Normcore

[Borachio]

So here it is: I'm officially fashionable.

Normcore, as I understand it, is dressing in a way that makes you thoroughly unremarkable in a crowd.

http://www.today.com/style/normcore-seinfeld-look-turns-bland-fashion-trend-2D79317923

Being boring is now beautiful. In fact, it’s downright trendy.

The newest fashion craze sweeping the hipster nation is a rewind of the early 1990s, when stonewashed jeans, big white sneakers, ill-fitting baseball caps, turtlenecks and fleece jackets were the rage, and the socks-with-sandals look rocked.

The trend known as "normcore" exudes an attitude that embraces uniformity and manifests itself in “ardently ordinary clothes. Mall clothes. Blank clothes. The kind of dad-brand non-style you might have once associated with Jerry Seinfeld,” according to the recent New York Magazine article that helped encapsulate the look behind the term.

Just spend the minimum you can on clothing, avoid any logos like the plague, and look like someone from Eastern Europe.

Hey presto! A fashion icon. And I've not had to do anything. I call that a win.

 

[Kyriakos]

So normcore=grunge.

Even grunge sounds better..

Btw, i found (while looking for grunge look) this nice image of Novoselic sticking his hand up a marionette of Cobain.

Could also be the Million Dollar Man and Andre the Giant.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Does wearing subdued colors count? Bright hues are rare in my wardrobe.

 

[Borachio]

Yes, I think that qualifies. If you can pass unnoticed in a crowd, because of what you're wearing, then you've got it covered.

 

[warpus]

My wardrobe is purely lazycore, which is a couple levels cooler than normcore.

What's with this trend (fad?) to slap a hashtag on everything though? Just because I eat bacon for breakfast doesn't make me baconcore.

 

[Borachio]

Is that what the "core" thing is about?

I don't understand all these technicalities. I thought, at first, it was "Norm Corps".

 

[Kyriakos]

I like the term "PopCore", used to signify purely pop/trash beat stuff produced in the 2000s

 

[Dralix]

the socks-with-sandals look rocked

No. It didn't. It doesn't. It never will.

 

[warpus]

Is that what the "core" thing is about?

I don't understand all these technicalities. I thought, at first, it was "Norm Corps".

Well, to me it seems like a bunch of kids sitting there slapping labels on things.

 

[Borachio]

Ah. I see, I think.

That's what this hashtag thing is, then? I never got the idea of why they do that. Is it supposed to help a search engine or something?

A bit like marking an envelope Tsunami Appeal, or whatever?

 

[Farm Boy]

No. It didn't. It doesn't. It never will.

It's never stopped rocking. Well, if you were looking for comfort instead of trying to impress people that care about the fashion of your feet.

 

[Dralix]

It's never stopped rocking. Well, if you were looking for comfort instead of trying to impress people that care about the fashion of your feet.

I fail to see how socks are more comfortable than bare feet. Don't imprison your feet in socks. Set them free.

 

[Borachio]

I never understood people's aversion to socks and sandals either. A lot depends on what you mean by a sock and a sandal of course. And whose feet they are on.

Still, let the fashionista fascists get on with their essential work of educating the rest of us.

What's the word on the street about wellies and shorts, btw?

 

[warpus]

Ah. I see, I think.

That's what this hashtag thing is, then? I never got the idea of why they do that. Is it supposed to help a search engine or something?

A bit like marking an envelope Tsunami Appeal, or whatever?

I just picture a bunch of kids sitting there slapping tags on things passing by. Someone wearing red shoes and black pants? #redshoesblackpants

Heck, I don't know what I'm talking about anymore.

Down with kids

 

[Farm Boy]

I fail to see how socks are more comfortable than bare feet. Don't imprison your feet in socks. Set them free.

Depends on how much you plan on walking that day, for me. Socks are comfortable, make it remarkably hard to get blisters from sandals you don't get to wear terribly often, and breathe just peachy. Plus, if it's hot, white socks help keep your sandal-clad feet cool, non-sunburned, and since mine tend to be cotton, they keep them pretty sweat free too. It's pretty much total win if you don't mind the sock tan lines. What's not to like? I'm a fat 30 something dude with a farmer tan to begin with. Odds are, if a person cares enough about appearance to not like my white socks and sandals then I wasn't going to be impressing them to begin with. So why should I care about that instead of the reasons they rock?

 

[bhsup]

So I just keep doing my clothes shopping at walmart and I'm good to go?

 

[Borachio]

And it saves passersby the shock of seeing one's possibly less than perfectly attractive neat hairy feet.

Not only are you good to go, Mr Sup, you're positively at the cutting edge of fashion. So ra! ra! ra!

 

[Farm Boy]

So I just keep doing my clothes shopping at walmart and I'm good to go?

I was going to recommend a slightly more expensive option for increased durability of product, but it appears they don't go south quite far enough. Walmart's fine!

 

[bhsup]

Cool! Ya know, I've always felt Randy Travis was the best fashion mentor on the planet.


Link to video.

EDIT: @Farm Boy: We have a small (and I mean small, like 5 outlets total) chain called Family Center. It used to be Tractor Parts & Farm Supply. They have good clothing too in their two larger stores.

 

[Farm Boy]

Yeap! Once you wash the smell of tires out, the clothes are just dandy. Can prolly even spring for Carhartt if you are feeling rich or it's something you are going to wear the piss out of.