What influences what your wear?

uniquechic

Just wondering is there anything in particular that influences your style. I wear whatever i want and I dont give a sh*** what anyone else does! I know some people follow fashion but im not really bothered with whats 'in'. What does everyone else think??

Karoma

I base my opinion on what is said here. That's why I'm here so much. I still claim to be an free-thinking, unique individual.

Creamy Goodness

comfort

mazroo

Fat day or no fat day (route of all evils are hormonal days)... humidity(sucking right now) walking or driving(no killer heals whilst walking... pure evil) and the lovely ORISH weather... couldnt give a rats what anyone thinks .. if I like it and im confidant... thumbs up

Tar.Aldarion

What I think looks good and is comfortable. All that matters tbh.

Karl Hungus

uniquechic wrote:

Just wondering is there anything in particular that influences your style.

Yes. What I own.

rsta

the weather, where i have to go (work / play / date / party / gym etc), whats clean

i like all of my clothes, i dont buy sh*tty stuff, i try to make good choices, i have too much clothes in fact...

PrettyInPunk

uhhm price.it sounds really weird but i dont like buying cheap clothes,for instance i wont buy from a wear or those **** shops in steevens green or anything because the clothes are tripe.they shrink. i would rather pay 70 for a t shirt then 20 if i was guaranteed it would keep its shape for years and not shrink or fade,exactly as i am with Ralph Lauren polos,i have bought others than go to ****s after 3 months yet my rallphs last years.

Also comfort and weather,i dont get this whole wearing skirts or heels to school buzz,get a loooife. Comfort is where im at in school.

I like to dress up and fashion trends influence me mildy. Actually they dont really at all,i bought uggs (cringe) but simply again for the comfort factor. Alot of the time fashion only looks good on very very thin people and i accept that.Skinny jeans WILL make me look fat but what id do is buy straightish legged jeans instead,so i read fashion and i take it in but interpret in my own way.

Ruu_Old

I try to avoid matching colours and of course comfort being number one.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i buy my clothes as quickly as possible on the few occasions I do go clothes shopping so I just pick whatever and live with it.

Wez

Your musical tastes, for example.. If you listen to dance (dj tiesto etc), you'll wear a tracksuit most likely.. If you listen to classical guitar (Bob Dylan, Dire straits, Pink floyd..) you'll prolly wear bum clothes, bum shoes, yet somehow pull it off.. If you listen to/play rock music (Korn), you'll dress 'rock' etc..

Different strokes for different folks.. It's nice to have the choice..

timmy69

Very specific about what i like or not, usually go with style and the right mix of colors and a good fit. Nothing else influences me. Its just gotta look slick .

monkeyfudge

Doctor Who.

PrettyInPunk

Wez wrote:

Your musical tastes, for example.. If you listen to dance (dj tiesto etc), you'll wear a tracksuit most likely.. If you listen to classical guitar (Bob Dylan, Dire straits, Pink floyd..) you'll prolly wear bum clothes, bum shoes, yet somehow pull it off.. If you listen to/play rock music (Korn), you'll dress 'rock' etc..

Different strokes for different folks.. It's nice to have the choice..

im sorry but i dont really agree with that, i listen to punk emo stuff chillis fall out boy all american rejects afi etc...

my brother also listens to jimi hendrix,eric clapton,thin lizzy,rock music

yet i dont dress punk and he dusnt dress 'rock'

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

monkeyfudge wrote:

Doctor Who.

if we still had rep, I'd give you rep once a week every week for a year for this post

sweet_ass

PrettyInPunk wrote:

im sorry but i dont really agree with that, i listen to punk emo stuff chillis fall out boy all american rejects afi etc...

my brother also listens to jimi hendrix,eric clapton,thin lizzy,rock music

yet i dont dress punk and he dusnt dress 'rock'

Sorry but that really bothered me, none of the bands you listed would be considered punk, pop-punk if you're lucky, and none are emo get your genres right, please.


But I do agree with you though, that the type of music you listen to doesn't nessacerily reflect on what you wear.

Tar.Aldarion

I don't really like Black metal but I dress in black. To Les journals du monde!

fuzzywiggle

I just buy things I like.

monkeyfudge

Mordeth wrote:

if we still had rep, I'd give you rep once a week every week for a year for this post

Tragically true as well unfortunately... I recently had to buy a new suit and I went out of my way to find one that looks like the one David Tennent wears in the current series.

magpie

Yes. What I own.

I salute you

Doctor Who.

Ditto. But now he's spoiled converse with a pinstripe suit for the rest of us.

monkeyfudge

At least it's still better than being one of those deluded nerds who think that they're Neo.

The majority of people simply can't pull off long leather coats.

magpie

You'd be amazed how many still try. Especially scrawny 16 year olds and 35 year old fat computer programmers.

Aerial

Well... It really depends if I'm having a "fat day" or a "not so fat day".

I like to have fun with my clothes, I like knee lenght skirts, high heels, big necklaces and low cut tops. Jeans under dresses. I loathe sports clothes. I'm a tad weird.

azezil

Wez wrote:

Your musical tastes, for example.. If you listen to dance (dj tiesto etc), you'll wear a tracksuit most likely.. If you listen to classical guitar (Bob Dylan, Dire straits, Pink floyd..) you'll prolly wear bum clothes, bum shoes, yet somehow pull it off.. If you listen to/play rock music (Korn), you'll dress 'rock' etc..

Different strokes for different folks.. It's nice to have the choice..

