Do you think the funboy fashion will catch on here?

Fionn MacCool

If you go to a lot of the clubs in England and Scotland they are full of "guys" in skinny jeans, wearing glasses with no lens, pointy elf shoes, cardigans and so on. The Gok Wan/Russell Brand school of dress. Funboys.

Anyway, this isn't to debate whether or not it's an absolutely disgraceful way of life, I'm just wondering why it hasn't caught on as much in Ireland. Obviously there are lots of people like that here but nowhere near as much as in the UK.

Will it catch on more? Why has it not? Is it because stuff like U14s GAA beats it out of you? Whatever the reason, perhaps this country isn't as broken as we think.

Senna

Fionn MacCool wrote: »

I'm just wondering why it hasn't caught on as much in Ireland. Obviously there are lots of people like that here but nowhere near as much as in the UK.

WTF are you on about? There are are lots of people like what here? but it hasn't caught on here?

I-Shot-Jr

You've obviously never been to the Workman's club.

BopNiblets

Haha, "funboy", is that their official name? I can't keep track of all these styles, goths: ok... emos: ok.. I think I know which ones they are, hipsters: wait... which ones are they?
"Scene girls": uhhh... who? Metrosexuals: you mean the fake gay lads?
Now "funboys".... oh I give up, you all look silly, GET A HAIRCUT!

MarkY91

they are everywhere..your just getting old, fashin changes.

PeterIanStaker

These guys?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8mY/SIfvQTJFTBI/AAAAAAAAKeU/TfQMaQQisas/s400/fun+boy+three

we'llallhavetea_old

funboys, lol

Its like something my dad would say for gay men.

MrStuffins

You've all seen the video, it really does sum it up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU

Mr_Roger_Bongos

^ABOVE^

Pace2008

I have a 6'1, 9 stone mate who wears all the above, sometimes in conjuction, except for the non-presciption glasses. Really sound lad and the chicks dig him.

wurzlitzer

Is Paul Galvin a funboy?:)

MrStuffins

I'm just glad i'm in this thread on the first page, so when it gets really popular and cool, I can tell the rest of Boards

"i was into that thread before it became cool! it's a bit mainstream now."

ya-ba-da-ba-doo

Go into topman on grafton street on any given day and the place will be full of them.. They look as bent as christmas ribbons and I for one am happy they're not in the majority!

TheZohanS

Fionn MacCool wrote: »

Will it catch on more? Why has it not? Is it because stuff like U14s GAA beats it out of you? Whatever the reason, perhaps this country isn't as broken as we think.

Good one....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7UMwv8GpJo

IHeartChemistry

Are you talking about the closeted gay 15 year old boys that walk around with the fake accents trying to sound posh and upmarket thinking they are the ****?
:P

ShagNastii

I hate very few but my god do I hate these vacuous pretentious "poser" ar$eholes.

That dickhead video is so so so soo spot on.

Yakult

Funboy?

They are all fecking indie kids into their Vampire Weekend and bands alike.

Music influences style - those indie bands in the UK arent as big here.

Fionn MacCool

Senna wrote: »

WTF are you on about? There are are lots of people like what here? but it hasn't caught on here?

I really can't say it in a simpler fashion. If you don't understand what I posted then maybe this thread isn't for you.

Duggy747

Good grief, man, they're already here in our cities! Whatever about the silly glasses, old man cardigans with buttoned up shirts, pointy shoes (or Converse), disheveled (but maintained) hair, designer stubble, scarves, those wooly hats that cover your ears and look more suited to a kettle, big leather belt, and all that mullarkey.............

....it's the skinny jeans I can't accept............bloody rotten looking. They look like malnourished cartoon stick figures with these two little twigs sticking out from under their wooly jacket.

MrStuffins wrote: »

You've all seen the video, it really does sum it up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU

^^ Because of this I can't walk by one of them with singing in my head "Got on a train to Cambrigdeshire, mooooooved down to an East Lon..........Don flat...." :pac:

Aldito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JulFmtvgM

KungPao

It's all the fault of those Apple Macintosh internet machines. You don't see Microsoft's customers carrying on like this.

MrStuffins

Aldito wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JulFmtvgM

this was the first thing i thought of when I saw the word "funboy"

randylonghorn

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

funboys, lol

Its like something my dad would say for gay men.

Your dad considers gay men funboys? 0_o

Oooooookay ... >_>

landsleaving

Bloody hipsters, I take a year off from college to work, go back and all the girls have gone from dressing like they're going clubbing to dressing like they're going to play Dungeons and Dragons.

I hate non-sexy fads.

johnmcdnl

just drop into trinity any day and there's loads of them :rolleyes:

Jesus Wept

Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking

..... I guess that's why they have a dress code.

Tools.

Mahatma coat

Hipsters/Goths/Emo's/Skangers

Whatever I think you are a Retard if your non conformist and unique dress sense can be categorised so easily.

what pisses me off tho is that I've had (for want of a better word) a Style that I consider fairly unique to me without being massivley standout different, but now these Hipster Creatures are starting to wear the same sorts of things, but managing to look like absolute idiots as they have no idea how the style evolved or what the primary reasons for a lot of the decisions were, Shirt V Tshirt, Jacket V Jumper, Chinos V Slacks etc.....
they are Vacuous Retards.

and those Skinny jeans, Next Hipster I see wearing skinny jeans and some retarded oversized jumper ( I live in QLD its Feckin Sunny) I'm running them over in my BMW.

Azureus

Grr, skinny jeans on boys=not hot. I want a bitta muscle from man-legs.

Plus, I have no idea how this no-lenses glasses thing caught on, but its pretencious, annoying and plain pointless! I used to wear black-frame prescription glasses, but now wear contacts most of the time so I dont get lumped in with the knob-jockey fakers.

