This is such a cool concept to cover! Re:aspirational/inspirational content, I do think social media scratches the same itch that going to a museum or a play does. We just enjoy seeing the drama, visually consuming the art, but on social media we aren’t primed to decouple seeing the cool thing with *wanting* the cool thing or the life of the person in the cool thing. It’s a hard venue in which to appreciate beauty without immediately feeling pressure to *do* something with the new information.
Yes! I wanted to liken it to going to the museum. We are seeing art, but sometimes in a way that makes us feel like we need to become art… that’s what I worry about
I also am so into the "normal clothes". To me I think of them as "vintage inspired" because the clothes remind me of the nice quality clothes that people wore 50-100 years ago, that we still wear today as well. It's very hard to describe, but there is an effortless, natural quality of the clothing that feels eternal. Love your channel btw. Found you on instagram and am happy you've come to youtube as well.
I appreciate your distinction between selling a lie and selling a fantasy. I look at a lot of fashion content that isn't at all how I like to dress (and in fact I'm often turned off by more "relatable" fashion content), but I don't view these over-the-top outfits as "inauthentic" or a lie even if they do feel like a performance or a fantasy. Rather, I feel that the outifts I see are the products of a very different set of priorities that underlie getting dressed. It's aspirational not because I aspire to it but because it's using a different set of priorities that is less realistic/desirable for me and my life. But I think a lot of "relatable" fashion content starts and ends with replication (dupes, dressing to trends, copying looks seen on others) without consideration of this underlying system of priorities. Relatability for me (the kind I like) isn't about accessibility (my ability to access or replicate what I'm seeing) but about recognizing that, when getting dressed, someone was guided by a set of priorities more similar (or applicable with some modification) to my own. Also, I've enjoyed your fashion thoughts on other platforms; excited to get to hear/see more of your thoughts here!
ur so right about thisss, i love fashion in an everyday way. sometimes if i'm too lost in the social media fashion fantasy, i feel bad about my personal style. especially as a person living from paycheck to paycheck, fashion fantasy is unattainable and constantly reminds you what you don't have. so here for u coining "lived in" fashion
I am so with you about the aversion to "clean" looking outfits/pieces. I think that's part of the reason I have procrastinated being intentional about my outfits for years.
I AGREE. there is something so inorganic about wearing brand new clothing or seeing it on others. there is no life in the clothing. i see this a lot in everything that is mass produced including films, music, books; they all lack the feeling of being lived in. movie costumes are so clean and fresh, there is no room left for grime and, at the risk of sounding redundant, there is no life. sets arent lived in or organic, they're too (like you said) CLEAN. mass production of music has removed the individuality and actual emotion, because it's all following a formula that the producers know will sell. same with books. i think it's tragic and i wish i knew how to change it.
on the point of people dressing "like themselves", you're so right and i follow you because of this view. there's a quality in dressing in an every day way that seems to be forgotten in modernity. so many people are all trying to make a splash with their outfits that they end up not being themselves. I could write an essay in response to this video but i will spare you at least some of my rambling.
@@z1ggymania this is mostly about me, i don't feel like I'm being true to myself when i dress in elaborate ways. like Percia, I feel most comfortable in simple but good quality clothing. you're right though
I didn’t explain it well but for it’s essentially when you can’t pinpoint which trends or fashion aesthetics someone is adhering to. Obviously people who dress trendy or to a specific aesthetic are still being “themselves”. I just couldn’t think of a better way to phrase it
i feel the same way about this quasi normcore style, and words i've thought of that reflect this style are "lived in" or "familiar." i love seeing those who have passed the honeymoon phase with their nice pieces, or never had the phase to begin with, and just throw pieces on so effortlessly. maybe it's genuine effortlessness now that i think about it! being so in tune with yourself and what you like that you can put an outfit together without even thinking about it. i might be straying from your original point, but i can also appreciate the normalcy in a simple, well put together outfit. would love to see pictures if you can!
really liked this video. I relate to your attraction to normcore/"everyday" fashion. normcore as a 'movement' in the 2014s was very ironic and self-aware, but I find myself attracted to that kind of look. with so many different brands, styles, "aesthetics", there is something comforting in clothing that is somewhat more reserved, basic, "normal". Normcore 2.0.
