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For the girls who get it

@PiralisArt @dieworkwear Oh sorry I mean hoi an! And I saw some shops in Hanoi. Saw a lot of people in the amekaji scene checking their tailoring out

There's a simple supply-and-demand answer to this question. On the supply side, tailoring shops have mostly dried up, especially if you live outside of major cities such as London, Tokyo, and New York City. This doesn't mean that you can't get a good suit outside of these urban centers. But doing so requires a lot more effort and knowledge. The photo of Cary Grant below was taken to promote the 1940 romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story. When this image was taken, the average man in North America could reasonably expect to be able to to buy a quality suit from a clothier or tailor within driving distance of his home. Such clothiers and tailors would handle all the details. You would arrive, tell them what you need a suit for (work, wedding, summer, winter), and they would furnish the goods. If you didn't know the social rules or expectations around wearing such clothes, they would tell you. If they didn't know, trade publications such as Apparel Arts of consumer-facing titles such as Esquire would tell them. And then they would pass the information to you. Today, you have to do all the work yourself. Supposing you know where to buy a good suit (meaning in terms of construction quality), you will have to figure out whether it fits and flatters. Does the shoulder line look right? Why are there divots at the sleevehead? Are the quarters supposed to be this open? For many men, especially those outside of major cities, these are questions they'll have to answer themselves. Let's now suppose you've done all the proper research and determined that you do, in fact, have a good suit. Now you will need to get it adjusted, as all ready-to-wear tailoring requires some tweaks (such as lowering the collar or adjusting the sleeves). Do you have a local alterations tailor to handle this for you? If you're in a major city, perhaps; if not, then perhaps not. Let us again suppose you've procured the right suit, got it adjusted, and it looks fantastic. Do you know how to wear it well? Once again, you will have to educate yourself, as most salespeople are not particularly useful in this regard. Many are more concerned about looking young, hip, and fashionable. If you want to wear a suit more classically, like Grant below, you will have to turn to the annoying menswear nerds online, one of whom is snarky progressive non-white immigrant on Twitter. OK, let's say you've got it all figured out — you have the suit, it's been adjusted, and you've learned all the stupid rules the menswear guy on Twitter talks about. We now reach the demand side. Most men don't want to dress like this because it makes them stand out. When everyone else is in t-shirts and jeans, or polo shirts and chinos, a gray Glen check suit with a properly knotted tie (four-in-hand, dimple) will make you look very unusual. Grant even has a collar pin in this pic! There are ways you can dress this down — swapping the suit for a sport coat, the shirt and tie for a denim Western shirt, the gray checked trousers for jeans, etc. But you will stand out. Centuries of Western bias against fashion — an area of culture often deemed too superficial and commercial for "serious" people — means that many people don't want to dress in a way that signals they have an interest in clothes. This goes doubly for men. Since fashion was historically considered not something "serious" people engaged in, and women were pushed out of "serious" professions, such as finance, law, and academia, fashion is often coded as a feminine interest today. Thus, if you're a man who dresses this way while everyone else dresses much more casually, you face two problems. First, some people may deem you to be superficial and potentially of low intelligence. Second, some may also question whether you're gay or fully masculine (sexuality and gender, of course, being two distinct things, but often conflated in a way that suggests gay men are feminine). People who reify traditional gender norms only make it less likely that this sort of garb will be worn again. To me, that's the simple story for why most men don't dress like this: it requires much more effort than it did in the past, both in terms of procuring the clothes and knowing how to wear them. Once done successfully, you also have to be a certain kind of character to not care about standing out. It's a supply and demand problem.

@carnivaljustice This really won me over with her because that is literally my floppy boyfriend. Squishable. Shakable in a small cup

i lost any ill will i had towards her when i saw her shuffling after me hiding behind an upside down book

@Dorkling2 Hello! How have you been friend!

@psiodine 🎉

Hello i’m alive and i will try to be a bit more active here 😼 i hope everyone’s been good

Been busy with life but got back into genshin (lol), also seeing a lot more persona art for mkhr and ykmts and it MIGHT pull me out from retirement

@xoixoi_empty The wine bottle 😭😭😭 from the drama cd 😭😭😭 thank you so much for this!! I love your art and it makes me miss them very much 드라마 CD에 나오는 와인병 😭😭😭 너무 감사합니다!! 작가님의 그림 정말 좋아하고, 덕분에 그들이 너무 그리워져요

@dahkkun HELLOOOO!! Im not active na hehe but thank you and yez masaya naman siya!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @psiodine 🥹🥹🥳🥳🥳 IDK IF URE STILL ACTIVE ON TWTR I HOPE U SEE MY TWT I DONT FOLLOW U ANYWHERE OTHER THAN HERE HELP HDHDHDHD SANA NAGING MASAYA ANG IYONG KAARAWAN HIHIHI

@kimborararara HAHAHAHAHAH SUNDUIN NIYO NA PO SIYA

They are really not resisting. Reminder that the coast guard yearly does so many flood rescues. Last year alone during the worst floods, it’s their hotline that was reachable. They want this protest too.

We must acknowledge the anger in the streets. This is from decades of poverty while those in power keep getting richer. The anger was always bound to explode. The mass arrests of bystanders, of poor people, will not stop the anger. Dapat lang matakot ang gobyerno sa galit ng tao.

@waywardhue SHES SO PRETTY PRI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you order one too? I kinda wish i got sylvain udkdjakdjskckcv

@psiodine AHHHHHH

WIFE IS HOME WIFE IS HOME WIFE IS HOME

@clarencemight MUWAKKKKK

the next chapter of keep a place for me, yukamitsu exes to lovers fic, is up: archiveofourown.org/works/64516492…. bit of an early release but what's new

the mayhem ball directed by lady gaga.

No heavy metal lover WE ARE SAFE.

@jeanneaIters @clarencemight My First and also Last espresso monster❤️

Puts him in a blender and blends him into a milky fruit shake then takes a long sip (lovingly)

@sandiinas Ive known you forever but somehow i never knew how u guys got together HAHDHKSJD so cute man…

everything turned out ok btw we’ve been together for 8 years hehe

fell HARD for my best friend in college. one night before she was to sleep over at mine, i got drunk out of my mind and told her i loved her. she let me down easy. ok, i said, i’ll walk you home? she says: no? sleepover’s still on.. you promised we would watch national treasure