show the street some respect.
NYC isn't one of the world's leading purveyors of style becase of olympus fashion week or the textile swaths of 7th avenue. it's largely because the streets of the city have traditionally acted as an incubator where style is fomented before being commodified and sold off to the masses. it's also part of what makes NYC interesting, fresh and attractive. call it superficial or vain, but when you walk out of the house in new york, you're supposed to be on display. this is why the times publishes pics of "street style", nymag has "the look book" and different areas in the city are known as destinations for people watching. it's a way of life.
the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly.
and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly.
and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
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Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch wrote: at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
I don't think NYC has very much street style - it's way too conformist. when I lived in harlem I called spring and summer "big white t-shirt season". boooooring. tokyo and london (to name a few) have way better street style. and for the record, if I'm wearing pleated pants, I'm most likely dead. the z.cav days are LONG past and Shall Not Return. -
As much as I agree with your premise, YS, this whole "douche zoo" bullsh*t is wrong.
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Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch wrote: NYC isn't one of the world's leading purveyors of style becase of olympus fashion week or the textile swaths of 7th avenue. it's largely because the streets of the city have traditionally acted as an incubator where style is fomented before being commodified and sold off to the masses. it's also part of what makes NYC interesting, fresh and attractive. call it superficial or vain, but when you walk out of the house in new york, you're supposed to be on display. this is why the times publishes pics of "street style", nymag has "the look book" and different areas in the city are known as destinations for people watching. it's a way of life.
self righteous rants like this best come with pictures next time. Of yourself. And make them good.
the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly.
and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
Your t isn't so "crisp" if it's a knockoff all your homeboys are rocking and it goes down to your knees. And, as a former "where'd you get those" head, have had enough of seeing the same pair of kicks in a rainbow of retarded, blinding colors. Originality is not a screenprinted shirt with shiny ice cream cones and a pair of AF1's you got shrinkwrapped at Fulton Mall.
ps: for the record, I look good, and I'm from one of those horrible, dreaded midwestern places where there's an awful lot of fine ladies. -
Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch wrote: at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
Should we go to American Apparel?
True. Pleated pants suck. -
Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER:
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erikka wrote: Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER:
A great look if you can afford it.
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Moderator note: Safe for work, if humping ottomans is considered safe in your workplace. It is in mine!
^ i disabled "smilies". young snitch is above such trivialties.
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Asking "worksafe" would be pointless, wouldn't it?
So...where exactly is the "fashionable" neighborhood of NYC? Anyone who says Williamsburg will be forced to do a 12 hour unpaid shift sorting through polyester dresses from the late 70's in the dark corner of Beacon's Closet. -
williamsburg>anywhere else in brooklyn. and it's not really close, since fort greene started getting park slopey. besides, w'burg backlash is so 2002.
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erikka wrote: Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER:
wait, what bank does she work in? she looks like a complete asshat.
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young snitch wrote: williamsburg>anywhere else in brooklyn. and it's not really close, since fort greene started getting park slopey. besides, w'burg backlash is so 2002.
Williamsburg is also becoming overrun with all those pleated pants investment types you love to hate--just check curbed or walk down Bedford on a Saturday afternoon. Those who you refer to are off gentrifying Bushwick, one keffiya at a type. -
i'm sure you're right. they're ruining all of new york. but i'll take #### (name redacted in case curbed cocksuckers are reading this) over loki all day, everyday.
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LOL , that ottoman , or whatever it is in that video , got alot of action.
Is that supposed to be the new way to get a girl? Make a freaky ass video of yourselves dry humping an object.
I'm not gonna comment about the fashion issue here , because like I said before , I'm a bum. -
erikka wrote: So...where exactly is the "fashionable" neighborhood of NYC?
I'm going with Brighton Beach. Those young Russians don't wear vintage. -
young snitch wrote: i'm sure you're right. they're ruining all of new york. but i'll take #### (name redacted in case curbed cocksuckers are reading this) over loki all day, everyday.
Saying people are unfashionable at Loki is like going into American Eagle and saying all they carry is jeans and t-shirts. I've seen some cute, fashionable people at Southpaw, Buttermilk, Great Lakes, Blue Ribbon (late at nite that place is full of fine women: check and see), and (ugh) Soda.
Besides, no one from Brooklyn actually goes to that bar, anyway. They should buidl a tunnel connecting Loki and Staten Island. -
my dogs do better air-humping than those fools.
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Oiseau wrote: [quote=erikka]So...where exactly is the "fashionable" neighborhood of NYC?
I'm going with Brighton Beach. Those young Russians don't wear vintage.
Nothing but athletic suits. -
young snitch wrote: i'm sure you're right. they're ruining all of new york. but i'll take #### (name redacted in case curbed cocksuckers are reading this) over loki all day, everyday.
Haha! You hang out at Loki! -
erikka wrote: Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER:
I might flip out on the next girl I see wearing those damn glasses with lenses the size of teacup saucers.
http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/32096/ -
It is pointless preaching this stuff to bland people from bland places coming here on mom and dad's dole. You're more likely to convert a born-again evangelist to Islam than you are to get an iota of common sense out of a yuppie.
