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Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 01 Feb 2018, 07:39
by jawn galliano
the exaggerated drawstrings give that impression, but they are made of linen

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 06:56
by Holocaust
Do you own any denim pants stormy

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 07:46
by jawn galliano
i do! it's what i wear 90% of the time actually, where pants are concerned. my brother got me into raw denim last year, and i've since retired all my mall jeans in favor of the 2 pairs i have in rotation now. my first pair of raws is from the unbranded brand, they're a 15oz indigo selvedge fabric with a standard taper below the knee. i got them about a year ago and they've had one detergent soak so far, they're starting to fade nicely around the stress points but have retained the deep indigo color pretty nicely.

i've also got a pair of extremely black jeans from rogue territory which i got back in july, which are also a 15oz selvedge but in their skinnier cut (that's what i'm wearing in the jacket/balaclava photo on the last page) . they're double sulphur-dyed to get the super black look, so they were rather fragrant when they were brand new, which was especially fun in the summer heat :redneck: those are due for their first wash/soak now that they're past the 6 month mark, but that requires scrubbing out the bathtub and i've been mega lazy.

if you're interested in high-quality denim, unbranded is a fantastic place to start. they seem a bit pricey starting around $80 retail (and they can be found on sale, too) but the quality is miles beyond the $20-50 range of target/gap type jeans, they'll more than pay for themselves compared to replacing sweatshop jeans over and over. they look a hell of a lot better too!

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 07:49
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
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Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 07:54
by jawn galliano
i'm talkin' 'bout some denim, dawg. that's what!

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 08:09
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
Doesn't mean it makes sense

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 08:30
by droidspawn
dudes gone completely off the rails.

super metro

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 08:35
by jawn galliano
raw denim is just denim that has received no or minimal washing/chemical treatments prior to being sold at retail. meaning it starts out extremely stiff and uncomfortable and retains all the original dyes used in making the fabric, but breaks in over time and achieves a personalized high contrast fade. indigo-dyed fabrics in particular tend to bleed onto your skin and lighter-colored fabrics at first. most raws come sanforized, meaning they've already been shrunk to more-or-less their final size, but there are brands that specialize in unsanforized fabrics that have to be soaked and shrunk to fit prior to wear.

by comparison, most modern jeans, whether it's basic mall stuff or higher end designer pairs, are chemically treated and distressed in production to soften them up, wash away the dye and give them a more uniform look. there's less of an up-front hassle, but the tradeoff is they don't really 'personalize' well over time, and they tend to fall apart quickly.

there's your sense :santa:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 08:37
by jawn galliano
heavyweight denim: the pinnacle of homosexuality, apparently :gaylol:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 08:46
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
Heavyweight denim sounds like a documentary about 80s gay clubs.

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 08:50
by jawn galliano
if we're talking gay clubs i'd think more along the lines of something that says 'daddy loves leather'

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 09:16
by Holocaust
Eventually I'm gonna snar a good four or five pairs of denim pants :xx:

Can't wait until tax season when masturbated crackers start spending money on cell phones

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 09:38
by jawn galliano
just make one of those a pair of these: https://theunbrandedbrand.com/collectio ... o-selvedge

you'll regret it for the first week or so and then once the initial break-in phase is through you'll never look back

HAUL ALERT: i just snared a thom browne plaid button-down for $50, which is about 90% off of retail. i am gonna be set if i need to pull off any country club fits this summer, shit yeah

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 09:59
by droidspawn
$82 for a pair of pants...yeah fuck that. I Can get a pair of loose fit wranglers at Walmart for $15-20. Wear them bitches into the ground

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 10:28
by jawn galliano
feel free, i am not here to stop anyone from spending as much or as little as they want on clothes. lately i find myself preferring to stick to higher quality shit that won't fall apart in 3 months and that i actually enjoy wearing, so that's what i'm gonna continue to do :santa:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 10:33
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
You can't wear beer though

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 10:37
by jawn galliano
i can and i have and i surely will again

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 19:19
by happiness and harmony
what clothes were you buying that fell apart in three months :alien:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 20:09
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
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Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 20:36
by happiness and harmony
that wooden plank should have lasted far longer

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 08 Feb 2018, 20:59
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
Well it didn't make for very good pants coverage

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 06:25
by zim
stormy, where can i find some good quality plain black v-neck shirts :idea:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 08:45
by jawn galliano
for cheap basics i have been impressed with the stuff i've picked up from uniqlo: https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/men/t-shirts-and-polos

it's sweatshop stuff to be sure, but they do have a much better reputation for quality than other fast fashion labels like HM and zara. i only started picking stuff up from uniqlo a few months ago so nothing's really been put to the longevity test, but at the very least i didn't notice any obvious defects/flaws on the half dozen or so items i've bought so far.

if you're looking for something a little spendier, norse projects specializes in minimalist designs with little-to-no branding and is super high quality. not a brand i'd be excited to buy at full-price, but i scored a bunch of their niels basic longsleeves and tees (and a scarf and wallet!) at deep discounts back in the fall and have been very happy with all of it. no v-necks specifically, but end has a bunch of their stuff on sale right now: https://www.endclothing.com/us/sale?brand=160&p=1

only caveat with NP is most of it's meant to be hang-dried so they may require a bit more work if you normally machine-dry everything

