Jump to content

best waywt pics


Recommended Posts

this is the best fit ever, hands down

I refuse to accept that anything involving a cricket sweater sold in H&M and worn by an American can be 'best' at anything.

Leave that shit to the people who actually play and watch the damn sport. Same goes for rugby jerseys... I have absolutely no time for that pastel coloured Yankee Ralph Lauren bullshit.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I refuse to accept that anything involving a cricket sweater sold in H&M and worn by an American can be 'best' at anything.

Leave that shit to the people who actually play and watch the damn sport. Same goes for rugby jerseys... I have absolutely no time for that pastel coloured Yankee Ralph Lauren bullshit.

So does that mean military shirts and jackets should only be worn by soldiers?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I refuse to accept that anything involving a cricket sweater sold in H&M and worn by an American can be 'best' at anything.

Leave that shit to the people who actually play and watch the damn sport. Same goes for rugby jerseys... I have absolutely no time for that pastel coloured Yankee Ralph Lauren bullshit.

But dude, you're clearly wearing American basketball shoes here:

DSC00168.JPG

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well, they don't exactly make trainers "built to specifically withstand the rigors of wandering around the shops" unless you fork out 5 times the price for a pair of Diors...

Anyhow, a cricket sweater is a somewhat more specialist item than a pair of kicks. Even here in the posh end of England people don't wear them off of the cricket pitch unless they're some kid doing it because that twat out of The Ordinary Boys wears one. A better (and in fact direct) equivalent would be me wandering around a Yankees pinstripe shirt, and I'd hope you'd call me out on it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

That's actually a cricket sweater though is it. It's a jumper made by H&M that's inspired by cricket sweaters.

You can tell it's not a proper one because it doesn't look like you'd get heatstroke wearing it on a sunny day (I've never understood why a ribbed woolly jumper was deemed to most appropriate attire to stand around in the sun all day).

A better (and in fact direct) equivalent would be me wandering around a Yankees pinstripe shirt, and I'd hope you'd call me out on it.

Or just a New Era basball cap. Which a high percentage of non-American sufu posters (who probably aren't baseball fans) wear everyday.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Funny thing is me and my best friend are both pretty big cricket and baseball fans... I swear we're some kind of freak of quantum or somesuch. Neither of us own New Eras though, just a bust-assed Red Sox and Yankees (lol cliche and all that) baseball cap apiece. The World Series is a great annual excuse near the start of the educational year to sit up until 5am (or 8am in the case of that White Sox/Astros final in 2005) drinking shitty American imported lager.

I went with the pinstripe shirt because it's less enshrined into fashion... some pieces, such as New Eras, polo shirts and basketball trainers took a trip from sportswear into the world of regular fashion a long time ago. After all, 'fashion' is at the end of the day a horrible cobbling together of pieces and styles usually designed for some other purpose - workwear, sportswear, motorcycling, traditional cultural clothing, formal attire - everything has it's purpose bastardised.

Which brings me onto something I like about SuFu... you get posters like Bobo and (ironically in this case) Bill who are very interested in purpose and consistency of style, and you get some posters who merrily throw all of that out the window without looking like a mess/fashion victim.

I'm not sure what I'm even rambling about at this point. Oh, cricket sweaters. Well, first of all cricket was less of an athletic sport... it's only in the last 20-30 years athleticism has really come into it greatly with extreme pace bowling and competitive fielding/running. Secondly, they're probably rather good for when it starts raining and you bugger off down the pub at 4pm.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I take your point (and it's a good one) but for every item that has morphed from exclusively sportswear to streetwear, then has been a transition point.

There must have been a point where someone wore a polo shirt and an onlooker was like, "why are they wearing their tennis uniform out shopping?"

Maybe this is the transition point for the cricket sweater (though I really hope not) so I don't see how you can justify discounting Bill's outfit from being a 'best fit' purely on the cricket jumper basis. That said I do agree with you that it's not one of the best I've seen here - no offence to Bill.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

sufu54xs5.jpg

Really not sure what this is doing with the rest of those awesome fucking choices. The tee is admittedly rather worthy, but the whole combination of the flat peak at a 45 degree angle, shoelace belt, pin on the jeans, turnup showing ankle/calf tattoo and Vans slips is basically the cliched uniform for those kids at gigs you just want to kick square up the ass.

Then again, all this atonal Schoenberg work is probably just making me grumpy.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



×
×
  • Create New...