/fa/ - Fashion

Do whatever the fuck you want, man

man shut the fuck up

>>15198933
>with logos and chinese gibberish all over himself
SHUT UP

JUST SHUT UP

THAT ISNT TECHWEAR SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

>>15198933
Techwear.

TEK • WA• AIR

OVERVIEW
Tech wear is not a style of fashion it is actually a living breathing organism in which fertile minds what would otherwise developing their own style conform to the label and standard of said organism in a desperate attempt to gather the much need community and acceptence that is needed for healthy development.

MINDSET
The characteristics of a techwear wearer is by far the mono tone coloring (usually black) which is no doubt correlated with their underlying depression and nihilistic view of life. It believes that some time in the future the world will be in a post apocalyptic state with technology being at the for front of all major and minor economic industries.

CLOTHING
You can become this archatype of this era by simply wearing alot if black nylon hoodies and black (tapered) pants paired with a mask and a streamline back pack to hold your ultrathin Macbook and complentary matte black iPhone 11 pro. Also ultra boost/ Y-3's. This is the rough outline and can always be expanded when you reach closer to the organism nucleus. The more obscure the pockets the more tech the garment is. Did I mention you have to wear nylon. Black Plastics is the number one rule.

>>15198933
I wouldn't say that techwear is just about being a cool cyberninja. I believe what truly defines something as techwear is how utilitarian it can be. Alot of what is portrayed in social media is just the there to look good for clout anyways. To make a long story short there is more than just flashy logos and going all black with techwear.

>>15199151
I actually enjoy the more colorful stuff (mind you not these two together).

>>15198994
I also enjoy nonsensical Engrish sentences.

>>15198933
Personally, I love the look of techwear, asshat logos and gibberish included. The issue is, almost all techwear that isn't of shady Chinese origin and quality gets expensive FAST. Acronym is the prime example of techwear being functional and cool-looking as fuck, but everything is $1000+, which (in my opinion) is unjustifiable.

Then there are the countless resellers, which sell clothes ripped straight from Aliexpress for usually a 100% markup. It's a mess.

>>15200806
What's the jacket? I quite like it when they incorporate multiple colors, but prefer a little less of the crazy logos

I like this fit

>>15201748
bruh where is body go tho

>>15198933
>Why DON'T I

......Don't you mean "DO"?

>>15198933
I like techwear and think it looks cool, but the fact of the matter is that it's just too far out of my price range. I also think it's incredibly silly to wear things like this where I live when the summer temperature can get up to 100F. As for winter wear, I guess I could see it working... but I'd rather have a wool coat instead.

>>15201561
It's Mugen & Soul. I can't vouch on the quality.

>>15201561
Not even joking, those kinds of 'techwear' jackets are made from the cheapest plastics known to man and sells for 15$ on Taobao. You'll never be able to find a decent quality one.

>>15201748
This looks more cyberpunk than those aliexpress tier always-on-sale instagram ad brands here >>15200806 >>15198933

Not a single piece of techwear in this thread so far though.

/pic related/ is - at least to me - the perfect techwear/cyberpunk fit: entirely wind- and waterproof from head to toe, vibram sole, yet rugged and gritty looking instead of all black polished and sterile.

>>15198933
Im-scared-of-the-rain core

>>15202828
That's depressing
>>15203031
Damn that looks hella good

>>15201748
Jacket id?

>>15198933
you can play around with some of the looks without going too far but a lot of it is too loud and its going to go out of style in a year or two. you'll be embarrassed looking back at your trend hopping ass if you overdo it

What's the point of dressing up all cyberpunk like if you're not going to committ any crime to get back at the man.

looks like the gist is loose fitting clothing made of synthetic materials that have bit of lustre/sheen. ezpz.

>>15204280
>cyberpunk
>committing crime for a petty humanistic reason like 'getting back at the man'
uh oh someone has a below average IQ. a cyberpunk is too focused on survival and self-interest to literally ruin their life, if not commit de facto suicide, by championing such bourgeois nonsense as that trash. peddling it makes it an establishment propagandist seeding effectively anti-dissident ideology that is impotent anti 'the man' displays as the more proficient of your socioeconomic class are purged by being swept up in it, helping to maintain the status quo.

