Fashion Endgame - Topic of the day 3/24/25
Everyone always says that once they buy that last piece, they’re done with fashion. So what is your plan to 100% fashion? What is your personal style endgame?
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I've never heard anyone say this once
>Everyone always says that once they buy that last piece, they’re done with fashion.
yeah who says this. stupid little clothes have me by the damn balls forever
I don't think there is a being done that arises organically
Your done when you decide your done
and a lot of ppl don't view fashion as something to complete
I think being "done" with fashion is a comforting fantasy of things staying the same forever
I'm delusional for thinking the following criteria will stop me from buying more clothes but my current longterm goal is to have sufficient pieces to meet the utility demands of my lifestyle while still feeling coherent and me, while not having any pieces that sit and gather dust. Lifestyles change over time though so who's to know if I'll ever even hit that
That being said, "stupid little clothes having me by the balls" is starting to feel annoying to me, so im looking for a way out of feeling that way.
Anyway, my fashion endgame is to have cool summer appropriate clothing thats both comfortable as well as stylish.
never gonna happen
I have said this before with regard to specific garments
referring to the thing I idealized that I eventually buy
usually it ends up with me no longer buying a thing in that category
and selling everything else I have that is not that thing in that category
e.g. rick owens hammered lamb high neck intarsia
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I probably have made this point before.
This line of thinking implies that there is some inherent betterness in dressing one way as opposed to another. That fashion is a game of min-maxing within a style, optimizing pieces getting “the best of the best”. This also implies that there is within a style some objectively best way to dress.
I fundamentally disagree with this approach. There is no objective stylistic betterness imo. Fashion is about feeling good and perceiving yourself as dressed well. If that includes a certain piece that’s great and valid. But a serious interest in fashion imo cannot just “stop” by buying some ideal piece.
I just wanna get dressed and feel happy. Hasnt happened yet but will let yall know when it happens
The endgame will be the suit they bury me in because I'm only getting started.
Well put. I think this put into words my justification for viewing a 100% as something associated with utility more than anything. I'll certainly keep buying when I find pieces that give me some hormonal hits, or I'll find ways to incorporate cool things i see from inspo, so the only real way to gauge a 100% is if my wardrobe fits all the demands of my day to day, but that kinda skirts the question posed by weakening the scope of the 100% in question
my only real endgame is to eventually get bored with it and settle into a small collection I'm happy with. But thats not really a goal so whatever.
the endgame is to be mindful and content
Silly to say but fashion’s about the journey for me I think
And having fun
More of a hobby than a means to an end?
I’m arguing the pointlessness of the 100% concept overall because to the people who consider this an interest the concept of an endgame/endpoint can’t reasonably exist and to anyone else it doesn’t matter.
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( #fashion 😭)
Happiness doesn’t come from putting that shit on happiness comes from having tacos with friends
while having that shit on
My fashion endgame is that I have good fits and all my friends have good fits and we roll 20+ deep to the clurrrrbbb and everyone goes “who are they,” and we don’t even care because who cares about the opinions of the swagless
You already have the good fits part down 🫶🏻
oh stop you’re making me blush
I would like to hit a point where my wardrobe is fleshed our enough for all seasons that I can start slowing down a little bit
Past 2 years I’ve really been putting in the time to actually wear my clothes, getting some stuff I’m really excited about, stuff that I’ll be excited about for a long time
But I’d like to get a point where I don’t rlly need anything and I’m just getting a really want piece or two a year
I would like to be at a point where I feel like my wardrobe doesn’t have any holes. I want to figure out what I like fully, and then be done with fashion for a while
by the time you fill all the holes or whatever the trend is gonna change and you have to start over. it doesn't end
trust me i own 40 summer dresses and 8 heavy winter coats
Personally i don't think there is ever being done with fashion, I think there will probably come a point where most people are very happy with what they have and don't buy much but its a constantly changing thing so there's always going to be new media to look at new shows to check out, unless you just leave the fashion space entirely but i wouldn't really call that endgame.
Me when I see a better white t shirt
I guess to respond to the topic genuinely
I dont really know where I am headed tbh. In a weird stage where my taste and cravings have vastly outpaced what I own and what I can afford. Its hard to pivot to designer/artisan clothing when my entire wardrobe is vintage wranglers and button snap shirts.
I think I would like to end up somewhere with a wardrobe that is extremely curated around pieces that I love individually and not just a pile of random vintage and Americana bullshit that I have right now
What's my endgame? Oh yeah
Getting banned 😭
We love you too much for that sam
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okay but beyond that???
