Turning Points - Topic of the day 8/4/24
What was your biggest turning point? Be it a bricked fit, a piece of advice, or something you saw on instagram, what was year zero to the BCE and CE of your fashion journey?
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getting relentlessly shit on when we swapped to the discord
and actually posting fit
Hmm...wouldn't say I had a turning point. I think I wasn't really happy with the way I was at the time so I wanted to express myself more
Joining MFAD and actually having money to spend
This lmao
What's around your waist?
It’s not me
Oh
Rej ms painted a chuck tailoring fit and a chuck jordans fit together and it activated something in my brain
https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1130222370179793076 is probably the true answer to this question for me
Somehow ended up on fashion instagram (reels) and thought that stuff was way too cool
last year
Calum Arvid, Reuben Larkin, Thomas Tapy, Jarvis Aivali... people like that
Buying a jacket made out of an upcycled blanket
literally the economy
I wouldn'tve started dressing more punk if things were fine
Going to a thrift store, finding a cool leather jacket, putting it down bc I thought I was not cool enough for it, leaving it there, having friends tell me that im having a stupid hangup ab it and that I should buy it, returning to said shop and buying it.
Jacket in question
That was like 3 years ago and it took me some more time since then to really grasp fashion but i still think its a pretty cool jacket
https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1142196512034668594/1203718534551838730 prior to the slim fit theme i was still a) slim fit pilled and b) trying to force concepts around what few clothes i had; seeing this brick compared to some of the other fits was a realization that i had plenty to learn and plenty to gain from expanding my horizons
oh wow, only took you 6 months to look so stylish?? 😎 didn't realize you joined this year
Crazy progression
you just never miss now :sunglas:
in fairness i had some familiarity with r/malefashionadvice in the 2010s so the foundational aspects of building a fit were there, it's just that i didn't really attempt to find a truly authentic style/improve how i dress until this year
https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1232722724560834700/1232732905910833152 this was my first fit on r/mfa in 2015 so it's not necessarily wrong to say "9 years" but this year was doing so in earnest
iirc this (late jan) was around the time i saw a charlie fit in the wild so that definitely helped
I bought a pair of Tender Co “Wide Taper” jeans in 2021 and it activated something inside of my brain. Suddenly whether it was a “wide” or a “slim” fit I had on, it was like I finally understood silhouettes and how to work with them
I feel like many of us have seen a charlie fit that was a game changer for us
my turning point was leaving the military and realizing my entire civilian clothing wardrobe was mostly cheap/worn out shit that I didn't even particularly like that much to begin with when I first bought it and deciding I wanted to wear clothes that inspired me at least a little bit
For me, I was a "salary man" in Tokyo for many years, with a very strict dress code. I wore dark suits, polished oxfords and white or blue shirts with very inoffensive ties for YEARS. I had expensive and good taste in that narrow bandwidth, but no range or individual expression.
Moving out of that, and finding MFA around the same time, was sort of a blossoming for me of realizing that I could wear what I want, even within boundaries, and thinking about what worked for me in terms of fabric, textures, genres, etc.
I still credit a few users (some of whom are here and some aren't) who gave me a lot of feedback and constructive criticism, with helping to find express myself better and find what worked.
pretty sure your post on intersecting planes of focus in clothes is what led to me finding mfad in the first place so i blame you for all the Andrew pants i have hanging 😆
so ig my answer is shrimp - slim fit theme waywt - charlie and then a bunch of affirmation from people 🙂
Went back and revisited my thread about this fit and lmao
How quickly our opinions change
realizing wardrobe is 7 years old + finally have money to buy
Well dude, you are lightyears past me now. So congrats on being a quick learner and setting the world on fire with your fits!
LIES also thank you :keepincool:
I bought some Craig green shorts that was pretty skirt like. I had wanted to play around with non-pants pants for a while and that really opened up doors and forced me to basically rehaul my wardrobe into something that I felt like closer resembled what I wanted to present.