My Fashion Thoughts

AI-generate picture of a man wearing engineer boots, brown side-adjuster chinos and a white tshirt with suspenders in a warehouse at golden hour

“Looks like he works with his hands, chooses his clothes carefully, and never talks about either.”

Fit Rules

Base layers: shoulder seam ON the shoulder Outer layers: shoulder seam can float Fabric weight increases as fit relaxes If something is loose, something else must be sharp

Fit philosophy

I want to look like a refined labourer. Someone who looks like he splits wood down the middle, or atleast is ready to.

As such, yes, thorenbradley is a style inspiration

So what does he wear?

  • straight fit pants, sometimes with double knee
  • suspenders (often through belt loops)
  • a tight t-shirt, often with a pocket

Colours:

The majority of his clothes fit into this colourscheme when he's chopping wood.

Then there's the more refined looks:

Woolen pants, a really heavy corduroy in dark red velvetty material. A grey turtle neck. Truthfully we've moved away from labourer now into fashion-forward.

Dropped shoulders

I don't think that dropped shoulders really work with this aesthetic. They don't make you look powerful which is what we're trying to do.

Maybe this could work:

It de-muscles your silhouette, but if you're particularly beefy, it gives you a security guard look. Or vaguely like a Jason Bourne assassin.

Power in the base layer, ease in the outer layer

Now the thing is, that this will end up looking quite bougie. That is not really what we want.

Shorts

The thing about labourers in shorts is that its harder to make it look refined without departing from the original aesthetic.

For the most part, labourers in shorts look shit. Cargo shorts that are to the knee, chopping off the majority of your leg. Plain, ugly functional clothing.

Thoughts on building an aesthetic

The hardest thing is finding inspo. Finding inspo, although it can be deliberate, is actually very hard to do outside of places that are intended to show you clothes.

In inspo albums that you find online, the good stuff is where they pull something seemingly out of their ass.

This guy was from a random reddit thread. Where did he even get this photo from? Nobody can tell, a reverse image search doesn't turn it up anywhere, the original inspo album it was in no longer exists. Thank god someone saved it somewhere.

So basically, in a sense, building inspiration is about mindfulness. Noticing the world around you and then saving it, cataloguing it when it speaks to you. In a sense its a wonderful metaphor, that life becomes an art gallery. You just walk around and wait for something to 'speak' to you.