are velvet jackets cool or do they come too close to GOTHBOY?

[DesertInTheShape]

you see the title. im thinking about gettinng one. a black one. but i dont want to be gothboy or douchebag boy. can they still be pulled off?

[sycamore no more]

ya if ur fucking ice skater.

[DesertInTheShape]

i think i decided against it as soon as i posted it. they just can't be as cool as i need them to be. damn.

[mr fluffernutter]

i saw a guy wearing a purplish one... he was tall and probably gay... he pulled it off well though.

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i was reading the latest GQ, and in the interview with Keith Richards it was noted that he wore a "Green leather jacket, green velvet vest, and green t-shirt" when he showed up. If you can pull something like this off, kudos.

[Pandemonium]

velvet jackets are fucking cool man!

wear it with velvet jeans and velvet shoes, you'll look #1 at your local prom!

[keagan]

no fucking wrong they are. I saw a guy wearing a wine coloured one a few weeks ago.

and guess what? Heh, I took a baseball bat the fuckers kneecaps. Then I ate him....

Your decision, gothboi.

[DesertInTheShape]

isnt a crown royal bag velvet?

[mojinho]

i have this velvet blazer i got a few years ago from Zara and every time i wear it i get compliments. but i don't think it's something you can wear a lot. and maybe the other poeple who don't give me compliments are thinking, "douchebag."

it looks like this (please excuse my Seven jeans in the picture, this was years ago pre-pre-pre-pre-denimz)

i even wore it to Christmas Eve that same year, when my friend decided to wear another velvet blazer

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i'm sorry but that velvet jacket looks cheap. doesn't look plush enough.

[mojinho]

well it's from Zara, dude

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i know. my point: get a velvet blazer from something more expensive or don't. You can get away with something like corduroy at Zara, but velvet is traditionally a symbol of luxury and extravagance, getting one at a high street store kinda defeats the purpose.

[mojinho]

well it's not that cheap-looking in person. like i said, i do get compliments, even though it might not be as nice as [insert name of well-known velvet blazer brand/cut/style here]

[LostInNJ/FoundInNY]

The one from Burberry Prorsum Fall 2008 looks hot...I'd vote yes, but it has to be done well.

[DesertInTheShape]

yeah, i like both of those blazers. so maybe it is possible.

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  LostInNJ/FoundInNY said:

The one from Burberry Prorsum Fall 2008 looks hot...I'd vote yes, but it has to be done well.

yeah this is the idea...but i still like the keith richards green on green on green thing. Somebody seriously needs to try that out, i wanna see what that would look like.

[mojinho]

whoa, do you mean this one? difficult to pull off. but not impossible. and probably an excellent coat. but can you wear a velvet coat in rain/snow/sleet?

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you can wear anything in any weather.

[mojinho]

i mean, is it going to ruin the jacket, will the jacket look like shit after it gets wet

EDIT: that jacket is in no way gothboy or douchebag on the right guy (in response to the subject of this thread)

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dunno...but either way why should it matter? Let the clothes age naturally...wear and tear are signs of character.

[mojinho]

i dunno something like velvet could look pretty crappy and not "cool" after getting shitty (unlike an old leather jacket, for example), don't you think? just wondering . . .

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lol mojinho you need to learn the ways of derelicte.

[mojinho]

ha ha i love that movie

[LostInNJ/FoundInNY]

No, no...I was talking about this blazer....I'm not sure how I would wear the other one posted, or if I even would.

[Pandemonium]

fuck, treat your velvet like your denim.

it's living fabric yo.

if you drown it, it will drown you.

[mojinho]

  LostInNJ/FoundInNY said:

No, no...I was talking about this blazer....I'm not sure how I would wear the other one posted, or if I even would.

that one is pretty sweet

[Guest]

I want to be draped in velvet!

[mojinho]

  HammerHill said:

I want to be ensconced in velvet!

fixed

george costanza ftw

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mojinho you're quite up on American culture for being a Brazilian.

[jetlenoir]

The only people I see walking around in velvet jackets are overstuffed beef and cheeseball toolbox combos who try to look like johnny thunders and go for "that" angle.

In my city of Baltimore, our resident bimbos who try to pull this kind of malarky off are a stupid clique of butt-heads who just started this laughable shit called "big as shit tuesdays." The sad part is that everyone eats it up. They walk around in their clueless concepts of "60's-ish 70's-ish" garb. It's very ill-conceived and reminds me of some kind of fantasy roleplaying club.

If velvet was ever cool, creeps like this killed it:

big as shit tuesdays!!!

I'm sure your city has this. I'm sure they wear velvet jackets sometimes. Please don't be this.

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