I want you to have a curated archival designer wardrobe too bud
I just wake up and put on wranglers every day so not like I am doing anything to change my style besides scrolling and yearning
to answer the question ionno; it seems like every milestone or marker i've reached leads to more questions to ponder, of clothes, of how i engage with clothes, of how i view myself
this thread is bait
until that sweet sweet day where i just go full lemaire
anyone (besides z) who says otherwise is lying to themselves and us
Everyone will buy something that is a little different from their style, or harder to wear than they thought, and they'll buy a piece or two to work it into their wardrobe, and pretty soon their style has fully pivoted. And they'll do it again and again like psychopaths
that's why fashion is fun
Except me
except art who is timeless and classic
You'd look danker in Stoffa though
getting slowly brainwormed into new fits and styles is always the goal and funnest part imho
My end game is being content and doing refreshes from time to time from the same 4-5 brands that make the final list, as my scope continues to narrow.
yeah idt i can go 4-5 brands of narrow
i have 4-5 brands of ties alone presently lol
Haha. There is always a brand that’s threatening to remove 1 from my list. It’s a healthy competition. I really surprised myself last year. I was so close to going down the EK rabbit hole and just turned on a dime and recalibrated and moved on.
“Have you tried more expensive Lemaire?” is incredible, I love it
minor pushback on this but while there is no objective better, you can have preferences
one of my most frequent crits of ppl in this hobby talking about premeditated consumption, and it's one I'm guilty of and one that that many here no doubt are
AND ALSO something we actively discourage
is people seeking alternatives to a thing they want
especially cheap alts
and it leads to more buy, more disappointment, when they should have just pondered what to do more and saved
You can absolutely have preferences and subjective betterness is very much something I consider valid.
I’ve been on the “alternatives” - either because of price or availability- train myself a few times and ended up disappointing myself.
But buying the pieces I consider “grails” (which I prefer to “endgame” in this context) never made me less interested or consider being “done” with fashion. If anything I got more interested because these pieces unlocked some new styling options for me etc. and challenged me to get a bit more creative or pivot a little. So rather than goal pieces putting an endpoint to fashion as an interest/hobby the opposite tends to happen, I believe.
Though I’d be interested in your take on this from your standpoint of what I consider a rather extreme form of minimalism!
Lemaire is already mad expensive though
Hmm... That's hard to answer
I'd say the endgame for me would be finding a style I can fuck with and that I can keep going for a long time
I guess I don't know if there's anything wrong, per se, with being interested in clothes from a purely utilitarian standpoint. I think it's boring, I love the idea of having deep interest in the things I own, to the extent that I don't stop thinking and learning about and engaging with them after I've purchased them.
I do kinda relate to people with the more utilitarian view because I feel like I've saturated my needs from the standpoints of weather and formality, and because I've got an aesthetic I like and I don't want to modify by way of adding new things (certainly the denimhead aesthetic favors few things because the fastest way to fade something is to wear it more often)
And I still spend much time here reading and talking about fashion even without seeing things I want to (or feel the need to) buy. I still read fashion mags and sometimes books to.
I would probably engage more deeply with other things I own or want to own if there were more hobby/social resources that existed for them, I just don't want my participation in hobby/communities to require me buying and selling things to participate fully.
On the surface I think I've probably got an uncommon view on this all, but especially through the lens of that last bit I think there's a kernel of something everyone thinks about and feels.
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Maybe, then, I would say that, the "endgame" would be owning piece[s] that provide contentment. If you have a sufficiently sized wardrobe, you may be contented by the level of experimentation afforded by the pieces you have (whether it's few or many or somewhere in between). Endgame may also not be tied to the pieces themselves but by the state of things, that your wardrobe may be in flux, but you have an established process for determining what to wear. (++ hybrids of these models)
Yeah, I think owning pieces that provide contentment is an ideal im aspiring towards.
i had thoughts of rick owens's home tour and i think it informs my fashion endgame as a matter of mindset, similar to what z mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrqqrQmeQS4&t=13s
Vogue
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where the endgame isn't so much an endgame of the closet but an understanding of my lifestyle such that the number of/type of clothes contributes towards that
I want to live to see a world where @zeometer gets rich and crazy and switches to full Rick Owens lifestyle
Really enjoyed the watch. I'm envious of his calm and deliberate nature. I love the balance of poetry and seriousness to the guy. I've never watched anything on him previously but I see why he's so beloved.
I feel like this is very valuable insight. Thank you for providing this perspective.
I've already said that before but hyped and (kind of) mainstream as he is, he remains criminally underappreciated
I don't know what I was expecting of him from what I know of his clothes but it definitely wasn't a subtle, thoughtful austere living guy like that. Makes me want to investigate his fashion.