I see the square with categories and I'm so fucking in. You speak directly to my analytical brain! I mostly view online fashion content as an amped-up version of people watching. I don't live in a city anymore, so my access to it has dwindled significantly due to less people overall and less style-consciousness across the demographic. I do miss the "everyday" outfits, though. I personally only need/want avant-garde in small doses. I think you're onto something with cringe being "tryhard ick". Effort is supposed to be masked. I was thinking about what makes some people seem "cool" vs "lame" recently and so much of it stems from perceived effort or lack thereof. Do they look like they woke up that way? Achieved without breaking a sweat? Naturally knew how to dress? At its core, does not wanting to seem like you put effort in an analog to wanting to be perceived as cool?
authentic/genuine/honest/relatable is a huge social media meta these days, but ofcourse we enjoy outfits that feel true to us or that we feel reflects ourselves... and you mention cringe and tryhardness, i have 'poser' in my lexicon because it really represents that feeling for me. idk, maybe the inspirational everyday feelings, or the fashionable elders, come down to someone having a deep sense of what they like and dont like. i think in my life i encounter more older people that evoke that feeling of.. the outfit being Just Right.... and of course people who live more life have a better sense of what they like and dont like. ( extra note: airports are a great place to experience these inspirations ....)
I'm finding your channel and I really liked your thoughts and the way you shared them here. I'm with you on the ineffable lived-in quality stylish people exude in their clothes (to me "style" and this patina are almost entirely synonymous). It's funny, I just found out about this other youtube channel, Style Thoughts by Rita: the creator came up with a schema of style priorities and outfit-building logics people tend to fall into. There are two axes (Left/Right, roughly internal to external; and Up/Down, roughly expression and impact or introspection and experience) and four quadrants. Everything you're saying here is congruent with the Right+Down quadrant. I enjoyed trying to understand that system as it illuminates others' potential whys and hows - something I find endlessly fascinating, and the reason I'm liking your videos!
Loved this! I agree so so much with the whole "worn in" thing. It's the difference between wearing your clothes and your clothes wearing you I feel. Keep making videos please, I'm a fan!
I totally agree with the points here. I often am very inspired by the grunge movement. There is something so cool to me about the fact that rockstars went from super dolled up, glamorous over the top flamboyant leather, studs and big hair in the 80s to just guys in their everyday clothes in striped shirts and sweaters. It was punk to just be your authentic, raw, emotive self.
i soooooo relate to your psychology of dressing. Thank you for this, and keep on making! The daily mental labour of wanting to communicate something about yourself through your style but not wanting to be lumped into a sub culture that you don't belong to, or a mad trend of current times that happens to align with a forever closet staple...ugh. Also more on being low key stylish. I feel like there is a lot of this on the streets of NYC. Sure, there are also those who are 'doing something' with their clothes, but then there are others in a good pair of selvage jeans, and a really nice well made felt hat (why do so many new yorkers wear hats) and a good fitting white t shirt, a classic pair of sunglasses... reminds me of Ciera Parker's style philosophy...anyway, hey from Berlin!
I love how I discovered this video when I recently reached the same conclusion with my personal style. BTW I love how the video ends as soon as you are done that was such breath of fresh air :)
I think you might like Hannah Louise Poston's fashion videos. She has some good videos on the fantasy self that resonated with me for why I love certain things but will never buy/wear them and how to be okay with that. When I see a beautiful, aspirational outfit that I would never wear, I've started to ask muself why that is. Sometimes it takes a while to figure it out. Sometimes it is nothing more that apperciating a beautiful, well made clothing item or maybe liking the color/texture combination. But I love a sheer floral corset with a pant suit. I think it looks so beautiful. I think I'd look great in that kind of outfit. But I'm never going to buy a sheer corset. I can't wear it to my office or really out in public anywhere I go because its not appropriate/I wouldn't feel comfortable. But I have figured out that I a) adore florals and b) love the combination of professional and feminine/cute in an outfit. I can take those ideas and make femine and professional outfits with florals in them with the pieces I have.
I agree completely with most of your points, in fact I would go even further in saying that an eccentric outfit (for lack of a better word) that looks good in a picture or video will more often than not look significantly worse and crazier in a negative sense in real life. I also don't think it's fucked up to think that to look cool you can't really look like you're trying hard, for me that's just a fact. This is not to say that people who try hard (in fashion or in other fields) are idiots or anything, they are just not "cool". Maybe they don't care about being cool in the sense that I mean, but to me the goal of the fashion "game" is to look good while leaving the observer with a doubt that maybe I didn't even think about what I put on. And again, this is not to be taken literally, people who know me know that I care and that's fine, but the San Francisco dad is the goal for me and I think that social media has distorted our ideas of what actually looks good on people.
Dressing for “FEELING” good. You used the word “looks” a lot. With the focus on how things look vs how things make you feel, the intention of style is lost.
This is such a cool concept to cover! Re:aspirational/inspirational content, I do think social media scratches the same itch that going to a museum or a play does. We just enjoy seeing the drama, visually consuming the art, but on social media we aren’t primed to decouple seeing the cool thing with *wanting* the cool thing or the life of the person in the cool thing. It’s a hard venue in which to appreciate beauty without immediately feeling pressure to *do* something with the new information.
