/fa/ - Fashion

I was 14 when I got my first part time job, started buying my own clothes at 15.

why are you such a fuccboi?

When I was.... 17 I think? I'm 18 now, so it was quite recently and I'm still not that far up the pyramid.

i started caring since like elementary school with how my school uniform looked, but i'd say i didn't actually start dressing objectively well till senior year of high school

Senior year of high school. i realized i have a terrible and bland personality so i figured out dressing well (in my opinion) would not only make me feel better about myself but at least make me look better

Since I was about 10, sourcing from a deep-rooted desire to fit in and be accepted. I quickly realized that it felt like only I knew what I was doing and everyone else was just plebby and wasn't cognizant about themselves with the things they wore and how outfits were put together.

>>7766749
im on that fuccboi level too i copped a pair of rick dunks when i was 16. 20 now

I always cared about how I dressed
I just had shit taste as a kid

I always got compliments on my shirts in high school (usually some kind of patterned casual button down, totally pleb stuff looking back) but I wasn't consciously trying to dress a certain way, I guess just had an eye for shirts and I was always fairly good at matching colors. When I got into college I really started to care about putting together a cohesive outfit and pay more attention to cuts, fits, and palettes. A couple years into college I became a little more conscious of differing styles and how to mix them and such.

About 20/21

I had always been uncomfortable with my clothes all through highschool and would try different shit every year. I was also a fatass, so that didn't help.

Then I went to a university with my gf. That's when I first started losing weight and caring more about the way I dressed (albeit, it was horrible UO-core)

Last summer I got fed up with breaking diets and I lost a ton of weight. About the same time I started browsing /fa/ because I needed new clothes. I'm at 180 now. 10 more lbs. to go until I reach my target weight. Now I'm just slowly trying to piece together a wardrobe.

So when i was 15/16 i was totally a swag fag

I uses to wear t shirts with logos and jordans

So i realized that i was dressing stupid and started to change my wardrobe since

Well i went from wearing shitty Jcpenny jackets and cargo pants to Arc'teryx jackets and half way decent jeans. If that counts

>>7766749
whats a fucboi?

>>7766738
i thought everyone just wore sweats in college

Right after high school I became more conscious about how I dressed. Sophomore year of college I actually started dressing differently.

>>7766800
Keep going m8 :^) I believe in you

>17, awkward af
>cargo shorts errday
>one winter dad gives me a chambray shirt from his college days
>pretty sure he was trying to make his son less of a sperglord
>realize I have nothing to wear with it
>buy khaki-colored levi 511s
>for some reason I was really terrified of wearing them b/c I thought that slim jeans meant something about my sexuality or some shit
>buy clarks dbs, again terrified b/c not sneakers
>walk into school convinced everybody is staring at me
>one redneck everybody hates says "nice elf shoes faggot"
>qt bad-bitch girl I hang out with tells him to fuck off
>whispers "I think you look really hot"
>made out with her that night, fucked a week later
>kept wearing/buying better shit through senior year of HS until I felt really good strutting into class with something new on
>became much more confident around girls and better at speaking with adults b/c they seemed to respect me more and consider me very mature for my age
>first kid in my hs to wear wayfarers before they blew up, got made fun of by rednecks but stuntin on girls
>girls call me "fashionable", "good looking," guy friends coming to me for advice

Caring about my looks was a major part of maturing and leaning how to deal with people

Personally I started getting into fashion once I started getting into hats. I just really started loving fancy hats (my first was a beret but I later moved up) and it looked weird wearing them without the clothes to match.

>>7766830
That's no better than what you were doing before. You blended into the crowd then and you blend in now, you're just a smudge in a sea of people.

For clothes to actually make you stand out you have to go drastic to the high end stuff. Some luxury stuff has a "stand-out" factor. Especially Rick Owers, though sometimes you might stand out in a BAD way with that stuff.

