Troper Fashion Thread (yeah)

Just got some black fishnet stockings.

Would like to get something that looks like a tweed cap in the near future, though hopefully somewhat practical.

Hatquarters(TM) is where it's at.

Lera: nice.

In news on my end, I'll be getting some new threads and style this weekend. My one female friend is going to be helping me out in that regard.

Don't buy a fedora. Fedoras are chastity belts for the head.

Try telling that to my high school friends. They all liked the one I wore.

edited 9th Dec '12 11:16:51 PM by Demetrios

So, I never knew about this thread til a while ago...

Anyways, it's awesome to have finally found some maxi dresses that aren't too long...

Most of the time, they're as long as I am tall... >_<

And one thing I will say is that I never get tired of stripes. I especially like chevron... :D

Maybe it's me, but stripes never seem to look that good on guys.

My cousin Robbie loves stripes just as much as I do, and he looks good in them...

Of course, I think he's much more of a fashionista than I am...

Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever seen a guy wear chevron-striped anything before...I usually just see it on dresses and skirts and shirts for women...

I guess they're dying out, then again I'm a fan of solid colors.

I love pinstripes, myself. I'm wearing a pinstripe shirt right now actually.

I've only ever seen Chevron stripes on knitted sweaters and jumpers for guys.

Oh yeah, pinstripe is pretty cool, too.

But I haven't worn it since the last time I wore my pinstripe fedora when I was a teen... And now I feel old...

And I think that maybe half of my wardrobe has stripes in some way or another...That, or it has black.

My style is insanely casual. Jeans, t-shirts, etc. I have a lot of t-shirts that require the addition of camisoles for some reason.

I love graphic t-shirts, especially Hello Kitty t-shirts.

Mine is half-casual and half-dressy, but it's mostly because I usually dress up on Sundays*

But I think that in the past couple of years, I've become more dressy-casual than dressy...

I've managed to sidestep the issue of fashion entirely, considering I wear pretty much the exact clothes every day. White button-up shirt, jeans, black jacket. Timeless.

Wearing Stripperific outfits in public is just asking for being arrest on charges of violating public decency laws, right? Then how on Earth did this model — name Joanna Kurpa — manage to go to a pre-Grammy Awards event in January of this year wearing this◊ and get away with it? (For the record, it was posted right here on the Daily Mail's public site.)

It's not just her, BTW; Paris Hilton apparently beat her to the punch with this dress of hers.

So... How?

Because the West has no decency. All the better for them.

But the West has public decency laws. You can't, for example, walk around in public with nothing but your underwear on. And when I asked around here, I found out that yes, just because bikinis are not indecent women's clothes on the beach doesn't mean that it's legal for a woman to walk around anywhere else in nothing but a bikini.

I've just noticed that most of my shirts are black. Not sure if it's because I'm fat or because I just like it.

I had a falling-out with fashion a while back. We've never made up.

I usually stick with a cargo trousers/T-shirt/sweatshirt combo. Sometimes they're big name brands, sometimes not. More often not.

I used to wear jeans a lot in the past, but hardly ever these days.

A visual guide to fit suits well.

Why aren't we taught these things at school or by our parents?

One of the things I've tried to do while I was in college was dress myself in Character Design tropes.

It doesn't work. Pieces of clothing that are commonplace in visual media are actually very hard to find in retail. Furthermore, it's very difficult to adjust presentation harmoniously so that it comes off as "this is shorthand for who I am" rather than "this is shorthand for who I aspire to appear to be". That is to say, presenting a truth rather than a pretense.

edited 31st Jan '15 6:37:55 AM by TheHandle

OH LORDY LORD THIS THREAD IS SLOW! Here, have the Onion discussing Baseball Caps worn outside of baseball matches.

These outfits◊ are described in this article as "jumpsuits". Is that actually correct? I thought jumpsuits had to extend from the neck down, with shoulders, sleeves and all that.

And another question: When they say "train" in the sense of clothing, what do they mean? And is this special built-in train for long hair that Analysis.Rapunzel Hair speaks of?

I think train is the really long back end of certain dresses that go past the wearer's feet and drag along the floor. On TV you usually see them on wedding dresses or royal garb that require one or two people to carry the end of.

If it's the same thing that article is talking about, then I'd guess the train for those dresses was to keep the girl's hair from getting dirty or caught up in something on the floor.

edited 7th Jul '15 7:39:20 PM by Parable