fashion

What is the best? What do people here buy? Do you stay away from all synthetics?

Cotton is a great all around material, but has such heavy water usage, and a lot isn't made well. Linen/hemp seems better for that, and is durable, but it's such a specific look and with too much casual linen/hemp you look like a 00s stoner. Synthetics are literally plastic and every wash puts more micro plastics into the water. Is wool good? It works well for a lot of stuff, but is expensive and is an animal product. Vintage wool stuff can be pretty great. Lots of good deals on vintage wool coats which have held up great including brands you've never heard of and are long defunct.

What else is there?

Edit: also open to just durability recommendations. What lasts you the longest?

When Donald Trump first donned the MAGA cap in 2015, it was a simple “Golfer” hat, thus named because it’s just the kind of hat you would wear golfing in the 1980s. (FWIW, the first time he wore one, it was actually a white and blue colorway, not the red and white that would become its signature.) Trump is an ’80s guy through and through, and he’s a golfer—the kind of golfer who tells a raunchy joke on the first tee.

But, by the time you’re at the hot dog cart, he’s said three or four things about women that are so casually chilling, you’ll never forget you heard them—so the hat was a period-specific encapsulation of the man’s vibe. [...] So Trump in 2015, either accidentally or on purpose, chose a particularly outmoded hat to turn into his personal crown. All the same, it caught fire, and his supporters began wearing these terrible-looking caps everywhere.

But somewhere in there, something started happening. Very specifically, the New Era 9FORTY A-Frame hat began to rise. [...] What the A-frame does is take the basic shape and style of the MAGA golfer and give it a makeover. Instead of the schlumpy front panel, it’s got a structured buckram backing, but the signature pinch is still there, just sharp and beaklike now. It has snaps in the back, and a notably high crown. What’s more, the Trump campaign adopted this sleeker styling itself.

After the initial run, they abandoned the lowly golfer. The 2020 campaign hats were essentially New Era 9FORTY knock-offs, and the 2024 campaign hats are like a hallucination of them—they are hats at the same size and scale of a derisive political cartoon. The crowns are comically high, the pinches peaking into the sky. You’ll see this especially in images of Elon Musk in the Oval Office, wearing the kind of goth, ten-gallon ball cap Count Orlok might wear to a Yankee game.

[...]

This is all speculative, of course, but something happened recently that made me think that the cross-penetration between the MAGA movement and hat design in the U.S. is real. Since the start of the 2024 presidential campaign, New Era has debuted a few new A-frame designs. One, released last year, is the 59FIFTY A-frame, a revision of their classic fitted hat silhouette but with a pinched A-frame front panel.

There really isn’t any clearer a metaphor for the way that this movement has seeped into the cultural groundwater than a hundred-year-old company that is known only for making a product that symbolizes the Great American Pastime and that is beloved by wide swaths of the American public, changing its design after 70 years to make it just a little bit more Trumpy.

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the divider that we might imagine to have been built between pop-culture spaces and the MAGA movement has either crumbled or was never really there in the first place. It’s not just evangelical film studios and Taylor Sheridan TV shows. It’s been infrastructure week for the past decade, as elements of this massive movement have been building up strength in the places where we least expect them.

When a thing like this becomes visible, check to see how long it had been there before you noticed. Moreover, ask what that might mean about the idea that this ideology can be laughed out of the room, stigmatized until it slinks away in shame. A few weeks ago, I saw a picture of the president in the Situation Room, monitoring a War in Iran, wearing an A-frame MAGA hat so tall he could have been hiding a neo-conservative Ratatouille under there.

In a way, he was. I’ve seen Kristi Noem waltzing around the “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp in a tall white and gold A-frame varietal. As that man and his lieutenants violently wreak their vulgarity upon Los Angeles and Florida and Tehran, the world moves into a new era shaped by his vanity, his venality, his incuriosity, his horrible style. If the hat fits, wear it.

Cube Converse "Cubverse" Footwear, created by Armand Croisonnier, Matteo Cavarra, and Edgar Beyls.

Posted this in a different thread and couldn't remember if I posted it here or not, and well, bags are cool!

My current go-to bag has carry handles and backpack straps because I like having a hands-free option lol.

Found some more pics on this site: https://hackerscurator.com/pages/costumes/burn.html

Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump: The messages behind the fashion

29 July 2016

Fuckin' you people are a bad influence on me

Please I've been wanting to change my hair forever. Still can't decide on a look. I've been thinking of a pixie cut but they all look too girly or make me look like a Karen idfk heeelp

Sweater

Etymology

The Oxford English Dictionary gives "sweater" as appearing in 1882 and gives its definition as "A woolen vest or jersey worn in rowing or other athletic exercises, originally... to reduce one's weight; now commonly put on also before or after exercise to prevent taking cold. Hence a similar garment for general informal wear; a jumper or pullover".

