Do normies really have no concept of quality or nice things? Is it really just whatever is trendy at the moment with no regard for quality? Every single thing this guy owns is cheap garbage, glued on soles, not welted, etc. It's pure junk, but he's so proud of his collection and showing it off. I just don't understand
Everything good is either too expensive or they’re paid to shill this crap. What? You thought some wannabe influencer was going to recommend quality products because they care about their audience?
>>18708180 Socks with loafers has been ivy for a century.
>>18708050 Quality matters less than you think, after a baseline where things don't fall apart in casual wear. Especially if you have like 3-4 pairs of penny loafers, it's unlikely you will wear through them and would bother finding someone to not botch a repair etc. It's the objectively correct choice to buy affordable shoes that you throw away when they break.
I have my fantasies of repairing my boots forever but the reality is this became the norm because of valid reasons.
>>18708050 Fuck no. People just buy whatever is popular or good looking regardless whether it’s good quality or not. You think a guy on the street even knows what corrected or full grain leather is?
>>18708285 No matter how long, how much and how ridiculously you try to keep coping like a literal subhuman cuck, — shorts with loafers and muh white sport socks look like SHIT.
Fast fashion had completely warped people's perception of value. The other day at work coworkers started talking about expensive quality footwear and of course what was brought up as the apex of quality was Doc fucking Martens, with multiple people remarking that as good as they are they wouldn't pay the onerous sum of a hundred and fifty ish dollars that a pair of them cost.
>>18709700 >with multiple people remarking that as good as they are they wouldn't pay the onerous sum of a hundred and fifty ish dollars that a pair of them cost I experienced something just like this with my family. My brother is getting married and wants to get his first pair of proper nice, good quality leather shoes. When parents saw how much they cost (Allen Edmonds, which I don't even recommend, cost 300+) they went off about how ridiculous it is and how expensive it is But my mom exclusively shops at Kohl's and wear garbage and my dad wears Walmart dress shoes They have absolutely zero idea of what quality looks like or actually costs, but they are extremely quick to tell you you're wasting your money of something "overpriced"
>>18708050 >muh quality Fuck off back to 2014 reddit mfa Even the best quality shoes don’t last forever and can’t be repaired any more. If you buy something that you’ll wear and can incorporate it into nice fits, then sometimes fast fashion brands are ok
>>18710924 This is speaking as someone who fell for the capsule wardrobe meme in 2013 and now none of the clothes fit because I got jacked and the clothes’ fit are dated by modern clothes standards anyway
>>18708050 how do you measure "quality"? is there a point in spending hours researching obscure noname brands online and/or talking to insufferable autists about these brands and then paying 3x what you would pay for a shoe you could get at any good mall?
>>18709713 When your dad/mom shop for clothes, this is what they're thinking: Is this going to bring negative attention to me? Is this comfortable enough for me? Is this affordable to me?
There is no consideration for anything deeper or striving for more. It's basically just if it's good enough for their purposes.
>>18712683 My grail shoe is the JM Weston 180 but apparently their sizing is bat shit retarded I don't live in France so I don't think I'll ever get to try one on in person to finally get my pair
>>18708197 so you can buy 3-4 pairs of poor quality penny loafers or one pair of good ones for the same total cost. i don't see the advantage of buying 3-4 when you could just have one that also happened to not be made by child slave laborers
>>18712812 Normies literally do not see it that way. They see the opportunity to own 3-4 pairs that they can use to make outfits based on whatever is trendy at the time. When the trend is gone they toss the shoes and get 3-4 new pairs of the next thing
>>18713338 the best part about that is that they're the same retards and npcs who think the world is going to end because of global warming because the 87iq influencer told them
>>18710924 >>18710927 >capsule wardrobe >took steroids because of a children's entertainment app called "tikkity tok" that's because you are a soulless npc who never had good taste to begin with. you copied a infographic jpeg you saw off 4chan and you expected that shit to be "timeless"? lol? im still wearing tons of jeans, hoodies, crewnecks, tees, shirts, trousers, fatigues etc from 20 years ago. all my y2k and post y2k shit is trendier than ever right now. i mog all the zoomers in their drop shipped fake acne's with my 20 year old evisus. can't tell you how many w2c's i've gotten the last few years.
>>18708050 black guys have a lower bar than others. so once one of them makes like 80k, they are proud to spend it on brands they have always heard of but couldn't really afford. it's never goign to be designer though
>>18710924 Nothing last forever, but a traditionally crafted shoe can be taken apart and reconstructed. If taken care of they have many decades of life in them.
>>18716242 >a traditionally crafted shoe can be taken apart and reconstructed Which will cost you several hundred dollars assuming you can even find a cobbler skilled enough to trust them not to fuck up your shoes.