So, alt and punk culture is - because that whole counterculture thing has always had left roots.

However, alt culture has started to go a bit hypebeast crazy - buying clothes that are mad expensive for name brand recognition value.

For me, I have some outfits that I think qualify as Brutalist fashion, if there can be such a thing. Utility fashion. I wear my big manual labour work boots, a sturdy black jacket, then trackies or cargos. It's not meant to be pretty. Just comfy, and useful.

I have another outfit in mind that's a sort of homage to USSR Space Exploration, but it's not fully thought out yet.

Whats some cool lefty fashion stuff? Facts, fits, whatever. Just kinda riff around the subject.

  • BOK6669 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    All im imaging is people who went to private school wearing carhartt and steel toed boots. Thats fucking lame, dont do that, if its not your experience dont pretend it is.

    ...Likewise, dont be like chuds who cant deattach from the "i must make sure everyone sees i work with my hands and am outside" every outfit must be the same because i am insecure/oblivious and smelly/victim of shitty bland right wing culture

    Idunno, Im getting my wires cross on this cause where is the line drawn on vanity and self expression and then on top of it all being lefty.

    Like is lefty fashion... just wearing the shit you wear to work? Thats just kinda weird to me because being leftie isnt a aesthetic choice, its just existing in reality.

    Maybe Fashion is kinda how you interpret the world and how you interpret yourself in that world, and that could be anything... not just some uniform...

    Maybe its like wearing adidas shit knowing you exist in a society where the manufacturing of said adidas stuff is horrifying but you also live in society and want to be a part of it despite its contradictions.

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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      4 years ago

      Nah you're thinkin too literally - I just mean fashion that came out of left wing circles. Hippie stuff is an example off the top of my head. Could also be that you simply like Cuban fashion or whatever.

      I did leave the question very open so a more serious answer like yours is also valid.

      Also, in Europe, Caarhaart isn't a workmans brand - it's called Caarhaart WIP and its more Streetwear based.