Richard's Wear 9feb2016tuesday

 This outer jacket is old, my Lt. Warf design.   I has cascading collars in the front and I have worn it in enough venues to say, with confidence--this is a BIG HIT.   People WANT IT.   I thought at the time of design it would be out there, beyond everyone, but what do I know?

 The back of the Lt. Warf jacket has a triangle shaped remove-able section for coolness in summer wear.   As a joke I thought I would make the triangle section, well, a bit......trangular!

The key to this jacket is the split accordian sleeves---so easy to move in---I have played tennis in it with no errant shots caused by stiff material or limits on motion.   

 This is the 7th design out of 8 new recent ones arrived (another that I called 7th was actually 6th).   A few designs ago I tried out a small STAINED GLASS section and liked it, so HERE it is the entire front--having worn this for a day I can say with confidence---I LIKE THIS and the people around me in Japan---LIKE THIS.   

As usual I am completely surprised by which designs people take to and which they reject.   This one was a bit too crowded and bold and childishly over-colored I thought but then I LIKE IT in spite of that and OTHERS not my friends LIKE IT in spite of that too.

This is the same back I used on other recent designs---it did NOT work on light and brightly colored background materials but it WORKS on this dark BLACK background.   I will repeat it in the future on dark background fabrics like this one.  

MY AIM IN ALL THESE DESIGNINGS---1) do stuff I personally like and want to wear    2) amaze the world dominating every room and event and venue visually    3) put to shame COUTURE cowards and their tasteless rich customers.    No 17,000 Dollars US bespoke suit attracts young ladies as well or long as nearly all my designs do---duh.   

Richard's Wear 6feb2016sat design 7 out of 8

 I keep offering to design things for my wife BUT she sees ALL my experiments, successes and failures and the latter scare her off I think.  She has good taste on her own so in public we look appropriate to each other. 

This jacket front of cascading collar shapes I have done before two years ago with a set of outer jackets that won my first fashion prize.   SOOO I thought why not again.  

At present, having worn this just one day, I am OK with it---and think I like it some.   As you can see from 2 or more meters away the effect is----slimming, elegant, visually stunning, and of course unique.   

This is the same old red kimono shirt as last week but I changed the collar.  All my kimono shirts have 2 or 3 remove-able collars.  

WIth a shirt like this you dominate visually every venue.   Women compete by baring more and we men can compete by outre adornment at the sub-clown level.   

 The obi patches on the pants leg---are quite useless and rather tasteless.  Their sole function is the SUIT impression of matching jacket and trousers--that is all.  I did not get myself UP to thinking carefully about what to do with the trousers except recently ALL my long pants are convert-able into shorts by removing the bottom segment.   Global HOTTING is upon us, afterall. 

The back of this jacket is my usual shitty nagare design that on other recent designs I hated.  On BLACK however this shitty stuff works well I think.   Note the bird in silver white from the original old lady black kimono material I used as background material.  

 This is the 4th of 8 new designs that arrived this week.   The shirt is old--a year or two---from simple red kimono----very comfortable with replace-able extra collars and zip front, wide at elbow sleeves, and extra long sleeves.   

 The suit is kimono with white-silver obi material patches. The suit coat is long as I like that extra length but the sleeves though they should be long are short due to lack of material (and I was too lazy to find filler material).   

This suit is highly expressive of my inner nature---so I like it.  It is ME in a deep sense---my daily actual mood.   

I did what the research books recommend---worked almost entirely in college (at MIT and Wellesley) on making a FINE SELF---not career prep, not engineering tinkerings, not money grubbing "venture" this and thats of today.   I worked on deep inner things---expanding my mind, getting OUT of my hometown culture and ways, escaping 99% of what was IN ME.    I left me to become by age 55 an actual adult--someone NOT a copy of environments they were raised in.

This suit is adult to me---it celebrates life and being alive and thumbs its nose at gray suited fit in cowardly business"men".  It challenges all to LIVE.

The back of the coat is BADLY DESIGNED---the bands are too wide about five times wider than would be good BUT here because the material of the vertical bands is almost the SAME color as the background material, only one band stands out, making the effect good.   So I dodged a bullet here.   

