I don’t ever, ever wear short pants. I wear shorts, and I wear pants. Shorts hit just above the knee, pants just break in the front over my shoes. There is no variation allowed.
Skirts, now, I’ll wear short, medium and long; I’m just weird about pants.
If a skirt shows my legs, I have to wear pantyhose or tights*. I don’t like the look or feel of bare legs in a skirt.
I won’t wear a dress without a belt or sash. And I tuck my shirts into my pants. I don’t care what the fashion is nowadays; I have a good waist/hip ratio, so why shouldn’t I emphasize it.
And on the subject of low-rise jeans: Girls, if you don’t have a so-called “muffin top,” then you’re not healthy. If you perfectly fit those skanky jeans, you’re probably built like a ten-year-old boy. When, how and why did this become the standard, and when will it stop? Soon, I hope.
*Tights meaning thick stockings. I understand that in the UK, and perhaps all of Europe, pantyhose are called tights, in which case I wonder what you call the thick, patterned stockings that are not quite as thick as leggings?
As much as possible, I don’t wear closed toe shoes. I actually went a whole year wearing nothing but Birkenstocks once. Sometimes it’s too cold now - I don’t have Birkies any more since they wore out and none of my other sandals will look okay with socks. I’ll barefoot too, especially at college.
I don’t like flip-flops (they’re just cheap and tacky looking), but it is possible to wear them without making noise. If involves actually picking up your feet and squeezing your toes together. I’ve got zori/geta that would make noise if I allowed them to.
I don’t wear dress pants, skirts, or dresses. I own all of two dresses and I’ve worn one this year to go out with my guy.
I don’t wear shorts. I don’t always shave my legs regularly and I haven’t owned any in years. I don’t wear capris either. And I prefer my pants to actually start at my waist. I have no hips though, so I end up pulling up my pants all the time anyway, but at least you can’t see my underwear. (I know somebody is going to say it’s because my pants don’t fit - they do… some of them. I just have no hips and don’t always wear a belt.)
Do you mean you’ll go barefoot everywhere, like to class and everything? This is a genuine question. I used to work with a family in which the mother went barefoot from May until October. She was actually surprised that her son’s Sunday School wouldn’t let her teach class barefoot. And not just barefoot, but having been barefoot for days, including traveling to the church barefoot, etc. It was pretty damned unsightly, I must say.
Anyhow, not calling you unsightly. Just asking for clarification.
I wear my Birks year-round with no socks–of course I don’t spend much time outside in the winter.
I won’t touch peep toe shoes with a twenty-foot pole. People keep claiming they’re sexy, but all I can think of is my elderly aunt’s nasty feet in pantyhose since she wore those shoes last time they were in, in the eighties. 
Pretty much guaranteed anti-sexy to my mind.
I try to avoid bright primary colors as much as possible, because they just aren’t my thing – I’d rather wear natural, jewel, or muted shades that are toward the darker end of the spectrum. And yellow or orange are pretty much no-nos because they usually make me look sick.
I wear dresses once a year or for weddings/funeral type occasions. The rest of the time it’s jeans. I just don’t like exposing my legs if I’m not in a dress – it feels a bit exposed.
These are all rules of mine, as well as general opinions on others…
No Logo-wear, esp. Ed Hardy, Affliction, or Ecko Ultd. Every jackass in the universe seems to be wearing them, and I’d rather not be counted among them.
No open/mostly open dress shirt over a tee or tank-top. This is more of a club-going jackass look, and I have to deal with said fashion victims often.
No sandals ever, flip-flops are for the pool, beach or locker room shower. Odds are you have ugly feet and I don’t want to see them. This is mostly men, but women should be aware that wearing flip-flops with 1/8" thick soles and that are smaller than the actual foot they’re on is a bad idea. Please don’t come bitching to me when someone stomps on your foot or you cut it on a piece of broken glass. In a bar, it’s boots or rarely shoes for me.
Baseball caps are fine, but should be worn with the brim forward. Backward is OK if your driving with the windows/top down, or shooting a rifle with a telescopic sight, but that’s it. Wearing it 55° to the side and 20° from the horizontal just makes you look like a moron.
As an addendum, visors are always stupid unless you’re playing professional tennis, and you’re not.
No track suits. Fine if you need to run to 7-11, but if you’re going out for the night, put some damn pants on. This is especially true for older men. You can afford all that tacky jewelry so buy a pair of slacks. Women don’t get a pass on this, even if they’re cute. It’s sort of OK if you’re just coming from the gym, otherwise it makes you look like a stripper who just got off shift.
Always wear pants that fit or buy a damn belt. Watching people having to pull their pants up every five minutes just brings out my inner old person…“Pull yer Damn Pants up, ya Idiot!”
I hate suits and ties. Weddings, funerals and job interviews only. Otherwise jeans or rarely khakis/cargo pants
Is it lame that I’ve never heard of any of those?
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There is no possible way for me to express my disdain for this type of clothing. Human language has not developed enough for that, but I’ll do my best here.
When I see someone wearing a shirt with an empire waist, the impression I get is that she just found out that she got pregnant from the guy she regrets sleeping with who knocked her up at the frat party she went to and now she’s trying to hide it (badly) from all her friends and family.
Dang, y’all. When I see a woman wearing an empire waist, all I think is that she wants to make her boobs look bigger and her midsection look smaller.
