Zara B6 Clone - £89.99

[Big J]

@Meacham, enjoy your Aero! It's gonna be awesome.

Stand By knows the score; the 'voice' in which things are written is almost never the 'voice' you read it in. I was being tongue-in-cheek.

But I was being serious when I described this as cynical fashion industry behavior. My wife loves the movie The Devil Wears Prada. There's one scene in that film that is inspired, and everyone should watch. In a moment of absolutely honest clarity that I can't believe studios allowed into the script of a movie that celebrates the vacuous fashion industry, Meryl Streep explains to Anne Hathaway the origin of her bargain bin sweater. It's absolutely one of the most cutting, politically incorrect moments in cinema history, and the movie is worth watching just for that.
THEN come back and look at the Zara jacket and try to tell me with a straight face that this has anything to do with awareness of WWII.

@Ton, yeah Zara makes clothes for really slim men because they don't want 'fat people' ruining their brand image. Also, a couple of years ago, they gave up on traditional 'seasons' of clothing, and now introduce new items every two weeks all year round because they learned that people have such empty lives that going to the shops has become recreational, so people were going the stores for lack of anything else to do.
Someone did research on Zara's strategy, it really is the 'McDonaldization' of fashion.

 

[Mich486]

Euro trim, flood pants... this discussion is epic!!!

Btw they also have a d-pocket design with a zipper that resembles a talon... did Zara hire somebody from this forum? Lol


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[l0fielectronic]

There are lots of threads in this forum and not all of them interest me, on occasion sometimes I even wonder why people have posted them.
But I've never once felt the need to read every one, or comment on the ones that don't interest me nor to tell people that they shouldn't be posting what they have just because it doesn't fit into my idea of what the forums about.

 

[GHT]

I also have no idea what flood pants are - and I'm not sure if its safe to use Google to find out

It's a style that looks like your trouser hems have divorced your shoes and married your socks. The hems are unlikely to get wet in a flood.

 

[ton312]

Normally, I might say let's get back to the jacket at hand....

 

[l0fielectronic]

It's a style that looks like your trouser hems have divorced your shoes and married your socks. The hems are unlikely to get wet in a flood.
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Phew. I was worried they were something to do with leakage of a completely different nature for a moment there!

 

[ton312]

Phew. I was worried they were something to do with leakage of a completely different nature for a moment there!

The next step is here: A man's Capri pant!

Before you know it will be back into the shorts/jorts thread!

 

[Big J]

Hmm...hot, fresh, delicious

 

[bn1966]

The next step is here: A man's Capri pant!

Before you know it will be back into the shorts/jorts thread!

Don't tempt me!!!!

 

[devilish]

Unfortunately, I’ve had this feeling that shearling is going to be the next type of ‘our’ jacket to be copied and foisted onto the masses as fashion. Good ones and bad ones have been showing up at Fashion Weeks all over the globe in the last couple winter seasons.
It really doesn’t take much research to figure out that military inspired clothing has been a hot seller for awhile now (always seems to happen in times of unrest). This is just the next item to be given its two seasons of fame.
Won’t stop me wearing my Irvin repro though. Nothing would spoil my love for that jacket.

 

[ton312]

Won’t stop me wearing my Irvin repro though

It shouldn't. Much like those pleather perfectos, they just pale so hard next to the real deal. Can't even remotely be considered the same thing. Even the uninitiated can see the difference. It's palpable.

 

[Benny Holiday]

We had the men's capri pants here in Sydney about 5 or 6 years ago. Well I had a field day wreaking vengeance on the handful of doofuses who have thought it clever over the years to have a potshot at my penchant for vintage or vintage-inspired style form time to time. "Hey man, why are you wearing my sister's pants?" "Dude, you shouldn't have put those trousers in the dyer, they shrank!" Needless to say, the trend only last a season or two, and then died off quicker than a disoriented cat scrambling out of a dog pound.

 

[ButteMT61]

My inner audience was much like J's - but I kept my trap shut for once.
Plastic jacket? No how, no way. But we here ALL have cheap beaters that we love. Some may not admit it, but they do.
I like a couple in the closet. Not every moment calls for a masterpiece.

 

[ButteMT61]

The next step is here: A man's Capri pant!

