>>18257371
Dark academia looks great…on an older guy at a small college campus with lots of collegiate gothic architecture in autumn. But it looks out of place in the very other occasion and environment. If you like dark academia, just go for trad/prep/ivy. If you live in Northeastern city or college town you can probably get away with putting a dark academia twist on it every now and then from October-February. But otherwise, I wouldn’t do it.
>>18257379>"Dark academia looks great…on an older guy at a small college campus with lots of collegiate gothic architecture in autumn. But it looks out of place in the very other occasion and environment. If you like dark academia, just go for trad/prep/ivy. If you live in Northeastern city or college town you can probably get away with putting a dark academia twist on it every now and then from October-February. But otherwise, I wouldn’t do it." said Anon while rifling through the pockets of his cargo shorts for his vape pen, his tube sock covered feet twisting awkwardly as he bends over top reach deeper into his pockets, the pair of dog tags around his bouncing against his too big monster energy t-shirt.That's nice, Anon.
>>18257401Not even close. I was going to contribute to your stupid thread but fuck you.
>noooo not the dark evil academic nazi from canada
>>18257511yes, the evul knievul
If you live in or can import from the UK, Walker Slater is a really good place to get that kind of style. I've bought a lot of stuff from them over the years without an issue.
>>18257523
>>18257401>look, i found a dumb clickbait article written by a failed english major and catered specifically to me from an advertising algorithm. that means im right!mind broken
>>18257525I would beat the shit out of anyone I saw wearing this in my Palm Angels tracksuit
>>18257371Okay, but what about Light Academia? What does that look like? What if I don't want to look like a dark wizard? What if I want to look like a beacon of hope on a summer morning?
>>18257650
>>18257401More like Dark Macadamia because I'd like to bust a nut in her if you catch my drift
>>18257830Are you talking about sex?
>>18257837I believe he's referring to the marital act between man and wife, yes. Specifically involving insemination in a quite crude uncivilized manner.
>>18257823No, that's not it. That's just regular prep.
>>18257830what the fuck did anon mean by this??
>>18257947where do you think the academia in dark academia comes from lmao
>>18258031based illiterate
>>18258031You don't get it. Just be silent. It's okay.
>>18257626You wouldn’t do shit. Pipe down kid
>>18257830i keked
>>18257371>>18257372Where do find nice, good-quality pleated pants like in your pictures or picrel (minus the retarded styling)? The only thing I want is a straight leg (little wide), high waist and a non-fake pleat that originates from the waistband for a nice drape.When scouring around I only find either expensive designer stuff (>$500) or Chinese dropship bullshit (<30$). I'm willing to pay a fair price for a good piece of clothing, but jesus christ.
I want to go for something like dark academia, but i don't want to close the doors entirely on jeans. Can it be done? Maybe with some lighter blues and olive colours absent from this pic: >>18257525
>>18258237Wear brown jeans.
Imagine dressing like this having not gone to oxford or cambridge (or at a push trinity dublin). Even there its tory neeks or student journalists doing classics who dress like this. Its all larp.
>>18257823Is it me or do loafers with socks look way better? I cannot wrap my head around the no socks loafer trend.
>>18258268>Its all larp.The Dark Academia subreddit has 87,000 members.They're posting and getting feedback on their fits all the time.It's here to stay, my boy.You better get used to it.https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkAcademia/
>>18258233second looking for this. I've been looking for that a lot as well. Best I can find are natalino and kit blake but they're extremely expensive.Cos has some I think but not sure if they're pleated.
>>18258303>reddit does it so its cool
>>18258303It’s just khakis and a untucked shirt with a tucked t
>>18257371It's just /tip/ in a old library setting? Why are normies so dumb desu
>>18258305Thanks for the recommendations. Both look pretty good, they're both in the price range that makes them tempting, but I can't justify >€250 pants just yet.
>>18258395No, it’s /tip/ but with darker colors and more punk pieces. It was originally /tip/ just with dark colors to add a bit of edge because it was borne out of the fandom for these novels, most famously Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (which is a pretty okay book). But the fandom got bigger and attracted MFAs at colleges, Pinterest board types, Redditors, and it became also a punk/LGBT/leftist thing. They do shit like dress /tip/ in dark colors but swap out loafers for Doc Martens. And since none of these people have any taste, the literary influences shifted from classic literature and Donna Tartt novels to all sorts of contemporary garbage. The DA community celebrates some of the worst poetry ever written. So what started as basically dark /tip/ a sort of resurrection of trad western elite aesthetics but made dark has transformed into some costume for lesbians.
