"Why Do Members of the Alt-Right Love Polos and Khakis So Much?"

highsnobiety.com/2017/10/12/alt-right-clothing-style/

thoughts?

Probably because Polos and Khakis represent order and social norms. A clear reaction to the punk-eccentricism of the far left.

It's pretty much this. Khakis and polos were chosen because they're just normie, clean-cut basic bitch stuff.

They want to communicate to you that they're just normal guys. They have a term for the skinhead look "Hollywood Nazi."

Probably because they're all cell phone kiosk types working on their business degrees.

Ah yes, the order of a dead end job.

You understand that even if these guys were all rich, fit and Veeky Forums dressing up would go against the whole purpose of the normie pleb outfit, right?

Also, would you wear your best outfits to an event where you can expect to get hosed with pepper spray, spat on, covered in HIV+ blood etc.

There's something to be said for looking presentable at a protest. Regardless of what you're protesting, someone will probably generalize your side as "a bunch of violent _____ people" with some heavy implications that everyone involved is lower class. I've seen lots of groups of doctors in their scrubs and researchers in their lab coats with goggles on their heads, and while protesting in a suit and tie has fallen out of fashion, I think the presentability of civil rights leaders like MLK Jr. was a good thing for the movement.

Ironically, the Charlottesville protestors managed to fail miserably at actually looking put together, despite adapting this uniform of white, middle class put-together-ness. Goes to show that fit is always most important.

The article said most of the rest of my thoughts.

Alt-right is more working-class. Unless you mean "American Middle-Class" where you're middle-class because you have a minimum wage job, lel.

>entire article about how the evil alt right conspiracy's official uniform is white polo shirt and khakis to infiltrate the mainstream
>can only find one single actual picture of this, some douche wearing a white buttonup, and a screenshot from a movie that doesnt even have the type of fashion being described
>has to fill in the space using pictures of the stereotypical neonazi that isnt wearing these and of course a still from a Trump speech where he happens to be making a silly expression

Am I supposed to be surprised that people are wearing an incredibly generic and typical choice of clothing? Woah. Popular shit is popular! Neo nazis are supposed to wear all black and leather and skulls and fucking stahlhelms and shit, why are they dressing the way most people dress?! They should dye their hair rainbow and wear teardrop glasses

This article is retarded

They idea was to look respectable. Unfortunately, the alt-right is super normie, so their idea of respectability is "part-time mall job" or "pledge week with the frat." None of them dress respectably, and that's the whole point.

>Alt-right is more working-class.
It's more edgy college republican than anything. Sure, they've got the working-class vote locked down, but the faces of the movement aren't working class.

Hypebeast is the superior streetmeme site. Less politics and more interesting shit.

The faces aren't, no. But Richard Spencer does not reflect who is in the rank and file.
Polo and khakis is respectable to normies without being alienating. If they could manage to get hundreds or thousands of men in well-fitting suits that would be alienating. The normie would not see these guys as one of them.

I really want the alt-right to embrace the turtleneck for fall. It looks so cool, imo.

I don't Mosleycore works without low body fat.

The alt right is pretty working class but it desperately wants to be taken seriously as middle class, hence the polo and khakis.

>still have my white fencing jacket from high school
Should I dye it black and go full Mosley?

the white polo and khaki thing is specifically a TRS/Identity Europa thing, I think its fine as a uniform, and I know they do volunteer work in it.

I personally prefer veilance, prada sport, lemaire, and other fashiony minimal stuff to kind of Alt-Right field uniforms.

polos khakis are also a signature of the prep/frat boy identity. and because most modern alt right are higher educated it reflects that.

I'm not a fan of the white polo/khaki thing, reminds me of bad salesman. Plus any gut that isn't a 6 pack looks twice as bad in white. Can you dump some Inspo from the labels you mentioned?

Yeah, I told some of my IE buddies and ppl I know from TRS that if they were going to do the whole White Polo/Khaki thing...mind you this was back before Trumps Inauguration...that they needed to get a uniform fit, from the same supplier/brand. They also needed to tailor stuff to make sure it fit well. I offered to do some consulting on clothing optics but they didn't seem to interested. What you ended up getting were a lot of out of shape guys wearing Marshalls or Walmart brand khakis with a polo or overally tactical 5.11 type stuff.

Will post a few inspo photos.

