Official 'What did you wear today?' Thread

[Dr. Jones]

Leaves balls airy on long hot desert hikes.

 

[addictionary]

But makes them tackle your feet?

I post therefore I am...

 

[b_line]

I have fallen into a pattern of wearing cheap t shirts and cheap shorts on the daily. I also rock chaco sandlas every day in the warmer months, that or teva flips. Lazy as hell about what I wear nowadays.

 

[Miggs]

I have fallen into a pattern of wearing cheap t shirts and cheap shorts on the daily. I also rock chaco sandlas every day in the warmer months, that or teva flips. Lazy as hell about what I wear nowadays.

I've been like this for 40 years and don't give a ****. When I'm in shape (it's starting to happen), it's sexy as hell. It reeks of male sexuality. **** oozes from me. I call it Nihilistic Chic.

 

[Deleted member 848]

The dangers of literature. After one book a Canadian kid is tell me what's happening in the city I live in.

/thread.

wait you live in New York? And San Francisco? Thought you said you lived in LA.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Yeah please do cite the textbook. Im always up for learning new things. As for sf being more acutely affected by gentrification due its confined space, i have two things to say. 1. Sf is not more conined as it is less densely populated. 2. Ny has more fortune 500 companies than any other city.

More people + more money = more gentrification

Most gentrification stats in terms of rates are from 2000-2007, that you'll find. Think of the tech-boom that has not yet slowed down since 2007. Here are two of the articles we looked at in class-- we did a lot of SanFran case-studies because one of our TAs did his thesis there

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01150.x/full

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12199/full

 

[Deleted member 848]

I'll start this post by revealing my sources. One of them ran the theatre department at Columbia in the late sixties. Another source is a recognized expert on modal jazz, who lived in New York in the 80s. The last source is a close friend and advisor from my former anthropology department, who is a native New Yorker.

Independently, all three of them speak of the importance of the conservative, property-owning revolt in Manhattan to the social unrest of the sixties. The landmark victory of that movement was the destruction of rent control, which allowed gentrification to spread like wildfire. Before this, an artist could share a room in Manhattan for ridiculously cheap. This opinion is widely shared, and it can even be found in the social science literature that is taught to undergraduates around teh world. --The New York City that most of us around here have grown up with, was largely already gentrified, and the gentrifiers were in the business of branding the city. We still get on a knee for that city in the same groveling way, even though it has transformed into a place where art is largely curated and shown, but not produced in anything like a similar fashion to the way it was when New York was cemented in our minds as the ur-city.

The Hip Hop movement of the late-70s and 80s was a transcontinental phenomenon, and New York was a main (not the sole) axis. A lot of the conditions for this movement were created by redevelopment projects (i.e. a later wave of gentrification and police control over poorer areas) which were destroying communities. Of course, that only meant people were just moving elsewhere within New York and having different social/cultural encounters. This is also the time when the IMF and World Bank were destroying an island a day in the Caribbean, and many of the refuges ended up moving to New York in that tumultuous time. In short, Queens and other poorer boroughs saw lots of external and internal migration. This wasn't a "New York" thing.... the only reason to say that is to point to a place on an arbitrarily defined political map.

Latino and Black communities in New York boroughs were absolutely well connected to Oakland and Los Angeles after WWII. In terms of arts and culture trends, while there continue to be differences and distinctions everywhere, those cities have been densely linked and informing one another in a tight loop. To absolutely exclude LA from the jazz, punk, skater culture, etc. is straight up and down laughable.

good thing I never said "LA should be excluded from all jazz punk skate and hip hop cultures" then.

 

[Deleted member 848]

last note:

Dalamon, the diary queen, absolutely remembers that I have professional experience in the Caribbean and Los Angeles. And he totally remembers that I live in Los Angeles. Given all of this, he still feels sufficiently pumped up to argue about these things because he read a book. I love how we reach these places where we "agree to disagree"... as though we were two equally well-informed people, doing an equal amount of arm waving.