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 08:51
by jawn galliano
morbid board eli wrote:what clothes were you buying that fell apart in three months :alien:
i am actually going through my closet right now because i have for some absurd reason held on to giant trashbags full of retired clothing across the last three or four places i've lived. the worst offenders for pants are american eagle, gap/banana republic, and pretty much anything from macy's (dockers, low-end calvin klein, etc.). i probably pulled a couple dozen pairs of jeans and chinos, all of which had rear pockets tearing away, crotch blowouts, shredded hems, busted zippers, torn/frayed pocketbags, basically any and every conceivable flaw that can arise with a pair of pants. and it's not like i especially abused them, these were all from college/retail days so they were mostly employed in service of heavy duty sarding :huh:

i also unearthed the original stormy shirt from when i saw incantation in november of 2000. it is not in the greatest shape but i think it can be salvaged :bulb:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 08:53
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
pocketbags :huh:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 10:13
by Holocaust
The things you pull out when you don't have any money

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 16:25
by happiness and harmony
Hitoshura wrote:
morbid board eli wrote:what clothes were you buying that fell apart in three months :alien:
i am actually going through my closet right now because i have for some absurd reason held on to giant trashbags full of retired clothing across the last three or four places i've lived. the worst offenders for pants are american eagle, gap/banana republic, and pretty much anything from macy's (dockers, low-end calvin klein, etc.). i probably pulled a couple dozen pairs of jeans and chinos, all of which had rear pockets tearing away, crotch blowouts, shredded hems, busted zippers, torn/frayed pocketbags, basically any and every conceivable flaw that can arise with a pair of pants. and it's not like i especially abused them, these were all from college/retail days so they were mostly employed in service of heavy duty sarding :huh:

i also unearthed the original stormy shirt from when i saw incantation in november of 2000. it is not in the greatest shape but i think it can be salvaged :bulb:
so did you wear those pants every day at the time or something? i have a pair of dockers that i wear maybe once a week and those hoes are going strong after three years

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 21:52
by jawn galliano
no i usually had 3-4 at any given time that i rotated through, so no more than 2-3 days a week at most

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 02:53
by happiness and harmony
then you are a heavy-duty pants wearer :shift:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 05:38
by jawn galliano
my unbrandeds are holding up just fine after eleven months, they have already paid for themselves. the rgt's will take a bit longer to justify that expense but we'll get there :gay:

this week's solitary haul:

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hell yes i can pretend i'm rich now, this shit is worth more than either of my previous two cars. special thanks to the weird gay artist willing to sell this at a massive loss for some bizarre reason

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 13:53
by jawn galliano
raf simons rick owens usually what i'm dressed-eeeeeeen

no seriously though i just lit my tax returns on fire for some rick & raf clout

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 15:57
by zim
Nick wrote:Image

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 18:03
by happiness and harmony
is it made of gold and handjobs?

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 22:56
by droidspawn
I think a Russian bot hacked stormys account

Thanks bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 22:57
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
2021 stormy is gonna have a blast making fun of 2018 stormy

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 09:05
by jawn galliano
that's a given, i have always loathed my former selves, insofar as i can divide my past up into discrete phases

i'm mainly curious about where my spending habits go from here, so far i've transitioned from magic cards to audio equipment and records to shoes to designer clothing

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 09:16
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
2021 stormy is gonna be a doomsday prepper

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 09:22
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
Or maybe you'll get super into extreme couponing since you already enjoy searching out those expensive clothes deals :bulb:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 10:22
by jawn galliano
absolutely fuck that shit

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 10:28
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
Maybe you'll be super into helping people and start a community garden and deliver vegetables to soup kitchens

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 11:27
by jawn galliano
rolling up on the soup kitchen in full rick owens to flex on those homeless assholes, hell yeah

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 11:28
by Methuselah Honeysuckle
No you'll have sold all those clothes and shoes to purchase gardening tools

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 20:43
by happiness and harmony
jorsh wrote:I think a Russian bot hacked stormys account

Thanks (jorsh's preferred insult here)
T-Rump sounds kind of like a cut of meat :bulb:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 22:09
by jawn galliano
the fattiest and most senile cut of meat :idea:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 11 Feb 2018, 23:24
by happiness and harmony
it's a single slice of brain rubbed with lard and wrapped in caul fat

then dropped on the floor behind the meat counter and sold as-is

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 12 Feb 2018, 08:59
by Abzu
:gaylol:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 09:49
by jawn galliano
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hell yeah, even the dustbag that came with these things has exaggerated proportions. time to start breaking these suckers in

more hauls coming tomorrow :god:

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 10:44
by droidspawn
Post your AR-15 collection bro! Mines in the mail!!

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 10:55
by jawn galliano
i have shot an ar15 before and it was a lot of fun, but i have zero interest in getting my license or owning guns

Re: stormy's shoes and apparel haul thread

Posted: 15 Feb 2018, 10:59
by droidspawn
Good :gay: