I've got long, wavy hair that I'm trying to figure out what to do with. I already had my manbun phase nearly a decade ago, and settling for a plain, unadorned ponytail is more than a bit gauche. I've been thinking of putting a nice silk ribbon in there, but I'm worried that instead of looking like a modern man who doesn't feel threatened by wearing traditionally feminine accessories, that I'll instead just look like some sort of colonial re-enactor. I'm trying to find examples of manly men with hair ribbons and I'm coming up with absolutely nothing. Does anyone have suggestions for what I should be going for?

I'd really like to find a good jumpsuit that I can use for an Ellen Ripley cosplay (from the first Alien ideally) but also just day to day after I remove the patches. Does anyone know where I can find a quality one?

Hello everyone, I am posting on this community to solicit advice on avoiding heat stroke while not looking like a fool. Currently I own several 95% polyester 5% spandex short-sleeve button-ups as well as one 100% linen long-sleeve button-up. I find both to be quite suitable for hot weather, but would love suggestions that aren't T-shirts and button-ups. Additionally, what options are there for summer pants? And what actually looks good with shorts? When I wear them I look like a camp councilor - or worse, a kid attending summer camp. Feel free to discuss dresses and skirts as well, although I am personally not interested. Oh yes, and I suppose summer hats could be useful too. Thank you in advance.

China’s fast-fashion retailer Shein is facing a lawsuit that claims the clothing maker’s copyright infringement is so aggressive that it amounts to racketeering.

The filing this week, by three fashion designers in a United States court, claims that Shein is in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, a law originally crafted to prosecute organised crime.

“Shein has grown rich by committing individual infringements over and over again, as part of a long and continuous pattern of racketeering, which shows no sign of abating,” the filing said.

In an organised effort to create as many as 6,000 new items per day, Shein has used a “byzantine shell game of a corporate structure” to rip off designers, a coordinated illegal operation that can best be combated through the use of RICO statutes, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit is just the latest in a series of difficulties Shein has faced. In May, a bipartisan group of two dozen lawmakers asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to put the brakes on an initial public offering by Shein until it verified that it does not use forced labour from the country’s predominantly Muslim Uighur population.

The lawsuit, filed by three fashion designers in the US District Court for the Central District of California, alleged that “Shein produced, distributed, and sold exact copies of their creative work.”

“At issue here, inexplicably, are truly exact copies of copyrightable graphic design appearing on Shein products,” the civil lawsuit states.

Shein did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Associated Press on Friday.

The designers are seeking unspecified damages and want injunctive relief to prevent further racketeering activity.

Shein has not said whether it plans to go public this year, but there have been reports that the company was raising money in anticipation of a US listing before the end of the year.

Shein spokesperson Peter Pernot-Day has said the company takes transparency across its entire supply chain seriously.

But a Congressional report last month unloaded a blistering critique of Shein and another Chinese fashion retailer, Temu.

The report is part of a continuing Congressional investigation into products offered to American consumers that could be made with forced labour in China. As part of the probe, the committee sent letters in early May to brands Nike and Adidas, as well as Shein and Temu asking for information about their compliance with the anti-forced labour law.

Shein said at the time that the company’s “policy is to comply with the customs and import laws of the countries in which we operate.” It also said it has “zero tolerance” for forced labor and has implemented a robust system to ensure compliance with US law.

I am going to buy a pair of Nicks Boots Builder Pro Steel Toe in smooth black leather, the issue is they cost 600+ dollars which I can afford but that's so much money

What hats do you think are cool?

I have a wool flat cap I wear in the winter that I like

and a green and gray cap I like sometimes for when it's warmer and I want to look a little bit like a fuckboy.

Ball caps and trucker caps are nice I think. Flatbrim, not too into curved.

Actual fedoras are actually pretty nice with it, especially if they lean woodsy. Trillbys are still stained.

Berets? Yes. Hard to pull off, but they fuck when they work.

In general I think femmes can pull off more hat styles. Like sunhats.

One of my favorite hats is the chaperon, but they're not really appropriate for modern styles.

It's hard for me to find hats because I've got a big head, so if you know some places for large hats, do post!

Why would I want to know my colors?

I feel like I should start with an important disclaimer: I am not here to tell you what colors you are and aren’t allowed to wear. Many people don’t care about PCA, don’t “believe” in it (as if it’s some variant of astrology), or just aren’t interested in taking their natural coloring into account when they dress. That is completely fair and valid. This is intended to help you understand the concepts of PCA and use them if you want.

