I wear a gshock but I’m also cringe so ymmv.
Sweatshirt, cargo pants, racers, casio.
Looking normal ftw.
I realized that if i’m wearing a suit, i might as well have a watch. Now i have 4 soviet watches that look slick as hell whenever i have to wear formal attire.
I’ve only bought one off of ebay, but it looks like they’re much pricier than they were a decade ago. I’d check there, and check the reputation of the sellers. The others were gifts i got from friends who visited eastern europe over the past few years that they got from second hand shops, so can’t really help from that angle.
At the end of the day one person’s cringe is another person’s cool. There’s an impulse to try to avoid being seen as cringe by anybody and that can only lead to being layered in an unsatisfying ironic detachment. That’s the only way to avoid ever being cringe: avoid being genuine. Understand that this watch is definitely not for everybody, but nothing is. If it doesn’t put off the people you actually respect, who cares?
That’s the only way to avoid ever being cringe: avoid being genuine.
I disagree so heavily and not even just from an ideological standpoint or whatever. I mean sure, it’s really depending on your social bubble but most everyone I hang with would think somebody only doing things ironically is an exasperating hack but some dude just straight up rocking the g-shock / canadian tuxedo / mullet combo or whatever? Like putting their whole pussy into it? Cheers all around, I’d buy that guy a beer
Oh I’d absolutely prefer somebody going all in something like that to the exasperating hack. My point is that if your goal is to avoid getting “owned” or whatever you want to call it, the only way to do that is to never actually enjoy something. I guess I’m trying to get across that I think a lot of the cringe discourse is less about what people think is embarrassing and more about avoiding ever feeling embarrassed, which is simply not a realistic thing unless you make yourself miserable.
The most cringe thing about it is worrying about being cringe.
