Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going? - Topic of the day 7/25/24
Much like this discord, your personal style may have also changed since 2023. What items, brands, or aesthetics have you've started or stopped wearing, and why? Who/what specifically inspired this change in you? Where do you see your style going in the next year, and how?
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I’ve narrowed down my style this year from a bunch of disparate things that don’t work together to mostly three styles that don’t work together
I’ve kinda eliminated workwear, ivy, and a couple other styles from my wardrobe
Went from jcrew buyer to vintage polo ralph lauren ebay buyer
And I’m looking to become even more cohesive in mixing black and browns in a yy or cdg type look with our legacy patterns and eckhaus latta proportions
unbelievably relatable
I’ve also eliminated climbing core and LA streetwear from my wardrobe
what's left?
There continues to be a gap between how i want to dress (ALD esc subverted ivy, lots of focus on playing with mixed formality, still some healthy streetwear) and how I do dress (lots of lazy tee streetwear focused outfits. Also went on a camp collar shit buying spree last summer and I only really like a few of them lol. That said I think I've really identified the general spot i wanna bring my fashion, and need to dump a bunch of my clothes. I continue to make expensive mistakes with the clothes I buy which is annoying, but I do have a good feeling about where I want to go.
I think something I struggle with is a I WFH and I'm lazy, so a lot of the time i dress in a way that isn't how I truly want to dress as much.
On the bright side I'm super happy about how my jewelry journey has gone, and how it adds edge to the subverted formality. I think I need to figure out how to make it slightly more cohesive with my style and I'll be happy.
Last focus is using ties in my outfits to play with formality
Think I need to mentally let some expensive workwear items from japan go and sell my loopwheel hoodie at a minimum
Also my highs are much higher these days than they were for a while. My hits HIT
I haven’t arrived at shit but we’re sure as hell moving
i moved away from wearing brown on brown on brown after like 3-4 years to being more adventurous with color. and i still love brown, but now i realize other colors actually exist and are cool also. also i've achieved the width of what i've wanted to go for. first two you can very much see i was only doing brown vs now that i've branched out.
same!
that's funny, because I now have a lot more ivy and workwear in my wardrobe. 🙂
There’s a lot of styles left that I don’t even attempt: gorp, any vintage era, hyper pop, shoe nerd, many different streetwear adjacent, granola etc
Errbody and they mom wear double knees now
May have to retire my pairs
🤓
I'm trying to move towards developing style outside of what I wear for work, which really defined my path early on. I post a lot of ivy stuff here cuz it's "work appropriate" but that's pretty limiting and isn't necessarily how I want to dress every day, so I'm trying to explore other styles, which includes picking up stuff that isn't versatile in a biz casual sense
Yeah I feel myself try to incorporate more interesting items into what counts as work appropriate
i'm going in a more menswear direction as of the last year or so—i think it was the result of some gender expression experimentation that solidified that i tend to find menswear silhouettes the most comfortable. i try to fuck around with proportions and incorporate womenswear pieces into my closet, but my typical fit is oversized shirt + wide denim or straight fit trousers + chunky shoe and maybe a cute blazer or knit
it's also likely because i'm spending more time interacting in menswear circles (here)