# What clothing (styles) do you just love/hate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 27, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856 "2008-12-27T17:09:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/41 "2008-12-29T00:43:20Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > My first love AND Roger Daltrey of the Who (I met him backstage) both had the same long leather coat. Ha! I once had the same coat as a movie character. Trouble is, the movie was set in the 1950’s and I wore my coat in the 1980’s. If you watch _Sweet Dreams_, look for Jessica Lange in the red coat that looks and flares like a cape. I bought one just like it at the Nordstrom rack. Loved it – it was like being wrapped in a blankie. A sweet nerdy guy I worked with finally got some attention from the ladies when he bought a duster. He kept wearing it in the summer though, and the attention waned. He went from cute to weird **that** quick! ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/42 "2008-12-29T01:58:12Z")
Too many to think about right now… One that comes to mind, is those shirts with those freaking matrices of casette tapes. Majority of the tapes are one color, and then one or two are a different color. I think it is one of the ugliest trends out there. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/43 "2008-12-29T02:38:49Z")
I dunno, I really like those empire-waisted shirts for us fat broads. They really accentuate the bust and hide rolls. What’s not to love? I hate hate hate them on slim chicks, though. Especially girls with small chests. They make the girls look fat and dumpy and do not flatter a slim figure whatsoever. If you have a waist, hips and a relatively flat tummy don’t hide it under a mumu!! I don’t quite like the latest trendy hairstyle for teen boys - the shaggy thing. I actually liked the cut but I liked it when it was for cool kids only. Now, they all have it and I can’t tell who’s cool and who’s just a poser. Not that I’m around teen boys much, but still… Oh, there’s also some kind of dress style that’s sort of like a colorful potato sack with no shape whatsoever that I see slim girls wearing from time to time. Those horrify me as well. I saw one on some famous woman not too long ago (can’t remember who) and I just about died. [Seriously, lady](http://www.iheartluxe.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/philiplim-pleat-dress.jpg)?! ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/44 "2008-12-29T02:45:12Z")
**Hate** Visible undergarments Shapeless t-shirts Skinny jeans unless worn with boots Those really bright, busy prints (on hoodies, t-shirts, etc) that seem popular with guys in their early 20s **Love** Wide legged pants Indigo denim Layers Classic pumps Cashmere knits ---
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/45 "2008-12-29T03:06:54Z")
All these are men’s fashion. Women’s fashion is way too complicated for me to understand. **Love** This new crop of western-inspired clothes for men, with snap buttons on the trim and the double shirt pocket with button. Absolutely great. Slim leg jeans. Not skinny leg, but that follow the natural flow of the leg with just enough room to breathe. Henleys. The perfect understated look is a henley with jeans. It’s such a classy casual look. Boots. Just about any kind, but I love love love boots. **Hate** Loose fit jeans. Do you want to look enormous in those things? Huge logos on my shirt. Lookin’ at you, Abercrombie. Text, for that matter. It’s so distracting. I want you to look at my face and body, not my shirt. Athletic sneakers. Boooooring. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/46 "2008-12-29T08:33:42Z")
Hate: - Turtleneck shirts and sweaters on guys or myself. The guys look silly, and I feel like I’m suffocating. - low cut jeans. I only want to see the butt crack of people I’m intimate with, you know? - the strange color choices clothing has come out in this decade. Strange colors like unearthly shades of green and pink that only look good on certain skin tones. Is it too much to ask they make things in earthtones too? Is it?? I can’t shop at old navy. - I’m really beginning to dislike polo shirts on guys, or rather on guys who wear them daily. They’re like garanimals for men. Love: - semi-fitted t-shirts. They look far classier than the shapeless standard issue tees. - bootcut jeans. They don’t make short girls look squat! - vintage tees. They’re fun during the summer, and provide a very comfortable underlayer in the winter - crewneck sweaters ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/47 "2008-12-29T09:14:03Z")
