It's officially cold now. This summer I have been mostly wearing t-shirt's green/grey/black/dark green/beige and jeans and trainers.
But now I'm thinking I need warm stuff. I don't have any good warm stuff left, or any semi smart stuff or anything good to wear so I'm planning to do some autumnal shopping soon.
I'm thinking about: Grey shirt, black shirt, Indigo wash jeans, black jeans, Black Coat - possibly some sort of mac. Wearing a shirt under a v neck jumper. wearing a t-shirt under a shirt.
Making my entire wardrobe out of the following colours GREY, BLACK.
Wearing t-shirts without any screen printed logos or designs, just plain t-shirts in grey and black.
GREY AND BLACK GREY AND BLACK.
maybe buying a cardigan.
Here's a picture
Looking at burton black label l stuff. Yeh Burton, deal with it.
Also I saw a guy in London the other day who looked exactly like me but fashionable. he was wearing glasses, I may get some glasses.
how about you?
[ 28.09.2007, 06:46: Message edited by: Tilde ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I've bought a set of waterproofs so I don't get soaked on my bike.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'll be doing the same as mask. Might buy a few hoodies and sweaters. Mostly though I'll be wearing the same shit I always do.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Do you work in film, not?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
Not really.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I'll just be pulling my black hoodies over my black tshirts.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'll be doing the same as mask. Might buy a few hoodies and sweaters. Mostly though I'll be wearing the same shit I always do.
I got a pair of Dickies ones off of eBay. £13. Not bad.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Mostly though I'll be wearing the same shit I always do.
Yeah that's my plan. Over the past ten years or so I've easily accumulated enough clothes to see me through the winter. None of them have reached the point of being unwearable, so to buy anymore would just be greedy. I'm not a vain prick, so I don't really spend much on clothes.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
I will continue to browse charity shops for good-quality shirts for work. I need a new pair of jeans. I quite fancy buying a new suit, at some point, which will be either a) chino-trouser based (ie cotton-based rather than wool), or b) really thick wool.
I hate suit trousers, see. They're always made of really thin woollen material that's just... well... shit. You look like an immediate cheeser in suit trousers.
I have to wear a suit for when I go out on sales visits, see. Maybe twice a week.
I am wearing a pair of nice heavy Calvin Klein brown cords (TK Maxx, 18 poun) that are brilliant and I would love a suit made out of brown Calvin Klein corduroy.
But in a way that didn't look completely stupid.
Any suit advice for me?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Yeah that's my plan. Over the past ten years or so I've easily accumulated enough clothes to see me through the winter. None of them have reached the point of being unwearable, so to buy anymore would just be greedy. I'm not a vain prick, so I don't really spend much on clothes.
I pretty much just wear jeans all year round. The jeans and t-shirt combination has been the mainstay of my wardrobe pretty much my whole life and I see no reason to change now. Jeans are robust enough to be warn outdoors in the winter, and a t-shirt can be covered with a jumper or a hoodie for extra warmth. Other than that, a good waterproof jacket with a hood, some decent gloves and a warm hat are enough to see that I survive the winter.
Although I have been comtemplating buying some thermal pants for when i cycle to work. I'm still remembering what it was like when I started cycling and one morning it was well below 0. I couldn't feel my thighs by the time I got in.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I just bought a cardigan coat in Tesco last night, apparently they are 'in'.
A bit like this:
I also have a new black coat. And some grey flannel-y trousers.
I'm living on the edge.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
That's a lovely cardigan coat. Posted by 69 Comeback Elvis (Member # 9) on :
My favourite pair of jeans are nine years old. My wife pointed that out the other day as I was dressing for dinner. Is that a bad thing? She wants me to wear new clothes. Something about making an effort blah blah. I can't decide on clothes. I am envious of Tilde and his colour palette.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
As per back to black, polar neck and jeans.
But what to do with hair ? I look like an ABBA reject and it's time for change... But I'm gettin' older and it's startin' to thin a little, what to do, what to do..?
[ 29.09.2007, 04:43: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
Don't shave it, D, all that crap about growing old gracefully and accepting thinning on top hair by going all Ross Kemp is rubbish. Comb overs are great.
I'm tempted to move away from my 'juvie Italian trying to dress like dad' look and heading for a 1950's cardigan and tie combo - but scared of looking like some substandard beat combo in the hit parade at present that sound like a cross between Milli Vanilli and Paul Weller.
