It has cute wittle heart buttons. And it's stripey and I love historical reproduction. BUT It will cost about half my disposable income for the rest of the year. I've been saving for a while, and part of the reason I save is so I can get special things like this, but buying special things like this is why I always end up close to paycheck-to-paycheck.

Help me decide! I tend to get hyperfixated on a favorite article of clothing and wear it 3-5x per week until it disintegrates or is really inappropriate for the temperature.

I love the tonal pocket square.

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Most of the ones I can find are oriented towards preppy and menswear styles but like I live in the rust belt and I'm not gonna be caught dead in boat shoes.

I mostly buy second hand and do hand alterations but I'm running out of inspiration :c

I r-r-r-really don’t trust the quality of that shit.

I finally spent some of the money I got from selling my records on an Oni Type 2 jacket, but temps are in the high 90s F here. I'll just admire this thing in my closet for the next 2-3 months

It's good people. The 100% linen shirts I got were a bit rough at first, but are now nice and soft. I don't typically iron, but linen wrinkles so much that I did, and damn, what a beautiful material once it's ironed.

The raw linen color is also very nice.

Solana Oversized Straw Hat In Black X Natural

What are you wearing this summer?

It's already hot as fuck where I am. I never bothered with linen before, but I found some decent pants (thin linen/cotton blend from uniqulo, so we will see if they last, I have my eye on some nicer ones but they are $$$) and some linen shirts from muji. Starting to think that's the way to go to keep the sun off of me to stay cooler.

Linen, over or underrated? ()

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I love this guy's videos - he's just got a good vibe. Highly recommend for anyone looking for masc fashion videos.

1. Are there any good small (~50k subscribers) reddit subs that are good for questions about clothing/fashion? I only know about the gigantic subs with 1+ million subscribers. Posting there is always a total waste of time. Plus all the rules and bots are annoying as fuck.

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2. I'm looking for a online store that that has ~~affordable~~ colorful long-sleeve equivalents of what Old Navy calls camp shirts. Suggestions?
   Short-Sleeve Camp Shirt | Old Navy

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About once every couple years - I get a hankering for a colorful long-sleeved shirts. But then I google and google and google and google and I learn that only odd-ball clothing firms sell a few versions and they cost a king's ransom.

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I had to remove the word "affordable". I can't expect miracles - long-sleeved versions are rare. I'd be willing to go up to $100. And beyond - maybe?

how do you wear your keffiyeh? and where can i get one that directly supports Palestine?

Lots of fantastic sounds in this one!

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Photo caption: "Jennifer Lopez out in Los Angeles in wool cargo pants."

Are We All Really Supposed to Wear Cargo Pants? - NYT

A reader tries to square the style’s enduring appeal with her own reluctance to wear them.

Can you please explain cargo pants (and shorts)? They are clearly enduringly popular for men and women, but the pockets seem neither functional nor flattering. What am I missing, and what is the best way to wear them? — Patti, Boulder, Colo.

Once upon a time cargo pants, otherwise known as “the military’s greatest fashion contribution,” were created to fulfill a very specific function: allowing soldiers to carry crucial tools (or cargo). Invented by the British military in 1938 as part of the new Battle Dress Uniform, cargo pants included a field dressing pocket on the side of the right hip for emergency first aid and a map pocket just above the left knee for navigation.

They quickly migrated into the general population, and at this point I think it’s pretty safe to say, cargo pants can no longer be classified as a trend. They have become a wardrobe basic, like the white shirt or the little black dress. No matter what your gender.

Think of them as “a more chic alternative to your classic cotton pants,” said Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada, whose cargo pants are worn by Travis Kelce and Gina Gershon. “Comfortable enough for the workplace and fancy enough for a cocktail hour.”

Cargo pants received some initial criticism when unveiled. (Reportedly one British officer announced, “I’m not going to die dressed like a third-rate chauffeur.”) But it was only a matter of time before the fashion world, which loves to co-opt uniforms of all kinds, discovered them — especially when they became the uniform of the antiwar movement of the 1960s and from there made their way into the rock star wardrobe.

All that semiology, contained in a pair of trousers! Who could resist? They represented utilitarianism, rebellion, war, peace, masculinity, subversion, D.I.Y. practicality. Yves Saint Laurent was arguably the first designer to give cargo pants the high-fashion treatment, when he included a version in his Saharienne collection of 1968. Since then, it’s hard to think of a single label that hasn’t flirted with the style — on all ends of the fashion spectrum. Though they cycle up and down in popularity (big in the 1990s and noughties, less ubiquitous in the 2010s), they never disappear entirely. And at the moment they are having another major … well, moment.

A brief list of the brands that included cargo pants in recent offerings includes Dries Van Noten, Proenza Schouler, Mango, Cos, JW Anderson, Reformation, Valentino and Uniqlo. Vogue called them a “nonnegotiable for spring.” They come high-waist, low-waist and in all sorts of materials: cotton, canvas, velvet, satin.

There are cargo pants for pretty much everyone, and at this point they have become so denatured, so far removed from their point of origin, that the question of what you may be saying with your cargo pants — whether you are pro-military or not — is essentially moot.

Ms. Taymour recommends wearing cargos with a blazer or a button-up shirt, which makes them look less workwear, more debonair. Christopher John Rogers, who showed silk satin cargo pants on his runway under long button-up shirts left open from the waist down to create a quasi-train (and who lives in his own pair), suggested “wearing them low-slung with an oversize button-down and an elevated shoe, or high-waist and cinched with a belt and a contoured something on top.”

As for the pockets, Ms. Taymour suggests you think of them less as places to store stuff, as they once were intended, and more as architectural elements or “an accessory to your outfit.” The only cargo they should really be carrying, after all, is attitude.