How to know when you're too old for your clothes - Page 2

Peach Wookiee · January 26 2013, 05:47 PM

I know I commit fashion faux pauxs with my sweatshirts and sweatpants, but at this point I don't give a rip. If they get messed up, I don't get too upset. And considering I take care of little kids and my mother, they're going to get messed up. I also have no choice but to wear sneakers most of the time.

Sector 7 · January 27 2013, 04:04 AM

Rhubarbodendron wrote:

Smellincoffee wrote:

I turn 28 today.

Happy Birthday!!!

and #12 (my personal #1) wearing these horrible baggy pants with the bottom dangling around the wearer's knees ought to lead to immdiate castration in order to avoid this perversion to be passed on to any (unlikely as this might seem) offspring.

Happy Birthday, Smellincoffee!

I remember when those cute running shorts were in fashion, leaving so much eye candy for a gay guy. Today, it is the "sagger" look... jeans belt hanging below the bum. If girls can wear Daisy Duke short shorts, then guys can wear saggers. I like my eye candy, too!

Rhubarbodendron · January 27 2013, 08:47 AM

I rather prefer a male bottom packed up nicely and firmly. It doesn't have quite the same appeal if a pair of mealworm-white bulges wobbles above a belt..(or unmentionables that truely live up to their name)

Compare:

Emher · January 27 2013, 09:44 AM

I hate the backwards hat, but I sometimes have to use it practically at work to act as a sweatband when I have goggles on.

Even worse is people who have a hat on and driving at the same time. It just irks me. And it's connected with a category of "driver" I'd rather not be connected with.

Also, sweatpants, really? I haven't worn sweatpants outside of working out since I was 15.

Collingwood Nick · January 27 2013, 12:09 PM

31 and I wear my baseball caps backwards, thank you. Sometimes (so as to fit in with the young crowd) I wear it sideways.

MacLeod · January 27 2013, 04:56 PM

I must be rather sad, in the fact that I wear clothes that are comfortable wear and don't try to strangle me, squeeze me etc...

Mr. Laser Beam · January 27 2013, 04:59 PM

The only time I wear baseball caps is when I'm at a baseball game, and in those instances, I always wear it forward.

As for clothes? When I'm not working, I also rock a baseball motif, at all times. Sweaters in cold weather, T-shirts in warm. Often baggy.

Gary7 · January 27 2013, 08:17 PM

Mr. Laser Beam wrote:

You have to believe in fashion in order to commit a faux pas against it. Not always going to happen.

You can choose not to believe in a speed limit, yet still commit a violation by exceeding it there, friend.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it is no license for breaking the rules (hard or soft). And wow, some people really do make quite a go of it with fashion. I agree with Teacake that most men don't know what fashion is, only what's extremely comfortable or very convenient--for them. Once in a while they collide with accepted style...

Pingfah · January 27 2013, 08:23 PM

I'm 37, but i'm in a jam band, so my hair is OK apparently.

Any age is too old to wear a cap backwards, or any other item of clothing for that matter.

Mr. Laser Beam · January 27 2013, 08:28 PM

Gary7 wrote:

most men don't know what fashion is, only what's extremely comfortable or very convenient--for them.

That's probably right. And I prefer it that way. Rules? What rules?

srsly though, I'm not trying to be deliberately obtuse, but I do take issue with the concept of 'rules' in fashion, as if there's things that I am required to wear just because everyone else is. Like I said, I just wear normal black pants, plus T-shirts (in warm weather) and sweaters (when it's cold). Those things will always be "permissible" to wear, they are outside all considerations of style that I can see. So there is no danger it will run into such arbitrary and shallow definitions like "fashion".

JoeZhang · January 27 2013, 08:36 PM

MacLeod wrote:

I must be rather sad, in the fact that I wear clothes that are comfortable wear and don't try to strangle me, squeeze me etc...

Surely there is a middle ground between "so tight I can see your bollocks" and "I made this out of a potato sack"?

JoeZhang · January 27 2013, 08:38 PM

Collingwood Nick wrote:

31 and I wear my baseball caps backwards, thank you. Sometimes (so as to fit in with the young crowd) I wear it sideways.