By change the red shirt and red trim and red hat go together.  Too bad I lack Wizzard of Oz red shoes.  

I had 8 new designs this time and two of them are big mistakes, 2 are OK but not great, and 4 are GREAT---I have already lined up material to use for new suits repeating the format of the GREAT ones.    

Later in this blog I will combine one photo from all 8 designs and comment on which are great, which are OK and which are terrible.   

Richard's Wear 31Jan2016Sun 1feb2016mon TWO NEW DESIGN, BOTH I DISLIKE

The back of the 3CURVES design is, well, neither good nor bad, just BORING.   It only looks intersting when surrounded by gray black navy suited CEOs trying to look important.  In THAT context the back looks OK.   

 There are TWO of my recently arrived new designs here---the 3CURVES design and the SIDERIVER design.  I have worn each one for a day and my conclusion----LOUSY.  These are experiments that did not work.   BECAUSE I dislike them I will wear them quite often---if you do NOT understand ask your wife or girlfriend.

All my designs look interesting on paper --- (to me at any rate) but THAT is why designers BUILD STUFF---because stuff when in STUFF format often is NOT stuff when in sketch format.  Try it with wives or husbands or kids---the real version differs from any sketch.

There is so much I dislike about both these designs I do not feel like listing it---just about everything is bad.  There are a couple of elements to pull out and use elsewhere---the top third of the front of the 3CURVES design is neat--that can be salvaged elsewhere.

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The back of the 3CURVES design is some sort of disease encrouaching on the purple material---overall making a creepy effect.   WHAT WAS I THINKING????    This has happened many times before, however---my closet is filled with bad results----that is how I filled it with GREAT results.

The front of the SIDERIVER design is amazingly bad in proportions.   If the striped side were 1/5th as wide, then OK.  WHAT WAS I THINKING?

Richard's Wear---30jan2016sat and 31jan2016sun TWO SUITS OF MY NEW SERIES OF DESIGNS

There are two new designs here---the first purple on is the WISH form design and the second green one is the NAPOLEON design.   I have only worn them both for one day each so I do not yet know whether and why and how much I like them.  I determine that by going around a few days in each design and watching others' reactions and my own reactions.   

My basic goal is to dominate visually every venue I am in, and to get people spontaneously overcoming shyness and language/culture barriers and coming up to "solve the mystery of what is THAT?".    

When I go to large gatherings of MIT or KEIO or BEIJING or other school allumni, or to chambers of commerce meetings, it takes 2 to 3 beers/wines before people feel UP TO approaching me---but they ALL do, one after the other. 

 THIS IDEA is pretty obvious and simple---300 years ago men were the plummage bearers--waistcoats (try google searching "french waistcoat circa 1750").    Somehow industrialization and mass murdering Europeans in their hobby wars on each others---dulled the senses--too many aristocrats enjoyed leading masses of populations into mass murder--WWI killed off Christianity and empires for that reason so many write.   

In the shuffle of murderous evil by "top college grads of EU" and "church going goody goodies" of the EU--we lost display and plummage, style and elegance.    

NOW I am not much interested in style and elegance---it brings me into contact with too many mass murderer types--800 math GREs from "top" colleges and the like.  

 BUT I am interested in my own interests!!!!   For 46 years I have worn only clothes I designed BECAUSE I like them---that is ALL.  When people ask why this or that element in what I wear the answer is always merely---because at one point in time I liked that and now I still like it some, enough to wear it today.

So the ultimate reason for these suits is---mere liking.  

The other side of that is I absolutely hate the way the entire US population looks daily----the vulgar T shirt jeans nerd default junk, the petty preening struggling-to-look-more-important-than-I-am $7000 (merely) Italian bespoke suit.   

It was clear to me as a college kid that---I COULD DO BETTER even on my worst day, than EVERYTHING EVERY COUTURE HOUSE EVER MADE.   And I have not been disappointed

I invite readers to check out Milan, Tokyo, Paris, London shows from last Fall and coming up this Spring--the men's sections.  YUK YUK YUK YUK---immense seas of YUK.  

