jeans so newjeans so newjeans so new they stained her hands!
^^^ X-Ray Spex lyrics
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
i really enjoy the the understatement of how 'jeans so new' means 'expensive indigo-dyed raw denim so new.' but 'jeans'! subtle.
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Then there's this gem:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/fashion/breaking-up-with-a-clothing-brand.html?ref=fashion
Ms. Begien’s breakup was relatively easy, she said, but Audrey Brashich’s with J. Crew not so much. Ms. Brashich’s high school job was at the company’s first store, at the South Street Seaport. “I was in love with the clothes and became a devotee,” said Ms. Brashich, 41, a writer who now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. “I considered myself a J. Crew person.” But over the years, she said, she found the clothes became “too refined” for her lifestyle.
It was as devastating as a romantic breakup, she said, only half in jest. First, she felt anger. “I would go into the stores and tell the manager, ‘I’m your target customer; you’re losing me.’ ” Then she felt depressed. “I don’t have my brand anymore,” she said. “I don’t know where to shop. If I need new, hip khakis, I don’t know where to go.”
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
J. Crew shirts have shitty collars IMO
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
otm, j. crew shirting is awful all around imho
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
"Ms. Begien’s breakup was relatively easy, she said, but Audrey Brashich’s with J. Crew not so much."
in hades, long-dead nyt editors are like weeping and junk.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Breaking up with Marc Jacobs was “a metaphoric putting my foot down and creation of boundaries,” she said. “I’ve felt for a long time that fashion often is the only place in a woman’s life that she doesn’t have to compromise or where her voice is most heard.”
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
“I would go into the stores and tell the manager, ‘I’m your target customer; you’re losing me.’ ” FUCK OFF
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
"If I need new, hip khakis, I don’t know where to go.”
then you should kill yourself. its the only way out.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
forks and scott otm
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
oof.
i understand having a relationship with a beloved garment, having an conscious emotional connection to a ~brand~ is kinda heavy shit
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
“I’ve felt for a long time that fashion often is the only place in a woman’s life that she doesn’t have to compromise or where her voice is most heard.”
...
― s.clover, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
every woman reading this should go stencil it on a pillow and then take that pillow and smother to death the person who said it.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
I completely understand loving a brand (sez the dude whose high school wardrobe revolved around a coveted Generra sweater and many pairs of Levi's and hand-me-down Girbaud jeans) but I think that once the phrase "hip, new khakis" non-ironically comes out of your mouth, it is time for some serious self-examination
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
xp looooool scott
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
It's awesome that this article seems designed to inspire hate crimes against women and gays.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
It's called you got tired of a product and decided to try something else. It's not a "break-up." Why do these people suck so badly at life?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
don't make me get the pillow
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
You'll have to pry my Banana Republic longsleeves from my cold dead hands
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
The entire marketing and retail industries depend very, very much on this.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's pretty hard to get people to pay $200 for a shirt w/o emotions coming into play
― iatee, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
having just recently gotten over paying more than $300 for a suit and more than $100 for a pair of shoes, I imagine I will be ready to drop $200 on a shirt by the time I'm 85
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it's just a really nice shirt
― mh, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
does it come with seven other shirts, because if not GTFO
signed, dude who bought 3 shirts from Marshall's for $43 earlier this week
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
I have paid as much as $90 for a shirt.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
i finally fucking bit the bullet and bought a suit, two suits actually, and ended up buying a few 80 dollar shirts in the processthe weird secret is that suits are seriously comfortable. i assumed they'd be like corsets but it's more comfortable than my regular clothes.
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
My standard shirt gambit is to wait for the Brooks Brothers and Charles Tyrwhitt sales and then buy a bunch at what usually amounts to $30-50 each. But I work in an industry where boring is not only accepted, it's encouraged.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
I've purchased $70-$80 shirts when buying suits, which is why I only wear those shirts with said suits
having said that, I realize I'm wearing a $40 Penguin polo today I bought at an outlet for the "bargain" price of $40
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
isn't it a stereotype of americans that we're supposed to be constantly bragging about what a great deal we got on things?
― mh, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
I realized I prefer blowing money on a nice shirt than on music or books, especially when I can either one online for pennies.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
*buy either one
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
― mh, Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
quiddities of the middle class
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that is pretty much the hallmark of things, although some newly-moneyed people still go on about it or are bizarrely thrifty in other ways.
― mh, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Wait until there are downloadable shirts. Then Brooks Brothers can suck it.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
Like, there's a goddamned loom attached to your computer and you d/l your shirt and it weaves it for you right there.
prefer downloadable sodomy first tbh
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
depends on yr income, doesn't it?
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
somebody at nymag flagged this: that trudie styler article manages to shoehorn in some "bill clinton is a lech" stuff:
Afterward, at a dinner and live auction at the Pierre Hotel, Bill Clinton, Ms. Styler’s guest of honor, mingled with Aretha Franklin and Tom Hanks, then ogled Jennifer Hudson, prying his eyes away just long enough to explain what had induced him to come. “Sting and Trudie and I have been friends for a long time,” Mr. Clinton said, stealing a glance at his hostess, whose clingy white Pucci gown showed the outline of her underwear. Oh, and yes, “I believe in their cause.”
― goole, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Ms. Styler’s guest of honor, mingled with Aretha Franklin and Tom Hanks, then ogled Jennifer Hudson, prying his eyes away just long enough to explain what had induced him to come.
ahh the joys of tantric sex
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Clinton a lecher == not news.
― Aimless, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
dude is a horny devil.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
presidents are gross. obama may be the first non-gross president. no wonder so many people hate him.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
like, i can understand becoming a brand enthusiast because you know that their shirts fit your body type perfectly, or that their shirts are durable and won't come apart in the wash, or even that their styles projects a certain image that you like also to project. the article goes beyond that, though: like there is an emotional reliance on a certain brand to constitute or support your sense of self. huh? i don't really get that.
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
clingy white Pucci
this is such a gross string of words
― yologram (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
not bcuz of materialism or w/e but for some reason it's stomach churning
― yologram (J0rdan S.), Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:02 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
could be a riff-raff hook
― goole, Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
what had induced him to come in a clingy white Pucci?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
I think a lot of people don't follow trends or styles and finding a brand that they enjoy wearing kind of outsources the trust to that brand with the assumption that instead of knowing what looks good you just go in and buy three shirts from that brand
― mh, Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
i just am baffled by these ppl who apparently only shop one brand at a time, what is that
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 April 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link