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If you were a fashion dictator...

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Smoothly

17:45 / 28.01.06

I'll raise you anyone at all wearing sunglasses on their forehead.
Last summer I saw a woman wearing two pairs of sunglasses. True story.

Tryphena Absent

23:56 / 28.01.06

Maybe she had a set for reading and a set for driving and nothing to carry them in?

Smoothly

14:36 / 29.01.06

Ahh, good point Nina. I hadn't considered that the pair on her head might have been her reading shades.

Madman in the ruins.

12:38 / 01.02.06

This really irks me.
Its young mums (part of the pack-it-in crowd) whos prambound infants have their downy hair pulled up into a topnot and bound with elastic bands. Giving the child the apperance of a pineapple. This is normaly complimented with pierced ears.

11 year old kids in Doors/Hendrix and now Nirvana T-shirts and Hoodies.

Chavtastic kids with their socks pulled up over their Burberry tracksuit bottoms (Its a shoplifters trick apparently) and the obligatory Rockport boots.

Smoothly

13:03 / 01.02.06

Yeah. Fucking chavs. I’m surprised they can get their tracksuit bottoms tucked into their socks, what with those electronic tags. Eh! Who’s with me?

11 year old kids in Doors/Hendrix and now Nirvana T-shirts and Hoodies.

How old do you have to be to wear one of those without it irking you? And what bands are acceptable for an 11-year-old to have on hir T-shirt/Hoodie?

Madman in the ruins.

13:19 / 01.02.06

well you have to wear one becuse the music speaks to you on some kind of level. And I'm not sure is Jim Morrisons shamanic-angst-bullshit really resonates with pre pubescents.

and I stand by what I said with the rockoprt/socks combo. It looks shit

Pot, Kettle.

and I stand by what I said with the rockoprt/socks combo. It looks shit

Except that isn’t what you said, all of two posts ago. You said you didn’t like the kids, then you told us what they wore, brainiac. Similarly, it would appear that you’re more intent on sounding off about young mums/”the pack-it-in crowd”, than talking about topknots, or children with topknots, or whatever.

If only you knew what you look like right now.

All Acting Regiment

05:43 / 02.02.06

Looking at my younger self and his needless whingeing about people wearing t-shirts of things they don't UNDERSTAND. Looking at Mr Odin. Extending the hand of sympathy (gloved).

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:21 / 02.02.06

But... if I as a youth had had an easy signifier that I was a CRIMINAL, then that would have been wonderfully rebellious. All I had was big coats...

Chiropteran

15:05 / 02.02.06

...if I as a youth had had an easy signifier that I was a CRIMINAL

Black gloves and a crowbar would have gotten the message across, I expect.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:41 / 02.02.06

Don't give Legba Rex ideas.

All Acting Regiment

03:33 / 03.02.06

{to self}...woo, yeah, rockin' the black gloves and the crowbar...woo...{/to self}

Eh? What? Nothing to see here.

gingerbop

14:49 / 03.02.06

Twins who are dressed the same by their parents. Not visually insulting, but quite an offensive way to treat your children.

All Acting Regiment

23:46 / 04.02.06

T-shirts with "Lad Phrases" on them. Quite a lot of FCUK stuff could fit the bill. I'm also thinking of one I saw that said "'ave it".

Equally, quotes from Max & Paddy lose a lot of their charm when paraded around on clothing. Something about overstating the point, I think. Little Britain t-shirts speak for themselves.

Tryphena Absent

01:14 / 05.02.06

I hadn't considered that the pair on her head might have been her reading shades.

I know someone who does.

pangloss

11:11 / 26.03.06

My (entirely hypocritical) pet hate is the kind of nondescript clothing that people wear because they're afraid of looking ridiculous. I'd much prefer people to try out different outfits, even if that means they're going to look like idiots two-thirds of the time.

But if I could eliminate anything by fiat, it would be men's goth clothing. I mean the kind of blue pvc stuff with chains added at random intervals. It always looks as though somebody has taken the materials left over from women's goth outfits, and just draped it round the male body any way possible. In charitable moments I imagine all this is just a plot to tempt the goths into cross-dressing.

