/fa/ - Fashion

The most expensive item your average skilled tradesman/blue collar worker is going to have is a decent pair of boots. Otherwise it's probably going to be cheap and durable Walmart-tier clothes that can be destroyed and used again. Carhartt being an exemption, but most Soi types don't even wear the Carhartt workers wear.

The issue overall lies in the fact it's a debased Plebbit aesthetic. Which is, at the end of the day, the root of 'Soi'. An aesthetic worn by leftoid city dwellers who shit upon the blue collar workers and eras of history they appropriate from. If you wear a fit like that, you are joining that club.

I have more respect for fucking dork academia types. Because at least they aren't decayed Hipsters blowing thousands of dollars to look like weird love children of 1950s blue collar workers and streetwear rappers.

It's a creatively bankrupt Para-Trannyism. Appropriation of femininity without any irony or fun to it. Androgyny is one thing, but making it a lifestyle is another. Unless you're David Bowie or a glam rocker.

>>17331510

Correct. It's not even for shock value anymore.

>>17257453

Still, there is a distinction in the way people approach the aesthetics. One represents what the people who bullied them in high school wore (or did historically), another represents the glamorous (and often progressive) academics of yore.

Overall though, it's mainly just a weird cultural after-effect of Harry Potter coupled with a disappointment at the actual reality of the modern academy. There is an understanding that the past they glamorize was better, but they need to frame it as an aesthetic of the maligned geeky outsiders instead of the ebil future bankers. They can't accept or are too dumb to realize both dressed alike.

>>17140562

>A Japanese made Corduroy Field Jacket, ridiculously warm, thrifted for $10
>$100-ish Ariat Yeehaw boots. They tarnish easy, but for chinkshit, are the most comfortable boots I've ever worn
>Two separate Wrangler Denim Jackets. Both below $50 on Ebay. 1 virtually pristine from the '70s, to the point of being almost raw, and a comfy lightwash example
>Two pairs of old Banana Republic linen trousers. Excellent in the heat, under $20 each
>My pair of Jersey Chore Coats from Uniqlo. Best outer layers I have for most of the AL Winter