My rule is simple, NO NECKTIES, EVER!, I hate, loathe, and despise the sodding things, I’ll never understand the attraction/reasoning for tying a glorified hangman’s noose around your neck…
I don’t think a man is fully dressed unless he has on an undershirt. I’m not talking about wearing a T-shirt obviously, but if you have on a dress shirt, a knit-shirt, anything business casual, anything that buttons, you need an undershirt. This is especially true in hot climates: I’ve tried to convince northern born/reared relocatees to the South that “no, an undershirt doesn’t make you hotter, but it does prevent you from having sweat stains and having visible nipples”.
This is never more true than when a person is wearing a white shirt.
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No commando, ever. Unless you’re a hot actor and about to take off your pants in a movie scene. We’ve all had skidmarks before and even the rare but occasional shart and you don’t really know when they’re going to happen; underwear is your first line of defense.
Nothing wrong with being fat, nothing wrong with wearing thongs, but if you’re both and you have an ass people don’t want to look at (which is most of them) please don’t let your thong be visible.
Nothing wrong with being fat and nothing wrong with wearing elasticy pants, but if you’re a big woman then wear pants made for a big woman. If you gain 30 pounds and can’t afford new clothes, I’m sure you got something in there that’s better than the skin-tight-but-not-meant-to-be-skin-tight polyester slacks. (I worked with a lady who was obese and wore pants so tight that her ass had its own ass in them- I wanted to go to a plus size store and by her a pair that fit so bad.)
Ladies: subtle neckwear always looks better than a bare neck with a formal outfit- doesn’t matter if you’re 15, 80, petite or size 38, a nice necklace [doesn’t have to be a choker or expensive] just adds a little pep to formal attire.
No flip-flops or Birkenstocks with white socks and shorts (the one exception being if you’re going to a shoe store to try on Birkenstocks).
You can wear a solid shirt with a patterned tie, you can wear a patterned shirt with a solid tie, you can wear a solid tie with a solid shirt, but very rarely can you wear a patterned shirt with a patterned tie. I’m surprised how many men don’t get this. (I hate ties, but i have to wear them at work.)
Short sleeves and ties just don’t generally look good- wear long sleeves if you’re going to wear a tie. Particularly awful is wearing a white short sleeved dress shirt with tie and brown slacks; you’re going to look like a preacher from a cinder block church with Blood, Tabernacle, Rock, or Fire in its name.
Keep a small travel bag in your car with the following: underwear, socks, undershirt, solid dress shirt and neatly folded khakis or dress slacks, and a neutral solid color tie. At some point you may need any or all of these items.
Nothing wrong with being fat, nothing wrong with muscle shirts, but don’t do both in public.
Goth is dead. Let it stay that way. At least if you’re not at a party.
Men: know where your waist is, and what it’s measurement is. If you’re 44 inches around at the bellybutton and 32 inches around just below the fall line of the pubes, you’re not a size 34, and nobody thinks you are.
May God bless you every day.
I hate those shirts and they won’t go out of style and die. I feel like a pregnant teenage peasant in them too.
I don’t care what other people wear (within reason) but I won’t wear long shorts or capri pants, anything with an animal print, bright primary colors, acrylic sweaters, hats, and I’ve never owned an article of clothing in red. I hate tailored trench coats too.
Wearing an empire waist to make your midsection look smaller is like wearing big red clown shoes to make your feet look smaller.
Jeans and T-shirts. I just don’t like them.
I’ve never understood why people hate ties so much, though. I don’t wear one every day, or even that often, but when I do, I don’t have a problem with it at all.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
Flip-flops hurt my feet between the toes, so I don’t wear them. If I were able to, they would be pool-side shoes, if anything. But I live in the Northeast and just this morning, after a few miles of my car slipping on black ice (meaning–COLD), I ended up behind a schoolbus. As the bus stopped to pick up a child, I saw a high school girl in a winter jacket and flip-flops get on the bus. FLIP FLOPS!!
WHY??
Will not wear clothing that shows a big logo, period.
As of about 2006 I will not buy t-shirts that are common name brands. Only underground stuff. I HATEEEEE being out in public and running into someone wearing the same exact shirt.
Will not wear those big bug-eyed designer sunglasses.
Will not wear a banana hammock unless dared to.
Will not wear Converse shoes.
Will never own a man bag.
Will never get pierced. Though, I’m all for tattoos.
Will not pop my collar.
Will not wear tank tops or wife beaters, as they call them.
Will not wear high top shoes other than workboots
Will never wear tighy whities… No. Bad. Never. And you know why.
Will not let my laces show on my shoes. I always tuck them in.
Will not let my socks show when wearing shoes and shorts. Hate the way they look.
Will not wear pink/purple.
Will not wear clothing with any jewels affixed to it.
I try to avoid solid bright colors for the most part. I shit you not, I went to hang out with some friends and while I was wearing a yellow shirt and the three of them were wearing solid red, solid blue, and solid green. It felt as if I was going to be auditioning for an M&M’s commercial.
I only do it because the girls I know say I have girly feet. I clip my nails when necessary but that’s it. No extra care at all. Not sure what makes them girly. Maybe it’s because I don’t have uber huge toes and toe nails and my skin on my feet is not all dried up, cracking, and peeling everywhere, and there isn’t excess hair growing on them.
Because of an obnoxious compulsion that was affected by psychopharmeceuticals, time spent on a top floor ward, too much Biblical Mama-Jama, and sleep deprivation I have a permanent transfixation on purple garments, the biblical color of royalty.
I guess I should state the effect… I own no purple clothes because of this.