feetmanseoul:
This. Everywhere.
feetmanseoul:
Love it. Kept bumping into them.
feetmanseoul:
Drive by with flash, Gilden-style. This what the SFW fan kids and kids in general be wearing.
feetmanseoul:
Lot going on here. Socks, demurified Daisy Dukes, cutesy normcore, etc.
feetmanseoul:
She's taking the Nike normcore meme to a whole notha level.
feetmanseoul:
Doing drive by shooting, no warning, no permission, just BAM! Put some Bruce Gilden on it. Love it! The responses here at Seoul Fashion Week is awesome. No one said nuttin.
feetmanseoul:
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feetmanseoul:
It's all about the socks.
feetmanseoul:
Socks and sandals? Not ironically. Just straight. This ok?
feetmanseoul:
Socks and heels is still basic hipster (referred to as "vintage" in Korean since around 2008) normcore gear.
feetmanseoul:
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feetmanseoul:
Harry Potter hat girl redux, from first snap to portrait. I think she loves her lace socks. A lot.
feetmanseoul:
Socks and sneakers on the younguns in Sookdae.
feetmanseoul:
It really is all about the socks now in Seoul. What's that about?
feetmanseoul:
It's all about the socks.
feetmanseoul:
Best Normcore award is from yesterday, actually. Socks and sandals are IN, yo.
feetmanseoul:
The shoes. And socks.
feetmanseoul:
What I have decided to call Korean "fetish normcore."
feetmanseoul:
Old portrait of Sookmyung Women's University girls who were way ahead if their time, rocking the socks and heel unironically back in like 2008.
feetmanseoul:
Coolest couple of the day. Ended up drive by shooting them like three times.
feetmanseoul:
"Normcore" in Seoul from April 2008 that was actually true in spirit to the definition it has today, as an ironic appropriation of what is considered to be unremarkable, normal clothes remixed into a self-conscious melange of wink-wink, nudge-nudge irony.
feetmanseoul:
Normcore seems to be a norm on all fashion levels. But if normcore is the norm, is it normcore anymore? Stripped of the self-conscious, hipster irony, ain't it just another trend that will quickly fade into memory? That is the fate of it in Seoul, I think
feetmanseoul:
Steve & Yoni P. also nodding to the street, as they are wont to do.
feetmanseoul:
Korean street fashionistas been doing "normcore" since at least 2008, whyyaplaying? Raiding Gwangjang Market for "vintage" (ajumma) clothes and remixing into what Koreans were simply calling "Retro" at the time. Western folks need to stop "Columbusing" sh
feetmanseoul:
Low Classic continues the tradition of "normcore " on the runway. A street fashion subject at the event told me this socks and sandals thing started in Korea with Low Classic, which may be one point of. Mediation between high and street fashion, but I don
feetmanseoul:
Behind me in line. Them socks.
feetmanseoul:
Just... Damn. Hats and socks and normcore in your face!
feetmanseoul:
I keep seeing socks (not like cutesy thin ones, but thick, seemingly unsexy ones) and heels being worn all the time here, especially by the most fashionable and hip. It seems almost done in an ironic, I-know-this-isn't-supposed-to-go-together kind of way
feetmanseoul:
Throwback Seoul Street Fashion: Fetishista. Myeongdong, Seoul, 2010.