I had a coworker who used to dress like this, his go-to was a naval peacoat with a top hat.
On Halloween he came to work wearing a hoodie and jeans and it freaked everyone out.
On Halloween he came to work wearing a hoodie and jeans and it freaked everyone out.
That’s one hell of a long game. Respect.
Knew a guy who wore a trenchcoat, black, and a kilt, standard red tartan, even when it was 110 out.
Was chilling with his younger brother one day bitching about how fucking hot it was when this badass walks up in said attire with his guitar slung over his shoulder, goes “shut up you pussies”, pulls out his guitar, and does a bit of improv chords while singing the last couple of things we’d said, something like “it’s hot as balls out here”
I wish I could be even a 10th as cool as that guy was, because goddamn
Well at least he wasn’t wearing a shirt.
did you offer to marry him?
No dowry?
Obvs out of my league.
I would want to exude this energy:
But I know I would exude this energy:
If I looked like this, I’d have to beat the women back with a stick!
Because they are filthy peasants of course and I can’t have them touching my finery. Also my wrists would be too delicate to wield a stick, so I’d have a boy for that.
How will you beat your boy, to let him know when to beat the ladies?
He can get another boy for that.
Just beating off with boys all the way down the line.
This is exactly what God intended when he gave monarchs divine rights.
No need to use a stick - if you’re The Macaroni, you’re allowed to use your…elbows
You … You do know why powdered wigs, don’t you?
Explain
Head lice.
With $20, you could buy many peanuts.
If you take away the top hat it doesn’t even look that old fashioned lol just like a really well dressed guy
A really well dressed guy that lives in a cool climate. You wouldn’t wear that shit in Texas or Florida or Missouri.
Of course not. Who wants to summer in the colonies? My word.
mmm, yes, indubitably.
The upper class did, even before air conditioning. I don’t know how they did it.
Probably with the aid of their fainting couch.
I’d love a fainting couch, all I have is this stupid blackout futon.
Think about the cowboys and dandies who wore wool suits in the 1800’s.
Lots of enslaved labor doing all their shit for them.
…are we looking at the same clothes?
Presumably, yes
The top hat makes it though.
What about the cane?
I remember my great grandmother had a fancy shillelagh, she mainly used it to poke or smack the kids lol.
Accessibility is very modern
It says “countless offers of marriage” but not that it was women offering to marry him. So it could also be dudes. Schrödinger’s sexuality I guess.
I wonder where he finds the money to get these clothes that are probably tailored. Must’ve cost a fortune.
Someone shared a link to his socials, he does his own tailoring.
That’s honestly very cool. As long as he’s not being an ass about it, I think it’s neat that he’s expressing himself on a daily basis and wearing what makes him happy.
Damn that’s kinda fire
Did you just use “fire” like that unironically…?
I really hope you’re just a dumb 14-year-old, it’s to depressing to imagine an adult doing it. It’s the same kind of soul-crushing cringe as the youtube comments that kids spam on every video, like “wake up babe, blabla dropped a new vid”.
Please, just fucking stop.
I dunno I grew up with the term and I’m 25 maybe get with the times gramps
Perhaps it is this man’s display of the wealth required to buy these dandy clothes which procures said marriage proposals.
Meanwhile I, despite flawless erudition, am judged by my daily wear of “wife beater” apparel. I blame the casual utterance of such profanities.
If my tank top offends any woman for being wife beater toppage, I say to her “Madam, I have no wife. Would you please to hand me another beer from yonder fridge?”
He’s a tailor, and makes the clothes himself.
Good grief.
this whole thread hurts me. ugh
guy makes his own clothes, or at least that was the case originally.
i have big respect. let the man slay. you’re welcome to your wife-beaters, and others are welcome to their finery.
The post you’re replying to is painfully obviously a joke
the intended tone is clearer to me this morning. look, i’m part of a niche fashion community and other people can get very weird about it. i think i was responding with my frustration toward multiple comments + my own experiences.
i mean making your own clothes, especially fancy olden time ones, is not something poor people in the west can do. It takes soooo much time that you need to spend working an actual job so you can earn money to buy food.
The fairer sex sees not but the belligerent blustering of a bedswerving bobolyne!
Hard to gauge a persons wealth by their clothes in today’s world.
Just reminded me, when I was 21 my credit card had a 500 limit but I was asked to travel. Company cards were NOT a thing here, only the CFO had one so they were forced to put me up places with a corporate account. Because of this was staying in a very ritzy four star hotel near silicon valley for a whole month and I had a Sunday check in to get settled. Being young broke and largely oblivious to social norms in a way only a lower class homeschooled kid with ADHD could be I showed up for check in warring ripped khaki rock climbing pants and a stretched out Ramones tanktop with a flannel tied around my waste. The old folks behind me were talking under their breath about how " you really cant tell" and new internet money is changing all the rules. Lmfao they had no idea that I couldnt afford more than the rental car deposit
It’s ‘waist’ when referring to your belt or belly button line
I’m on a pretty good income, my partner and I can afford a one month overseas holiday every year or so and I dress in a mix of jeans off the internet, chosen for their lifespan, and hawaiian shirts from a mass market fashion store
I dress brightly, not at all expensively. When I dressed a lot like this as a kid in the '80s I had to change before the family went to a club for dinner in order to meet the dress code. The clubs are more relaxed now.