Lemaire

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I'd rather wear tacticool 5.11 gear than this trash

>modern alt right are higher educated it reflects that

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

if this thread is up tomorrow ill post some actual inspo

ok then lol thats fine, ill look good over here in my veilance and prada in pursuit of aesthetics

alt right are cringey suburban white losers who think sucking rich white chad dick makes them rich white chads they pathetically emulate their style even though they act against their interests and would probably be disgusted to be associated with such losers

yeah you're going to be looking really great with your dumpster diver aesthetic, you should make tons of friends from people asking if they can buy meth from you

The article was just some jackoff pseudo-journalist running at the mouth. The notion that skinheads aren't racist is 100% ignorant. I know and have known an awful lot of skins, ranging from the currently quite young all the way to guys in their fifties who were second or third generation skins beginning in the early eighties. I've also met two elderly ones who began in the very late fifties. All of them without exception are racist toward blacks. They all listen to black music, as does virtually everyone on planet earth, but they talk plenty of racist shit when they're with themselves and friends. You see, they're convinced that political correctness is the ultimate form of cool, and so they put up that front, but behind closed doors the talk inevitably degenerates to discussing the relative merits of having at least one "nigger" in your band for appearances sake alone. Some of the northern soul-oriented, shitty Commitments-esque bands blatantly discuss having a "nigger" chick for cred's sake, but repeatedly laugh and bemoan how would NEVER in a million years have a black dude in their band, etcetera, etcetera. Skins are just lame fucking children, regardless of their age. The grubbiest hippie has a million times more dignity and character than any skinhead does, and THAT'S saying something!

As far as white polos and khakis are concerned, right-wingers have always valued and placed an emphasis on a clean-cut appearance. It's just that simple.

>traditionally more right-leaning people tend to not have sex in their teens
really activates the ol' almonds

>he thinks the alt right are the hollywood nazi types who do meth

wow haha, no wonder you people cant seem to understand why we grow in numbers everyday

>tfw we are the rich white chads

western civ is mine paco stay assmad go wear your fake yeezys in mexico city

>grow in numbers
>lost popular vote
>low approval rating
>get fired and stomped on each day

daily reminder the intelligent level headed majority of this country is liberal

I'm glad that by voting trump all you have achieved is that white males will never be seen as the good guys ever again.

the whole alt right """"""""""movement""""""""" is just white male losers wanting to bring back racism and sexism because white women (or anyone else for that matter) wouldn't pick them otherwise

t. white male

>and because most modern alt right are higher educated it reflects that.
Prove it. Their clothes tell a different story.

because the alt right is full of and lead by preppy white college students and intellectuals. they same chad douche bags who made fun of you in middle school for wearing skinny jeans now make fun of you for being jewish

polos have been a part of skinhead fashion forever, going back to when skinhead wasn't a synonym for nazi and they pretty often had leftist sensibilities. skinhead fashion was pretty much just a mash of cleancut shit and workwear, so it worked pretty well for that purpose.
racists then became drawn to the skinhead movement and slowly took it over while keeping the look for themselves because obv right wingers generally like cleancut preppy fashion in the first place and it wasn't a far cry from that.
the actual skinhead subculture has pretty much evaporated in the modern age and is only old people and edgy kids, but the polo part of their fashion remains, mostly black and gold fred perry shirts which i think were adopted by proud boys.
the more workwear inspired parts have more or less been phased out by office worker tier clothing because the modern far right is pretty bad at the whole dressing well thing but desperately wants to be seen as "classy," so the khakis are probably a weird attempt to look more upscale.

This is a "you're close, but you're WAY OFF" sort of opinion.
White people have either been deliberately "hacked" so they stop breeding like they should or it just coincidentally happened but contemporary politics is in the way of that being corrected.
A big part of this is that white women delay reproduction and refuse to marry. It's not that they're all dating outside their race, though.
It's that they're all trying to get high status white men that they are not attractive enough to stand a chance with.
If white people had a healthy birth rate all the other problems probably would not exist or be severe enough to have created the Alt Right.

lmao

the elite don't give a fuck about you trailer racists

trailer racists just think wearing po-low ralf lowren will make them into white elite

You frame it that way because you can't conceive of doing anything unrelated to status climbing.

These are great, much better than tacticool

>s-stop looking good! >_

damn mosley flyest motherfucker of previous century

>most modern alt right are higher educated
o i am laffin

This. Lmao.

People are literally living in a personal bubble it seems.

Bunch of faggots in this thread

We're not in such a polarising time that style links that much with politics. The only political 'uniforms' where I live are either:

1) Prep (specifically chino shorts and boat shoes) for ordinary conservatives and centrists

and

2) Doc Martens and unnaturally coloured/bleached hair for the far left

The skinhead aesthetic is pretty rare and almost exclusively worn by the ultra-fringe neo-nazi groups that haven't figured out how to relate to popular far-right movements and to those not yet convinced of nazism or by far-left SHARP skinheads who dress basically the same but wear a ton of left-wing, anti-racist patches/t-shirts/etc. in the hope that people don't think they look like nazis

Honestly everyone I know who dresses like this is a communist.

