Oh, and can we go back to men’s shorts that actually show some leg instead of these things that would have been laughed at as pedal pushers or clamdiggers or freakin’ Capris in my childhood? I mean, are you wearing shorts or are you preparing for a flood? Can you please let me know?
Unless they are really working on a farm or in a heavy industry factory. Again, if it is fuctional and comfortable, it’s not fashion.
I think that a Navy Blazer looks fine with white, khaki or grey pants, jut not any shade of dark blue.
I wear a Harris Tweed brown-with-lots-of-specks-of-different-colors Sportscoat and it looks fine with my Khaki pants.
Oh god this.
I’m not a picky person and I know nothing about fashion, but if Rachael Leigh Cook showed up at my door wearing nothing but whipped cream and those hideous shoes I wouldn’t be able to think of or look at anything else but those hideous shoes. Do women (assuming the truth of the old adage that women dress to impress other women and not men, thanks SDMB) actually find these attractive?
Those aren’t jeans! Those are tights.
At a less extreme level, tight-ish jeans can work better on thinner guys, because standard fit ones tend to look too baggy on us. Having pants that are too baggy, at least when it’s not an intentional fashion statement, can also make you look like a little kid, only in this case wearing the hand-me-downs from some giant older brother.
Are these the kind of shorts you do or don’t like? I mean, you really don’t want me exposing any more of myself than this, do you? A fat old man in short-shorts… ::shudders::
Ouch!
One that leaves me puzzled is wearing baseball caps with the brims pressed perfectly flat, and with the shiny gold size label still on it. Really popular with the kids around here.
Pre-damaged jeans… What idiot started that craze? Stores are selling clothes that are already ripped, spotted and torn past the point where Mom would have decreed the pants to be worn out and tossed them into the trash. Or, at least she’d say “You’re not leaving the house looking like THAT!”
Sport coats are SUPPOSED to contrast, to a greater or lesser extent, with the pants you are wearing. Otherwise you are wearing a poorly matched suit.
Perhaps jayjay misses the shorts Vincent Kartheiser wore on a recent episode of Mad Men. (The gang had to come in on Sunday for a special project.) Nope, I hope they don’t make a come back. Even a young guy like VK looked silly. Costuming is only one of the ways that series excels. Nothing is more flattering to a gentleman than a nice suit. I remember the days of panty-girdles & don’t want to go back. But Joan rocks.
Watching the vagaries of fashion can be quite amusing. Especially once one realizes that personal style doesn’t mean slavishly adopting what is “in.” I’m currently working my way through the latest September Vogue–the Bible of Fashion. Luckily, I’m not a Fundamentalist. I’d hardly rush out to replace my wardrobe–even if I could afford to do so. But I’ll admit I like Black Tights with Everything–which have been in style for a while, now. Living in Houston, bare legs work most of the year. Once the first cold front rolls in, I prefer tights to nasty panty-hose.
Fashion stuff I hate (some of which might not even be in style anymore–I’m not very up on styles):
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Saggy pants on guys, especially with tighty whities sticking out. I can almost forgive it a little bit on a nicely-built guy with a little bit of fashionable boxer short sticking out the top. Like maybe the waistband. But if you’re wearing tighty whities or I can see your undie-clad ass, pull up your damn pants. You look like an idiot.
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Baseball caps with flat brims and labels.
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Girls/women wearing clothes that look three sizes too small. Bonus fashion-don’t points if it’s a top with buttons and it looks like you’re straining at them. While I’m sure many guys would love it if you’d strain right out of those buttons, it still looks like you’re wearing your little sister’s clothes.
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Anything with an empire waist. It doesn’t look good on anybody.
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Big clunky sunglasses. Particularly with crap (sequins, big designer logos, etc.) stuck to them.
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Items (purses, sweaters, etc.) with colors that shouldn’t occur together in nature, especially when said colors are in hideous patterns. I used to really like Vivienne Westwood’s stuff, but she’s gone off the deep end lately, and she’s not alone.
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Hoodies (zipped or not) with busy patterns all over them.
Those are the exact type of shorts that I wear, but my son acts acts if I’m wearing a speedo. 
For the record, its just “scene”. If you called it “The Scene” you would be tragically unhip! 
Yes, I’ve always thought of those as “Valerie Bertinelli Lifetime Network Battered Spouse Movie” sunglasses.
Could I get away with black pants, natural linen jacket, red shirt, and spectator wingtips?
How 'bout with a white shirt with silver cufflinks?
Y’know, we nerds and geeks had it a whole lot easier in school. We never had to worry if we had the right clothes, or the right hairstyle, or haircolor, or makeup (even the guys (this was in the heyday of Robert Smith)), or shoes. We just got dressed and went to school. Yeah, we weren’t popular, and we got beat up sometimes, but I still think we had it easier than the kids in the “look” cliques.
I couldn’t agree with you more. I was a loner geek in high school (the Reagan era) and I felt like just getting to school each day was a huge chore, no way I could have dealt with making sure my clothes were the right look!
Reading through this thread cements that fact that I still haven’t figured out how to dress, even as an adult.
Really? No hoodie and shorts for anyone over 23 years old and 125 pounds? 
When I was in college, I think people briefly were into parachute pants. Never owned a pair myself. That seems to have morphed into track suits, which I’ve also never owned and distain. They’re still around too. Then there’s the urban hip-hop kinda look of wearing baggy and/or winter clothes that are good for hiding your guns and shoplifted items I guess. Never got into that. Oh, and sneakers, particularly the high tops. I somehow managed to never own a pair. I think Dr. Who still wears them. He’s 900 years old. I’m not taking fashion tips from him. 
Hoodie and shorts is for when you’re gone all day in the spring or fall. You leave the house in the daytime wearing shorts, but bring a hoodie with you because you know it’ll be chilly when the sun goes down. It was the standard attire at football games growing up. And I agree it can look hot on the right girl, but shit, anything can.
Sure. If you’re doing any farm related activity they are more than okay. I mostly refer to the fad back when I was in grade 9 or 10 when guys wore them to school.
Incidentally, I should have said I don’t know why I NEVER liked them.
I haven’t read the whole thread; if someone else has mentioned this, count my post as a “me-too”.
I have always thought that cropped pants or pedal pushers or whatever they’re called look ugly when worn on the street or to the office. I share the opinion of the British “What Not To Wear” girls. They said that crop pants would make even Naomi Campbell look short and stumpy, so imagine how they make a normally-proportioned girl look. In particular, if they’re worn with slappy high-heeled mules (a bafflingly popular look, for some reason), they look just just plain dorky.
Good name!
This is going back a number of years, but those cat-eye glasses that some women wore in the early 60s. Who on Earth thought that was a good look?