14/15
didn't really start copping designer until 17/18 tho

>>7766738
Not until I was about 25 years old.

I had seven white shirts and three pairs of jeans and wore the exact same outfit every single day from age 14 to 24, the only variety being a handful of different colored hoodies.

>Be 8-16
>Wear my school uniform during the weekend
>Leave school
>Get qt azn gf, get into skinny jeans and girls clothes
>Best twink out there
>Leave her, keep the skinny jeans
>Meet new friends that dress basic dadcore
>Think they are so well dressed
>Slowly start copying them
>Thought bootcut jeans were the shit
>Wear ironic graphic tees
>Slowly start hating myself but can't quite place the reason why
>Find /fa/
>It helps crystallize what style I actually want
>Become Menswear over about a year of trial and error
>People now come to me for advice
>Realize everyone is a pleb
>Hate all my friends

>grow up poor
>7 years old
>have only hand-me-downs from older brothers
>Wear outfits 2 days in a row to save money on laundry
>teacher asks entire class to not wear clothes two days in a row
>she's talking about me
>die on the inside
>stop wearing stuff two days in a row
>dad notices
>dad scolds and beats me
>I tell him "the teachers and students ask me why I wear dirty clothes. It makes me feel bad."
>he walks away

From then on, I gave a damn, but wore pleb stuff until I was 22.
>23 now

The bf gets me stuff once/twice a week, so I don't buy clothes.
He asks me what I want, then we go find it.

>>7766738
When I lost weight and found out I was attractive under all the fat.

At 15, I started to get popular cause I got hot. Style came naturally, then I found 4chan.

When I was 15, I was into hoodies, fancy nikes, and slim jeans.

Now, I wear more button up shirts, cardigans, and dress shoes.

bout halfway through 20. Had occasionally been told things like 'whens the last time you tucked your shirt in, didn't stand to close to the razor' eventually found myself in new york and saw that people can look amazing with the right clothes. There was a girl near Washington Sq. that seriously looked like she was in a commercial and a guy dressed very well that was beaming with self confidence, so when i got back home i started with shoes (black slip ons, from there somewhat baggy dadcore stuff) eventually slimmed it down from excessively baggy jeans , big button ups over even bigger t shirts.

It's hard to say when I started "caring." I guess I started caring a long time ago, but "caring" doesn't mean dressing well. It just means "thinking about dressing well," or "thinking you're dressing well when you're not."

In junior high, I was the first kid to wear a cardigan and button-up shirts when everyone else was wearing graphic tees and hoodies. Of course, what I was wearing was unremarkable, but compared to middle-schoolers, I was ahead of the game. I was also the first to start shaving that not-quite-a-mustache-lip-fuzz that middle-school boys get. Girls liked that. Every other boy had gross fuzzy faces.

It wasn't until this year that I've stared paying more attention to how I dress. I'm still not amazingly-dressed yet, and I'm still finding my style. Often, I'm either boring and generic, or wearing something so silly and ostentatious that I feel embarrassed at the end of the day. But I'm in the learning stages and understanding more about my tastes every day. I hope to feel satisfied with the way I dress by this time next year.

About 24, didnt really start getting into dressing well until a few months ago at 26, when I finally had the money to buy nice things.

15, only got into really good fits recently.
have to pay for a lot of shit + gym memb
need moar moneys to live this lifestyle, any tips?

>>7768881
>button up shirts, cardigans, and dress shoes.
lel fag

>be 15
>at a little party
>some qt tells me I dressed badly

I was pretty upset.

>>7766738
The day I stopped playing world of warcraft day in day out. Realized I knew nothing about the world quickly after.

my freshman year of high school i won a worst-dressed award

that convinced me that it was time to get my shit together

>>7766738
17

Since I was about 10/11, around the time I started skateboarding. I was really into Zero, Fallen, Mystery, etc. and then that progressed to learning about the Ice Cream skate team which lead me to Pharrell which led me to Louis Vuitton (didn't like it just knew about it), and from there the rest is history. It's funny, I've come so far, but still wear skinny pants, via Hedi Slimane of course.

