/fa/ - Fashion

[Anonymous No.15978393]

>he wears anything on his body where the brand or company logo is visible
Why would you make yourself a walking advertisement?

[Anonymous No.15978397]

>>15978393
>he doesnt do it ironically

[Anonymous No.15978400]

>>15978393
I only do it with sweats and athleisure. Idk why but it attracts thotties for some reason. Even tho personally I don’t care about the difference

[Anonymous No.15978402]

>>15978397
At some point in your life, you'll have to come to terms with the fact that you can't do something or like something "ironically". You can't "ironically" perform an action, you're just performing the action. You don't "ironically" like it, you just like it.

Consumerist brand slaves saying that they do it "ironically" just to feel like they haven't sold their soul to the same corporate hellscape they claim to hate is a trend that I hope dies in this decade.

[Anonymous No.15979414]

>>15978402
The hell is this thing of “ironic” doing? Please explain

[Anonymous No.15979459]

>>15979414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_tqW-Gno2k

[Anonymous No.15980013]

Yes.

[Anonymous No.15980019]

>>15978393
>he is autistic enough to get upset about even a small logo
Reeeeeeee

[Anonymous No.15980050]

>>15978402
based

[Anonymous No.15980055]

>>15978393
no branding is high class af

[Anonymous No.15980108]

>>15978402
this. what are you going to do, say "IT'S IRONIC!!!111" to every single person who walks past you on the street and sees the brand?

[Anonymous No.15980404]

>>15978393
In certain genres of clothing, it is an essential part of the garment, because (and this is especially true of 80's onward consumer driven youth fashions) the logo *is* the signifier.

Take a casual wool sweater - I'd buy a plain one from a quality brand (a la Norse Projects, etc) because a wool sweater is a wool sweater - 100% wool = 100% of it 'says' wool sweater - no need for branding or whatever.

on the other hand, say I buy a tracksuit. If I want a tracksuit I am aligning myself with an essentially globalised urban/working-class style phenomenon, inextricably linked with status-signifying brandage etc. A generic / unbranded tracksuit is a failure to get that. The platonic form of "tracksuit" is a Nike/Adidas tracksuit because in this instance, the branding does a great deal of work to define the garment in the first place.

Similarly, if I'm buying dress shoes or whatever I will buy plain shoes from a quality brand, but when it comes to trainers/sneakers it has to be brands. We can imagine an almost infinite spectrum of dress shoes with different pigments, sole thickness etc - but popular conceptions of trainers will be only about 10 binary styles - Air Max 90/95, Air Force 1, Adidas Superstars/Stan Smith, New Balance 574 etc etc etc etc - if you're buying into the image of trainers, you're buying a brand - simple as.

wearing generic trainers looks like a failure to understand trainers at all, so that if you're not wearing branded trainers you're practically not wearing trainers at all on a metaphysikkull level :S

[Anonymous No.15980413]

>>15980404

a weird middle ground would be like doc martens - skinheads don't wear 'boots' they wear doc martens boots - whilst not dripping in logos they have 'iconic' yellow stitching which signifies 'doc martens boots' and therefore 'skinhead boots.' Yet if you had yellow stitched boots that weren't doc marten brand (or one of the limited other valid brands I cba to mention) you wouldn't be authentically embodying the image you intended when you put the boots on. it would be like wearing a fake nikey tracksuit with a wonky swoosh - you'd be like one of those butterflies with wings that look like a hornet so lizards don't eat them.

TL;DR: In certain circumstances the brand is the garment

[Anonymous No.15980539]

>>15980404
>>15980413
Based. Also why I wear Ralph Lauren or Lacoste polos. Plain polos just lack something intrinsically that give off its authenticity. Also, middle schoolers and workers wear plain polos. The RL logo also works with their other garments, but always the small logo on the left chest.

[Anonymous No.15981321]

>>15980404
>>15980413
afterthought:

this obviously isn't to say that you *can't* wear unbranded sportswear/trainers, or knock off boots, or whatever - you obviously CAN, with an awareness of what it signifies - that you don't know, or don't care, can't be bothered, don't like it, won't do it, etc etc

You can make any statement you want, as meta as you want, but if it isn't an informed one, (or so outrageously fuck-off punkkkck a rejection of 'being style informed' that it becomes a kind of ultra-informedness in and of itself) you run the risk of looking like a gimp-neek

th end.

[Anonymous No.15981339]

>>15980539

polos are a kind of hybrid one, like >>15980404's "wool sweater" you can wear a blank, quality (or not) polo and settle into a kind of sultry/smart pedestrian anonymity thing, OR you can play into the Polos as status-seeking/nouveau riche/sporting aristocrat/00's Kanye West whatever and IF you do that, the safest bet is to get a Ralphy polo (or, carefully work out what old-money/new-money/council estate brands have the 'platonic form' status u want and get that) or, unfortunately, you're just going to look like you WANT Ralph but can't afford it, or you don't know Ralph, or you think no one will notice it's not Ralph or whatever. In certain deployments of the polo-shirt, the *ahem* polo horse is the polo of the shirt. ....we live... in a culture.... sadly... etc

[Anonymous No.15981341]

>>15978393
There's nothing wrong with a brand logo you pretentious twat.
If anything you look like a blank cunt in a create your own character simulation because you decided to be anti-branding
I bet you wank to the idea of a black or white all leather shoe because there isn't a Nike swoosh on it cause you're too above it

[Anonymous No.15981399]

>>15978393
I fucking hate it so much
Buying motorcycle jackets is a bitch because of this

[Anonymous No.15981401]

>>15981399

[Anonymous No.15981512]

I use to hate logos for the gross status chasing feel and still do to an extent. I preferred clothes that brand themselves through design/cut/material whatever. But to an informed observer, a geobasket is just a rick owens logo monogram all over print advertisement. So i guess ive become more ok with branding because its everywhere unless youre some fully bespoke chad. It exists on a spectrum from tasteful to eye rolling and its all about calibrating urself to not be a clout huffing dog, at least for me.