I like dance music and I don't even own a tracksuit... OMG I feel so left out

meanwhile, I just go shopping from time to time, pick up things I like... occassionally I pick up things which just don't go with anything I own so just sit in the wardrobe till I find something that they will go with.

*ponders* what goes with light cotton black pants...

ThrownAway

Wez wrote:

Your musical tastes, for example.. If you listen to dance (dj tiesto etc), you'll wear a tracksuit most likely.. If you listen to classical guitar (Bob Dylan, Dire straits, Pink floyd..) you'll prolly wear bum clothes, bum shoes, yet somehow pull it off.. If you listen to/play rock music (Korn), you'll dress 'rock' etc..

Different strokes for different folks.. It's nice to have the choice..

No that's what annoying attention seeking teenagers do when they're 13. My music taste in no way reflects what I wear. My sense of style effects what I wear. If I think it looks good, it's comfortable and it fits me properly I'll buy it.

ThrownAway

Aerial wrote:

I loathe sports clothes. I'm a tad weird.

I'm the same. Sports clothes should be worn for sports. When someone wears them on a everyday basis to me it just shows their lack of taste and individuality. Especially white tracksuits... very unflattering as white doesn't suit most Irish people in the first place.

Nightwish

I wear what I percieve to be stylish clothes. I like dark, gothic style clothes. I think they suit me, so I wear them.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Whatever the spastics aren't wearing.

simu

Well, obvious practical factors like weather and so on aside, I like clothes that will last because they are of good quality and not faddy, clothes that look unusual and cool to me, that are well-tailored and look well on my body and also, when I get new items, I prefer if they go with something I already own so that I can start wearing them straight away.

Nalz

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Whatever the spastics aren't wearing.

yeah that and whats in my walet and bank acc

monkeyfudge

Actually weather rarely influnces my fashion choices at all...

In the summer I'm constantly being asked "Are you not hot in that?" and in the winter I'm asked "Are you not freezing in that?"

Tar.Aldarion

Dark gothic style clostes suit everybody, make the change today!

DonkeyStyle \o/

Mmm yeah, the whole summer thing in shops is a bit annoying... just try shopping for sweaters in June... not a hope in hell with some shops.
C'mon this is summer in Ireland, we'll still need to buy new winter clothes :P

simu

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Mmm yeah, the whole summer thing in shops is a bit annoying... just try shopping for sweaters in June... not a hope in hell with some shops.
C'mon this is summer in Ireland, we'll still need to buy new winter clothes :P

True. Winter clothes ftw!

il gatto

I agree with ThrownAway and simu. Avoid fads. Buy stuff rhat looks good on you. Quality if you can afford it, but don't fall for the " it cost loads so it has to be good " thing. I'm not sure what age group is represented here. I'm in my late twenties. I try and buy understated stuff. It rarely reflects my taste in music. Cool clothes is cool clothes. Avoid latest fads. Steve McQueen looked cool in the sixties, James Dean in the fifties etc. You could wear their clothes today and still look good. When you look at the cut of people in the sixties, seventies and eighties and laugh, remember, they were the ones following the fads. They probably cringe now. As will those girls who wear safari shorts to nightclubs or fellas wearing ripped jeans, stripy shirts and tatty looking suit jackets will in a few years time. Cool is timeless and vica versa.;)

magpie

While we're on the subject it would be quite nice to be able to but a t-shirt that isn't

a) Pink
b) Ripped/Faded
c) Designed to look like there's another t-shirt under it
d) Festooned with some silk-screened drivel like "Shark Summer Beats 1977 Original"

What have we become? Japanese? PLEASE can we lose all this sh1te from the shops.

azezil

simu wrote:

True. Winter clothes ftw!

yes, please do cover up! *shudder*

I prefer summer clothes or lack there of, on pretty people obviously... why do fatties insist on getting topless, if ya don't have a sick pac just cover up ya fat ****, thats my moto!

DonkeyStyle \o/

magpie wrote:

What have we become? Japanese? PLEASE can we lose all this sh1te from the shops.

Haha, it's so true... all this stuff is so horrible... just give me a plain dunnes stores teeshirt instead and I'll figure something out.

Depends how I want to be taken, in work i dress professionally and seriously always heels and shirts etc
at weekends or on dates usually jeans and a nice top depending where i'm going! and if i'm hungover ot tired a hoody/jeans or a tracksuit!!

Creamy Goodness

magpie wrote:

While we're on the subject it would be quite nice to be able to but a t-shirt that isn't

a) Pink
b) Ripped/Faded
c) Designed to look like there's another t-shirt under it
d) Festooned with some silk-screened drivel like "Shark Summer Beats 1977 Original"

What have we become? Japanese? PLEASE can we lose all this sh1te from the shops.

stay away from the main high street stores and you should be alright, H&M are alright do nice and clean plain clothes and aren't too expensive either.

you won't end up paying €50 for a t-shirt that looks like it's been through a landfill.

ahh don't knock the japanese they have good fashion sense.

cinnamon

magpie wrote:

Doctor Who
Ditto. But now he's spoiled converse with a pinstripe suit for the rest of us.

Doctor Who's clothes are so cool. He looks really funky in the suit & converse and the spiky hair. He is sh!t hot
I would fall for any guy who dressed like him....:D (prob tall & thin, tho)

rainbow kirby

What influences what I wear? Well whatever's comfortable, reasonably priced and makes me look good. Fashion trends don't really influence me at all.