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Okay.. every genre of music has some style attached to it that people can sport to fully embrace their culture. If you listen to country, you put on a cowboy hat and dress kicker-- if you like rap, you get bling bling and sports jerseys, if you're all indiepop, you get the small shirts and the thick rim glasses. (all personal epitomes, I'm not going for perfect accuracy.. so please don't go correcting my sterotypes! :*) .. but anyway.. electronic music fans, specifically IDMers, don't have one! :(. Even ravers can dress all raver-like! I know this topic's come up before.. but I think we should start a style! Also, maybe something discreet but unique that will be like a way that IDM fans can pick each other out of a crowd.. like a backwards cap, only not. I don't know. I just think it would be fun! Any suggestions? |
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IDM = hobos that don't shave. lots of brown and real ugly colours. etc |
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idm: cowboy hat with computer chip decoration, throwback jerseys for teams that don't exist, rhimestone glasses elton john style |
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interesting topic even though i also have sorta a hip hop influence, i either wear a ball cap or my Rocawear wool cap and wear semi-baggy jeans or khakis with a Puma zip-up sweater and NYC Subway Line shirts. i dress however i like without going to extremes. |
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i never fully have subscribed to any one group, so i've hovered around preppy-goth (just lots of black, but then again, it's usually ralph lauren or banana republic, so uh)- and skater. and that's me |
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you could be a goth-lete ;) |
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i am all over the map. but my favourite is baggy cords and a plain tshirt. i like my plain black low-top coverse shoes, but then again, i just bought some brightass orange adidas. |
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tracky dacks |
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i wear solid color t-shirts and khaki or courderoy pants with brown shoes. |
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Current style for me is what I call Euro-Terrorist-Chic...Foucault with Attitude...Shaved head, polo-neck crew...big baggy trousers.... Lots of Black, lots of Army Surplus camo functional stuff with features (i.e. lots of weird pockets etc...)... And the odd designer piece...mainly John Richmond as his logo is a simple "John" tag...Handy for when I forget my own name :)... I'm lucky as work is kinda ok about whatever I wear, so I wear pretty much the same at work, rest & play...a welcome chnage from my days at the Finanicial Times & The Guardian when suits were expected..... |
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It's all about the carpenter jeans for me. Some t-shirt t-shirts, and some patterned t-shirts, a couple of button ups. how about we all wear eyepatches over our left eye right eye eye patches will be for the squares |
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hehe, Cool...Eyepatches...I'm so very tempted... |
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peglegs and bandanas too! YARR |
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That would be great! Although then the ninjas might feel discriminated. |
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black gogo boots, a knee length black skirt, a kicking blouse (something colourful) and a coolish necklace & earrings! =o) ohhh and an eyepatch! |
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IS there anything more SEXY than a woman with an eyepatch?....I think not.... Disability-chic is so where it's at....Won't be long before NeckBraces are the thing to be seen in....:)... |
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Almost everyone I know into IDM these days is post-grunge. So dressed pretty low-key, but a little cleaner and more together than the old grunge look. I'm well into my old-skool Adidas tracksuits right now.. But yeah, IDM's too diverse to ever have any particular style or fashion attached to it I recon - And it's like almost anyone who's actually into music will prolly be into IDM - I know of goths who dig it, loads of ravers who dig it, traveller types, graffiti/smoker types, computer nerds... |
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well. i'm home more than i'm anywhere else, and if i'm at home it's pajama bottoms and a hoodie with some slippers. so you could almost call that my fashion. if i actually have to go out (aside from work), which is rarely, it's a black or maroon t-shirt with some jeans and black runners. nothing exciting. |
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it has no style i think. alot of guys in the US are shaving their heads like Sean of Autechre, i guess that is a popular style in England? |
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my style according to my family: "you dress like a bum" jeans, tshirts, hoodies, sneakers. average, unassuming, and unflattering. I dont like dressing up and looking all sharp. I dont know why. |
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*see avatar for prime example |
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yah.. I think the basic idea is unassuming and un-flashy.. and true.. IDM is diverse enough to defy pigeon-holing a certain 'look'.. but we can beat this setback! We could institute something. Instead of the organic method of letting a style emerge from from the music, let's execute a more artificial form and do it in reverse.. pull together fans, embrace the oppressive postmodernism, and create a completely fabricated style for ourselves to fit the music! IDM is a totally unique genre, why not create a unique fashion to fit it! It'll be like a performance art! yeeha! :D |