Lumberjack shirts? Um? Bikini and roller skates? I'm crap at clothes.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I bought a new coat. I had got a hole in my wardrobe that needed to be filled - I didn't have a coat that could be comfortably worn in cool temperatures that was okay for work and not work. the Earhorn coat can get fucking hot on the tube. The thin camoflage mac is not work safe. So I bought this coat:
Hopefully I'll still be wearing it twenty years time.
[ 01.10.2007, 06:38: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I like the colour scheme.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
The dangly strings hanging down look like little stick legs
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
The arms look kind of flared out, you could hide pigeons up there and become a street magician.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
the sleeves are adjustable, but if they weren't, then they would flap around my wrists.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
it's got the liner.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
gets warm with that in. be careful. i took mine out. left it in nashville. coat now too big for me.
wearing a combat jacket instead. can't find pic. nice though. hooded. waterproof. not nasty new age camo. more jungle/forest.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
sorry I thought you meant liner print.
no, there's no furry liner. It's not a military surplus one.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
all my coats seem to be surplus....
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
they don't fit me, those surplus ones.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
take the liner out then.....
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
yeah, with or without. The shoulders don't work. Arms too long. Go any smaller though and I can't do the damn thing up, because I am a fat.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Fucking hell. Does anyone remember when kovacs chastised ralph and Roy for using the forum as a bib, and mentioning that their banter had forgotten to include any jokes? This is sort of like that only kind of more enervating and shit.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
you're enervating and shit.
[ 01.10.2007, 09:29: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Fucking hell. Does anyone remember when kovacs chastised ralph and Roy for using the forum as a bib, and mentioning that their banter had forgotten to include any jokes?
no.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Oh. Well, what he said was this:
quote:
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: What's bafflingly and tediously missing from your "schtick" is any fucking remnant of a joke. Could you please write some material or get some inspiration before wiping your arse on this forum again. It is not a bib for your dribble.
So you see, although it was originally directed at Roy and ralph, it applies equally as well to you and Benway, here and in the music forum. Reading that was what reminded me of kovacs's comment.
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
i can see why.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
yeah, you're best off reading all the other threads. The lively ones, full of exciting ten way chats. The ones where people really are pushing the boat out to get things started again.
[ 01.10.2007, 10:00: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
oh, i've seen that one. with the orange santa?
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jimmy Big Nuts: yeah, you're best off reading all the other threads. The lively ones, full of exciting ten way chats. The ones where people really are pushing the boat out to get things started again.
I suppose it depends whether you think that even the most banal posts are better than nothing, but I'm suprised to see you taking that position after you derided and then mocked discussion threads in the music forum. I'd assumed that was an attempt to encourage more and fresher content, but I didn't realise this... uh... crap was what you had in mind.
Anyway! Here's a thing. We're all doing our bit for the environment, right? Recycling, normal cycling, that kind of thing. Checking the country of origin on our fruit before we buy it anyway because even though it's October you still want a fruit smoothie. Does anyone apply any ethical standards to their clothes? I was looking at my pile of dirt cheap t-shirts that I used to buy whenever the tram was delayed outside Allders in Croydon and just kind of having the merest hint of a glimmer of a dawning realisation that quite a few people probably suffered quite badly just so that I could buy a purple t-shirt for £2.99. I mean, even if it was sewn in quite a nice far eastern sweat shop, I don't really like the idea of someone being exploited even a little bit to get me a cheap t-shirt I didn't want in a colour I don't like.
How do you even go about finding out what stuff isn't from a sweat shop? Presumably most stuff on the high street is? Otherwise how could Next offer a pair of trousers for a tenner? It all seems terribly grim. I know Benway used to work in fashion retail. Perhaps he can fill me in on whether or not each of us is directly contributing to the misery of a fellow human being every time we buy some clothes, and if so what can we do about it?
Posted by Cactus (Member # 866) on :
But... If you didn't buy that t-shirt for 2.99 and nobody else bought them, then the people in that sweatshop in China would be out of work and unable to feed their family. Is that what you want?
A new Primark opened up the road from us recently. Literally about 5 doors down from the old Primark which has now closed. Now, although this new one is about twice the size, as far as I can tell it is still just a Primark so shouldn't hold all that much interest.
