Pertinhead

Very refreshing post !

shut up

why do guys fuck w/these? would you bother if cobain hadn't? i'm not even trying to give you shit, i'd honestly like to know what the appeal is

no matter who's emulating them, i don't think i'll ever see them as anything but one of those run-of-the-mill frames for teenage girls 

Everyone's quick to hate on this guy's question but it is a somewhat valid thing to ask, especially considering how easily items are over hyped these days with the culture bred on these forums + tumblr etc.

Many items attain a cult like status and are purchased just because they are deemed 'desirable' via consensus. The concept of a "grail item" or using euphemisms for clothes such as "pieces" has only lead to people like sundance buying shit that they think is popular and then wondering why it doesn't instantly make them look good when they wear it. Once you become so disconnected to your clothes that you have to refer to them as "pieces" or you need to refer to thread counts to justify your purchase then maybe you forgot the key reason people wear shit: to look good. This is understandably why jamokes is skeptical about this particular purchase. It brings up the question of why some items become desirable.

In this case obviously the connection to Kurt Cobain and  the legacy of Number (n)ine has made these sunglasses more attractive than, say, the exact same kind of glasses you' would find with the similar shape at any Hot Topic right now. Kurt Cobain's canonisation and image has made him especially popular with brands, (japanese especially) simply because he projects an image of american "cool", despite the fact that all his clothes probably came from thrift shops and he was a naturally good looking guy. These glasses by Number (n)ine aren't even that well made or glamorised to fully justify the price they are bought for. The question then is, is it worth the money? The answer is likely: it doesn't matter.

I guess what I'm saying here is I think everyone was quick for jumping on this guy for questioning a purchase of a popular/cult item bought by a popular poster, and that if those glasses were bought by, say, sundance, everyone would be rolling their eyes right now. 

For the record, I think jackg is one of the few people that can pull them off, and he is allowed to spend his money how he wants, regardless of intention. If he bought them cause he loves Kurt, then yeah, so what? At the end of the day all that matters is how they look when he wears them.

Here's what I believe they look like when the wrong person wears them:

*I actually don't mind this dude, I just think those glasses look horrible on him and he's clearly a taka fanboy regardless of how he looks

Anything to do with those godawful hentai00 tops. From the misplaced sense of "ironic" sloganeering to the riding out on shitty photoshops to help sell product. In an already cluttered world of tumblr consumption and masturbation this shit is another attempt to market to people that desperately cling to any allusion of being part of an online 'insider joke', so they can feel part of an essentially non existent community in a vile attempt to fill the void of their real life socially inept, inert and mundane being.

Also, his dog is ugly.

edit: to appease mapclub;

so much money spent-- so badly put together. And get a better haircut.

was watching porn at my friends house one day when my friends younger sister came in the room with her slutty friend and they took turn giving me the slop, then i busted it into her brothers pillow to which i can only imagine he slept in later that night. no one believes me tho. never saw her again.

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