I hate chopped off pants - which used to be called pedal pushers, back in the day. They seem to go under a number of different names these days but, whatever they’re called, I hate them. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/48 "2008-12-29T09:40:30Z")
Personally, I wear the same few articles of clothing constantly. I have almost zero variation in my wardrobe. I have a few pairs of black pants. They’re all Jeans and they’re all durable. I have a few black shirts, a few gray shirts with different colored sleeves (not really sure why, I think they were a gift), one with Blue sleeves and two with Brown Sleeves, and a few Green shirts with Left-breast pockets. I also own 1 pair of sneakers and 3 pairs of black boots, one Steel toed, one Dome-toed (plastic?) and one sown-flat toe. All are Ankle high. I’m utilitarian like that. That is the entirety of my wardrobe. What I dislike/like, however, extends to others as well. Forgive me if I don’t know the proper terms for clothing are, I’m no where near a fashion expert (as you can deduce from my, rather extensive closet - I’ve been thinking about pruning down). Dislikes: Shirts with “witty” sayings: They were _somewhat_ funny freshman year (in high school), now they’re obnoxious and make me want to punch you in the face. Sweat suits with things written on their ass: Go away, you’re not juicy, you’re an 800 pound **whale**. Chaps: Admittedly I don’t see these often, but when I do I feel the urge to yell at the person wearing them (in public). I-want-to-look-pregnant shirts: Really? Why? Men who wear low cut jeans. Skater shoes with laces untied: Scratch that, **any** shoe with laces untied. Baseball hats with the stickers on them. Pants that make you walk like diseased chimpanzee with an inner ear infection, typically those that are either around your ass or ankles. Leather Trench Coats. Capri pants? Those weird ones that come to 1/2 way between the knee and ankle. Skirts with the legging things under them - If you’re wearing pants, that’s fine, don’t wear a skirt too. that list is nowhere near complete. Likes: Utilitarian clothing in general. Boots. Low cut pants on flat-bellied women. Short shirts on flat-bellied women. Yeah, I like the female form - it’s a biological imperative… and it makes me happy. This list, also nowhere near complete; however it is and will stay far shorter than the other list, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/49 "2008-12-29T13:11:09Z")
> [@CAT\_1](#): > > I can’t stand low rise jeans. And I especially hate them on little kids. There is a girl in my son’s preschool class who wears only low rise jeans and her little crack is showing all day long. > My 25 year old niece had a pair on at Christmas and her crack was showing half the day. I hate low rise but for a different reason. I bought a couple pair for $7 a pop at WalMart, because that’s my budget. There’s no ass crack showing but the front dips down on my fleshy, gooey, cottage cheesy, deflated basketball-ey excuse for an abdomen. I spend half the time time pulling the front up, and I look like a freak. These days I justify spending a few extra bucks on Lee Riders as not waiting to get arrested for lewd and lascivious charges. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/50 "2008-12-29T15:36:37Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Love: white shirts or blouses. I have dozens. Cotton, linen, silk, lace, long/short sleeve, sleeveless. Dress 'em up, dress 'em down, wear as a light jacket over a tank top. > > - I love my long leather trenchcoat. I am a dumpy 5’2", no beauty, and on the down side of 50, and probably look like a beanbag with a rope tied around it, but in my long leather trenchcoat - I. Am. Stylin’!!! I remember the burgundy-chestnut color coats back in the '70s that were popular with women and men. My first love AND Roger Daltrey of the Who (I met him backstage) both had the same long leather coat. A hoodie and sagging pants just don’t cut it with me. > - I love my cashmere sweaters that I find at the thrift stores. I have about a dozen, and no, they are not full of moth holes (well, the ones that do, I just wear around the house) > - I love classic fabrics like tweed - I adore herringbone. I like red Stewart tartan plaid. I like plaid shirts on men (but prefer dark and subtle - not purple, red and yellow!) > - I love to see a slim girl all in winter white (in, duh, winter) or a white linen suit in summer. White looks very “cocktails in front of the fireplace” or “meet me at the country club” . > - Don’t tell anyone, but I love the ‘Goth’ look (yes, I know it’s