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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
There is often a misconception these things are the same. There is definitely some style advice in this thread that is...not to my tastes and IMO will make someone look a bit silly, regardless of fit/quality. Many, many trends that are considered stylish for short periods of time are, in the long run, hideously ugly.
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The thing people don't necessarily get about fashion, or people who are
really into clothes (of which there are none in this thread), is that it's not as much about "looking stylish". Anyone who marks the occasion when the new men's F/W runway collections get posted up on vogue so they can go through each shot and talk about it on a forum much like this one is perfectly capable of wearing understated well-fitting clothes and looking "stylish". The whole fashion side of things is a different thing; it's more of a human being as a medium for moving functional art. Good designers are fundamentally artists, and they have a goal in mind for whatever clothes they're making, and it's basically never to "look stylish". As far as the people who are into that sort of thing go, it's just like the art scene: for some people they're genuinely interested in it as a hobby, and for others it's just a status symbol. Regardless, it's inevitably going to seem pretentious to outsiders who don't give a crap.
I've never been deeply into that particular pastime, though there was a time in my 20's where I was vaguely aware of it and would keep track of what specific designers I liked were up to.