>>15204390

>Wears "cyberpunk fashion"
>Delicately suckles at the head of the corporate cock and cups the balls

Don't forget wagie that your megacorp approved anal stimulator only works once you paid the subscription in full and signed up for the news letter.

Buying high tech plastic stuff to ride the subway seems rather cringe desu

>>15198933

Techwear is exclusively an online phenomenon, walk into a northface or arc,teryx
store and ask them about Techwear. I guarantee you will get some very confused sales associates who doesn't know what you're talking about. Additionally Techwear doesn't actually care for utilitarianism the way some users in this thread thinks it does, it instead upholds an illusion of functionality. the overwhelming majority of people who are drawn to this style buy clothes that are complete overkill for their environment and look terrible in the context in which they wear them. The realization that 99.99% of people who wear Techwear would be more than adequately dressed for any urban environment they will ever encounter in a Uniqlo Blocktech parka is especially sobering. Hilariously they would also probably look better in a Uniqlo parka than the larp gear they end up buying

The brands whose clothes make up this style have also abandoned functionality and actual design in favour of name brand fabrics, proprietary hardware ,and the same tired design language and military references. stone island is a shell(heh) of it's former self getting by on celebrity endorsements and it's former pedigree ,

Acronym is purely a cult of personality brand that has no redeeming design qualities, continually raises prices while lowering production quality and openly and routinely mocks it's own customers.

Arc,Teryx while the darling of the northeastern urbanites still hasn't managed to figure out quality control on Veilance even though it's been a constant complaint for going on a decade now, and what little design value it does offer is totally mismatched with it's pricing structure. a classic case of dematerialization or Logomania

>pic related
this is what all fans of techwear would look like if they could

>>15204938
>openly and routinely mocks it's own customers
Source?

>>15198933
idk about jackets and stuff but cargos are frigging lit theyre comfy af and u can put all ur shit in them instead of using a backpack

>>15204390
shut up nigga

>>15204938
lmao that face

do u have to be ugly to like techwear

>>15204938
Man, I bought a goretex Acronym anorak in firmament Berlin ten years ago for less than 500€, what the fuck is this cosplay bullshit and how the fuck did they get people to pay upwards of 1.5k? Errolson sure is a narcissistic dickhead but the people paying that amount of money are dumb as hell..

>>15206595
>spends $1k on techwear
>lives in a dirty ass little hovel with shit on the floor
nice priorities

>>15206649
thats way more than 1k too by the way

>>15203962
which one, dude's wearing two in that pic

regardless top one is an austrian alpine hardshell and the bottom one is a guerilla group long range parka

>>15206660
yikes

>>15204938
extremely based take
techwear is just a shallow and pretentious attempt to fashionize workwear

>>15198933
The real redpill with tech wear is to not go full tech wear. Incorporate some tech wear elements and philosophy, but don’t go all the way. Nike ACG is a great example of this. I love their line, and there are a ton of ways to wear the pieces without being a walking meme. As with most looks, subtlety is the key.

>>15206849
I'd say it has more in common with sports gear, specifically outdoor sports. A lot of hiking pants look like what you posted, only the knees and seat are stretchy instead of reinforced.

>>15205709
look at errolson's instagram
>>15207614
nike acg has really gone off the rails with it's retrofuturistic take on itself, if they were referencing themselves but making the clothes contemporary that would be fine but,
instead they seem really confused which way to go and are haphazardly incorporating design details from different eras of the brand with no real solid direction

>>15207614

the problem i see in techwear is that people who dress this way look at fashion through the same shitty boring internet fashion lens, this is why you get articles like this https://gen.medium.com/techwears-gender-problem-604554d6a321

the fact that someone wrote this earnest and received significant positive feedback proves 2 things: 1. that techwear is strictly a online phenomenon because no one could seriously write that any aspect of fashion has a gender problem. even menswear is bought by women and up until this last decade designer clothing was overwhelming female dominated(it still is but, not to the same extent). the fact that this is a problem for the author has very little to do with fashion and almost everything to do with male-dominated online communities
2. internet fashion is an echo chamber that doesn't interact with adjacent culture so it is totally self referential and even then a very narrow subset of itself

the very small minority of people interested in techwear who look at other designers outside of techwear and internet fashion end up dressing amazingly well, because there seems to be a strong correlation to them developing taste in other fields as well which in turn informs their personal style as an extension of themselves and their lifestyle.

people in techwear only end up looking at techwear which means it just becomes a cyclical larpfest and no one develops any taste, there is a way to do dress well in a way that would be recognized as techwear but, you will almost never find those people in an online setting

>>15206624
yes i understand the brand used to be priced similarly to Burton's AK/AK57 lines and while the ak457 line is absolutely obscene these days somehow acronym is even more egregious

Stray techwear question here: what does Acronym mean when it talks about "detached entry" on its pockets?