With that out of the way, there are a lot of reasons to want to wear colors that harmonize with your natural coloring:

It can make you look younger and healthier

It can put people visually at ease when they see you, helping to garner subconscious trust and respect

It can give you a framework for building a wardrobe of colors that all harmonize with you and therefore also with each other

Knowing your season can help you avoid buying things that you later feel like you don’t look good in

Knowing your season can suggest to you colors that would look great on you that you haven’t thought of before, or don’t tend to stumble across in stores

Characteristics of color

Let’s define some terms that will help us put colors into groups for the purposes of PCA.

First, a color can be light or dark. This refers to how close it is to either white or black. Pretty straightforward. Also, a color can be warm or cool. In PCA, this refers to how much yellow (warm) or blue (cool) is in it. You may be familiar with this concept from shopping for red lipstick.

Finally, a color can be bright or muted. This refers to how saturated the color is compared to gray. Brightness/mutedness is not the same as lightness/darkness. Muted and bright colors can be either light or dark. When you think “muted,” think “more gray.”

Why are you talking so much about colors? Tell me my undertone.

Ok, so you may have heard the term “undertone” or taken a quiz online that tries to match up your hair, eye, vein and jewelry color to a particular season. I don’t think this is particularly helpful, for a lot of reasons including the following:

You can’t “see” undertone. Even if you try to guess by examining your veins, there are a lot of factors that will make them look blue or purple or green (green compared to what?) aside from your undertone. Like how light or dark your skin is, where on your body you’re looking, and what you’re comparing them to.

By all accounts, most people’s undertone is neutral, leaning very slightly warm or cool. So if you examine your attributes (blue veins, brown eyes, tan easily, look good in gold, WTF?) you are likely to get a pretty mixed bag.

Arbitrary attributes are hard to set boundaries around in words. What is blonde hair? Obviously this is blonde, and so is this, but is this? How about this? If you try to determine your season solely by your attributes, you may get frustrated just defining what those attributes are.

How your attributes look varies based on what colors are surrounding them right now. That’s kind of the whole point! So it’s hard to look in the mirror, or look at a photo, and see objectively where your personal coloring falls on the three scales described above.

Though there are certainly common patterns in the attributes of different seasons, the attributes are not the definition. Every season contains a wide variety of different hair colors, eye colors and ethnicities. The best way to talk about types of personal coloring is in terms of what colors look harmonious on them.

So how can I determine my season?

It sounds kind of tautological, but the best way to determine which colors look good on you is to test which colors look good on you. You can either do the above, many many times, with a huge array of different colors,

https://www.truth-is-beauty.com/what-season-are-you.html

Forgive me I have posted cringe, i beg your mercy black clothes wearing people of hexbear

G: catagory is a lil strange but some cute components

orig posted on a now closed subreddit and hosted on imgur, reposting before it eventually gets deleted

Long line tee works with cropped pant due to it's slim fit and matching color which carries the eye up and down the body. The jacket hits at a very 'normal' hip level which reminds the eye of conventional proportions allowing both proportions to exist at the same time and balance each other.

The extremely high button stance would look awkward on a standard jacket, but this fit is elongated with multiple lower breakpoints that ease the tension and allow the A-form silhouette to dominate the overall shape of the fit.

Very strange proportions here, but what you're seeing is essentially a 'negative space' bolero/shrug driven by the low cut overall and sweater combination. The dramatic coat swallows the fit which allows it to feel unified. The beanie matching the coat enhances this effect by having that grey carry the whole way up and down.

Competing proportions offer reminders of conventional horizontal breakpoints. The longline tee is restrained by the inner jacket/hoodie that hits just below the waist. The knee length parka feels even longer because the taller boots shorten the legline.

Layering changes proportions of seemingly conventional lengths. The long sleeved shirts with thumbholes make the arms look exceedingly long and in the middle option, reinforce the breakpoint helping to differentiate top and bottom blocks, while in the left they serve as another layer in an already layered look, and on the right they make a flowy fit look even more flowy.

Wide block on wide block. The low cut neck and cropped pant with runners enhance the horizontal lines and make for a very compressed silhouette.

A very low drop-crotch pant with a hip length coat hugely elongates the upper body until it breaks the expected form and allows the silhouette to exist as its own shape.

