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 #16 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 12/07/2007 @ 13:28 |
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686 bought out the gaper suit, but I thought that was more of a piss take, it certainly looked that way through their advertising. |
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| #17 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 12/07/2007 @ 13:31 |
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I just bought a new jacket and pair of trousers, both of them Brown. Guess that puts me in the boring category  |
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| #18 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 12/07/2007 @ 13:46 |
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i think there's still that flavour of anti-ski fashion in snowboarding.
when our beloved sport first started to grow and the two-plankers were still rocking their acid all-in-ones, snowboard fashion went the other way with dark and earthy colours like green and brown and black and i think those colours still look class.
it weren't tight-fit, it was baggy - half for praticicality, half as a way to define yourself as a snowboarder (not a skier).
but over time we've gradually seen skiers steal our stuff - go to tam on a saturday/sunday afternoon and count how many skiers are rocking westbeach troos, bonfire jackets, grenade gloves, burton beanies and all the rest.
so some people have reacted against that by turning stuff on its head and rocking those acid yellow and orange and green and - my fave - sky blue pants but they are still unmistakably riders' pants.
my problem with snowboard fashion is how it has disappeared up its own arse - there was a company last season who produced a cag you had to buy in bits - like, hood, one sleeve, one cuff, back, front, the other sleeve, the other cuff - it was dubbed some sort of rotational apparel concept which allowed us to express our individuality.
now that is utter tosh! |
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| #19 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 12/07/2007 @ 13:56 |
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Aytee - very true.
It seems that it's not the actual clothes being worn here that's important - it's WHO's wearing them that apparently counts.
Snowboarders are so desperate to distinguish themselves from skiers - but why? What's is sooo terrible about skiers?
Perhaps the answer to that one can be found in another article I wrote a while back: Snowboarders Vs Skiers - The Dying Feud |
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| #20 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 12/07/2007 @ 14:04 |
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well there's the obvious nastiness which some skiers and resorts treated the pioner snowboarders with at the root of it, but i think face-to-face no-one really gives a stuff about any rivalry any more . . . folks just get on with it.
but 1) there's always been those wanna-be-different characters in snowboarding.
2) isn't it a kinda general/tribal rule about human beings that we partly define ourselves almost by who we are not? i'm not a skier i'm a snowboarder, i'm not a liverpool fan i'm an everton fan etc.
whoa! deep. |
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| #21 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 12/07/2007 @ 17:51 |
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i just bought what was availible and it might be ive bought makes that are fashion concious but i think most things you buy today are gonna have some sort fashion link or they wouldnt sell it then again i have only just started snowboarding so ive never even seen a skier in a 1 piece suit let alone mocked one! |
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| #22 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 12/07/2007 @ 18:21 |
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| #23 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 13/07/2007 @ 09:51 |
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Let's get deep and meaningful... Basically, anyone who has ever laughed once at someone else for their hair, clothes, shoes, car, whatever, is guilty. I think it's fair to assume that's 99% of us, including weak little me.
In my case, my gear has been dictated by lack of money at the time. Board: 50% off, because it was from 2 years ago at the time of buying. Pants: 40% off in an end-of-season sale. Gloves: 50% off in a similar clearout. Jacket: less than half price from the same shop. Boots: discounted as I got it with the board. And when I put it all together, I probably look like a fashion nightmare. Nothing is colour coordinated, and nothing was tried in front or a mirror before bying it.
But last time I went boarding, they all ate my dust. I was quick to point the other members of the group to the 'great quality of the surface of the board', and they were quick to latch on to that. Everytime they had to walk it where I only had to glide, they'd look at me angrily and mention the board  they sure looked better though, and I reckon they felt I was too ugly to have such a 'magic board'. They treated me as a cheat. Truth is, I was better and I rode faster. |
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All you have to do is ding-a-ding dong your dang-a-long ling long... |
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| #24 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 13/07/2007 @ 10:50 |
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Years ago you COULD see the differnce between the skiers and snowboarders with regards to the threads they were sporting, snowboarding was extreme, new and in your face, hence the reason to keep it real and exlusive. This, I think, has made what represents the difference between the skiers and snowboarders today; everyone keeping their look individual to which category they fall in.
Obviously there will always be trends, which like it or not, will be followed.
Damn it would be boring if we were all the same........................
If you can ride and back it up with the baggy's - do it.
Unique, just like everyone else!!  |
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| #25 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 13/07/2007 @ 13:48 |
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you gotta have baggy imo - you tried a heelslide in anything other than baggy trousers (might be cos i have so much lead in my ass though)? 
baggy and saggy! |
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| #26 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 13/07/2007 @ 14:58 |
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| #27 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 13/07/2007 @ 15:25 |
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sorry jay . . . BUT THAT IS FUNNY!  |
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| #28 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 13/07/2007 @ 17:40 |
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hehe even that one got me laughing, ive not heard that one yet lol many motorway maintance jokes have been made lol |
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| #29 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 14/07/2007 @ 20:20 |
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dude i so f*ckin hate all that gangster crap on the slopes, like basketball shirts down at their knees and the doo-rags and bandanas on the heads. its so bend. just look at 'THAT' snowboard film man theres all these white guys dress like their from the hood pretending their gangsta and pretending to shoot each other and sh*t. |
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| #30 Re: THANKS GB: Thugged Out and Flouro - Has Snowboarding Fashion Gone Mad? Posted 16/07/2007 @ 14:54 |
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well there's the obvious nastiness which some skiers and resorts treated the pioner snowboarders with at the root of it, but i think face-to-face no-one really gives a stuff about any rivalry any more . . . folks just get on with it.
Um, well I was kind of there in about 1984 and it wasn't really like that at all, at least in Europe. I know it is sort of received-wisdom, but I think it's more of an American thing. Here in Europe snowboarders were never banned. At least I wasn't. Although I had to ask permission on the uk dry slopes back in the day, it was never refused. Regis Rolland still skis today...
Nearly all the original snowboarders were skiers first, or monoskiers, or both. There wasn't anything else. |
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