>>15204390
There are always more than enough material, direct survival and self-interest reasons to commit crime to allow oneself humanistic reasons and pleasures in doing so, too. Also, pleasure and disobedience play into survival, too: one needs to ward off despair to live.

>swept up in it
Only if you get caught! But wait

>the more proficient
wtf are you saying here?

>>15204938
were you in twg by chance

>>15207996
what gave it away ;^)

twg made a lot of very intelligent people with good taste extremely cynical of internet fashion

techwear is full of retards

you have a ton of people who got into fashion with it, so the bar is usually low. any innovation by these fresh minds is beaten into the mold or ignored.

you have some of the worst people on the internet in there, including but not limited to hypebeasts who just happen to be autistic about acronym instead of supreme and bape

the idea of it being cyberpunk is antithetical to the high quality, crisp performance materials with short lifespans (shut up retard, short of cordura, synthetics don't wear as well as natural fibres) that are a requirement for something being "tech"

OP, fucking go for it, wear shitty nylon with cringy text on it. Or buy something that actually suits you and still goes with that aesthetic. Nobody cares, and neither should you. The only way you will be "cool" in the eyes of techwear retards is to buy the latest hype item.

>>15204938
>Uniqlo Blocktech parka
Absolutely based piece

>>15198933
You do want to actually lose your virginity at some point, don't you?

>>15204938
>stone island is a shell(heh) of it's former self
I laughed. wouldn't mind a /twg/ coming back every now and again but I don't think the board does it much anymore.

>>15206595
w2c box thing

>>15198933
almost all my "techwear" is gear i would use snowboarding, backpacking or other activities where Im exposed to the elements. Sure i pick and choose garments so they have a more fashionable look to them, but people who drop racks on arcterx, gore tek and etc and only wear them in cities when its raining is the most clown shit ive ever witnessed

>>15206649
how tf can you tell its a lil hovel lol.

someones either broke or trolling

Some of its good, some of its bad, and some of its great.

Im more partial to the more restrained stuff, no 50 straps with 30 pockets and zippers, no branding. Just interesting cuts with interesting (tech)fabrics. Arcteryx Veilance and Y-3(some of their stuff) are the best I think for this though I recognize Acronym being the big daddy of the genre(can't lie, the J1A-GT is a 10/10 piece of art).

>>15208071
good thing it's dead now

everyone scurried away to their own cliques anyway

>>15199012
>tech wah air
Opinion discarded

>>15206849
These look based, w2c?

>>15211665
it was useful for about 18 months after christmas 2017, thats when faggots who wanted to use twg as a surrogate for their non existent social life were run out. jdotkdot,katon,etc but the real admin burnt himself out and the remaining mods gracefully put it out of its misery once only faggots were left

>>15213933
What a silly retrospective. Several of the mods were on the internet for a reason.

There was infighting and politics. Money, conflict of interest became a factor when dishonest people running the server self-promoted. This kind of shit morality radiated outwards, attracting more people cut from the same cloth. You can have your opinions on how well (or not well) these people dressed, but they were still shit human beings.

The server imploded under the weight of this. A catalyst was incompetent management giving out the master keys to the server.

>>15214033

>several of the mods were on the internet for a reason
i see you weren't intimately acquainted with how the discord worked :)

>dishonest people self promoted

explain

>money
literally what

>infighting and politics
ok you're describing all online communities....

>shit morality
i agree, one of xeoniq's most integral contributions was instilling a great philosophy in the community, however once he left twg was doomed to fail. the mods that actually mattered lost interest because of how jaded they were because of how xeoniq left.

