/fa/ - Fashion

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>>6547953
you mean ugly, right?

Those are pretty bad, but their lifestyle line has a few good ones.

Fuck that's some serious cowadooty shit. Matte black is the only color worth being around but would not cop, especially for however much they are asking.

We should add some flames and put them to the /v/ guide.

had the white with text ones, someone stole them

>>6547953

dog the bounty hunter tier

Only if this was a techwear thread,but i guess you're not from here are you?
>>>/out/ ?

really clever branding, sell sunglasses for a ton while making 2.99 autist shit

oakley is on it's grind

>>6547953

i used to think they were mad ugly but i think theyre going to be my next pair of sunglasses
theyre also just about the price i wanted to pay

>>6547953
They did some amazing techwear jackets that would make you cream your pants, but of course they only made like 200 of each and sold them all to a small cluster of Japanese people at one particular Akibara outlet before immediately putting their corporate weight back behind drafting the sort of things we can expect to see on a steadily aging Vin Diesel throughout an array of "Pitch Black" sequels for the next 15 years or so.

In general, a lot of operator-core puts me off not only because the designs are overblown and only seem at home on overzealous gym teachers and war criminals - what gets me is that a lot of this stuff literally is the uniform of oppression, this is what you wear you're a private contractor operating outside of known conventions, razing villages to ground or calmly executing civilians. I don't know how else to say it, I just have negative associations with it.

>>6548440
>overzealous gym teachers
lmfao
poet pls it's midnight here and I'm trying to fap

>>6548454
I'm serious, man - If you're unsure of your sexuality and you're throwing puppies off of a cliff in northern Iraq, chances are you already own two pairs.

somewhere in between redneck-tier and douchebag with money-tier
i've yet to see a pair look good enough to rationalize the price

>>6547953
Oakley is a brand that just remind me of trailer trash

I live around an area where most of these metal mulisha assholes live so that's probably why

a lot of white supremcists wear Oakley, tapout shirts and cargo pants around these parts

>>6547953
People who wear oakleys often wear camouflage jackets when not hunting.
often sport muddy boots on any occasion.
have a john deer sticker and probably left over bush and mitt romney bumper stickers on their 52 inch lifted OFF ROAHDIN pick up trucks.

>>6548568
not here, they're mostly these types of kids who drive lifted Toyotas and live for the desert BRAAAA

>>6548589
all about that Georgia red clay off roadin an buck huntin'!

Oakley is a part of luxottica which also owns ray ban, persol, and oliver peoples. For sportswear go maui jim or costas.

>>6548568
>>6548589
IKTF

>>6548495

All the firefighters in my EMT class idolize that shit.

They're not bad people but they are dumbasses.

They also like to talk about how big the wheels on their pickups are, and by what methods they can affix larger wheels to their pickups without interfering with the steering etc. Overall. only slightly more pathetic than talking about $400 sneakers with the gold text on the side.

>>6548568

john deere*

I only like frogskins and maybe holbrook, everything else looks really obnoxious. The frogskins weigh almost nothing; you can go a whole day without even noticing them on your face, and avoid those annoying red marks most sunglasses leave between your eyes. The weight and lens color (ruby iridium; nicest lens color to look out of by far) is what switched me from Ray Ban.

>>6548762
Except we don't pretend our pieces of clothing are 100% functional and for "manliness"

>>6549627
Yeah the Frogskins are really the only acceptable choice from Oakley.

Their sport glasses are really good but no one actually plays sports so it's a moot point here.

>>6548440
dammit poet, that second half is just no.
You really want operatorcore you go other places.

>>6548495
Also soldiers get discounts on the Ballistic M Frames, aka reallllllly good shades for protection.

>>6547953
good for active wear, think I'm gonna get these for military stuff. the back part comes off.

>>6549645
Post some, I'm actually short on tactical porn at the moment.

>>6547953
Please don't get those. I know a female who wears only Monster Energy hoodies and those in white. She also has Goku hair.

>>6549679
don't have much on here.
But PMCs go to shit like 5.11 and the ilk a bit. /k/ can help. They mostly do that because of Laws and shit, iirc they can't wear camo

>>6548440
>what gets me is that a lot of this stuff literally is the uniform of oppression, this is what you wear you're a private contractor operating outside of known conventions, razing villages to ground or calmly executing civilians. I don't know how else to say it, I just have negative associations with it.

+1.

>>6548495
>I'm serious, man - If you're unsure of your sexuality and you're throwing puppies off of a cliff in northern Iraq, chances are you already own two pairs.

+999,999,999,999.

But looking at the designs, what else could one expect? They're obviously fetishizing a certain cartoonish-wicked version of toughness. It's like Mercedes - out of people I've gotten to know well enough to judge, I've only met one person driving a late model one who wasn't an asshole, and it makes sense, because their aesthetic and design language is all about settled, self-possessed power.

Sunglass design in general is so stagnant. I don't think anything's really improved on balancing beauty and function since Persol 714s came along.

>>6549705
>. I don't think anything's really improved on balancing beauty and function since Persol 714s came along.
Rick Owens

>>6549710
I was thinking that for a second, but I don't consider those an improvement, when it comes right down to it.

