What makes a guy (or girl) look "creepy"? Appearance only, no behavior!

Creepier still are Aviator-style eyeglasses. Do they even make those anymore? Everyone in 70s movies is always wearing them.

People are creeped out by aviator sunglasses? Really? Is this common?

In the Capital Hill neighborhood in Seattle, on Broadway. I saw him twice. Tall, twig thin, he was way past pale - he was gray. He looked like he was about 200 years old. His eyes were blank, and he walked with an incredibly creepy sway.

He scared me when I first saw him, and he’s the closest thing to a ghost that I’ve ever seen.

CREEPY.

Do you consider posture and clothing as a part of appearance or of behavior? Someone who looks like his last shower was also the last time he changed underwear and both took place in the last century, creepy. Someone who’s hugging a lamppost, creepy.

Or the way they look at you? A few months back, I was with a bunch of people from two dozen countries and another (gorgeous, man if I was into girls I sure would have been into her… ehrm, you know what I mean) woman said she dislikes men from a certain country because of the way they look at you. When others asked for clarification, she couldn’t explain. I suggested “like not only are you a steak at a butcher’s, but you might be starting to rot?” “YES!” That’s way creepy.

Fedora’s are timeless. It is the rest of the clothes that make or break the style, and the circumstances where one wears them. wearing a fedora in a regular office or city bar is weird. Wearing one in the outdoors or connected with outdoorsy stuff is fine. If your office deals with outdoorsy stuff, you’re lucky. :slight_smile:

Personally, I find new looking oldfashioned clothes a bit creepy. It is as if the guy’s mother still buys him his clothes, and still buys him the checkered short sleeved shirts he looked so neat in when he was a teenager (and in which her husband looked so neat in the fifties).
*Old * oldfashioned clothes are, to me, a different matter. I can understand that someone wears a favourite ratty old shirt when working in the garden, or wears his threadbare short-sleeved chequered shirts when taking the dogs for a walk.

Taking regular stock of ones’clothes and occasionally buying something new that fits ones’ age, size, activities, and caring for these clothes, is a task every man should recognize, and be able to master, OR delegate, in my opinion.
I didn;'t mention fashion. That’s because if a guy buys something new every year, he will be reasonably fashionable. The demands for fashion in Regular Joe aren’t that high. It really takes years and years of buying nothing but concert T-shirts, or buying nothing at all, period, to look as bad as some guys do.

Our band director my freshman year of high school was creepy. All the students thought this. He had, straight, greasy hair falling in his face and paper thin lips.

He never actually did anything inappropriate he just looked the part. The greasy hair was the worst. One day after class some kids decided to buy a bottle of Dawn™ dishwashing liquid and leave it at his desk. They did, with a note attached reading “Dawn cuts grease”. He was not pleased.

My best friend’s husband has Tourette’s - facial and body tics, occasional grunts, etc. I always try to remember to give people meeting him for the first time a head’s-up purely so they don’t get caught off-guard; my friend didn’t let me know when I first met him, and I kept thinking the grunt sounds were because he either didn’t agree with what I was saying or because he thought I was talking too much, and it made me feel self-conscious. :smiley: (Of course, maybe it was 50/50!)

From what he’s said over the years, it’s much the same for him as for you. Once people know what’s causing it, it stops registering on their ‘weird/creepy’-ometer and they get along just fine.

Unibrow.

Remember when that “runaway bride” chick’s pictures were all over the news. How you could see the whites of her eyes all the way around, and the first time you saw it, you thought “Oh, she was surprised when they took this picture,” and then she looked exactly the same in all the other pictures you saw of her?

Tell me that shit ain’t creepy.

Heh. Tell me about it. I’ve got astygmatism, very pale skin (but probably starting to get rosecea), bad posture, beard, unkept hair (longish but balding slightly in front), poor social skills … I’d sweep the Creepy Awards.

I find that little tiny “token beard” to be really creepy - the sort of one that reminds me of a Brazillian wax where you leave a landing strip (which tells you exactly why I think its creepy). It often appears on young men who are otherwise good looking and wouldn’t be giving off a creepy vibe at all if they’d make a different facial hair choice.

But most of creepy isn’t appearance, its an inappropriate intensity that’s behavior related.

Smelly = creepy. In particular, that acrid whiff of “been sweating, not bathing” or the lovely aroma of “oops I crapped my pants”. Every time I’ve had an encounter with a smelly person, they’ve behaved in a seriously creepy way.

If they smell, I’m staying well away, and not just for the fresher air.

Good replies. creepyness relates to inattention to fashion.-take a guy (like my uncle, who wears leisure suits). not creepy, by weird. creepyness combines:
-odd appearence
-old or ill-fitting clothes
-odd facial expressions
Now, are mormon Missionaries creepy? i would say, they fulfill enough conditions to be considered creepy.

Okay I need to defend the RB here. Not for anything she did, Og knows she should hang for the crimes she committed and inciting race riots, stupid bitch. But please, some of us have big saucer eyes like Susan Sarandon. We cannot control the size of our eyes, and we are not creepy. We are beautiful, like Susan Sarandon (yeah, I keep comparing myself to her in case it might be true).

Oh for Pete’s sake. Short sleeved white shirt with a tie? Yeah, that’s hella creepy.

Oops, OP specified no clothes or smirks leading to creepiness. I retract my post.

Yes, some Mormon missionaries are creepy.

I saw three Mormon missionaries on the Eglinton East bus last Thursday. I know they were Mormons because they had nametags reading ‘Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’. They were wearing white button-down shirts, black pants (i.e., trousers), and ties. One was an older man with a salt-and-pepper beard; the others appeared to be in their twenties.

The younger ones were slightly creepy. Nobody under fifty dresses in that kind of white button-down shirt anymore. Thing is, if they had coloured shirts, I would only glance at them and think, “unusally well-dressed but not creepy”.

But then I fiond all proselytisers creepy, partly because their thought processes are so alien to mine. Perhaps they would find me creepy as well.

Yesterday on the Price Edward bus, I saw a beautiful Ethiopian women (at least, she was reading something in Ethiopian) with a boy. The boy was dressed in a suit: button-down blue shirt, purple-blue tie, and black pants. This was unusual, but not creepy, altough I couldn’t help imagining the problems the kid might have if he wore the outfit to school. But perhaps they were going to church or something.

He said EYEglasses. Not sunglasses. Just about everyone I know wears aviator sunglasses - they’re still cool. :smiley:

What’s wrong with being in your own world? From what I’ve heard that’s standard operating procedure for passengers on urban mass transit systems the world over.

Besides, if you’re sitting in a sunny library reading a book, decent or otherwise, aren’t you sort of in your own world by definition?

I don’t know if I’d agree this makes a person creepy–it’s just unfashionable.

I had my eyes lasered in '01, and I’m almost sorry I did, because the frames I see being advertised now really do look good, in my opinion.

*OK, I’m not sorry at all! My vision used to be 20/400 and I couldn’t find my way to the bathroom in the morning, without my glasses.

Are you talking about a “soul patch”, like what Howie Mandel wears, only extended to the bottom of the chin?