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and you have to dance like this <- |
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how about putting a microchip in the center of your forehead... kind of like how indian (ie, middle east... not native americans) put those jewels and stuff. but this will be microchips w00t |
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or we could all have shirts that we've had our moms sew "IDM" into it really big on the front |
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what about glowing? once "designer babies" gets around i bet IDM-crazed parents would give their offspring jellyfish genes & make them glow in the dark. just a thought of course. |
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yes and if anyone found out you where the one who made it, and not your mom.... youd be a poser |
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Ha!! these ideas rule! I'd totally go for it. although it's none too subtle.. I was thinking more along the lines of, say, baseball cap with an Aphex pin on the left side.. or something. But if it must be eyepatches or IDM tshirts or glowing babiees.. I'm with ya all the way |
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long hair is pretty prominent |
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or we could all take a knife, and cut a vertical line on our face... left eye... starting above the eyebrow, going down past the eye, down the cheek cutting the eye isnt mandatory... but if you do, and get a fake eye, made of solid stainless steel... youd have more street credability |
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I look like totally normal person. IDM doesn't have fashion coz it's the type of music least concerned with image |
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nah, theres an image the "im better then you cause I like more intellegent music then you do" look. its in the eyes |
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let me feel again |
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and they eyepatches |
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ARGHHHHH!!!!!! MY LEFT EYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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this topic be quite 'tresting. i tend to wear any pair of dickies and the random 90's grunge band tshirt. ill either wear my sweat shirt or trench coat with that. o yeah and either a black cap or my green mohawk. w00t |
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I wear bright outlandish clothes, but not liek a raver, more conservative, like orange panst and a brown shirt, all my chlothes go well together, |
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i think maybe the image is a kind of dirty unfed/unwashed look, long hair, facial hair, kind of irritable, smoke pot look. but that's real loose coz i don't think most IDMmers look liek that, I certainly don't (I am growing dark rings around my eyes though rgh) |
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the homemade aphex shirts are a sure sign |
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please no fashion...I like us the way we are boring non descript, it's all up there in the head...feel superior because of the fact that you needn't get branded, tagged, merchandised, pigeonholed, and solicited by the fashion industry, chewed up and spat out, like rave, industrial and goth did. But on the same token no one's to stop you from waering your favourite Bands T-Shirts, no harm in that. |
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haha yeah or a license plate that says 808909303 |
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IDM is all about the facial hair. .. |
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Compulsory wear: Aphex symbol somewhere on clothing A Strap-on A pair of Handcuffs |
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yeah actually I have one of those... |
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yea mami |
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haute idm couture |
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I don't know what other IDM'ers look like, though I usually imagine them to be "yuppie"-like. I don't know why. NB. "Adam Kesher" from Mulholland Drive fits this category well, for the Lynch-goers. |
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television is good, but it is not the best 'cause nothing beats the feel of your fucking wriist |
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I remember reading somewhere (back in the 90's) that everyone in the UK scene was getting Richard James haircuts at one point. I didn't think much to it, but I actually guess I fall into that catagory myself! What we need is an IDM star with a really unique style to kickstart the whole thing... Maybe even an IDM poster band who don't even have to make any music or play any instruments - Just look cool and do lots of interviews about made-up albums. |
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Any Scratch Acid fans here? (one of Kurt Cobain's favorite bands) They started life as a poster band - There weren't even any band members originally - Just lots of made up flyers about gigs that would never happen. But somewhere along the line they managed to get the odd album released... Damn, they're an amazing band - Lot's of Nirvana's ideas come from them! |
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