This discussion moves mostly from bottom to top, which is a weird way to do things, Tumblr.
I’m all for celebrating and sharing things one is passionate about, but I do feel it’s something that can be done without being arrogant or vain. For me, listing brand names does nothing but draw attention to the price and intended demographic of each item. The fact that you’re wearing $200 Express jeans (or whatever) instead of ones from the Gap is incredibly uninteresting to me.
If you’re really excited about what you’re wearing then maybe write a few sentences explaining why. When most people blog about a song they like they don’t just list the instruments used to put it together they talk about what the song means to them or why others should be just as excited as they are. If you all did this with fashion perhaps those of us less aware of such things can begin to appreciate and understand such a perspective, and maybe even become more “courageous” ourselves in our fashion choices. Because, frankly, I’m just as sick of pink polos as you are. Not to mention the Longish Shirt/tights/Uggs combo that is ubiquitous on the Boston College campus.
For me, the blog is refreshing in a world where a huge number of people don’t care about how they look. They wear sweatpants to class and pink polo shirts to the bar. They overeat and don’t exersize. This is both lazy and uninteresting. I do not see “We Wear Clothes” as a place to boast about the label you are wearing, but more a celebration of people who wake up and say, “What am I going to wear” and not “What is on my floor and does not smell”. Most times the former takes more courage, and if you can put together a good outfit, why not share it with people. plus i get to see stephen make that same face in a myrid of settings…Fair enough. I can appreciate fashion as perhaps an extension of your overall design philosophy, it’s just something foreign to me on that kind of level. I’m certainly not opposed to fashion or people giving serious design-centric thought to the clothing choices they make. But the manner you’ve chosen to present it in does not effectively convey these concerns.
Perhaps in addition to a listing of the articles being worn you gave an answer to the “problem” you were attemping to solve or why you choose that particular ensemble on that particular day, even if it’s as simple as “I liked these sneakers.” One thing that’s really been impressed upon me following your blog is how much of design is problem solving, and this is not something addressed by simply listing the brand names.
I really like the brand listing as mixtape metaphor though. It’s poignant and something I never considered before.
i think the idea for our blog comes from a true, honest place, but it is indeed incredibly pretentious in execution.
it is also partially an absurd thing, a waste of time if every there was one.
i’ve always found fashion to be a horrible thing.
that being said, i became aware of a separation that existed between fashion or trends and the design of clothing. trends are not so interesting to me (sociologically, maybe), but the skillful and artistic design of objects to be worn, outside of ‘trend-watching’ and ‘focus-grouping’ is of great interest to me.
for me, i find satisfaction in approaching my everyday decisions as opportunities for rational, objective problem-solving.
thus, my approach to dressing myself reflects my interest in creating a system of clothes that all “go together” so i don’t have to think about it. i realized that part of this comes from my upbringing of wearing uniforms at private school.
i thought there was an interesting story in that seemingly small decision, so i wanted to understand others’ approaches (at least, the approaches of those who appear to be taking an thought-out “approach” of some sort).
as for the call-outs of the pieces themselves, i liken it to a mixtape tracklisting - you’re using someone else’s work to express yourself or your point of view. i think it’s worth noting whose work you’re using.
stephen + nick, earth & atmospheric science, friday
stephen
shirt, j. crew
tie, rock lobster (handknit by a swedish design student)
nick
jacket, h&m
shirt, zara man
glasses, gucci
both
raindrops, earth & atmospheric science
SOSTARK:
My friends Travis and James among a few others have started a blog, We Wear Clothes, in which they post photos of their daily fashion choices and list the items and designers they are wearing.
I’m hoping that one of you could could please explain to me the purpose of this blog, because I’m having a little trouble understanding where your coming from.
It’s seems to me like this blog functions as way to preserve and display your fashion choices for all of the world to see, because it was not enough for just those you encounter in real life to see what you wear, as it’s somethingeveryone could benefit from seeing.
Which seems, to me at least, enormously pretentious.
But I want to give you guys more credit than that and the benefit of the doubt. Is this perhaps a parody of such a blog? or something else more lighthearted?
I’m really really not trying to be a jerk about this(which seems impossible online). I’m just curious about this because I’ve always trusted your design sense in the past and I’m wondering what the motivation here is. Admittedly I have almost no sense of design or color oraesthetics whether be from the clothes I wear to the art I like, so I’ve always enjoyed looking over the shoulder of my design gifted friends.
