"Now that I'm n adult, I have to start dressing like one"

August 19, 2008 @ 01:24 PM
camthraxFHK

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Cheep, give yourself some credit because you do own suits and have posted them on here. It's not like you couldn't kill the menswear game if you wanted to when the average guy your age probably couldn't.

"Dressing like an adult" applies to boring people who get caught up in careerism and social climbing. These people are the people who bought the same clothes as their drug dealer in college just to fit in and are trying to do the same shit in adult life in order to get paid.
August 19, 2008 @ 01:31 PM
Citizen-16657

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except you havent skated since you were like 12.


i stopped skating totally when I was 22, I did skate on the regular(as in everyday) till i was 16-17.

Your a homo....go back to watchin your 4 illegitimate kids you redneck fuck........like they say, ONLY STUPID PEOPLE are breeding now a days.....and your the perfect example.....no hate of course
August 19, 2008 @ 01:37 PM
dmwalking

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New Era
Kid Robot
G-Shock
Hundreds Denim
Questloves


No offense, but he looks too old to be rocking this. sad sorry, just my opinion.

guy on some broke bus. Love, Sosa. "Don't feed the trolls" initiative coming soon. We can rebuild.

August 19, 2008 @ 01:42 PM
sRG

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I think that styles should evolve as you grow, someone out of college should never wear something loud. That is not to say that a simple design won't do. It is all about maturity equaling your appearance. You can wear what you like, but just dress maturely. I think how you dress is quite mature but at the same time still expresses your involvement in streetwear culture.
All in all, I enjoy wearing things like suits, as a well cut one can boost your confidence.
Sorry for all the BS.
August 19, 2008 @ 01:44 PM
Citizen-16657

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No offense, but he looks too old to be rocking this. sad sorry, just my opinion.


Best is I think he is in his early to mid 20's....
August 19, 2008 @ 01:44 PM
BubbleTeaJelly

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im 19 and feel too old to be rocking that ^
August 19, 2008 @ 01:49 PM
SSBSTS

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i stopped skating totally when I was 22, I did skate on the regular(as in everyday) till i was 16-17.


so your story has changed? k. whatever, man.
August 19, 2008 @ 01:50 PM
dmwalking

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im 19 and feel too old to be rocking that ^


Exactly.

I mean, I'm not mad at young kids rocking kid robot and all that...but I don't know how I feel about adults rocking it. It looks too childish imo

guy on some broke bus. Love, Sosa. "Don't feed the trolls" initiative coming soon. We can rebuild.

August 19, 2008 @ 01:53 PM
Citizen-16657

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so your story has changed? k. whatever, man.


Do you want me to be exact about my whole life to you? Fuck it, let me get at that autobiography ASAP.

Dude I dont have to explain myself to you.............I done dealing with your trollin ass. Go harass someone else.
August 19, 2008 @ 01:56 PM
thunderchunk69

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No offense, but he looks too old to be rocking this. sad sorry, just my opinion.


Kid robot is made for 7 year olds, bad example
August 19, 2008 @ 01:58 PM
A-God

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i split streetwear in 3:

pinoy streetwear
regular streetwear
grown man streetwear
August 19, 2008 @ 02:06 PM
KGP2007

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What would you say the difference is between regular streetwear and grown man streetwear? Where is the line drawn?
August 19, 2008 @ 02:06 PM
SSBSTS

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Do you want me to be exact about my whole life to you? Fuck it, let me get at that autobiography ASAP.

Dude I dont have to explain myself to you.............I done dealing with your trollin ass. Go harass someone else.


sorry i caught you lying. you don't have to explain yourself, i won't believe you anyways.
August 19, 2008 @ 02:12 PM
Daws

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IMO being an adult is making adult decisions and having repsonsibilties
you decided to have kids. your responsible enough to support them
who the fuck cares about what you wear
August 19, 2008 @ 02:12 PM
Christdawg

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Cheep, give yourself some credit because you do own suits and have posted them on here. It's not like you couldn't kill the menswear game if you wanted to when the average guy your age probably couldn't.

"Dressing like an adult" applies to boring people who get caught up in careerism and social climbing. These people are the people who bought the same clothes as their drug dealer in college just to fit in and are trying to do the same shit in adult life in order to get paid.


NO. Its called doing what you gotta do to make that money. Not everyone has there Mommy and Daddy to wipe there asses for them. You in for a rude awakining BOY.
August 19, 2008 @ 02:17 PM
jaded

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ever see those older guys in their tommy bahama button-up shirts, khaki shorts, and boat shoes, and you tell yourself, "i hope i never dress like that" ?

i do that a lot.

my dad is 63 and all he has worn my whole life is t-shirts and shorts, or t-shirts and his levi's. he ran his own business for 15-20 years and now he runs another one from home, so he has never had to dress up.

i don't think you HAVE to dress in a way that reflects your age, but i do agree that after a while you have to be more selective.

i'm the best mayne, i deed it

August 19, 2008 @ 02:17 PM
dtrader

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I can def. relate to this...
It all depends on what you choose to do in your "adult life". Like cheep said, he doesn't need to wear suits etc. to succeed within his choosen field. Someone else mentioned not being able to go to their job wearing the clothes cheep may be able to. If that second person insisted on wearing their choice of clothes, regardless of the accepted norms at their job, they would most likely lose their job. That decision making process is where "being an adult" comes in.

