A female fashion expert has been sharing her sage insights into the “painful” fashion failings most likely to condemn any man to perpetual bachelorhood, and as is the way with such things, otaku fashion comes in for the obligatory drubbing.
The list, apparently written from the perspective of a desperate 30-something spinster prepared to marry a man on the basis of the quality of his suit:
1. Men who wear clothes which don’t fit their frame
“They don’t even try them on, they just decide they are an M or L and buy some clothes. And it’s bad to just plump for LL just because someone says you are fat.”2. He is too concerned about looking cool and ends up wearing clothes which don’t suit him
“He has an image of guys he thinks are popular, so he just puts on all the stuff he sees in shops and magazines!”3. He dresses in classic otaku style
“A rucksack and a pouch round his waist may be an unavoidable manifestation of his true self, but at least try to make a reasonable first impression. For marriage interviews or parties, proper attire is especially essential.”4. His entire ensemble is Uniqlo
Uniqlo may be decent enough quality, and even trendy in some cases, but dressing head to foot in Uniqlo is no good at all.
The colossal opprobrium attached to rucksacks is of course nothing new and now seems to be part of the classic otaku stereotype.
However, it probably goes without saying that wearing a pink Precure T-shirt is the ultimate faux pas even for otaku, not that such cases are in much danger of meeting anyone in the first place.
Online there is a certain amount of predictable resentment from what is presumably the “fat wannabe Uniqlo otaku” demographic, who certainly seem defensive of their Uniqlo ensembles…
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Just buy XXL...oh wait, stores don't always have that ;(
Especially in Japan, you will hardly find your size if you are a foreigner.
Not having a hard time with that actually
Gonna buy some shirts from X-frm located in the Shibuya 109-2
Maybe if you're a fat foreigner, I'm a size medium and I'm white.
yeah because most foreigners are giant, either too fat or too tall. Asians are just my size :D
correct :d
I'm not fat but I still usually get the larger size. More loose is more comfort.
got bad fashion sense? wear armless hoodie and breeches with socks and sandals, let the haters hate.
Rucksacks are awesome, fuck these women.
These women obviously never have to carry things around. Rucksacks are the most convenient way of carrying stuff around. I carry one while shopping, and if the stuff fits in it, I dump it in leaving my hands free to buy more.
Women have handbags, ever heard of them? :P
and if a guy carry a handbag he's gay
women have men [to carry everything]. they know nothing more than the displeasure of lugging around 2-3pounds of shit.
@13:01 handbags are designed for women, of course it would look gay. Could a guy wear bra and doesn't look like gay?
15:59 never watch Seinfeld, huh?
youtube.com/watch?v=wfONNfAjyrc
as long as it was a satin bra ( faps )
It's like they haven't gone to college. I use a rucksack with all the damn books and for my laptop.
What exactly is a rucksack? Nobody uses the word here in America...
Except for the people who do.
Step one: Imagine a backpack.
Step two: add an otaku.
AND you're done. Now you have a rucksack.
Actually, you WON'T be fucking them, that is the point.
Pants have pockets.
Of course, when shopping at a convention, you need those things. :)
sucks racks
Tthat photo looks like me on the right and my friend on the left, except for the clothes, I mostly use nice stuff and he always uses sport pants and old shoes, lol. But still, we are otakus and he is married (with an otaku gril) and I have a girlfriend (non otaku) so you argument is invalid.
otaku yes, but a geeky looking1 not, I presume
Translation: I'm not attracted to you. But I'd still take Yon-sama even if he dresses in a clown suit.
2. He is too concerned about looking cool and ends up wearing clothes which don’t suit him
“He has an image of guys he thinks are popular, so he just puts on all the stuff he sees in shops and magazines!”
^_^
Translation
Your Fashion is a no
I need the money for my fashion and shoe shopping
4. His entire ensemble is Uniqlo
Uniqlo may be decent enough quality, and even trendy in some cases, but dressing head to foot in Uniqlo is no good at all.
I don't think their clothing sucks :)
Yeah, I don't get the Uniqlo hate. Their quality is surprisingly good; I still wear stuff I bought there 4 years ago since it hasn't shown any sign of wear. I wish I could say the same for stores in the US...
i wanna keep single for life wtf you talking about like its a bad thing! LoL 3D pigs i'll pass thx.. i get everything i need from PC + INTERWEBS =D
Somebody doesn't like them sour grapes.
