fashion

gorpcore

Not familiar with Gorpcore but it looks like that's more wearing ski clothes when you're not skiing. The subdued, not flashy techwear style is sometime's called "greyman" after the security culture idea that the ideal infiltrator is the most boring, ho-hum, unremarkable guy you can find. The "greyman" look is about extremely high-tech clothing that can pass as normal commuter dweeb clothes to those not clued in.

I may just be old and out of date, but I consider greyman to be more "authentic" techwear as it's more of, idk, actual ninjas vs anime ninjas. Greyman kit will hold up to doing actual ninja shit whereas a cyberninja will end up stuck to a fence by their pants straps. Greyman is, weirdly, an aesthetic of concealment where substance is as important as style; You need to have the high quality fabrics and good construction, you want to look sharp, but you want to look sharp only to people who know what they're looking at. The coppertops on the street shouldn't be able to tell.

I like the greyman ideal bc, well, a cyberninja looks like a cyberninja on their way to an anime con. A greyman look lets you do actual spy stuff. I really enjoy the contradiction of an aesthetic that's based on the substantial properties of the clothing - utility, durability, comfort, but visually it's supposed to blend with ho hum tech workers around you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ow5LM9RInTY

Here's an old style guide laying it out. I'ma go look in to Gorpcore and decide hw I feel about it. Cheers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ow5LM9RInTY