"Street inpsired"---they proudly proclaim (toilet inspired I feel looking at it all).   They all look so cheap---entire houses of "men"-like dolls wearing the same "this season couture" pattern---SHAME.   

So effortlessly annually I never have to look like THEM at least.   YUK

I rather like this NAPOLEON suit's front and back design.  I rather like the front of the WISH form design (not sure about the horizontal trios of its back yet).

We have LONG had a situation where every person alive can make their own designs or have made for them affordably but people are NOT doing so----THAT MEASURES lives beaten into un-confidence and conformance, submission and self disappearance.   THAT MEASURES general oppression of lives in how we run civilization and its hordes of "corporations".    

BY THE WAY, there are NO WORDS in any LANGUAGE for how bad bad bad the interface is on this BLOGGER website---they must have used darts on dartboards to design it---totally brainless.  I have to do SO MUCH WORK just to get fonts right and spacing it impossible.   I would fail all students in my courses who produce such junk as homework assignments!!!!

 

Richard's Wear 28Jan2016Thursday

ME IN A 20 YEAR OLD DESIGN--SILVER STRETCH LACE---comfortable and people come up asking what STAR I am----Everyday Celebrity---it just is a lot of fun to go to business meetings thusly attired and watch the assorted cowardly Calvinists squirm or denigrate or flee or puff out their small chests (few can benchpress my 150 kilos).   I consciously avoided gray-black-Calvin stuff from 300 years ago Switzerland, and I avoided California nerd T-shirt and jeans (ugly as crap)--in general I avoided USA TASTES (an oxymoron)--preferring Milan and Paris and London 

This is a terriblly comfortable suit in all weathers--here in Tokyo today, winter.   It is stretch lace and breathes well but somehow is not cold in cold weather.   It SPARKLES amazingly in sunlight and LED light.   It is impossible to ignore if you are walking anywhere within sight of me in this thing.  

 This is the first of my designs to be guided by research.   My students and I measured what got eyes first and what held eyes longest among competing couture designs (rented) versus my designs)  The hypothesis this suit tested was that brain modules like sensing signal from noise and dislike noise-less euclid type clear signals.   Signal without noise bores brain modules--that is what the neuropsych research hinted at.   

The results confirmed that hypothesis--truly random obi patch shapes out got and held eyes when competing with pseudo random shapes or euclidean noise-less shapes.  

I have two of these stretch sliver lace suits--because I liked the first one so I did another.   

BUT these next weeks I will try out all 8 of the new suit designs that just came in today from Vietnam.   The quality of the design and tailoring is amazing to me---I am easy to please with work of others but HARD to please with my own wayward stuff---I know too well how iffy and indeterminate my own design moves were--no basis, contradictory crap, forgot main point but went ahead.  My only virtue is absolutely NO COPYING OF ANYBODY ELSE.  I have a gene, some DNA, against wearing what all others wear.   

The result is a daily SHOW that is quite fun, both in my early life 30 years ago and NOW.   

THIS IS MY RITZ CARLTON AND FOUR SEARONS, my SHANGRI LA AND PENINSULA suit--the kind of thing I wear to formal occasions there.   NO use having a LUXURY hotel filled with cowardly little men in gray and black trying by the thousands they spend to look non-stupid, non-cowardly non-non-entity.  

Richard's Wear 19jan2016wed at ACCJ New Year's Party in Tokyo

 This is a lovely brown with slight gold throughout stretch fabric I found in Osaka though the store owner says he bought it in Nippori Tokyo.  I have been to Nippori thoroughly and never found anything as nice as this in hundreds of shops there---so he knows someplace I do not know.  I will keep looking as I would like more stuff like this.

On top is obi patches as usual.  Here the gold of the material and the gold of the obi match nicely instead of the childish extreme contrasts I was early on given to.   

So I like both the comfortable feel and the look of this suit.  I actually have 3 of these types of jackets, each a different design and 4 trousers among them---as pants wear out faster than jackets.   Overall I have enough clothes to live 200 more years---I doubt I will be able to use them.

