Do You Wear It! Vote #1 - Affliction Clothing

DeToxRox · 10-01-2008, 07:56 PM

Perhaps this is more the younger generation, but I have been curious, does anyone on hear wear Affliction clothing?

I have a couple shirts and a hoodie, but I am not a big fan of most of their stuff, so I guess I am a yes but it is what it is.

So who hear actually wears Affliction stuff?

Karlifornia · 10-01-2008, 08:00 PM

I'm not a clotheshorse at all...I have no idea what affliction is

DeToxRox · 10-01-2008, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karlifornia

I'm not a clotheshorse at all...I have no idea what affliction is

I know you are full of shit.

Travis · 10-01-2008, 08:02 PM

Tapout yes, no Affliction wear thus far.

Karlifornia · 10-01-2008, 08:03 PM

I prefer American Apparel gold lame stalkings

Pumpy Tudors · 10-01-2008, 08:04 PM

I have no idea what "Affliction Clothing" is.

digamma · 10-01-2008, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I have no idea what "Affliction Clothing" is.

x2

stevew · 10-01-2008, 08:08 PM

I don't but I might buy a affliction pavlik shirt at some point.

although 48 bucks for a frigging tshirt is fargin insane.

Radii · 10-01-2008, 08:10 PM

I'm going to assume that I don't?

samifan24 · 10-01-2008, 08:13 PM

I'm 25 years old and I've never heard of Affliction.

DeToxRox · 10-01-2008, 08:13 PM

I will add that I did not pay full price for said items I own.

I am trying to save face.

MikeVic · 10-01-2008, 08:14 PM

I don't wear the MMA brand clothes (not that I hate them or anything, they're just not in my clothes).

Karlifornia · 10-01-2008, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I have no idea what "Affliction Clothing" is.

It's expensive clothes for "tough guys" that have things like goblins and angels on them. It's like for people that kick asses that might secretly play Magic Cards....

...just like detox

Groundhog · 10-01-2008, 08:22 PM

Took a look at the website. No, under no circumstances would I wear this.

Poli · 10-01-2008, 08:30 PM

And people say I made the worst polls.

Lathum · 10-01-2008, 08:34 PM

No for me and I think alot of the people here will have no idea what it is.

ISiddiqui · 10-01-2008, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Groundhog

Took a look at the website. No, under no circumstances would I wear this.

+1

st.cronin · 10-01-2008, 08:53 PM

Actually, I wear that stuff all the time.

Raiders Army · 10-01-2008, 09:01 PM

It sounds like you'd have a sickness if you wore these clothes....or you belong in a sanitarium.

thesloppy · 10-01-2008, 09:14 PM

I think people who pay $50-100 for cotton T-shirts are retarded. Ditto for $100-1000 jeans.

I can still remember surfing to Amazon.com like 5 years ago, and stumbling upon my first $50+ T-shirt (I think it was Nike, and was ~$82), and it simultaneously blew my complete world view AND made me feel 200 years old.

gstelmack · 10-01-2008, 09:21 PM

Do I wear WHAT?

mckerney · 10-01-2008, 09:22 PM

I have no idea what you're talking about.

thesloppy · 10-01-2008, 09:25 PM

....but I shop exclusively at International Male, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

samifan24 · 10-01-2008, 10:20 PM

I guess it might be time for vote #2. This one is overwhelmingly in the "no" category. Next up?

lighthousekeeper · 10-01-2008, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thesloppy

I think people who pay $50-100 for cotton T-shirts are retarded. Ditto for $100-1000 jeans.

+1000

I think the people on this board are too smart to spend $100 on a t-shirt.

ISiddiqui · 10-01-2008, 10:27 PM

Hey now! There is nothing wrong with buying jeans that cost $100+

Honolulu_Blue · 10-01-2008, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I have no idea what "Affliction Clothing" is.

Quote:

Originally Posted by digamma

x2

x3

This is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing.

