Prejudices about clothing - automatic reactions to styles and items of clothing.

Does wearing expensive polo shirts with totem animals count?
Alligator: I am an idiot who thinks I bought prestige by wearing this alligator. This shirt would have cost $5.00 (without the alligator)
Polo Pony: I want you to think that i actually play polo!
(Oversized) polo Pony: I am an idiot, I paid $150 for this shirt!
(Faux polo pony): i am a loser who thinks i have a real polo shirt!
No animal, worn, with holes: I am “old money” and I don’t give a damn what you think!

I dunno, I heard people there wear them. Was trying to be nice to exclude people who I thought had a legitimate reason to wear fugly rubber clown shoes. My bad. So now unless you are too young to choose your own clothes or gardening only, then you shouldn’t wear Crocs because you look stupid/

A completely trivial bit of information -

The “alligator” on a LeCoste shirt is really a crocodile. LeCoste, the man who originally wore the shirts, was a French tennis player in the 1930s who was called “The Crocodile” because of his profile. Up to that time, tennis wear was long sleeved shirts and flannel trousers. He was among the first to wear a short sleeved shirt while playing tennis.

Whether he wore Crocs playing tennis isn’t knows, but I suspect not.

Well, I’m sure my dad will be pleased to know that he looks so good for his age!

I just think it’s funny, because most of the people I see wearing band shirts have obviously never been to a concert, and some of them have absolutely no clue who the band they are promoting even is.

To throw more fuel on the fire, I also own Pink Floyd pajama pants (which I have worn to the store when I’m too sick to get dressed) and PF flip-flops. All bearing the DSOTM logo. Take that! Mwahaha…

There is a look around here that combines butthole lips with eyebrows that are shaved and drawn back on in the manner of the late Devine. It seems to be popular with supermarket checkers for some reason.

I’m with you, except I love the way 70s stuff looks. For instance, I would absolutely love to live in the house that Dirk Diggler buys in Boogie Nights. I think the 70s color schemes are badass, especially all the pinstripes and bold colors (yes, even “Harvest Gold.”) I think today is a terrible time for interior design - the average suburban home nowadays has a uber-boring layout and is severely lacking in color. At least in the 70s designers weren’t afraid to go crazy with psychedelic colors.

I do think most people today dress like shit, especially the people who wear pajamas, sweat pants and flip flops as an everyday outfit. I for one wish that colleges still had dress codes.

You will take my flip-flops when you pry them off my cold, dead feet (ew).

But I definitely recognize that there are appropriate and inappropriate places to wear them.

Every single one of my hippie-dippie Wiccan/pagan friends, and a few of my relatively normal friends, has at least one pair of Crocs, and I still think they look like rubber crayons somebody melted all over your feet. “But they’re so comfortable!” So what, you look like a rube.

Pajama pants worn by my students in class? You, sir or madam, are clearly deficient in understanding the ways of the world. And to tell you the truth, I can’t think of a single student who’s worn pajama pants to class that’s done very well in the class. Coincidence? I think not.

Add me to the list regarding crop-tops/shrugs, and baggy pants buckled under somebody’s butt.

Polyester “club” shirts. The kind with anime-like graphics, or a dragon, or flames all around the edges. “Club” shirts indicate that the wearer has, indeed, never been inside of a nightclub, unless they’re holding a CCG tournament.

I’m not too fond of trackpants/tracksuits made out of non-sport materials. If you’re in the zippy, normal stuff, then I figure “Hey, s/he probably just got out of the gym! They’re healthy!” If it’s velour, terry cloth, or velvet… I figure you’ve never exercised in your life. I’m not even sure what to make of the velour low-rider trackpants with baggy waists that are belted with thin, cord-like belts. Those just look like someone wore their crappy trackpants until the elastic wore out, then found some twine to hold them up.

Halter tops on women. I know, they’re pretty common. But, every time I see them, I see the wearer as the type of girl who gets sloshed at dance clubs and yells “WHOO!”

I’ve been seeing a lot of guys rockin’ a combination of checked “casual” button down shirt and baggy knee-length shorts. I always think of pictures of boys in “short pants” from decades/centuries past, when there was a time that boys had to ear the age to wear normal long pants. Perhaps they could complete their look by wearing a beanie with a propeller.

The tight under-shirt of some sort that many women wear that is pulled down far past the hem of the (usually tight) overshirt, and over the hips. The sash of contrasting color looks like a low-slung cummerbund, and (as I’m not sure many of the women who wear ths seem to notice), it really exaggerates the width of the hips. Occasionally it looks good, but usually not. To answer the subject of the post, my automatic reaction is “damn, did she want to look wider than she is tall?”

How about adult women who wear hooker clothes to work? I suppose it could be called ‘professional attire,’ but in that case they are obviously confused about just what profession they’re in.

We’ve got one here who gets extra bonus points for wearing tops so short and pants so low we get treated to a view of her tramp stamp every time she sits or bends over. Ew.

Did I say 14? I meant 12.

Geez, plnnr, take it easy! I’m not trying to pick a fight with ya. I was just curious, and stating for the record that I’m guilty of wearing some of the stuff on this list.

On a somewhat related note, my whole life I was told to just be “me,” and not give a damn what others think of me. I’ve got a decent handle on that, but it’s still a blow to think that so many people are so judgemental of (seemingly) trivial stuff. The too short/tight clothes at work, yeah I can see why that would be a bad thing. Popped collar? Definitely bad for an interview - it just screams sloppiness to me. Flip-flops at a fancy restaurant is definitely tacky, but so what?

I know, I know, I’m undermining the point of the thread. If anyone needs me, I’ll be over here in the corner, wearing my zip-up footie pajamas.

Yes, but do you wear them outside the house? =^.^= Because footie pajamas are wonderful, I don’t care who you are.

I’m going to second pajama pants in public. You know it’s not even laziness for most of these young women.

(They do make crocs without holes. I won’t wear any of them.)
(I’ve been known to wear socks with sandals - I don’t like shoes and if I have to wear shoes I don’t like to wear closed-toe shoes. But sometimes my feet get cold.)

Clothing prejudice - this guy is clearly squatting in front of a bank, just prior to robbing it. Immediately after the camera snapped, he pulled his ski mask* over his face, pulled his gun out of the waistband of his saggy ass drawers and knocked over the fine financial institution we see as the backdrop.

I won’t defend this prejudice, because I really can’t, but that sort of attire gives me the impression that the wearer may not be particularly law abiding.

*Ok, the cap pictured may or may not be a ski mask.

I don’t get this either. When rock t-shirts first came on the scene
(they didn’t always exist), lets say a band was on tour. There would be people from 12-50+ at any given show depending on the demographics.

Using your logic only the 12 year olds should have been buying souvenir t-shirts.

I don’t know if you get out much (rock show wise), but take a good look next time at the crowd. Many bands draw from a wide age-range nowadays. I saw James Brown a year before he died. There were 10 year olds to 70 year olds. The majority were in JB shirts, both new and previous tour shirts. You basically condemn 90% of the audience.

I’m sure bands and their managers don’t think much of your assessment.

Indeed, for the hell of it, I took a quick survey here at work and no one here understands your viewpoint.

Have you always felt this way, or have you run into enough bozos who coincidentally wore tour shirts all the time, ergo, the shirt makes the man.

The only way I’d ever wear my footie jammies outside, was if the house caught fire in the middle of the night. They’re very ugly. (At least mine are.)

Hubby wears his to work in the winter, underneath his jeans and hoodie, cause it’s cold. Whatta maroon.

Regarding automatic reactions to styles and items of clothing: Yllaria’s Hypothesis:

“Any style that could get you mocked when you were in junior high or high school, will forever cause a negative reaction in you.”

You may, in your growing wisdom, learn to put Style and Fashion in perspective. You may even learn to intellectually apply persepecive to the things covered by the quote above. But you will always react emotionally to the sight of the things that could get you mocked when you were in jumior high or high school.

I’m guessing that most JH/H mockables were things that just went out of style and/or things that were in style for parents/grandparents, especially if they kept wearing them, not caring that they were no longer in style.

My personal reaction is for capri (where’s the flood?) pants. I have no judgement about any wearer, just an automatic shudder upon seeing them.

I’ve been snickering about the term ‘butthole lips’ through this entire thread. Thanks, SWButterflies!

In a thread like this one many moons ago, somebody called those “butthole lips” people “evil clowns with anus lips”.

The next post was “Doo dah, doo dah…”

God, it still makes me laugh.

Reason #infinity why I love this place. I’m CRYING over here.

My pet peeve is when people (the majority are women) where denim trousers that cut in at the waist band forming a “muffin top.” This is happens all the fat is squished out the top of the trousers. Now, I have some understanding when the person is overweight. I assume they have just gained the weight and are in denial, or they spilled something on their pants and had to borrowed their daughter’s bedazzled jeans.

Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of teenagers with muffin top, the majority aren’t pudgy, they just decided size zero is much cooler than a size 6 that fits properly. Its disgusting. Like girls who cry about being fat when they’re 5’7 and weigh 130 and just need to tone their muscles. I work retail, and people’s inability to where flattering clothing never ceases to amaze me.