Phew, I finally had the good fortune, after thirty-some years, to have someone with the fashion sense and tact to finally tell me that pleats are awful.
I’m a skinny guy, and have always thought that there must be something wrong with me, that pleated pants were the desired fashion, yet they always made me look like I was battling a case of testicular elephantitus.
Finally I was shown to the lesser-known racks and shelves tucked in the corners of mens departments where straight cut flat fronted pants are quietly secluded.
I’m now part of the club! No more pleats!
And damn, I look good. Not a day goes by where I don’t say to myself in a Joey voice, “How I doin?”
Phew, I finally had the good fortune, after thirty-some years, to have someone with the fashion sense and tact to finally tell me that pleats are awful.
I’m a skinny guy, and have always thought that there must be something wrong with me, that pleated pants were the desired fashion, yet they always made me look like I was battling a case of testicular elephantitus.
Finally I was shown to the lesser-known racks and shelves tucked in the corners of mens departments where straight cut flat fronted pants are quietly secluded.
I’m now part of the club! No more pleats!
And damn, I look good. Not a day goes by where I don’t say to myself in a Joey voice, “How I doin?”
Thanks for making the effort LE, but nope; I’m a straightforward, all-or-nothing kind of person when it comes to honesty. You either believe me or you don’t. I have a little pride you know. At last I concede that I’ve come up against a genuine card-carrying member of the Offenderatti, ever-determined to flog away in misery masturbation. It’s better you go back to hating me because you believe me a vicious, disingenuous, conniving bitch. Though it’s an incorrect conclusion, you’ll at least be true to yourself.
Respond away, but this thread hijack isn’t just painful for me, it’s rude to the OP, so I’ll not be back. I guess I’m giving up on listening to you, the way you did to me, quite a while back.
Ashes, Ashes, come back to this thread and re-read it in a few weeks. You were snarky and got called on it. Don’t try to make it someone else’s problem. IMHO, you have to read what you write on a board as if you are saying it to someone’s face. Would you have said that aloud? Probably not, if you are the type of person you say you are.
PS I am not even wearing pants, so I have no dog in this fight. I just hate to see you totally misunderstand and misrepresent the situation. It makes you look really bad, and I don’t think you want that.
On women, I think pleated pants are generally awful. Most women (myself definitely included) have hips that make the pleats puff out. They just look frumpy.
My boyfriend is one of those slender men that can wear pleated pants. Even so, I like him in flat-fronts better.
We saw a theater production where the costumes for all the cast members (3 mean) consisted of dark, pleated trousers. One man was slender and the pants actually looked good. The second man was carrying maybe an extra 20 lbs and the pleats made his ass look huge. The third man was at least 50 lbs too heavy and the pleated pants were starting to look like clown pants. I had disliked pleated pants before that, but that really opened my eyes to how bad they can look.
Brynda, thanks for the backup. I was going to say something similar about how Ashes is turning this all around and making herself out to be the wronged party - I had even written it into my last post - but deleted it because I was truly trying to meet her halfway. I don’t have much use for people who sling insults around and then act shocked, shocked, when people are insulted. To top it all off with “But I’m a nice person! You should like me anyway! I say mean things out of love!” is really just too much.
Ashes, I’m sorry but I do not believe you didn’t mean to be snarky. Clearly others saw it too, but it’s you who refuses to listen. Now, does that mean I hate you or think you’re a terrible person? No, it does not. As I said in an earlier post, no one is all one thing or another. Occasionally we all say things that hurt someone’s feelings, and regret it later. Again, I’m willing to let it go, and outside of this thread it’s forgotten.