You clearly don't understand the alt right, so you go with the strawman given to you by the media. Pathetic!

>ALT RIGHT IS INTELLIGENT, SMART, HANDS-
>w-why are you laughing

In the last few days 11 bombs have gone off in Sweden and your media has told you nothing of it.

You can't stop us. Fighting against us means fighting against your people.

We don't have Jews in our movement. Nice try, wrong flag, faggot.

Considering the state of young men today, it's no surprise nationalism is growing and growing across Europe - and for all their trillions of dollars, Antifa and the state can't do anything to stop us

The future. We're taking it back. With men like these in our ranks, we don't need the entire power of universities, corporate H.R. Departments and the media, unlike leftists

Cristophe Lemaire as a person is quite far from your ideals..

samefag

Obviously, smoothbrain.

>what /pol/ actually looks like

These are kekistanis, not alt right.

>SUPERIOR ARYAN

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half of /pol/ isn't even white lmao

chances are that /pol/ shitposter is just a retarded memer nonwhite kid

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The amount of strawmanning in this thread

You people are really afraid of the Alt Right, aren't you? It's hilarious

Can anyone link me a video where a centrist or leftist actually debates someone like Mike Enoch? So far I haven't seen a single one, and Enoch constantly invites people to challenge him.

oh wow you totally got me there, what a witty picture

i'm thinking i'm glad i unliked highsnob.
they really turned to shit

NSM isn't alt-right
These are just low iq trailer plebs who will be in the gas chamber as soon as we gain power

It's threads like these that solidify the fact that Veeky Forums is in fact the most underage and most minority board on this website.

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sounds like the alt-right to me

This is the alt-right

Is the Dalai Lama a Tibetan Supremacist Neo Nazi?

This also

just a realist

I agree

Tfw I have bleached hair and Docs but I'm also a natsoc. Rip.

You realise old school Socialists from the 1930s would agree with the Alt Right?
Unlimited immigration from third world nations, especially ones where the locals don't pay their taxes and sit around unemployed or do gang shit, leads to complete subjugation of the worker and breakdown of the state support.

t.grandparents were Marxist professors

>alrighters aren't degenerate

makes me think

Is it true that Marx wanted to genociede cerataain lesser races?

Yeah they would have pepes instead of hammers and sickles. Kek bro xxD!!!
Lmao

Yeah some american old cunts maybe. Read Stalin, kid.

Ahahahaha, I really hope you don't want to repeat Stalin's rule

Name one alt right figurehead that has called for genocide of anyone

Confirmed for not knowing what Socialism is

American education and politics, lol. Come to Europe and learn about true socialism and nationalism. Fuggin teenagers

>recommending Joseph "imperialism under the guise of anti-imperialism" Stalin

me too, do people really think I'm a leftist?

Better idea, don't read Stalin as per the request here . Instead, read Marx and Trotsky. Then read Gramsci and Althusser and all their spiritual progeny. Hebdige, Hall, Haraway, Spivak, and (of course) Zizek are all worth the time, at least.

The alt right has moved on from Pepe after trump won, then revealed himself to be another shabbos goy. Keep imagining white nationalists as Milo and T_D fans or something, you're out of touch bud!

Between you and that fag praising Stalin, it's painfully obvious that the average alt righter understands leftism far more than you understand huwhite nationalism. I bet you think Socialism is a left wing ideology too

lol dems and shitlibs cant get any funding and their coalition of the ascendant is falling apart. They dont have enough brown and black voter turn out and desperately need white voters to lead the party. Schumer and Pelosi know this and are trying to walk their nonwhite pets back, but its too late. Everytime a shitlib, jew, or non white doubles down on anti-white rhetoric, which is everyday, we get more and more white people. White identitarianism is the future, brown bused in voters to vote for Neo Liberal Globalists, is not.

Keep pushing whites into a corner, plesse. Everytime you insult us and scoff at us, we gain more power.

I dont think anyone in fashion is inline with white identitarianism, I merely don't care and will appropriate their aesthetics as I see fit.

Political ideology is nothing more than a fashion accessory, do not judge it by its soundness or by its practical results, judge it by how ahead of the curve and stylish it is.

Or rather, stop pretending that it's not what you're already doing.

Fashion, writ large, is a function of politics; from supply chains to aesthetics, all of these things are politicized.

