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Ongoing fashion help and advice (or virtual 'does my bum look big in this-ness'?)

 
  

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Ex
10:15 / 25.01.08
Totally keep it. Grow it! Cultivate it!

I am, however, a bit of a Goth, which may not make me an impartial observer.
 
 
jentacular dreams
13:51 / 25.01.08
You know, white picks up colours in a rather striking way. Just for men might be a bit of a waste...
 
 
HCE
23:27 / 28.01.08
I also vote for keeping the grey. I wish all my grey would migrate into a single streak. It's not too late, follicles!
 
 
Shrug
12:20 / 05.03.08
Dear Barbelith,

This is the post in which I pose you two questions;

1)Does my new anti-beard, muttonchops thing make me look like one of the Village People?
&
2)If so, is that necessarily a bad thing?

Pics below:







Or in other words, what is your view on this type of thing, its just that I don't know?
I seem, also, to have amassed a certain amount of leather gear over the years, too (gloves, boots, etc) and tend to top them off with cherry pink sunglasses, vest tops, pink t-shirts, I don't know, I'm starting to worry that I may be damning myself to some specially created hell when I die. (One for people that take their fashion cues from 70s fetish porn).

Yours,
The Stereotypical Shrug.
x

(Edit: I may just delete the above later due to sheer embarrassment I'm either feeling very brave now or, more likely, am still slightly drunk)
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:34 / 05.03.08
It works, I think. Don't wear a pork-pie hat with it, though.
 
 
HCE
14:21 / 05.03.08
Yes and yes. It's a bit hard to tell as the pictures look small and dark on my monitor, but you seem to be pretty nice-looking. Why force people to see your weird facial hair rather than your attractive face?
 
 
Shrug
17:06 / 05.03.08
Cheers, for responses.
Pork Pie Hats? I'm now sorely tempted to acquire one for a ball I have to go to (that a cane, a cape and some opium).

You can probably get through to my FLICKR via the image address if you want to see larger images.

I'm not sure if the beard thing is necessarily hiding my face though, maybe just framing my features?
 
 
Olulabelle
21:18 / 05.03.08
Shrug, I personally am a huge chops fan and whilst I agree with brb that you are nice looking I don't agree that the chops detract from your face. I think they're groovy.

Having said that, you do remind me a little bit of Dave Gorman but then he is a very funny man. In a slightly manic, scared way. I don't know if looking like him is good or bad.

Perhaps it's just a thing.
 
 
Shrug
09:58 / 06.03.08
*Considers*
I think I'm okay with the Dave Gorman (manic, scared, funniness notwithstanding) comparison.
*Considers again*
I, also, think chops might be coming back in.
 
 
Anna de Logardiere
14:02 / 07.03.08
If you go anywhere near a pork pie hat I will personally burn your facial hair away.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:33 / 01.08.08
What about sort of longish - trench/duster - cloth cloats on males. Do they look good? Do I just think they look good because they look quite good on Withnail, and if I wore one would I just look like a Withnail would-be? I've got black mac type thing that stops about a half-inch above the knee, and that seems to work.
 
 
dark horse
13:34 / 01.08.08
dude those kind of coats are definitely a classic... think of jay (as in jay and silent bob), spike from buffy, the list goes on...
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:45 / 01.08.08
I'm certainly sympathetic to them, but I'm just not sure if I would look like the sort of person who wears them or the sort of person who wants to be the sort of person who wears them. I've vaguely had my eye on this sort of thing from top man.
 
 
HCE
13:53 / 01.08.08
That's not what I pictured when you mentioned a duster coat. The coat you linked to will make you look a bit -- I don't know. A bit Kruschev-in-winter, maybe.
 
 
Axolotl
15:09 / 01.08.08
I reckon that's a very nice coat, and I think conservative enough in cut and style to avoid looking like a rabid matrix fanboy/ part-time goth. Though I do prefer a long coat for practical reasons (keeping the rain off) they can have somewhat of an image problem (depending on your opinion of goths and matrix fanboys). Also if you're going to be wearing it over a suit you might want to go for a lighter weight one.
 
 
Tsuga
21:07 / 01.08.08
We loved that shit in the eighties, I can tell you that. It seems the kind of item that would be difficult to pull off in a contemporary manner. I mean, anything like that is going to be referential, whether it's a belted coat like a 40s gumshoe or the hanging kind that slightly cups in at the bottom more common in the eighties. Maybe you purposefully want one of those styles. I assume you don't want the trenchcoat mafia look.
Coats like that are a strong clothing statement, I would think hard to use. I used to love the hooded long jackets, mod style from Quadrophenia (I can't remember what they're called, exactly):


Try finding one of those in Tennessee in 1984.
 
 
Axolotl
07:29 / 02.08.08
They're called parkas (at least in the UK).
 
 
Tsuga
08:41 / 02.08.08
Of course, you're right. The fishtail parka.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
11:51 / 04.08.08
That's another thing I was eyeing up too. Come the winter I'll have an excuse for the spendingz.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:34 / 04.08.08
What kind of shoes do they wear in Quadrophenia, by the way?
 
 
HCE
20:22 / 04.08.08
I believe we call them anoraks.
 
 
trouble at bill
15:43 / 05.08.08
Personally I think long black coats are a splendid piece of kit which are generally impossible to look bad in but I think it may depend somewhat on what you wear them with.
 
 
Princess
15:10 / 23.09.08
Does my head look fat in this?



New haircut, is it rad or bad? Sorry for the low camera quality. But I'm feeling a bit unsure and I'm needing guidance? Clippers?
 
 
jentacular dreams
18:03 / 23.09.08
Whoa, bit different from January princess. Good look I think, though I'd recommend a bit more or a bit less beard (either bushier / shaped / clean shaved).
 
 
Princess
10:28 / 25.09.08
I thought the same and now my chin is smooth and youthful.
 
 
jentacular dreams
17:50 / 26.09.08
....safe in the knowledge that it hides a secret chin with a beard....
 
  

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