called something else now and is probably out of style). I’m envious. If I were 16 again, I’d shop at Hot Topic all the time! > > I don’t like: short sleeved “dress shirts” on men. They look dorky and low-class. If you men work in an air conditioned office, wear a regular shirt and roll the damn sleeves up over your forearms! > > - I hate big white sneakers. Every suburban mom has huge white canoes sticking out of her pant legs. I wear a cheapy pair I got for $13 from K-Mart that have grayed down. They suit me fine. I can’t tell a Nike from a Reebok. > - Ripped jeans on anyone over age 18. Teeny camisoles and tank tops on anyone over age 30. Big, styrofoam pushup bras under same on young girls, the better to show off the goods. No daughter of mine ever left the house with her boobs sticking out, cz initial pendant dangling between them, and her ass crack showing because her pants were too low. > - Is the big, ugly, expensive, bling-y pocketbook fad over? It should be. > - And related, is bling itself over with? One of our well-paid sports heroes here got himself robbed of several thousand dollars of platinum and diamond jewelry hanging around his sweaty neck. I laughed my ass off. I’d imagine this fad may have run its course, getting too dangerous. > - Whatever the style, cut, color, or material of pants - nothing infuriates me more than pants that are too damned short! (Too long on young people, I can understand somewhat. They don’t know how to do a hem/don’t have money for a tailor/don’t have mothers who can fix them). But too short - please see short sleeve dress shirts above. You have excellent taste. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/51 "2008-12-29T16:12:51Z")
> [@CAT\_1](#): > > I can’t stand low rise jeans. And I especially hate them on little kids. There is a girl in my son’s preschool class who wears only low rise jeans and her little crack is showing all day long. > My 25 year old niece had a pair on at Christmas and her crack was showing half the day. > I had my son sneak behind her with a candy cane to stick back there after we had seen it for the 10th time. I also hate low-rise jeans. I am so glad the fashion of low-rise jeans with a g-string went out of fashion. That was really disgusting. I also hate low-rise jeans so tight they create a muffin top, which for some reason seems to be an ok fashion statement now. For God’s sake, buy pants that fit! I am also delighted that those low-rise skirts Paris Hilton managed to make fashionable went out of style. I can’t imagine the amount of waxing she must have needed to do to avoid showing her short n’ curlies. Yuck. I hate midriff-baring shirts - completely unnecessary. I’m not a fan of empire waistlines, but mostly because they make me look pregnant. I also hate that plaid pink and purple tweed that Chanel made popular in suits. Yuck. I love pencil skirts. One of my goals is to fit well into a pencil skirt again. There’s nothing quite so flattering to a rounded, toned backside as a well-cut pencil skirt paired with a nice blouse and elegant pumps or fashionable, non-trashy stilletos. God, I’m glad I’m more than half-way there. I used to feel so good in that type of clothing. I like any kind of well-cut pants that fit and flatter. Classic white shirts are always a good choice. Nicely-fitted jackets of most any type are great. Lacy lingerie hidden under a classic outfit is always sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/52 "2008-12-29T16:24:50Z")
I hate that the 80s are back big-time with the hipster crowd (think Kanye West or Samantha Ronson). Seriously, the skin-tight neon jeans with big ass high-top Nikes and a floppy bad shirt didn’t look good the first time around. And fanny packs? For reals? The other day, I was in a cafe where the waitress had beautiful face with perfect cheekbones, but you couldn’t see them behind the ginormous Buddy Holly glasses she wore (sans lenses, natch). I should see face first, never glasses. The things I do like (on me, anyways): - muted colours (dark purple, earthy browns, drab olives, charcoals, dark teals and indigos) - fitted cardigans for layering - wide-leg jeans, preferably in a dark indigo rinse - Mary Janes - striped socks and tights in fun colours - sleek knee-high boots with a solid heel (not stilettos) - A-line skirts - old-school skate shoes (my kingdom for a pair of Simples like I owned 12 years ago… sigh) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/53 "2008-12-29T16:35:01Z")
