T-Shirts boiiiii

July, fourth, 2013-T-shirts

I look to people I like for inspiration on whats cool to wear, which for me is mainly bands. For example Yannis Philippakis from the Oxford based band Foals I take big inspiration from aswell as Orlando Weeks from The Maccabees aswell as a few of the band members from Swim Deep. I suppose I do this because everyone wants to be like their heroes. Anyway I noticed from a few of these people that they wear T-shirts in an over-sized style. This is to get a second hand 'vintage' look, because apparently if it's vintage it's cool. I took this onboard recently, but, my problem is what brand do I want to get. I won't wear Topman or River Island or what have you, I need a brand. That's when I came across London based brand 'Dope Chef' and I loved what I found.

I lost my Dope Chef virginity to this one, an original tie dye mens large tee. I absoultely love it, it is quite a loose long fit and looks the tits with a pair of skinny jeans and trainers. Tie dying was popular with the hippies in the '70's and this t shirt looks like it has history. It cost me about £40 and I had a lot of trouble picking what was my favourite design, so I though f*ck it and bought three more.

My next one was the same T-shirt in camo tye dye. I also bought it in a large (btw I am a UK mens medium) and it instantly became my favourite. This is how boys should be dressing, in large fit t shirts with nice skinny jeans showing sock and nike airs. People can't honestly think that a tight fitting Hollister T-shirt and regular leg jean with plimsols looks good. But I swear everywhere I go lads are wearing sh*t that they should have left behind in year 8.

Anyway, still nursing a little semi from my two successful new editions to the wardrobe I bought another. This next one became my favourite and still is really. The broken blue acid wash at the top of the shirt gives a real 90's 80's vibe that I love, and if I team her with the acid wash Cheap Mondays I look like I've just left a Sheffield rave in the mid nineties which is what I want.

I thought I should probably leave the Dope Chef fad here now, I mean threes already a crowd. However, I accidently bought another. This one I love equally as much and it's the most normal one which means it gets a little more screen time than the others. I suppose it is just the first one but in a nice blue, it goes very nicely with just a pair of blue skinnies and some old school nikes.


That conculdes my collection of Dope Chef t-shirts, I do have more tees but these ones are the only ones that suit my current style. I think oversized t-shirts are a great look either with the sleeves rolled in an 80's surfer look or hanging like a grungey 90's IDGAF look.

  THE KIDS

.ALL OF THESE T_SHIRTS WERE BOUGHT ON THE DOPE CHEF WEBSITE, GOOGLE IT GEWL.

The Young Mans jean

 July,third, 2013-Mens Jeans

When it comes to jeans there is only one fit for me. The problem is, you can't buy it...
Until last month I had been wearing the same pair of jeans for 6 months. They are black 'skinny' Dr Denim mens jeans. The reason I had been wearing them for such a long time without mixing it up is because I couldn't be arsed. But not because I didn't want another pair. I will only wear skinny jeans but the problem is- there is no such thing as skinny jeans. Brands sell their jeans as skinny but you put them on and they are regular fit. In the midst of frustration of wearing ill fitting jeans I went to a tailor, I demanded he take 2 inches from the leg width of these 'skinny' black jeans. Five days later and £20 lighter I had the jeans back and Jesus fuckery they were just what I wanted.

Finally I had a pair of skinny jeans that weren't bought from the girls section of TopShop. (I've never done this but I know a couple of f*ggots that have to achieve the skin)
Also, though, I do not like the jean to touch the shoe. I remember seeing pictures of 70's MODs showing socks and thought that it looked the tits. So i turn the jean up the slightest and let it sit on top of the sock like this-

To be fair this picture kind 

of makes it look sh*t, it looks better in real life.

I thought that a nice shoe needs to be shown off hence the decision to use the sock, it also makes the leg look slimmer.

The reason I couldn't be arsed to get another pair of jeans is because you had to buy the jean, take it to the tailors (which adds another £20) and then hope that the tailor did a good job. However, I felt it was time to throw another pair of jeans into the mix. I went for a pair of Cheap Monday's, I like this brand because they are only about £50 and are good quality. But F*ck me they were marketed as skinny and shit they were baggy as sin.

I had seen this wash on 'This is England 86' and Vod wears them in 'fresh meat'. I knew that this wash was a nod to vintage 80's which is the look I want so I bought them. After these ones got back from their operation they were still a little to wide for my liking so I bring the old pin roll into use but whilst using socks so you can still see sock.

I keep the pin roll small and tight and high like a va...

I also bought another pair of jeans from Cheap Monday for £50 with a regular, vintage, wash just to add some normality to the cauldron.

 These are my favourite fit I just let them sit on my sock like I do with the black ones. I like the tight narrow fit all the way down the leg.