>>6549679
not him but i could also go for seeing some /k/ in my /fa/

>>6549705
I can't possibly agree more with what you said. Oakley sunglasses are the types of things that people who watched Akira one time and wanted that in a costume buy. There's nothing wrong with modern, it's just a problem with that rendition of modern.

>>6549710
Let's say that matches it? Because it's so different. Larger area of protection, but they're only portable if you never take them off, or you haven't already filled the pockets on your Cargo Baskets.

>>6547997
good, oakleys especially with white frames scream uber douche

>>6549704
most of my militarisitic shit is actual military, not PMC

>>6549710

>>6549639
>we don't pretend our pieces of clothing are 100% functional

speak for yourself!

>>6549704
>PMC's can't wear camo

wait what

>>6549718

Egh, maybe it's because I've actually faced down riot cops, but I have an even more visceral negative reaction to seeing these than to seeing PMCs.

It also doesn't help that they're just riot cops and don't have to actually be good at what they do. I have a big aesthetic attraction to capability and skill, and I can sometimes see elite public sector soldiers in a good aesthetic light because of that. But with riot cops A) there's all that theory about how the military at least has an idealistic core, is even potentially revolutionary, etc. and the only and stated purpose of police is public order, that is, the defense of the status quo, and B) their only tactic is to block shit and be rough.

>>6549739
IIRC they can't.
Most won't as they don't need it. PMC's generally do things like Security contracting, they don't actually take combat missions like vidya makes them.
Camo also makes you a huge target as you present yourself like an actual military target.

I want Oakley Juliet so bad but I can't because I wear glasses

>>6549741
>a big aesthetic attraction to capability and skill

>>6549754
can't get them in a prescription?

>>6549741
>their only tactic is to block shit and be rough.
have you seen those videos of the korean riot police (they might actually be chinese or some other nationality) in action?

i think they were fighting people armed with swords and firebombs, in case someone knows what i'm talking about

>>6549741
>their only tactic is to block shit and be rough.
That's basically their job.

>>6549769
here

i think i'm getting a few separate videos mixed up

>>6549769
No, I haven't. Obviously SWAT is different, but then it's like, are they wannabe military? And they're still cops, and ACAB etc.

>>6549772

And it's not interesting, and doesn't require much skill. That's the point.

>>6549759
>i operate on another leve.jpg

>>6549778
SWAT is kind of paramilitary

>>6549736
>you will never live in Killer 7

>>6549778
>No, I haven't.
i found one of the videos i was referring to
neat to watch, but i have no idea if any of that is practical at all
it might be a drill; i can't tell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uREJILOby-c

>>6549785
>tfw pilotcore/spacecore will never be a thing

>>6549778
Being a in Riot gear also requires a good bit of mental strength, especially when it gets really violent.

>>6549802
As someone who's been on the other end, I can't say I'm impressed. I've been lucky, but in North America and most of Europe, cops in protective equipment hospitalize protestors in street clothes, and never the other way around.

>>6549739
they can wear camo, but they can't have camo with an American flag patch, or UK or any nation patch

most do that so they get protection under Geneva convention

PMC's / mercs don't get covered under Geneva conventions

hence why it was not a war crime to hang a bunch of blackwater corpses on a bridge in afghan

that was completely "legal"

>>6549799
>tfw it will be, because you and I and others will make it one

I have pieces in the mail already. Let's make this happen.

>>6549953
what are you waiting on, bud

>>6549960
Deliveries, mostly. I also need more money, and that takes time. People act like the first thread wasn't a few months ago.

>>6549799
it's happening

>>6549965
>Deliveries, mostly.
yeah i meant what pieces exactly

>>6549978
>btbam
are you fucking kidding me

>>6550000
i was gonna argue about change taking place over time and starts in weird places, but quads confirms that my opinion is shit.

t-pain/10

>>6550018
hahahaha
i mean
i used to listen to btbam and i still admire them
the fact that that suit exists is fucking nuts
did they really sell that

>>6550000
Some flight pant looking cargos in washed out olive, a pair of those Palladium moonboots (worn up) and I'm saving for some Raeburn pieces. I copped a lot of Rick & Damir over the summer and I'm really hesitant to start dropping big dollars just yet.
I just recieved some pretty far out Japanese-made Prps cargos that blouse beautifully out of my Geos, but I need the right jacket to pull it all firmly into a tech-centric mindset. I'm thinking Pic Related or a Musto Sailing anorak, which is white and has reflect strips on the wrist and shoulders.
I'd like to have white on the feet, olive on the legs and white/silver/grey on top, at least for the first batch of fits.
Sick quads, btw.

>>6550087
I guess I'm going to go after pieces that comprise individual bits of the look I saw in the first Alien film. Note the white shoes, the odd cargos with frontal pockets. Relaxed but battered utility.
I might switch out the Raeburn for a grey/light grey bomber if I can find it.

What's the opinion of /fa/ on Oliver Peoples?
What about Tom Ford and Matsuda Eyewear?

>>6552218
bump

>>6548440
>what gets me is that a lot of this stuff literally is the uniform of oppression
reminds me of what you see at shit like anti-gay protests too

it's the uniform of ultra-masculinity and every awful thing that goes with that.

>>6547953
Don't ya know OP?

Oakley makes the shades to transform a tool