> [@burundi](#): > > Hate: > > Baseball caps, unless you’re actually playing ball or otherwise trying to keep the sun out of your eyes. It especially drives me crazy when men don’t remove them indoors. Makes you look like an over-grown man-child whose mama neglected to teach him manners. On the other hand, more men should wear fedoras. I quite agree. I got the Real Hat habit after I turned 40 and stopped dressing to please others. At the same time, I shelved my ballhats - hardly ever wear them now. > [@](#): > > Bow ties. For two years, I was the research assistant for an evil little professor who always wore bow ties. Now they fill me with stabby rage. Even if it weren’t for the negative association, it’s hard to wear one and not look like a twerp. I used to wear them part time, alternating with standard bellywarmer ties. This was a mistake, I think - the bowtie looks like an affectation, a pose, unless you wear them full time. Even then, you need to fit a well-defined range of personality traits to bring them off (choose at least two): tweedy, learned, urbane, fey, eccentric, curmudgeonly, self-important, obsessive-compulsive ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/54 "2008-12-29T16:40:43Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > I love pencil skirts. One of my goals is to fit well into a pencil skirt again. There’s nothing quite so flattering to a rounded, toned backside as a well-cut pencil skirt paired with a nice blouse and elegant pumps or fashionable, non-trashy stilletos. The only thing about work that I miss is dressing up in nice clothes. I’ve given most of them away now but I can’t let go of my pencil skirts. I’ve convinced myself that I can wear them at any age as long as they still fit well so I should save them along with some wedding/funeral/cocktail party clothes and high heels in every color. ---
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/55 "2008-12-30T01:25:56Z")
[slightly off topic] The fattening of America has come full circle. They thought they could keep upping the sizes every year and I’d just quit buying clothes, but we as a society have gotten so fat I can now shop in the Boy’s department. MWAHAHAHAHAHA [/sot] ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/56 "2008-12-30T01:41:14Z")
I really hate clothing period, hate having to worry about it at all. It is a pain in the ass, but I do have one clothing style I really like: pirate seriously, there is a male teacher at my kids school who never even registered on my attract-o-meter, but on Halloween he was monitoring the car pool line dressed as a pirate with the blousy shirt, tight breeches, boots and headscarf and I found myself staring at him, then looking away and blushing. When I picture any man of my acquaintance dressed in the same way he immediately gets more attractive. Obviously this won’t work for everyday, but I heartily recommend that all men dress as pirates for any fancy dress occasion that presents itself. Arr! ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/57 "2008-12-30T02:21:12Z")
> [@Influential\_Panda](#): > > [slightly off topic] > > The fattening of America has come full circle. They thought they could keep upping the sizes every year and I’d just quit buying clothes, but we as a society have gotten so fat I can now shop in the Boy’s department. MWAHAHAHAHAHA > [/sot] Vanity sizing drives me nuts because I shop online and I can’t tell if I’m buying a size 8 or a 10 that they’re calling an 8. I’ve also noticed that the first sizes to sell out used to be 8/10 and now they’re the ones left for the clearance sales. The last time I went to buy 501s I realized that if I went down one more inch I’d have to buy them in the boy’s department of our local store. I’m not overweight but I’m not a small person either. The whole thing is ridiculous and I can’t believe that anyone is fooled that easily into thinking that they haven’t gained weight. ---
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/58 "2008-12-30T02:35:18Z")
On the plus side, the children’s department seems to be a little less pricey. ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/59 "2008-12-30T02:50:51Z")
True. I wonder if kid’s jeans come with an 32" or longer inseam. I could probably scrape off an inch with some effort and still be able to breath in them. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856/60 "2008-12-30T04:38:18Z")
I will always love Levi’s 501’s on men and women. Put an ex of mine (or any other guy I happen to crush on) in a pair of 501s, top with a white shirt (tee or dress) and add some Bass weejuns (or similar) and I will be ON him! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-clothing-styles-do-you-just-love-hate/478856.md?page=4)