Existentialists cultivated a deliberately disheveled antifashion style

Evidence

Existentialists wore cast-off shirts and raincoats; some of them sported what sounds like a proto-punk style. One youth went around with ‘a completely shredded and tattered shirt on his back’, according to a journalist’s report. They eventually adopted the most iconic existentialist garment of all: the black woollen turtleneck. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 46

Categorization

• CANDY: The black turtleneck as existentialist uniform is an easy, fun conversation fact.
• XREF: connects to: Opposing fashion is itself a form of conforming — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728; Existentialist café culture inverted bourgeois values, glorifying the dangerous over the nice — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 47

Broader Connections

• Opposing fashion is itself a form of conforming #expands (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 728