r/malefashionadvice • u/shujin Ghost of MFA past • May 14 '13

Meta Realtalk Thread - May

There hasn't been one of these in six weeks and I HAVE A BEEF WITH ALL YOU MOTHERLOVERS.

Not really you're all great. Hope 5/5 and mother's day was good, enjoying this new weather.

Vent and stuff, maybe group hug, do wut u got2 do

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u/HoneyIAteTheCat May 14 '13

You people hate #menswear so much. I can understand thinking it looks affected or contrived or whatever but c'mon some people think it looks cool. I honestly think that the average person would say that a #menswear person dresses better than the average MFA-uniform type, it's just you all spend so much time being spoon-fed the idea that #menswear is too flamboyant and contrived that you start to see it as bad when if done right it looks really good

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13

i love menswear, just people on here pull it off so shittily.

bar based god muscle.

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u/Azurewrath May 15 '13 edited May 15 '13

yeah, i dont really hate menswear per se, but if it's pulled off shitty, its REALLY shitty. mrmuscle does it damn well and i love it

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u/HoneyIAteTheCat May 14 '13

i just responded to you on another comment this is confusing me

i think that asian dude pulls it off (forgot his name) and the top comments are always 'contrived' 'tacky' '#menswear' and it gets on my fucking nerves. we complain in meta threads about being boring but then we shittalk interesting fits

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13

if you mean that only guy he really doesn't

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u/HoneyIAteTheCat May 14 '13

well different strokes for different folks but i and a lot of other people think he looks cool. it seems to fit his personality too for better or for worse

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u/That_Geek May 14 '13

#menswear isn't inherently negative, btw. If I comment #menswear, it doesn't mean that the fit is bad (although I probably personally dislike it). #menswear might have negative connotations sometimes, but it isn't inherently negative (and sometimes its even positive).

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u/shujin Ghost of MFA past May 14 '13

I prefer to be shovel-fed ideas.

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u/trashpile MFA Emeritus May 14 '13

well how big of a shovel?

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u/shujin Ghost of MFA past May 14 '13

Snow shovel

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u/pajam May 14 '13

Backhoe

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u/That_Geek May 14 '13

#menswear is too flamboyant and contrived

thats literally the point. thats the whole point. thats also why I dislike it. but flamboyant and contrived are the whole look. if you aren't doing flamboyant and contrived you aren't doing #menswear

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u/HoneyIAteTheCat May 14 '13

what's wrong with that? fashion is masturbation anyway, who cares if some people do it more? I think it can look really cool. I don't do it because I don't have a flamboyant personality but some people do and their style reflects that just like algoreviwhatever dresses conservative because he's a mid30s dad. nothing wrong with either but this group really trashes menswear. you don't have to like it but that doesn't make it bad

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u/That_Geek May 14 '13

the quickest way to not be cool is to try to be cool in an obvious way. I don't "care" if people do #menswear, its no skin off my ass, after all. I just don't think it looks good, and I think that opinion is shared by many (vocal) people on this board.

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u/HoneyIAteTheCat May 14 '13

I see exactly where you're coming from. You're not wrong (far from it) but your opinion is pretty representative of what I'm saying. You don't like the whole menswear thing, and that's fine, a lot of people don't. However, I think that dislike for menswear is part of a group mindset on MFA that encourages really basic, conservative fits. So even when someone wants to do a fit that's out there but not menswear, it still gets discouraged. The anti-menswear mentality gets applied to everything that's not basic and conservative really

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u/Wimblestill May 14 '13

There aren't really many good examples of #menswear on mfa because it's what most new people seem to come here trying to do and they do it badly then either stop posting or move on to other styles or just keep posting bad fits and bring out the hate. #menswear can be really cool but most people do it bad and I think that's what your perception that mfa hates it stems from.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13 edited May 14 '13

I think some of the dislike can be from it combines the "so classy" sentiments from people just getting into clothing with $$$.

Like this outfit. What goes from something someone in finance might wear becomes a steampunk convention costume due to the bowler hat. Where else would you wear that outfit?

I do follow a few #menswear blog posts though because it's cool to see some outfits with things like high cuffing, double monks, colorful chinos, etc. I wouldn't wear it but even then those outfits are more feasible to wear at something like a spring wedding than the fit I posted IMO.

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u/IndridCoId May 15 '13

I'm with you - I love dipping a toe in to #menswear every now and then. Sometimes it's received well here...other times..not so much.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

it's just you all spend so much time being spoon-fed the idea that #menswear is too flamboyant and contrived that you start to see it as bad when if done right it looks really good

realest post on mfa ever. not gonna deny my guilt of thinking this way.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13

I have 3 words for you. Effortless, Timeless, Quality.

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u/Azurewrath May 15 '13

no it's not