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

Bonus disdain points for wolf shirts with lightning bolts in the background.
http://stores.sideofwild.com/Detail.bok?no=14

Or anything with gratuitous lightning. This one is pretty much over-the top.
http://stores.sideofwild.com/Detail.bok?no=15
I like America, too, but this shirt really tries too hard, ya know?

I see shirts like these all too often, and I think of them as “loser lightning”.

Oh God, another thing I do wrong. Do I get any sort of dispensation because I only wear them by the pool, and only because I don’t want to get wrinkles? I never wear them in public, honestly. And the last pair I bought were (1) criminally cheap and (2) hideously ugly, and I bought them strictly for the irony factor. I am aware they make me look like some sort of bug-beast.

Yep-I’ve come to the conclusion from this thread that it doesn’t matter what you wear-somebody’s gonna think you have the fashion sense God gave a duck. If YOU like it-wear it-who gives a rat’s behind what other people think?

I’m thinking those “not T-shirts but sort of with a collar” might even be henleys?

And:

See, I rolled my eyes at them at first, but at least they make sense. I have magnetic sunglasses for my glasses, which are narrow-ish rectangles. The sunglasses are the most pointless pieces of shit because of how much light is all around the entire frame, making it actually harder to see than without sunglasses at all. I’m thinking of getting some damn big frames and paying for prescription lenses because at least your entire eye gets covered.

Well, what if I want to be one of those expensive couture ducks? The fashionable, French, “á l’orange” kind? :smiley:

I feel sort of weird about this because I personally feel like I look like an extra in some kind of D-grade science-fiction movie involving a tragic explosion in a textile factory, but people tell me all the time that they love the way I dress my daughter. I don’t have the heart (or the cojones) to tell people that she is dressed by Garanimals. Or perhaps I am just looking for redemption through her. Something.

Oh, yeah. I agree completely.

Except for wolf shirts. I think we can all come together on that one.

I’ve been wearing double-breasted suits for as long as I’ve been capable of buying my own suits (I do own single-breasted as well, but I always make sure to have a couple of double-breasted suits in the closet). I think I look good in them, and they are just uncommon enough that I can look a little distinctive in a crowd without looking like I’m trying too hard. Tailored well, I think there is nothing I look sharper in than a double-breasted suit.

Unfortunately, I can’t wear hats. I’ve tried. I really, really want to rock the fedora with the double-breasted suits, but they just look all wrong on me. I can’t explain why; they just do.

If you are comfortable in the suit and fedora, and you wear them like you’re comfortable in them, go for it.

Also, he looks like he’s had his eyebrows plucked ut-and replaced by a tatoo!
Clearly a preppy wannabe!

squeee … i lurves a guy in uniform … pretty much any uniform.

Pity I have mail on my desk marked urgent older than you are sigh

Actually I rather like mrAru’s ‘dazzle camo’ pants. He disassembled a set of camo pants and turned them into a pattern, and then used up 4 or 5 different black and white fabrics making a pair of pants, he has black and white tigerstripe, a swirly moire pattern of little black squares, some black and white large houndstooth check and god knows what. Seriously eyewrenchingly ugly =)

Way back when I lived in Albuquerque, wolf shirts seemed popular. I suppose it’s to my credit that I never bought one, but I can’t say I found them particularly ugly.

I don’t even know what a wolf shirt is…

I have a wolf shirt. But it doesn’t have lightning bolts, and it’s kinda minimalist. Do I still lose fashion points?

I also have several Australian Shepherd shirts. And I’ve always considered flip-flops as quintessential summer wear.

And anybody wearing a Think Geek t-shirt would get big points in my book.

I guess I’m hopeless.
But wait – I DESPISE Crocs!

A T-shirt with a wolf on it. :slight_smile:

Thanks for the milk coming outta my nose :stuck_out_tongue:

A thread after my own critical heart.

I wore sometimes up to 4 shirts at one time: turtleneck, 2 polos (popped, of course!) of complementary colors, button-down shirt topped with Fair Isle sweater swung over my shoulders. Say what you like, at least we were warm.

Rock concert shirts are meh to me–wallpaper. I have to admit I’ve never seen one and thought, gee–that person is wearing a token of a good time. They’re just shirts to me.

Wolf/eagle shirts–all should be burned and the manufacturers subject to torture. How else to eradicate the practice?
People who dress their small children like ho’s or pimps.

Bling of any kind. I’m from the school of “put the jewelry you want to wear to the party on, then take off one piece school.”

Mouth grills–I cannot express how utterly repulsive these are to me.

I wear Crocs to work–mine aren’t open (except on the sides for ventilation). They do look ridiculous on anyone older than Smurf size (about age 4) in RL, though.

I also strongly dislike large people wearing too small clothes or small people wearing too large clothes. Your clothes should at least approximately fit you.

Some older women do something funky to their eyeshadow–can’t describe it, but they end up looking like clowns. This goes with “anus lips” (which cracked me up…)
Cowboy shit. Now, really–at a rodeo, ok. But come on–you look stupid. No, really, you do. Most “real” cowboys I’ve known don’t dress up like “cowboys”. They may have the boots and the hat and the jeans, but the shirt is not studded and yoked etc. They look like what they are: men (or women) who work outdoors, doing stuff with cattle and horses, not like some Not So Raging Bull type.

Shrugs, visible thongs, wife beaters, boxers visible above waistbands–get rid of them. ALL of them.

And what is with these oh, so bad gangsta types now wearing Hello Kitty colors on their hoodies etc? Is this supposed to convey that they are so bad, they can rock baby pink and yellow and blue? If you look closer, their blindingly white hoodies have baby color patterns on them, but the patterns are of skulls or crossbones and the like. Oh, I am so intimidated by that. I’m a-quakin’ in my shoes. :rolleyes:

Svaroski crystals on any clothing item.

I have more, lots more, but I think others should have a turn.

Do people tell him that he’ll have to turn the volume on his pants down when they’re trying to talk to him? :smiley:

Seriously though, I’m going to use an Arnold Rimmer quote to sum up my thoughts on pink (or blue, any other colour that isn’t green, brown, black, or white) camouflage: “Wrong, Actually. Wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG! Just brimming over with wrong-ability, as a matter of fact.”

Baggy shorts with pulled-up white socks was a Latino gang style back in the 80’s. Ditto the chollas with the black lipstick liner and shaved-and-redrawn eyebrows.

Okay, first, a blush and a thank you to the several posters on pages 2 and 3 who called me ‘cute’. :o

Second, a note that yes, I am gay. This should not stop you from fanning my ego, though. :wink:

As well:

I don’t know about costume jewelry on sk8r-kids or fat Italians, but I have a ring on my little finger for professional and traditional reasons.

In contrast to turning my collar up, I only wear it when I’m not in ‘work mode’, for safety reasons.

that is the point=) he is thinking of getting several different hawaiian shirt fabrics and making some tahiti camo=)