>>18258049You wanna dress like a Harry Potter extra while reading the latest teen fiction book at Barnes and Noble
>>18258303I agree it's here to stay but that picrel doesn't look anything like what I would consider 'dark' OR 'academic'
>>18258439Good way to meet chicks if you live in a college town
>>18258268If you went to Oxford or Cambridge nowadays you'd be dressing like an Indian or jeans. Oxford and Cambridge have lost all status and are not even a shadow of what they once stood for.
>>18257371More like dork academia.
>>18257401Too bad you can't pull it off.
>>18259097>Too bad you can't pull it off.I pulled it off years ago.
>>18259097>>18259282Looks like they escaped some labs.
>>18257525>foggy ol' london towne 'arry potter larpingi thought this died with the millennials
Where are you nogs getting decent socks at? Every dress sock I'm seeing is either $5 nylon trash or $100 equally pointless cotton
Just watched Dead poets society for inspo
>>18258439As I said, you don't get it. Be silent.
>>18258233Better off looking for vintage pieces. Wider fits and high rise with proper styling are still in the realm of proper menswear, although it's slowly been trickling into mainstream fashion for the last few years.Kit Blake are really nice, a friend of mine has a couple of pairs of their flannels and swears by them. Spier and Mackay do some decent stuff but they ship unhemmed, and the 12" rise on their High Rise pairs isn't quite enough for my taste. SuitSupply made to measure is an option if you have a location nearby and can be very clear with the guy measuring you about what you want.
>>18259282You clearly didn't.
>>18257379> If you like dark academia, just go for trad/prep/ivy.Dark academia is quite literally just the tiktok zoomer term for dressing "tory"
>>18257626Bollocks, Timmy.
>>18258276Loafers without socks are genuinely baffling. No reason whatsoever to wear them. But I hate the invisible socks trend in general. Uncomfortable and impractical and messy. Black mid-long socks are literally all you need outside of specialized athletic contexts. >>18258410I mean, there's an implicit larp element in coopting any "uniform". Maybe bikers get pissed at punks / metalheads for stealing their boots and leather. But I live in an NY college town and all those kids were in dark academia fits last winter. Rich kid's school too. Didn't see any doc martens but there were a lot of thrifted pieces and/or vintage that made their way in the outfits I saw. Also plenty of shawls, dresses, big jewelery and extra fabric layers that made the whole thing a bit more hippyish and less straight-laced. Wouldn't call it punk per se, but definitely a little... Woo woo? You know what I mean. >Reddit space for visual clarity Anyway, I have a big old unrequited crush on a girl at work who wears great DA fits every day. These threads hurt my feelings badly.
>>18257626Holy based
>>18259689*adjusts round frames and hoists thick tome of poetry you probably haven't heard of*you really wouldn't recognize an adrian smooth leather tassel loafer if it bit you in the classless ass!
>>18259950i saw this movie. whit stillman directed.
>>18257823Both those guys died in Vietnam. True story.
>>18257371If you haven't read picrel, you shouldn't be posting in this thread.
>>18259950>Black mid-long socks are literally all you need outside of specialized athletic contextsIf you wear black socks with any other pants than black you're an idiot. And I don't mean that in the usual "being a contrarian on 4chan" sense, I truly believe you're stupid. Why the fuck would you wear black socks with khakis? Blue jeans? Olive moleskin? Socks exist in all shades. Yes, wear socks, but spend the twenty minutes necessary to buy socks that match your pants.How the fuck do you not understand it while being so confident in voicing your opinion?
>>18259282The only thing you've pulled off (and it's regrettable) was the noose you tied around your neck when you got tired of your parent calling you a failure of a faggot.
>be me>into prep, so into dark academia by default>check out the subreddit for more inspo>its full of absolute garbage fits from attention seeking whores>one of them is a black chick wearing fishnets, pirate boots and a prison stripes skirt>"is this light academia? I'm whoring around europe looking fresh out of the new pirates of the Caribbean movie">wtf is wrong with redditors
>>18260368the cosplay community fails to filter bad ideas because it is open and accepting to a fault. criticism is tiptoed around so as not to trigger a mental breakdown. dark academia attracts the same crowd. the result is some good fits and lots of bad larps. updoots to the left
>>18257401Californian man jaw
Itt>if I dress like a professor from the 1920s people will think I’m sophisticated and smart!!!
>>18258303>fatties, troons, and faggots do itAnd they look like shitty larpers
>>18257372those dumb fucking boots are not academic at all>>18257371>>18257511nice
>>18258303this is a good fit, idk how or why they're trying to shoehorn its classification into this meme DA shit
>>18258303The raceplay reddit where black women pose naked and get called degrading racial slurs has 413,000 members. Perhaps that would also align with your interests?
What are the shoes/boots called for dark academia?
I've been wanting to dress in dark academia for years but can never find a style.