>attracting more people cut from the same cloth

i really fucking wish we were able to find more people like the actual mods it would have been a way better community however that's what you get in online communities most people are shit

server imploded because it was utterly exhausting to constantly beat down the reddit mentality, simple as.

absolutely incredible it lasted as long as it did

>>15214075
cope, blind man

>>15214085
i know how twg worked better than literally anyone :^)

you're still stuck in the cave :))))))

>>15214091
you're good at following instructions

>>15214095
you're being awfully cryptic for someone who still doesn't understand certain...optics heh

>>15214096
If you took a second to consider what you are reading instead of defending yourself, you might gain an understanding. This is one suggestion I don't expect that you'll follow.

>>15214104
respond to me on telegram u goof

>>15214117
Whoever is living rent free in your mind is going to love your autistic rambling.

>>15214128
if you do not know me then you do not know anything of value pertaining to twg

if you did you would know exactly what i mean

>>15204938
r/techwearclothing is a perfect example of why you should never leave the house in techwear

it peaked in 2012-14, the subreddit is a good cringe factory of fat suburbanites dressing like tacticoolninjas

>>15214136
pathetic narc cope lol

>>15214169
repeating the word cope isnt particularly creative, try again maybe?

What was twg?

>>15214189
old techwear discord, it ran from like 2016(maybe earlier) to a couple months ago, it was good between christmas 2017 and 2019 give or take

>>15206595
Yes, you have that covered

>>15199012
>alot

Fuck uz gramar man

>>15203031
What does are those?

>>15211264
Pic related looks amazing to me. Is there a style that fits this look? Because it doesn't really seem techwear.
Also if anyone can recommend similar stuff. Both high and low budget, I'm navel gazing but migh cop something if it's affordable

>>15214713
Assuming you meant shoes, they're 11 by Boris Bidjan Saberi x Salomon Bambas 2 in Dirty White.

gonna post some cringe from reddit so people can see how awful this stuff looks in real life (and the people who think it looks good enough to spend thousands of dollars on it)

Here is Bethany Heckhouse, commonly mistaken for a man, she is a 40 year old lesbian with really poor skin who spends tens of thousands of dollars a year on clothes to deal with the fact she will never bare children - or a husband.

then there is this guy, bitofcolour, he cant be older than 18 or 19 but has already gone bald and has a swollen face

very cool

very fashionable jacket for this 45 year old bald male

just found out this is the mod of the sub

>>15215777
fat people should spend less time on fashion and more on eating healthy.

>>15206595
THIS PLEASES THE DARK LORD

>>15215739
Yeah these retards look bad but you sound assmad.

I am mad hatter tier mad rn

>>15215739
yeah she's so fucking bad hahaha, her instagram is just consumerism it's fucked

>>15216421
i am enjoying the cringe

>>15215118
Yeah you're probably right that it's not techwear, more like high end athleisure, or "techleisure" as probably more correct terms.

Though I do think the current definition of Techwear as being "Things that try to be acronym" is a little restrictive. Focus should be on technical materials, and cut. Not how many pockets you can put on a jacket.

>>15217265
it's not restrictive because 1. techwear doesn't exist in the real world 2. it's entirely a self imposed restriction

why get hung up on what constitutes a myopic internet micro culture there is literally nothing of value to be gained by it

>>15215739
Nah she aint 40, I would give her 38 because she looks like that beatles dude

>>15217806
if she isn't in her 40s then she's aging fucking terribly lmao

>>15217815
Gave her .38 because she is this guy but after looking at her pages, she might indeed be young yet look like a hippy

>>15204938
>Arc,Teryx while the darling of the northeastern urbanites still hasn't managed to figure out quality control on Veilance even though it's been a constant complaint for going on a decade now
Source? Not trying to bash your opinion here, I've bought a couple second-hand Veilance in the past and have been happy with what I bought. Also, if you have alternatives for office wear in shitty Seattle weather, please recommend it lol

>>15203031
based

wtb j1a-gt gen 2.2 size m uk

hmu kek

>>15214033
>>15214075
>>15208071
>>15207996
the fuck is twg? Total War General or some fashion magazine nigga

>>15217870
Hello newfriend.

