The Cutting Room Floor - Topic of the day 5/21/24
With The Spring Fit Battle coming to an end, there's bound to be plenty "what could have beens?" Share any of your draft ideas or any thought processes you went through or scrapped in crafting your submissions
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i build outfits by putting shit on so a lot of these are just me throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks
Think a home depot bucket would look better in your kitchen than the ace
A couple ideas that I kicked around that were scrapped/edited
I kinda fw 2 and 3
i couldn't get the pants in 3 hemmed in time, but the hope/plan was to take the pic at a baseball game
it's interesting to see an outfit 'emerge' in the camera roll, too.. just trying things out and eventually editing until landing on what I posted to the fit battle.
starting in a dark/broody fall look with a wool blazer, cotton pants and boots and ending in a hobbit spring fit with a linen blazer, linen pants and sockless loafers
Started out with a different jacket in my vote-in but swapped the orphaned suit jacket for a bedford because I wasn't fully feeling the texture of the first jacket. Also lost the sunglasses because the sun went away lol
I was playing around with these two fits for the first round fit but I wasn't fully feeling either. The first fit felt too safe/boring and in the second one the traditional jacket felt out of place for me. Thanks to some great input from @zeometer I ended up swapping the pants for the fit I submitted, which I think works much better
These two were ideas that I didn't end up using. In the first one I wasn't satisfied with the sweater and the shoes but didn't want to wear the loafers that I wore in my first fit again. It also felt even more obviously "drake's at home" than that first fit, and that's not necessarily what I want to do. The second idea is kind of different from what I usually wear and I thought it was fun but I didn't have time to get the pants hemmed. Also I was up against Billiams and felt like if I were to have any chance at all it would be by going fully ivy and not by half-assing a different aesthetic. There were more attempts than all the above but most didn't survive the mirror stage. Overall I really enjoyed participating in the battle as an exercise to be very critical of a fit and really take a moment to think about what I think works and what doesn't. We'll see if it pays off in how I dress in the future 😄
I wanted to do one where I wove my tie diagonally through the holes in this vest (reminiscent of a cross body bag was my thinking), but it just couldn’t come together
fourth one hits
i really wanted to make that fair isle sweater happen lmao; i got a better use out of it, a better schoolboy fit for vote and a better fit off with the coach's jacket/5 pocket pants
Those derbies are cool, first fit also kinda works for me
It's cool to see how this fit really gets progressively better in each shot
I tested all three of these out for qualis but after that we were locked in each round
in case things went a different way today
