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

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=Mahna Mahna]
Ugg boots. Aptly named, though it often feels like I’m the only one around who seems to think so.

Seriously, why is this trend even still around? I don’t care how comfortable they are, they’re still UGLY, they cost a ridiculous amount of money, and make you look like a twat if you insist on leaving the house with your $100 Lululemon/TNA yoga pants tucked into them.

How brain-damaged do you need to be to insist on spending $500 on an outfit that essentially looks like a high-end name-brand version of a homeless person?

For that matter, the Goodwill rag-bag Olsen twin look can just die and go to hell too.
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Damn, this has you worked up, huh?

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[QUOTE=CanvasShoes]
Hey, HEY now!!! I’ve gone from former hottie-dom to “too much junk…” and I subscribe to the Will Rogers adage of “better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool…”.

Only in my case it’s “better to wear a too large shirt and be thought chunky, than to show the chunk and remove all doubt” not to mention scaring small children with my new grandma chunky hideousness!

You should thank me! Especially since too many chunky butts insist upon dressing as if they were still size 2s!

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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? :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=Argent Towers]
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.
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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.

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[QUOTE=Soapbox Monkey]
Douchebags wear plaid shorts. Now that’s not to say that everyone who wears plaid shorts is a douchebag, but if you do decide to wear them, you run the risk of having people mistake you for a douchebag.

Jazz hats.

Castro hats. I’ve been seeing girls my age starting to sport these.

Oh, and if you’re a guy, and you’re not at the pool or the beach, there’s no excuse for wearing flip flops.
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What is a jazz hat?

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[QUOTE=myskepticsight]
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? :slight_smile:
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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! :smiley:

Stacy and Clinton would be absolutely horrified at my wardrobe…

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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

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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.

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[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]

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.
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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?

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[QUOTE=Mahna Mahna]
Ugg boots. Aptly named, though it often feels like I’m the only one around who seems to think so.
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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?

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[QUOTE=enipla]
The brim on a baseball cap is meant to shade your eyes from the sun. The sun is the big glowing thing that wakes you up in the morning…

Place the cap on your head. If you look up with your eyes and do not see the brim, while holding your head steady, slowly rotate the cap on your head (while looking at your feet) until both of your eyes can see the brim.

Bingo.
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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.

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[QUOTE=carlb]
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.
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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.

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[QUOTE=Argent Towers]
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.
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I doubt it. We turned our Izod collars up when I was in high school, c. 1980.

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[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
I doubt it. We turned our Izod collars up when I was in high school, c. 1980.
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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).

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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!

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[QUOTE=ralph124c]
I like the clothes and movies of the 1940’s (I’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!
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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.

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[QUOTE=ralph124c]

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!
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I approve. The 40s may have been the pinnacle of fashion.

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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.

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[QUOTE=ralph124c]
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!
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Ooooo… PLEASE! And post pictures. And add a location so we can find you.

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[QUOTE=ralph124c]
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!
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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.

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[QUOTE=Flutterby]
(about baseball caps)
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.
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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.