[MrXY]

(06-25-2013 03:39 AM)soup Wrote:  

There is no dandy movement.

You guys are out of the loop with current trends.

There are no movements.

Movements are political. Everything now is about being a non-movement.

And why is it ok for black people to dress old school, but white people are gay or posers?

Any kind of movement that starts now are people who are discovering some meme way after it peeked and adapting as their banner.

I love this forum, but there really is a general lack of what's in style here.

Why is that a problem?

Girls are tribal creatures and some will fuck you if you rock the right kind of hat or jacket. If a girl thinks it shows that you are in with the cool, then you're golden. That's the ugly-beautiful truth that no amount of weight lifting can change. This is true especially in NYC where girls will open you if you have a style that appeals to them.

So stop your small-town whining. Your little world view is destroyed in a big city. And, I'd bet my big city world view is destroyed in your bumble-fuck town.

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Nah, you might be projecting.

I go out a lot, and I'm aware of a lot of different scenes in NYC.

A lot of what we talk about here as far as fashioned is concerned can work, but I know from my own experience, that having some fashionable item can be a game changer. I once went out in a sequined jacket and girls were coming up to me that night- five exactly.

The problem is that on this forum, as far as I've read in the archives, we don't deal with any kind of fashion that isn't classic/timeless or bro-ish.
Fashion can signify a lot. Obviously, you need the game to back it up. I've had girls open me up while I was wearing stuff that most guys on here would think was homo or Mystery Method etc.

I don't wear fuzzy hats or any of that whack shit from the early 2000s.

There are some trends to take note of if you want to penetrate certain scenes. Baggy pants are bad fashion. Most 1990s fashion is bad.

I know guys who dress old timey or dandy that get access to girls that I haven't been able to bang, and I'm a child of this forum and the big manosphere blogs.

I like that we get down to the essentials/absolutes here, but sometimes it's good to incorporate stuff that is flamboyant.

Muscles are fashion items as well. Yeah, they can have function, but it is the form that attracts the women, not the function.

I'm sure this is fine advice for guys in NYC, but outside of there and a few other very limited locales it just doesn't apply.

Something I've noticed about New Yorkers, especially native ones I've known over the years-they are very provincial; meaning that to them, NYC is the world, and they have great difficulty understanding or sympathizing with environs and cultures outside of it.

When you talk about following whatever this years trend is, or some "scene" or subculture, that just doesn't matter to most guys reading this forum because they will never encounter it. Sometimes these styles, such as the hipster movement, will penetrate outside NYC,but only into certain neighborhoods in certain cities, but mostly they don't.

So telling a guy that a certain look is "in style" or that wearing a certain clothing item will appeal to certain girls who want to be part of a scene doesn't really help because those scenes simply don't exist in the vast majority of the country.

Most guys will do much better adopting classic style or even "bro-ish" than they will going out with a beret and cigarette holder or whatever is considered to send the right social signals in particular NYC neighborhoods at the moment.

I say this as someone who dresses far better than almost any guy in my area and who does peacock-I'll be wearing creamsicle orange pants and white shoes and crazy socks on my date tonight- but I keep it within the classic style and don't try to ape short term trends in a place where I don't live.