>>7767555
youre still a pleb fuccboi

Age 16 I started to become less of a stupid teen and started dressing better but just wore boring, generic shit like everyone else

Age 20 I started to get interested in fashion and less ordinary clothes. Now I find dressing really fun and exciting, also I've started working out. And In general I feel much happier and confident.

>>7769518
I find dressing good on a budget can be part of the fun. Means you have to think hard and make smarter selections.

found /fa/ in 9th grade and spent 4 years stumbling through h&m racks and lookbook threads before /fa/ started to buy designer clothing

tbh I only really consider my /fa/ awakening as having happened 1.5 years ago

>>7769877
why are his shoes so big

>>7766738
around 17, I'm 19 now.

I used to be slightly overweight at 17 and realised I should stop eating shit. started eating healthier and got to a decent size (32 waist, small in T-shirts). now I've started going to they Gym and feeling a lot better about my self because dressing good is only half the battle, feeling good is what counts.

>>7769518
dont admit that youre underage ;)

>>7768563
This

Like 9?
I remember the day the twin towers crashed I was looking effay as fuck
>chrome neckless that fit kind of tight
>black long sleeve with white graffiti
>these almost pearlescent denim - silver pants
>jordans (no idea what kind, but that's all I had)
But my mom pulled meout before class even started

Wish I had a school my school pic. If anything I dress worse currently, which is sad

>>7768881
hows being 16 sport

I started caring at 12 or 13, once I realized I was kinda fat and lost all of it during summer. I started skateboarding for the excersize and inherited whatever clothes my skateboarding brother didn't use anymore.

>lost 60 pounds in two months
People from school didn't recognize me next year. Felt good because a qt3.14 black haired emo-ish girl started being all flirty around me.
>went for some blonde whore instead
Can't regret this more

>kept losing weight because I was out skateboarding instead of playing runescape/tibia
School nurse told my parents to get me into some kinda diet to make sure I didn't lose to much or whatever. Diet dude was a dickhead, never visited more than once.

>at 14 I already despised some unfashiony things
Such as big-lipped DC sneakers. I was into the slimmer adidas skate-shoes. Got my first pair of vans Old skool at 15 and wore them for 4.5 years on and off, I guess you can call me a basic faggot.

>skating friends outgrew eachother and me
Worst time in my life. Dad was mistreating my bigger brother in every way, he turned to drugs and moved out at 16, (I was 14 at the time)
I don't remember too much about this time, it's all kind of a haze. I spent a lot of time with the black haired girl from earlier. We hit it off and became sort of an item, for a few weeks, but ended up as best friends instead.
>still wore vans and baggyish jeans

I stumbled into depression by being my dad's new object of complaints. Close to failing school due to almost no presence, but I was a smart kid and did all the tests without failing.

>I discovered tumblr and 4chan
Mainly browsed tumblr for the pictures of nature. I had never been outside of my country (parents wouldn't take me) and all these pictures blew my mind.

>started dressing like tumblr, baggy knitted sweaters and a pair of cheap monday skinny, black trousers
I thought I looked good. I had two pictures on tumblr which got stolen by some big blogger and had a lot of notes. Cont>

>>7769914

>be fat as fuck 2 years ago
>wearing 36 waist-baggy as fuck pants
>lose weight and now wearing 28 waist
>piss away a shit ton of money buying new pants every time I went down in pants size and they became baggy

>>7769969
There's nothing wrong with those dc shoes
I went from jordans, to vans slip ons, to those, to supras in like the 5 years before 18
They're like a 00's prelude to moon shoes, and skater core was big then

>>7769981
yup, I learnt to buy belts instead of new jeans until I reached a size I was happy with. Now I'm around a size 30 and happy as fuck because gym and clothes that fit

I started caring at around 15, but since I didn't know anything about dressing good I just looked shitty and hated myself for it. With 17 I got myself some basic stuff and when I was 18 I started shopping with a girl friend of mine who loved outfitting me. 19 now. Still a pleb, but getting there.

