Hoodies used to not be seen with the hood up in Australia except on cute little kids. So when it started to be a trend here I would routinely laugh at guys who thought they looked tough with the hood up.
I was relating this to some people on the weekend and a child care worker told me that paedophiles often wear tracksuit pants because they are quick and easy to pull down. He can’t help but closely check out anyone he sees wearing them. Me either now.
Got any of your own?
If you “pop” your collar, you’re a douchebag, plain and simple.
Doubly so if the polo shirt is pink.
I’ve about given up on polo shirts because every time I wear one, every girl I know tries to pop my collar. I don’t want my collar popped!
Not clothing but makeup-related. There is a way to apply makeup that really bothers me. I can’t really explain it because I am a guy but it sort of seems like they coated their entire face in their foundation and then picked a lipstick that’s the same shade as their face. I tend to see it on the Paris Hiltonesque girls and it means they have to work pretty hard for me to believe they possess a brain.
I always have to laugh at women who line their lips with a liner much darker than their lipstick. My friends and I call this “butthole lips”
What does it mean to “pop” one’s collar?
To me, anyone wearing a fannypack loses 35 IQ points, and 80 Cool points, in my head. It just looks so stupid. My apologies to anyone here that wears one- of course, I didn’t mean you.
Wranglers and cowboy hats make me think “Douchebag” immediately. Cut the urban cowboy crap. You live in suburbia.
Women with crunchy hair. What’s with the gel? What’s wrong with letting your hair appear DRY??
Guys who wear their socks pulled all the way up. This is Instant Dork. Men don’t wear stockings for a reason. Stop it.
Any guy, I don’t care how cut, who goes out in nothing but a wife-beater. It’s NOT usually the fit guys who do this, but I’m not excluding them. A wife-beater is an UNDERSHIRT. It’s like leaving the house in boxer shorts. Tacky at best and gross as hell at worst.
Actually I may amend the above to add any guy who goes out in a sleeveless shirt of any kind. Extra points taken off if he cut the sleeves off himself. But even if it came that way…STOP IT.
Baggie “thug jeans” that are 19 sizes too big and fastened under the butt. They make me giggle and astonished at the same time. This style looks ridiculous on anyone, but I can’t help but wonder “how on EARTH do they keep them up”?
Second to that is the huge t-shirt down to the knees matched with the equally oversized shorts that, by their very size, appear to be more pedal pusher (at least in length) than shorts. Anyone wearing those looks just like an oompa loompa with itty bitty short legs and a weird long body and again, make me giggle.
I know that these two styles are supposed to denote toughness, but they look very silly, not hardened or tough. Huggy Bear’s outfits could out-tough these silly styles!
I looked up WIFE-BEATER in Google and got a Wikipedia article featuring a spaghetti-strap tank top but eventually figured our what you mean. Is there any item on earth with a less salubrious name?
I saw some guy the other day whose belt was mid thigh. They were so low you could actually see the space between his legs. What that look says to anyone with a brain is, “I’m a dumbass who can’t dress myself.”
Still, there has to be some magic to this apparently gravity defying attire. How the hell do they do it? Invisible suspenders?
My husband is guilty of this, so it’s something that I grit my teeth over every day. He grew up in the era of hip huggers, as did I. These days, he wears regular rise pants, but he STILL wears the waistband of his jeans/pants on his hips, rather than his waist. Since he has developed a moderate case of Furniture Disease (his chest has dropped into his drawers, haha), this makes it even worse.
He usually wears polo shirts if he’s not wearing a Tshirt, and he doesn’t pop the collar. In fact, he takes some pains to get his collar to lie down smooth and flat.
Add me to the list of people prejudiced against sagging pants and shorts, particularly in a work setting. Also, I have no wish to see anyone’s underwear, unless I also want to see them naked in a short time.
Anybody who goes to work either over- or under-dressed. Mind you, I also find “casual fridays” pretty silly, specially when that Big Wig who usually comes in a suit appears with a too-tight, old white tee (with several small holes) and a pink knit cardigan that a plush doll would have too much taste to wear. The contrast makes me wonder whether he’s got any taste at all, it’s like he can only be “in uniform” or “homey.”
Apparently I’m one of only a handful of people on Earth that can’t stand the Blue Jeans With Sportcoat Look. Every day I wear a suit and when I want to look casual I take off my tie(and vest, though that’s usually only worn at work), I don’t cover myself in tacky denim.
But what the fuck do I know, I’m still hoping for hats to make a comeback.
I think I’ve literally seen that exact guy at nine thousand parties - sometimes even with identical twins.
Gold chains on guys. Technically an accessory, not clothing, but I just don’t get it.
My husband and I also use the term “divorce shirt” to describe certain indescribably revolting men’s shirts. As in “if I ever see you wearing this shirt, I will divorce you immediately.”
It is hard to summarize just what gives a “divorce shirt” its ineffable ickiness – like obscenity, you just know it when you see it. But muddy colors, obviously synthetic materials, and Polo-style shirts are likely to be involved.
Luckily, my husband and I are in 100% agreement about what constitutes a “divorce shirt.”
And there are no divorce shirts for girls. I get to wear whatever I want.
My mum spent years trying to get me dressed nice, without much success. She finally gave up when she tried to pop the collar on a shirtdress (shudder) she’d forced me to try on and said: “That’s so trendy!”
“Mum, trendy hasn’t been fashionable in a decade.”
I went back to ‘comfort over style’ and she took up crosswords.
Grown men in baggy clothes make me think of little boys whose mummies think they’ll ‘grow into it.’
The kids attending school in gang colours. These are five or six year old children, they didn’t choose those clothes or that lifestyle.
Small girls in hooker clothes, especially if their mums are dressed in identical outfits.
Or, too far the other way - adult women in ‘rompers’ - one or two piece, colour matched, stretch knit outfits that would suit an infant.
Wait a second…Kaneda?
