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How much are you guys into fashion?

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    #122
    BraziliaNZ
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    JayReale wrote: »
    Ted Baker have started producing a style of jeans specifically for the Irish market?!? I'd have my doubts.

    Me too, but she seemed convinced


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    #123
    Sleepy
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    Presumably it's a line that simply wasn't discontinued here when it was elsewhere?

    Anyway, I'd take boot-cut over something that reduces my fertility. Cannot understand why a man would want to emasculate himself in tight jeans.


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    #124
    BraziliaNZ
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    I think skinny jeans look great, and always have. I can't wear them due to having big thighs from the gym, so I wear straight fitting ones.
    This is interesting read

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/fashion/2013/jan/09/skinny-jeans-fashion-trend-refuses-to-die


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    #125
    Pawwed Rig
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    You would need to be fairly fit to wear them. I don't think a bulging stomach over the top would be a great look.

    Also you would preferably be a castrato.


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    #126
    Sleepy
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    The way I'd see it would be:

    Skinny jeans were designed for showing off a woman's shapely derriere.
    Gay men adopted the fashion to highlight their rear-ends to other gay guys.
    Because gay men are generally more fashion concious than straight guys, the fashion victims started copying the gay guys "because they've got better fashion sense" and we ended up with a generation of young men slowly castrating themselves.

    A friend of mine had a good expression: skinny jeans are like a cheap hotel. There's no ballroom.


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    #127
    Jimmy Iovine
    Registered Users Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    My thoughts on skinny jeans are summed up by the lyrics from a song by Chamillionaire, "Swagga Like Koop":
    Tried to put on skinny jeans and couldn't zip my zip.
    Nah, let me be blunt real quick.
    I don't wear skinny jeans cause my dick don't fit!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3BE5QBaXUk


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    #128
    irish son
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    I haven't bought a pair of boot cut jeans in 2-3 years, I still have a few but I wouldn't even think of wearing them on a night out. There are degrees of skinny jeans, I wouldn't wear the very skinny legged ones as my hips and thighs are to big but I find the slim and straight legged jeans make my legs look slimmer than boot cut would.

    My biggest problem with buying clothes is tops, I find t-shirts and jumpers have to be a very precise fit on me to look good, tight but don't look like their to small for me, I hate loose ones. Im at a size of between normal and a little overweight so I feel what I wear makes a big difference. I haven't bought a shirt in years as I can't get one that looks anyway decent on me at all.


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    #129
    Ryu Hayabusa
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Ryu Hayabusa


    I don't follow fashion,

    I just wear full tracksuits 24/7 :)

    I can see a difference in male fashion between Ireland and London, skinny jeans, red shoes, low cut top, rosary beads etc


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    #130
    mal1
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    Sleepy wrote: »
    The way I'd see it would be:

    Skinny jeans were designed for showing off a woman's shapely derriere.
    Gay men adopted the fashion to highlight their rear-ends to other gay guys.
    Because gay men are generally more fashion concious than straight guys, the fashion victims started copying the gay guys "because they've got better fashion sense" and we ended up with a generation of young men slowly castrating themselves.

    A friend of mine had a good expression: skinny jeans are like a cheap hotel. There's no ballroom.

    I would see it this way if I couldn't see past the last 5 years. It's simple not true that gay guys started the trend of wearing skinny jeans. What about David Bowie? Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop?


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    #131
    Mr_Spaceman
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    I remember I could spot people in Australia being Irish from the jeans they're wearing. They'are awful looking things in my opinion! Stop wearing them!

    And of course Australians themselves are renowned for their sartorial elegance.


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    #132
    Hazys
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    Sleepy wrote: »
    The way I'd see it would be:

    Skinny jeans were designed for showing off a woman's shapely derriere.
    Gay men adopted the fashion to highlight their rear-ends to other gay guys.
    Because gay men are generally more fashion concious than straight guys, the fashion victims started copying the gay guys "because they've got better fashion sense" and we ended up with a generation of young men slowly castrating themselves.

    A friend of mine had a good expression: skinny jeans are like a cheap hotel. There's no ballroom.

    lol what?


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    #133
    biko
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    Let me put my fashion this way:
    If I could get away with walking around in a jute sack I would :D
    Now I do the minimum to not look out of place.


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    #134
    Sleepy
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    mal1 wrote: »
    I would see it this way if I couldn't see past the last 5 years. It's simple not true that gay guys started the trend of wearing skinny jeans. What about David Bowie? Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop?
    Maybe it's just me but I don't look to androgynous junkies for fashion (which all of the above were when they were doing the skinny jeans thing).


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    #135
    mal1
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    Sleepy wrote: »
    Maybe it's just me but I don't look to androgynous junkies for fashion (which all of the above were when they were doing the skinny jeans thing).

    What? I'm not saying you should, I don't care what you look to. To make it clearer, I'm just saying that your history of the origin of skinny jeans is basically backward, ignorant and immature.


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    #136
    Sleepy
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    It's backward and immature to figure that risking damage to the defining part of one's masculinity in order to look like a feminine junkie is a decision made out of a fashion victim level of stupidity?

    http://www.webmd.boots.com/men/news/20120716/skinny-jeans-risk-testicle-damage

    Maybe I'm wrong on the history of it's adoption by men, it was a guesswork attempt to understand idiotic thinking.


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    #137
    mal1
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    Sleepy wrote: »
    It's backward and immature to figure that risking damage to the defining part of one's masculinity in order to look like a feminine junkie is a decision made out of a fashion victim level of stupidity?

    http://www.webmd.boots.com/men/news/20120716/skinny-jeans-risk-testicle-damage

    Maybe I'm wrong on the history of it's adoption by men, it was a guesswork attempt to understand idiotic thinking.