Groundhog · 10-01-2008, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

Hey now! There is nothing wrong with buying jeans that cost $100+

Hmmm. Highest I'd go is probably in the $80-$90 range. That is pretty much the sweet spot for nice, brand name, wear-out-on-Friday-nights jeans.

Galaxy · 10-01-2008, 11:43 PM

Where do all of these people get money to regularly spend $66 on an Affliction shirts (which to me, looking at the site, is insane) and $80 and up on jeans? I don't think your crazy if you actually get quality for that money.

Lathum · 10-01-2008, 11:49 PM

I have no problem spending over $100 on a nice pair of jeans but not on a tshirt.

The thing that makes me laugh about the affliction cloths are the people that where them are so stereotypical. twenty-something year old guy with a peachfuzz shaved head, angry looking with a tribal band tattoo and a chain connected to his wallet

DanGarion · 10-01-2008, 11:50 PM

I don't wear trendy shit that has stupid writing on it... but that's just me.

MrBug708 · 10-02-2008, 12:03 AM

I'm trying to single handedly keep Hurley alive. I also try to give Reef my business to keep their Reef Models around

Travis · 10-02-2008, 12:03 AM

I find it fairly amusing that the elitist attitudes in this thread are mostly from those who don't wear this style of clothing/shirt. I'm not a huge fan of the Affliction designs themselves, but I'm assuming the Tapout one's are close enough that most of the comments going on in this thread would apply to them as well (at least in regards to design, price wise I don't think I've spent more than $25 or $30 per shirt).

I mean really, a resident of the Black Hole saying I should be in a sanitarium because of my clothing huh

Tasan · 10-02-2008, 12:36 AM

I'm currently sitting in my living room, wearing a 5 dollar T and my favorite 8.99 Steve and Barry jeans. I can't fathom paying more that $25 on jeans and about 10-15 on a T. I just don't really get it at all. Of course, I don't go clubbing and am happily married, so that may factor in as well.

Groundhog · 10-02-2008, 01:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tasan

I'm currently sitting in my living room, wearing a 5 dollar T and my favorite 8.99 Steve and Barry jeans. I can't fathom paying more that $25 on jeans and about 10-15 on a T. I just don't really get it at all. Of course, I don't go clubbing and am happily married, so that may factor in as well.

Indeed. When a peacock wants to get busy it doesn't go rolling in the mud and keeping it's plume feathers tucked down.

thesloppy · 10-02-2008, 02:44 AM

Her's my problem with Affliction clothing:

You're dressing either to impress other dudes, or to show off how much money you have.

Rather than dressing up in something designed to attract women, you're dressing to intimidate (or impress) other dudes. A MMA shirt says either "I'm a tough guy" or "I'm a fan of mixed martial arts", and is more an exercise in Alpha-maleism than it is a mating dance...they may eventually lead to the same ends, as plenty of chicks DO want an Alpha male, and there's certainly nothing wrong with being tough OR an MMA fan....but a $75 'Affliction' shirt seems more about a quick, modern way to assert your dominance (both physical and financial), rather than 'putting on your Sunday best'.

It's my guess (and I certainly could be wrong) that most of the chicks at 'da club' don't even know what the hell Affliction clothing is, and if they do, it's because of the expense, not because of the 'unique' (not) designs and/or 'lifestyle' behind it. In that case, it doesn't matter what the hell the shirt is about or what it looks like, it's merely serving to show that you CAN spend $100 on a T-shirt, and you know that is ridiculous, but you make SO MUCH money, and spend it SO freely, that you don't care. In that case, the more a T-shirt costs, the better, which brings me back to the whole "retarded" thing. It's the T-shirt equivalent of 'making it rain'.