These are two photos of the ACCJ new year's party at the Imperial Hotel last night. Maybe 500 to 700 in the room--maybe 400. Very nice time and met some new people with exciting backgrounds.   

Richard's Wear 18jan2016monday

 My winter suit---chartreuse is the color of winter all over the world--for it stands out from the sea of grays, blacks, dismals that forms waves and eddies swirls around train stations, lobbies, cafes.  In the sea of dismal colorless colors, heads bowed, lives conformed to tiny packages conformat with the obeisance the rich demand, in that crowd of cows THERE in the doorway, resplendant decked in iridescent da-glo women's swimwear stretch fabric, patched with cheap Japanese obi patches, STAND I.  Ta da!!!!!  Trumpets please!!!

I have two of these suits, one with horizontal striped on left side and vertical on right and a sunburst on the back, and THIS one.

I also have four pairs of da-glo chartreuse pants--so light and comfortable, made of ladies swimwear.   

I do not wear these casually but only when the dingy lives decked in dingy mass produced fabrics of the hordes of so-called "people" around me get me angry--which is not infrequent.   When angered at the gray black masses around me and the lives that CHOOSE to bedeck themselves thusly, I go to my closets and spend 20 minutes searching till I unearth these suits.

 I wore this today, a snowy day in Tokyo, to my local cafe.  It made, the suit did, the statement I wanted--life is great but you gray black mass produced GAP-like USA-like suited hordes are NOT.   

Why drift your last years of life into fitting into coward hordes??????  What is the profit of that last gasp of cowardice?????  Why bother breathing if you are going to copy pretend-people around you pretending to  be alive and pretending to have minds?????

Saks Fifth Avenue--the same dull conformist crap with a few spangles of decor so the price can be jacked up--for the rich are filled with cowards as well---superior cowards but cowards none the less.

I do not pretend to like this suit and this color (but I do) but I wear them as weapons against copycat coward crowds of pretend people.   I wear these suits as a clear visible clean unambiguous statement---ALL the STORES around you are for cowards, marketed to cowards, designed for displays of cowardice, fostering suicides, generating and worn by zombies--people whose entire lives are preparations for death--pre-death hordes.   

I do NOT pretend I am trying to help the world with these suits.  NO not at all!   It is, for me, merely a matter of taste--I think winter calls for CHARTREUSE, da-glo CHARTREUSE.  It is as simple as that--a dislike of gray and black and a dislike of wearing what all around me wear and a dislike of people who LOOK like they were packaged by corporations generating out of the world's shittiest cloths, cheap looking Saks Fifth Avenue garbage that there ACTUALLY are people cowardly enough to wear!!!!! Amazing.    What a cowardly world!  What tastelessness!  What uniformity of life and look!  What high prices of shit!    What dumb rich people!  What tasteless displays of PRICE not displays of LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard's Wear 15jan16Fri

GOING PINK (again)---I wear pink partly out of insouciant challenge to hormone-brained business"men" trapped in grays and navys and blacks--dark makes them "look" important.   For people who are deeply venal and un-important it is very important to "look" important.   

I wore this to an ACCJ Chamber of Commerce meeting in Tokyo last night and was welcomed---a dozen came up attracted by the PINK-ness of the pink (and the subtle banboo pattern on the pink kimono material.   They also were wondering what sort of brain damage I had that drove me to violating the gray-blue-black rule imposed by men on each other to help each other feel more important than each other are.   

This is a suit design from last year---DESIGNED to be conservative.   It has no sleeves (global warming coming) very long jacket (almost knee level), asymmetric front patterns, slight obi patching on the back--RATHER boring and conservative, or at least about AS boring and conservative as I allow of myself these days.

The black shirt--if you zoom in--has a lovely pattern for it is kimono silk too.   The suit, silk not elastic, is deliberately large in size for free movement--hence it is very very comfortable to wear as good silks tend to be.   

