Topic: Let's have a fashion advice thread. (Read 965369 times)

Lines · « **Reply #2600 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:19 »

I wear chocolate brown and I think it's a good color to wear, just not all at once. Either or is best.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #2601 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:20 »

liz: Not bad, it seems sort of modern day 60s to me, though. Do you get what I mean by that? Kinda hippyish, probably because of the fabric and the coarseness of the trim pattern.

For some reason, when I think brown pants, I think corduroy in that dark brown color cheap plastic used to come in. I think brown pants could be good, but they could also be bad, I'd need to see them, or get a better description for a mental picture.

Liz · « **Reply #2602 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:23 »

Hmm, I think I might have to buy a dark brown cashmere turtleneck...

tragic_pizza · « **Reply #2603 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:24 »

I do khakis when I have to dress up. But the shirt has to be "not brown" for it to look good.

Cicero · « **Reply #2604 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:25 »

Brown is an awesome color.

tania · « **Reply #2605 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:27 »

brown shirts/pants are fine as long as they look good on you. which is maybe the dumbest and most obvious thing i've ever written. hold on, let me work on that.
brown does not look bad on everybody, there are some people who can pull it off and really well. i have a lot of brown/khaki clothing and i think i can work it alright. too much brown is a bad call; the best move if you can is to compliment (but not clash too severely so as to detract from the outfit) with accessories or items of clothing of a different contrasting colour. for example, you could pair a brown t-shirt with a red scarf to make the brown in the shirt seem less dull and more full and rich. brown also tends to works better on people with rosy/pink rather than olive complexions.

Cicero · « **Reply #2606 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:29 »

Brown and earthy tones are good for red/auburn heads.

Spluff · « **Reply #2607 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:32 »

A nice neutral brown is always handy to have around. It is a good color to layer with, as it rarely clashes.

I wouldn't wear brown pants, however.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #2608 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:36 »

They do have a bit of a reputation. Or was that brown shirts?

tania · « **Reply #2609 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:41 »

yeah i can do khaki at best for pants. i don't know if khakis are fashionable or not, but i know mine are hell of comfortable and make my butt look good and do not clash with about 95% of the shirts in my closet so they have some importance in my life, at least.

one thing i do not get is pairing dark brown with black. in small amounts, it probably works sometimes but a black shirt/jacket with brown pants or vice versa makes me cringe every time. you gotta have a different contrasting colour to make the brown seem richer and nicer to look at, otherwise it looks like shit - literally. even blue jeans are good enough. black makes brown look so bad i feel like it makes my eyes hurt a little bit just to look at it.

michaelicious · « **Reply #2610 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:45 »

I have a black sweater that I wear with dark brown cords, but there is also a brown pattern on the sweater. It looks pretty decent.

Dazed · « **Reply #2611 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:46 »

Quote from: Nodaisho on 04 Jan 2009, 20:36

They do have a bit of a reputation. Or was that brown shirts?

Oh ho! You, sir, are several posts too late for the obligatory nazi joke.

Anyway, I think brown is definitely more flattering on women, or maybe just looks better when made into typical women's clothing. That perception may just be because girls I know are more likely to wear colors that mesh well with browns.

tania · « **Reply #2612 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:48 »

i tried to google for a result to show what i meant but couldn't find one quick enough so for lack of anything else, here is a qc strip where i think dora's outfit would look awful on a real person.

plumbob78 · « **Reply #2613 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:49 »

The only brown item I have (besides a couple of weird T-shirts) is my leather jacket. It is a dark, chocolate brown, and I like it very much. I wouid like to get a brown corduroy sport coat at some point. But beyond that I can't see myself owning a lot of brown clothes. I don't think I would ever wear brown pants.

Slick · « **Reply #2614 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:51 »

Quote from: tania on 04 Jan 2009, 20:41

one thing i do not get is pairing dark brown with black.

So I have just yanked one of tommy's pictures from toronto for demonstrative purposes, but basically, I wear brown pants with a black shirt maybe a third of the time I am clothed.

Maybe these are not as dark brown as you are talking about though?

tragic_pizza · « **Reply #2615 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:54 »

I've done black shirt (long sleeve) with khakis.

But I am a fat tub of goo, so bad looking clothes make no diff.

Dazed · « **Reply #2616 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 20:58 »

I wear some very soft, light brown linen pants w/ black t-shirts occasionally. It probably doesn't look good at all, but they are some damn comfortable pants.

tania · « **Reply #2617 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:07 »

unfortunately i am still looking at that picture and going "while that doesn't look terrible, any other colour shirt with those pants, or any other colour pants with that shirt, would probably look better".

now i am thinking that maybe it is just me after all. when it comes to colours like white/grey/brown/black, i sort of see them as the most boring colours and try to never have them dominate an outfit unless there is some third colour going on in there, doing some mediating. with girls maybe it's a bit easier to accessorize cos you can just grab a bag or toss on a scarf or put on some awesome shoes and it solves the my-outfit-is-sort-of-boring problem. i don't know what accessories are available to or liked by men. fashionable men, fill me in.