Before you know it will be back into the shorts/jorts thread!

Not while I have blood still pumping. That said, in the 80's I, like many young guys, wore "beach pants" that were basically nothing more than PJ's with "cool" patterns and pre-MC Hammer blousy. Now, it wasn't something worn out to bars/clubs, etc., but a daily wearer that was nice in SoCal heat. I'd never be seen in them again in public

 

[Big J]

Yeah, those pants huh? What's wrong with people? Why can't they be satisfied with skinny jeans?
The thing is, I see those pants that stop above the ankle all the time here. If you really are a narrow shouldered, narrow hipped thin guy, you can pull it off (and more power to you), but if you're not that shape (and most men aren't) you shouldn't attempt it IMHO.

It's a shame, coz I like the idea of showing off my socks, and think that socks could be the next big artisanal niche market! (If that's not actually an oxymoron).

I think Devilish pointed out that the fashion industry perennially dips into shearling Military inspired jackets- I distinctly remember maybe 10 years ago Burberry's winter ladies collection featured some that looked like a B-3, and a B-6 kind of Frankenjacket.

The prices were waaaaay higher than a real good repro.

I think cloth MA-1 clones are fairly easy to duplicate and sell in a cost effective way for chain stores, but I think leather, and especially shearling incurs costs (and informs prices) that chain store shoppers won't pay, which is why we are seeing plastic jackets.

Speaking for myself, pompous windbag that I am, I find it deeply ironic that the fashion industry is turning towards copying the 'look' of artisanal repro jackets, favored by people who have largely rejected chain store fashion. It's like they are trying to commodify anti-fashion.

 

[Harris HTM]

I find it deeply ironic that the fashion industry is turning towards copying the 'look' of artisanal repro jackets, favored by people who have largely rejected chain store fashion. It's like they are trying to commodify anti-fashion

Well I guess this has happened before and not only with clothing. Punk music was supposed to be a reaction to the pompous prog rock dinosaurs and music business until it became a trend in the early/mid 80s (and actually promoted by the same corporations that used to be the target of the punks reaction). Similar with thrash metal a decade later.
Personally I disliked all the ma-1 cheap rip-off flooding the trendy youngsters the last 2-3 years. In an egoistically way I thought they did not have the right to wear a monstrous copy of a jacket I've been wearing since my early teens. I guess the harley drivers feel the same about me when I wear my schott perfecto's while the only 2wheels I drive is my bicycle.

 

[Big J]

@ Harris HTM, yep, I agree with all that!

You know, it is a really weird feeeling watching the fashion industry raid the past for inspiration for their must-have clothes of the moment, especially when it's your own youth they raid! Even worse is when you're made to feel as though you're the one getting the look and the attitude wrong! LOLZ!

I don't know, maybe I should get a bicycle to justify that Cal Leathers jacket I want? I could use the exercise.

 

[Big J]

@Butte, yeah, I should really learn to shut my sushi-hole.

 

[ton312]

The Zara jacket is a baby food version, certainly not meant to attract a detail oriented enthusiast. I think for the masses who either don't know or don't care it probably looks just fine. The problem is, for the folks around here we've seen (or may own) these:

It's just impossible to look at the Zara jacket. It's not a copy or a rip off...it's a highly diluted, soft core, disposable item. I wouldn't judge someone for buying or wearing one but certainly wouldn't want one myself. You just can't unsee high quality and in so doing equally can't unsee the opposite.

 

[ton312]

Well I guess this has happened before and not only with clothing. Punk music was supposed to be a reaction to the pompous prog rock dinosaurs and music business until it became a trend in the early/mid 80s (and actually promoted by the same corporations that used to be the target of the punks reaction). Similar with thrash metal a decade later.
Personally I disliked all the ma-1 cheap rip-off flooding the trendy youngsters the last 2-3 years. In an egoistically way I thought they did not have the right to wear a monstrous copy of a jacket I've been wearing since my early teens. I guess the harley drivers feel the same about me when I wear my schott perfecto's while the only 2wheels I drive is my bicycle.

No way man! I rode this for years in nothing more than a t-shirt. If I saw a guy on a bike in a perfecto I'd imagine he'd be looking at me thinking I'm a dumbass for not wearing a leather jacket!