Damn, this has you worked up, huh?
I meant more like skinny dudes wearing huge pants and t-shirts, makes them look sloppy. But even people with a little extra junk can often find clothes that flatter them; they don’t have to be tight. Ever see What Not to Wear? 
What used to happen was that fashion and hair trends gradually spread from a small subculture or segment of society to the mainstream. Long hair on guys, bell-bottom jeans and pants, jeans being worn in all sorts of public and social settings, instead of just when camping or laboring outdoors–all these things became mainstream, and by so doing lost their power to annoy the mainstream. In a related way, fashion trends often originated among females, and later became popular with males, like bell-bottom pants (again), and later, tight Jordache-type designer jeans.
But now, the ultra-baggy XXXL look remains among the teens and twenties, even now after nearly two decades. It hasn’t been accepted by the mainstream, which still thinks it looks stupid. So teenage males still wear it.
What is a jazz hat?
Oh, don’t get me started on those freaks. I love the show BUT…, I heartily DISAGREE with many of their opinions, such as their “OMG, your ankles and knees MUST look the same size as your ass or it’s a tragedy” stance. Asses ARE bigger than ankles. This is NOT some deformation or curse that women must bear, it’s merely how we’re shaped and trying to "camouflage this is weird! I mean DAMN, do we really need to have our asses, knees and ankles look to be the same size? (yes, Yes, I know that’s not what they actually say, but that’s the intent in having women with “back” wear wide-legged or straight down from the hip trousers. That is, that it makes one the same size from ass to ankles).
Not to mention their “Empire waists look good on everyone” (umm Uh uh sister, not if you’re a 34DDD they don’t), and furthermore, my waist is the smallest part of me, NOT my ribcage (where most empire “waistlines” fall). All empire (Ohm Peer…SNORT!) waists do for me is make me look about 7 months along.
Oh sorry, I got distracted. I’ve seen heavier girls that they’ve convinced to wear closer fitting shirts, you can see the rolls even if they’re not skin tight. IMHO, it’s much better to have something baggier that doesn’t point out the flaws so obviously.
But, lucky me, I work in the environmental industry, I spend most of my time in steel toed boots, t-shirts and jeans, so I don’t have to look stylish, the bunnies and trees don’t care! 
Stacy and Clinton would be absolutely horrified at my wardrobe…
I have two complaints (or perhaps three). First, I have a problem w/the 250+ lb. women who chose to wear only a sports bra as opposed to a shirt.
Second is the young males who wear pants/jeans whose “waistband” comes about 7" below their natural waists (showing, I hope, their underwear) and whose crotch is about their knees.
What worries me about this is that I saw a young man (about 8-9 years old) trying to copy this style, whose pants actually fell down about his ankles and tripped him up. Everyone (including, unfortunately his mom) laughed. I felt so sorry for the kid.
OOOh, one last…Hannah Montana…I see little girls trying for the glitter & the glitz. My answer is what it was with my kids…let’s pick & choose. Some glitz, g-rated.
Love, Phil
Popped collars are super lame now but in high school my friends and I were popping our collars long before everyone else did. We did it as an homage to our rugby teammate (whose name was, seriously, Tommy Wonder,) a giant Viking-like man who we both feared and idolized. He always wore his rugby jersey’s collar up at matches.
It wasn’t until months later that everyone else started doing it. They may or may not have been imitating us, but regardless, we were first.
So if the rest of us get together and wear that hideous look for a while, it would go away? Hmmm…how long do you think it would take?
And Ugg boots with a short skirt. That look is not only ugly, it makes no sense. If you are wearing Ugg(ly) boots, then I’d think you are doing so to stay warm. Why would you put on a mini skirt with them?
I’m a very non-aggressive person, and try very hard to maintain a live-and-let-live attitude as I go through life. But guys who wear their caps with a flat brim and said brim pointed off at an angle make me want to slap them. I have no good reason for this, but I have to really fight the urge to just walk up to them, slap them, and walk off. I am certain they deserve it.
Ohh you know what’s worse than this?
The guys who do this AND leave the stickers on the brim. And it’s not because they just bought it and were too lazy to rip it off, they deliberately leave it on as long as possible.
I doubt it. We turned our Izod collars up when I was in high school, c. 1980.
Yep. That particular bit of fashion is old-style prep. Same with madras shorts and loafers with no socks (the loafers are either really shiny and well kept or completely shot).
I have an uncle (whom I dearly love) who lives in a time warp-he’s convinced it is 1976! He wears leisure suits! Its amazing-the man must have the last surviving pink polyester leisure suit!
Which got me to thinking-I like the clothes and movies of the 1940’s 9I’m a big "film noir’ fan). Would i be considered weird if i dressed in the fashions of the '40s?
man-double breasted suits and fedoras-great!
Please oh please, if you dig that look, wear it!! The people who wear the thug clothes and popped collars will probably think you’re weird, but screw what they think. IMNSHO, guys who take the time to look “dashing” are super hot. And besides, it’s about time for this style to come back! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go buy my husband some new clothes.
I approve. The 40s may have been the pinnacle of fashion.
Can’t explain the old-lady part, but pink-and-green Lilly Pulitzer-style prints are very big again, apparently. I have a couple of things in this color pallette for my daughter. Although, when I put said clothing on her, I do find myself thinking, “I love this [insert type of garment here], it reminds me of those caftans my grandmother used to wear back in the 70’s.” So.
Also, I have Crocs, and I don’t care if I look like a giant damn dork when I wear them. On the weekends, when I have to dress the kid and pack her 87,009 bags and find the missing noisy toys and her very favorite naked Bratz doll and oh my God why is there sunscreen all over the cat? and we’re about to schlep up to my mother’s, I just want to put on shoes that are comfortable. And I put her in them, too, because it’s waaaaaay easier than dealing with sneakers, and they don’t hurt as much when she takes them off in the car and hurls them at the back of my head.
I’ve broken every fashion rule known to mankind, so I try not to be too judgemental, even though we do have a woman in my office who dresses like a total hoochie and insists that her way-too-short and way-too-tight skirts somehow become instantly “respectable” when she wears pantyhose under them.
But I really hate it when people dress their daughters like that. Teeny-weeny tube tops and “booty shorts” and bare midriffs and stripper boots and high heels on little kids are just really really creepy, and it does not signify quality parenting to me. I mean, for most little girls burkas are excessive, but whatever happened to modesty? Sheesh.
Ooooo… PLEASE! And post pictures. And add a location so we can find you.
Go for it! There’s a guy in my office that always looks like he just walked out of a 1940’s detective story. A one-man oasis of style in a building otherwise filled with randomly-dressed programmers, customer service reps and other worker bees hidden from the public eye.
In recent months, someone’s started selling the things with big gold foil stickers. Naturally, people leave them on, and they look stupid. Also part of the “style” is keeping the brim perfectly flat and pointing off skyward over their ear.
To me, anyone that does this is short enough brain cells that they’d be unable to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the sole.