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I think Derek Guy (@dieworkwear and "the Twitter menswear guy") is a decent "Matt Levine" for the menswear space, as much as there can be one for a subjective s
by open-paren 2y ago
I think Derek Guy (@dieworkwear and "the Twitter menswear guy") is a decent "Matt Levine" for the menswear space, as much as there can be one for a subjective subject.
He focuses on the clothes first and never his personal celebrity, although he uses his Twitter platform to promote the desire for affordable housing and respect for immigrants fairly frequently. I don't think there is a picture of him anywhere on the internet. He violently rejects all paid content opportunities. Instead, he focuses on the aspects of good tailoring, "shape and drape", and the history of many menswear items. His bug thing is that "clothing is a cultural language" that all speak.
* putthison.com (he is among the writers, but the big itself is mostly dead now-a-days)
* dieworkwear.com (his personal, infrequent blog)
* styleforum.net (a forum where he used to participate a lot)
I wish his (substantial) Twitter activity was available elsewhere.
- mhh__ 2y agoThe menswear guy spends a ridiculous amount of time just trying to own people in his replies which honestly seems extremely childish. e.g. I saw someone say "Don't try to go toe to toe with him, he grew up in [snakepit forum with lots of insults]" — these forums are for morons (for which there is time and a place) I don't see the similarity with Levine.
- crashabr 2y agoI'm pretty sure that everyone who reads him for his knowledge would agree that the research (even if from his own past writings), formatting, illustration of his many threads take him much more time than the one-up replies. They're also pretty easy to ignore (unless you somehow feel offended by them), and mainly appear on people's feeds because of how retweeted they are.
- mhh__ 2y agoSo I don't feel offended but one of them was scrapping with a minor (and once fairly controversial although I think he's cleaned up his act a lot, but I still don't trust) British political figure for not wearing a suit right or something, because he suggested that his ideology destroyed the world of menswear that he hankers for. I'm sort of inclined to agree even if I don't care. Dispute aside, I just found it a bit strange because the other guy shops at primark (cheap and crap mass produced clothes) and hates wearing suits, but he just kept trying to dunk on him. I'd hate to be friends with someone like that. Obviously if you just want to know if your suit is good or not then it doesn't matter.
- _bin_ 2y agoYeah second this. Most of Levine’s critique is well-aimed, well-reasoned, and well-directed at significant people. Menswear’s “critique” consists mostly of trying to “own” random hundred-follower anons. Same vibes as Ben Shapiro “owning libs” by “debating” random, unprepared college students.
- open-paren 2y agoHe absolutely wastes the bits dunking on dumb people in the comments, but his on topic writing is unparalleled. Take his most recent blog post, American Space Cowboys. It's an indepth discussion on the fashion of the Apollo 11 trainees. That kind of article doesn't happened very often and has lots of fundamental principles and history of workwear dress pieces.
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- klausa 2y agoMy Levine backlog has grown to the size of multiple novels by now; but I guess I consider Derek's dunking on people in his replies as similar in spirit to Levine's making fun of weird crypto stuff and NFTs? Sure, one is less personal, but the ~ vibe ~ doesn't seem that much different. That's one of the things that makes reading Money Stuff so fun!
- mhh__ 2y agoI think Levine works because he writes like a company memo written after a glass (but no more) of wine.
- klausa 2y agoYour company memos sound much nicer than mine!
- stogot 2y agoLevine does this more or less objectively as he’s pointing out the fallacies of crypto bros. Like Sam’s box theory, which turned a fallacy into fraud
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- ZephyrBlu 2y agoHe does have a lot of good info, but also shits on people very frequently. I would prefer if he was a little more polite.
- Ar-Curunir 2y agoThe people he shits on are usually people who get offended by the implicit vaguely left-ish politics of his posts. I don't see the harm in him dunking on them, since it doesn't affect the quality of his actual content.
- stogot 2y agoPolitics is not an acceptable excuse of bad behavior
- carabiner 2y agoMenswear guy has never shown how he actually dresses and his "critiques" are just political statements. For any political figure, it's left-leaning views == good dress, that's all.
- elevatedastalt 2y agoYou are being downvoted but you are exactly right. Whatever redeeming value Derek's fashion statements have has been completely overtaken by his insufferable political avatar.
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- nrlucas 2y agoIs it insufferable because you disagree or because you think this shouldn't be a space he has a right to discuss? I don't know mate, if you cannot ignore it, which I find it pretty easy to personally, then maybe this isn't a Derek Guy issue.
- elevatedastalt 2y agoNo, funnily enough, I do agree with some of that. It is still insufferable because he is using his authority and social media clout in one sphere (fashion, which I used to respect him for, and which he had earned) as a cover to air his political opinions (where he is no different from the next person). > I don't know mate, if you cannot ignore it, which I find it pretty easy to personally, then maybe this isn't a Derek Guy issue. These swipes aren't necessary. This trick of trying to make me look like the bad guy isn't going to work. As for ignoring him, yes, I did. I unfollowed him because it was clear he was no longer a reliable authority on fashion for me.
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