[Anonymous No.15981519]

>>15978397
>>15978402
>>15979414
it is a form of self sabatoge
you can't even take yourself seriously so you shroud yourself in several layers of "irony" that isn't funny or even noticed by anybody else
it is an excuse for low self esteem

[Anonymous No.15981572]

>>15981519
This.
Same reason children wear those "Ahegao" prints clothes. That's why they're called ironicfags and arne't accepted by /a/

[Anonymous No.15981675]

>>15981572
i used to be this way, especially in middle school but there are some aspects still relevant to me today (buying ill-fitting thrift clothing)
I notice this a lot with the "draingang" type of people, and on /fa/ and /mu/ in general
A self hatred that is almost tangible and hidden behind a very thin and translucent veil
it's kind of hard to be around those people, but it sucks to actually BE one of those people. Luckily you can change it. Try to find self-desctructive behavior in yourself when you can

[Anonymous No.15981692]

>>15981341
>I bet you think you're above giving corporations more money than necessary just for your clothing to have a logo, unlike me, who does so in an attempt to impress strangers that don't care about what I wear regardless!

[Mr K No.15981712]

>>15978402
Based

[Anonymous No.15981718]

>>15978402
Based and new sincerity pilled

[Anonymous No.15983108]

>>15981692
Whenever you buy a piece of clothing, you're supporting a corporation in literally every or any form. Whether it's the company that farmed the material, the company that shipped the material, anything.
Unless you start growing your own cotton and sheering your own sheep's while becoming a tailor you'll always give "corporations" money.
The mentality that you're too cool 4 school because of a companies logo is literal autism.

[Anonymous No.15984828]

>>15983108
>Whenever you buy a piece of clothing, you're supporting a corporation in literally every or any form.
Hence the post saying "giving more money than necessary", not just "giving money".

>The mentality that you're too cool 4 school because of a companies logo is literal autism.
Is there any actual reason to pay more money than you would need to just to have a brand logo or company logo on some article of clothing? Once you do, and you wear it outside where other people see it, your bodies functions as an advertisement for the company and its products. Why would you want that? The only other reason a person would do that (than to be a walking advertisement) is if they're so vapid and surface-level as a person that they think the logo represents the socioeconomic status they want strangers to think they have.

When you buying clothing like that, you're selling yourself out while also looking like you're desperate to be perceived as rich. It's a lose/lose situation.

[Anonymous No.15984829]

>>15980013
cringe

[Sieg !NP2jUmGKeo No.15984832]

>>15978393
this was a meme in 2008 /fa/ where everyone moved to wearing logoless American appeal and h&m shit and got excited or were depressed h&ms weren't in their area yet (no online shopping yet)

[Anonymous No.15984836]

>>15978402
>fashion should be dumbed down to support my infantilising grasp of meaning, signification and nuance

[Anonymous No.15984837]

>>15984832
>2008 /fa/
?

[Sieg !NP2jUmGKeo No.15984849]

>>15984837
yeah the board stared in 2008 where I asked for tips on how to dress moving on from posting on /o/ i has a an /o/ tripfag for like 5+ years before moving onto here.

[Anonymous No.15984860]

>>15984849
yeah I wasn't aware I only started coming here in 11 when everyone was already clowning you for being a fat unfashionable loser with an ugly gf

[Anonymous No.15986728]

>>15978393
Wanna know a secret? When you are in peak physical condition, like I am, when you have a swimmer's body, an athletic build, you can wear absolutely anything you want. Clothes don't make me look good, I make the clothes look good. You don't even understand what I mean, do you? What a pity for you. Get on my level, I guess.

[Anonymous No.15987486]

>>15978393
i don't
i have no idea where my shirt or pants come from and it feels good

no logos
only /fa/

[Anonymous No.15987611]

I buy Lacoste specifically because of the logo.

[Anonymous No.15987761]

>>15978393
>he doesn't own a business or run a company
>he doesn't advertise his business

[Anonymous No.15987939]

>>15978393
I usually buy clothing because I like the logos (not if they are large tho)

[Anonymous No.15988240]

>>15979459
Why

[Anonymous No.15988280]

>>15978397
This is the kind of fag that buys Lidl sneakers because muh irony.

[Anonymous No.15988391]

>>15987611
literally the worst non sportswear logo

[Anonymous No.15989120]

>>15984836
lol wtf

[Anonymous No.15989136]

>>15981341
wtf

[Anonymous No.15989149]

>>15984828
this

[Anonymous No.15989160]

>>15986728
good for you
logos on clothes are tacky tho
no way around it

[Anonymous No.15989163]

>>15988391
>non sportswear
?

[Anonymous No.15989193]

>>15978393
>>he wears anything on his body where the brand or company logo is visible
>Why would you make yourself a walking advertisement?

the exception is a ww2 faction or the conferate flag. it trolls libtards which is always fun

[Anonymous No.15989207]

>>15981692
>who does so in an attempt to impress strangers that don't care about what I wear regardless!

but boomers do care about your clothes and a handshake. that is why low pay wage slave jobs want their goyim to wear dry clean clothes. it is make customers feel they are in a more classy establishment then they actually are.

[Anonymous No.15989687]

>not embracing burgerpunk
feels good to be ahead of the curve

[Anonymous No.15989709]

>>15978393
Imagine genuinely being this autistic

[Anonymous No.15989721]

>>15989687
>Viagra
Won't lie, based