Men's fashion

[specialknives]

There doesn't seem to be much menswear that's interesting and unusual without being either firmly placed within a subculture or so ludicrous as to mock the very idea of itself.

Do you agree?

Do men get frustrated with the lack of fashion for them, or is the lack of variety primarily market-driven?

Edit: Album of styles from the latest Nom*D

Comments

[specialknives]

There's plenty of variety out there for menswear if men chose to exercise the same ingenuity as women and mix high street, vintage, designer, Ebay...

Then you must take the specialknives challenge and find some unusual items of male clothing online that aren't subcultural or ridiculous. I would've totally agreed with you until I tried to find something for my fellah to wear clubbing, and as he's got a fairly modellish physique, it must be triple hard for guys that are short and/or thick set.

And like other commenters, I think that second set of clothes isn't ludicrous at all, just rather poorly styled.

That's why I thought they must surely be taking the piss - they are such a well-established, well-respected brand that it's hard to understand why they used such an inappropriate model and took so little effort over getting the clothes to sit right. I guess everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Did you look at the Nom*D collection images? I can't understand why on earth they thought some of those things were worth making, let alone putting down a catwalk. However, this is a seriously cool idea... it reminds me of one of the most beautiful examples of male fashion I ever saw... young Cook Island guy wearing a white linen shirt that was open to about the navel and a long string of coconut beads. It looked awesome.