Now, I don't mean to suggest that dressing for dudes is necessarily a bad thing, or even unusual....to some degree it's the same with sports jerseys, goatees, tribal tattoos, collector-edition sneakers, video-game clothes, and shit like that. Generally (of course there are exceptions), the ladies don't care about that shit. If you hear a "Nice jersey!", "Go (team XXXX)!", "Awesome kicks!" or "Great ink!", there's barely any chance those words were uttered in a (sober) female voice.

Basically, I see this kind of clothing as a way to suggest to other males that you are tough while also suggesting to the womenfolk that you spend money freely. There's definitely nothing wrong with that, and doesn't have to be defended, but it's certainly 180 degrees from how I roll (and I have the profound absence of ladies to prove it).

wade moore · 10-02-2008, 06:35 AM

I had never heard of Affliction until this thread.

sterlingice · 10-02-2008, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

x3

This is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing.

+4

There needs to be a trout option

SI

PackerFanatic · 10-02-2008, 08:04 AM

Also the first time I have heard of it.

And it's funny that only one person voted yes, heh.

MJ4H · 10-02-2008, 08:06 AM

Never heard of it. Skimmed and saw others in the same boat.
k thx

JetsIn06 · 10-02-2008, 08:08 AM

Also never heard of it.

Mustang · 10-02-2008, 08:15 AM

Never heard of it until now. I don't know, kinda like the designs.. something I'd probably wear playing 40K or something. Wouldn't pay $50 for a T-shirt though...

cuervo72 · 10-02-2008, 08:16 AM

Put me in the "never heard of it" crowd.

And Double L jeans for me. Still just $29.95.

KWhit · 10-02-2008, 08:27 AM

Never heard of it. But I'm not known for my fashion sense....

VPI97 · 10-02-2008, 08:27 AM

I don't wear jeans...

...and haven't heard of 'Affliction Clothing' before, either.

boberot · 10-02-2008, 08:50 AM

Never heard of it.

"Hey, baby -- look at me in my sweet, expensive, designer threads" has never really been the way I rolled.

That being said: Upon checking the web site out for 30 seconds, I actually think the shirts are really interesting.

gottimd · 10-02-2008, 09:00 AM

Never heard of it either.

ISiddiqui · 10-02-2008, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Groundhog

Hmmm. Highest I'd go is probably in the $80-$90 range. That is pretty much the sweet spot for nice, brand name, wear-out-on-Friday-nights jeans.

I have a couple jeans that I shelled out around $150 (7 for All Mankind's). Most comfy jeans I've ever worn, but a bit long in the inseam (I hate the we just have one inseam length of Designer Jeans companies)

sterlingice · 10-02-2008, 09:14 AM

I think I paid $150 for all of my jeans combined and that's gotta be 7 or 8 pair

SI

Lathum · 10-02-2008, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JetsIn06

Also never heard of it.

this surprises me, 80% of their sales probably come from the gorillas that live in the NY/NJ area.

View Poll Results: Do you wear Affliction clothes?
Yes	1	1.82%
No	54	98.18%
Voters: 55. You may not vote on this poll

10-01-2008, 08:02 PM	#4
Travis Pro Rookie Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Canada eh	Tapout yes, no Affliction wear thus far. __________________ "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." - Rogers Hornsby

10-01-2008, 08:03 PM	#5
Karlifornia Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: San Jose, CA	I prefer American Apparel gold lame stalkings __________________ Look into the mind of a crazy man (NSFW) http://www.whitepowerupdate.wordpress.com

10-01-2008, 08:04 PM	#6
Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	I have no idea what "Affliction Clothing" is. __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor.

10-01-2008, 08:08 PM	#8
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	I don't but I might buy a affliction pavlik shirt at some point. although 48 bucks for a frigging tshirt is fargin insane. Last edited by stevew : 10-01-2008 at 11:54 PM.

