[QUOTE=Eva Luna]
I don’t have an issue with being a Jewish agnostic, but lemme tell you, prolonged celibacy was not in my preferred life plan.
Besides, would a nun of any sort be debating what guys should wear on dates with her?
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Maybe you’re just a really, really bad nun.
A bump.
What’s the verdict on striped shirts? They supposedly have a bad reputation, but I still see lots of guys wearing them. In or out?
Heh. I thought your link was going to be something more like this.
Coming in late to nitpick- despite the ubiquitous misuse of the word “khaki” by everyone from fashionmongers to the retail stores themselves, khaki is a color. The pants are chinos, and they come in several colors, including the popular khaki. Also bone, black, olive, etc.
[QUOTE=McNew]
Coming in late to nitpick…
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This is the Dope. It’s never too late to nitpick.
[QUOTE=McNew]
Coming in late to nitpick- despite the ubiquitous misuse of the word “khaki” by everyone from fashionmongers to the retail stores themselves, khaki is a color. The pants are chinos, and they come in several colors, including the popular khaki. Also bone, black, olive, etc.
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Language is fluid, word meaning changes with use, I’m wearing a pair of khaki’s.
sticks tongue out at McNew and gives a Bronx cheer
[QUOTE=BMalion]
Language is fluid, word meaning changes with use, I’m wearing a pair of khaki’s.
sticks tongue out at McNew and gives a Bronx cheer
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Eh, I can take it.
I have a really good friend who dumped a guy because of the socks he wore. She said the prints on them reminded her of her father and were way too old-man for the guy’s age.
[QUOTE=elmwood]
A bump.
What’s the verdict on striped shirts? They supposedly have a bad reputation, but I still see lots of guys wearing them. In or out?
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They’re out (supposedly), but people still own them, so they still wear them.
Personally, I am so glad they’re out (supposedly) because I am/was so damn sick of seeing them seemingly everywhere. The decline of this particular fashion trend could not have come soon enough. (OTOH, it did spawn that link you posted, so I guess some good has come of it.)
If a woman cares so much about a guy’s clothes that she’s willing to reject the guy in them based on his fashion choices, I think that’s good, because there’s less chance she’ll reproduce.
I don’t think I ever wore anything other than jeans on a first date, but we were never going anywhere that wasn’t casual anyway. As long as you’re dressed appropriately for your destination, I don’t care about clothes. Paying TOO much attention to fashion often indicates shallowness and pretentiousness. I never dated a guy who cared much what I wore either. This has turned out to be a good thing now that I’m married, because most of the time we’re hanging around the house wearing pajama pants or less. 
[QUOTE=Surly Chick]
Can one call a man “sugartits?”
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1/3 of American men are obese, and it’s largely due to overconsumption of simple carbohydrates, so I’d say that it isn’t just acceptable, but rather apropos. 
[QUOTE=DianaG]
Definitely the latter. I can only think of two shoe choices offhand that would be egregious enough to make me consider a guy not dateable, one being the previously mentioned running shoes, and the other being cowboy boots, which is just my own personal “thanks, but no” opinion.
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I was wondering at that as well. I don’t think I’d be likely to notice what shoes a guy was wearing. Unless they were cowboy boots, in which case they’d be a major turn-off. (I just am not into the whole cowboy/country thing at ALL).
I don’t really care for the whole clean-cut conservative preppy casual look but I’ve resigned myself to the fact that that’s what guys wear. (Khakis, etc). Oddly enough I adore formal attire.
There are fashion things I can’t stand, though, like those pants that ride down off the butt or have legs wide enough to run bulls through.
Personally, I like a guy who dresses like he has a personality.
[QUOTE=DianaG]
Oh god, Birkenstocks. I’d actually like to amend my previous post to include sandals. All sandals. Or mandals, if you will. I don’t care if they’re Birkenstocks, Tevas, flip flops, or those horrible leather "fashion"mandals, men should not wear open-toed shoes away from the beach. Ever.
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Gotta disagree here. I love Birkies, and sandals in general. Love to wear them, think they look good on other people, of both genders. Maybe not flip-flops, though. But real sandals? Thumbs up from me. (Even on a first date, if the date was casual. To a nice restaurant? No, but only because they don’t go with the kind of clothes you would wear to a nice restaurant.)
[QUOTE=cbawlmer]
If a woman cares so much about a guy’s clothes that she’s willing to reject the guy in them based on his fashion choices, I think that’s good, because there’s less chance she’ll reproduce.
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Preach it.
It’s one thing top be inappropriately dressed, quite another to have to heed some sort of Uniform Regulation.
While we’re at it, I’m of McNew’s school in that if they’re navy blue they’re not “khakis”, they’re chinos; and I am wondering WTH is so grieviously sinful about a striped shirt.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
1/3 of American men are obese, and it’s largely due to overconsumption of simple carbohydrates, so I’d say that it isn’t just acceptable, but rather apropos.
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Eww.
:: thankful that he just returned from the gym and that that is going very well, thank you ::
