Some of the greatest years of my life were in the 70s, so I like the 70s!
Well, women don’t actually have the monopoly on that. A lot of guys clothing is badly made and overpriced too. I keep meaning to start a pit thread about it - I’m quite convinced clothing companies are overcharging massively.
“and sized to fit a small percentage of us.”
How so?
Isn’t the average women in the USA a size 12?
So go buy your clothes at Old Navy or the last seasons sales rack at any mens store. Mens clothes don’t change that much from year to year. The blue stretch Banana Republic buttondown shirt in my closet from three years ago looks just like this years blue stretch Banana Republic buttondown shirt.
I will agree that I think the clothes are made out of crappier material these days (J Crew comes to mind). I have no problem paying the higher price for clothes that last a couple of years. But if the high priced stores are going to sell ugly, thin, crappy material that is done in a few washes, I’d just assume save some $$ and shop at Filenes Basement.
There is nothing fashionable about Oscar Wilde. He is soooooooo 19th century!! Wait, is that retro now?..
Yup.
And all the pretty clothes are rarely made to fit a size 12.
Here’s my personal experience with dressing well: Women generally have more of an instinct for what’s in style because they feel comfortable talking about it. Guys don’t discuss these things, unless they’re gay, and if I dress to a gay man’s specifications I tend to pick up a lot of men that I’m not terribly interested in. Guys who wear the low-riders and gangsta chic are generally young men who want to pick up women who think that gangsta chic marks a guy who’ll keep them stocked in illegal substances. Guys like me, who dress nondescriptly in khakis and dress shirts, are trying to attract women who don’t necessarily consider a big stash of weed to be the first point they look for in a guy.
I saw this on a cartoon a while back -
Menswear Quiz
Q. What’s your most iimportant fashion accessory?
A. Denial.
Seriously, the ghetto look is just silly. But, whatever floats your boat I guess.
I’m lucky. I wear jeans, tee-shirts and tennis shoes to work. Or shorts and sandles. If I’m working on the house, and I need to run into town for something, I’ll be in worn out jeans, worn out tee-shirt and worn out shoes.
I walked into the men’s department of my local Walmart and saw racks and racks of the big, baggy pants along with parachute trousers, then a new addition, dark colored, fine checked button down gangsta shirts. I was looking for a regular button down in a solid color and wound up going to JC Penny’s. There, they have no gangsta pants or shirts and I found what I wanted. They did carry these dull colored oversized shirts that guys like to wear for some reason that are designed to bag on a person.
I come from the tight jeans and T-shirt era, where we bought cloths that fit and in the 60 and 70s the guys looked as good as the women. Even through some of the 80s, until the Ghetto Crap showed up, then the women went off and continued to look fine while the guys looked like fools with their crotches down around their knees and their underwear pulled way up high, wearing bulky shirts and jackets and huge sneakers.
A celebration of poverty and bad taste is all it was.
With the return of some 60s and 70s styles, I keep hoping that the guys will get back on track. I still have not found flair’s for men, except in boot cut jeans. The 70s might have been a politically bad time, but guys looked cool and the women sizzled!
(Well, some of the hair styles for men back then sucked. Like the curly perm.)
I walked into the men’s department of my local Walmart and saw racks and racks of the big, baggy pants along with parachute trousers, then a new addition, dark colored, fine checked button down gangsta shirts. I was looking for a regular button down in a solid color and wound up going to JC Penny’s. There, they have no gangsta pants or shirts and I found what I wanted. They did carry these dull colored oversized shirts that guys like to wear for some reason that are designed to bag on a person.
I come from the tight jeans and T-shirt era, where we bought cloths that fit and in the 60 and 70s the guys looked as good as the women. Even through some of the 80s, until the Ghetto Crap showed up, then the women went off and continued to look fine while the guys looked like fools with their crotches down around their knees and their underwear pulled way up high, wearing bulky shirts and jackets and huge sneakers.
A celebration of poverty and bad taste is all it was.
With the return of some 60s and 70s styles, I keep hoping that the guys will get back on track. I still have not found flair’s for men, except in boot cut jeans. The 70s might have been a politically bad time, but guys looked cool and the women sizzled!
(Though some of the hair styles for guys sucked, especially the curly perm copied, apparently, from ancient Rome.)