However, I was walking past on Saturday at about 4pm and this was 3 days after the shop had opened, and people were having to queue up in a one in one out basis to just get into the shop and the queue outside the shop was about 50 people long. Seriously, why would someone spend their Saturday queueing outside a shop that will sell exactly the same t-shirt for 2.99 that they could have bought the week before five doors up without queueing. Idiots.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Special opening offer on the 2.99 shirt for 1.99 ?
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cactus: But... If you didn't buy that t-shirt for 2.99 and nobody else bought them, then the people in that sweatshop in China would be out of work and unable to feed their family. Is that what you want?
Jeez. I feel bad enough that my lifestyle is facilitated by the oppression of a good chunk of the population, without demanding that they thank me for it.
I suppose what I want would be for the same people to still be able to work, but to have safe conditions, reasonable pay, fair hours, that kind of thing. Obviously I accept that this means the price of a t-shirt may go up to £10 or even £12 but I think maybe that would be OK, if you knew that - you know - it wasn't built of misery and blood.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
You could always buy one of those aids/cancer/whatever t-shirts from GAP. It's all about Guilt Offsetting.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Couldn't you just find out which clothing manufacturers have an ethical employment policy and make sure you only ever buy t-shirts made by them?
Posted by doc d (Member # 781) on :
ie american apparel.
plus you'd have the added advantage of supporting lovingly created almost underage not quite porn adverts.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
There's Fairtrade clothing, isn't there?
Posted by Cactus (Member # 866) on :
A simple google search has turned up this shop where all the clothes are manufactured in the UK, so probably not in really bad sweat shops and there are some beautiful clothes available from there.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Why does ethically produced stuff always have to look/ taste/ perform like shit?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Ethical clothes - Made for hippies, by hippies
Let's face it, exploitation makes the world taste/look/perform better. You can only make progress by stepping on people who are smaller/weaker/less advantaged than you. I say enjoy it. At least it's not you, right?
Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Why does ethically produced stuff always have to look/ taste/ perform like shit?
Check out this rant about Fair Trade coffee. Apparently it is much worse for the people growing it than before fair trade came along. Genius
Posted by wonderstarr (Member # 1158) on :
jesus, I used to be like some really, really bitchy version of Haus from Barbelith. that is good writing, but its intention is pretty dubious. When I read stuff like that, I barely know whether to be amused, proud or ashamed. or to count myself lucky I got away with that shit.
Oh yes, autumn wardrobes. I am almost tempted to buy one of those V-neck cardigans, but it looks a bit Preston, doesn't it? I know who Preston is cause I saw him on TV long before I moved out of London.
To be absolutely honest, my next clothes-buying plan is just to pick up black combats and a black hoodie, cheaply (Gap... capsule wardrobe type thing) in the hope that on my "research day" I can just slouch and sneak around work without anyone noticing I'm in.
Most days I dress like something from Canary Wharf, so I feel constantly on display.
So, boring post but on-topic.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
What does that mean, " I dress like something from Canary Wharf"?
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
city boy with extra hair gel
[ 04.10.2007, 05:07: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
****
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I would reserve '**** ' for the combat shorts + flip flops madness that swept london over the summer.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'm glad I wasn't there for that
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Flip flops? In the city? Surely flip flops are designed solely for beach/ swimming pool use? You know, they slip on and off easily, so if yu want to nip up and get a beer you can do so easily, without burning your feet. In any other situation they're actually dysfunctional - difficult to walk in, ugly, pointless. Wearing them in the city is madness. You may as well wear a wetsuit to work.
[ 04.10.2007, 05:49: Message edited by: Nathan Bleak ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Can you imagine the noise that tens of thousands of people all walking down the same streets wearing flip flops would actually make. It would be deafening.
Maybe Benway actually means sandals. Because people who wear sandals who are under 40 are probably the very worst kind of *****. Especially if they're wearing light canvas cargo pants at the same time.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I know, it's horrendous. Idiots. It's not only any old flip flop either. It's these ones. Even the word 'flip flop' is enough to make me feel queasy.
[ 04.10.2007, 05:58: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
And the oomska which gets between the toes and under the soles after a rain shower on London streets is positively the vilest substance under the sun. Or cloud.
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
it's probably just my problem. People can wear what they like I suppose. I don't really mind it on chicks as long as they have exactly the right kind of feet. But men's feet. Especially coated with a days worth of london grime. Sickening.
