What are you wearing today?

[kunk75]

i like it vanna, but as i just said, the shirt may be one collar too many. t woulda been perfect. good kop on the dick o jacket.

[Sombre]

good story. after bball game last month, two dads were talking about having done contracting work on the RO store and what a bunch of gheys and freaks that were there. as they're describing what they saw they look over, look me up and down and abruptluy end the conversation. i don;t think they've looked at me since.

i sincerely hope you gave them the stare.

Ditto. They're probably terrified of you

[casem]

Trying my best to look regal:
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Cloak fencing, Acne jeans, N.D.C boots

[lowrey]

Black hole face
Dries Van Noten shirt
Miu Miu techno trench
Rick Owens leather jacket
Prada circa 1999 wool and RUBBER pants
Bottega Veneta chelsea boots
Yves Saint Laurent bag

sorry, but the leather looks vastly out of place here.

[Tiger]

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[asho]

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to me this looks pretty much perfect, although from previous fits I know you have a wide range of cropped pants at your disposal and i think they would be preferable to rolled up pants in this case. also, if you are going to go to the effort of pixelating you face why not just leave the top half of in the image to provide a proper view of proportions...

[andrewislasorad]

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LUC done right, that cardigan is not so easy to pull off but it looks just right here, now we just need some better pictures

[Johnny]

sorry, but the leather looks vastly out of place here.

to put that another way, what in the name of the risen lord are you doing wearing a leather jacket over a trench coat?!

[tomatous]

to put that another way, what in the name of the risen lord are you doing wearing a leather jacket over a trench coat?!

The leather just seems.. forced..

...and this will look better with the gradient leather i just follishly ordered.

Would like to see some pics :D

[Vanna]

sorry, but the leather looks vastly out of place here.

Don't be sorry. I think I understand where you're coming from, and appreciate the critique.

But I am wondering, is it because it seems like a misappropriation of a piece from a designer which is known for an 'edgier' aesthetic, and it's being listed with the likes of "Miu Miu?" Or, do you just think there is too much layering going on? If it is because of the former, I would just like to say that I am not a badass or consider myself to be 'edgy' so I'd rather have the piece make sense in the context of my life, rather than the other way around.

to put that another way, what in the name of the risen lord are you doing wearing a leather jacket over a trench coat?!

The trench is very very thin, as is the leather jacket, and I think the layering worked quite well, so long as the weather cooperated. The only thing I think I would have done differently is I would have probably worn a t shirt underneath instead of a button up, as Kunk suggested.

Thanks for the comments, I wonder what they would have been if I had worn sandals.

[lowrey]

to be honest I think its a bit of both - it looks out of place with an otherwise fairly classic ensemble (straight trousers, button up etc), but it also seems awkward in terms of layering.

[Johnny]

For me, eatbabies, it's that the proportions look off and the layering makes it look a bit "christmas tree"ish. There's no functional basis for wearing a short jacket over an, em, overcoat, and while form shouldn't necessarily always follow function, it mostly should.

[Vanna]

^Both extremely fair arguments. Johnny, I don't know if calling me a Christmas tree was a good thing, I'm likely to be the only person on earth to take that as a compliment.

As far as clothing, I'm having fun with it. Seeing what I can and cannot get away with is how I've learned/how I'm learning. If they are mistakes, they are my mistakes.

Besides, I always have Prince to remind me to keep on strutting:

[rach2jlc]

Meh, I like it or at least what it attempts to do in bringing different elements together. I find layering elements very hard to pull off and I think I see where it's going.

As such, I don't get some of the negativity, though it's not what I'd wear myself... quite frankly, a lot of the costumish hyperstylized faux-intellectual Victorian Chimney Sweep garb that gets people creaming their pants around here rarely does much for me except make me think of Marie Antoinette playing "peasant" around the gardens of Versailles.

[Johnny]

eatbabies, i can totally sympathise with that approach, completely fair enough. I don't think you're being singled out by the way, just some hopefully not too aggressively-put observations.