At the minute I only wear these three pairs, I have about 3 other pairs of jeans but one pair (Cheap Monday) I ripped at the gooch, the others (Cheap Monday) are like neon blue ( f*ckin rancid) but I couldn't be arsed to return them and the others are a Dr Denim raw wash but the tailor did a sh*tty job at rendering them. I'm relatively new to jeans as I wore Dr Denim Donk chinos for about 2 years and Farah slacks before that. But that was because 'Cook' from 'Skins' influenced my dress sense for about 3 years.

Jeans I hate are anything that isn't my idea of skinny and those absolutely hideous cuffed numbers that Topman and Blue Inc sell. Oh and things with loads of pockets. Oh and cargo. Basically if it's got more than 4 pockets, isn't skinny, isn't a good brand I ain't wearing them.

Kill these with fire. 

And these.

Nike Airs

 

I thought that I would finally make a blog about young mens fashion. 

I see vlogs and blogs about fashion tips and what people think looks good and I just think that's sh*t I couldn't go out like that. So I thought I'd finally share what I think is good with the people of the Internet. And after months and months of this blog getting no attention, I'll still keep her going. 

July, third, 2013- footwear, A-History.

I, along with every other middle -class white boy in surrey, like to pretend I have just strolled out of the 80's/90's. I put this down to the film and subsequent series 'This is England'. There's something about looking 'vintage' that really appeals to our generation. In my attempt to look vint I adopted a pair of Nike Elite running shoes, about a year ago.

   

            I was very pleased with them and wore the sh*t out of them. Here they are a year later and now the poor b@st*rds only see action on the occasional dog walk.

Just after the Elite purchase, me and my other 80's wannabe pals embarked on a lads holiday. I didn't want the brand new elites to catch AIDS in Zante so I bought a pair I was willing to allow to suffer. Nike Vortex BRS edition in bright green and blue. They were marketed as 'vintage' and therefore made my y-fronts bulge. I had to have them, I was picturing myself necking cocktails and eating HIV infested fanny on the sunny beaches of Greece in these beauts.

Here they are 12 months on looking pretty sorry, but all the more 'vintage'.

September came round and I was looking for a more substantial shoe. Something that wasn't so bright and didn't stink. Back then (September 2012) I couldn't quite bring myself to drop £100 of my not-very-hard earned cash on Air max 1's. However I only wanted Nike. I then came across Nike Air Safari, these were marketed as 'Vintage' which again made my pants rise and were only £60, which almost brought a tear of semen to my japsie. To be honest at first I wasn't sure whether I really liked them, but the fact that they were vintage and could may be mistaken for 1's was good enough for me. I still wear these occasionally but they knew from the beginning they weren't my favourite child.

About 3 months passed, then came the Jan sales. Nike Blazers were rapidly dropping in price. I liked the blazer but thought too many pre-teen rich kids wore them and I wanted to leave the hi-top back in 2008. But I caved, I picked up a pair for £45.

It was only a week later after chucking the box and reciept I realised, I hated them. I haven't worn them once and never will, I jumped on the Blazer wagon to late and felt like a tw*t.

Feeling angry about my stupid spur of the moment Blazer purchase I felt I needed another pair of shoes to calm me down and get me back on track. I stumbled upon another pair of vortex's and instantly knew I had to get them. They looked 'vintage' were 'vintage' and I loved them. Infact everyone that saw them loved them. I still wear these alot and will probably never stop wearing them. I don't know why I love them but I do.  The Vortex's quenched my Nike shoe buying for about a month, I didn't want a new pair to distract me from them. But I found a pair of vintage branded Nike's for only £45. They were a size to big but I felt like the vorts needed a new baby brother.

Here they are currently sporting no laces due to their services being needed somewhere else. I do like these but for some reason never wear them. I should probably sell them to another 80's wannabe mug.

June (2013) came around and I felt it was time to spend someone elses hard earned cash on me for my birthday. I was ready to buy the Air Max 1, my only problem was: which ones? They are such a lot of money I wanted to make sure that I made the right choice. I found the Nike Beaches of Rio collection and instantly knew that I had found the right ones for me. They were made of amazing mesh in a vibrate blue with bright green guard and a vintage look bumper. I had found the ones for me and they knew it too.   

 I recently changed   the laces from bright green to an off white, bright laces remind me of chavs in 2009, do you remember when they used to do that? 

I wish I could say that I left it there for now. But nah, with my funds up due to birthday cash, I bought another pair of Air Max. However, I thought I'd buy my girlfriend a surprise pair of Air Max 1's because I'm loving and one of the nicest human beings on this world today, Mother Teresa with a dick. Well at least my intentions were right, see they didn't fit her, a size to big. After my thank you blowwy I broke the news that I wasn't going to return them I was going to keep them as they fitted me perfectly.

Here they are, the good intention shoes. 

I hope I've bored you enough with my tales of recent footwear. Cheeeeeeeeeeeers Gewl.