Here's a non-binary Dark Academia fit.>>18260666It doesn't have anything to do with the people around you.You wear the fit and engage in an activity, like going to the library and reading something or writing something on your laptop while there.You can also practice writing calligraphy or other crafts to get absorbed in the mood.
I dropped out of middle school and dress like this.
>>18264102
>>18257371>Light AcademiaWhat does it look like /fa/?
>>18257626Fuggen based
>>18257371"owl just brought my Hogwarts quidditch coach sexual assault settlement check" type look
>>18258303Literally a signal of it being beyond over lmfao
>>18264104the reason this looks so bad is that there isn't a single woman on the planet that dresses even remotely like thatand none of that shit fits him even though he sized up like six sizesdudes like that are so fucking clueless it's amazing
>>18259282old navy isn't academia you butthurt retardalso what's wrong with your face jesus christ this is a work safe board
>>18264341It's J. Crew, dummy.Shows what you know.And I get hit on by people of all genders often so you can't even say anything about my face, chud.
>>18257371Another one.
Bros, I was thinking about getting another pair of leather shoes and was wondering about the color for this aesthetic. Should I go with light brown, dark brown, or black? Was thinking these looked pretty nice.
>>18264102>>18264104>>18264339I don't know what the joke is but those bottoms look cool as fuck. I kinda want to do something like that
>>18257401How is she holding that bag? There's no strap.
>>18266190
>>18264339It just screams "what a guy thinks girls dress like"It's all about accentuating femininity in the absence of it.
>>18266190If you can't instantly tell that's AI the next few years are going to be rough for you.
>>18265918Dark brown, but yome Scotch grain derbies or something. Don't buy Docs or Solovairs if you have any self respect. Avoid chunky commando/lug soles, dainite/studded rubber is the most versatile. Black shoes are very difficult to wear casually because black is a formal colour and it really only matches with black, dark grey and navy, and you shouldn't be wearing odd black trousers. Dark brown on the other hand matches well with browns, greys, darker greens and navy. I even wear it with off-white sometimes.
>>18266295buy some, ffs
>>18266295Navy and black looks like dogshit together. Pick one you fence-sitting queer.
>>18266295Thank you, I know Solovairs aren't really the best but Scotch grain seems to be mostly outside of my current budget.
Dark Academia core
>>18259950The funny thing about the DA look is that you’ll see it at mid to low tier colleges and non-college educated circles. Of course they’re allowed to but it’s just a bit ridiculous to don the uniform so consciously like that. But you’re missing the point because my point was not that DA is a uniform but that it’s a uniform specifically co-opted by LGBT and POC folx. The point isn’t to be Evelyn Waugh but someone who reads Song of Achilles.
>>18260368Nothing. This is what who people who are into DA are like. They’re brown trannies and gays with tumblr pages.
>>18257511anti/fa/ hates him
>>18266421Based.Twinks may not like it but this is what real dark academia looks like
>>18266443100% accurate You may as well get one ear pierced and hang a color coded handkerchief out of the back pocket of your booty shorts with how queer-coded this shit has become.
>>18266261Thats ai??
>>18266314You shouldn't be wearing a black suit outside of a funeral, so black shoes and navy trousers are the default in a business environment.>>18266413Look at picking up some used shoes. Oftentimes people will sell pairs that still have a couple of years of wear left in them before a resole is needed, and all they need is a bit of leather conditioner and a polish to look like you only bought them a month ago. I picked up this pair of Crockett and Jones for approx 140 USD (yes, I posted them in the last /tip/ thread, fuck you) and I've had the opportunity to wear them a couple of times now. Extremely happy with them.What's easily available will depend on where you are. Try Abbott's Shoes if the shipping isn't prohibitively expensive. Look at buy/sell groups on Facebook marketplace (big thing in Australia). Check out the Alden Model Project which lists every singly eBay listing for Alden shoes and let's you search by model number, last and style. I own shoes from C&J, Chesney, Loakes, Barker, Alden and Grenson, and I have never spent more on them than a brand new pair of Solovairs would cost. Part of dressing in a vintage-inspired look is being thrifty.
>>18266859That's actually a lot of useful info that I didn't know since I'm not super deep into this stuff yet. Thanks a ton anon
what do these larpers do when summer comes?
>>18266421SEX Academia
>>18266936they return north to nest and spawn
>>18259282how long have you been growing your hair?
>>18266443Dark Academia /started/ on tumblr. The entire aesthetic/style originated with people who read YA lit and then graduated to gays studying at Princeton and whatever. Something can't be co-opted if it originated with the same crowd
>>18258410>Donna TarttIs this the refined literary taste of Dork Macadamians? LMAOOOOOO!!!Well, I guess it's a step-up over Harry Potter.
>>18267905The Secret History is a very fun book. It's nice to read something at an right grade level every now and then.
