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So I have a decent number of band shirts now and this is a topic I've been on the fence about for quite a while. The examples of people cutting off band shirt sleeves that I've seen look pretty badass, however I am concerned that I might damage my shirts in the process of cutting off the sleeves to the point where they're unwearable or illegible. Also during colder months in my area temperatures can get pretty low, and it'd suck if I couldn't wear my metal shirts during those months. Anyways, I can't decide myself so I've taken to this forum for feedback. What are your experiences with cutting off shirt sleeves? Are there any downsides I should know about? 

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Most t-shirts have one seam going the circumference of the arm, right where the sleeve joins the body. Cut a little hole into the sleeve right to the outside (the sleeve side) of the seam, and then poke your scissors through there and carefully cut all the way around the sleeve, staying just to the outside of the seam. I've got some shirts that are still going strong nearly 20 years later.

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I've got that many metal shirts from back in the day that I no longer wear that cutting the sleeves off sounds like a good idea. However, there's just something a bit try-hard about this sort of thing that turns me off. 

Requiem doesn't need to engineer a metal look. Requiem is the metal look. Not really...

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So I'm just getting into metal. I'm new here and I just did my cute little introductory post. Don't know for sure if this is the right place to post this.

Next year I'll be going to college in a place that'll have more metal concerts and whatnot near me. I'm looking forward to continuing my interest in metal over the summer and then hopefully getting some more real life "experience" over the next four years. I've noticed that a lot of metalhead culture seems to place a premium on your attire. I don't have anything to wear that people would typically associate with metal and to be quite honest, most of it beyond some band t-shirts seems a little outside of what I like to wear.

Will I look like a complete ass or a poser of sorts if I go to shows in more... ubiquitous clothing? I genuinely enjoy the music, at least as much as I have heard with my limited forays into metal.

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There are really basically two factions: those who give a shit and those who don't. There will always be people who'll think that you look like a total douche (either because you're not looking "metal" enough to them or because they simply don't like the band shirt you're wearing).

In all honesty? You shouldn't give a fuck. Wear whatever you're feeling comfortable with. If someone thinks they have the right to judge you based on your clothes then they are simply dumb. Metal is about the mutual love for the music and being like-minded. And as stupid as this saying may be, it's still true: "Metal is a passion, not a fashion."

So wear whatever you want and don't  think that you have to prove yourself by looking metal enough.

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Leather jacket, band shirt (possibly tight and NOT Metallica... the more obscure the band on the shirt, the better it is), coupla pins on your jacket, denim vest if you will, mandatory skin tight jeans (buy a pair of woman skinny jeans, they always do the trick) and worn out sneakers (either Chuck Taylors or Vans or Reebok Pump or Converse Weapon or Chelsea boots if you're more of a rocker kind of guy).

Chicks are gonna love it and if you go to a cool concert, like minded metal heads or rockers will befriend you based on your look alone. Kindred spirits always get along fine.

These fellas from Atlanta got it right: 8ea6a909417f22ff886e6d8361b69970.jpg

Biters (the Atlanta band in the pic above) get a lot of pussy.

These guys (Italian heavy metal band Axevyper) do not, actually pussies run away from them (save for the one on the left, he looks like the ultimate 70's rocker), BUT they rule nonetheless eheh.

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Don't listen to any of these guys, C_Rams. What you want is the black metal look. See below: 

 

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But not like this lame band below. They just don't seem to understand what corpse paint is about:

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Arthur Brown is the man. Also, Pantera actually looked better in their glam days than when red goatees and surgically trimmed beards appeared on the faces of the Darrell bros.

Sarcofago tried to outdo Destruction at their game, but failed. Sentence was death.

Nonetheless, the one mandatory apparel item is... CHICKS' TROUSERS!

Get those and you won't regret. Once you get those, there's still one more choice to be made.

Left or right. Yes, I am talking about your manhood.

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Tell you what, I do not like a typical metal chick...I do not own a pair of jeans or leather jeans and I do not own any band t-shirts. People just do not know which box to place me in, because I do not like some dull square either or what ever you call it, but I LOVE metal music!!!!

I will not advice you to start dressing like me...people will really give you strange looks if you turn up at a gig wearing a long skirt and a corset *lol* But get yourself some tight jeans and wear them for some time before a gig...brand new signals that you are trying to hard and make sure your underwear is not showing...wearing your jeans halfway down your ass...is just well...HELL NO!!!! And buy your first band t-shirt at a gig: this signals that you are really in it for for the music. We have all been newbies, none of us were born with long hair and wearing studded armbands and some not so cool choices are bound to be made...like as when I bought a pair of leather jeans well knowing that I hate wearing trousers..."but damn, I wanted to look metal!" So if you see look that you like then be inspired...but do not try to copy down to the tiniest detail.

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