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According to British dictionaries, "sweater" is used in British English in the same sense as in American English but "jumper" is commonly used instead (though some say that "sweater" is used for heavier ones worn for warmth). The Oxford English Dictionary states that in British usage, sweaters are always pulled over the head and jumpers are not necessarily, whereas most or all other British dictionaries disagree and say that sweaters are not necessarily pullovers or even say that jumpers are always pullovers, i.e. never open in front.

According to most British dictionaries, British usage agrees with what American dictionaries describe as American English usage, according to which a sweater is either a pullover or a cardigan (which opens at the front). Almost all British dictionaries include cardigans as a type of sweater but at least one includes cardigans as a type of jumper (i.e. most British dictionaries consider "sweater" – and at least one considers "jumper" – to be a hypernym for both pullovers and cardigans).

Colloquial and informal usage common in Britain is using the term “cardie” for a cardigan which usually refers to a button-front sweater.

I'm being told in my earpiece that fuzzycrumpet is not actually a word.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4385058

https://archive.ph/7uIzF

Looking for some kind of pixie cut that won't make me look like a soccer mom who wants to speak to your manager

There's a bunch of Yohji Yamamoto ties with classic manga characters on Grailed, but they're asking for $500 ea lmao. If I had the money to waste (and an in-office job) I would love to have a weaboomer ass tie.

Anyone else have things that they'd love/find super novel but can't justify the cost of?

The actual name is 1906L. Catchy, right?

Spectator shoe - Wikipedia

The spectator shoe, also known as co-respondent shoe, is a style of low-heeled, oxford, semi-brogue or full brogue constructed from two contrasting colours, typically having the toe and heel cap and sometimes the lace panels in a darker colour than the main body of the shoe. This style of shoe dates from the nineteenth century but reached the height of popularity during the 1920s and 1930s.

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In the 1920s and 1930s in England, this style was considered too flamboyant for a gentleman, and therefore was called a tasteless style. Because the style was popular among lounge lizards and cads, who were sometimes associated with divorce cases, a nickname for the style was co-respondent shoe, a pun on the colour arrangement on the shoe, and because "co-respondent" is the legal description of a third party caught in flagrante delicto with the guilty party in a case of adultery.

The photo is from this thread - Vintage Spectator Shoes | Page 29 | The Fedora Lounge.

from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dorISm5TAYg

ok! here is one of my outfits! this one is a green wrap dress from Disturbia with black snake, plant and bug print, worn over a black mesh turtleneck, black leggings (not seen but visible through the split when walking) and paired with ankle boots from Gothicana and accessorized with vintage silver jewelry

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4051055

This is to help a friend find things for gifts for vegans in their life and so on. Mentioned here https://hexbear.net/post/3987758

Shoes are a gigantic problem when it comes to no plastic vegan clothing, pretty much everything is made of plastic when it comes to shoes. Rubber soles can often be mixed with plastic, and same is true with the so called plant leathers, which are merely a marketing gimmick.

Upon diving deeply on leather replacements, I've found that almost all 'plant' leathers are only 35% of the plant it claims to be. It does in fact change the quality and feel of the material, however, its still mostly fucking plastic. All of these companies doing these various leathers claim to be innovators saving the environment, but they all use the same fundamental process to mix plants into their plastic leather, hence the same percentage.

This includes:

• Apple leather

• Mushroom leather

• Cork leather

• Cactus leather

• Pineapple leather

This all points to the idea that this is just bazinga stuff currently and a fad liberals use to make themselves feel better. The only options that immediately spring to mind that aren't plastic are certain kinds of canvas, cotton, and (non vegan) leather shoes which seem to be the least plastic if ordered custom with wooden soles. Most canvas and cotton shoes all look the same and aren't particularly feminine and many use plastic tainted rubber soles, laminates, and glue, so the search continues.

Desserto, the company who makes cactus leather, seems to sport a lofty claim that their more pure and new samples of cactus leather are now 90% cactus, and 10% PU. This is a much more sensible ratio, but I cannot find information on anyone that actually sells this magical material.

Next up on the search: MIRUM rubber leather seems to be promising. It sports a claim that it is 100% untainted-by-plastic natural rubber (unlike many shoe soles and tires). Rubber farming is of course an environmentally intensive process for many reasons, but it technically is a carbon sink, technically is biodegradable, and if done properly, it could be good. I will be digging into this next. If it looks good, then there will be a struggle about finding a place that sells it in a US womens in size 12+. Rubber obviously has a very intense history of imperialism and in the present so... I'm very doubtful of the ethics of this. But I will dig.