Fashion Trends and Revivals Of Past Atrocities

[bex1218]

I wear men's clothes and have short hair. But it compliments me. Women's clothes are too skin tight for me (even back when I wasn't so overweight). I also have like 50 band shirts, a few movie shirts and some other misc stuff I wear on a daily basis, except at work. I mostly wear shorts, even in winter, my legs don't get as cold. But I live in Florida. I'd probably get yelled at by family if I went to New York during fall season wearing shorts by family.

What I hate is when people wear lingiera type stuff out in public. Fine in bed, but damn. And its always people who just don't look right in them.

[Andara Bledin]

although a number of pubs are getting dinged by discrimination laws because they won't let a man in with thongs (the feet kind) but they have no problem letting women in with pretty dolled up thongs (still the feet kind))

That's actually a pretty clear-cut case, right there.

If you let women in wearing such shoes, then you have to let men in wearing such shoes. Though, to be honest, it would probably be in everybody's best interests to just ban them outright.

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[fireheart17]

1. Caked on make up.

This was a common trend at my high schools (both of them-one was an all-girls school). So glad I kept the "fresh-faced" look. Thankfully the caked-on trend seems to have disappeared five years down the track. (two of my former classmates got married-the bride was one of the "caked on" brigade)

2. People who go out during the day in pajamas. It's like a plague that's swept Ireland and probably the UK in the last few years. I've seen pubs introduce smart-casual dress codes just to keep out the pajama people. They wear dressing gowns instead of coats when it starts to get cold. I don't know if it's better or worse that they actually have specific pajamas for going out and different ones for sleeping in.

We've had smart casual dress codes down here for years, but it's more to avoid general trailer trash and for safety reasons in some cases. (although a number of pubs are getting dinged by discrimination laws because they won't let a man in with thongs (the feet kind) but they have no problem letting women in with pretty dolled up thongs (still the feet kind))

3. Jeggings. Your cellulite is your own business.

Jeggings in general are just horrible, horrible, horrible. If you want to "look" like you're wearing jeans, just WEAR jeans. You don't need sprayed on pockets and stitching to look like you're wearing jeans!

For some reason, Supre (one of the more "trashy" stores down here) has put out a much more "modest" summer trend: maxi dresses and skirts with a split up to the thigh. Now THAT I don't mind SO much....if they don't do them in fluoro. >.>

My usual day-to-day "dress code" consists of dresses and skirts, with a t-shirt.

[blas87]

Fupa= fat upper pussy area

I know, classy.

Higher rise pants (think moreso in the past than the present) are notorious for giving even thinner women the appearance of a fupa.

[AdminAssistant]

What is a fupa - never heard that term before?

The fatty area that some folks develop between their belly button and their groin. I knew some kids who classily referred to the same area as a gunt, because it went from the gut to the...*ahem*

[wolfie]

Now see I hate low rise jeans and would not be comfortable in them even if I could pull them off. I like my mom jeans

I'd imagine that you'd be even LESS comfortable if you couldn't pull them off - after all, it would make it VERY difficult to use the toilet.

I also was "blessed" with that awkward situation where my hip bones are a good six or more inches up from where the full, fatty curve of my hips are. It makes finding a pair of jeans that don't give me a saggy butt or the other bad alternative, a so skintight I look like I have a fupa....very difficult.

What is a fupa - never heard that term before?

[blas87]

If skinny jeans work for you, you're welcome to them. I've addressed it earlier in this thread that the fashion takeover of skinnies and jeggings make it really hard nowadays to just find a pair of plain old bootleg cut, let alone flared jeans. I'm by no means a fat girl, but I think being short and having very taped legs (meaning bigger thighs, skinny knees, and big calve muscles) makes me look fat in skinny jeans, if I can even get into them with how muscular my legs are.

I also was "blessed" with that awkward situation where my hip bones are a good six or more inches up from where the full, fatty curve of my hips are. It makes finding a pair of jeans that don't give me a saggy butt or the other bad alternative, a so skintight I look like I have a fupa....very difficult.

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[LadyBarbossa]

The leggins make all the difference, though.

I was talking about something more like this: http://blogging.la/archives/style10.jpg

Although I've never seen them with tube socks before O_o

[Lace Neil Singer]

*shrugs* I wear boots with short skirts. Tho I don't have bare legs; I always wear a pair of leggings under the skirt.

[Dreamstalker]

I get all my cargo pants at the local surplus store. Yeah, they're not formfitting as apparently the pants I wear should be , but the pockets hold what they should (I have a pair of jeans like that and the leg pockets are almost useless) and the damn things last forever. I only recently had to toss a pair that I bought in 1998.

[LadyBarbossa]

I can't believe no one has mentioned this one yet, or maybe it's just an issue in my area -

Cowboy boots with shorts. ANY kind of shorts, just no! To me, this says "I was too lazy to bother lacing up sneakers or finding a pair of flats/flip flops to wear so I stuffed these on instead." A five year old boy going through the cowboy stage can get away with this. Everyone else, NO. It was even weirder when we saw a grown man walk in wearing cargo shorts, a t-shirt, and freakin' cowboy boots. It was perfect fodder for People of Walmart.

IMO I also think that if you are wearing a skirt that exposes most or at least half of your leg and you want to wear boots with it, the boots should be form fitting, otherwise you look just as dumb as the girls I just mentioned. It just looks awkward.

[blas87]

Some girls' jeans are waist/inseam. The Buckle mostly goes by that standard, Silver jeans do as well.

Yesterday I realized that just because I wear one size in one fit, doesn't mean it applies in another. But it still didn't make me feel any better about myself, considering I had lost about 10 pounds after moving back home.

[AdminAssistant]

AA, men's jean sizes are based on waist then length.

Oh, I know (The quote you were replying to, I just couldn't remember the range of men's pants sizes that Gap carried, since I didn't work in that section often.) My husband lost the ability to buy clothing right around the same time he moved in, so I'm somewhat familiar with Men's Big & Tall. It's the length that's so amazing - and in inch increments! The handful of stores that sell short/reg/long women's pants, there's too much disparity between the options. Shorts are too short and regulars are too long, so I just buy the regulars and let them fray and soak up water when it rains.

[Andara Bledin]

Men's clothes can also have numerical sizing that are only vaguely based on measurements.

I've wanted women's clothes to go to straight measurements for ages. With mass production how it is today, there's really no excuse to stick with the sizing system women's clothing uses, particularly when you know that, say, a size 11 from India is likely to be larger than a size 13 from Taiwan. (don't ask me why - I just know that I had two pairs of pants, in those sizes, with that result)

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