Poser Mechanic Wearing Carhartt Doesn’t Even Ride A Fixie

Fashion has long had an exclusionary side, with some brands only available to the upper echelons of income earners, and others traditionally only donned by those in certain professions. Gatekeeping exists for nearly every brand under the sun, and Carhartt fanatics are especially exclusionary. ⁣
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“I’ve been seeing these guys everywhere. Longshoreman, lumberjacks, contractors, they’re all posers if you ask me,” said Ladd’s Addition resident and polaroid photographer/oat milk farmer Cornelius Sanpan, vintage Carharrt beanie perched atop his head like a garden gnome’s hat. “It’s really just embarrassing for them – there is no way any welders wearing the sherpa lined utility jacket have a halfway decent B-side vinyl collection. I bet none of the normcore mechanics wearing duck bib overalls even smoke American Spirits. I did once come across an arborist wearing Relaxed Fit Canvas Double Front Utility Work Pants with an impressive bushy beard, but I couldn’t detect even a hint of Fisticuffs facial hair wax in his mustache. Fucking poser.”