15 i think.
I got a haircut and bought a new wardrobe
Still have some of the shit I bought, like levis and whatever.
Started going on /fa/ at 18 though.

>>7769969 cont.

>stumbled into relationship with another tumblr-user with an abusive father
Best girl I've ever been with. She was funny and musically talented (and shorter than my 5'9). Still love her but it didn't work out in the end. Her father was rich and spent a lot of money on both me and her to make up for all the shit he put her through when drunk. I got my first pair of leather boots from him, and stumbled into mfa when asking what to wear them with.
>got tips of fits, didn't like them, kept wearing baggy knitted sweaters
I wasn't into the whole button-down shirt with chinos look, so I just wore whatever.

>when brother died i had nobody to inherit from
So I had to start buying my own stuff. I was still on tumblr always so I went a bit overboard with knitted sweaters. To this day, my parents still buy me atl least one every christmas.

>no more skating meant new opportunities in shoes
Looked up to better dressed neighbour. First time I fell in love with a piece of clothing was when he got back from the US with a pair of leather boots. I had to have a pair of those.
>not a lot of money because I developed some bad drinking-wine-alone-all-the-time habits.
Wine is really expensive over here by the way. I still haven't had afford to buy a pair of leather boots but saving this month to maybe ask my uncle to buy me a pair when he leaves for americe in april. I'm still dressing in oversized knitted sweaters but looking for a way out. I have started collecting some inspo in an imgur album, but haven't really found any fit I want to copy piece by piece. I like black-on-black a lot. Ordered a pair of dark 511's to start off my wardrobe building.

Sorry for venting all this shit on you /fa/scists. I hope to get there some day.

>>7769994

nice man

its always good to see people lose weight and get into shape. I find it a bit sad to see an old friend after a long time and seeing them become a fat slob.

>>7770019
>tfw I was that slob
pretty much all my friends where thin and I realised I either become a fat fuck or man up and do something. feels good being able to run more than a mile with a few mates without stopping or nearly dying.

>>7769917
as if there are any mods on /fa/?
what are they? the fashion police.

w2c b&

15.

about 13-14

I've got brothers who are a lot older than me and i used to copy what they wore kind of

ppl were mirin my clothes at school on non uniform day, when everyone else was wearing superdry jackets and topman hoodies B)

16.

About the time I started lurking around here.

Started buying supreme shit at 17 cause I thought it was fashionable lol. Turned 18 promptly sold it all and made a profit off fuccbois and copped CPs and went basics, currently starting to get into tech/subtle goth ninja and just copped geos. My next cops are going to be a silent parka, ovate shirts & linen jacket and the new cote et ciel Nile rucksack

>>7766738
Was a disgusting little angsty goth/emo teen in baggy black clothes from ages 13 to 15-16 or something. Then at age 16 I quit playing world of warcraft all day, expanded my musical taste and discovering /fa/ I started getting into regular good decent clothes. Started shopping at H&M, after I turned 17 I was a skateboarder so I bought all my clothes at this streetwear/skateshop. Flannels and other obnoxious graphic tees with dumb colours.

Only since I was 20 last year I took interest in dressing more sharp, clean and mature. Pretty much just shop online nowadays for clothes. Grey tones, Earth tones, slim fit, basic sneakers, black clark desert boots. Nothing too fancy, I like to keep things simple.

