https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/can-you-be-norm-core-if-youre-not-ironic Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:14:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/can-you-be-norm-core-if-youre-not-ironic#post-1196986 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:06:33 +0000 Carla 1196986@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Answer: The socks come a dozen to the bag. </p> <p>In DH's defence, he does have black, grey, navy, and Khaki (!) socks for weekdays. He matches them to his trousers. I think the white socks are a weekend thing, and a jeans thing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/can-you-be-norm-core-if-youre-not-ironic#post-1196985 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 03:58:15 +0000 cloud9 1196985@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL @ Amy's question. I have the exact question for your DH and MINE! My DH would wear these white socks with black dress shoes. Grrrrrrrr. I've seriously thought of one day just confiscate all of them and feed them to the black hole inside the washer/dryer....</p> <p>Ironic or not, to us layman, no difference from the look, all in the attitude/intention I suppose. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/can-you-be-norm-core-if-youre-not-ironic#post-1196906 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:36:02 +0000 minimalist 1196906@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>As an original, your DH is perhaps iconic rather than fashionable.</p> <p>Now you have me wondering.</p> <p>I'd thought of my guy as geekchique, though he prefers the term nerd. Maybe he's some version of normcore? Black athletic socks with black shell Aldens. Grey pleated dress pants, white short-sleeve dress shirts. Once his trousers split at the office, so he closed his door and put his red Swingline to work. It's all deliberate, but never ironic.</p> <p>Here's a question, for your DH, from someone who never mastered laundry:<br /> What's the draw of white athletic socks with shoes that are not? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/can-you-be-norm-core-if-youre-not-ironic#post-1196897 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:14:53 +0000 ironkurtin 1196897@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>No.&nbsp; He is just comfortable. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/can-you-be-norm-core-if-youre-not-ironic#post-1196894 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:13:10 +0000 Beth Ann 1196894@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love this!&nbsp; Personally, I think irony is overrated, but then I love music theatre and get all tingly at the end of "Oklahoma."</p> <p>Your DH isn't hopeless, just a creature of habit, like most of his brethren!&nbsp; I do sometimes suggest little tweaks to my DH's style -- a change of wash and rise in his jeans, newer footwear.&nbsp; He still loves oversized button downs and sweatshirts. </p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/can-you-be-norm-core-if-youre-not-ironic#post-1196877 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:41:45 +0000 psychedelicate 1196877@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think "normcore" implies intention and irony. So no, he's not normcore, but rather their inspiration! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/can-you-be-norm-core-if-youre-not-ironic#post-1196872 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 00:36:38 +0000 Carla 1196872@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>DS #1 and I were talking fashion personas at the dinner table, when DH asked 'what about me?' We figure him for 'academichic M--F, but a 'normcore' original on the weekend. As we were explaining it to him, he pulled up his *not* low-waisted stonewashed jeans, to reveal the ubiquitous white athletic socks complete with logo. The rest of the outfit was a grey mock turtleneck shirt.</p> <p>So, if you are a 'normcore' original at 56 years of age, and without the irony, are you fashionable? Or just (LOL) hopeless?</p> <p>#1 is DH! the rest are images found under 'normcore'. </p>