by freddy » Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:45 am
@bela, honest to god, I have yet to really follow the detailed progression of care-tags or the feeltalk thread (been p amazed at the sex thread thus far lol) as I've been just popping by with tid bits of posts when I need a moment for some form of insta-talk.
i'll have to read up and follow the feel talk thread more consistently to get to know y'all intimately to analytically comment on the collective psyche and mental status of ct.
in general, i just think c-t is one huge intimate fashion support group where we unconditonally hear everyone, share our issues and plans, hang out, and lend some emotional support under the common interest of fashion. it's a great and cool retreat from our daily lives i suppose from folks who don't necessarily understand our devotion to fashion. that and the limited amount of folks nearby that we can connect and solidify a friendship. i also think that it's hard to connect with friends for the typical support because of this barrier between them and us with fashion
fyi, i mean i wear barbour and rrl; i would not have realize any of these brands and opinions had it not been for the internets for my existing social circle never really came across these brands. i think an element of typical irl connection becomes ambiguous, because of the unique nature of fashion, where it encapsulates the entirety of how you see, wear, and connect with the context of your pre-existing social environment. again, it's not like picking up a coke habit through a mutual acquaintance/friend through the six-degree of separation/influence. (though, it's not to say that friend's can't influence you fashion wise)
the discovery in fashion as a hobby is often times, as seen on raf genius, is an individualistic/solo one. i know so for me. if our environments had the stuff available, we likely need not to form and participate on online communities. i think many of us come to fashion together with interests in promoting the singularity/uniqueness of our personalities, rather than to conform to a particular sub-culture/aesthetic. we depict and despise namesake brands, but fervorishly admire in cult-like ways boutique/niche labels akin to the mainstream idealizing to what we perceive as gaudy and overpriced fashion houses - gucci, lv, hugo boss, armani, moschino
and the way we all approach fashion choices, underscores many respectively different socioeconomic backgrounds where it would be difficult to connect together irl/traditionally. sometimes i think there's too much of a cognitive dissonance with internet meet ups in general and i think c-t is a great way to cultivate more intimacy on friendship. i think c-t is great that it is diverse in aesthetics and interests in fashion. i think what will make it unique and sustaining is that we don't confine ourselves to a particular asthetic/group-think. i think we what we have going for us is the multitude of different interests and how we can be conjoined with fashion and not segregated and compartmentalized e.g. hypebeasts and that we can embrace them too provided that they don't act like fuccbois