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The Maddest Combination of Clothes Ever

Tryphena Absent

08:30 / 15.09.03

Walking down the street today I couldn't help but spot one particular woman strolling towards me. She was probably in her mid-forties, pretty ordinary looking. She had shoulder length hair, pale skin and was wearing a dusky pink suit jacket, a summer dress, flat black open sandals and... luminous turquoise socks.

Needless to say I almost dipped her back and gave her a snog in the middle of the pavement. My only question- mad, colour blind or funktastic?

Ethan Hawke

12:09 / 15.09.03

Not the manner of dress but the accessory, in this case: Friday, I was going home from work and this dude got on the train at Court St. He looked sort of like a darker Iggy Pop, and he was dressed from head to toe in black - slacks, shirt, boots, belt, sunglasses, etc. In his hand, he held a Sno-Cone, saturated with red, yellow, and blue syrups, neatly aligned. He munched on it for the entire subway. That's ROCK. Or something.

Gypsy Lantern

12:52 / 15.09.03

Saw a puzzling character the other week at the cinema. A fairly ordinary looking bloke in his late 40s, wearing quite plain and nondescript clothes. You wouldn't have given him a second glance if it wasn't for the blue peter badge pinned to the lapel of his coat like it was his pride and joy.

He fits into the same category as another guy in his 60's I spotted a few years ago - completely ordinary looking old bloke walking down the road, nothing unusual about him apart from his bright pink lipstick.

pixilated

20:17 / 15.09.03

'twas a chilly night out, not too long ago -- cold enough for a trench coat, y'know? this gentleman -- must have been in his sixties -- whizzed by me on his bike... seemed determined to be getting somewhere, not just wandering around idly in circles or anything. so here was this tiny skinny little man, close-cropped white hair and all, and while everyone else was burrowing their faces in their coat collars, he was wearing a skimpy white hanes tank top and even skimpier tropical print hot pants. i mean tiny tiny tiny pants! in bright orange, green, pink...the whole deal. i probably would have dismissed him as just another oddly dressed new yawker, if it weren't for the fact that he had also bedecked himself in rounds and rounds of metallic red christmas tinsel.

Grand Panjandrum of the Pointless

22:12 / 15.09.03

Lots of odd ones in my neck of the woods. We have one bloke who dresses entirely in bedsheets, held together by safety pins + wears a turban. He is often seen out and about confusing the tourists, along with another guy who wears a variety of strange hats, including one with a stuffed duck attached to it. Rumour suggests he is some kind of conceptual artist.
Lastly there is a charming old gent by the name of Snowy, who collects for Guide Dogs for the Blind, dressed in British Army uniform circa 1860 + a top hat, with mice running around the brim.

Mr Tricks

20:23 / 18.09.03

At this point how about some Do's & Don'ts

Grand Panjandrum of the Pointless

21:26 / 18.09.03

A picture of Snowy Farr, mentioned above

pixilated

12:18 / 19.09.03

!!! !!! !!!
are those real mice?? i wasn't sure at first... but good gosh golly gee look at that pic! do they ever fall off? i'd imagine he can't walk very fast with those little souls running around up there...

pomegranate

14:35 / 19.09.03

there's more than one guy around chicago who has long hair and a beard and dresses like jesus, complete w/carrying around a large cross (tho' not actual size) as accessory. i've seen them on the el, sorry, train. not lately though.

Grand Panjandrum of the Pointless

19:48 / 19.09.03

The mice are definitely real- I've seen them at close quarters several times. They didn't ever seem to have too much trouble hanging on- but then he tends to spend a lot of his time standing around in Market Square shaking a tin.

Olulabelle

10:35 / 22.09.03

Yes, I've seen him too. He's been there for years and years - since I was little, and he's always had mice. I seem to recall that at one point he also had doves.

Ria

20:30 / 24.09.03

I knew through a homeless meal and around town a man about fifty, coke bottle glasses, physically fit, Asperge's syndrome type. he would come into a local new age store and go on long discourses about his theories of gematria and alchemy, chuckling a lot and introducing totally disparate elements. he had three outfits which he would wear alternately for months at a time:

a beige paramilitary-looking uniform.

a green solider's uniform (no helmet).

a monk's habit.

a little girl outfit complete with Muppet-like long blonde braids which made no attempt to look real.

I never got a clear answer from him about the costumes other than he had considered changing gender. I have not seen him in years.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:38 / 28.09.03

a personal one...

have just had lunch/coffee with friends who couldn't decide whether i looked oddly chic or like a local landmark/eccentric old bat. you decide:

boots
'white stripes' trousers (ie *bright* red flares)
black/white striped t-shirt, slash neck.
black adidas rip-off trackie top
similarly bright red 70s trench coat.

well?

Linus Dunce

16:50 / 28.09.03

I'd have to say oddly chic. But, if you have one, I would be careful not to use the hands-free set on your phone in public -- you'll look like you're talking to yourself and that may sway the vote.

Ria

19:14 / 28.09.03

I used to wear a pair of fire engine red jeans which a friend referred to as my whore of Babylon pants.

Tryphena Absent

19:50 / 28.09.03

Naughty of me to say but I think the striped T-shirt might push it in to mad land. I'd probably wear a tight black polo neck instead- more of the sleek to set off the red (though with that coat you could get away with anything).

Olulabelle

08:41 / 29.09.03

Boots. 'Boots'? Just 'boots'? Surely we need more info BiP, you can't just say 'boots'! Footwear is a vital ingredient in an outfit, and for example if you were wearing pale blue rhinestone studded cowboy boots (which I must make clear I am not advising) your outfit would say something very different than if you were wearing just the (imagined) black pair.

Mad land. LOL, I like it.

Goodness Gracious Meme

09:41 / 29.09.03

Apologies for lack of detail. unforgivable.

boots: big,black, veggie knee-high boots with thick soles.

Anna, yeah, tend to agree re the t-shirt, swopped it for an ancient 'I heart NY' skinny t and felt instantly safely on the right side of the mad land border...

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