[ 04.10.2007, 06:00: Message edited by: Jimmy Big Nuts ]
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I blame these ‘men’s lifestyle’ magazines. They encourage people to wear things like this. I think they do it on purpose; get a kick out of encouraging retards to wear things which make them look like idiots. Like those loosely tied scarves that I see people wearing now. What’s that all about, it’s like 15 degrees outside you twats. I wish I was an editor for one of those mags, I’d be constantly wanting to up the ante.
Plimpsoles – this season’s essential footwear Top hats – that retro look making a bold statement this summer Urban Cyclist Chic – nothing says ‘athletic’ like a splash of diesel and engine oil up the back of your t-shirt
Etc.
[ 04.10.2007, 06:13: Message edited by: Ringo ]
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I'm not hating on fashion in general, just the awful flip flops / combat shorts thing that happened.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I've just bought two cardigans, finding a cardigan in Holland is not easy, maybe they're not this seasons 'must have' in Holland, but we do have a River Island now, so I got a nice black marino wool mix cardie from there and a cheapo one almost the same but made of some man made nonsense from C&A..
Fine for work during the autumn are cardigans.
And they're a bit Val Doonican too.
[ 04.10.2007, 06:59: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Talking of ****, one of our mags has just come out. In the centre spread is a map, entitled 'current development projects'. The word 'current' goes across the gutter. The mag has been bound too tightly, and guess which letters have been swallowed up?
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
Genius. Do you have a picture?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
LOL awesome!
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Good old gutter press. That's awesome.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Is the irony of your post that you've been fired for this fiasco and will end up in the gutter, Herbs, cracktastic in rags that leave your naked 'current' on full view to passers by?
[ 04.10.2007, 08:12: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Oslo, the ethics of clothing is all the rage in the face-clawing, derivative world of insipid television formats at the moment - so all your questions will probably be answered soon on a number of different channels, over an instrumental version of Just Jack'z Starz on theirz Eyez.
[ 04.10.2007, 08:08: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
Grazia recently ran an article about how spending is so yesterday. Ethics and financial prudence - it's the early 90s again!
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Genius. Do you have a picture?
I could scan it in, but questions might be asked.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Can Herbs tag be changed to "Fired for having a cnut on my spine"?
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
It's more like 'in my gutter...'
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs:
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: Genius. Do you have a picture?
I could scan it in, but questions might be asked.
Spineless cnut.
Posted by Kellifer (Member # 187) on :
I have become a little obsessed with the 1930's- 40's look recently, having got out to the cinema for the first time in several years to see Atonement. I am planning on starving myself to near death this autumn in order to purchase one of these exquisite delights for Misc's Mum's 60th do.
I'm not deluding myself into thinking it would look as good on me as this, not that the charms are up to much...
...but a girl can dream.
quote:Originally posted by mart: I quite fancy buying a new suit, at some point, which will be either a) chino-trouser based (ie cotton-based rather than wool), or b) really thick wool. Any suit advice for me?
Seeing as you seem to enjoy the glamour of that era too Mart, maybe this would be your flavour of Twinings?
Or maybe that's just another of my little delusions.
I know that doesn't really fit to the general clothes wearing of the season. I don't want to be Mrs Haversham in one moth eaten evening dress all winter. I don't like ordinary clothes anywhere at the moment and need to slim down to be happier in anything which remotely appeals.
I feel clothes shopping is such a chore right now and won't get into all the apple pear nonsense. Maybe I need to fairly trade a seamstress for a wad of cash and just get stuff made.
PS: Martin Sweetheart, do you by chance have a fully functioning laptop now? I've been hankering for your lovely melodies. Posted by Pepper (Member # 353) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kellifer: I don't want to be Mrs Haversham in one moth eaten evening dress all winter.
Alas she remained a Miss.
I shall be buying some pretty new purple items, and adding them to my existing collection of faded and moth-eaten old crap.
Posted by Kellifer (Member # 187) on :
Of course, Duh! The whole reason for the dress looking like crap. There was me thinking I'd finally had my brain istalled correctly. Off to flash BIOS.
Posted by wonderstarr (Member # 1158) on :
I bought that outfit I was describing, at 10am today. It cost exactly £50. I was really tempted to just change into it, in the shop, and walk out in my new clothes, perhaps binning my old ones like Jack Reacher would.
Instead, I got changed at work and am now wearing a brand new £50 outfit.
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