Style Highlight: Gorpcore - Topic of the day 12/28/23
Is this your style or your style at times? How do you feel about this style? Inspo pics would be greatly appreciated too.
39 Replies
Yeah so I call this, 'normal clothes' and 'fitting in with the neighbors' lol
Yeah this is just basic bastard in the pnw
there is cool gorpcore too tho
I dont like synthetic garments very much
But idk like the hiker look is cool
I love tie-dye, Birkenstocks, and Patagonia.
But I’d also like to learn how to “elevate” that look. Pardon the cringey word.
I think by owning it, I wear my birks like 95 percent of the time and have like 3 pairs (4 if we count the plastic one for the beach)
Got it! I will stop showering, and substitute patchouli.
Seriously, though, “own it” is such good advice for so much of fashion, IMO.
Anyone have recommendations for where to get good tie-dye?
Online ceramics
I get more compliments on my And Wander jacket irl than almost anything else I ever wear
As usual, cool just means Japanese
Shell, Japan
I am shill, japan
I do love gorpcore though. One of my goals for 2024 is to explore it more
Same, I've really been loving snow peak. and wander has some great graphics too
Snow Peak is my favorite aesthetically pleasing store to feel uncomfortably poor in
the closest thing i own to gorpcore is probably my Gramicci gadget pants. would love to explore the style more, but i feel like my wardrobe would be pulling in too many different directions
I've spent too much time in evolution and ecology departments so this is just called "how people dress for work"
I could see you rockin some Danner Mountain Light II’s
some nice hiking boots like that would be up my alley. they could replace my gore-tex high-top Vans 
I remember seeing the term "gorpcore" for the first time online and seemed like winter outfits in mainly synthetic fabrics that I'd normally see during winter except with F A S H I O N. Seen some cool jackets and interesting fits now and then from Japanese instagram accounts, but that's the extent of my interest in gorpcore.
Does yuthanan count as gorpcore
Gorp-adjacent at least.
Ok yeah
Thats the type of gorp im in to
It’s like a gorpy americana
Gorpcana
Amerigorp
Feeling seen in this statement! I love walking through Snow Peak, but inevitably suffer from sticker shock when I see something I’m interesting in buying. (Edit: spelling)
Last time I was there I found myself admiring a $1900 tent and a store associate came up to me to ask if I wanted to buy it. I said I couldn’t afford it and they said “yeah, we get that a lot”
I do associate this look strongly with tech
Seattle is low-key a sleeper fashion city
and I don't mean in the "cool" neighborhoods
Definitely. I have to accept that I am, in fact, a tech nerd. Just trying to be a somewhat fashionable tech nerd.
go walk around downtown and check out all the normal people getting on and off the bus in a mixture of outdoors clothing they've had for 20 years and some sneakers
if they were Japanese ppl they'd be blowing up on Instagram!
Would love to see some gorpcore 
Gorpcore is a lot of functional clothes. Because windproof waterproof jackets are useful.
That said I occasionally see someone around town wearing hiking boots which quite obviously have never seen a lick of mud and it feels rather... Empty. An aesthetic that is all about being outdoors in the wilderness but never actually doing the work to make it to said environment.
you must love workwear
Why you dress like you work all day in a factory when you have never been within smelling distance of one.
fashion would not exist with this mindset
where do you think your jeans came from
I suppose so.
I just have this feeling of... Fashion existing as a sort of costume of things you are not.
Me, walking into White Mountaineering and seeing price tags 😭
By “elevate” I assume you mean make it more fashionable? Avoiding the finance-and-tech-bro-fleece-vest look?
GORPCORE is exactly the same as WORKWEAR. It’s the clothes that people just kind-of wear, and to succeed you need to tap in to those sub-genres/cultures and understand what those aesthetics are communicating.
Take inspiration from gardeners, or field biologists, or palentologists. From hikertrash, and runners, and climbers, and anglers, and arborists. Like workwear, Japanese and Vintage garms are going to hit harder because they’re not the same things that people are wearing right now. A Patagonia SST from 2023 does not feel the same as one from 2003. The Puffball vest doesn’t give tech-bro, but the Better Sweater does. A Nanga rain shell reads differently than an REI one for the same reasons that OrSlow 105s are more recommended than Levi’s 501s.
Sandwich your fit with your outerwear and your shoes in the fall or winter. Embrace zip-off pants. Wear chunky walking shoes and ball caps. Get a small carabiner (I have an And Wander one that came with their Dinex mug) to hang your keys from. Don't worry about GORPCORE stolen valor.
Japanese:
The North Face Purple Label
Snow Peak
Gramicci
And Wander
Hikertrash
Suicoke
Nanga
Rocky Mountain Featherbed
Vintage:
Patagonia
The North Face
Nike ACG
Marmot
Modern:
Merrell
Salomon
Keen
Crescent Down Works
Bedrock Mountain
Organic Climbing
La Sportiva
Teva
For tie-dye:
Story MFG
Montana Mud Shirts
Noma t.d.
Old Greatful Dead shirts
Needles Rebuild
Online Ceramics
Good Morning Tapes
Crocs
For Inspo:
USU Outdoor Recreation Archive
The Go Out! Magazine
https://imgur.com/a/bjajILD
https://imgur.com/a/8IWlA
Understory-Shop
This is great! Thanks
i forgot i made this inspo album haha