/fa/ - Fashion

>>6665895
Go to a more popular thrift shop chances are they have better items donated because of their frequency.

What you're trying will take an incredible amount of time but it can be done. Just last week I found a pair of waxed denim from a thrift shop, they're H&M but whatever.

Yes. But it will take time and patience. Practice customizing your clothes (cut-and-sew, dyeing, bleaching, softening, shredding, hemming, Stretching, etc). Don't just limit yourself to the men's department. Women's tees (or even children's sizing) might be up your alley.

>>6665917
How can I alter clothes? Like I mean what will that accomplish

If I'm planning on being able to alter shit what should I look for that I wouldn't normally?

>>6665968
See potential in everything. If you like a cut, but the colour is wrong, consider dyeing. If you think a basic tee is too symmetrical, reconstruct it

Learn fabrics, read books and how-to guides, get creative

>>6665895
No, you won't be able to achieve such fits with cheap clothing unless you alter them yourself.
Get your financial situation straight before you think about clothing

>>6665982
I don't think u understand being poor

And I'm in school anyway it's gonna be a long time before I can drop a lot of money on jawnz and sneakers

>>6665982
this

you will look like a proper tosser lad

Part of /fa/ is going to look askance at me for this, but look at Grimes's outfits. Most of what she wears is thrifted, and even now that designers are personally gifting her stuff she's wearing it like it was.

Are you going to be able to put together something that looks like it walked out of SuFu? Probably not. But you can hit the same aesthetic marks with some added authenticity to your situation. The average SuFu'er is something like a lawyer in something like his mid-to-late '30s. Be creative, expressive, and resourceful. Your wardrobe is a project. Treat it like one.

This fit is even more amazing when you see it full-length, but I can't find the seemingly only picture on the Internet of it right now. Drab plaid skirt peeking out the bottom of all the other layers, tights, and some awesome high combat boots finished it off.

>>6666046
And I don't mean "look at her outfits" like copy them. Their common motifs don't fit in to Internet genres. Look at them for *inspiration* as far as working in the whole DIY aesthetic and recontextualizing found pieces.

Also, look at lookbooks and shows from Undercover (which has huge punk and DIY influence) and Visvim (which you'll be able to find similar workwear-y pieces in any thrift shop). Also, look for fits online that include Margiela reproduction pieces and, of course, actual vintage clothing.

>>6666046
>>6666056
Woah dude thanks! Pretty inspiring c:

>>6666069
Thanks.

I'm pretty much trying to do close to the same thing, with the added difficulty of also wanting/needing technical clothing, and with spending somewhat more per piece on eBay when it makes sense.

Which, make all your cops make sense. Don't buy anything you don't have an idea for how to use it unless you absolutely love it and want to build stuff around it for its own sake. Don't buy anything new unless, again, you're absolutely in love with it and that's the only way to get it. Buy fewer, better, more fitting pieces instead of globbing up a closet with stuff you don't really care about.

I'm gonna hijack this thread and ask for advice on thrifting

I always get so frustrated and I can seemingly never find any pieces or brands I like

>>6667029
live in a rich city

>buy whatever jeans you like based on color and texture
>make sure the waist fits well, besides that everything else can be too big
>put on inside out
>carefully pin the outline of your legs, on the side of the pants, starting below the waist part
>remove jeans
>sew along the line of pins with any sewing machine set on medium straight stitch
>turn right side out
>????
>PROFIT

if you thrift you better be crafty, as already stated in the thread

dye, tailor, alter, repeat

>>6667057
is a sewing machine necessary?
if so w2c good sewing machine?

>>6667054
>tfw in NYC and still never find shit

Some tips for thrifting. Some shops have more #nxtlevel shit depending on where they're located. E.g., if it's in a more upmarket area then there will be better donations brought in by the public than in some nowhere shithole (where I live). Also some shop owners know their brands and some don't, but most of them don't. You can get very good deals if you are patient and also know how to negotiate.

Main thing is patience and persistence. Hit up the same shops maybe once a week, more if your that desperate for a #grail piece, shops will rotate the old clothes on their hangers and replace them with newer donations.

