Client: Hey I’m a villain in an anime setting who is looking to intimidate an everyman protagonist.
Tailor: Will you be saying “Muhaha?”
Client: Oh most definitely.
Tailor: Better add the cape then.
Oh man, did you know that the capes thing was actually in-world propaganda/disinformation in the movies? Syndrome killed all the people listed as having cape accidents, so it was like a go-to coverup that they died in cape related ways, like the people making the cover stories didn’t have the creativity to come up with anything else. And it just ended up making capes seem like a bad idea.
Wait, does the movie actually show that? Are any of the same heroes cited by Edna as cape accidents also shown in Syndrome’s database as being killed by him instead?
Yeah, it doesn’t point it out, but if you check the names, they are all there.
This got me curious enough to go re-watch the scenes involved. The five supers Edna names are not shown in Syndrome’s records (at least not the ones Bob looks up).
Ah, nevermind then. I was taking it on word from someone else. Guess I shouldn’t do that, even for something that would be weird to make up.
Always remember that people can just go on the internet and say shit.
Is this image playing at about 396fps, or is my lemmy browsing app not able to handle this image right?
This reminds me of this Georgian wedding attire:
I too need a vest of throwing knives.
Every girl’s crazy about a sharp dressed man.
hahahaha nice
The man’s coat is some variation of the traditional go-to celebratory attire of Georgia and other Caucasian cultures. Originally also used as a military garb, afaik, if not an everyday dress even. It’s called chokha or cherkeska.
I love that Americans think Caucasians means white people. Actually, scratch that, I hate it because it’s based on 19th Century pseudo-scientific nonsense that literally claims that “mongoloid” is a sub-race of humanity.
That’s one of the reasons but there’s also the fact that we had no fucking clue where white people were from and most of the oldest artifacts from before the Iron Curtain were found in the Caucasian mountains. Given that the Hittites were the oldest known and best researched Indo-European group and their proximity to the Caucasian mountains you end up with a bit of a weird bias.
While a lot of this shit has origins in 1800s racism the ones that stuck around did so because of long term misunderstandings. There was also a short lived hypothesis that different “races” evolved from different species of ape, though that one didn’t survive particularly long.
It’s not our fault, all our standardized tests growing up had us pick that bubble if we were white and it never came up anywhere else.
I would like both these outfits please.
Square Enix has entered the Fashion Industry.
Invest in belt stocks, hurry!
“Do you take your spouse until the end of time? As your final relationship? Your final fantasy?”
This is also my dream.
Wanna just do it?
I sent this to my friend along with a message about how much I’d love to see men start wearing this sort of thing, and his response was nothing but “that would get so dirty”
😭 quit being practical! Get it professionally cleaned between use, like a tux! Rent it or smth! Wedding dresses drag on the floor too, but you, the man, are too good to get dirty???
Smdh.
I wore a cape to university one day as a bit. A guy in a passing car threw a drink at me in protest.
I’m not saying he was wrong, but I am sorry it happened. If it helps, someone once threw a kebab at me in a passing car. It was mixed grill.
Damn, that’s expensive
I know!
Bon appetite!
That sucks. People suck. How’s men’s fashion ever going to improve if people are so shit about anything outside the norm?
Isn’t it the thing about fashion that it never improves, just endlessly changes? So men’s fashion, not changing, has simply left the wheel of samsara.
I feel at one with my dad jeans with holes in them, and t-shirt with a jumper that should have probably been washed a few days ago
I do larp, so I wear an above average number of capes and cloaks. It’s super inconvenient, but at historically capes would end up at the lowest around your calves, because yeah this gets dirty.
And historically, that meant you’d drag it through literal shit that was in every street, not just road-dirt. It would get destroyed pretty quickly too. Also, as a dutch person, capes have the problem of not letting your a bike, which is a terrible thing of course.
I’m not going to lie. I love it.
ty for being honest.
I’d love to marry a dude rocking this. He better walk down the aisle too tho
Walk nothing. I’ll be on a palanquin carried by my groomsmen.
are they in formal attire or just a loincloth as is custom?
It’s a formal occasion so loincloths, French cuffs (not the shirt, just the cuffs), and bowties. And formal sandals.
That’s called Chippendales.
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Okay then
I never saw Chip, Dale, Monterey Jack, Gadget, or Zipper dressed like that.
Foreal dude, this is savage
We’re still slowly working our way out of a doldrums era where male clothing has to be undecorative and functional. C’mon lads, we can do this! Let’s peacock again.
DANDY TIME
The only thing I could pull off with that outfit is the hairstyle.
Ahh to be overweight and the ability to make anything seemingly cool look like a holloween costume.
There are options, you just need a different cut.
This, OP’s image, wouldn’t work for me. Not saying there isn’t anything that might be as cool. Im thinking, full mech suit.
I think I saw something with an older Orson Welles in something kinda similar a step or two less dramatic. English noblemen wore something less embellished for a while. I think one of the Louie’s wore a cape with heels and mostly nailed it.
You’re just afraid to work and experiment with the realities of your body and what works on it visually.
The thing i like about this outfit is the dark esthetic with a sharp profile. Rounding it out wouldn’t be as cool imo and adding embellishments to mimic the sharp angles would make it over sized.
There’s options, man.
Yes, mech suit. Im ready.
Okay which manhua is this outfit from?
You can’t see it but it’s probably got little belts just above the biceps.
Gives real gonna get shot in Sarajewo vibes.
So if you’re lonely, you know I’m here waiting for you / I’m just a cross-hair, I’m just a shot away from you
Bulletproof capes when?
On the one hand: It’s downright regal and impressive. Imposing, even.
On the other: I don’t own enough land, or run enough countries, to pull this look off.
For a fun photoshoot, sure, but we’d better have other costumed people and a movie set to contextualize it as something wholly fictional and otherworldly. Otherwise, as this thread illustrates, people are going to draw their own conclusions and they’re not all going to be nice.
Eh, I’d say it just takes the right event. Beers with the boys at the blue-collar bar? Probably a bad idea. Any event that says ‘semi-formal’ to ‘formal’? Fuck it, we ball.
Looks cool, but I’ve got my heart set on “sexy clown.”
let’s normalize this nice ass shit as normal man clothes.
men “abandoned their claim to be considered beautiful” and “henceforth aimed at being only useful”.[3] The Great Renunciation encouraged the establishment of the suit’s monopoly on male dress codes at the beginning of the 19th century.
Goddamnit, I just watched a video yesterday where this topic was mentioned and now I see it everywhere
Because it’s time for a counterrenunciation! [email protected]
TIL thank you.
maybe we need an unrenunciation.
While that does look awesome, it also looks incredibly high-maintenance and hot. I’ll stick to jeans, thanks.
It does look hot!
And $$$
And the cape would get stuck in car doors, office chairs, etc. Seems like a royal nuisance.
I mean … it’s late fall. “hot” isn’t exactly a huge issue right now. Dare I say, this actually looks too cold? A warm coat would ruin the look.
What is life and love if not a permadeath game of Fire Emblem with me as the caped protagonist and my wife, the canonical love interest.
Anime villain look
