I’ve recently noticed that a disproportionate number of hashtagmenswear bloggers are college students. To them, I say: what the fuck is wrong with you kids? You have your whole life to dress like a grown man, and a small window in which you can…
Alright, I’m barely on here anymore (maybe you’ve realized?) but fuck this. This is absolute horse shit and made me angry enough that I closed the NetNewsWire app I use to read my favorite few menswear blogs, remembered my tumblr password, logged in and started typing this shit. That’s right, SUPER FUCKING ANGRYYYYYYY.
But really, that’s stupid. First off, as if reading some stuff about clothes and/or snapping the occasional WIWT picture takes up all your time. I spend almost no time on here anymore (last post had to have been before or maybe just after New Year’s) but even back when I did, it did not eat up my life. I’m not sitting at home on tumblr instead of going to parties; I rage hard at parties.
I’m not trying to dress old. In fact, I think there are a lot of obstacles college kids face trying to dress well, exactly because of that notion. This all just reads as a bunch of older dudes pulling shit out of their asses and saying to the “little kids” that they should run along and have fun while the grown-ups do work (as if menswear blogging is anything other than a hobby on the side of whatever your job is, fashion-related or otherwise). I don’t mean to belittle what goes on in the realm of #menswear, because some of the stuff here (most of it, in fact) is really fucking cool. But stop trying to say there are certain groups of people who “shouldn’t” be here and should go elsewhere.
That is all. *mic drop*
P.S. Shameless plug for my sports website that I began with some of my college friends in the little bit of time I could find between all-consuming fashion blogging.
(via thesilentist)
