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hmm...ive gone through some odd phases over the past few years...

i was an emo kid wearing girl jeans, band tee's and random emo-brand tee's and bandanas around my head. i had long jet black hair and worn studded belts..over the next couple years, i started getting into diesels and all sorts of "designer jeans". and one day, i dont know how it happened, but i got a pair of 501stf's then nudies...which later on led to superfuture...and it was all downhill from there...

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First I was a total high school kid, right into first year uni. Gap or cK jeans, shirts from athletic events (paying for t-shirts? fuck that), my one "nice" button up for going out.

Then I was a trad kid, I was working for a while so I had money, which went into Armani and Paul Smith and Banana Republic for the basics.

Then I started streetwear because it was more comfortable, except I went italian... Energie and Diesel and other chav shit.

Then I started getting into a cleaner aesthetic, and I found less and less items from the italian style that fit with it. I started going French, minimal, APC and Raf and Dior for inspiration.

Then I found this place.

and... my heart.

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example(s):

I do think the first 3 outfits are pretty dope, except for the patent leather square-toe duckbills.

As for the bape, the shag and facial hair helps to balance the hypebeast combo (usually associated with clean-faced high school morons). Also, the lack of matching shoes and tees also helps.

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^ the dior derby lace ups aren't as square toe'd as they appear to be in picture(s). i noticed it too when i scrolled through 'em, guess it's the angle.

... there's a reason why that's the only 'hypebeasty' picture i included. other pictures would probably dissuade your last comment. there were plenty red camo hoodies w/ matching red bapestas and other such collabo's in the past. unfortunately.

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i was a prep dork. what made it suck worse was that im an emcee...a black emcee even (imagine that) and my friends would drop kanye west jokes, even though i never saw him as a fashion inspiration. come to think of it, not sure i've ever had a role model for clothes in my life. i'll be honest though, these days a lot of you guys are my fucking heros when it comes to fits. im tall and slender (my girl says i have the perfect body for mens high fashion). now, thanks to you guys, im rocking quality, form-fitting, "smart" atire. thanks people.

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My style changes through the ages. Ive been everywhere, man.

Elementary- Matching sweatshirt and sweatpants with Jordache sneakers!

Middle School- any t-shirt with Nike, Adidas, Fila, Unionbay or the tazmanian devil on the front. Same with shoes!

Early High School- Loose generic light-colored jeans, plaid flannel (tied around my waist!!!), Sabbath, Zeppelin/ nu-metal tee shirts.

Mid High School- Lots of Puma, Tribalgear, Adidas with silver chain necklaces. The whole nu-metal athletic Jonathan Davis look.

Late High School- American Eagle and Abercrombie. Thats it.

Early College- Same thing.

Mid College- Urban Outfitters irony crap/Penguin, chick jeans later on (aaghhh!)

Late College- Lots of Penguin, Diesel, Sevens, PDC and Mavi bootcut jeans,

After College- Raw straight leg denim. And APC, Trovata, Nudie, AA, Dior Homme, etc. I saw the light. And it was good.

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. need to step up my more formal game though. can't wear v-neck white tees to nice dinners, etc.

Im thinking the same thing too. Now that my SuFu inspired buying habits have led to my street clothes lasting longer due to quality, I dont need to buy clothes so often. So Im trying to step up the formal game too. I even find myself reading styleforum sometimes.

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the hypebeast combo (usually associated with clean-faced high school morons). .

honestly, i dont think baggy jeans look bad on everyone, same as tight jeans REALLY sont work for most. but i agree totally...that look of a 14-19 year old kid, usually white or asian, with either no facial hair or a BTS(bad teen 'stache) combined with size 38 jeans, a bedsheet for a hoodie SBs, backpack, and fucking ipod earbuds coming out in

furiates me...whereas some of the same peices on rappers doesnt bother me one b

it. maybe im racialist?

no offense, but when north american asian kids do it its the worse cause i feel like a b-boy circle might break out any minute....

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I've always been into style, but my interest in "fashion" was really spurred 3 or 4 years ago when I moved back from one hell of a year in Portland Oregon (fuck that place...) into my boy's house in williamsburg on n havemeyer. It was any old place, but unbeknownst to me came with a year subscription to Vogue magazine courtesy of his Girl, who just forgot to change adresses or what have you.

Once a skater always a skater, once a writer always a writer. That was what it was back then. I was in the mix, out alot, rooftop parties, gallery openings, the open bar circut. Cocaine adled house parties. My choice of outfit reflected that. Ipath's or 1's (always filthy, never crisp...if you came with em crispy one of us would step on the toes...nothing was precious, ya know) with some "dirty denim" or carhart's. Thrifted vintage button up's. Rocked this one crazy paisley shirt that alot of my friends would try and clown. Surplus camo jacket (standard), Marmot Gore-tex, face backpacks. Manhattan portage. Friend's band or t-shirt company shirts, or white/black plain tee's. One leg up when I rode the track bike. Shaved head with jaw-lines, or a goatee. you can picture it. Shit was like a uniform in NY back then. Went riding freightrains around 17. Filthy tan Carhart double knees, Black and red Marmot. Collected a gang of mesh backs on that trip. Still have some.

But back to vogue. Started looking through all of them and collaging them, incorporating pieces into my blackbook. Became interested in the way that lines work in clothing as well as in Letters and words. Found that there was always good new typography and the like. Wifey's mom introduced me to the "overprice fashion mag" and that was that. The hunger began. Started with consignment shops. Slimmer D&G jeans (still love that one poair) ferre's w leather pockets (laughable, but i pulled em off) paired with Workwear tops. Fitted's with custom crew embroidery.

Now I spend more than I should on clothes, buy stupid magazines like the new famous aspect or Huge (full of shit i can't/or shouldn't afford) and look like a mix of Hipset/DocGnar/SxxE or sometimes more of a CMF/DDML/BILL steez.

Thanks Future...

and Red...fuck you for starting a thread that gives me a chance to get nostalgic. Cause I always write an essay.

That's all.

OMG!

you were that one guy...from williamsburg! the skaterish looking guy at that one cocaine addled houseparty that happened there! you were wearing the dirty nikes! you had paint under your nails! small world, guy!

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