The Man Repeller

My girl­friend works in fash­ion, which is to­tal­ly hot, and if I’m meet­ing her af­ter she’s been to work some­times she says things on the phone like ‘you’re go­ing to hate this out­fit when you see me’, which is nev­er ac­tu­al­ly true (she’s got good taste and she could wear a black bin bag with leg­holes cut in it and I’d still think she had it go­ing on, cute huh?), but she’s ba­si­cal­ly say­ing ‘this is some cut­ting edge shit I’m rolling with to­day, and you might not get it be­cause, well, you won’t’.

I ad­mit, some­times cer­tain things need to be ex­plained to me be­cause I on­ly like punk t shirts, Supreme and Nike, and ap­par­ent­ly there’s a whole world of cloth­ing be­yond my slight­ly lim­it­ed hori­zons. My girl al­so be­lieves that flares and floor length dress­es are on the way back, which I sup­pose is pay­back for the last five years be­ing all about porno wet look leg­gings and tight slut­ty dress­es, but fash­ion will al­ways move for­ward, and the re­al front run­ners in that world know that to make a sexy omelette you’ve got to break a few sar­to­r­i­al eggs, so I’m learn­ing to shut the hell up be­cause I turn in­to a nar­row mind­ed, an­gry Re­pub­li­can around things I don’t un­der­stand. It’s not an at­trac­tive qual­i­ty.

What I’m say­ing is true fash­ion G’s don’t wor­ry too much about what straight, un­kempt men think of their look, be­cause they’re look­ing to the aes­thet­ic fu­ture, not try­ing to get laid all the time. Case in point: the su­per cute Le­an­dra Me­dine, the girl be­hind The Man Re­peller, which is a blog ded­i­cat­ed to fash­ion ex­per­i­ments that pay no mind to what one-track per­ma-ado­les­cent dunces like my­self think about women’s fash­ion. Her blog is kind of old news to the fash­ion world (I think I saw it on the Tele­graph web­site!? Cut­ting edge.) but it’s new to dum­mies like me with girl­friends who are way more so­phis­ti­cat­ed than they are. Al­so it’s fun­ny.

Here’s a few ex­am­ples of the out­fits The Man Re­peller puts on/gets be­hind in the name of push­ing things for­ward: