All around town I see cute women walking around in flairs, bell bottoms and split legged jeans, looking good and looking hot. Hip huggers are back and so are platform shoes and nice blouses and T-shirts. The women are looking cool and hot!
Shades of the 70s and the 60s – so whyinthehell are the guys still walking around in low rider ghetto pants, baggy ghetto shirts, wearing knit caps down below their eye brows and still showing underwear through the tops of their waist bands? The guys are walking around in two decades old styles, pretending to be ghetto hot when the women have moved on, evolved to better, nicer styles, more modern versions of pleasant past clothing.
I’m not sure what the debate is, to be honest. I also see large numbers of badly-dressed women and well-dressed men. Bad dress sense is not gender-specific, even if you could agree on a definition of bad dress sense – some people like the fashions that you don’t. YMMV.
Omni, do you wear low rider pants, baggy shirts and knit caps?
I sure don’t.
In fact, I’m usually pretty well-dressed. I see a lot of young men around me that are similarly attired. I also see a lot of skanky looking women (mixed in with the normal well-dressed women, of course) who I wouldn’t hesitate to describe as more shabbily-dressed than me and mine.
I guess you can throw out the “ALWAYS” in your OP now.
So waitaminnit… guys walking around in two-decade old clothing is bad, but women wearing shades of the '60s and '70s is cool? It’s better to be forty years outdated than twenty? I mean, jeez, I know it’s the '80s we’re talking about here, but sheesh…
If you mean why does there seem to be greater variety and more distinct trends in women’s fashion, I think there are two reasons. One, there’s greater fashion possiblities with women’s clothing-- you’re not just limited to shirts, shorts, and pants. Second, I think women spend more money on clothing than men do. The more you stand to profit from something, the greater variety you’re going to offer. And because the designers of the world can’t constantly produce designs with mainstream appeal, they recycle style trends from the past. It’s always gonna be new to somebody, after all.
“Well dressed” can be somewhat subjective. I personally think women in 70s-style hip-huggers look so positively hideous I can’t understand how they are not embarrassed to leave the house. I don’t care how beautiful they are, how great their body is - even supermodels look terrible in them, IMO.
Guys with low-riders are quite unattractive too. But I don’t think they’d look any better with a 70s leisure suit on.
Two decades old would be 1982. Gangsta didn’t really become cool until the early 90s.
Most adults in their 20s and 30s do not dress ‘gansta’ unless they live in the hood.
Since I am not gay, girls will always look better to me, regardless how they are dressed.
All guys should have have at least one nice set of shirt and pants and shoes for going out and wear them when you go out. Nothing pisses me off more than not being able to get into a nice place because someones moronic buddy decided to wear sneakers, cargo pants and a ratty t shirt.
girls have more interesting clothes. a huge variety. i mean, i get up and in deciding what to put on (talking casual clothes here) and it’s pretty much - shirt with buttons or tshirt? jeans or non-jeans. sweater or jacket? other than that, there’s not much room for variation. girls aren’t always better dressed, but when they are, you notice, because the possibilities are greater.
There is a tremendous difference between having fashion sense and having a sense of style. Stylish clothes will never look dated. Fashion trends come and go with the next stiff breeze. Appreciation of that comes with a little age, I think.
girls have more interesting clothes. a huge variety. i mean, i get up and in deciding what to put on (talking casual clothes here) and it’s pretty much - shirt with buttons or tshirt? jeans or non-jeans. sweater or jacket? other than that, there’s not much room for variation. girls aren’t always better dressed, but when they are, you notice, because the possibilities are greater.
There is a lot more society pressure for women to look nice & attractive to attract mates.
In my opinion, few women come close to what gay men can do to look nice fashion wise. I once asked
why they look so nice & was told that it’s for attractiveness.
Yes, we do tend to get the longer end of the stick by far than men do when it comes to clothing.
Of course, women’s clothing is badly made, overpriced, and sized to fit a small percentage of us. I can’t find shoes in a wide width (I got duck feet), let alone nice clothes except in specialty shops.
What’s more important than what’s out there, though, is how you wear it. This, by the way, has very little to do with size. I would rather be slimmer than I am, but I am frequently complimented on my looks – specifically in regard to the way I wear my clothing. I’m told I “hold myself well” and “walk with dignity.” I believe this is because I have two important traits in regard to style – self-confidence and good taste. Good taste means that I tend to be able to choose clothing that will suit me and look attractive – comparing colors, styles, sizes, etc. Most of my clothing is simple and comfortable – that helps more than you would believe. Self-confidence is, however, more important…you can dress a marshmallow nicely, but it still looks like a marshmallow. I’m pretty lucky – I’m of an odd body type, but I still manage to look good.
Personally, I think its just because I’m lazy/disinterested. Thats right, I have absolutely no interest in following fashion trends whatsoever. I buy clothes perhaps once or twice a year. I go for utility. If I think it looks OK and it fits right, its going home. I have little or no brand-loyalty and I have no desire to upstage fashionable people be they female or male.
I find that good looking womens clothes only seem to fit women who are are good looking enough for people to actually care about what they are wearing.
i’m going to agree with handyon this one…in our society, it seems like it’s more important for women to look nicer than guys, to show themselves off. given, that doesn’t necessarily go across the boards, and just dressing nicely doesn’t secure you a good mate and all that since we are also focused on personality.
but if you look at all the television and movies and commercials out there, everything seems geared to make women think they have to look nice all the time (and i’m not saying we shouldn’t), to wear such and such makeup or buy such and such brand. and it is a hell of a lot more expensive.
I’m pretty lucky – I’m of an odd body type, but I still manage to look good.