/fa/ - Fashion

sonic is fa

>>9908472
More like gay area amirite

>>9908481
this guy

>>9908472
get ready to see a whole lot of north face and patagonia jackets

Bay area is not a very fashionable place. At all. Sure you meet a lot of hip people around here but they're not fashionable by any means. Yuppies, nouveau riche asians, mexicans with large t-shirts, Indians with sandals and jeans, lumbersexual hipsters, and normies as far as the eye can see.

>>9908530
>Northface
>Patagonia
>Bay Area
have you been here?

>>9908472

Style-aware, but not as style-conscious as New York in general.

Younger, affluent areas will have a crowd like Park Slope. Older, affluent areas will feel like the Upper East Side, but a bit quieter/less obvious. Certain areas like the Fillmore, Marina, Hayes Valley, Noe Valley will be better dressed in general due to the businesses/demographics to that area. Places near colleges/art schools will have younger kids probably trying different things, but not as prodigiously or as interestingly as some parts of Manhattan.

Plenty of wealth in the North Bay, but limited retail exposure and least urbanized population, so most folks just buy plain, but expensive things from reputable department stores.

On the whole, people care more about the design of homes and gadgets than they do about clothes. It's changed a bit over the last few years in selective pockets, but still a much smaller overall fashion market than LA, NY.

>>9908530
patagonia is popular in manhattan lol

>>9908534
interesting, thanks for the insight. i get that vibe from my vibes from the bay area already. manhattan is prob the peak of effay hipsterdom ill experience so ill be fine over there

>>9908538
been living on divisadero / haight for the last 12 years. you?

tiny shirt, tiny pants

>>9908547

Patagonia is popular almost everywhere there is a large white population that loves the "outdoors"..

>>9908472
lots of flannel pretty much dress like every indie band ever

hmm

>>9908472
What part of SJ you going to?

I've lived there my whole life. Not the best place for fashion.

>>9908791
me too
lived here all my life
nobody really cares about what you dress.

you'll usually see the filiipino kids or southeast asian kids wearing rick owens and visvims.

for fashion, I mainly just stick to workwear or the type of shit mfa is known for.

>>9908804
do you go to SJSU by any chance?

>>9908601
God I hate those places.

>>9908791
I'll be living and working nearby SJSU

more like bae area

Living in Fremont, about 20 minutes from SJ. East Bay isn't too fashionable, like everyone else said. There are a few great shopping spots in SF, like Barney's, Acrimony, Darkside Initiative, Maas and Stacks, etc.

But overall, no one is really interested in fashion. It kinda sucks.

>>9909873
extremely underrated

more bay area insight yall

>>9908472
you will find very little focus on effay fashions in san jo.

west coast is chill bruh

and go home we dont want anymore of you here uuuugh when will this bubble burst

There's a Japanese bookstore in San Jose

>>9908554
ugh just leave. gross corner. I hate USF losers so much. Free association

>>9911617

There's a large Kinokuniya in Japantown, too.

>>9911622
Fuuck it's so dope

>>9911617
>Kinokuniya
>>9911622
Is that separate from the one at mitsuwa?

You will see a lot of otaku/weaboos there.

get a black pro bay hoodie and an oakland raider's fitted cap

>>9911652
Inside Mitsuwa
And they're pretty gross, yeah

>>9908472
san jose is probably butt
every sf person tries so hard to dress fa and all the faggots dress the same, watch out for feccbois

>>9908472
>>9911750

Speaking to SF entirely, that's partially true most dress the same. It really depends on the neighborhood you end up in (i,e Marina, Nob Hill vs. Mission or Japantown). There are some places like Darkside Initiative, BAIT (just opened), Steven Alan, Blackscale, Unionmade, etc. You're better off going to the 6-story Nordstrom/Bloomingdale's and digging through the shit they have there. I picked up a pair of CP's for $300, and just recently a pair of APC's for $120.

>>9908545
bruh how you know so much?
you S/Fa/ to mate?

>>9912462
>>9908472
The best destinations are Acrimony (kinda shit), steven alan, and the GOAT MAAS and Stacks
I could go on endlessly about that store, its really dope and has an incredible selection of hard to find shit, each garment is worthy of its own display.

>>9908472
Where are you interning

>>9908815
haha yep

i live in downtown san jose. common occurrences: huge packs of Vietnamese girls from Evergreen w/ similar style; black leather, michael kors bags, ombre, sundresses etc...yuppie women with 1500 dollar strollers decked out in north face...indian men in sandals and polo shirts from target...Filipino thug wannabees in fitted hats and jordans from milpitas/eastside...filipina sorority chicks in nike leggings & roshes...tall handsome men in fitted suits who work at the downtown wells fargo...nerdy, beta programmers w/ bad haircuts who wear old shirts with shitty insider puns...east bay is more grungy, acid birkenstock hippies and black people (oakland, berkeley, fremont). SF has a very high concentration of the same personality type. everyone seems to adopt the same style and habits of those in their circle which makes for a boring-ass place at the end of the day. same old yuppie shit, prius, patagonia, cannondales, 3rd wave coffee...there's not that much grit here. a lotta kids have parents who are professors at stanford or work at apple/google/etc and go to private school, do hours of homework, do extracurriculars, prep for SAT early, get into an ivy, and go from there. LA is more interesting.

>>9913332
which one are you? that asian kid with the big glasses and the visvim stuff?

>>9913390
This is basically what the bay area is like. Been living in SJ for almost a year now.

>>9913332
>>9915165

SJSU here as well. I know I've seen some of you guys.

Bay area has tons of Filipino hypebeasts and streetwear in general. Elite sock sperries or slides cargo shorts. SF is pretty effay but like hipster beard man bun style that hang in coffee shops.

>>9916237
describe us and we'll let you know.

>>9916237
aye fam I go there to, comp sci major

>>9917386
>>9916237
>mfw i rejected SJSU, SFSU, and UCSC for fashion school
no regrets