From a real life perspective (think of the bracket of what you wear on your day to day to what you wear when you go out - ignoring what you wear to work for this conversation), I love the concept of i...
Moving from hacking/cyberpunk subculture to solarpunk subculture - what does fashion look like?
Fashion both within popculture art (think the movies Hackers and things like Studio Ghibli or Disney's Strange World for the solarpunk side) and within an Intentional Wear approach within the day to day...
For me (no subculture is a monolith), solarpunk aesthetics are and are not a set of ideals.
Solarpunk Fashion is:
- an expression of artistic and creative joy and beauty
- comfortable
- pragmatic and utilitarian to the goal in hand
- meant to showcase individuality as well as connection to local communities
- built for longevity with repair and mending in mind
Solarpunk Fashion is not:
- minimalist, beige, gray, and meant to blend in
- fashion for fashion's sake (pain or discomfort to wear those nice shoes is not great)
- wearing something outside of its context or application (eg wearing pressed workman's clothes or construction gear to go out, etc)
- meant to show status
- fast fashion or meant to be discarded for the next hyped of thing
For me, I have the day-to-day fashion down.
An example:
- Top is summer-hoodie with long wicking sleeves meant to be comfortable but also protect from sun and heat
- Bottoms are comfortable fitting light weight pants that are meant to be airy and cool and easy to walk in (denim jeans are too rough and uncomfortable and i only wear them to do manual work in for example, not to walk around in). Flipped around I don't like wearing my comfort loafing attire outside.
- Shoes are barefoot toe shoes that are amazing to walk in and allow me to feel the ground and various textures.
I don't have my going-out and looking nice fashion down. But my initial attempts are colorful and comfortable - I don't have stylishness down yet but it's a goal.
I can do basic sewing mending but I love the ideal of stylish mending (mending that doesn't hide that it's mending while also trying to be very aesthetically pleasing).
No photos of my actual attire (cant be arsed and dont like posting pics of myself) but if you're interested Signal text me.
What sort of things do you like to wear?
How would you see solarpunk expressed in fashion?
3/3
#solarpunk #fashion
Fashion both within popculture art (think the movies Hackers and things like Studio Ghibli or Disney's Strange World for the solarpunk side) and within an Intentional Wear approach within the day to day...
For me (no subculture is a monolith), solarpunk aesthetics are and are not a set of ideals.
Solarpunk Fashion is:
- an expression of artistic and creative joy and beauty
- comfortable
- pragmatic and utilitarian to the goal in hand
- meant to showcase individuality as well as connection to local communities
- built for longevity with repair and mending in mind
Solarpunk Fashion is not:
- minimalist, beige, gray, and meant to blend in
- fashion for fashion's sake (pain or discomfort to wear those nice shoes is not great)
- wearing something outside of its context or application (eg wearing pressed workman's clothes or construction gear to go out, etc)
- meant to show status
- fast fashion or meant to be discarded for the next hyped of thing
For me, I have the day-to-day fashion down.
An example:
- Top is summer-hoodie with long wicking sleeves meant to be comfortable but also protect from sun and heat
- Bottoms are comfortable fitting light weight pants that are meant to be airy and cool and easy to walk in (denim jeans are too rough and uncomfortable and i only wear them to do manual work in for example, not to walk around in). Flipped around I don't like wearing my comfort loafing attire outside.
- Shoes are barefoot toe shoes that are amazing to walk in and allow me to feel the ground and various textures.
I don't have my going-out and looking nice fashion down. But my initial attempts are colorful and comfortable - I don't have stylishness down yet but it's a goal.
I can do basic sewing mending but I love the ideal of stylish mending (mending that doesn't hide that it's mending while also trying to be very aesthetically pleasing).
No photos of my actual attire (cant be arsed and dont like posting pics of myself) but if you're interested Signal text me.
What sort of things do you like to wear?
How would you see solarpunk expressed in fashion?
3/3
#solarpunk #fashion
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