The SF/AAAC/FNB trainwreck thread

. Worth looking at occasionally because it is interesting how people with horrendous taste spend their money.

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I often wonder what it was that made that strange design pop into the head of the shoe-maker. Was he also doing a bit of woodwork and one day found himself standing on a plank? Or did he simply find straight cuts much easier than the creation of curves? Or had there been floods and the notion of creating a mini shoe-raft sudddenly occur to him?

Any other suggestions?
 
I often wonder what it was that made that strange design pop into the head of the shoe-maker. Was he also doing a bit of woodwork and one day found himself standing on a plank? Or did he simply find straight cuts much easier than the creation of curves? Or had there been floods and the notion of creating a mini shoe-raft sudddenly occur to him?

Any other suggestions?

Trying to develop a minecraft-native clientele?
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The fugly Italian square toe especially in conjunction with norvegse

Remember back in the day Thruth Thruth ,shoos with that bold toe were considered attention grabbing and highly desirable. Remember when shoes were quite boring for many years; then came the square toe, then came the pointed toe, then came the turned up toe, and then came white shoes with turned upshoos in Australia considered the height of sartorial splender. Those shoes grabbed people's attention. Ugly shoes with lots of seems also grabbed people's attention and was a relief from the conservative shoes so many people's father's and grandfathers wore. Those heavily stitched porridge-jaw shoos were also a breakout from the traditional shoos and attention grabbing. That is what it is all about Thruth.

I spoke to a shoe designer and pattern maker about all these things. He knows the trends and industry well. It was all about getting away from the old traditional styles and doing something new. Traditional styles sold very poorly for years, and Berluti and John Lobb understood this, and is why they made crazy shoes and ditched their old classic models. Then one day people got sick of the turned up toes and heavily seemed shoos and went back to traditional styles....why??.....the forums and blogs IMO. Shoemaking got fashionable and people started making great classic shoes again, and people got knowledgeable about shoes by reading the internet.

Lattanzi doesn't do so much of the classic porridge-jaw shoos with the snouts anymore, but Stefano Branchini has always done it and is master of the porridge-jaw shoo. Paolo Scafora also does porridge-jaw shoos, but not in the league of Branchini.
 
Also....

look at how many makers do norvegese these days. It doesn't matter if it is poorly done with wide stitches (95% of makers). People see all that stitching and consider the shoes the top of the top and buy them. It is a great selling gimmick and has a blind following from an army of buyers. But still, most makers don't make norvegese, so those gimmick makers have enough market to sell to uneducated shoo nerds who don't know any different.
 
Also....

look at how many makers do norvegese these days. It doesn't matter if it is poorly done with wide stitches (95% of makers). People see all that stitching and consider the shoes the top of the top and buy them. It is a great selling gimmick and has a blind following from an army of buyers. But still, most makers don't make norvegese, so those gimmick makers have enough market to sell to uneducated shoo nerds who don't know any different.
I'm always amazed at how deeply you can grasp market dynamics just from the middle of nowhere, Aussieland, and from a bunch of igents and forum.
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He is trying very hard to be cool, but at 40, why do you need to? Even if he did dress cool, does he know how to naturally act cool?...that is the real question. Why doesn't he just be comfortable in his own skin.
 
I smell a rat with AskOkey. Many big players in menswear socialmedia have thousands of followers on Instagram, yet AskOkey has many times more than all of them. Is he buying followers?

Kirby = 76.9K followers
Parisian Gentlemen (Hugo) = 120K followers
Shoogazing = 152K followers
AskOkey = 1,000K followers

These people have the biggest blogs or youtube followings in the world for clothing/shoos and have been doing it for years, yet AskOkey is a new comer and gets more followers than all of them put together. Doesn't come across too well does it.
 
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He’s obviously buying followers to promote his business. I thought this before/after was funny. I know he is trying to make a point about fuller cuts, but what stands out is how much better he is doing with his outfits (not a fan of them, but still respect that he does them well) versus what looks like only a few years ago when he looked like every other #menswear newbie in their initial discovery phase:

 
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he talks like he is an expert now, but now so long ago he was only learning the ropes. Fast learner? Anyway, l think he is doing well. I like his style too.
 
buying followers is distasteful
begging for engagement (comment using these hashtags!) is distasteful

but yeah his suits fit well and he seems to know what he is doing now. so maybe some amount of fighting fire with fire can be forgiven. I'll take this over the trash influencers with their cheap garbage and low effort content
 
buying followers is distasteful
begging for engagement (comment using these hashtags!) is distasteful

but yeah his suits fit well and he seems to know what he is doing now. so maybe some amount of fighting fire with fire can be forgiven. I'll take this over the trash influencers with their cheap garbage and low effort content
Please list the trash people so we can also be entertained by their awfulness.
 
Mitchell Moss orders items from online shops, makes videos about them and returns them. How much of a cheap fuck can you be?

why would he do it, just to get views?

I have tried this social media thing recently and l am not too thrilled about it. There is a lot of emphasis on likes, getting followed and materialism. I am already thinking of retiring from it because l find it too full on. I just wanna post a few nice photos and be left alone.

The one good thing to come out of this is how humbling it is. When you see things like this it puts you in your place. There are always going to be bigger daddies than you, and sometimes those daddies are MUCH bigger.

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Good question Rambo, hopefully Stanley will provide an answer. One thing l do know is that many clothing/shoo people talk like they are experts these days.

My favourite posters are those salt of the earth types that are addicted to shoes. They don't try to show off or act as experts, but they want to share their collection. These are the guys l like, nothing fancy, just salt of the earth shoo lovers.
 
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And the chains over the tshirt! I hate that so much.



A pass for a Sunday morning at home, sure. But anyone can get a tshirt, sweatpants and sneakers from Target for $30.



Nailed it!! 😂

I do think if he bulks up a bit, it will enhance his fits.
 
buying followers is distasteful
begging for engagement (comment using these hashtags!) is distasteful

but yeah his suits fit well and he seems to know what he is doing now. so maybe some amount of fighting fire with fire can be forgiven. I'll take this over the trash influencers with their cheap garbage and low effort content

That Prof guy’s clickbate is everywhere now and his smugness is driving me crazy. “Come to the front of the class. Let me tell you Rules you have to follow, without even looking at you or knowing where you live.” Then the stupid TikTok fingers to sign-off.

I don’t even disagree with a lot of what he says, but it’s over-simplified or out of touch and he is a condescending prick.
 

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