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I have a theory that fashion ends for most heterosexual males sometime between their 18th and 25th birthday, and any further developments in fashion after then will be completely impossible for him to assimilate.

This is why I cannot abide Uggs, mukluks, or the more extreme variants of the pineapplehead look.

To me, the most classic footwear possible are 14-eyelet Doc Martens, or the classic Chuck Taylor All-Stars. Some baggy BDU pants will always be more stylish and comfortable to me than any designer label crap (note; I'm so hopelessly out of fashion, I can't even figure out what men's pants are fashionable so I can make fun of them.) I don't believe in spending over $30 on a shirt, no matter who designed it, or what it's made of. (Unless it's a Ben Sherman. After all, Meat Beat Manifesto said "that's a a nice shirt".)

This will probably never change. I will always be a somewhat unkempt white guy in an industrial t-shirt, although girls tell me I clean up nice. I guess I'm the rivethead equivalent of this guy, stuck inside the glory years of his youth.

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kingmob23
2004-11-22 07:51 pm (UTC)

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"Well, on second thought, let's not go to the industrial club -- tis a silly place."

The problem is: the cyber-punk fashion got waaaaay ahead of cyber-punk technology, so it just looks stupid. The style that they're copying was created in a genre of literature in order for its characters to be able to incorporate the new tech into their fashion sense and/or mark them as specific tribes or sub-groups, so without these actual sociological changes taking effect, putting on the prosthetics is just asinine.

(Tribes and Subgroups in this sense being hackers, designers, assaisins, coders....not "Hot Topic Clerk" or "DJ Hanger-On" or "Trendy-Bastard-Who-Has-To-Lay-Around-At-Home-And-Have-My-Daddy-Support-Me-Because-I've-Got-Too-Much-Metal-And-Plastic-Shit-In-My-Face-To-Get-A-Real-Job-And-Hot-Topic-Isn't-Accepting-Anymore-Applications.")

Oh, and I thought regular tan Uggs were hideous, but those pink and blue ones....shudder.

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le_futurisme
2004-11-23 07:50 am (UTC)

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HAHAHAZ

that is every stubborn, jobless cybergoth I know. even the cute girls get on my nerves sometimes.

and chris, just TRY going to school here. Have you ever seen Louis Vutton-patt3erned chuck taylors?

trust me.

it's hell.

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doktor242
2004-11-23 08:04 am (UTC)

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there are cute cybergoth girls? where?

:p

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le_futurisme
2004-11-23 08:26 am (UTC)

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_twilight_
2004-11-22 08:46 pm (UTC)

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I don't get most modern fashion. I have *style*, but that's different than keeping up on what's hip and new. Luckily, some 1980's stuff is coming back into vogue so I can pretend that I'm trendy. ;>

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melissa611
2004-11-22 10:22 pm (UTC)

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hey look! It's Stephanie.. er.. Venus!

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djmaniak
2004-11-23 05:45 am (UTC)

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This post made me laugh, due to the fact that I start working at Industrial Inc. on Friday (Think of it as LI's version of 8th Street Lab), and I get to sell all the silly cyber stuff now.

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mistralmadriiax
2004-11-23 07:58 am (UTC)

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I <3 Mukluks! They make me feel like a polar bear. All snuggly and silly.

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maryjanedoe
2004-11-23 06:57 pm (UTC)

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There's nothing hotter on the face of the earth than a man in an expensive suit with a shiny, deep colored tie. Well... except, of course, a man in uniform (spare the Navy whites... ew).

Mmm... I think I just got wet.

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