Double 0 Soul

There is no better excuse.. the thread'll have to wait

My city used to be really vibrant with an eclectic mix of people, there were places in the city catering for the not so well off (Castle Market) and there were retailers catering for the very well healed (and everyone in between) ... all of which were very busy with folks spending what disposable income they had. Then we had a perfect storm.. an out of town shopping center opened in 1990 (Meadowhall) which offered free parking and a roof over one's head.. this coincided with massive unemployment as companies outsourced almost all industry to China.. 1000s of people were put out of work while the company owners / shareholders got rich by cutting labour costs, everything that used to say Made in Sheffield now says Made in China.. but hey! at least net zero is within reach The city had to re-invent itself as a university / service city, with the big bucks coming from International students, the dependents of those students are the only ones driving investment in the city, they're creating businesses but businesses which mainly service the population of wealthy Chinese students.. a tragic irony that the descendents of your typical unemployed working class Sheffielder are often the previously mentioned homeless peeps..

We have a neighbourhoods thread in need of a bump.. take a few photos, do a li'll write up.. I live in a bit of a S10/S11 bubble, the shops and bars around here are doing really well, folks have cash to spend, whereas our city center is some kind of boarded up dystopian nightmare.. littered with homeless peeps, beggers, crackheads, god-grifters and Deliveroo riders .. there was a fked up sex worker having a shit on the doorstep opposite my work this morning.. she wiped her arse on a towel and left it on the floor along with her knee length puffa jacket.. she'll regret that tonight, it's currently 1C and snowing heavily.

Nice looking premises too

You're forgiven You've been here long enough to know how we roll Jared.. it only takes one or two to start posting about something and we all bandwagon it.. the FWs thread for instance, lay semi-dormant for years till Duke came along, now we all love FWs .. if someone starts singing the praises of cowboy-crocs for example we'll all start wearing those and you'll be left reminiscing about the long lost loafer days

I rode up to the old Ski Village yesterday from Kelham Island It was built on the land which used to be Parkwood Springs where folks would live next door to the heavy industry where they worked .. you'd pop out your front door and into the foundry next door.. "see'ya toinght love" kids would play on the slag heaps, you'd be lucky to live to 40.. ..the land was flattened in a slum clearance and folks were relocated to places like Park Hill or Kelvin Flats, it's still toxic af and constantly monitored. When i was a school kid, i did a 24hr ski- (well snowboard) -athon at the Ski Village for Comic Relief.. i say 'did' we just got stoned and fked around for charity. It was the largest artificial ski resort in Europe at that time.. our freestyle Olympians trained here.. when the business hit hard times, it was torched.. by 2016 it had suffered a further 50+ arson attacks.. you'd often see the hillside in flames. In the early 2000s it was just wasteland.. i used to go to allnighters here, namely NY Sushi or Phonetics, watching the sun rise over the city while the ground shook with base was a sight to behold Last time i was here in 2015 it looked like this.. Then a traveling community moved in for a few years (unofficial trailer park) till the council evicted them.. the gates are missing now, i think they got weighed in for scrap... just massive boulders keeping vehicles out ..and now, it's been given back to nature.. a 2km urban MTB trail has been dug around the perimeter.. zero help from council funding, just goodwill of the peeps.. local boy Steve Pete shows us how it sould be ridden ..and us mere mortals ..looking down the last remaining bit of dry ski slope, keeping it on theme.. sleeve of a Full Count sweatshirt ..iphone 4 pano over the city ..

It is all very tongue in cheek but then.. it is the general nonsense thread I'm glad nobody gets annoyed .. I was going to say i'm glad we're all adult enough to not get annoyed but that's probably not the right choice of words. Have a good weekend everyone!

Glad you're well I'm back after a hiatus over the summer.. i'll probably disappear again when the sunshine comes back Are you still darn sarf?

How's it going stranger.. ? I knew i'd lure you back one day

Sorry for the late reply.. missed this Absolutely, but you've also got to appreciate that people can make a style look bad.. ie- a cheap suit can look amazing on a sexy M&S model and an expensive suit can look terrible on a silicone valley tech-bro, buying an expensive item, isn't enough to make it look good.. i'd see this all the time in the MF thread over on DB, folks would spend a kings ransom on an ill fitting CPO shirt.. then turn the cuffs back so they'd have these massive mermaid cuffs flapping in the wind like Paul Hollywood from The Great British Bake Off.. whereas other forum peeps with a bit more style made them look dope! JJs grandma (previous pg) looks like a middle aged Primark shopper (i'd guess at Susan or Deborah) Friday night, Dove & Rainbow, couple of pints of Carling and blackcurrant, bit of Whitesnake on the jukebox.. flirt with the kebab vendor.. i'm not sure this is the image he was trying to project when he was spending £1000s on his RO outfit.. Tragic really.. yet someone with a bit of style could make it look good... Same story with the oiversized RO boots and tucked jeans which you previously mentioned.