Yes! I wanted to liken it to going to the museum. We are seeing art, but sometimes in a way that makes us feel like we need to become art… that’s what I worry about
I am so ready for the Percia Verlin era of content 👏👏
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I also am so into the "normal clothes". To me I think of them as "vintage inspired" because the clothes remind me of the nice quality clothes that people wore 50-100 years ago, that we still wear today as well. It's very hard to describe, but there is an effortless, natural quality of the clothing that feels eternal. Love your channel btw. Found you on instagram and am happy you've come to youtube as well.
thank you!
longform percia best percia
I appreciate your distinction between selling a lie and selling a fantasy. I look at a lot of fashion content that isn't at all how I like to dress (and in fact I'm often turned off by more "relatable" fashion content), but I don't view these over-the-top outfits as "inauthentic" or a lie even if they do feel like a performance or a fantasy. Rather, I feel that the outifts I see are the products of a very different set of priorities that underlie getting dressed. It's aspirational not because I aspire to it but because it's using a different set of priorities that is less realistic/desirable for me and my life. But I think a lot of "relatable" fashion content starts and ends with replication (dupes, dressing to trends, copying looks seen on others) without consideration of this underlying system of priorities. Relatability for me (the kind I like) isn't about accessibility (my ability to access or replicate what I'm seeing) but about recognizing that, when getting dressed, someone was guided by a set of priorities more similar (or applicable with some modification) to my own.
Also, I've enjoyed your fashion thoughts on other platforms; excited to get to hear/see more of your thoughts here!
ur so right about thisss, i love fashion in an everyday way. sometimes if i'm too lost in the social media fashion fantasy, i feel bad about my personal style. especially as a person living from paycheck to paycheck, fashion fantasy is unattainable and constantly reminds you what you don't have. so here for u coining "lived in" fashion
I am so with you about the aversion to "clean" looking outfits/pieces. I think that's part of the reason I have procrastinated being intentional about my outfits for years.
I AGREE. there is something so inorganic about wearing brand new clothing or seeing it on others. there is no life in the clothing. i see this a lot in everything that is mass produced including films, music, books; they all lack the feeling of being lived in. movie costumes are so clean and fresh, there is no room left for grime and, at the risk of sounding redundant, there is no life. sets arent lived in or organic, they're too (like you said) CLEAN. mass production of music has removed the individuality and actual emotion, because it's all following a formula that the producers know will sell. same with books. i think it's tragic and i wish i knew how to change it.
on the point of people dressing "like themselves", you're so right and i follow you because of this view. there's a quality in dressing in an every day way that seems to be forgotten in modernity. so many people are all trying to make a splash with their outfits that they end up not being themselves. I could write an essay in response to this video but i will spare you at least some of my rambling.
@@chris-eo6cm i get what you mean but what is someones self? and who are we as observers to tell other people to be themselves?
@@z1ggymania this is mostly about me, i don't feel like I'm being true to myself when i dress in elaborate ways. like Percia, I feel most comfortable in simple but good quality clothing. you're right though
I didn’t explain it well but for it’s essentially when you can’t pinpoint which trends or fashion aesthetics someone is adhering to. Obviously people who dress trendy or to a specific aesthetic are still being “themselves”. I just couldn’t think of a better way to phrase it
i feel the same way about this quasi normcore style, and words i've thought of that reflect this style are "lived in" or "familiar." i love seeing those who have passed the honeymoon phase with their nice pieces, or never had the phase to begin with, and just throw pieces on so effortlessly. maybe it's genuine effortlessness now that i think about it! being so in tune with yourself and what you like that you can put an outfit together without even thinking about it. i might be straying from your original point, but i can also appreciate the normalcy in a simple, well put together outfit. would love to see pictures if you can!
really liked this video. I relate to your attraction to normcore/"everyday" fashion. normcore as a 'movement' in the 2014s was very ironic and self-aware, but I find myself attracted to that kind of look. with so many different brands, styles, "aesthetics", there is something comforting in clothing that is somewhat more reserved, basic, "normal". Normcore 2.0.
right it’s not ironic anymore
I see the square with categories and I'm so fucking in. You speak directly to my analytical brain!
I mostly view online fashion content as an amped-up version of people watching. I don't live in a city anymore, so my access to it has dwindled significantly due to less people overall and less style-consciousness across the demographic. I do miss the "everyday" outfits, though. I personally only need/want avant-garde in small doses.
