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Those have all become dad trends by now. Man, it's as if you don't even go to styleforum.com!
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Those have all become dad trends by now. Man, it's as if you don't even go to styleforum.com!
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It is precisely this type of comment that is getting people (well, ME) riled...
Having said that, Sloan unintentionally started this all off by saying along the lines "I cannot think for the life of me why anyone would wear tapered jeans"! That in turn resulted in "I can't understand anyone wearing straight leg jeans...", they look like bell bottoms, etc.
It went downhill from there.
Just saying, being a dad and all...
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Related, I found Superdry sunglasses yesterday and have been wearing them non stop and my life has visibly started improving.
lol I forgot to put quotation marks on that. I don't even think "dad trend" is a thing and if it truly exists, I've no clue what is it. What I was trying to say is that there's no point of taking offense because of someone's opinion on clothes.
It is precisely this type of comment that is getting people (well, ME) riled...
Having said that, Sloan unintentionally started this all off by saying along the lines "I cannot think for the life of me why anyone would wear tapered jeans"! That in turn resulted in "I can't understand anyone wearing straight leg jeans...", they look like bell bottoms, etc.
It went downhill from there.
Just saying, being a dad and all...
lol I forgot to put quotation marks on that. I don't even think "dad trend" is a thing and if it truly exists, I've no clue what is it. What I was trying to say is that there's no point of taking offense because of someone's opinion on clothes.
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I drink tons of PBR, although I admit I slowed down on it as my 40 year old habit was hijacked by the bearded ones...
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Dude ^ I just watched that last weekend with my son and his GF. Classic Lynch!
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When I was just a kid, I had a huge crush on this girl from my class... So anyway, one day my dad got me these really cool looking Lee's. They were really nice, dark blue (or indigo), light on the inside with orange stitching... They were heavy jeans. Like those raw ones. Anyway, I really liked them but they were too long. So I rolled the cuffs and went to school, thinking I look so cool. And the moment I walked in, that girl approached me and said "Never, ever wear jeans with rolled cuffs. It's so old fashioned! Makes you look like my grandpa.". Her exact words. So I unrolled the cuffs and it took me... Until now to even begin to process the idea that rolled cuffs aren't so bad.
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As a "millenial", it's a high honor to be associated with "dads", or "grandpas". The further away I can be from my generation the better. I cannot stand the stuff. It is a plague. It is either bearded art students in the karaoke bar or speeding raised trucks with gigantic American flags blasting country music. I want out now.
It holds up! Some incredibly uncomfortable moments in that movie.
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If I can be totally honest here, I'm just enjoying the hell out of this thread with no real direction. The longer it stays around, the better
If I was born in 1978, I'm safe right? I'm not gonna have to tell my Dad I'm a millennial?
"Dad, I'm, I'm a... "
"What is it? We'll love you whatever."
[Tells father]
"I'm sorry!"
"Get out of this house. Take that damn mason jar with you so that you can stay hyyyydraaaated."
"Dad, I'm, I'm a... "
"What is it? We'll love you whatever."
[Tells father]
"I'm sorry!"
"Get out of this house. Take that damn mason jar with you so that you can stay hyyyydraaaated."
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Mn, that's the thing I've noticed. I remember as a kid in the late 70s and into the 80s (until I was old enough to choose my own clothes and went more alternative) being dressed often (formal occasions, specifically) like a minime of Dad. These days I see guys out with their kids and he looks like he's dressed in adult-sized versions of their clothes. I gues it's the natural order.... be interesting to see if those kids grow up, adopt something of their own, then dress their kids in that.....
I can't fathom those sockette things at all. They seem, as far as I can tell, to be socks for people who don't want stinky shoes but also don't want anyone else to see they're wearing socks..... ?? I'm no longer comfortable in socks that don't at least reach the bottom of my calves.
Much as I loathe their stuff, it's such a clever brand..... a guy in the UK is behind it, it's all made in China and Vietnam (I think), and he convinced the world it's a cool Japanese Brand - SuperdryJPN (though the giveaway should be that the characters on the logo, at least the ones I've seen, are Mandarin, not Japanese).
Ha. I was the contrary bugger wh'd have lost all interest in her if she didn't 'get' it at that age. But then I was never afraid to go against the herd (if anything, I was produ of being contrary). I also didn't have a 'real' girlfriend until into my twenties.
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I hear your pain on the hipsters and the rednecks but there's far more to our generation than this. If you don't like your surroundings you can always change them - the world is basically what you make of it.
Seriously, we are the first generation who will do worse than our parents, but look at the hand we've been dealt. The middle class is evaporating, we don't get to have education free, high paying factory work guaranteed to us straight out of highschool. Hell many of us never really even had dads in the home as strong role models. We are a generation of men raised by women. We've had to carve our own way through a complex new globalized world but many of us have managed to do it without neck beards or skinny jeans or blasted country music.
Also I have a somewhat sharp way of talking, this can translate over to my writing a bit. I'm not and haven't been trying to offend anyone; just contributing my two cents.
P.S. Monitor you're my new favorite person.
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Aren't millennials born during the 90's or something? I doubt any of us here can be millennials. I mean, HD is probably the youngest person on this board. . .
Man, I so totally already lost count by the time I hit my twenties. Totally.
Man, I so totally already lost count by the time I hit my twenties. Totally.
Gibson's trilogy (Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History) had some good comments to make on fashion. I loved the 'mall ninja' idea.
As someone who has been teaching at various levels for the last 20 years, I don't envy anyone growing up now. It isn't about grit or resilience or character building- one of the biggest problems is that education systems deliberately over-reward and inflate and no-one is sure of what skills are required. There's a kind of stagnancy going on culturally that leads to a reinvention of regressive fashions, but little that's new. There was a book, 'Ghosts Of My Life' by Mark Fisher that has a great opening section on this.
As someone who has been teaching at various levels for the last 20 years, I don't envy anyone growing up now. It isn't about grit or resilience or character building- one of the biggest problems is that education systems deliberately over-reward and inflate and no-one is sure of what skills are required. There's a kind of stagnancy going on culturally that leads to a reinvention of regressive fashions, but little that's new. There was a book, 'Ghosts Of My Life' by Mark Fisher that has a great opening section on this.
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To become the devil's advocate:
I love straight and slim fit selvedge indigo's, my 101's look really nice with my engineers and william lennon's.
Having however grown up with the late 80's, early 90's thrash metal scene I have always loved AND worn skin tight stretch jeans.
Every now and then, when I go to such concerts I put on my old jeans. Though a bold guy with a beer belly, tight jeans and old Nike's looks ridiculous, I know.
The funny thing is that I had been wearing these jeans for more than a decade since my teens till my late 20's. The exact same kind of trendy fashion guys that wear these today used to laugh at me though. Strange huh?
I love straight and slim fit selvedge indigo's, my 101's look really nice with my engineers and william lennon's.
Having however grown up with the late 80's, early 90's thrash metal scene I have always loved AND worn skin tight stretch jeans.
Every now and then, when I go to such concerts I put on my old jeans. Though a bold guy with a beer belly, tight jeans and old Nike's looks ridiculous, I know.
The funny thing is that I had been wearing these jeans for more than a decade since my teens till my late 20's. The exact same kind of trendy fashion guys that wear these today used to laugh at me though. Strange huh?
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