>>15214148
every techwear tard tries to look like this dude's "art"

>>15218045
>putting art in scare quotes like his shit ain't fire

>>15218045
>>15218050
actually he's stuff cool
the people who try to 100% larp this without a bit of self-awareness should be put in quotes as having taste

>>15204938
>Techwear doesn't actually care for utilitarianism the way some users in this thread thinks it does, it instead upholds an illusion of functionality
So much this
Most of these 'function is everything' pieces literally fall apart in a couple of years (check reviews on Canada Goose's website) when a wool or denim jacket will literally last a lifetime
I'm a fucking automechanic and not even I have use for 38 pockets and 22 belts, a simple hip pouch will do

This shit is scam autists fall for

>>15218076
>>15218050

this is really gay, like really fucking gay...you shouldn't be making commentary on taste when you think some anime girl with a samurai sword and a supreme logo is 'cool' or 'fire'

>>15207848
As a whole I'll agree with you about ACG, but there are plenty of items that are still interesting yet subtle enough to incorporate a bit of tech wear into your look without going all the way. Just steer away from all the neon shit and buy the basic items in black

>>15215762
>>15218319

For example, this dude looks rough in the ACG coat with neon green accents, but he'd look totally fine in their black goretex jacket. Part of this is age dependent too however; techwear is for the young.

>>15198933
There is a redpill: your pic is not techwear.

>>15200806
>>15204640
>>15206849
>>15207749
>>15215758
Not techwear

>>15218299
denim is one of the most frowned on materials in techwear since it's not waterproof. ironic, seeing how it's purpose-built and has stood the test of time.

>>15217870
literalyl hundreds of anecdotal cases over the last ten years, it's why they have such a robust customer service and warranty it's literally cheaper for them to replace their shit clothes than make them better

>alternatives for office wear

why are you wearing veilance to the office? don't tell me you actually need a recommendation for a rain jacket
>>15218016
techwear general , it was a general thread on /fa/ then made into a discord, then the discord was shilled on reddit attracting faggots, it recently got deleted by the mods

>>15218814
yeah the prevailing meme is that natural fibers don't have a place in techwear or at least never in as a focal point of an outfit, despite wool being naturally hydrophobic and high quality wool depending on the weave wears way better than most shitty synthetics

>>15198933
I just hate techwear because it accomplishes very little of its goals. The clothes only look futuristic, the materials are shitty most of the time and the QC is shit, fashion quality, so you cant use them for let's say, running around in the city, then hiking in the woods, then climbing around an abandoned building.

the clothes aren't practical, so to me its form over function, which is anti tech and more just basic.

hell, the russian gorka concept accomplishes to be more techwear than actual techwear, and the russian gorka is just like wearing a tent.

>>15210726
You mean the Pelican case?

>>15218458
Negro I promise you that you my snowboard gear has more USEFUL functions than the rest of this thread combined

>>15219243
this is it

>>15218814
>>15219176
Unless you're rolling around with animals or crawling through rocks you don't need denim. "Muh durability" in the world's stiffest and most uncomfortable material when you only use it for walking to get a coffee

>>15207614
Exactly. Cyberpunk without modern day's discontent and civil unrest is just science fantasy. Techwear without its roots to modern day fashion and style is just larping.

>>15219889
There are plenty stiffer materials out there with better abrasion resistance and tensile strength. Cotton is a particularly soft and pliable fibre. Additionally, modern stretch denim is so good that it's preferred by SWAT over synthetic alternatives.

And yeah, you have a point - techwear retards don't use their clothes for what they're intended to. But you're jumping in to a conversation chain where a man is talking about being an auto mechanic. This guy clearly cares about the look of his outfit and not about comfort as he crawls around below a car and doesn't face customers, you fucking brainlet.

>>15219243
that's because you're looking at only the shit steetwear conscious fashion overleap brands. Real "tech wear" are clothes made for heavy duty use outside and most aren't very fashionable

>>15220006
99% of techwear nerds are overweigh filipino hypebeasts who live in LA where it rains >20 days a year

>>15215777
HAHAHAHAHAHA
FREAK!

>>15219243
I am somewhat upset that the word "techwear" is associated with retards cosplaying as some sort of dark urban ninjas. The name implies that the clothes are supposed to be made of some sort of technical fabric that offers advantage over regular clothes. Be it breathability, protection from wind or rain or light weight.
Instead we get a bunch of larpers in aliexpress nylon, or worse - people who genuinely think that spending hundreds on Acronym sleeveless cotton t-shirt or an apron is a good idea. Outdoor sports equipment, especially hiking and mountaineering gear is more tech than what these people are pushing.
If they want to wear this stuff, all the power to them, but stop calling it tech.

>>15221104
yeah I get that, but its what it has become, semi futuristic looking trash.