Ah fuck.. i finally get it, this is how you sell those horrible pumps, it's got nothing to do with the way they look and everything to do with the charm..

Stop trying to win me over, you!

Brilliant! I thought this discussion was sunk.. but you've managed to save it with a lifebuoy of a post Well done sir! 👏

I used to have a collection of vintage Air Jordans.. when i posted them here, maynard didn't like any of them! but i wasn't going to spend days trying to convince him otherwise or justify my reasons for liking them.. i just accepted it *deep inside tho, im still very angry about it

I think you've forgot to take the coat hanger out @youngofthesoonest .. but i get it It's a good looking outfit for someone working in the fashion industry, no good in my leaky workshop (lifestyle is the driving force behind everything i wear) what i get less is is the grey RO flannel which could work for me but it's $1335 and looks no different to a vintage Woolrich flannel i bought for £18, i think, if you're going to splurge, you might as well buy a statement piece if you can pull it off.. unlike the dude on the previous page.. his outfit just screams intervention order I also appreciate that SE is a retailer, your success depends on the sale of your goods, we wouldn't expect any SE staff to be entirely objective.. like the car salesperson who uses words like fun or quirky when what they really mean is unattractive.. it's lucky that you like RO clothing because you have to believe in it to sell it.. something i could never do... I'd get sacked from SE in no time

In other news.. The boy and I have just been down to Unit for some burgers 😋 ..first time i've had a Mexican cola ..man, i'm stuffed!

I hear a lot of folks giving me reasons why they think i should like RO.. but y'all just need to appreciate that we have our own personal tastes.. those tastes can be complicated, they evolve, i hate things for bizarre reasons, i love things for bizarre reasons, we all do I don't say you should like this music because they don't take themselves too seriously or you should like this food because it's somebody's vision or this film because it was indipendantly produced, there are some things we like, there are some things we don't, we're not all the same.. ..as i've said, some of the RO stuff looks great, some of it doesn't, some folks can make a good outfit look bad, some folks can make a bad outfit look good.. on a public forum, you need to allow people opinions and accept you may not share these opinions and 'reasons why' are not going to change peoples personal tastes.

I only shitpost about RO from my freezing cold workshop with water leaking through the roof and mould growing up the walls.. keeps it in perspective.

Couldn't agree more

Maybe, It looks like the double knees are causing the weird fold.. would i risk $800 on them looking great after a wash.. absolutely not.

Not really.. it's just a matter of some shit looking good and some shit looking bad, take this for example These jeans don't look great, the fabric doesn't drape properly which makes the guy look like he has some kind of weird penis balcony https://www.selfedge.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=3555&search=RICK+OWENS Whereas this fit looks great https://www.selfedge.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=3017&search=RICK+OWENS If you think the penis balcony jeans look good, that's fine, one man's meat is another man's poison or so they say.

Well you've completely missed both of my points.. i never even considered a 'pushback' against designer brands? My 1st point was the RO pumps are fkin awful (this is only my opinion and like arseholes...ect) they're worn badly by most who try, this has nothing to do with them being a designer brand, they're just not aesthetically pleasing. I posted some SC catalogues last week, a brand which is fully accepted in the denim community but imo 80% of what's in those catalogues is grim af.. just because it's SC doesn't mean i would wear it. My other point was that folks around here are buying these hideous pumps because they're sold at SE. Take our aging Bret 'the hitman' Hart character above for example.. he would never buy a similar Janet Jackson outfit from Primark, he thinks the fact that it's RO is validation but anyone with eyes can see he looks like a complete bell end. If your RO trousers look good, that's all that matters..

So i could start dressing like Janet Jackson's grandmother too?

..only because Brum folks don't have enough of their own teeth left to whiten

They're on Etsy.. ships from USA Ow! .. I had a nice Indigofera patch i could have sent you, i've just been rummaging through my boxes and i've found the matching bandana, i just can't find the patch.