Hrrrggg!!!
Woman often very stupid choosing man.
Woman whine man's choices bad, but man's choices good. Big breasts and hips good for make and feed strong sons. (1) But most man take most any woman if can be nice and demure and clean home and cook food!
That why still worthless man around and multiply. Man who can't hunt or work, man who can't fight, man who no talent but sit around all day trying to talk woman into bed. With modern New World Order laws can't just kill these, hrrrggg...
1 - Me from "Huga Buga" descent. Plenty of "Clan of the Cave Pedo bear" here, doubtless sent by first Emperor of China to hunt for an "Invisible" hermit to get rid of them.
Thanks sankaku, i totally wanted fashion tips from a site about anime and hentai.
I think the point is "we don't need to make fun of these fashion tips, they make fun of themselves just by existing". YMMV whether it actually works as such in this case.
But even if I'm wrong, it's still a Japanese pop-culture thing. Which makes it more sensible to include on this site than a lot of other things that make it here (like the exploding chinese refrigerators and such).
So in the eyes of this "fashion expert", you're not cool if you don't dress cool. If you try wearing cool clothes, then you're not cool.
That's REALLY informative >_>
It's the usual fashion hypocrisy.
"Hot" males can can wear large glasses and enjoy nerd culture openly, but if an average-to-ugly guy enjoys the same things, they are an outcast.
that's because they happen to be ugly and just don't look good in it. That said, I find people who dress like 'geeks' to be supremely pretentious.
You can still be not good looking and have a fashion sense, though.
Fuck clothes. I walk out of the house naked and start jerking off at any pretty gal I see. Like a BAWS
Reminds me of this public service announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVuAGFcGKY
Thanks! I loled!
I don't see the conflict.
Advice 2 is "avoid tunnel vision trying too hard to look cool, don't forget to find stuff that fits you well too". That's probably like don't try to look like a gangsta or a guido if you are not one.
Advice 3 is " don't wear weird stuff like otaku pouches". The old american equivalent would be the nerdy pens on the front pocket, today would be the childish ironic t shirts.
Advice 4 is " don't go out wearing only Uniqlo stuff". Probably applies to any brand, don't look like you only shop at one place.
I have my doubts that guys, in general, would bother shopping for clothes in more than one place. The cool and the uncool alike.
This argument is invalid. It's only theoritical.
Cool people know not to wear a single brand. My sister tries to hammer that lesson in every time I dress up to leave the house
TxT
But I get bonus defence for wearing the same brand...
The truely cool people dont give a shit about brand.
I'm the same way. I probably at most shop at 3 different stores because for me, my style and the stores I shop at pretty much look the same to me. But No.4 isn't really that bad. If you are decent-looking guy in your getup, she'd be willing to change where you shop anyway.
Hell, I don't even know where half my clothes came from cos its all second hand lol.
I always buy my clothes online in 1 shop... they have ALL dumb brands and its comfortable to not have to go in some stores in the city.
So, i dont understand why people would wear just 1 brand..
I think the US equivalent to #3 would be "don't wear fanny packs".
I really have to agree with #2 though, it just looks stupid, gross in some cases, to wear cloths that aren't obviously not the right size for you. Though I suspect that one was posed as even the slightest wrong size given how ridiculously picky women can be.
so basically, these 4 points of fashion can be summed up as this: don't be ugly and have lots of money.
There is no male so ugly that no matter how much money he will never be atractive for women.
Reminds me of the cripple dude in Shallow Hal, where the gold digging skank suddenly became 'available' after he made his millions.
/women are all whores
In Japan, money is all that matters to women.
If you're ugly, they'll just divorce you and take half of your shit.
To all the weeaboos out there: Japan is great. Just don't get yourself involved with women there.
Cause you'll get arrested for even breathing the same air as them.
technically, wouldn't we throw the same things at women?
or do you guys like the poor fuglies?
Some of the shit Japanese females wear is downright laugh out loud..
Hard to take this seriously..
You can dress well without trying to imitate movie stars and anime characters. That's the gist of t.
if i shave and put on glasses, i look like shiki tohno, is THAT cosplay?
meh women.. thats why i rather just be single.
bitches & whores
Basically the rule is to:
1. be fit and attractive
2. don't be unfit and unattractive
Quite simple actually