What do you guys think of the dark academia look?
And how would you get started if you wanted to adopt this style

Nigga it's nearly July.

>>18468745 (OP)
What the fuck is dark academia? Do you really think most people in academia have the time or money to worry about a particular style?

Only useless humanity and art student undergrads do shit like that

All I see is trad/ivy/prep but with earth tones. Still better than "muh old money" I guess.

Seems like it would be hard to do in summer.

dork academia

>>18468745 (OP)
> what do you think about how old American men have dressed since the late 19th century without giving it some faggy name?

>>18468745 (OP)
I think stuff like pic related is fine and casual enough so that you dont come off as a larper, and desu i do like the coats.
However wearing a wool three piece suit is probably pushing it too far

tumblr “starter pack” culture and its consequences

Looks like shit IRL. Just go trad with darker colors and earth tones.

>>18468979
I agree with this
you can pull off this look to a minimalist degree to where it’s not douchey and still have classic style but modern too

>>18468760
Ma'am pls

>>18468745 (OP)
Based if you're from a multi-millionaire family in the English countryside or American northeast. Cringe otherwise.

It just screams “I want a therian girlfriend.” Also, it’s fucking summer.

>Just call me daddy, my Discord kitten.
Looks gay.

>>18468745 (OP)
The knitwear isn't that good, should have tweed sport coats instead of all this knitwear. Missing corduroy, chinos, harrington jackets, tweed balmacaan, blue striped shirts, tassle loafers, inseams. Too many white shirts, jeans, sweaters, plaid trousers.

Look for this at Drakes, J Press, etc.

Dark Academia is going to be the next “performative left wing male manipulator” aesthetic once “safe sleazy” goes out of fashion
screencap this

>>18468745 (OP)
Why is it so hard to find good pants? If its not slim fit polyester amazon-tier "dress pants" its this overly baggy unflattering style like pic related on the right, where it balloons out in the thighs and crotch with a short rise that makes it look like youre sagging (made of natural material but thin and shit). You look at any old pic from the 20s-30s and every single pair of pants is this perfectly silhouetted perfectly loose trouser that is immediately recognizable as high quality material like picrel on the left
>inb4 the world is shit now
yes yes
>inb4 buy vintage
easier said than done
>inb4 heres a good trouser but its $900
and it begs the question

>>18469431
Fucks sake thank you
I thought I was going crazy because it seems impossible to find a good pair of pants that aren’t jeans, everything is
>stiff Dickies workwear trousers
>some kind of “advanced fabric” slacks that feels like wearing a fucking thin plastic bag (but it’s hecking fast drying and wrinkle resistant !!1)
>super baggy zoomer meme pants
Good to know someone else is having this issue, don’t suppose ur an ausfag too?

>>18469442
I'm a burger. Its funny you mention Dickies because the only pair of pants that I own which is properly silhouetted is a 10 year old pair of Dickies that has become soft with time. I cant even replace it with a new pair because new Dickies are literal cardboard. No idea why its impossible to make a pair of pants but theres clearly a market for it if an ausfag is having the exact same problem.

>>18469454
IDK if Iloveugly ships to US but these are my favorite pants I’ve found in years
https://www.iloveugly.com.au/products/noah-pleated-pant-black?variant=41300453785657&country=AU&currency=AUD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&tw_source=google&tw_adid=713734020849&tw_campaign=21712069657&tw_kwdid=pla-293946777986&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21712069657&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsNnCBhDRARIsAEzia4AjbuMYRzt-PY0QXl4Vg3woVuKcnUt5kFso5hPjvjAfPgxwAppdjPYaAjc0EALw_wcB

Not quite “classic” enough for me as they’re not high waisted enough but almost 100% cotton and feels thick

>>18469404
You're right.

>>18469431
Any good tailoring house will have good trousers for you RTW for much less than $900. Some tailoring will dial it in for you. Very rarely are bespoke trousers required unless you have messed up proportions.

>>18469431
For good MTO trousers you can buy Rota for $500 ea. or Juniors for $400 ea.
For good OTR trousers you can buy OConnells for $200-$400 ea., and Berle for under $200.

When buying from Rota awalys get MTO with "comfort leg" which actually just gives you a somewhat tapered/slim leg but in normal wearable poportions.

>>18469481
MTO/OTR trousers do have serious pitfalls. Almost all trousers are made with extra space in the seat that causes fabric in the back of the trouser to crumple. You can fix this at your tailor but it's better to buy MTM/bespoke trousers in all cases because these issues will be caught at the fitting.

>>18469490
>MTO/OTR trousers do have serious pitfalls. Almost all trousers are made with extra space in the seat that causes fabric in the back of the trouser to crumple. You can fix this at your tailor but it's better to buy MTM/bespoke trousers in all cases because these issues will be caught at the fitting.
In general you are correct, but this really does depend on the tailoring house. Additionally, not everyone wants to schedule in the time for multiple fittings, or even want to wait for an MTM or bespoke to be completed. RTW from a good place with some tailoring can be just fine. Taking in the seat and the waist is a very common alteration.

