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b_b  ·  3713 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I want to understand men's fashion. Where do I start?

The t-shirt and jeans is combo is the only way to dress where you'll never look back in disgust at how you used to dress. It's also the best way to dress to avoid being pre-judged by the clothes you wear. It's the universalist, egalitarian way to dress oneself.





_refugee_  ·  3713 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I believe the phenomenon that you are describing is called normcore

b_b  ·  3712 days ago  ·  link  ·  

After Googling, I think this is exactly the opposite of what I'm describing.

_refugee_  ·  3712 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Really? Indistinguishable jeans & t-shirts, unisex, casual, basically non-notable in almost every single way?

edit: the google images are not representative of what I consider normcore to be. It's like - what you buy at the Gap.

b_b  ·  3712 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Even so, once there's a word there's a definition. Once there's a definition, there's a framework. Once there's a framework, there are norms and rules. Totally misses the point.

Although I'm sure that that word was invented by some jag off who thought it'd be cool to get famous making up a nonsense word, and that most people who leave their house everyday wearing a t and jeans have never heard of a word for it. Shame on reporters for writing stories about such nonsense.

_refugee_  ·  3712 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Agreed that most people who "wear normcore" probably don't intend to be "wearing normcore."

It is a high-falutin' word to express a very deliberately non-high-falutin' concept.

OftenBen  ·  3713 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The type of t-shirt matters though, unless you just go solid colors only. EX, this outfit changes if it's nothing but black, band t-shirts spattered in hot topic gore.