Lines · « **Reply #2618 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:16 »

I think black shirt with brown pants looks better than brown shirt with black pants. Though if you're wearing black shoes, I don't think either would look too horrible. (Or at least, I wore a black shirt, brown pants, black shoes combo and it didn't suck, but I wouldn't do it again.)

Lunchbox · « **Reply #2619 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:22 »

I found some nice chocolate brown cords at a thrift store to wear to work, simply because I get covered in coffee every day and it doesn't show on brown pants. I want to buy some sort of brown cotton trousers also for this purpose. Anyway: The moral of my story is I love the heck out of my brown cords and I wear them all of the time, especially with black tshirts (also with light grey and dusty dark blue and soft peachy coloured tshirts). I also don't ever accessorise except for maybe with a bandana on my head and the leather thong that is always around my neck.
I am boring at fashion but I think I look best that way I guess?

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #2620 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:28 »

I love dark chocolate brown with something else champagne or cream colored. There's a picture I GIS'd that shows the colors I'm meaning, only maybe a little lighter of a champagne. I like pairing rich warm colors with other rich warm colors.

Liz · « **Reply #2621 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:32 »

I love brown and tan with burnt orange, eg. this outfit that I posted a few pages back http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3047/3103383838_c579065462.jpg?v=0

Nodaisho · « **Reply #2622 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:40 »

I somehow managed to not notice up until now that this current discussion applies to me. I have a brown duster coat that I don't think I use as well as I could. I don't think it looks so good with the colors I usually wear, should I look for warmer colors to wear it with? I normally wear dull green or blue pants, sometimes jeans. What colors should I try wearing it with? The green doesn't look bad with it, I think darker warm colors would look good as well.

Are there any good ways to tell what colors look good with each other? Preferably something visual, rather than just colors that don't go together. It seems like someone would have made one by now, it seems like it would be so easy to make, maybe color wheels? I'm not good enough with fashion to do it.

yelley · « **Reply #2623 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:43 »

oh man liz, you look so happy about that outfit. i want a scarf like that. maybe i will knit one...

and tania, it is not just you. i hate black with brown. it just does not go in my mind.

Liz · « **Reply #2624 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:44 »

yelley it was $5 from Wal-Mart. I have three of them in different colors and they are pretty much my favorite things.

yelley · « **Reply #2625 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:45 »

fuck knitting it then, i will get myself to walmart and be fashionable just like you!

tania · « **Reply #2626 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:47 »

lunchy it is weird that you say you are boring at fashion cos i think you are one of the best dressed people here! i am not sure what the definition of "fashionable" is but mine is to dress in a way that makes you look particularly eye-catching or makes people want to go out of their way to comment on your outfit... so if i think someone is not fashionable it doesn't mean they are dressed terribly, it just means they don't look particularly amazing. every time you post a photo of yourself though, there is always some small part of the outfit i notice and i go "aw man that one thing looks so good with that other thing, and she makes it look so effortless, why can't i think of things like that?" and if you say that your fashions are boring because you think the clothes themselves are boring, then that is even better because it means you know how to put outfits together in ways that make boring clothes look fantastic.
tl;dr - you should give yourself more credit!

Cicero · « **Reply #2627 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:52 »

Liz, I never took you for a Wal-Mart gal!

Liz · « **Reply #2628 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 21:55 »

What's that supposed to mean? They have cheap stuff that I cannot find at other places!

Ã¶de · « **Reply #2629 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 02:29 »

Quote from: Misconception on 04 Jan 2009, 20:06

http://www.80spurple.com/shop/img/products/fp_f768x850_oat-2t.jpg

WANT.

GET.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2630 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 07:29 »

Quote from: Slick on 04 Jan 2009, 20:51

keyboarding

Is this all we ever do? Meet up and congregate in music shops?

redglasscurls · « **Reply #2631 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 07:54 »

Quote from: Misconception on 04 Jan 2009, 21:55

What's that supposed to mean? They have cheap stuff that I cannot find at other places!

This- http://www.walmartmovie.com/

I wish you weren't a wal-mart girl too:/

tania · « **Reply #2632 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:14 »

yeah honestly a lot of corporations are unethical to some degree but if there's one place you should not shop at, it's walmart

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #2633 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:29 »

Plus, just the idea of Wall-Mart fashion is kind of...I dunno. I was gonna say dreadfully proletarian but it sounded kinda snobby. It is just a bad place to buy things.

Liz · « **Reply #2634 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:33 »

Quote from: Ã¶de on 05 Jan 2009, 02:29

GET.

Dan I cannot afford it. It is $128 and I barely have that much in my savings account. I am going to keep looking for a cheaper version.

Generally I don't do my shopping at Wal-Mart (I prefer Target, I feel less sleazy), but sometimes I go to snag good deals. Like the $5 scarves and the $8 wide-leg pants that I am in love with.

