/fa/ - Fashion

>>11825704
sauce: moved to manhattan from flyover

At first what I noticed were the dudes really flexing. First time I ever saw full rick, first time I saw supreme outside of maybe a hat, first time I saw HBA. I didn't really know much about designers that weren't so easy to spot, but I saw more and more subtle stuff as I paid more attention. People wearing APC\Acne\Norse\Our Legacy\Maison Kitsune basics, hell even people wearing Uniqlo was a huge step up from a town that was tripping over itself when it finally got an H&M in like, 2013.

But what you realize if you really pay close attention is that it's a whole different paradigm. People just by default pay attention to their appearance and know something about clothes. "Normie" core where I live now is like trendy sneakers (fuck me but even Stan Smiths count as this, in my town you were wearing high fashion if you had Stans), chinos/well fitting jeans, and a well-fit button tasteful button down or high quality tshirt. In my hometown, wearing this outfit regularly would cause people to quickly label you dressed well/very fashionable, or a faggot, depending on who you talk to.

The disparity is just insane. And the culture that lets people wear HBA here and not only get taken seriously but even complimented when they do it well is just an entirely distinct one from somewhere that Levi's are considered the top end of denim.

>>11715103
instead of comparing yourself to me you should google metadata on admitted students, there are a billion sites including an official stat page published by my school that have this information