How to know when you're too old for your clothes
- Thread starter Gary7
- Start date
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.
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.
You can choose not to believe in a speed limit, yet still commit a violation by exceeding it there, friend.You have to believe in fashion in order to commit a faux pas against it. Not always going to happen.
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...
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".
Last edited:
Surely there is a middle ground between "so tight I can see your bollocks" and "I made this out of a potato sack"?
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
^ I wear caps during games because I have to - otherwise my head will become burned. Not having hair, and all that. 
not to mention the risk of someone confusing it with the ball...
ducks and hides behind the thread
ducks and hides behind the thread
^ 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.
^ I wear caps during games because I have to - otherwise my head will become burned. Not having hair, and all that.
I don't wear caps/hats that often, but If I do it's to shade my eyes if I'm not wearing sunglasses as I can get headaches in bright sunlight.
Yes, I call them "my jeans".
Yeah, it's called "that one early afternoon my pants actually fit."
I haven't worn jeans in 20 years. They're uncomfortable and I hate 'em.
^If they're uncomfortable you're wearing the wrong ones! 
Plus: they're durable, cheap, comfy, easy to clean 'stuff' off and can take anything your washer/drier does to them without looking worse for it, in fact; the more you wash 'em the better they look.
Plus: they're durable, cheap, comfy, easy to clean 'stuff' off and can take anything your washer/drier does to them without looking worse for it, in fact; the more you wash 'em the better they look.
^If they're uncomfortable you're wearing the wrong ones!
Plus: they're durable, cheap, comfy, easy to clean 'stuff' off and can take anything your washer/drier does to them without looking worse for it, in fact; the more you wash 'em the better they look.
Jeans are uncomfortable for me, no matter what the size.
Now I just buy black khaki pants from Target or Costco. Besides I can wear them to work and at leisure.
^If they're uncomfortable you're wearing the wrong ones!
Plus: they're durable, cheap, comfy, easy to clean 'stuff' off and can take anything your washer/drier does to them without looking worse for it, in fact; the more you wash 'em the better they look.
I love watching the European telling the American the joys of something so traditionally American!
But I'm with you, TD. I love jeans, especially now that they usually have just a tad of stretch to them.
^If they're uncomfortable you're wearing the wrong ones!
Plus: they're durable, cheap, comfy, easy to clean 'stuff' off and can take anything your washer/drier does to them without looking worse for it, in fact; the more you wash 'em the better they look.
I love watching the European telling the American the joys of something so traditionally American!
Well... they are "de Nîmes"
Oh: it's not about 'size' but about 'shape' (/cut/model/...).
pheeew^ 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.
I'm glad to hear that. Besides, many bald(-ish) men are quite sexy! Just think of Yul Brynner or a certain Enterprise Captain =)actually, they were invented by Jacob Davis, a gentleman from Poland, and made popular by Levi Strauss, a German (Bavarian, even). So Jeans are a quite European invention, on the wholeI love watching the European telling the American the joys of something so traditionally American!
The only thing I ever needed to know about jeans is this:
Money talks, but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk.
Give you young'uns a little time to work that one out.
Money talks, but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk.
Give you young'uns a little time to work that one out.