A little word of defense on behalf of dresses-with-pants (and also tunic-type tops).
I’m tall, and 90% of the tops available for women don’t come anywhere near my waistline. Those that are long enough often don’t properly fit around my boobs or my shoulders.
Dresses and tunic type tops relieve this problem. I wear them a lot because I can do it without having to constantly keep on alert for wardrobe malfunctions.
Also, I have a number of cute dresses that reach about mid-thigh [note: these are the only ones I would consider wearing with jeans]. There are a small number of occasions every year when it would be appropriate to wear them on their own (when it’s hot [and going to remain so for the duration of the event], somewhat [but not too] dressy, and I don’t need to ride my bike). However, there are many occasions when it is appropriate to wear them with jeans.
I am, however, totally unimpressed by all the T-shirt-knit crap out there (like the aforementioned bubble dresses, but it doesn’t end there).
For a short while in 2006-2007, I saw women in business situations wearing these odd baggy things that looked kinda like knee-length shorts gathered at the knees. It looked ridiculous to me, but it seemed really popular for a few months, then disappeared from the face of the Earth.
Maybe I missed it but I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the hideous white nylons that were popular in the mid 80’s. Every once in a while I still see someone at work doing this and I shudder.
That boggles my mind. I’ve never seen anyone (pregnant women excepted) that these were flattering on. Cute girls with nice figures look fat, dumpy, or pregnant in them, to me.
I have some Crocs ballet flats and some regular clog-style Crocs (they were free)… Oh, and both pair are black. I don’t think most Crocs are attractive, but they are comfortable and if I’m just running out to the store really quick or running to the mailbox or something, they’re easy to slip on and I don’t really care what I look like anyway.
I have a long, full denim skirt like this that I love. It provides more airflow than jeans do, but at the same time, it can be warmer than jeans if I am sitting down and tuck it around me. It’s very functional.
I’ll add my voice to the chorus of people who have a major WTF regarding the whole pants-off-the-ass trend for guys. Seriously, it’s the stupidest, ugliest fashion thing I’ve ever seen. I saw a guy once, walking with a little kid (undoubtedly his) and he actually had to stop and let go of the kid’s hand to pull his pants up from around his ankles, where they had fallen. No exaggeration. They fell all the way down. Right there on the sidewalk. And so he pulled them back up to just under his ass and held them up with one hand while holding his kid’s hand with the other. :smack:
I just remembered another one that I truly don’t get: ALL of the various incarnations of things that try to look like two shirts but are only one shirt. This is incapable of looking classy. Fake collars, fake roll-up sleeves, fake vests. +2 Tacky.
Right on. I mean, I would love wearing a long sleeve under my t-shirt but it’s just way too inconvinient to put on two shirts in the morning… I know, I’ll just buy one shirt that looks like two.
The very first time I saw this fashion horror was walking up the stairs at the Belmont stop of the Brown line. There was this girl’s ass - a fairly nice looking one - with the word “JUICY” across it. I literally fell down laughing at the idea of someone advertising their “butt juice”. I had a bad spell of food poisoning and produced large quantities of butt juice, but I damn sure wouldn’t advertise it.
Seconded on:
Fingernails that make one incapable of any form of work. If you type for a living, you cannot have 3" nails. You just can’t. And your attempt to have 3" nails means you’re inefficient and slow.
Tattoos: I see an entire generation hitting the other side of 40, thinking “what the FUCK were we thinking!?!” Fashion that leave scars.
Any clothing brand that is about the brand. I go to some trouble to buy clothing that doesn’t feature huge, stupid advertising logos all over it. If they were going to pay me to wear it, that would be different. But these fools are paying good money to advertise for huge conglomerates!
Men’s denim shorts (circa early 90s) - Not to be confused with women’s “Daisy Dukes” shorts, there was a time when you used to see cargo short length shorts made from denim on men. Now you mostly see them on suspects in episodes of COPS.
Men’s ‘capri’ pants (circa late 90s early 2000s) - Basically taking the concept of baggy cargo shorts a couple of steps too far. I never understood the concept of meathead guys wearing what to me seem like very efeminant pants.
Oversized women’s sunglasses - I see a lot of women in New York (including my GF) wearing large, oversized “J Lo” glasses. They either make you look like a little girl in her mommies glasses or a bumblebee.
Same way tousled layered hair on women became sexy after years of helmet head: because it looks like you spent the night having wild monkey sex with the person and you’re waking up to see them still in your bed. It’s a very subtly, perhaps subconsciously, intimate look because it mimics the look of actual intimacy. Blush was invented for the same reason, as I understand it - because when we’re sexually aroused, women have a pinkish hue to our cheeks from increased blood flow.
Another twist on the “long shorts” fashion: when guys have them hanging halfway down their butt crack. This stylistic choice allows the hemline to hang below the ankle. :rolleyes:
I wear bumblebee sunglasses. In my defense, though, very little sunlight gets around the edges of those bug-eyed monsters, so I can drive around in comfort while others are blinded in their peripheral vision. I always thought the small ones were more impractical.
Skinny belts worn around the waist: you look like a snowman.
Change that to “Any sort of clothing that is made to look as though the wearers altered it themselves but looks identical to the other 20 pairs the store is carrying”. I mean, I can kind of get why someone would want to buy pre-ripped jeans. They’re pre-broken-in and if you want your jeans to look lived-in but don’t want to put forth the effort of doing it yourself, you just buy them like that. Surely these people are buying this clothing because they want to have a pair of jeans that doesn’t look like any other pair in the world, right? Wrong. People will come into my store and will try on a pair of distressed jeans and then ask me if we have another pair in their size. Oh, you like them that much, I say. Oh, no. I want ones like on the mannequin says he. The ones you’ve just tried on are the same ones the manni is wearing, I remind him. Ah, but the ones I tried on have a larger hole here on the left thigh and a smaller hole on the right calf he points out.:smack: And yet, our most-distressed jeans were the ones we sold out of the fastest.:smack::smack:
Men with thinned eyebrows. I can’t wait for that fad to be over.
Wearing a t-shirt for a particular location, at that location. You don’t wear a “Paris” t-shirt in Paris.
Wearing a baseball cap with the visor anyplace but the front. I was once out on a very bright, sunny day. I overheard a kid complain that he couldn’t see, 'cause the sun was in his eyes. His visor was in the back.
Open-toed shoes worn by women who haven’t had their toenails done in two months.
Earrings on infants.
Huge religious jewelry.
And here’s a defense of long shorts on men: They tend to have lower crotches, so they don’t ride up uncomfortably when you sit down. With short shorts you always have to keep readjusting everything. And guys who are blessed with more than average down there cannot wear short shorts at all. My SO could never wear shorts at all (especially swimming trunks) till the fashion got longer.
What’s going on with this jeans and high heels thing in which the hem of the jean covers the shoe? Shouldn’t the hem hit right at the ankle?
Went to Walmart to pick up a few things, looked at bras, but the padding! Seriously the padding was so thick; you’d have to be dead to miss it. No bras for me that day! I should go someplace where i can be fitted
Two things i want to buy
Nightgowns! A long light COTTON gown without sleeves would be nice for several occasions ideally in solid colors; no polyester, and i have no clue where to get them. Short sleeved silk blouses with NO pockets on the chest. I’d buy a bunch if i knew where to get them. I can remove them, but i’d rather not have them in the first place