You really can’t judge people’s wealth on their dress standards, though there is class encoded in clothes
Ha looks like you found a missed steak
They’re just after his chocolate factory.
While very cool, I have to say I was not expecting the stripteases in all of his videos
For real, grow up and show us your cock already 😡
Oh no.
I just wear shit from gap and have been married three times
get on my level noob
I want to stab him and take his little sack of silver coins.
Why don’t we dress cool anymore?
Lots of people do. Wear whatever you want.
Not like this they don’t! At least not in any of the places I frequent. Sure, people will dress pretty slick for formal parties now. I guess maybe this was all formal wear for its era, and not something worn daily. Or maybe it was worn daily for the very wealthy.
join a fashion hobbyist community. there are, in fact, many groups for people who want to dress up. some people dress up quite a lot, and this guy is an example.
Yeah this was pretty rare fashion in its era, a small selection of the very rich wore it but most people were dressed far more blandly than the average today
Biggest reason? Dressing this fancy is expensive. Prohibitively, in many cases, at least as an every day thing. I like to dress up from time to time, but I would need a lot more fancy clothes in order to dress up to that degree every day.
I regularly wear a full-length cloak in public. Nothing is stopping you
Ew, gross! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
because good clothes don’t fucking exist anymore, all you can buy is trash tier stuff made in an indonesian sweatshop by people who can barely afford food, which the shop then charges 200 bucks for.
it just makes no sense to buy anything other than tshirts and jeans these days, everything else is just extra profit to evil companies and isn’t of higher quality.
Back in the day clothes were actually high quality and practical, if you can get your hands on some authentic second hand stuff you’ll see the difference.
I wouldn’t really apply the word cool to a meticulously thought out, complicated outfit. Cool invokes effortlessness, this is anything but. This is impressive and grandiloquent.
We’re not hiding the odeous stench of our bodies anymore.
I’ve met people like this. They tend to have delusions about their wierd thing. Im confident those proposals were mostly in his head or from one off jests.
Nah I’m sure he got some joke proposals from people that are actually attracted to his eccentric dress code
I mean, he does look pretty sharp. It’s just kind of silly at the same time
What’s funny is that he sort of bragged about these joke proposals to the article
joke proposals
one off jests
Those are the same things
I used to dress weird (anything from HS Thompson in Fear and Loathing to Victorian-ish numbers to goth stuff) for the hell of it and got a lot more positive attention than otherwise. I suppose it was effort and confidence more than anything else, but who knows. I never took it very seriously, so not sure what the article’s subject’s real story is.
Getting more tangental but thought I would share. I went to fandom cons in my youth and middle age and some fen had like costume identities. We stopped by a guys place spontaneously because we were in the area and when he answered he was like. Give me a min and then came back in his costume and invited us in.
People did used to look better back in the day. (Photos below)
It’s also nice that every culture had their own style. Now everyone wearing jeans and a T-shirt is bad, but the awful american dad sneakers and white socks with baseball cap does it.
We need to go back. At least on special occasions or something. Don’t think going the UK and everyone wearing a suit or going to Japan and everyone wearing a Kimono is better?
I mean, by people I think you mean people with money. People dress appropriate to their station. People then doing manual labor couldn’t afford clothes like the dude in the post and wouldn’t have wasted money on clothes that weren’t durable and easily cleaned.
T-shirt and jeans became the standard due to their cheap cost to manufacture, durability, and standardized sizes and popularity in the mining, farming, and railroad industry, and again with WWII.
Not a lot of jobs these days that allow for fancy dress and not many people can afford their own tailor. Not to mention temperatures were much cooler back then allowing all those extra layers, where as now you’d melt in some parts.
something something chocolate factory
/c/grandpajoehate ?
Edit: probably doesn’t exist yet or I’m doing it wrong.
It exists, but it is dormant. You could make the first post!
Be the change you want to see in the world, and never let Grand Pajoe’s attrocities be forgotten!
Wait, what’s wrong with Grandpa Joe? He was a man sick with the humiliation and hopelessness handed down to him by society. Only the joy of seeing his grandson get a chance to be somebody was enough to cure him.
Sounds like you need to start a competing !grandpajoedidnothingwrong community!
IIRC it’s the fact that he was all sickly and bedridden until Charlie finds the golden ticket and he pops out of bed like nothing is wrong.
Fediverse links are !community_name@instance_url, but idk if there’s a grandpajoehate here yet
Thanks!
I say! Someone managed to outcringe fedoras! Jolly well done, that chap.
Cheerio!
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