What's the proper dressing style for someone who's into lit, philosophy and all that stuff? Nowadays you can't just wear a suit and be done with it but the fashion styles related to the literary elite are much more complicated. So, what are some pointers you would give here?
Like, if I read a lot of post-heidegger phenomenology, what dressing style would then be mine? What if I read blood meridian, stoner etc.? Analytic philosophy of mind? Modal logic? you catch the drift. Also, are there noteworthy subcultures here that I should take note of? I ask all this because I wish to integrate my burgeoning reading habit to a social life and rise in the ranks of the literary elite of some café at my city.
A book is just letters printed on paper.
dont be facetious now - tell me WHAT CLOTHES ARE GOOD and i will buy those clothes
Be an Uebermensch. Don't wear clothes.
why cant lit scene be as simple as the music scene? in the music scene you just have to wear a band shirt. but im not masc enough for those kind of music scenes, cant grow a beard etc.
In the music scene, an attention prostitute homosexual is an attention prostitute homosexual. In the books "scene", if there could be said to be such a thing, an attention whoring homosexual is an attention whoring homosexual.
Do you really need special clothes to point out what kind of Youtube videos you watch, what phone games you play, or which news source you make use of?
and it has to be IQfy-style clothes because i have a chance in that scene more than in some other scenes. this excludes the communist related scenes.
I hope you're joking because there are absolutely no real-life subcultures or literary communities that correspond to IQfy and its meme canon.
no but theres various subcultures: the analytic philosophers, the phenomenologists, the american desert novelists, trads, pragmatists, hegelians, the list could go on
All those "subcultures" (they really only involved writers) are dead. People dont read anymore.
Also most of them wore what was normal for their time or social environment.
I mean, in fairness, there are definitely still analytic philosophers. More than ever actually. It’s just that their defined by their profession rather than their membership in a “subculture”, and they don’t wear anything special. It’s like asking what accountants wear.
you telling me accountants don't go around in three-piece suits and monocles?
They gotta know ur drip
DFW bandana
Mark Fisher Capitalist Realism t-shirt
Hegel Phenomenology leggings
I feel a corncob pipe is very literate.
Shoes? Barefoot like Diogenes.
Look up RC Waldun. You're welcome.
hes wearing a ralph lauren polo in some pic. im so confused. but i catch the drift, maybe...so it's important to have visible collar sleeves from beneath some woolly sweater
He has videos about fashion you idiot
I exclusively wear suits, except in the summer when I may ashamedly don a polo shirt and jeans. Modern fashion is completely degenerate. It is all about being "colourful" and "expressive" and "avant-garde", but there is no form or structure or symmetry.
Suits are the best. In the past, everyone wore one, even "working class scum". Look at this picture for example: everyone, little boys even, are wearing suits. That's because in the past people valued order. They believed that an ordered appearance would translate to an ordered inward life. And they were right.
My g you sound proper sartorial. Can you explain why my femoid co-workers were perplexed when I wore a linen shirt.
Because today it's cool to be lazy and dress for maximum comfort. If you want to dress better you have to have the disposition to not care what anybody thinks because in this day and age everyone will poke fun at you.
>If you want to dress better you have to have the disposition to not care what anybody thinks
but the only reason why anyone would want to dress better is that they care about what anybody thinks
I dress orderly because I believe that my outward appearance should reflect who I want to be inside. I don't care about modernist homosexuals who make fun of me or snicker behind my back. Besides, it's a good conversation-starter.
>Making yourself uncomfortable to stick it to the comfortable people
Haha. Sure showed them
i would love to do this but suits don't mean the same thing now as they used to, i'm not interested in fighting a one man battle against that if im gonna start putting effort into my clothing unless i can find some suit wearing lit people (which i can't)
I wear a suit everyday for work. It is tedious
Do you think the reason they all wore ill fitting suits had something to do with being the heart of textile manufacturing?
Tattoos are great for finding people who consume the same type of media as you. I actually first met my wife after she saw my epic Pynchon tattoo and couldn't help but praise it.
>the fashion styles related to the literary elite are much more complicated
There is no such thing as a “literary elite”. There hasn’t been such a thing for at least 40 years. You’re either delusional or trolling.
I wear the same thing every day: band shirt + cargo shorts + flip flops. The only reason people know I read literature is because I'm always yelling about it.
go outside a shopping mall naked, gather a crowd and then detonate a vest that has c4 on it. now thats lit-clothes xDDDD i'll await my upvotes
fr tho just kys
In situations too casual to wear a suit or even just coat and tie go with a slightly looser fit oxford-cloth button down with chinos.
Chinos tend to come in khaki (hence "khakis") but olive is also a good color. Navy is also great if you don't mind the fade that comes with them (which I don't).
What do you recommend for a sweaty ass homie.
Summer wear is not really "literary" wear but you have a few options:
1. You could wear the ocbd untucked with chino shorts and loafers no socks.
2. You could get a breton stripe shirt with shorts. Picasso here's wearing a long sleeve but they come in short sleeve as well.
Just remember they're horizontal stripes so you need to be reasonably fit.
3. A more French Rivieira style: Get a linen shirt, espadrilles, and some chinos or linen trousers.
Good looking out homie.
I wear a nice linen or cotton shirt, silk when it's really hot, like this except not tucked in. The cut of the shirts I buy are designed to be loose, don't ubtuck your shirt if it's made to be tucked. Sometimes I wear a tshirt and I tuck those. Also trousers + boots; rugby shorts when it's just too hot for trousers.
In winter I wear those same shirts underneath either a woolen jumper or Woolen cardigan, or both. When it's really cold or windy I wear that plus a big old blue vintage windbreaker and a scarf.
I'll just say this: fabric type is the most important factor. Most things flow down from that anyway. I've never seen a shlubby piece of linen clothing because they're out of the Kmart price range and so even the cheap shit is made with a little more care and style. When buying winter clothes get wool. Absolutely always buy pure wool. If it itches then you're buying shit tier gutter wool, spend a few extra dollars.
you dress after the zeitgeist, any other answer is cope dress up
yes but there are many forms of fashion in the current zeitgeist, not that simple...i'm not going to start wearing streetwear or something.
Dark academia, obviously.
the eternal pajamas
true IQfy never leaves the house
im trying to transcend this, hence my inquiry
why are you trying to regress? the transcendence of this would be abandoning clothes altogether
Black on black on black
expensive black blazer and wide trousers, tshirt!, white sneakers!, steel rolex, banged up iphone 5, new macbook
people will know you're a published writer the moment they look at you
1800s Frenchman
i gave up on this in the meantime relapsed to candy im just gonna stay fat and not buy any proper clothes to complement the hoodie i had since 9th grade