Cropped sleeve jacket and cropped pants offer an aggressive set of proportions, creating a very strong V shaped from top to bottom.

A story in 8 parts. Just kidding, but there are many breaks here which have the eye treating it as a chunky patchwork effect which is reflected in the jacket itself. The faux cropped sleeve, the rolled collar, the scarf which matches the collar, the brown sweater that matches the brown plaid in the jacket, the cargo pants tied off looking like they float over another pant. So much going on to enjoy, it shouldn't be harmonious, but it is. Expertly put together.

Individual pieces that shouldn't make sense in the same fit, but do because the proportions all hit right. The inner vest hits at the waist. The baggy cargos at blouse over delicate shoes and the just about knee-length coat keeps the pants from overwhelming the fitted top.

The belt being wrapped at the naval reminds the eye of where conventional lines are, which help save the massively oversized fit from swallowing it's petite wearer. The cropped pant leg with the slim sneakerboot reminds the eye of the real width of the wearer's leg. Haphazard and contained.

Similarly, what would be a rather shapeless fit is given a strong reminder of the leg shape via the sock boot. The topmost sweater is practically 'normal' before the lower block of the fit is split multiple times horizontally.

An oversized jacket is completely altered by adding a belt at the naval, greatly elongating the figure of the wearer which would have otherwise been lost if the jacket were full.

An extreme hourglass shape with the widest points at the shoulders and ankles. A tight hemline on the jacket and an A-line skirt create this abstract silhouette.

Here are examples of how outerwear is affected by what you wear beneath it rather than the opposite. The longer jacket on the left is made softer and more feminine with the loose pleated cropped pants and blouse. The jacket on the right is made more masculine (despite being quite feminine on it's own) by being paired with a dress. The mannish button stance is an amusing touch that reminds us that the jacket is a menswear piece despite everything else going on.

A hip length jacket paired with cropped trousers elongates the top block and shortens the legs. It's an interesting effect that is quite easy to pull off.

A conventional length bomber jacket over drop-crotch pants is helped along by a very long-line split hem shirt even though the the pants and shirt are the same color, the horizontal break is still there. The longline shirt diminishes the depth of the crotch length.

Pretty much anything goes, but it's hard to get there if you don't pay attention to how forms change on your body and what you pair them with.

Some basic visual breakpoints for folks to keep in mind are:

• The bottom of the chest - Think shrug/bolero length
• Navel
• Modern waist
• Hip
• Knee
• Mid-calf
• Ankle

With these breakpoints you can add layers that hit different breakpoints to create different proportions. You can use color to create or hide contrast between sections. You can vary widths to explore more complex forms. You can leverage accessories to delineate breakpoints. You can tuck, roll, and whatever else to also hit those horizontal visuals to help play with proportion and change the silhouette.

Try to think of your fit as a composition of shapes and then, you can look better in outerwear (and everything else too).

shout out to japanese designers esp for having so many options

@AnarchaPrincess@hexbear.net does this fit?

I want to try to find one or two pieces to snazz up my exptremely basic wardrobe so I can feel good going out again. I like the techwear look bc I'm a huge dork. The problem is I mean "huge" literally. I'm very tall and pushing 270, and techwear is notoriousaly for skinny fit kids so i'ma need expert advice to find anything that fits. Which brings me to - does anyone know of a lemmy techwear instance?

Twitter suit guy may be annoying but his series on developing your own style from the ground up is great:

Everything is contextual to an aesthetic. A hundred years ago, the scope for good taste—what Bourdieu would describe as legitimate taste—was confined to the taste of the ruling class. That is no longer the case today. This means rules about colors, silhouettes, proportions, and other such ideas are contextual to the aesthetic you’re trying to create. I’ve written some posts about how to think about silhouettes and color. But whenever a reader emails me to ask whether black pairs with blue or if a particular garment fits correctly, I feel that, in today’s culturally open world, you have to start with the aesthetic, not compartmentalize things as universal rules. This is partly why some guys who favor classic tailored clothing struggle with casualwear—they try to transport cultural ideas about suits and sport coats to very different aesthetics, such as workwear or sportswear. Sometimes rules can stretch across aesthetic spaces (like ideas linking romantic languages); sometimes, they do not (like trying to apply English grammar rules to Chinese). Derive your rules from aesthetics and your aesthetics from culture.

last one as im getting rate limited byeeeee

bonus one that i didnt wanna make a post for as the image quality is trash