>>6665917
this. I have some children's tank tops that drape p. well and fit my bod perfectly

See here

http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/i7tpl/thrift_store_tips/

http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/1chu8v/as_promised_my_guide_to_thrifting/

blue lettering within the description are links

>>6667126
Yes, unless you have years of hand-sewing experience.

Any Singer will do the job, no need to buy intricate digital ones, unless they're cheap or on sale. Got my digital Singer for $200 and it has automatic decorative stitches, self threading needle, etc.

Avoid other brands like the plague, they're usually too fast and feel cheap.

>>6667057
>>6667126
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwE_trccirk

there;s a dude on sufu who has some of the best fits and he wears like timbs a bleached hoody and a black jacket with custom patches on it. you don't need money to have style it just takes a little bit more imagination

Get 2 big black pillow cases and tuck them in your shorts as a skirt
Wear a long women's black dress and a hoddie over it
scrunch up trash bags for shoes

>british thrift stores.
Or Charity Shops, if you prefer, are absolutely terrible. Its very disappointing, as i would love to get gems from them.

>>6665895
BOY OF GRILL

>>6668095
modern singers are pretty awful, besides, the technique described in >>6667057 doesn't produce good results.

>>6668221
you mean mamma dod?

Bump

>>6665895
>but pic related would be more like what I want, it's pretty basic shit other than the MMM's

Those are H&MxMMM, that is basic bitch shit.

Just some black jeans and some DIY, right?

>>6671011
you mean mamma död?

>>6671471
If I understand correctly, the entirely collaboration was (obviously lower quality) reproductions of past mainline pieces.

Not that it should matter.

>>6672040
They are not even remotely close to the mainline MMM sneakers. It's kind of exactly what you'd expect from a H&M or Zara rip-off.

>>6672087
Remember the fake sewing molded into the plastic? Remember what they referred to that as when the shoe came out?

"Trompe L'oeil Stitching"

Like, wow, man.

>>6672108
Is that really what they called it? That is one scenario I'd prefer ioffer.

>>6672087
Yeah, looking at the picture large now, they've got a nice silhouette of course, but they look so different. Is that embossing for all the details?

>>6672108
That's horrible, but I kind of admire the sheer hustling-meets-deconstruction audacity of that.

>>6672160
>hustling-meets-deconstruction
ha, spot on

>>6672010
this is mamma dod?

>>6672172
It's like "That's right, it's trompe l'oeil stitching. Go ahead, call us on it, if you even speak French or know art."

>>6672181
yes

OP's pic is about as cheap as i'd go in goooby terms

Just be dadcore until you have money. It's way easier to put together outfits from that style from thrift shops. Just need to tailor.

>>6672010
dis nigga
I just realized it'd be pronounced mamma dude

>>6672181
yeah that's him
cool dude, follow him on tumblr if you have one

>>6673695
No it wouldn't.

>source; being norwegian

>>6673709
oomlauts make long o sounds do they not?
dude is pronounced dood

>>6673715
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96#Letter_.C3.96_in_other_languages

>>6673715
>>6673729
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel

Play the sound clip to hear something close, sounds like a dane to me, but it's a fine approximation.

BUDGET NINJA NEVER WORKS

>>6668369

That's because most donations are from old women.

>>6674310
that looks like shit

>>6666046
Did she thrift her skin from /v/

>>6675359
#rekt #ethered #sickburn

>>6675359
Her skin's not even bad but I lol'd

>>6675359
Did you thrift your attitude from /r9k/?

Also, check captcha.

>>6675725
#shotsfired

>>6676729
>rick x4
>thrift

>>6665895
lol ya but youre gonna end up lookin like this

>>6666046
Found it.

http://www.elle.com/fashion/celebrity-style/grimes-best-looks#slide-1

>linking to Elle on /fa/

>>6674321

OPs image isn't amazing but it's passable.

Full on ninja, with big drapes and weird silhouettes will look weird with cheap stuff, but if you keep it to a more conservative shape I think it can work.

Something like Nike Frees/Air Force 1 + Skinny Jeans (that fit properly and don't look shit) and one or two shirts/tanks (possibly modified) and a big hoody can work for a casual monochrome look IMO.

It kind of depends on your definition. If your definition of 'goof is 4x rick minimum then yeah, most people can't do that. If your definition is a mix of thin & thin shapes and angles it's a bit difference.