10-01-2008, 08:00 PM	#2
Karlifornia Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: San Jose, CA	I'm not a clotheshorse at all...I have no idea what affliction is __________________ Look into the mind of a crazy man (NSFW) http://www.whitepowerupdate.wordpress.com

10-01-2008, 08:10 PM	#9
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	I'm going to assume that I don't?

10-01-2008, 08:13 PM	#10
samifan24 Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NC	I'm 25 years old and I've never heard of Affliction. __________________ "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball...and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton

10-01-2008, 08:13 PM	#11
DeToxRox Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Michigan	I will add that I did not pay full price for said items I own. I am trying to save face.

10-01-2008, 08:14 PM	#12
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	I don't wear the MMA brand clothes (not that I hate them or anything, they're just not in my clothes).

10-01-2008, 08:22 PM	#14
Groundhog Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia	Took a look at the website. No, under no circumstances would I wear this. __________________ Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. --Ambrose Bierce

10-01-2008, 08:30 PM	#15
Poli FOFC Survivor Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Wentzville, MO	And people say I made the worst polls. __________________ Cheer for a walk on quarterback! Ardent leads the Vols in the dynasty forum.

10-01-2008, 08:34 PM	#16
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	No for me and I think alot of the people here will have no idea what it is.

10-01-2008, 08:53 PM	#18
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	Actually, I wear that stuff all the time. __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

10-01-2008, 09:01 PM	#19
Raiders Army Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Black Hole	It sounds like you'd have a sickness if you wore these clothes....or you belong in a sanitarium.

10-01-2008, 09:14 PM	#20
thesloppy Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: PDX	I think people who pay $50-100 for cotton T-shirts are retarded. Ditto for $100-1000 jeans. I can still remember surfing to Amazon.com like 5 years ago, and stumbling upon my first $50+ T-shirt (I think it was Nike, and was ~$82), and it simultaneously blew my complete world view AND made me feel 200 years old.

10-01-2008, 09:21 PM	#21
gstelmack Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Cary, NC	Do I wear WHAT? __________________ -- Greg -- Author of various FOF utilities

10-01-2008, 09:22 PM	#22
mckerney Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	I have no idea what you're talking about.

10-01-2008, 09:25 PM	#23
thesloppy Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: PDX	....but I shop exclusively at International Male, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

10-01-2008, 10:20 PM	#24
samifan24 Pro Starter Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NC	I guess it might be time for vote #2. This one is overwhelmingly in the "no" category. Next up? __________________ "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball...and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." -Jim Bouton

10-01-2008, 10:27 PM	#26
ISiddiqui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Decatur, GA	Hey now! There is nothing wrong with buying jeans that cost $100+ __________________ "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" -Tennessee Williams

10-01-2008, 11:43 PM	#29
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	Where do all of these people get money to regularly spend $66 on an Affliction shirts (which to me, looking at the site, is insane) and $80 and up on jeans? I don't think your crazy if you actually get quality for that money. Last edited by Galaxy : 10-02-2008 at 12:24 AM.

10-01-2008, 11:49 PM	#30
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	I have no problem spending over $100 on a nice pair of jeans but not on a tshirt. The thing that makes me laugh about the affliction cloths are the people that where them are so stereotypical. twenty-something year old guy with a peachfuzz shaved head, angry looking with a tribal band tattoo and a chain connected to his wallet

10-01-2008, 11:50 PM	#31
DanGarion Coordinator Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The Great Northwest	I don't wear trendy shit that has stupid writing on it... but that's just me. __________________ Los Angeles Dodgers Check out the FOFC Groups on Facebook! and Reddit! DON'T REPORT ME BRO!

