Research project on menswear forums: interviews in Bay Area, New York, Montreal, Toronto & London

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Hi there,

I’m a researcher in Communication & Culture working on a project about online menswear culture. While I’m based in Toronto, Canada I’m currently looking to interview forum users who live in the Bay Area, New York, Montreal and London. The interview would involve an open-ended discussion of menswear, online forums and your online shopping habits. The purpose of this research is to get a better understanding, in users’ own words, of how the internet has changed men’s relationship to clothing. While there seems to be a lot of talk of fashion blogs these days, forums strike me as much more important. I got interested in this topic because I’ve been reading and posting (albeit lightly) on forums myself for around seven years (modculture and filmnoirbuff). The results of this research will eventually be published in a scholarly book or journal and your identity will be kept anonymous.

At the moment my focus is on finding people to interview in the Bay Area as I'll be in San Francisco February 13th -19th 2015. I’ll travel to wherever is convenient to meet up, interviews will take an hour to an hour and a half and I’ll pay you an honorarium of $50 to compensate you for your time (£30 when in London). I'm also looking to interview forum users in Montreal, Toronto, New York and London later in the year so please email me (nweiner@yorku.ca) or PM if you live in any of those cities and would like to be interviewed for this research project.

I’ve already done a number of interviews with users of British clothing forum. While it is obviously a very different type of forum (I'm trying to cover all the bases), you can see from this thread over there that I’m for real:
https://www.fuk.co.uk/threads/looking-to-interview-fuk-users-london/1/

And a bit about me:
http://yorku.academia.edu/NathanielWeiner

Note to moderators: this is not market research, it is purely scholarly and I have no connections to market research firms or clothing retailers of any kind.
 
In the spirit of this forum, so you can all see that I have a personal interest in menswear and that I'm a real person, here is a not-very-good photo of me in vintage sack jacket, contemporary Brooks Brothers button-down and knitted tie

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stridentlyopposed is right across the water from NYC, but I think he's away on some convention at the moment. Rodriguez and ter1413 live in Brooklyn, I think? Arnathor Arnathor is a Manhattanite, I believe.
I want to say LelandJ is somewhere in California, but it's a big state. Jan Libourel is out there somewhere too.
Is Fwiffo Fwiffo in Toronto? I thought we had a Londoner besides Monkeyface. It may be worth sending a PM to Jimmy Frost Mellor even though he has been inactive, as he was a ubiquitous presence on various forums for many years.
Anybody else?
 
I am from Hamilton, Ontario.
 
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I met natw last night. Good chap. Uber says he made it home, or curled up in a snow bank somewhere. I think we blew a lot more than $50 on cocktails. If anyone wants to go on an expenses unpaid trip to Toronto to be a research subject I can help set up neutral ground.
 
My interview with Fwiffo was not the most 'professional' considering the number of cocktails consumed, but it was certainly the most enjoyable one I've conducted so far for this research!
 
Met Natw yesterday and had a pleasant time answering his questions, I hope that more members from DW meet up with him.
 
I wish to state publicly that arnathor does not and never has represented my views on clothes, clothing forums or anything.
 
I hope more members will meet up with him so they can share their own views and infinite wisdom on clothing and forums with Natw because I never set out to be the voice of an entire forum.
 
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