>>18469442
another anon chiming in: yep, I'm annoyed by slim fit trousers in the sense that even regular fit is almost skin tight. Easiest time saver for me was to learn how to make them myself

>>18469536
I agree with this but for a new OTR pattern you should generally go to a store to try it on before buying. Not the end of the world to need an alteration, but at this point MTM would have been just as convenient...

>>18469431
Just buy vintage from ebay, you dont even have to go back that far they sell quality tailored wool trousers

>feels like: 103F

>>18468760
Imagine being this mad at traditional european clothing kek

>>18468760
Yeah I live in Cambridge, UK and nobody dresses like this, except for some Chinese tourists that seem disconnected from reality.

>>18470466
Checked, but they're not mad at the clothing, it's the idiotic renaming of the style as if it's something that zoomer dipshits came up with suddenly.

>>18469404
This

>>18468745 (OP)
No thanks to Harry Potter larp

>>18468760
most of my professors just wore button shirts. and i actually went to an ivy league
no one dresses like this or prep or any of that. just zoomers in t-shirts and sneakers

I would take it to strange new places.
Also I feel bad for Mussolini’s fashion guy. He was built like a gorilla. How do you even design clothes for this body type?

>>18468745 (OP)
I wear this but modern. Imagine undertale mixed with that look.
>>18468759
And yeah this even the pants and normal t shirt are often way too hot. Maybe I should dig out shorts but I hate shorts.

>>18469404
Fake sleazy is out of fashion. Ironically, people are starting to recognise that these people are legitimately sleazy, just not in the way that they want you to think they are.

>>18471415
>undertale
so you wear a blue hoodie?

>>18471431
I said I follow the op. Do you see blue in there?

>>18469442
ausfag here. I've had to get my pants made at the tailors because I was sick of not being able to find a rise above 13"

can you wear dark academia during the summer? any examples?

>>18472340
just look at prep fashion and then do that in earth toned colours

>>18472687
pretty much

>>18471415
I’m ngl I’m curious about your look

>>18472340
Safaricore is the viable option

>>18468745 (OP)
I like it, but there's really no way to make it viable for summer, which means you'd have to change up your style entirely during the summer months.
It's also really hard to find pieces, because I don't know of any stores that sell clothes like that. And everytime I buy something like that online, the quality is horrible. It's basically paper. And the fit usually sucks too. And it's impossible to return.

>>18472747
looks pretty warm still

>>18472340
no. school's out for summer, dummy.

>>18469431
I feel you I’ve been after high quality shite for ages it really limits my possible wardrobe options because I can’t find anything that isn’t slop

>>18472340
look up vintage egyptologist on instagram

>>18469404
it already happened in the early 2010s, it was just confined to tumblr.

>>18469404
Why do all of them have that exact haircut + mustache combination? Is it some kind of cult identification symbol?

>>18469431
MFPEN sells some really good 100% wool trousers in this style, but yea they are all 300-400$. At the end of the day we just have to accept that if you want clothes with a high quality timeless look you either have to get really lucky at a thrift store or spend a bit of money.

>>18472340
Tumblr gays made “Old Money” specifically because “Dark Academia” wasn’t summery enough for them.

The problem with this style is that it only works in where it began: England, New England, other cold germanic places. If you wear this anywhere else you'll sweat out half of your body's fluids if you're ever outside of AC for longer than 5 minutes. I do like the way it looks, but it isn't very practical

>>18473339
This would look more or less the same in Savannah, Georgia or New Orleans, Louisiana or Charleston, South Carolina or Charlottesville, Virginia or Georgetown in Washington, District of Columbia or Philadelphia or most of Pennsylvania for that matter or Princeton, New Jersey. You get the idea. Point being, it looks more or less “aligned” with plenty of places up and down the East Coast. As for sweating your ass off, you’re probably right about that but Dark Academia doesn’t necessarily require a wool jacket and tweed blazer. That Waldun kid on YouTube lives in Australia and he is an icon to the DA fags.

>>18473342
What I mean is that this style was birthed from England. The English brought it with them all over the world of course, and I think people wearing it in super hot and humid places like where you mentioned is just a cargo cult since it's so uncomfortable to wear stuff like that in any sort of heat lol

>>18473354
No it wasn’t retard. That’s just your stupid headcanon. It’s a broadly Western 20th century look.

>>18468760

Are you really that thick? It's just a name for an aesthetic, not an actual fucking uniform for a specific job or interest.

Look at old university professors from the past or bookworm types in movies, etc. People liked that style and wished to emulate it; obviously that led to this particular 'genre' of clothing ending up with a name that correlates where it originated.

>>18471015
>Yeah I live in Cambridge

I'm so sorry to hear that.

>>18473339
>the rest of the world doesn't have winters
based retard