10-02-2008, 12:03 AM	#32
MrBug708 Head Coach Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Whittier	I'm trying to single handedly keep Hurley alive. I also try to give Reef my business to keep their Reef Models around

10-02-2008, 12:36 AM	#34
Tasan College Starter Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Houston, or there about	I'm currently sitting in my living room, wearing a 5 dollar T and my favorite 8.99 Steve and Barry jeans. I can't fathom paying more that $25 on jeans and about 10-15 on a T. I just don't really get it at all. Of course, I don't go clubbing and am happily married, so that may factor in as well. __________________ 2011 Golden Scribes winner for best Interactive Dynasty

10-02-2008, 02:44 AM	#36
thesloppy Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: PDX	Her's my problem with Affliction clothing: You're dressing either to impress other dudes, or to show off how much money you have. Rather than dressing up in something designed to attract women, you're dressing to intimidate (or impress) other dudes. A MMA shirt says either "I'm a tough guy" or "I'm a fan of mixed martial arts", and is more an exercise in Alpha-maleism than it is a mating dance...they may eventually lead to the same ends, as plenty of chicks DO want an Alpha male, and there's certainly nothing wrong with being tough OR an MMA fan....but a $75 'Affliction' shirt seems more about a quick, modern way to assert your dominance (both physical and financial), rather than 'putting on your Sunday best'. It's my guess (and I certainly could be wrong) that most of the chicks at 'da club' don't even know what the hell Affliction clothing is, and if they do, it's because of the expense, not because of the 'unique' (not) designs and/or 'lifestyle' behind it. In that case, it doesn't matter what the hell the shirt is about or what it looks like, it's merely serving to show that you CAN spend $100 on a T-shirt, and you know that is ridiculous, but you make SO MUCH money, and spend it SO freely, that you don't care. In that case, the more a T-shirt costs, the better, which brings me back to the whole "retarded" thing. It's the T-shirt equivalent of 'making it rain'. Now, I don't mean to suggest that dressing for dudes is necessarily a bad thing, or even unusual....to some degree it's the same with sports jerseys, goatees, tribal tattoos, collector-edition sneakers, video-game clothes, and shit like that. Generally (of course there are exceptions), the ladies don't care about that shit. If you hear a "Nice jersey!", "Go (team XXXX)!", "Awesome kicks!" or "Great ink!", there's barely any chance those words were uttered in a (sober) female voice. Basically, I see this kind of clothing as a way to suggest to other males that you are tough while also suggesting to the womenfolk that you spend money freely. There's definitely nothing wrong with that, and doesn't have to be defended, but it's certainly 180 degrees from how I roll (and I have the profound absence of ladies to prove it).

10-02-2008, 08:04 AM	#39
PackerFanatic Pro Starter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Appleton, WI	Also the first time I have heard of it. And it's funny that only one person voted yes, heh. __________________ Commissioner of the RNFL

10-02-2008, 08:06 AM	#40
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	Never heard of it. Skimmed and saw others in the same boat. k thx __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

10-02-2008, 08:08 AM	#41
JetsIn06 Pro Rookie Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Rahway, NJ	Also never heard of it.

10-02-2008, 08:15 AM	#42
Mustang Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Wisconsin	Never heard of it until now. I don't know, kinda like the designs.. something I'd probably wear playing 40K or something. Wouldn't pay $50 for a T-shirt though... __________________ You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its...

10-02-2008, 08:16 AM	#43
cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	Put me in the "never heard of it" crowd. And Double L jeans for me. Still just $29.95. __________________ null

10-02-2008, 08:27 AM	#44
KWhit Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Conyers GA	Never heard of it. But I'm not known for my fashion sense....

10-02-2008, 08:27 AM	#45
VPI97 Hokie, Hokie, Hokie, Hi Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Kennesaw, GA	I don't wear jeans... ...and haven't heard of 'Affliction Clothing' before, either. __________________ CT & Jivin - "Surprisingly Entertaining"

10-02-2008, 08:50 AM	#46
boberot High School Varsity Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Western NY	Never heard of it. "Hey, baby -- look at me in my sweet, expensive, designer threads" has never really been the way I rolled. That being said: Upon checking the web site out for 30 seconds, I actually think the shirts are really interesting. Last edited by boberot : 10-02-2008 at 08:52 AM.