*Alice

12:59 / 26.03.06

Short shorts.
They're alright on girls.. but not guys. They might as well just walk around in briefs.

Sauron

13:56 / 04.04.06

footballer's fat tie knots

Daemon est Deus Inversus

02:15 / 05.04.06

Women who wear fair-sized diamonds set in a nipple or bellybutton ring. This is fairly common in the United States. Since nobody would actually buy this, it invariably means that the woman jilted some Bozo, didn't return the ring, couldn't wear it anymore, then had the stone reset. Of course, the ban would only apply to non-dominatrixes who don't simultaneously wear some other item which indicates that the nipple or bellybutton ring is a trophy in the nature of a human scalp or ear.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

06:56 / 05.04.06

Yeah. Fucking chavs. I’m surprised they can get their tracksuit bottoms tucked into their socks, what with those electronic tags. Eh! Who’s with me?

You should write for the Daily Mail (UK 'newspaper'). I'm sure you'd get loads of work.

20:55 / 05.04.06

DeDi: I live in the US and have never seen this. I have, however, seen CZ, crystal, and other stones similarly set. Perhaps there is some fault in the loupe you are using to inspect strangers' gemstone nipple rings?

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:19 / 06.04.06

Harrison - Smoothly was sarcastically paraphrasing John Odin's sincere comments about "chavtastic kids" - it's Odin who should apply to Associated Newspapers.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

09:56 / 06.04.06

OK, thanks Flybs my mistake! Apologies Smoothly.

Odin, would you like me to give you the contact details for The Daily Mail human resources dept or would you prefer to write for The News Of The World?

Smoothly

10:25 / 06.04.06

No worries, Harrison. All my attempts at irony seem to carry the opposite of the intended meaning at the moment, ironically. And your heart was in the right place.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

10:29 / 06.04.06

I wouldn't let it stop you though Smoothly. It's not yr fault if people (including me) are vacant!!!

lord nuneaton savage

14:11 / 06.04.06

The current craze for veeeery skinny jeans is no bad thing. I have a pair myself and they give marvellous silouhette when worn with a good pair of winklepickers.
Buuuut...

Wearing them with big, white Nike Classics makes you feet look like giant pillows. Winklepickers or bust, gents.

Ganesh

21:44 / 06.04.06

The current craze for veeeery skinny jeans is no bad thing.

Have you been talking to Creepy Sex Pest Syed from The Apprentice?

lord nuneaton savage

10:21 / 07.04.06

Not to my knowledge. I don't watch it I'm afraid.

Shrug

13:49 / 07.04.06

I'm not sure what I'd ban (maybe Ben Sherman shirts or t-shirts with oh so jokey ha ha my side are splitting slogans as Legba suggests) but if I was a fashion dictator everyone would have to wear hats by Philip Treacy at least one day a week. It'd be much better than casual Fridays imho.

Nocturne

14:20 / 08.04.06

I'd ban these.

Practical, steel-toed workboots are just fine, but these soft and dandy 'boots' are completely useless. I laugh so hard when I see city kids with soft, uncalloused hands wearing these. And thinking they're cool. Puh-leaze.

Changed the link, hope it works now.

All Acting Regiment

09:26 / 10.04.06

Wearing what? Invalid URL's?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:37 / 10.04.06

I'd ban from life anyone either deliberately or accidentally wearing any form of trouser that exposes the top of their crack. There is just no excuse.

Smoothly

12:22 / 10.04.06

Never fancied a pair of these Lee Coopers then, Flowers?

The Natural Way

09:48 / 14.04.06

I wear sunglasses on my head all the time. So does my. girl. friend. I think it looks fine. So many criticisms of clothes, esp male ones, seem to centre around issues like practicality and utilitarianism. Smoothly, does the sg's on head thing piss you off because it's so self-consciously intended to look cool and do nothing else?

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