Plaid Flannel / Buffalo Check

[Fuuma]

A revisitation of this grunge stapple but with a slimmer fit and some additional modern elements. This is really bubbling under in streetwear. Here's an exemple from the runway:

Rick Owens F/W 06.07 From men.style.com

 

[kisa]

I´ve been wearing my boyfriend´s old beat up flannel shirt lately, but I haven´t noticed anyone else doing it as of yet. I think plaid flannel could catch on as an accessible way of doing the 'tartan' trend, especially for 'punky' and 'emo' young people who don't want to look like they are trying too hard.

 

[ClassicFashion]

I like this for boys AND girls....or, that is, until H & M start shipping them out like happy meals...

 

[dreamecho]

I am definitely seeing flannel around more this season.

Wearing flannel makes me feel rougher & tougher , thereby balancing out my more feminine side as seen in my dainty ballet shoes and my more blatantly sexy side as sometimes seen in my skinny jeans.

 

[anaisanais]

I this look too - marc jacobs used a lot of plaid/flannel in his recent shows

 

[Ariez]

i love the flannel look. I definitely get the whole rough and tough feeling too haha. Some stores are getting a bit ridiculous with the prices, especially if there's some "cool rip" in the sleeves or the back. Theres no way in hell i'm paying more than 10 bucks for one of these shirts.

 

[Mink]

from kirsten-dunst.org

 

[lemeray]

It would be hard to pull of flannel in Australia without looking like a bogan.

 

[sw33tricecakes]

A lot of kids around my area have been wearing flannel jackets for a while now.

 

[Uchina]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*Seppuku*

I hate flannel. I remember trying to find a woman to date in Maine and I could NOT find a lesbian that wasn't wearing it.

 

[milkeyedmender]

i love it, always have done.

kisa, i think the opposite is true, tartan would fit in much more appropriately with the emo look than the more natural look of plaid, a look that's more likely to be picked up by the indie kids and eventually the masses.

 

[jetsetandtrash]

until H & M start shipping them out like happy meals...

HA

well said

 

[jetsetandtrash]

from kirsten-dunst.org

*no quoting images-see guidelines*

ohh i like it on kirsten, but i dont think its something that a lot of people would be able to pull off without looking too "trendy" or just stupid

 

[softgrey]

designer flannel is an atrocity...
go to the salvation army or kmart if you MUST do flannel...

better yet---
just say no......


plaid is all good- but plaid flannel is NOT fashion.......

 

[MulletProof]

what's the difference between flannel and plaid?

 

[twilight fairy]

I like plaid mini-schoolgirl skirts..but..anything else is..

 

[titania]

When I think of flannel, I think of pyjamas . But maybe that's because flannelette (flannel made from cotton or synthetic fibres) is derived from flannel .

Plaid (or tartan) is usually made from wool and actually describes the cross-hatched dying pattern. It's usually used for school skirts but originally was used for travel rugs or blankets.

So, I'm guessing flannel is somewhat thinner than plaid. I'm also thinking you can have plaid flannel, where the flannel fabric has the plaid pattern on it.

Does that make any sense ?? Hope this is helping .

 

[MulletProof]

thanks, aquarius [just found out! ]!.

it makes more sense now that you mention the thinness, cause that was indeed the only difference i found, even if it's so tiny.
now, plaid fannel...that makes it confusing again.

 

[Fuuma]

This answer strikes me as a bit weird. After all we’re certainly not discussing job-specific clothing on these forums (i.e. a concert pianist has to wear eveningwear or a lawyer suit/shoes/dress shirt/tie) but casual wear. All this stuff could be replaced by $10 jeans and $5 tees from Wal-Mart. Why is it then that posters here put so much passion, energy and money in their casual dressing habits. Without getting too specific I think it’s pretty safe to say they like the various signifiers and modes of expressions made available through the medium of clothing. In simpler terms, we like the pretty clothes because it’s a way to communicate something about us to the world, a mode of expression.

Then what about flannel, if it’s the material we’re taking about here, surely you don’t want to restrict the range of fabric available to designers for no apparent reason; why flannel anyway, why not wool or leather. This would be the equivalent of saying a color is “off limits” (red isn’t fashion I tell you!!!). It’s pretty safe to say Softgrey has nothing against the intrinsic nature of a particular fabric, this leaves off its extrinsic aspect; the meaning conveyed by using flannel.

Flannel is typically associated with traditional American workwear and the working classes (think woodsman jackets…), and has been appropriated, for this very reason, by the grunge movement of the early 90s. This makes it a fabric with a history very similar to denim, another trad. American workwear material.

While there are conflicting opinions on this, I am, for one not opposed to the use of trad. Workwear by more high-profile/”luxury” designers depending on how it is done. I thoroughly enjoy the high quality of Japanese denim reproductions of 501-style jeans (think Studio d’artisan, Sugarcane or 45RPM) and really like the things I can express through the, I hope, respectful use of workwear. Same goes for leather jackets, jeans and more rarely flannel shirts.


Full disclaimer: I have nothing against Softgrey (who owns great skirts, judging by the what are you wearing thread ) or anyone who dislikes flannel, I dislike a load of things/looks too but I don’t assume it’s “not fashion”, fashion being hard enough to define as it is. I also do not have very high stakes in this; the only flannel shirt I own is by engineered garment, a high quality label aiming at making updated/quality reproductions of traditional American workwear. It’s not runway and not done in a over designed/high fashion/fancy way. Looks like a cool (my opinion) flannel shirt with cowboy shirt snaps for buttons. I wear it with other workwear like articles (raw denim, workmen jacket, etc.) and sometimes a *gasp* plaid/wool cap for the whole 1930s factory worker look.
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[Kimkhuu]

^ Why oh why the Wal-Mart mention......