Cicero · « **Reply #2635 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:37 »

I don't buy into the whole Wal-Mart is evil thing. Wherever people can stretch their buck more, more power to them.

I shop at Savers a lot -- why spend 20-100 bucks on a pair of jeans when I can get ones that look just as good and like 5 pairs for 15 bucks?!

Professor Snuggles · « **Reply #2636 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:40 »

Because they don't look just as good, you're just convincing yourself they do. But we've had the premium denim argument enough on this forum, and if it comes up again sam and I might both kill ourselves, so lets just leave it.

Also, for me it's not so much "Wall-Mart is evil" as it is "how can you have self respect/be fashionable wearing clothes you bought at Wall-Mart.

The two just seem mutually exclusive in my mind.

Cicero · « **Reply #2637 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:42 »

I won't pay out my ass for jeans. I get enough dumb shit from my homo brother who throws dumb Dolce and Gabana and Gucci shit to me in the mail. I never wear it.

redglasscurls · « **Reply #2638 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:48 »

Sell it on ebay, then you can buy 75 pairs of savers pants

Josefbugman · « **Reply #2639 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:51 »

Even I don't shop for stuff at supermarkets if I want to look good. If its stuff to wear around the house and keep myself warm then thats different but don't buy from places like Wal-Mart or Tesco. I get my "warm indoor" stuff from places that need the money and that have stuff that won't fall apart after 2 washes.

How long do your jeans last friend? Some of mine are still going from 2 years ago.

If you have Dolce or Il Duce or whatever its called, then make use of it, sell it and give the proceeds to charity.

redglasscurls · « **Reply #2640 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:53 »

Oh Sam, you'd get your pretty hair all messy with brains

Ã¶de · « **Reply #2641 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 08:56 »

Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 05 Jan 2009, 08:40

Because they don't look just as good, you're just convincing yourself they do

So true, plus they'll often be crap in many other ways. There's an area between bargain bin and rip-off called quality.

I get most of my clothes from Primark and it's upsetting.

Liz · « **Reply #2642 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 09:00 »

Guys if you want to bash Wal-Mart please do so in one of these two threads:

http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,21815.0.html
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,16782.0.html

Stop shitting up the fashion thread with this crap.

Cicero · « **Reply #2643 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 09:02 »

Josef, I'm not sure if you were talking to me -- but I'll ride my jeans till they die. Due to my Minimal Change Disease, I put on like 40 pounds since the start of last semester (lost it all) -- and I've been losing more weight. I went from a 34 waist or so to a 38 -- now I'm back to a 34, even a 33 works -- so I've gotten rid of the other shit. Regularly, I wear my jeans until they just fall apart. Maybe a year and a half. It's just nuts.

I could sell that D&G and Gucci shit, but I am going to Savannah for a week this summer and spending time in a beach house and at the nicest mansion in the city where my cousin/friend (graduated with me) is getting married, so I gotta stunt when I'm down there.

Sam, no I wasn't implying that they were the same.

I just think people should shop wherever they can get the best deals. I'm also a proponent of people feeling good in whatever they like.

I used to care about like. . . I dunno -- back in high school where I felt I had to go to those AE stores and shit to fit in, but not anymore. I'm cool like Bruce Springsteen in my white t's and blue jeans.

My style is all over the place anyways. I just spent a ton of money on LRG and other urban clothing, but will gladly wear Wrangler's from K-Mart and a solid color T. Depends on the day.

Whatever people wanna rock, they can rock.

Cicero · « **Reply #2644 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 09:03 »

Liz, I thought of you and the Anthro kids when I was shopping.

http://www.karmaloop.com/Vendor/ABSKB/zoom/20622wzoom2.JPG

I was gonna get it, but then the sale ran out. It was only like 20 bucks a few weeks ago, I might get it after the next pay check comes -- along with the matchin' belt buckle. You know I love that Egyptian shit.

Josefbugman · « **Reply #2645 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 09:05 »

Sorry.

Was just wondering, what does everyone feel are good "going out" clothes, I have started wearing a lot of shirts (with the occasional tie) recently when going out to places and I am never sure if its good or not.

Liz · « **Reply #2646 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 09:09 »

By "going out" I assume you mean dancing/bars/etc. I wear my typical daily style, really, but sometimes I will put on a fancier shirt with some jeans and maybe heels, though if I am planning on a lot of dancing that is not very practical.

Cicero · « **Reply #2647 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 09:12 »

I have always liked wearing a nice pair of jeans with a nice shirt and a tie to go with it. Stunna shades are a must. I try to be black.

Josefbugman · « **Reply #2648 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 09:15 »

Shades? At night time?

Okie dokie, thanks for the advice, will try and put it into practice next time I need to go out.

valley_parade · « **Reply #2649 on:** 05 Jan 2009, 09:16 »

Quote from: Cicero on 05 Jan 2009, 09:12

I have always liked wearing a nice pair of jeans with a nice shirt and a tie to go with it. Stunna shades are a must. I try to be black.

No wonder I can't understand 85% of what you say.

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