Apolyton Fashion Thread

[Elok]

To be fair, every time I've seen a GQ/Esquire at the store or wherever, they haven't really screamed "gay" at me. "Pretentious, sociopathic douchebag in the vein of David Floyd," maybe, but not gay. Sort of a magazine for the discerning gentleman who enjoys walking around a nightclub taking upskirt shots with his cell phone before going home and bragging about his "conquests" on Ladder Theory. Or maybe just strangling hookers. But I only ever glanced at the covers, and I'm likely mistaken.

[DaShi]

GQ is a fine magazine. It's for men whose hookers ask them to be strangled.

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[Flubber]

GQ total circulation for 2011: 939,067. I'm not a publishing wonk so I don't know if those figures are worldwide or what, but that's roughly one out of every how many guys in America, assuming each is a unique purchaser? About one in a hundred and fifty. Esquire's at 719,029. Of course, it's not like printed magazines are a booming business these days anyway, but still...yeah, I imagine there are a lot more than a million gay guys in this country. I don't read the stupid things, but are they all about fashion anyway?

Some of that circulation is women buying for men-- Every year I get some magazines in my Christmas stocking-- I believe GQ was in there a time or two in the early days-- Now she knows better and she gets the Hockey News or Ski Canada

[KrazyHorse]

There's nothing wrong with dressing fashionably. However,

1) only douches wear that yacht club frat boy ****. The majority of women will see that and place the wearer as "Chet the date rapist from Connecticut"

were it not for

2) you live in a ****hole. Stop trying to be something you're not

which brings me to

3) no wonder you get mugged so much

[Az]

1) only douches wear that yacht club frat boy ****. The majority of women will see that and place the wearer as "Chet the date rapist from Connecticut"

ahahahahahaah

no

[Elok]

Aren't you in Israel? Maybe things are different there, but over here...personally, if I saw someone in Alby's getup, I'd first assume he was a rather flamboyant homosexual. But if that hypothesis were disproven, I would pretty much assume he was some sort of douchebag, yeah.

[Az]

Aren't you in Israel? Maybe things are different there, but over here...personally, if I saw someone in Alby's getup, I'd first assume he was a rather flamboyant homosexual.

Alby is wearing **** clothes, this has nothing to do with yachtclub wear

But if that hypothesis were disproven, I would pretty much assume he was some sort of douchebag, yeah.

chicks love "douchebags".

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If you're going to wear yacht club-wear, you might as well tattoo "I am a ****" across your forehead.

[onodera]

Speaking of fashion, I have replaced my dark grey trousers with light grey ones. Summer

[Elok]

Alby is wearing **** clothes, this has nothing to do with yachtclub wear

Kitty said the bit about yachtclubs, though those clothes do seem a bit preppy. More gay than preppy in my opinion, though.

chicks love "douchebags".

Some kinds do, I suppose. Of course, "douchebag" is somewhat ambiguous; I think the specific kind of douchebag those clothes advertise tends to attract those with daddy issues.

[onodera]

Oh god, I saw a hideous specimen today. He was wearing a white long-sleeved zip-up hoodie, knee-long denim shorts and flip-flops.

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I see that fairly often, though replace flip flops with normal tennis shoes.

[Al B. Sure!]

I see that fairly often, though replace flip flops with normal tennis shoes.

DENIM shorts? DENIM? You see DENIM shorts often? On men?

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Oh, denim shorts...never mind.

Yeah I see those now and then on men. Mostly very fat men.