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•Created by jibba on 7/1/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Itty bitty crossbody bag recs
Hi, I'm looking for a small crossbody bag, something just big enough for a phone and wallet, at less than $150 (used, I'd imagine).
At the moment, I've been searching for something in leather, with a rectangular-ish shape, taller than it is wide, with a thin strap ideally. Something like this, maybe at the biggest https://www.lemaire.fr/products/small-calepin-bag-khaki-moss-ss24
However, I trust y'all's taste to be much better than mine, so feel free to recommend any other small bags you particularly like.
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Mmalefashionadvice
•Created by jibba on 6/12/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Hemming pants at the cleaners
If you ever hem your pants at the cleaners, do you usually mark it where you want it hemmed beforehand? What do you use to do so (safety pin, chalk, etc)?
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Mmalefashionadvice
•Created by jibba on 6/4/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Belt for paperbag pants
Hi, I got some paperbag trousers, here https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1116800072093532191/1247240687573926010 but the belt seems to have been lost to time. I was wondering if it was worth looking for a contrasting fabric to use instead, and - if so - if you have anything in mind that you think might look good.
Also, happy to hear any recommendations for more traditional belts, since I only have a crappy double sided plasticky one anyway. I was thinking an extra long braided belt or monitaly one could look cool.
Finally, I'm planning on getting them hemmed, and I'm wondering if it's worth it to save the fabric.
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Mmalefashionadvice
•Created by jibba on 1/30/2024 in #fashion-discussion
How to Discover Your Own Taste
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kyle-chayka.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk0.dLWA.Shrzu6bRDm_D&bgrp=a&smid=url-share
I listened to this episode this morning, and, though they talk about personal taste in the age of algorithmic recommendations in general, I thought it had some interesting conversations directly applicable to an online fashion community.
Some bullet points for discussion if you don't want to listen to it:
At some point, the internet moved from curation, where it was about finding people whose taste you enjoyed (and who would go on to shape what you like), to the internet of algorithms, where we are shown whatever is spit out of some black box, losing the individual experience but gaining what you could call the ease of scalability.
Do you think it's harder to develop a personal taste (or "style") today? On one hand, it is easier than ever to be fed hundreds of Tik Tok videos of your chosen aesthetic, on the other, we perhaps lose the context that can be a vital part of developing taste.
Do algorithms tend to flatten taste, driving you to the same viral grwms or whatever, or does it tend to silo us off into our online bubbles?
One point they bring up is that, as algorithmic curation becomes ubiquitous, it could give everyone access to a "lowest common denomiator" of aggregated taste. In this world, is individuality put at more of a premium?
As our internet experience that mediates our relationship with fashion challenges our taste less and less, as the algorithm feeds us what it thinks we want to see, what do you foresee the effects on fashion being? Could there be a bifurcation between what they call "quantified mass appeal" vs "particularistic appeal" (generic fits acceptable to most vs crazy avant garde shit enjoyed by a few)?
How has your own taste shaped by the algorithms that mediate your life? Could be as simple as dressing for WDYWT highlights.
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