/fa/ - Fashion

>>8113520
for the most part, Visvim doesn't excite me terribly

partly because they cost a lot more than they should. I've handled some visvim boots and they felt like a lot of markup for the name/design

the whole hybrid thing, where they're part tech and part tradition, is interesting. I think it makes them a lot easier to do with streetwear and tech stuff. but it also makes them fundamentally very different, I think, from stuff like Viberg.

visvim remind me, in a way, of shit like Minnetonka. I know that sounds like an insult, but let me explain: it appropriates really "traditional" styles, but does them in a way that you would never mistake for the original, because it's unmistakably a product of modern production and tastes. Visvim does it more deliberately, and better, of course. But the vibe still doesn't feel far off, to me. With visvim, the way to wear it is to emphasize how much it's not traditional -- it's deliberately exotic, but it's absolutely modern, so you put it with streetwear, techwear, etc. To me, that makes sense. But if you try to pair it with stuff that actually wants to keep tradition alive or revisit it in a deeper way (to pick another japanese brand, Kapital is an example of this -- what separates Kapital from a lot of the brands they get lumped with is that Kapital has almost no interest, as far as I can tell, in being modern), it just doesn't work, I think.

but I'm sure other people don't see it the same way.

>>6754082
ok

>>6754081
flip a coin? you'll probably be happy either way. just make sure to try them on first. IIRC the 1907 is made on a different last. too lazy to look it up though

time for another "post your boots" thread?

now with shoes

pic is shoes but they aint mine