Follow the Crowd or Got your own style

tolteq

Which are you?

Disclaimer: I am a man, so I dont think this applies to me.

Pinky Pixie

I think I have my own style. Each of my four best friends often buy the same top or dress, but each one of us would wear it completely different to the other. I always have a few bits to keep the look up to date ... but when you know the shapes and styles that suit you I think you create your individual style. I tend to buy a few classics for each season then some throw awayish pieces and jewellery that change the outfits and make them more fresh!

Twee.

I'm a bit of both. I like to look up to date, but won't wear something purely because it's in fashion at the moment. I know what shapes and colours suit me best and will try to adapt trends. As above, I have lots of classic things that won't go out of style - decent blue jeans, crisp white shirt, black court shoes, black dress etc.

phasers

Definitely my own style, mostly because I generally hate what's in a lot of shops and have to mprovise.

Gavin "shels"

tolteq wrote: »

Which are you?

Disclaimer: I am a man, so I dont think this applies to me.

Surprisely I'd say it does apply to yourself, myself and any other man. Personnally I got my own style to an extent, I wear what I like and what I want even if no one else likes it or everyone likes it, and thank God I don't own one item from Topman unlike the majority of young men in Dublin.:rolleyes:

OldGoat

I too wear what I like be it fashionable or not - however I will always listen to advice or suggestions from anyone and have on rare occasions even taken that advice

giddybootz

I'm a style schizophrenic!!!

One day its ripped fishnets and the next its a pretty sundress!! I like what I like and I take bits from loads of differant styles/genres depending on my mood on any given day. I do tend to be drawn to unusual shapes and lots of colour though.

FruitLover

tolteq wrote: »

Disclaimer: I am a man, so I dont think this applies to me.

I don't understand why you think that, seeing as there are so many men in this country who wear one of two uniforms:

1) Scanger tracksuit
or
2) Jack and Jones off-the-rail boringness

OldGoat

FruitLover wrote: »

I don't understand why you think that, seeing as there are so many men in this country who wear one of two uniforms:

1) Scanger tracksuit
or
2) Jack and Jones off-the-rail boringness

This points out the huge problem with mens fashions, the lack of choice. Looking for something different or out of the ordinary for men is a real chore. Mens styles are very limited in comparrison to the available styles for women.
There are either youth styles or oldman styles and anything else is rare and expensive.
The youth styles all follow each other, the current trend as it where. All the shops, the high street, the discount stores...jeans and t's, hoodies and trainers. All the jeans are skinny yet the footwear fashion is for boots. Not a great combination - forward thinking there alright.
A few months ago the only shirt available on the highstreet would be a purplish striped thing - tapered and slimcut :rolleyes:

It's difficult not to be one of the sheeple when all that is available is a wool fleese

giddybootz

OldGoat wrote: »

It's difficult not to be one of the sheeple when all that is available is a wool fleese

Yoink!! That is offically my new favourite saying!

But you raise a valid point fair goat! It is harder for men. Break it down to it's most basic and a guy going out for a few drinks really only has two choices for tops (tshirt or shirt) and two choices for bottoms (jeans or slacks).

Now I know it is not quite that simple but you see the point being made. It is harder for men to be unique AND still look good!!

speedboatchase

The way this has been phrased every single person is going to say "i have my own style" when by and large they don't. I have my style in as far as I do a lot of internet shopping and I'm very specific on what does and doesn't work for me (prefer dark colours and very clean looks), so I avoid the high street and do most of my shopping online, favouring a certain amount of designers. I think if people saw me on the street they'd notice I dress pretty well and above the average but I'm not in any way "unique" as I keep up on trends rather than designing my own clothes or deliberately going in the other direction of whats fashionable

As the above poster said most Irish men dress the same - Jack Jones, retro tees, Topman "distressed" tees (usually yellow red or blue), Mr Men tees, Onitsuka Tiger, jeans that trail over your onitsuka tigers, waistcoats on nights out etc

I differ slightly as I prefer clean hoodies (AA), diesel fitted jeans, plimsolls from asos, all saints knitwear, cardigans etc.

So no I'm not "unique" but I feel what I wear looks nicer, fits better and is a little bit more fashion forward so that it's not following the majority of blokes

JIZZLORD

my style is by no means unique, but i buy what i like and not what is simply there

Kersmash

Couldn't of said it better than Jizzlord(teehehe ).

eviltimeban

I think it is hard for guys to have a "got your own" style. However it depends on what people around you are wearing. In the early 90s I had a fairly grungey style (like most kids) but I'd do slightly different things, like couple different tops together with a cardigan and make homemade t-shirts (I still have a Smashing Pumpkins one) with clothing paint etc. I also grew my hair long. What made it "my style" was that absolutely none of my friends or people around me dressed or looked like that.

Then later I did the same with a slightly skater look; I had the huge jeans, the tees with graffiti inspired prints, shaved hair, goatee etc. And no one else went that way that I knew. So people who knew me would've said that I had my own style, cos no one else they knew would wear such huge jeans etc.

Now I'm fairly normal; I still like to be a little different so I avoid really obvious things (seeing 20 t shirts with the same "vintage" print in Topman is never gonna do it for me), wear it plain, still different to what my friends might wear (although not as much). I had a brief flirtation with wanting to wear cowboy / country & western shirts ironically, but I got over it. I found other ways to express myself, with tattoos for example. But I like to be trendy to a degree so I've long hung up my green army jackets and massive jeans for a more, regular "alternative" look.

tolteq

FruitLover wrote: »

I don't understand why you think that, seeing as there are so many men in this country who wear one of two uniforms:

1) Scanger tracksuit
or
2) Jack and Jones off-the-rail boringness

I dont wear Jack and Jones or Scanger gear.

I wear a suit and am a real man. lol.

FruitLover

tolteq wrote: »

I wear a suit and am a real man. lol.

If you wear a suit, it means someone else owns you.

OldGoat

FruitLover wrote: »

If you wear a suit, it means someone else owns you.

Ehhh, how's that now?

JIZZLORD

being a tool of the man. man!

OldGoat

If by 'The man' you mean my tailor then I'd have to agree but if you mean having to suit up for work then no, I'm nobodies man.
I don't have to wear ties to work, I don't have any obligation to dress in anything bar PPE. Jeans and T's are perfectly acceptable - infact it's the standard around here.
But when I go out in the evening I CHOOSE to wear a suit and tie.
Yeah yeah, I know, I'm a contrary bas*ard. :cool:

tolteq

FruitLover wrote: »

If you wear a suit, it means someone else owns you.

eh...........right. like.