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Mercury Hat wrote:I like the people who go outside in skirts/shorts and short sleeves, then complain when they're cold in 50 degree weather .
I've actually told a couple of people to either stop whining or put some clothes on. I said this once to a teenaged girl at a coffee shop (She also annoyed me by giving the clerk her money, then taking her change and counting out a bunch of pennies so she could get a one instead of 94 cents, then realizing she needed change for the bus and asking the clerk to split the one...), and once to a friend of mine. Both times I've said it, they just glared at me for a few seconds and started talking to someone else.
Vorticus wrote:Weird, you want to see weird? Just take a look a what I wear. I clash Hawaiian shirts with "Cat in the Hat" style hats and colorful surf shorts.
Thank you Vort. Thank you so much for this. I think reading this will totally make Zwuh burn his shirts for good.
I will learn him that the fashion rule of thumb with Hawaiian shirts is that you don't wear them unless you're a) Hawaiian or b) in Hawaii.
I'm just making up for the rest of you who have the audacity to call earthtones "colors".
I have pants of almost every colour except pink and purple.
Red, orange, yellow, flourescent green, blue (jeans), khaki, black. And multicoloured pajama pants, too. Whee!
I have skirts different colors (Blue, other blue, green, brown, black, purple...is that all? I think so...I need red, white, yellow, pink...all the others!) but only one color pants. Jeans. And they're too faded. I prefer them darker.
Oh, I do have my black work pants, but they suck, so I'm not counting them!
Vorticus wrote:Weird, you want to see weird? Just take a look a what I wear. I clash Hawaiian shirts with "Cat in the Hat" style hats and colorful surf shorts.
Thank you Vort. Thank you so much for this. I think reading this will totally make Zwuh burn his shirts for good.
I will learn him that the fashion rule of thumb with Hawaiian shirts is that you don't wear them unless you're a) Hawaiian or b) in Hawaii.
I'm just making up for the rest of you who have the audacity to call earthtones "colors".
There's a lot room on the color pallate between earthtones and radioactive eye poison.
Ian Moulding wrote:I've actually told a couple of people to either stop whining or put some clothes on. I said this once to a teenaged girl at a coffee shop (She also annoyed me by giving the clerk her money, then taking her change and counting out a bunch of pennies so she could get a one instead of 94 cents, then realizing she needed change for the bus and asking the clerk to split the one...), and once to a friend of mine. Both times I've said it, they just glared at me for a few seconds and started talking to someone else.
Stopped whining, though.
So to recap, you're talking young women into putting on MORE clothing.....
You guys have lots of different colors of pants, I have lots of different colors of shirts.. Every color of the rainbow. Even though my wardrobe is still dominated by 50% black. (No Hawaiian either)
I'd say I'm of the hoodie wearing variety, but only if I'm outside and it's cold. It comes off as soon as I get inside. And I'd wear my ipod earbuds, but my ipod broke, just like everybody's ipod breaks eventually.
Oh and whether it's inside or outside, hot or cold, or freezing, it's always shorts for me.
Oh I have multicoloured shirts too, don't you worry.
But I always giggle about my pants. I even put them on the shelf in rainbow order, just to amuse myself.
Ah, rainbow pants.
There would be no need for other pants when you have UBERPANTS!
And you'd have enough scraps to make several pairs of uberpants. If you do it right, you will have no leftover scraps and exactly the same number of pants you had to begin with, except newly uber.
Perhaps.
But I am terrible when it comes to sewing (and I fear sewing machines - I SAW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GRINCH'S DOG!).
I'd hate to only have one pair of pants. What would I do on laundry days?
...probably just hang around the house in my underwear, actually.
When I was 13-19, spiking your hair, wearing a black leather jacket, and listening to Judas Priest or Ratt was cool.
Although, somehow I managed to make it not cool when I did it.
Sorta pisses me off though. I'm extrememly "anti-cool". Basically, I don't like being with the masses. Alas, then EVERYONE starts doing it, and you're just back in with the masses. It's not about "being rebelious". It's because, as has pissed off my parents most often, I'm an individualist.
I wore a hoody back a few years ago because it was COMFORTABLE.
Now I have to wear my big black jacket.
At least winter is pretty much over, so I can walk around in a t-shirt again.
You're still being moved by the masses. If you want to wear a hooded sweatshirt, why stop just because other people have discovered it's comfort? Anti-cool is just as trendy as cool.
Kinda like how punk kids try to rebel from what's trendy so they can fit in with other punk kids. Their mohawk symbolizes conformity to an image just as much as it symbolizes hatred of what's defined as popular.
Subversiveness itself is a commodity these days. I mean, a mowhawk is rare enough and enough of a pain in the ass to put together where it's still a pretty big fuck you to polite society, but yeah, in the end it's just part of another image that's been packaged and sold, the original meaning scrubbed away. I dunno. I guess you try to be what you think you are.
yeahduff wrote:You're still being moved by the masses. If you want to wear a hooded sweatshirt, why stop just because other people have discovered it's comfort? Anti-cool is just as trendy as cool.
Thats what I'm saying. Its a pain in the ass because no matter WHAT you do someone else has made it a fad.
I'd like to think I'm anti-cool. I've actually never bought clothes in my life, except for shoes WITH REALLY BIG HEELS, and well, a few tops that I could wear for work-situations. Most of these were chosen by my ex-boyfriend anyway. I'm basically someone that gets handmedowns and old clothes and stuff their mother buys them. I'm not super fussed about what I wear - I pretty much bank on looking exotic to get me what I want.
That said, I stand by my point about Hawaiian shirts. There are some fashion anomalies that should never have spread.
I realised a good while ago that I didn't have to dress up to go out to concerts because chances were good I was shagging (or my mates were shagging) whoever the heck was playing. I also didn't have to wear make up to attract guys because all my friends were models and, well, blokes would be coming over to our table anyway to buy us rounds, so what was the point. I think true coolness doesn't stem from fashion but comes from making the least effort possible and having really hot friends.
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