On trains and in other public venues--this simple suit gets a LOT of attention---good attention (though if worn in the USA I would inevitably be spit on daily wearing such--the USA people are rather intolerant as a whole especially--for some reason--of upscale fashion looks, anything above GAP CRAP).   

In winter, here in Japan, wearing a no sleeves suit with thin silk fabric, not thicker dark males cheap fabrics--there is a spring-y light bright look where all around on street and train stations and in lobbies are black and navies and grays and puffy down jackets---all of them made of the world's ugliest possible materials--clothes designed to en-profit some execs and owners, not enhance customers wearing them--bait and switch inc.).   

13jan2016wed RICHARD'S WEAR

I do not remember when I had this suit made.  The tweed came from Semba in Osaka for that means before I came to Tokyo, and perhaps midway of my Sanda time, say, 2001.   

The main show is the tweed---a warm tough soft vivid-in-color fabric remaindered in Semba.   The gold is obi, kept non-symmetrical here at the mid and bottom level.   

 This is a close up, slightly, of the suit to make the pattern of the tweed easier to see and appreciate.   Again my whole entry to fashion design was merely the single idea--WHAT IF clothes were made of non-shitty fabrics instead of junk from the world's poorest nations (for profit reasons).   What if non-shitty fabrics were  available to the masses (me)?

So I visited shops with ends of rolls at discount prices years after popularity.   That way I kept running across lovely strong powerful things to wear.  My design additions were, in the beginning, slight when not clearly misearble.  Later I learned some things and got creative.  

The back of the jacket is a bit of baby being born creativity--a nagare stripe but from an actual river not my own drawing.   I traced this neck of the Upper Nile, I believe, from an issue of National Geographic.   I liked the irregularity of the flow.  

This shirt is SOFA material, as ALL my winter shirts are.  I like it a lot---soft, warm, strong, gold, shining, but without the cheap metallic threads that make so many women's fabrics unwearable and, at close quarters, un-see-able.  

Originally I had about 50 pairs of pants from Syms and 70 shirts made of curtain of sofa material.   I dropped a few during house moves and now have about 50 of each.   With trousers I have designed of black stretch with obi patches, and obi vests I made, this allows hundreds of combinations.   

Richard's Wear 11Jan2016Monday

 This is the same design of suit as yesterday.   The kimono material is silver decor embedded in deep purple silk---quite lovely--see blow ups of the pants leg at bottom of this page.  

Again this design is a Lt. Warf, Klingon inspired rendition.   It makes its wearer feel like fighting with all the universe and every bacterium.   

Actually it makes ME feel like dancing everywhere I go.   The da-glo shirt of course heightens the depth of purple of the suit material, nicely.   No one notice my head is ugly---an intended consequence of da-glo shirts.

 This is me trying to look unfat.   From a great distance with poor binoculars I manage to pull it off.  

The red hat is there today not black because a bunch of people on Linkedin complained about my hats not matching.  I think hats that match suits are BORING but others disagree, so I tried a red hat with this suit.  I do NOT like the result but others might.   

 The back of this suit has the central obi stripe and stained glass effect at lower right.  I will make entire suits out of this stained glass effect soon.  

Da-glo shirts are easy to get--go to where they sell remaindered ladies swimwear--and buy it by the roll---100 US$ for 40 or more meters.  Makes great ladies swimwear or great men's shirts if you are a venturesome male like me.  

I like my shirt's ability to dominate entire rooms, effortlessly. The shirt scares people so I generally do nothing and wait for people to get 2 or more glasses of wine in them---then their curiosity overcomes their fears and they approach me, one by one or two by two and indirectly ask----what is WRONG with you, Mr. Greene.   I have a LONG LONG LIST of answers to that question but they mean something shorter---why do I not wear what all of THEM wear---that answer is short and unpleasant---I cannot stand how they all look---they look like some cheap factory made clothes as ugly as humanly possible in order to send profits to some owners and execs.   

This close-up of the pants leg allows you to see the embedded silver patterns in the deep purple silk of this kimono.   To make suits out of kimono, because of non-elasticity of the material, one must expand the overall width of the leg all along its length for ease of movement and no tearing---took me some years to get it right.