I've gone a long way, but I'm proud. :-)

i stopped tshirts and jeans when I was 14, now I go for something more technic and militaristic

>>7766738
>10 y.o
>saved money so i could buy Chuck Taylor (because Kurt Cobain had those)
>everyone thinks they're ugly
>I liked the attention and the shoes matched whatever i wore
>got flannel shirts, cardigan, tightest jeans you could find
>3 years later everyone dressed like I did
>mfw too mainstream

>>7770419
are you still in high school

>>7766738
Idk if that counts, but i started buying clothes from 'skateshops' at 16, i wasn't skater, but really liked the style. Saved money to buy some Element jacket, i still think that it was p good. I discovered /fa/ at 21, at 22 bought my first visvim stuff.

>>7770423
nah

>>7766766
This.

I learned I dress terribly and that all I could really do is talk about heavy metal and skateboarding.

Band shirts and puffy skateshoes. And skin tight jeans.

>there are people on this board younger than 17

Just fuck off.

>>7770466
get bent

>>7769969
>>7770013
What the fuck makes you think anyone cares to read this

>>7766738
>20 years old
>dumped by gf
>look in the mirror
>see a 20 years old child
>realize I dress in the same clothes l wore when I was 15
>baggy cargo pants, oversize hoodies, DC shoes
>time to dress like a grown-up
>this was in 2011 so /fa/ was not as useless as now
>went trough 12 month period, when I didn't have a clue of what I was doing
>started dressing like mfa dadcore
>cringe when I think about it
>learned from my mistakes
>aspire to look like dr komme
>changed haircut
>visited tailor for the first time
>fits drastically improved
>learned how to coordinate colors, textures and different styles
>wardrobe expands after every winter and summer sale
>I think I know how to dress like a decent human bean now


There is a period in every /fa/ makeover, where you look like a complete idiot. Most of you have experienced it, some are yet to find out, but looking back, I guess it was worth it...

>sort of dress pedestrian
>lose weight to go from waist 33 to 28 over a few months
>decide to get edgy haircut and wear skinny jeans
FAST FORWARD 3 MONTHS
>getting head off some tumblr grl
>realize the fa life was the life for me

>>7770776
>33 to 28 over a few months
Teach me.

>>7770642
>autism

>>7767459
this is a joke right?

>>7768552
you could have rotated 2 outfits over 4 days
then you would have worn them down less
duhh

>>7770703
>human bean

>>7768552
>teacher asks entire class to not wear clothes two days in a row

wait what ? what the fuck ?

Me : Always kind of liked being "well dressed" but never really had any clue how to even do it. For a long period of time I stopped giving a damn and was wearing most clothes at least one size too big, was terrible.

Then somehow I stumbled into a men's fashion blog that explained a lot of things very clearly : discovered facts about jeans first and foremost, and realized the 2 brand new pairs I had gotten just a couple months before weren't good, and were going to be too big because I had no idea about jeans really stretching (and they did get too big).

Decided to focus on basic clothes for at least a year (still going on basically) and threw away almost everything I used to wear, though most of it was actually really old so it needed to discarded anyway.

I then started really paying attention to a lot of details that most men don't seem to even know about, just like I didn't know about them before. Still trying to build a decent wardrobe, haven't really found my own style yet but I feel like I've come really far just trying to get the basics down.

/fa/ helped giving me ideas of what I liked and what I didn't like, mostly by exposing me to different kinds of clothes and brands I didn't usually get to see anywhere around me in real life. I don't exactly remember what year I first started browsing but I think it must have been maybe 2 years ago or so.

>>7771298
>/g/
>/t/
>/f/
>>>/out/

>>7771298
>>>/g/
>>>/t/
>>>/f/
>>>/out/

18 (now) I went to Catholic grade & high schools so I had a uniform and then kakis/button down/tie to wear until I got to college. I started looking at me a last year when I needed shoes and realized we had a fashion board early first semester. I had been eating Ok and was skinny fat but I gained once I got to college and it feels bad. Working on losing weight right now, stopped drinking soda and eating anything sweet, I need to start running but it's like 0 f everyday right now do that'll have to wait. All I've done so far is gotten some decent jeans and boots, because I don't want to buy anything until I lose weight. Thanks for the thread op