Baseball caps have a particular significance in american culture I'm not qualified to comment on - however in the UK, expect for a short period where they were very popular in the 1990s, you are now most likely to see them on:

1) That guy in a rain-coat hanging around outside a school

2) An offender on a work gang

3) People fishing

Mr. Laser Beam · January 27 2013, 08:52 PM

^ I wear caps during games because I have to - otherwise my head will become burned. Not having hair, and all that.

Rhubarbodendron · January 27 2013, 09:30 PM

not to mention the risk of someone confusing it with the ball...

ducks and hides behind the thread

Mr. Laser Beam · January 27 2013, 09:56 PM

^ I get so few bald jokes (it seems that guys who have a *little* bit of hair get more ridicule than us baldies!) that I will actually laugh at that.

January 26 2013, 05:47 PM	#16
Peach Wookiee Cuddly Mod of Doom Location: Peach Wookiee	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes I know I commit fashion faux pauxs with my sweatshirts and sweatpants, but at this point I don't give a rip. If they get messed up, I don't get too upset. And considering I take care of little kids and my mother, they're going to get messed up. I also have no choice but to wear sneakers most of the time. __________________ Peach's Websites http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1373040/ http://peachwookiee.deviantart.com/ http://peachwookieesparty.blogspot.com/ Check them out!

January 27 2013, 08:47 AM	#18
Rhubarbodendron Fleet Captain Location: Milky Way, outer spiral arm, Sol 3	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes I rather prefer a male bottom packed up nicely and firmly. It doesn't have quite the same appeal if a pair of mealworm-white bulges wobbles above a belt..(or unmentionables that truely live up to their name) Compare: __________________ Eve is the revised, improved and updated version of Adam [Helen Vita]

January 27 2013, 09:44 AM	#19
Emher Admiral Location: Sweden	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes I hate the backwards hat, but I sometimes have to use it practically at work to act as a sweatband when I have goggles on. Even worse is people who have a hat on and driving at the same time. It just irks me. And it's connected with a category of "driver" I'd rather not be connected with. Also, sweatpants, really? I haven't worn sweatpants outside of working out since I was 15. __________________ "I am who I am. Someone has to be."-Brendan Gleeson as Reynald in Kingdom of Heaven.

January 27 2013, 12:09 PM	#20
Collingwood Nick Vice Admiral	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes 31 and I wear my baseball caps backwards, thank you. Sometimes (so as to fit in with the young crowd) I wear it sideways. __________________ I like you, lets be friends

January 27 2013, 04:56 PM	#21
MacLeod Vice Admiral Location: Great Britain	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes I must be rather sad, in the fact that I wear clothes that are comfortable wear and don't try to strangle me, squeeze me etc... __________________ On the continent of wild endeavour in the mountains of solace and solitude there stood the citadel of the time lords, the oldest and most mighty race in the universe looking down on the galaxies below sworn never to interfere only to watch.

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January 27 2013, 04:59 PM	#22
Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Location: The visitor's bullpen	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes The only time I wear baseball caps is when I'm at a baseball game, and in those instances, I always wear it forward. As for clothes? When I'm not working, I also rock a baseball motif, at all times. Sweaters in cold weather, T-shirts in warm. Often baggy. __________________ It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

January 27 2013, 08:23 PM	#24
Pingfah Admiral Location: Cornwall	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes I'm 37, but i'm in a jam band, so my hair is OK apparently. Any age is too old to wear a cap backwards, or any other item of clothing for that matter. __________________ I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. Freddie Mercury

January 27 2013, 08:52 PM	#28
Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Location: The visitor's bullpen	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes ^ I wear caps during games because I have to - otherwise my head will become burned. Not having hair, and all that. __________________ It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

January 27 2013, 09:30 PM	#29
Rhubarbodendron Fleet Captain Location: Milky Way, outer spiral arm, Sol 3	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes not to mention the risk of someone confusing it with the ball... ducks and hides behind the thread __________________ Eve is the revised, improved and updated version of Adam [Helen Vita]

January 27 2013, 09:56 PM	#30
Mr. Laser Beam Fleet Admiral Location: The visitor's bullpen	Re: How to know when you're too old for your clothes ^ I get so few bald jokes (it seems that guys who have a little bit of hair get more ridicule than us baldies!) that I will actually laugh at that. __________________ It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.