drgitlin

How many goretex jackets does anyone need when you can only walk to the shops and back?

On 5/27/2020 at 1:26 PM, erictheninja said:

i think dr gitlin was referring to the people i was referencing in my post, not me, but he might be referring to me and I could be misunderstanding. 

@appleseed 

yeah at the core of it, for me it's really an individual-centric thing. my actions are purely based on how i myself feel about the actions that i take (this is just how i live life). ie.  what you said about no one knows the things you're wearing are supreme. yeah, no one in my life cares or knows about anything i wear, but i will know, if that makes sense. and that's pretty much all that matters to me? i know that's a little maniacal. the me wanting to disassociate from it was not out of shame that someone might categorize me amongst those i expressed disdain for or anything like that. it's simply that i know the action would not be one of cognitive conssonance. when my principles are extremely individual-centric, almost to a flaw, and i see the fanbase of this being predominantly society-centric / internet centric, it feels completely out of alignment for me. it's more like a hippie-energy thing. it's important for me personally to be in harmony with the ethos of something that is a part of my life. I stay fairly disconnected from social media / all the platforms aside from the infrequent use to sell or buy something but even then those interfactions left an undigestible taste in my mouth. this by no means means i'm not going to keep my favorite pieces. it's just that i've tapered away from it being THE thing for me in relation to fashion art consumption is all.

 

Yep, you got it right. 

10 hours ago, erictheninja said:

personal anecdote as someone whose "ditching" their whole collection. 

my reason is simply because the majority of the fanbase has become mindless clout chasers vs true enthusiasts that care about art and design. 

back in the late 2000s supreme / visvim / acr were all in my wheel house, leaning more weightily on supreme.

Aside from of course the common idea that you age and your tastes change etc, I ditched supreme completely in 2013, the "fanbase" was becoming something i definitely didn't want to associate my self with.

Similar to acr i feel predominantly the audience is just clout-chasing hypebeasts at this point. It's sad because the music is great. but to make a music analogy to this.

I have been a hardcore fan of John Mayer since the early 2000s, now imagine if all of a sudden the majority of mayer fans at a concert only know him based on his recent Instagram persona. You attend a John Mayer concert and 4/5 people around you aren't even listening to the music. they are drunk af. talking loudly taking selfies with the flash on obnoxiously. posting to their stories every 45 secs. that's what acr has felt like for the last couple years to me. 

I have just gone deeper and deeper into visvim over the years as I feel like it has never been subject to anything remotely similar. some of the shoes (fbts) were subject to some of this vain attention for sure, but the facts are that fuccbois aren't going to drop 2.5k on a jacket that they can buy some copy cat version of at a zara. the fanbase feels majority enthusiasts of art.

I think i saw some dude post on the fb group the other month like "So please tell me alll the ACR grails" , then the next day made a WTB post of everyone's responses "WTB 47a 43a j28-k all colors" that type of shit. like tf kinda mentality is that. consumption isn't even for yourself if that's how your brain works. you are dictated by whatever status you can potentially gain, not your soul. trash. 

And when you think about people who listen to music in that very way. well they are the one's hopped up on whatever substance they can find, busy telling everyone on the internet what concert they're at, being obnoxious af ruining everyone else's time. 

Imagine putting so much stock in what other people on the internet think about the clothes you wear. 

2 hours ago, SuE said:

Hold up. I’ve always respected that Rick quote but don’t conflate fashion and function. No amount of working out is going to make your body waterproof 

Skin is already waterproof. 

Wow, you can use google. How amazingly clever of you! 

Quick to throw around the pedo insult; that you, Phony Stark? 

21 minutes ago, SlackJackflack said:

Fully open for some recommendations, I have plenty of other clothing which does fit better including plenty of made to order pieces which is quite euphoric. Finding the balance of highest quality production and fit though is hard. Wearing acronym I sacrifice a perfect fit for construction and design while with other brands I would find better fit but lacking in those other departments. I'm fully open to criticisms and always wanting to improve so my apologies if I came off in a different way. I don't want to just shit up these threads arguing as I do genuinely enjoy fashion as a hobby.