A child can choose to go into their job in whatever they want, without much fear of the consequences. If they lose their job, 1. their parents will most likely still cover the majority of their expenses, and 2. Noone else is likely to suffer the consequences of their actions. That scenario is completely different for an adult. If an adult loses their job...1. Depending on the circumstances, it could negatively effect their future employment and earning potential, 2. They are solely responsible for maintaining their finances while between jobs, and 3. The lives of those dependent on them (children, elder parents, spouses) will also suffer.

Within that frame of mind, selling your collection because it's time to "become an adult" makes perfect sense. You just need to re-interpret it as "I need to sell my collection, because my priorities have shifted, and now paying off my school loans is of greater importance than looking fresh", or "I need to sell my collection, because I'm 22 and a down payment on a house makes more sense to me now than living with my parents with a closet full of skateboard shoes".

I cut my collection down from around 120, to 25-30 pairs 2 years ago cuz I hit that same point. Even tho alot of the shoes I had were increasing in value, it just became too hard to justify the amount of space they were taking up (and the $ I saw in them), while I was still renting and paying off school loans. I sold them, gave my mom some $ to buy the house I grew up in, and payed off half of my college loans. It hurt (good god, sweet jesus did it hurt lol), but I feel like it was probably the most "adult" decision I've made so far.
August 19, 2008 @ 02:18 PM
riceispro

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NO. Its called doing what you gotta do to make that money. Not everyone has there Mommy and Daddy to wipe there asses for them. You in for a rude awakining BOY.


yep.

if by careerism you mean an attempt to fulfill some degree of your ambitions and get some semblance of stability within a certain spectrum of employment, i guess you're right.
August 19, 2008 @ 02:34 PM
CHEEP

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i work in a construction office... i manage survey crews, and sometimes need to go out to job sites and do work myself. i build bridges and highway mostly
August 19, 2008 @ 02:57 PM
camthraxFHK

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NO. Its called doing what you gotta do to make that money. Not everyone has there Mommy and Daddy to wipe there asses for them. You in for a rude awakining BOY.


This thread is about wearing certain kinds of clothes in one's free time. I'm $30 grand plus in debt financing a legit education at a top college that I dedicate myself to. I realize that what I said can be taken out of context (or is biased by my experience with liberal arts colleges).

Let's face it, a lot of places have really "dotcommed" their dress code, at least here on the west coast, and even investment bankers don't wear really nice suits regularly anymore. It's about working smart, being productive, and knowing what to do that makes people successful these days. Maybe I'm just way too fucking "Portland" for my own good, but my next door neighbor is an economist, married with children, and he walks his dog with a longboard in cutoff jeans. My other next door neighbor is making millions after buying into a chinese corn plastic startup and smokes weed everyday in his late 50s. My other neighbor is still killing the real estate market because of some overseas investments he made recently and he wears sweatpants 24/7 and rarely leaves my neighborhood. I feel like NY and maybe Chicago or Boston are the only places where people give a shit about wearing a real suit to work and participating in some sort of "hustle and bustle of the big city."

Yeah baggy jeans, sleeves, jesus pieces, tacky shit, and gauged ears aren't going to get anyone a traditional white collar job that caters to conservative rich people. We all know that. I just don't personally do any of that and made a biased post.
August 19, 2008 @ 03:05 PM
stein

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This is exactly how I've been feeling lately. I'll be graduating next summer and now I'm thinking I need to tone down the colours and loudness. I guess the challenge now is to look sophisticated and still remain fly and I'm doing my homework. You kids still say 'fly', right?
August 19, 2008 @ 03:13 PM
ThePepperSkull

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No offense, but he looks too old to be rocking this. sad sorry, just my opinion.


Holy fuck, that guy looks EXACTLY like that poet, Danny Hoch. the resemblance is uncanny.
August 19, 2008 @ 03:43 PM
kickpush

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This thread is about wearing certain kinds of clothes in one's free time. I'm $30 grand plus in debt financing a legit education at a top college that I dedicate myself to. I realize that what I said can be taken out of context (or is biased by my experience with liberal arts colleges).

Let's face it, a lot of places have really "dotcommed" their dress code, at least here on the west coast, and even investment bankers don't wear really nice suits regularly anymore. It's about working smart, being productive, and knowing what to do that makes people successful these days. Maybe I'm just way too fucking "Portland" for my own good, but my next door neighbor is an economist, married with children, and he walks his dog with a longboard in cutoff jeans. My other next door neighbor is making millions after buying into a chinese corn plastic startup and smokes weed everyday in his late 50s. My other neighbor is still killing the real estate market because of some overseas investments he made recently and he wears sweatpants 24/7 and rarely leaves my neighborhood. I feel like NY and maybe Chicago or Boston are the only places where people give a shit about wearing a real suit to work and participating in some sort of "hustle and bustle of the big city."

