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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 4/18/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Selvedge Denim - Topic of the day 4/18/25

Selvedge id can be a fun detail, would actually be cool to have on jeans that aren’t cut like shit! I think people being into it speaks to (best case) wanting to understand more about how your clothes are made but it’s just so easy to turn that into another thing to fetishize

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•Created by Elezen on 4/5/2025 in #questions-and-advice

For people that buy cologne online... is fragrancenet.com a legit website? or do they sell "fake"?

Fragrancenet is definitely legit, can’t speak to shipping to Canada though - more of a meta-level comment but if you’re new to this stuff I would definitely recommend buying a bunch of 1 or 2 ml decants/samples of stuff you might be interested in before buying a full size. Even at half off it sucks to buy a full bottle only to find out you don’t like it

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 3/28/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Fashion in Animation - Topic of the day 3/28/25

(I actually don’t remember if all of those are mentioned in the video I might be combining multiple videos but they do all put shit on)

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 3/28/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Fashion in Animation - Topic of the day 3/28/25

Internet pitstop video on this is pretty fun, I don’t always bite on his stuff esp when he kinda just keeps saying the same words about each thing he likes but he’s a fashion understander and jjba/nana/yyh/dbz/sailor moon/bleach are all anime with above average levels of putting shit on

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 3/12/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Winter in Review - Topic of the day 3/12/25

Definitely felt like a sort of “set bonus” type thing to finally make ivy make sense on me

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 3/12/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Winter in Review - Topic of the day 3/12/25

I wore big puma coat basically every time I left the house, and felt it kind of warp how I dress really noticeably in a way I really enjoyed

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 3/11/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Crazy Collabs - Topic of the day 3/11/25

And not strictly a “collab” in the real sense I guess more just a collectible but montreal bagel nike dunks go crazy

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 3/11/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Crazy Collabs - Topic of the day 3/11/25

(also re: magic collabs i think the wizard of barge mtg collabs are cute and silly even if the braindead ones make for “cooler” shirts)

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 3/11/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Crazy Collabs - Topic of the day 3/11/25

nf collabs categorically stinky smelly (except for the toxic avenger “I’ve been troma-tized” jacket I’ll throw myself on the pyre here that got a chuckle out of me)

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 3/10/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Minimalism vs Maximalism - Topic of the day 3/10/25

Hardly a well formed thought here but an outfit intentionally zeroing out color and texture to focus entirely on silhouette is being more honest about what minimalism is and can be than the capsule wardrobe stuff imo. At some point minimalism got construed as a philosophical category rather than an aesthetic one and treated as sort of coterminous with an ethical consumption, and that feels kinda like an unforced error on both fashion and ethics fronts lol. Most “minimalist” fashion/gear/whatever content online is just self-congratulatory overconsumption anyways

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•Created by MadLuigi on 2/26/2025 in #questions-and-advice

Switchbacks/zip-offs

There are people who are as big geeks about that as there are about milsurp so I'm sure info about production years/styles/whatever is out there

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•Created by MadLuigi on 2/26/2025 in #questions-and-advice

Switchbacks/zip-offs

As a boy scout dropout I do have a soft spot for the BSA pants - for a time, the switchbacks were a cotton/poly blend that feels kinda similar to OG-507s. It seems they still sell that style for womens pants but you might need to hop on ebay to find them in mens sizes

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 2/24/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Retired Numbers (Clothes) - Topic of the day 2/24/25

I guess to use extremes to illustrate it, the t shirt from the pogues show my dad took me to when I was 11 is one of the most emotionally important things I own even if it’s like a small at most, but I’ve jettisoned several pairs of raws that I could still wear when I realized I just didn’t freak with raw denim like that

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•Created by Clark'sDesertBot on 2/24/2025 in #topic-of-the-day

Retired Numbers (Clothes) - Topic of the day 2/24/25

This feels like there’s two different kinds of retired - i hang on to a lot of stuff I’ve outgrown but otherwise like, and am really quick to dump stuff that fits me but I don’t like anymore

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•Created by Tidus86 on 2/23/2025 in #questions-and-advice

What stores sell 100% Cotton Chino Shorts?

If you’re okay with vintage/ebay, polo’s tyler shorts are great I wore them like all summer last year https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=polo+tyler+grey

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•Created by Elementx on 2/18/2025 in #questions-and-advice

How often do you wash your clothes?

I think I generally wash most button up shirts after every wear, but I'll stretch to two or three if I wear it over something else

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•Created by Elementx on 2/18/2025 in #questions-and-advice

How often do you wash your clothes?

I'm very sparing on washing my pants tbh, anything cotton is whenever I remember and anything wool is less than that (usually they don't even get washed, they go in with the dry cleaning at the end of sweater season)

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•Created by Sam I Am on 2/17/2025 in #questions-and-advice

Are solovairs actually better than doc martens?

To be clear I’ve absolutely smoked a few docs soles in my time but by the time I did the uppers looked so fucked I would not have felt okay wearing them to do anything other than get tanked

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•Created by Sam I Am on 2/17/2025 in #questions-and-advice

Are solovairs actually better than doc martens?

Fundamentally none of this matters because either the leather uppers or your interest in wearing the shoes will deteriorate before the soles do, at the price range docs/solovairs/other $150-$300 boots sit at GYW/shanks/etc is a marketing term speaking to gear culture/bifl obsessions with longevity more than it is a desirable feature

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•Created by Sam I Am on 2/17/2025 in #questions-and-advice

Are solovairs actually better than doc martens?

Both are technically goodyear welted but done weirdly, the thing boot nerds make a lot of bones about in this case is that solovairs have a shank (a rigid supportive spine running between sole layers) while docs do not

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