TeddyTedson

Pace2008 wrote: »

I have a 6'1, 9 stone mate who wears all the above, sometimes in conjuction, except for the non-presciption glasses. Really sound lad and the chicks dig him.

9 stone is very light!:eek:

I think I know one too! Maybe not to the extremity of that video, but VERY similar.
It's a strange look, but then I think all of them are.

stovelid

MrStuffins wrote: »

this was the first thing i thought of when I saw the word "funboy"

Me too.

The world can never, ever see enough of that clip.

u140acro3xs7dm

Pace2008 wrote: »

I have a 6'1, 9 stone mate who wears all the above, sometimes in conjuction, except for the non-presciption glasses. Really sound lad and the chicks dig him.

I'm 5'2 and 14 stone, could i carry this look?

starbelgrade

Mahatma coat wrote: »

Hipsters/Goths/Emo's/Skangers

Whatever I think you are a Retard if your non conformist and unique dress sense can be categorised so easily.

what pisses me off tho is that I've had (for want of a better word) a Style that I consider fairly unique to me without being massivley standout different, but now these Hipster Creatures are starting to wear the same sorts of things, but managing to look like absolute idiots as they have no idea how the style evolved or what the primary reasons for a lot of the decisions were, Shirt V Tshirt, Jacket V Jumper, Chinos V Slacks etc.....
they are Vacuous Retards.

and those Skinny jeans, Next Hipster I see wearing skinny jeans and some retarded oversized jumper ( I live in QLD its Feckin Sunny) I'm running them over in my BMW.

The funboys stole your identity?

Awh. Sounds like someone needs a hug.

C'mere, ye big fake glasses, cardigan wearing, skinny be-jeaned softy.

TeddyTedson

You're all a bunch of haters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_znjQBanGU

the purple tin

Lensless glasses?
Why not go the whole hog and get a pair of these

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xgPa1NfSq6Y/SXAaWLVEe4I/AAAAAAAAAjg/rSbZudZ4rUg/s320/nose-moustache-glasses.jpg

kowloon

Lots of them here, didn't realise they were called 'funboys'.
Seems like more effort than some of the other fads.

ejmaztec

It seems that the prerequisite for wanting to dress up as a funboy, is that you must like getting the sh1t kicked out of you whenever you leave the house (or even before that by your dad).

Dravokivich

its definately something that's bewildering me.

dont see the appeal to it at all.

if looking at ols pics of kw folks has thought me something... its beware of fashion fads and just wear simple clothes...

krudler

I was in San Francisco in october, lovely city but sweet jesus, its hipster central, drainpipe jeans, illfitting tshirts, casette player walkmans on belts, its horrendous.

do people realise that by trying to be non conformist and falling into a style they're just conforming again? like goths "i dont conform" errr, yeah cos the new rock boots, eyeliner and dyed hair look is so original?

twats

Pyr0

krudler wrote: »

I was in San Francisco in october, lovely city but sweet jesus, its hipster central, drainpipe jeans, illfitting tshirts, casette player walkmans on belts, its horrendous.

do people realise that by trying to be non conformist and falling into a style they're just conforming again? like goths "i dont conform" errr, yeah cos the new rock boots, eyeliner and dyed hair look is so original?

twats

The effort of using a cassette player though, changing tapes everytime you want to listen to a different band, unless you have a mix cd of very limited space. What's the point?!

Wolfe Tone

They need a collective kick in their balls.

fabbydabby

A mate of mine runs a club night and denied a guy access because his thick rimmed glasses were non prescription.

My mate has endured a lifetime of ridicule for wearing glasses with lenses like washing machine doors and refused point blank to let some poser hipster tosser into the venue because his were a 'fashion' statement and he didn't need them to see.

I commended him for this (my mate, not the tosser).

AnonoBoy

fabbydabby wrote: »

A mate of mine runs a club night and denied a guy access because his thick rimmed glasses were non prescription.

My mate has endured a lifetime of ridicule for wearing glasses with lenses like washing machine doors and refused point blank to let some poser hipster tosser into the venue because his were a 'fashion' statement and he didn't need them to see.

I commended him for this (my mate, not the tosser).

I can see that night being hugely successful.

AnonoBoy

They're Hipsters.

Not funboys.

Red Hand

AnonoBoy wrote: »

They're Hipsters.

Not funboys.

AnonoBoys are the new thing, I hear.

Calibos

I applaud these guys. They are the antithesis of the girlies that wear chicken fillets in their Bra's only for the boys to end up very disappointed when he see's them disrobed and discovers the have a pair of flacid poached eggs instead.

They are making a stand. Not for them the bootcut jeans and gillet or thick jacket to make them look bulkier. No. They are honest enough to show the girlies straight from the getgo that they are scrawny whippets with calves the size of a wrist and thighs the size of a bicep....

Forest Master

They're called Hipsters, OP.

BaZmO*

Yeah they're called Hipsters and they've been around for yonks.

Lots of them here

upandcumming

They're not funboys, they're hipsters you idiot!

Edit: Not reading thread fail.

Sean Quagmire

Just LOL

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_I28Il4qfvRg/TTlFaN1l2_I/AAAAAAAABfs/XcWyfXHck8Q/s1600/IMG_0495.JPG

stovelid

fabbydabby wrote: »

A mate of mine runs a club night and denied a guy access because his thick rimmed glasses were non prescription.

My mate has endured a lifetime of ridicule for wearing glasses with lenses like washing machine doors and refused point blank to let some poser hipster tosser into the venue because his were a 'fashion' statement and he didn't need them to see.

I commended him for this (my mate, not the tosser).

Wholly undemocratic, elitist and spiteful.

I like the cut of his jib.

Caoimhín

I am very proud of the fact that I dont have a clue what most of you are talking about.