With Zoetica on mini-hiatus as Coilhouse readies to drop printed delights on an unsuspecting world, I'm jonesing for my dose of fashion. But I've seen enough hints of daily wear, costumes, knitting, and brass to know we've got plenty of fashion here on Whitechapel to tide me over. This isn't a thread for linking the $5,000 jacket you're not-so-secretly lusting after, it's a place to show off your very own duds: gimme pics of your favorite tee shirt, your faithful chucks, your best goggles, or the corset you stitched from the hides of your enemies. Lemme see your second skins, go.
<em>(in response to a post that has since been deleted:)</em> I think the idea was to post photos. If I weren't camera shy I would have already done so myself. Besides, a pair of Transmet shades and PUMA sneakers wouldn't exactly stand out here.
What great timing for this thread. Today, after many months of living in Japan and not being able to find any shoes in my size I finally had a brainwave and went to the church of elitist cool - the Bathing Ape store. When I walked in each of the staff members openly looked me up and down, basically assessing what I was wearing. There was terrible hip-hop playing. All the shoes were in glass cabinets and the floor was made of lights. Apparently I passed muster because after the frosty welcome they were super-nice to me, and then they had my size so I was... very happy. But then it took them 15 minutes to find the other shoe, and when they finally brought it out the guy acted all tough and went "aru ne", kinda like "well, here it is". Bless 'em. So anyway, Lichtenstein's palette, by way of a tiny Japanese man obsessed with Nike Air Force Ones:
I'm not really the fashion master that 70% of this site seems to be, but I was pretty stoked to be able to pull this disco outfit together from my collection of ironic 2nd hand clothing from The Goodwill. (Minus the mask and fro, of course)
Don't feel too bad, no matter how many pairs of shoes I own (somehow I was given three different pairs of Chucks in the past year) always seem to return to the pair of Vans I bought in 2003.
A little worse for wear, but they are comfortable.
<strong>@Tristan</strong> Not that you designed the graphics for that jacket or anything. Not as if <a href="http://thewhiteleaf.com/octvember/">they're available for purchase</a>.