chaoticbear: I will raise a toast to your newly shaped goatee.
ForumBot: Microskorts are a GREAT idea! Seriously! You should spend ALLLLL your free time working on that idea and trying to get it implemented in the fashion industry, so you won’t time to think up anything else like that ever again.
5-4 Fighting: I’m sensing a touch of gayness in your post, although I could be wrong about that. And for the record, I have NO aplomb whatsoever. I can say this with surety, even though I have no idea what aplomb is.
Cartooniverse: Unless I’m mistaken, you’re comparing me with William F. Buckley, which is so massively wrong on a multitude of levels I don’t even know where to begin. Suffice it to say I know for a FACT that William F. Buckley doesn’t own a white belt.
I think very much that you are. But let’s put it to the test, shall we? When and where was his vacation? And describe your mother. Because if I did meet your parents, well, that would be really cool.
It’s funny what people do and don’t notice. On my way in to work this morning, I ran into a coworker that I haven’t seen in months. Her first words to me were “Wow, you look great without the beard!” Yesterday I spent the entire day with my ex and some of her friends. No one said a word about it. When ex dropped me off at the train station, I finally pointed it out. She was truly surprised.
Okay, I’m here to complain about muffin tops. Again. Even though they’ve already been complained about. The reason? I stood behind a young woman at the ATM who was easily six feet tall and maybe weighed 120 – nice curves, but very slim – and yet thanks to her stupid jeans cutting into her hips and a top that was too short, she was displaying a nice muffin top for all the world to see. Girls, that is just wrong! When you already have the stick figure of a model, why would you make yourself look fat on purpose?
I’ll join you in that complaint. In my 40 years on this planet, most of them partaking in and observing women’s fashions, there have been very few that have been less flattering to more average, normal women than the current very tight and very cropped, top and bottom. I see women almost every day that have perfectly cute figures, and they look terrible in stuffed-sausage-looking, ill-fitting clothes. As someone on the Dope I think it was said, they look like 10 pounds of woman in a five-pound bag.
On warm days, I’d rather wear a short-sleeved shirt than roll up the sleeves on a long-sleeved shirt, and I find button (or snap) front shirts cooler than t-shirts (especially since I don’t like having something against my throat). So what’s the alternative? Polo shirts are just too darned golf-course preppy for me.
This is not about your preferences, or your comfort, or what YOU think looks good, mister. This is about FASHION. This is about what the EXPERTS are telling you to wear.
Don’t mess with us experts, or we’ll tell you the new fashion is to grow out your back hair and fashion it into a chest combover in lieu of a shirt.
Because a lot of women are a slave to the size tag. I work PT in retail clothing and I cannot tell you how many times I see this. Women are fixated on being a size 0 or 2 or 4 or whatever, and will sacrifice fit and style over size. Suggest that a size 2 try a size 4, and well…you’d better hang on to your head because it will soon be rolling across the changing room floor.
My dad used to have a term - “blivet”, which he described as 10 pounds of manure in a 5 pound bag. I see a lot of blivets in the store.
So, what should I wear with my black polyester pants tomorrow – the black polo shirt of the black polo shirt with the white stripes? And can I borrow your white belt?*
Interestingly and seriously enough, I seem to remember a picture of Buckley wearing a white belt. My googlefu isn’t good enough to bear this out though.
I’d go with the all-black look, IF you can find a white belt. The belt will make the ensemble. You’d look like a bad guy from a weird 60s spy thriller. Our Man Flint, maybe.
If Buckley has started wearing white belts, it’s a blatant rip-off of my style, and I’ll not stand for it. My people will be sending his people a strongly worded e-mail. Perhaps even a fax, if I’m feeling combative.
So, what should I wear with my black polyester pants tomorrow – the black polo shirt of the black polo shirt with the white stripes? And can I borrow your white belt?* QUOTE]
That depends. Are you going to work tomorrow and do you work as either a) a bartender at the W Hotel or b) a football referee?