/fa/ - Fashion

>>14306347
lol no I live here and it’s quite nice because I don’t need to constantly be surrounded by stores and consumerism to be happy. I can sit on a completely empty beach and read a book any time, whenever I’m up and making my eggs for breakfast I’m looking at the cows at my fence. There are great hiking trails, plenty of good coffee spots, and the city is close enough that I can see most of my favorite artists live whenever they come by. We have stores in the city that sell shit like undercover collabs and cdg but I’m happy to live quite outside it away from everybody

I think instead of constant shitposting this board could use some actual discussion

I constantly see people here asking for advice on how to dress to look like you’re a part of a certain culture or subculture, but the advice given and outfits worn so often miss the mark that you have to wonder if everyone here is giving advice and dressing only like what they THINK people from certain cultures and subcultures dress like. For example, I live on a farm (pic related) so I dress pretty blue collar and am constantly around people that dress the same. When people here want to dress “blue collar”, “rugged”, or “like a cowboy” they don’t dress like anybody here. Literally nobody here or anywhere in blue collar America for that matter dresses how people here seem to think they do. Nobody wears cowboy boots around while working (and very few if any wear them at all). I dress in a sort of “blue collar” way but the way I dress is also very different from folks here as I actually care about clothes whereas nobody else in this environment does. The way I dress is simply a reflection of where I live and what I grew up in, just a modem fashionable take on it instead of Walmart steel toed boots, boot cut wranglers and a tee from the local gator hunting guide (which is how farmers and cowboys actually dress).

The same can be said about a lot of aesthetics here. SLP when you’re not only a rock star but can’t play a guitar, “drain” when you aren’t actually mainlining heroin, “prep/trad/ivy” when you come from a middle class background and likely went to a middling university or community college, “sexcore” when you’re a virgin. I could go on. People asking “how do I dress ___core?” Is a daily occurrence here, people asking how to essentially buy a lifestyle. It seems so plastic, so inorganic, do you not feel like you’re wearing a costume when you live in a big city and are wearing cowboy boots with a pearl buttoned shirt?

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