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>> No. 4521 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 3:01 pm
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I just went shopping for a new jacket and came back very disillusioned.

It's surprising just how similar high street clothes look, and what's more upsetting is how styles I've liked in the past get fed through the same process every season: slight detail alteration, manufacture a little more cheaply, sell on at standard retail prices.

And what's more, every person you see is wearing just those same styles. Even the patterns and fabrics are near enough identical, there's hardly any variance in weight or fit. It's dawned on me just how weird it is to have such ubiquitous methods of mass production for something I've always considered so personal, subject to taste. What I saw today was more like different flavours of the same product. It makes me feel foolish for looking, and a bit guilty for the things I've bought from big retailers in the past.

It also makes me feel like I can never really develop a taste that's outside of this scope. I don't want to be snobbish, it's not about availability or prices (high streets are actually very expensive), it's just taken me back how utterly saturated a place can become with just a handful of accepted styles. It makes me want to just shop second-hand forever.
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>> No. 4522 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 3:38 pm
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There's a solution for that mate.
>> No. 4523 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 3:42 pm
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Stop shopping on the high street then.
>> No. 4524 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 5:13 pm
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Fashion is immoral. The whole point of fashion is to render perfectly good clothes valueless, by designing them with built-in aesthetic obsolescence. At best it's a symptom of a throwaway culture, at worst it's narcissism writ large. There are only a handful of ways of making durable, comfortable clothes that flatter the figure; Those ways are encoded into the basic principles of good tailoring. Everything else is just a fad, today's equivalent of kipper ties and flares.

The antidote to fashion is style. Truly stylish garments have always looked stylish and always will do, because they represent the platonic ideal of that garment. A Chanel LBD or a Church brogue is an intrinsically elegant and pleasing thing, and is immune to the whims of fashion.

The answer is to just dress better. I buy a lot of mass-manufactured garments, but they're all completely reworked by my seamstress to fit - if I buy a high street shirt, I'll have the sleeves shortened, the cuffs taken in and the back darted. A garment on the rack is just a template, waiting to be fitted to my body. All natural fibres, all of excellent quality. Nothing in my wardrobe would look out of place fifty years ago and none of it will look out of place in fifty years hence.
>> No. 4525 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 5:49 pm
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>>4524
I'm just going to link to this rather than post it.
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>> No. 4526 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 6:06 pm
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>>4524
Whilst I don't disagree, you soind appalling.
>> No. 4527 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 6:36 pm
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>>4525

Wearing an ill-fitting nylon trilby on top of a disgusting t-shirt and dad-jeans combo does not constitute style.

Everyone looks good in a properly tailored outfit, that's the whole point of tailoring.
>> No. 4528 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 6:59 pm
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>>4527

He was being sarcastic, love.
>> No. 4529 Anonymous
19th September 2013
Thursday 9:21 pm
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>>4527

Prosecution rests.

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