Every day, you are confronted by the growing sartorial wasteland in your wardrobe. Hype-wear are strewn about unworn, their lustre lost after the first #OOTD. Sneakers stockpile in a mass grave, Yeezys, Jordans and more that previously set your heart aflutter now triggering palpitations. Literal junk disguised as rarities take up precious floor space like waste.
Even though your closet is full, there is still a terrible hunger in you. Any aspirant knows that apparel speaks louder than actual style, and what was cool last season is anathema right now. You need the freshest drops because you cannot endure another withering “so-last-season” look associated with an outdated outfit; you would rather die. You chase coveted objects for their tantalising exclusivity, never pausing to think if you really need them due to the pervasive fear of missing out. So long as there is a box logo plastered on it, it will be the greatest currency on the ’gram.
Fashion is never about you anyway; it is more important that others like it. You dress a certain way to impress friends, intimidate rivals and woo followers. Who cares if the latest trend is not your preferred style? Wear it or become irrelevant. What is in vogue clashes with your physique? Change your body (naturally). You go through one transient trend after another — normcore, gorpcore and whatever “core” comes next — discarding each previous look in some dark corner of your closet.
It would be different if you had your own identity, but we cannot all be fashion icons. It’s not like you can simply find a style that works for you and wear the hell out of it, so you spend big bucks and buy all the stuff you see on social media. That way, you get to instantly look “cool” without running the risk of faux-pas. Moreso, social media is not interested in any kind of authenticity in your life; wearing a Thrasher tee does not mean you need to skate, let alone know the magazine.
Let’s be clear: you are no hypebeast. You abhor the culture that represents the childish desire to (visually) fit it and be admired. You don Supreme/Off-White/any other hype-wear because you believe their scarcity means you are less likely to be caught in the same outfit as someone else on the street (you would be wrong). The irony is lost on you, hoping to stand out by wearing what everyone else is wearing, but it does not matter because soon you will move on to the next lookalike, and whatever was on your back will be abandoned once again to your overstuffed wardrobe.
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