Male Fashion Advice

I'll echo others that I didn't know it existed before this post. On a quick scroll through it seems the posts are overly focused on suits which isn't the part of mens fashion I've been questioning. Honestly I have so much fun dressing my daughter up for the day and picking everyday clothing for my wife that I want to improve my own dress, but honestly I struggle to find ways to make my own everyday dressing more fun

I find the fashion hobby expensive and unfulfilling for myself personally. I can tell if my wife looks good but not myself or anyone else really

Pretty sure I saw a guide on here recently that was showing all the general styles(formal, casual, business casual, etc) and literally every one was a suit of some kind. I blocked the sub after that. Yet my client still let's this sub into my all feed. If I could block y'all again I would.

Shits hard enough without a bunch of pretentious "you need to dress like this to be a real man" bullshit. These communities are never about helping people match colors or find good fit, it's all about some elitist idea of how a man should dress in a suit to look better than everyone else. It's just ego and waste.

If you told me this was a James Bond cosplay community, I'd 100% believe you.

The two main groups on Lemmy are communists and programmers. These groups don't seem to into fashion. I could be wrong, though.

I personally just didn't know about this community until this post, I think one of Lemmy's issue is discovery of new communities, the weekly trending post helps a bit, but I wish we had a better directory of communities like how sub.rehab did

I liked browsing the R counterpart for inspiration but otherwise I'm not too much into fashion, I'm still wearing shirts from high school

I typically think of this subreddit/community as something not for me, but I took a look just now at what you personally are doing with it.

First off, the content is more general, in a good way, than I expected. It's not just all expensive, more formal, traditional office clothes.

Second, the comments really show off the bad side of Lemmy. If you aren't interested in the content, move on and don't crap all over for people that would be interested. You're trashing a place you don't like and leaving negative comments there forever instead of leaving the place as you found it. That's bad manners IMO. Anyone new coming to the community is going to think it's always a negative space. The people that do this are probably the same ones who complain about overactive moderation and can't understand why they get banned or blocked so often.

I feel Blaze would be right in clearing up some of this stuff. I think a lot of you have mods nervous to do their jobs, and it's allowing Lemmy to become worse. In a fashion group, there's plenty of room for discussion and debate, but coming in, saying why are you wasting time on stuff I don't care about over and over, and then moving on isn't constructive and should be removed if you aren't adding to conversation. No one in any community cares about those types of comments.

Third, I'm not interested in "fashion" as it is typically thought of. I don't care about looking trendy. I'm a large person, and feel most clothing isn't made for me. I'm also hot year round, and layers and accessories typically make it feel even worse. Buuuut, one thing I think you could look into is being the place for something that typically annoys many other people about a different set of communities!

The Buy It For Life groups get a lot of questions about things like "what are some BIFL pants/socks/shoes" and the same people chime in every time "clothes are wear items, not BIFL!". Perhaps you can be the place for those conversations. Stuff that looks decent, but also holds up and is a more timeless look, not fast fashion or trendy throwaway clothing.

Those are my immediate thoughts. I'll have to sub and check out the place more. As usual, I think you're doing good work, but honestly without some more ~~aggressive~~ assertive moderation, I can't imagine much growth due to toxicity.

I am quite fashionable, and I do sometimes dress in male clothing.

But this community shares a name with a Reddit community that I found abrasive and mildly toxic, so I've been ignoring it.

The only fashion on lemmy is about high socks

I wear whatever Hansel wears

I think fashion is very subjective. I have, personally, no interest in articles about Chinos that tell me to wear sports jackets or guides on how to fold pocket squares or aditorials from expensive designers making ridiculous looking scarves. The posts tend to skew a little formal and a little, well, straight.

But I recognize that tastes differ and some people might want to talk about those things. I like there's a men's fashion forum. I just don't see a lot of posts that I personally find appealing and I don't really know where to look for them to share some of my own.

I've never seen this community in my feed before this post, so I'm guessing it's a visibility issue

til there is a community focused on male fashion.

I could not care less.

I just found and subscribed to it today, so I'd argue its the latter

Don't browse here because I assume there's not much femboy fashion advice or early transfem fashion advice posted

I am fairly sure this is the first time I've ever seen a post from mfa appear on my general feed, so, visibility.

Didn't even know this existed lol.

I was unaware of this community until this post, I joined shortly after.

I feel like it's always kind of a niche topic. Too many people see one style or another as something to be derided for being exclusive and/or unnecessary. Whether its calling suits classist or streetwear drops wasteful. Not too many people are interested in fashion in general, especially men's fashion.

More content will improve visibility.