain had fun wearing clothes and purposely dressed in away that showed no fucks but no he didn't spend hours picking out clothing unless on a date at a thrift shop maybe and no he wasn't a poseur. So fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8176486]

Norm core. I think of a mom and dad at an amusement park. Any era from 90's to present. Is this correct?

[Anonymous No.8176589]

>>8176486
>tfw no qt fanny-pack-and-visor wearing wife to take to the county fair where our kids in GAP clothes run around and have fun

[Anonymous No.8176602]

>>8174424
spacecore wiki entry when

[Anonymous No.8176606]

>>8176589
remember osh kosh begosh

[Anonymous No.8176629]

>>8176216
>>8176257
>>8176189
Man, the Pavement shits on Nirvana
fucking grunge bullshit

Also
shoegaze>grunge
And I'm not calling Pavement shoegaze

[Anonymous No.8176969]

>>8175864
>So fucking gay, I'd rather have my own style and cool interests and good taste, call me a fucking hipster.
so much this

[Anonymous No.8176972]

>>8175875
isnt that normocre but in a more aesthetically way?

[Anonymous No.8176978]

>>8176602
how do you go from wearing designer shoes to af1s? its such a downgrade

[Anonymous No.8176991]

>>8176978
not like i threw out all my designer shoes m8
af1s are pretty cool

[Anonymous No.8176995]

>>8176972
That's way normcore is but no one wants to admit it because it defeats the definition / special snowflake status of it

It's long since dead - people were trying to achieve this when MySpace was still popular like '07-'10

[Anonymous No.8177030]

>>8176991
>>8176602
>not mids

nigga you fucked up

[Anonymous No.8177087]

Am I normcore? I wear this kinda thing on the regular.
very shit lighting, and vacuum floor, I know

[Anonymous No.8177092]

>>8177087
thats more like azn streetwear

normcore would be like Hollister or shit from Walmart or Target

[Anonymous No.8177118]

>>8177092
Wait, so normcore is basically shit clothing and style? You just wear shitty clothing and call yourself anti-fashionable and therefore sporting some sort of fashion?

Fuck that noise, I thought it was like the very average shit they wore on Seinfield, like chambray, basic jeans, basic sneakers, basic sweaters, and so on.

[Anonymous No.8177136]

>>8177118
It's actually just Seindeldcore, but sue to copyright reasons, they have to say normcore

[Anonymous No.8177138]

>>8177118
you can find all of that in walmart, obviously there will be people expending more money into their garments to get a look of some middle class no-style man

[Anonymous No.8177142]

>>8176602
w2c pants or similar please
>please

[Anonymous No.8177160]

>>8177118
your definition of normcore is probably closer to the mark than that other guy, but idk howd youd think your outfit was normcore at all

you just look like average college freshman + cap

[Anonymous No.8177161]

Fashion is pretty fucking hilarious. Whenever the new aesthetic becomes the normal aesthetic, in this case "hipster" there will be those who notice it first and begin to go against it individually. It's not until fashion catches up to these people that it becomes fashionable and begins the cycle all over. This "normcore" look has been around since the hipster or gothninja bullshit as a response to it but it isn't until now that the phenomena is being defined and showing up on shitty fashion articles and boards like /fa/.

[Anonymous No.8177163]

>>8174962
I like it, but is this seriously called normcore? It is more like a well fitted casual fit.

[Anonymous No.8177165]

>>8177161
nigga thats how everything works

people break conventions until it becomes normal, its all fucking cycles

[Anonymous No.8177271]

>>8175904
>being a yuppie
>bad

I'm sure you will now talk about why Marx is the greatest genius ever and how Western society is just a big spectacle that keeps you from truly expressing your conscious intent.

[Anonymous No.8177328]

>>8175933
except it's not self defeating at all. "norm-core" is the complete abandonment of trying. The clothes are simple, functional, cheap and inoffensive. There's no irony at all. People who actually dress like this don't over think it like the people who are going to dress like this because they heard about it on a shitty fashion board.

[Anonymous No.8177342]

>>8175969

You're making a lot of assumptions there buddy. And I think it's funny that the only people who are making a spectacle about this are people who are actually worried about looking fashionable such as yourself.

[Anonymous No.8177366]

is anyone actually going to post a picture of normcore fits or are you just going to waffle around talking about fucking counter cultures and anti-fashion fashion statements

[Anonymous No.8177373]

>>8177271
>being a yuppie
>good
pick1

[Anonymous No.8177376]

>>8177030
mids are cool but I like the lows better

[Anonymous No.8177390]

>>8177118
Full circle.

[Anonymous No.8177732]

>>8177342
>funny that the only people who are making a spectacle about this are people who are actually worried about looking fashionable such as yourself.

>normcore
>not actually people worrying about being fashionable

hilarious post there buddy

[Anonymous No.8178419]

>>8176602
>low top
idiot

[Anonymous No.8178458]

>>8175904
I wouldn't consider a group of teens who dream of working at Zara 'yuppies', but whatever.

[Anonymous No.8178477]

Shit man I was normalcore as fuck as a kid in the 90s.
We didn't call it style tho just being poor.

Now idgaf I rock whateves usually lacoste polo + jeans + af1s or hordans

[Anonymous No.8178484]

>>8178477
>hordan's
Th-th-thanks aliexpress

[Anonymous No.8178714]

This iteration of "normcore" is actually 90s revival because it's now the 90s kids' turn to be tastesetters. Also this time it's not ironic, or so they'd like to think.

[Anonymous No.8178723]

>>8175875
ugh i spend most of my younger days trying to dress like kramer

[Anonymous No.8179740]

>>8177366
>/fa/
>expect normcore inspo
kek, go ask your mother how to dress, she will achieve glorious normcore fits in just 5 minutes

[Anonymous No.8179743]

>>8178477
>usually lacoste polo + jeans + af1s or hordans
2pleb4me

i bet you have a fat small gf in Pleb Vuitton and Plobo