    That's a whole different argument. The above may be true but it doesn't deflect form your childish, small minded and stereotypical comment. Borderline homophobic.

    What if i said that the origin of baggy jeans came from the fact that young black men wanted to hide handguns in their boxers without cops knowing. Not only would that be total b*ll****, it would be racist. You're the idiot for saying something like that, not the people who wear jeans (that's a fact not an insult) . Skinny jeans will harm nobody but themselves.


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    #138
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,171 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    You're the one who can't tell the difference between a fact, an opinion and an insult and I'm the idiot? :rolleyes:

    I don't see what's borderline homophobic about my line of thinking that since the primary "benefit" of skinny jeans is making one's behind look good and that this is an effeminate way for a man to dress that they'd be of more interest to bi/gay men than straight guys.

    TBH, I'd think that drawing the conclusion that this statement inferred something negative about gay men would be more homophobic than the statement itself. Nowhere does the sentence say that skinny jeans are bad because "the gays wear them" (as you seem to be reading into the post - perhaps you need to question whether you hold those prejudices yourself if you're so quick to read them into others words?). Nor does it say that "all" gay men are into dressing effeminately. I know plenty of gay guys who'd rather shag a woman than dress like one.

    BTW: if I recall correctly, sociologists identified the baggy jeans as fashion statement as originating from inmates in US prisons not being allowed to wear belts resulting in their trousers dropping lower on their hips than normal and this look being copied by gangs in order to look tough before being marketed to the suburbs as "urban" by the fashion industry.


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    awec
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    awec
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    #141
    padi89
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    Sleepy, you are talking absolute nonsense and are completely WRONG when you say that skinny jeans are tight all over. The top block (front rise, back rise, waist) is much the same as every other cut, the difference is the LEG is tighter.


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    #142
    padi89
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    Jimmy Iovine wrote: »
    My thoughts on skinny jeans are summed up by the lyrics from a song by Chamillionaire, "Swagga Like Koop":



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3BE5QBaXUk

    :D Is this the same type of scumbag that wear his trousers under his arse cheeks? One extreme to the other :D

    Jesus christ, i could use these to sail my boat :D
    chamillionaire_531.jpg


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    #143
    GalwayGuy2
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    I don't see what's borderline homophobic about my line of thinking that since the primary "benefit" of skinny jeans is making one's behind look good and that this is an effeminate way for a man to dress that they'd be of more interest to bi/gay men than straight guys.

    So the trick to attracting straight men is not wearing skinny jeans?


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    #144
    Sleepy
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    I can't claim to understand why some gay men like to dress (and/or behave) effeminately but I think it's fair to say that very few straight men (outside the world of cross-dressing) deliberately set out to dress in a feminine fashion.


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    #145
    ongarboy
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    I can never understand why skinny jeans on men prompts so much heated debate among some guys. If one doesn't personally like to wear them, so be it but why not be indifferent about those that choose to wear them rather than second guessing their motivation/personality/sexual orientation etc?

    Back to the thread title. If fashion just means current trends, than I would say that I'm not a dedicated follower. However, I do like buying clothes and wearing something new on a frequent basis. I would be quite unaware of what's in vogue but would just pick up something that I like (it doesn't have to be in fashion). Often I'll see a mannequin in a store dressed in a nice shirt/top/ jeans/trousers attire and really like the way it's put together and buy the whole outfit on that basis.

    Some people turn up their noses at high street chains such as H&M, Zara, River Island etc but I think they stock great gear at affordable prices and do actually last. I could not justify paying 150 for designer jeans if I can get a great pair for 45/50 euro in one of the aforementioned stores.


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    #146
    Scuba Ste
    Registered Users Posts: 1,603 ✭✭✭Scuba Ste


    Sleepy wrote: »

    I don't see what's borderline homophobic about my line of thinking that since the primary "benefit" of skinny jeans is making one's behind look good and that this is an effeminate way for a man to dress that they'd be of more interest to bi/gay men than straight guys.

    Not true. My ass looks awesome in jeans and I never wear skinny ones.
    ongarboy wrote:
    I can never understand why skinny jeans on men prompts so much heated debate among some guys. If one doesn't personally like to wear them, so be it but why not be indifferent about those that choose to wear them rather than second guessing their motivation/personality/sexual orientation etc?

    This to be honest.
    dedicated follower
    Reminds me of the song
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKv9FP3FzoQ


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    #147
    EdenHazard
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    One thing I hate is when I buy something impulsively. TBH I think my fashion sense is good but sometimes I buy some horrendous stuff just on the spur of the moment, for example this sleeveless hoodie I got in River Island. Looks so bad. Also got one of them aran grandad tops in river island, isn't actually bad but just something about it isn't me.


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    #148
    Tar.Aldarion
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    those tops are mank, dunno how people perceive them as so fashionable.


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    #149
    EdenHazard
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    Which ones? The sleeveless or the Aran? I think the Aran tops can suit certain people.


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    #150
    nocoverart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭nocoverart


    EdenHazard wrote: »
    Which ones? The sleeveless or the Aran? I think the Aran tops can suit certain people.

    I don't know you from Adam, but your name keeps popping up on this website. You definitely seem like the Boards equivalent of David Beckham.


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    #151
    Black Leather
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    I have always been into dressing up in way out gear and as my user name suggests, I just love dressing up in head to toe black leather. As regards guys wearing skinny jeans, when I was younger I used to wear really skin-tight black Lycra/Spandex jeans, which left very little to the imagination - and the girls just loved me in them!

    I have always loved biker jackets, which I wear with leather jeans and New Rock Boots during the winter months. During the summer, I wear black or blue denim jeans with matching denim jackets. I have always loved wearing leather or denim or a combination of both and people have said that I look good in them.

    If one looks good, one feels good and that's what matters!


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