Yeah baggy jeans, sleeves, jesus pieces, tacky shit, and gauged ears aren't going to get anyone a traditional white collar job that caters to conservative rich people. We all know that. I just don't personally do any of that and made a biased post.


but in public, what do they wear? I still considering going to the mall free time or going out to dinner/movies/gatherings/etc all the same. They don't dress like that. If you walk into any place dressed up how you described it, they'd find it laughable. I doubt they found success by wearing what they are on the weekends.
August 19, 2008 @ 03:46 PM
kdiddy

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Honestly, I don't think there are any rules to this. I wear what I like and I dress for the occasion. Now that I'm a little older my clothes do fit much better. I still wear a lot of the same things though. Usually graphic/blank tee, jeans, sneakers when I'm out drinking or just kicking it with my girl/friends. For work, nicer dinners, and family get togethers I dress up. It just all depends on what I'm doing. But I really don't feel like streetwear or any form of fashion should have an age limit. It just depends on how you wear it and how you want yourself perceived.
August 19, 2008 @ 03:51 PM
K BOOG

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listen, im 26. i teach so i wear appropriate clothing to work and other work related events. dress pants/dress shirts etc. but my dress shirts are slim cut, as well as my dress pants/khakis...lots of banana republic,club monaco type stuff. its eaisly available and not that expensive. price is definaltey something to consider when you have to dress up every single day.

when im not working i wear tees/sneakers etc.

you dont have to morph into some entirely different person fashion wise. most of the people in the streetwear industry are my age, if not older and we wear what repesenets the culture we are into and aren't going to dress differently because we hit a certain number age wise.

im sure there's going to be a day in the next 10 years when i will sell my supreme tee's and scale down on my sneaker collection in favor of more 'age appropriate' things, cause no one wants to see a 36 year old in frogskins, a malcolm x tee shirt and vans. but visit nyc, visit chicago, visit L.A., there are plenty of ways to still be hip and fashionable in your mid-life without stepping into the dockers/van huesuen/golf shirt look.
August 19, 2008 @ 04:00 PM
gaws

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This is a really smart thread, its nice every so often to have a thread that makes me think, instead of laughing at some kid who 'almost got laid'

anyways, im only 16, so i guess technically im still not an adult but heres my two cents anyways

Generally society thinks that after high school or whatever, you go to university, after that you get a job, thats whats always being drilled into heads of the young like myself. Getting a job means that generally you have to dress different from how you'd usually dress, i.e. business casual (i fucking hate that term, its what they always tell me im not looking like at my job)
when people see someone in 'business casual' attire generally they think 'damn he's grown up' or whatever, but you judge them more by their posture, how they carry themselves and how they look.

I think that, to be grown up and to look adult and shit, is a way to carry yourself instead of just how you dress. If you took the guy in the jcrew sweater and asked him the same question about i dunno, current events or something, and he goes 'uhhh i dont know' that to me isnt grown up.

Take other guy, with the pants at his knees and whatnot, and ask him the same question, if he gives you an educated answer, theres your adult.

I think that being grown up and looking grown up doesnt have to neccessarily do with clothes as much as it has to do with how you present yourself, swag etc.

It all comes down to swag i think, grown man swag, teenage swag, whatever. I think that instead of dressing like an adult, its more important to act like one, and to behave as one should when your older. Being knowledgeable, confident and being distinguishable is more important that wearing a suit and tie.
August 19, 2008 @ 04:05 PM
KillaKate

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"sometimes you have to fake it, to make it" - You hit the nail on the head.

I work in a large PR firm in Manhattan. I wear heels and office clothes everyday to work. I answer my phone all chipper and happy, and call myself Katherine instead of Kate. I have work with people that I really cant fucking stand, that make my blood boil like you cant imagine.I take people constantly talking down to me. This isnt me, but I do what I have to do to pay my bills. Even if it means conform into what I never ever thought I would be and fake like I really love being here.

If you can find a great job that doesnt require you to conform into something, thats great, many pats on the back and cookies for you. But thats not life.
August 19, 2008 @ 04:30 PM
K BOOG

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great point Kate. fake it to make it. ive seen people outside of work who are amazed at how different i dress/act/look/talk but thats life. Im KYLE at work and school but K BOOG on the streets. Im gonna talk/act/ be different around my friends like Tyson and DarVonne then i would Kim and Tim that i work with.

The goal is finding a balance between the two 'lives' if you would, but im so happy i have both because when kids/work/stress gets to me its nice to spend my off time listeing to hip hop, chopping it up about sneakers or partying at MAGIC next week in Vegas.
August 19, 2008 @ 04:38 PM
soulamazing.

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K BOOG, I have one question for you; do your students know you're into streetwear/sneakers?
August 19, 2008 @ 04:58 PM
camthraxFHK

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but in public, what do they wear? I still considering going to the mall free time or going out to dinner/movies/gatherings/etc all the same. They don't dress like that. If you walk into any place dressed up how you described it, they'd find it laughable. I doubt they found success by wearing what they are on the weekends.


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