New York's now-dwindling style and attitude (which just about the whole world copies) was the combination of the native incubator, the starving artist transplants (of which there are practically none today), and the steady stream of immigrants. Walk around Manhattan today and you might as well be in Spokane, Columbus, or Boulder. :roll: -
Here's some yuppie kryptonite for ya; what NY people do on a rainy day. If you were alive and breathing in NY during the 90's there's no way you could not know this song.
On the other hand, last time I went to a 7th Ave yuppie drinking party, the dancing went something like this:
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Restless Native wrote: It is pointless preaching this stuff to bland people from bland places coming here on mom and dad's dole. You're more likely to convert a born-again evangelist to Islam than you are to get an iota of common sense out of a yuppie.
Who, specifically as opposed to (wildly) generally - is here on mom and dad's dole?
New York's now-dwindling style and attitude (which just about the whole world copies) was the combination of the native incubator, the starving artist transplants (of which there are practically none today), and the steady stream of immigrants. Walk around Manhattan today and you might as well be in Spokane, Columbus, or Boulder. :roll:
Also, is there a distinction b/w those who live here with their parents who had the good luck/foresight to buy years ago, and those whose parents fund them from "Spokan, Columbus, or Boulder?" -
young snitch wrote: williamsburg>anywhere else in brooklyn. and it's not really close, since fort greene started getting park slopey. besides, w'burg backlash is so 2002.
Whoa. =; I was with you until this. I fully agree that Ft Greene has been on a downward slide the last several years, but it still kicks Williamsburg's butt up down and sideways on the style front. No contest. [-( -
WhyFi wrote: [quote=erikka]Ironically enough, this week's NY street style: INVESTMENT BANKER:
I might flip out on the next girl I see wearing those damn glasses with lenses the size of teacup saucers.
http://nymag.com/fashion/lookbook/32096/
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young snitch wrote: Moderator note: Safe for work, if humping ottomans is considered safe in your workplace. It is in mine!
That is the funniest sh*t I've seen in a while.
^ i disabled "smilies". young snitch is above such trivialties.
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Restless Native wrote: Here's some yuppie kryptonite for ya; what NY people do on a rainy day.
I like the second one better. That guy does an awesome Snoopy.
On the other hand, last time I went to a 7th Ave yuppie drinking party, the dancing went something like this -
Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch wrote: NYC isn't one of the world's leading purveyors of style becase of olympus fashion week or the textile swaths of 7th avenue. it's largely because the streets of the city have traditionally acted as an incubator where style is fomented before being commodified and sold off to the masses. it's also part of what makes NYC interesting, fresh and attractive. call it superficial or vain, but when you walk out of the house in new york, you're supposed to be on display. this is why the times publishes pics of "street style", nymag has "the look book" and different areas in the city are known as destinations for people watching. it's a way of life.
Your shit is weak and old.
the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly.
and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
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Subject: Re: show the street some respect.
young snitch wrote: NYC isn't one of the world's leading purveyors of style becase of olympus fashion week or the textile swaths of 7th avenue. it's largely because the streets of the city have traditionally acted as an incubator where style is fomented before being commodified and sold off to the masses. it's also part of what makes NYC interesting, fresh and attractive. call it superficial or vain, but when you walk out of the house in new york, you're supposed to be on display. this is why the times publishes pics of "street style", nymag has "the look book" and different areas in the city are known as destinations for people watching. it's a way of life.
the mouthbreathers of prospect heights are violating this sacred tradition (especially the women). let's call it the "drivewayization" of brooklyn. or the "ohio state quadization". this is a city, not the porch of your tri-delta sorority shack or the backyard of your columbus condo, you sloppy-ass yatches. you want to come strolling out of your apartment with pancake batter-stained sweat pants, a dirty white baseball cap and fithy flip-flops? unacceptable. this isn't some backwater burgh like toledo or an outhouse speckled cow-town like chicago. we all know the prospect heights area is rapidly turning into a douche zoo, but it's only made worse by these ungainly slugs who refuse to respect the vital tradition of looking fly.
and yes, this is about new residents. at least the young bols on the block in clown-colored hoodies have fresh grips and crisp tees. at least they try. get your shit together, you pleated-pants-wearing cubicle-drones.
The culprit is no so much sloppiness, but calculated non-chalance. There's a difference. It's not cool to be a total yuppie in this neighborhood just yet. Give it time though. Pretty soon we'll have all the anorexic broads teetering around on Manolos that your heart can stand. -
Might it be that the population around here isn't terribly young? I mean, personally, you can only get away with so much for so long before you need to dress like a grown up lest you become mutton dressed up like a lamb. I can't shop at forever 21 forever and, GASP, I have a well paying job that requires that I dress very conservatively. Hey, I could have a "cool", low paying job if mom and dad hadn't cut off my non-existant trust fund. :roll:
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