>zizek
Lmao! We got a big brain nibba over here. Trotskyists should absolutely be purged.

Listen here bud, you and I both share a similar sadness for the commoditisation and breakdown and rape of everything sacred. But corporatocracy has ran its course, and all your modern leftist allies are engaged in is beating the rotten corpse of pride, nationalism, gender roles etc. Whatever macabre version of communism your peers want to resurrect will not be born out of a higher pursuit of virtues, because the very building blocks of desire for virtue have been completely eroded - the majority of modern communists literally just want no more responsibility and free shit, they have no connection to the pursuit and desire to escape from the destruction wrought by corportocracy and the mindless church of egalitarianism that your beloved writers and the workers movements of the 30s have. Modern communists are hollow men, just as hollow as you think the average Trump supporter is.

There's nothing to be done but to ride the tiger. You're trying to build something with rotten timber. Only a breakdown, a catastrophy, a global crash and halt, and a recconection with the value of striving for virtue and the ethereal will reset us. Otherwise, any communist movement will literally be predicated on getting free Game of Thrones episodes and not having to pay for adult fun time at university. Completely soulless bugmanites will be the new NKVD.

I'll read some of the names you gave, if you read Evola and Mein Kampf without reading some snarky spark notes version. Know your enemy. The Communists and the National Socialists both wanted to elevate their people to a higher destiny than our current soul crushing consumption and blind egalitarianism.

quality post blessed with trips

And here I thought my parenthetical would have been enough to make clear my memester purpose naming Zizek. Ah well.

That said, I named the writers I did because they are either important to understanding the impetus for Marxism or because they were writing after the revolution didn't happen as a way of explaining why it didn't. Gramsci, Althusser, and their progeny aren't writing about how to make a communist state. Instead, they're writing about how and why certain ideologies (typically capitalist ideologies) become embedded and naturalized, and I think calling them "communist" is incorrect (and calling me one or allying me with other communists is absolutely incorrect).

And, btw, I've read Mein Kampf. I'll look into Evola.

Thank you :)

I think it´s all about appearing "supperior" as a message to the people you feel to be "inferior" and that happens pretty quick considering not many stoners, SJWs and other vermin walk around in brand shirts EXPLICITELY known to be expensive.
The whole selling point of a Fred Perry or Lacoste or whatever is that it´s fashionable cause it´s pricey.
It´s always been a little mental stepping stone for people to talk to others that are clearly more wealthy/beatiful/strong etc.
It also may be an easier way to clearly fall out of norms that are said about the "inferior" people you don´t like.
No one will think you´re a worth for nothing stoner with stupid left motives having a good haircut and a nice clean shirt of an expensive brand.
You don´t see many 40 year old white lawyers with dreadlocks and bandshirts, even though they are politically divided like the rest of all people.

well, when you walk around town telling women
you´re "alt-right" you are a fucking moron.
God damn idiots watch way too much YouTube.

I plan to start a company that caters to right wing America and will entice the masses to right wing thought through employing powerful aesthetics.


You will all see

Yeah. Evola is slated because he writes about Tradition, and some people are just fundamentally incapable of entertaining what this immaterial concept is. A mark of intelligence is being able to entertain an idea without believing in it, so I reccomend you Ride the Tiger. His better works are Men amongst the Ruins, but his more esoteric work is still being translated.

He's very very influential to the Alt Right, whether most of them realise it or not.

Alright, I'll look into these people. You're reasonable, so can you answer this - so many Marxists have expressed animosity towards European peoples, their nature and their tradition, whilst also being wholely in love with Judaism - many Marxists and proponents of such are Jews, who whether they believe in Israel or not, express loyalty to their diaspora and a love of their history and people - and their history and people is absolutely full of the Talmudic desire for the Goyim to lose their identity and become the servile Golem. This makes me very very suspicious and angry with the Marxists, because it seems that all they do is erode European Traditionalism, which is not what has birthed rampant capitalism. The soviet Union's original leadership was consisted of 19/24 Jews, the rest married or relate to Jews - how do they represent the Russian Worker? It's almost a dream come true for anyone following the Talmud, a subservient Golem proletariat kept in check by the (again, overwhelmingly Jewish) NKVD.

What's the deal with that? How can you trust these people to have your interests at heart? They seem to hate European tradition, and their insurrection and worldview leads to a situation Solzhenitsyn described in 200 years together - Jewish domination of the Russian Goyim. What the fuck man? I don't trust like that.

>A site literally called "hypebeast" is the best street wear site

Where did we go so wrong