He prolly looks at way more fashion mags than me, doe. And "fashion" is the only index one needs to make claims about "arts and culture".... because fashion = arts&culture.


LMAO

steeped in irony, seeing as you've never mentioned living in either NYC or San Fran, yet you feel completely compelled to discuss both in relation to LA. Cool braugh. Also have never really read a fashion magazine in my life (and obvs have never subscribed to any).

 

[Deleted member 848]

Sorry to pick on you Daldeezy. I still think you are the sheezy. If i am ever in Alberta we should kick it. Are you in Calgary?

Currently across the world typing on dis laptop in Nagoya.

 

[Deleted member 848]

What are yalls thoughts on wholecut dress shoes? I think theyre cool, but people seem to think they are only for extremely formal outfits. Id rock em business cazh.

I have always found them thoroughly heinous, if i'm being honest. Obvs just my opinion. In terms of "should I rock them _____" I'd say do whatever the hell you want. Going against conventions is always fun.

 

[NAOS]

wait you live in New York? And San Francisco? Thought you said you lived in LA.

blast from the past.... pretty sure we were talking about LA and how overrated the fashion scene was... and what was going on here.... but I don't really care. People look like **** everywhere. And there is some awful fashion in LA, where everybody looks like they're wearing the same uniform. You mentioned the 5-panel hat, I think... yeah, that hit LA. There's also cool stuff, where people really don't give a **** and cultivate some unique looks.

 

[NAOS]

wow, I see this keeps going.

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[Deleted member 848]

blast from the past.... pretty sure we were talking about LA and how overrated the fashion scene was... and what was going on here.... but I don't really care. People look like **** everywhere. And there is some awful fashion in LA, where everybody looks like they're wearing the same uniform. You mentioned the 5-panel hat, I think... yeah, that hit LA. There's also cool stuff, where people really don't give a **** and cultivate some unique looks.

naw the conversation then went on to gentrification. If you look early on I repeatedly mentioned and asked you what LA was like, as you would know better than I. Let me bump:

Just calling it as I saw it. Don't need to get so defensive. You can't tell me you don't see millions of 5-panel hats, New Balances, Supreme backpacks, button-downs with pineapples, etc. Obviously I'm generalizing, which is why it'd be cool to hear you describe some of the different scenes of LA for us who don't live there.

I think I spent one day, of fourteen, in Melrose. One of my friends has lived there for years, so he showed me around a ton of places-- so it's unfair to characterize my opinion as that of a person who 'trolls through Melrose'.

But sure, of course there is only so much I can see without living there. I respect your opinion, and I find your 'body' identity an interesting one (albeit one that doesn't resonate with, or interest me)..

 

[Deleted member 848]

wow, I see this keeps going.

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fair nuff.

 

[Carbon13]

I splurged and picked up my two grail shoes. A pair of Viberg 2030's in brown cxl and shell Alden longwings in color #8. I get excited wearing these babies!

 

[Carbon13]

Also, here are some pics from some recent shows I've gone to here in H-town and Austin since we're also on the topic of cool places. You know I gotsta represent!

TV on the Radio - ACL


Cold War Kids - Houston Beer Fest


Twin Shadow - Houston Beer Fest


Here's a pic of my fair city.

 

[Carbon13]

Damn, those are some pretty bad pics lol. Whatevs, enjoy!

 

[fishonjazz]

I splurged and picked up my two grail shoes. A pair of Viberg 2030's in brown cxl and shell Alden longwings in color #8. I get excited wearing these babies!

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I dig the boots but hate the shoes.... Unless you are wearing them to church

 

[fishonjazz]

Damn, those are some pretty bad pics lol. Whatevs, enjoy!

What fair city do you live in?

 

[Carbon13]

I dig the boots but hate the shoes.... Unless you are wearing them to church

haha thanks and that's fair. It took some getting used to wearing bluchers casually but I do it a lot these days. I like their versatility with the exception of wearing them with a T-shirt. The aesthetic just doesn't work.

Here's some better pics from around the web of the Alden's to give you better idea of how they look.