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.   

GETTING SERIOUS---Richard's Wear 10jan2016Sun

 GETTING SERIOUS---this is a serious suit as far as I am concerned.   I call it my Lt. Warf (Star Trek Next Generation) suit--Klingonesque.   I like just about everything about it.  The vest is not a real vest, it comes out in summer and attaches just behind the lapels.   The two rows of buttons on it have no real function.   Two obis furnished the patches as epaulettes and central back column below.  

Notice the stained glass experiment bottom right of the jacket back---I will as said in an earlier post--make entire jackets next out of this stained glass effect.  

 The pink color has it own merits, especially when worn by men.   It produces a deep visceral reaction in Japan--men are not supposed to wear pink---a violation, though no one in his right mind would confuse me with an effeminate male--my nastiness shows thru all to often and powerfully (in stupid costly ways).  

Personally I like irredescent pinks like the silk kimono material that comprises this suit.   I like pink obi on pink kimono background--thank goodness in this suit I escaped my old bugaboo of choosing hopelessly ugly giant contrast materials.  

 Some of course see pink as suggestive of the color of the female genital organ when spread open--but it is also the color of the male organ to a lesser degree.   But you have to be pretty bent out of sexual shape to bother  with such associations.  The color is striking, lively, buoyant and fun to see and to wear.   To hell with naysayers and cowards of all sorts.   Trying to please middle classers and upper class couture copycats is a waste of life.   The rich as simply too cocaine drenched to think straight and the middle class spends so much time grovelling they cannot avoid diseases foisted on them by American food companies. 

 The shirt at right is SOFA material---my old Manhattan girlfriend's idea of buying clothing materials ONLY from furniture stores--shirt material from drapery sections and sofa (in winter) sections.   If you expand the photo in size you see the striated gold braiding under the purple and slight pink floural pattern.   Thick and warm it is not metallic on skin and not uncomfortable to wear.  I bench press 140 kilograms nightly so moving in sofa material shirts does not tax my muscles much.

I have a dozen of these, all unworn as yet---I will try to get to them but last night I reorganized a bit my room and found 52 unworn as yet suits I will have to try to give a run to this year.

The neck tie I bought 22 years ago in Hankyu Takarazuka--it is tiny, shrunken, sized for Japanese after WWII.   So I have to tie it strangely as one strand not two layered.  

This is one of 3 neckties I have that are NOT hated by the Chicago Bulls basketball team of the Michael Jordan era.

I think I posted on Facebook and/or linkedin the 7 new suit designs coming a week from now from Vietnam.   They are new, experiments, and we will see--by wearing and observing reactions--which designs are great.  I have made this first bunch out of obis and kimonos I do NOT like much---no willing to waste top flight materials on experimental designs.  SO FOR THE DESIGNS THAT WORK OUT I will quickly make several suits of the same design out of SPLENDID materials I have been collecting each month from FURUGI fairs near my train station.     

Richard's Wear 8jan2016friday A RECENT DESIGN

This is a recent design unlike most I have posted thus far.  This design was done 2 years ago, after blending a few dozen Napoleonic era waist-coat images google search turned up.   The vest like middle of the jacket is NOT a true vest but attachments under the lapels.  They are remove-able in summer, leaving long lapels, each of a different obi pattern, that do NOT meet in the middle--staying open for global warming futures.

This was a design entirely new to me and I never use GOOD obis and GOOD kimonos when first doing a design.  Hence the stupid designs on otherwise great deep rich purple kimono material.  Future versions will use better kimonos without such fluff.   

Nevertheless, this design--over-busy as it is--is an effect I wanted to wear and thereby test.  Again, reactions surprised me---Tokyo-ites came up to me all day today to examine, praise, ask about this mess.

In my station train station where 2000 to 4000 people an hour shuffle thru, 45 seconds walk from my condo, all day long--I noticed as all those thousands noticed, the bright deep rich purple and shocking da-glo chartreuse shirt combo of this outfit.  All others of those thousands in the station were various degrees of gray and black---as that sort of coloring allows the worlds poorest people to make the world's cheapest materials enabling the world's most venal designers to make profits from turning out gray black dark depressing shitty looking junk = what everyone in the world other than me wears everyday.  

 It is not  that I am as arrogant as I appear (I am MORE arrogant than I appear).  Rather it is that decades ago i found it FUN to try designs out and see reactions myself and soon bounded above and beyond mass producers and couture houses.  MOST of my experiments are horrid---things others flee from and that I myself shrink spiritually to fill.   

The back of this jacket, has a central column ending in an asymmetric stained glass section of several patches from unrelated obis.  

I was adding the stained glass section to these jackets NOT for this design but to test out the stained glass effect visually myself.   

I will be making a suit set in 2016 that is nearly ALL stained glass obi sections at odd shapes and colors and angles.  The eye LIKES true randomness in any dimension.  

16 Jan my producer in Vietnam sends me 7 new suit designs (9 suits)--all made with inferior kimonos and obis as the designs, all 7 of them, are entirely new to this world.   I cannot wait to see which of them works well even with inferior materials---such designs I will quickly make out of far better obis and kimonos I have been collecting throughout 2014 and 2015.  

I wear these particular suit designs (I have 9 of them) to ACCJ, American Chamber of Commerce Meetings in Tokyo.   They fit well there  as the LIVES of American businessmen in Asia are enormously more interesting than of Americans in America.    So my outfits merely interest or attract people, with only Americans visiting Japan briefly from American being discomfitted and hurling abuse (outre designs make them uncomfortable being alive).   Little men cannot stand differences---differences terrify little men.   

5jan2016tuesday Richard's Wear

 I hate this suit and the kimono material it is made from.   The stupid flowers, the stupid even distribution of them everywhere, the stupid almost symmetry of the pattern, the stupid primary school colors.  THIS is a very HATE-ABLE suit.  

However, the people of Tokyo, for some reason that escapes me completely, LIKE this suit.  All day today strangers approached me in English and complimented me on the suit, asking where I got it and such questions.  WHAT IS WRONG with everybody???????

 This is the back of the suit-----surprise surprise---it is as ugly in every respect as the front is.   Looks like I have been sprayed with some sort of nursrey school flower spray.

This is the sleeve of the kimono black shirt under the suit jacket.   If you click in the photo and get a bigger version of it, you can see the lovely patterning in black, that makes black kimono silk shirts so very much more elegant than anything Europe makes at any price.   

EU---YUK YUK YUK---cheap bad taste by FAMOUS NAMES---the bugaboo of all tasteless rich people!!!1

This, below, is me at Ootoya, a restaurant I eat at every single night, that, dropped by BAD cholesterol from 171 to 111 for 3 months in a row now.   Better THAN STATINS by far.   NO side effects.