menherahair on Nostr: 夜化 fashion is just when you dress up to look good. This involves shit like ...
夜化 (nprofile…3p6r) fashion is just when you dress up to look good. This involves shit like matching shoes with belts so many people won't be able to do it if they don't care. Plain, clean outfit with $200 sneakers or good leather just happens to be the easier way to achieve this but it doesn't have to be expensive.
Way bigger issue is the longevity. $30 brand black long sleeve tee isn't expensive if it stays good looking for years but it just won't. The black washes out, sleeves stretch out, collar gets loose, print comes off. They're already using chink slave labor to make these so they aren't getting cheaper. You mostly deal with this by rotating clothes but man how much do you have to spend to maintain one look for a year? For tees you can actually just get nice cheap brand ones but this isn't an option for sweatshirts, sneakers, or menswear or you *will* look like broke bitch. This really makes things harder (at the very least more involving as you learn about maintenance), limits people and generally takes the joy out of it.
I used to just have like 2 looks I'd do since high school but they started to fall off in college and I'm definitely too old for oversized hoodies now. Gyaru manga has unironically radicalized me into doing something about it and half the (very modest) wardrobe has to go so now I'll be thrifting and tailoring for fucking months
Way bigger issue is the longevity. $30 brand black long sleeve tee isn't expensive if it stays good looking for years but it just won't. The black washes out, sleeves stretch out, collar gets loose, print comes off. They're already using chink slave labor to make these so they aren't getting cheaper. You mostly deal with this by rotating clothes but man how much do you have to spend to maintain one look for a year? For tees you can actually just get nice cheap brand ones but this isn't an option for sweatshirts, sneakers, or menswear or you *will* look like broke bitch. This really makes things harder (at the very least more involving as you learn about maintenance), limits people and generally takes the joy out of it.
I used to just have like 2 looks I'd do since high school but they started to fall off in college and I'm definitely too old for oversized hoodies now. Gyaru manga has unironically radicalized me into doing something about it and half the (very modest) wardrobe has to go so now I'll be thrifting and tailoring for fucking months