Maharishi or Visvim? 

Right, this is "we've got nothing else to do in the shop all day because we can't have people visit in-person, so lets clean out the stockroom and see if we can make some money off some of this old shit that's been lying around for a decade." 

I imagine the not-acronym stuff has all gone on eBay or grailed in the hope of shifting it.

31 minutes ago, upheavel said:

The only thing people will be "winning" are J39S. All the good stuff is already being backdoored.

This is all old stock they can't return and couldn't sell to people who worked there over the past few years. If they'd been able to back door it before now, don't you think they would have? 

12 hours ago, Orientalq said:

Here's the quote: "But to others, there are a LOT of people who cross shop between ACR and Outlier, enfin leve, SISP, Riot Division, and many other ACR derivatives (including replicas). "

I did NOT say that all of those brands were as good as the original. Cross-shopping does not equate to a conclusion of equality. For instance, I can cross shop a Mercedes S-Class and a Genesis G70, because I can use the extra money saved over from buying the Genesis to other avenues that are more productive for me. The same goes for ACR. People who cross shop ACR and enfin leve can save hundreds of dollars which could be used for other parts of their fit.

I don't work for enfin leve.

you’d cross-shop a G90 and S-Class, not a G70. 

A couple of years ago someone paid $1.8 million for a 993 GT2. 

Acronym for instagram? Nah, I wear acronym because Robin Williams.

8 hours ago, Rough Sleeper said:

. Yeah, P10-DS are amazing, but they were designed by Schneider, not Errolson. 

And you know this how? 

stupid richtext editor

17 hours ago, mariahscarry said:

I'm an interior designer at Lamborghini..

Oh yeah? Where is Centro Stile based? 

FS:

• GT-J5A, size M, 7/10, no bag or spec sheet $1000
• J44-GT, size M, 8/10, bag, spec sheet etc, $950
• J39-S, size S, 8/10, bag, spec sheet etc $1000
• DS-J5, size L but taken in slightly (23" pit to pit), bag and spec sheet, 6/10 (some pilling). $800?

Hopefully it doesn't fade (or wear) like epic cotton. 

On 7/12/2019 at 2:29 PM, mariahscarry said:

DS-J5 from FW1213, personal grail of mine

What size are you looking for? I have one in L that I had altered slightly but these days I never wear it because I have a few Veilance blazers that fit properly (and if I need to be that formal then Veilance usually works better than ACR in those situations). 

On 5/9/2019 at 8:05 AM, TEKsevenZERO said:

I cannot find anyone to glaze my Mykita Tequila, even got them sent to japan and they could not do it - really annoyed given that I have a pair of £500 glasses of no use to me now as they are sunglasses only and I need to see to drive and read!

That'll teach me to take a punt.

-feel I should have put this in a different thread really- sorry

It’s why I will only buy glasses from opticians. Also the fact that I can use an HSA to pay for them, but it’s no good having frames if I can’t have lenses that let me actually see. 

Hope you find a solution. Have you tried reaching out to Mykita in Berlin?

On 5/6/2019 at 12:17 PM, brainerd666 said:

That’s what I’m gonna find out when mine show up. If not I’ll most likely either pass them along at cost or send back. I’ve been putting off getting a pair of frames for awhile and was right on the edge of ordering some mykitas when these popped up. The cost is similar as well as the materials. Not sure about build quality but I’d be highly surprised if the ACR specs aren’t in the same league. 

I’ve been happy with the Mykitas I bought last summer, both regular glasses and prescription sunglasses. 

I continue to suck at taking pics 

Mykita/Acr/veilance/veilance/veilance/Adidas

Acronym is about to get a lot more expensive if you live in the US and this shit comes to pass: https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investigations/Preliminary_Product_List.pdf