I think you're onto something with cringe being "tryhard ick". Effort is supposed to be masked. I was thinking about what makes some people seem "cool" vs "lame" recently and so much of it stems from perceived effort or lack thereof. Do they look like they woke up that way? Achieved without breaking a sweat? Naturally knew how to dress? At its core, does not wanting to seem like you put effort in an analog to wanting to be perceived as cool?
authentic/genuine/honest/relatable is a huge social media meta these days, but ofcourse we enjoy outfits that feel true to us or that we feel reflects ourselves... and you mention cringe and tryhardness, i have 'poser' in my lexicon because it really represents that feeling for me. idk, maybe the inspirational everyday feelings, or the fashionable elders, come down to someone having a deep sense of what they like and dont like. i think in my life i encounter more older people that evoke that feeling of.. the outfit being Just Right.... and of course people who live more life have a better sense of what they like and dont like. ( extra note: airports are a great place to experience these inspirations ....)
I'm finding your channel and I really liked your thoughts and the way you shared them here. I'm with you on the ineffable lived-in quality stylish people exude in their clothes (to me "style" and this patina are almost entirely synonymous). It's funny, I just found out about this other youtube channel, Style Thoughts by Rita: the creator came up with a schema of style priorities and outfit-building logics people tend to fall into. There are two axes (Left/Right, roughly internal to external; and Up/Down, roughly expression and impact or introspection and experience) and four quadrants. Everything you're saying here is congruent with the Right+Down quadrant. I enjoyed trying to understand that system as it illuminates others' potential whys and hows - something I find endlessly fascinating, and the reason I'm liking your videos!
Loved this! I agree so so much with the whole "worn in" thing. It's the difference between wearing your clothes and your clothes wearing you I feel. Keep making videos please, I'm a fan!
I totally agree with the points here. I often am very inspired by the grunge movement. There is something so cool to me about the fact that rockstars went from super dolled up, glamorous over the top flamboyant leather, studs and big hair in the 80s to just guys in their everyday clothes in striped shirts and sweaters. It was punk to just be your authentic, raw, emotive self.
i soooooo relate to your psychology of dressing. Thank you for this, and keep on making! The daily mental labour of wanting to communicate something about yourself through your style but not wanting to be lumped into a sub culture that you don't belong to, or a mad trend of current times that happens to align with a forever closet staple...ugh. Also more on being low key stylish. I feel like there is a lot of this on the streets of NYC. Sure, there are also those who are 'doing something' with their clothes, but then there are others in a good pair of selvage jeans, and a really nice well made felt hat (why do so many new yorkers wear hats) and a good fitting white t shirt, a classic pair of sunglasses... reminds me of Ciera Parker's style philosophy...anyway, hey from Berlin!
I love how I discovered this video when I recently reached the same conclusion with my personal style. BTW I love how the video ends as soon as you are done that was such breath of fresh air :)
yes a long vid!! love your content so much!!
I FEEL THIS WAY crayy
I think you might like Hannah Louise Poston's fashion videos. She has some good videos on the fantasy self that resonated with me for why I love certain things but will never buy/wear them and how to be okay with that.
When I see a beautiful, aspirational outfit that I would never wear, I've started to ask muself why that is. Sometimes it takes a while to figure it out. Sometimes it is nothing more that apperciating a beautiful, well made clothing item or maybe liking the color/texture combination. But I love a sheer floral corset with a pant suit. I think it looks so beautiful. I think I'd look great in that kind of outfit. But I'm never going to buy a sheer corset. I can't wear it to my office or really out in public anywhere I go because its not appropriate/I wouldn't feel comfortable. But I have figured out that I a) adore florals and b) love the combination of professional and feminine/cute in an outfit. I can take those ideas and make femine and professional outfits with florals in them with the pieces I have.
yes! It took me a while to stop buying things because they’re beautiful and really think hard about whether I would actually use them or not
You get it.
I agree completely with most of your points, in fact I would go even further in saying that an eccentric outfit (for lack of a better word) that looks good in a picture or video will more often than not look significantly worse and crazier in a negative sense in real life. I also don't think it's fucked up to think that to look cool you can't really look like you're trying hard, for me that's just a fact. This is not to say that people who try hard (in fashion or in other fields) are idiots or anything, they are just not "cool". Maybe they don't care about being cool in the sense that I mean, but to me the goal of the fashion "game" is to look good while leaving the observer with a doubt that maybe I didn't even think about what I put on. And again, this is not to be taken literally, people who know me know that I care and that's fine, but the San Francisco dad is the goal for me and I think that social media has distorted our ideas of what actually looks good on people.
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Dressing for “FEELING” good. You used the word “looks” a lot. With the focus on how things look vs how things make you feel, the intention of style is lost.