Velcro Shoes and Baseball Caps
- Dark pants, light shirt
- Light shirt, dark pants
- Dark shirt, light pants
- When in work attire, wear a t-shirt (I have to dress business casual)
- Wear a belt when you have belt loops
- Black socks for business attire, white socks for casual
That is about it.
There are times when I see someone wearing what I feel is just not right, and are very tempted to walk up to them and ask them "What made you wear that?"
There is a new guy on the train who only rides in the morning with us. He wears white velcro sneakers. I didn't even know they made velcro sneakers in adult sizes, but sure enough, there they are. Is it possible that I am behind the times and that fashion has made a comeback from the 80s? I DO remember seeing bell bottom jeans not too long ago.
I haven't always been in need of the fashion police, back in the 80s when I was a teenager, I wore my zippered parachute pants, my Ocean Pacific t-shirts, and my something-written-in-Japanese bandana. I could moonwalk and breakdance with the best of them. Stop laughing. I know very well that anyone over the age of 30 reading this knows exactly how it was. The girls either dressed like valley girls, Madonna wannabes, Olivia Newton John's Physical (leg warmers and all). Even the younger readers I would bet know how to dance the Electric Slide or dressed like Salt n Pepa. For the older ones, all I have to say is Disco. So just sit there and read and quit judging me.
Today, I couldn't tell you what is in fashion. I guess rude and too small t-shirts are part of it. I love walking up to some little teenager (like my daughters) and reading their t-shirts out loud (sometimes very loud). If the letters are very small, sometimes you have to get close and then state with your best Bobcat Goldthwait voice "NICE RACK!"
Hey, if it is in fashion and has words, everyone should read it. Ladies, keep on buying, I will keep on reading even if my eyes are bad...real bad...I may have to get real close.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). At what point do you grow out of fashion? At what point does it become wrong to wear velcro tennis shoes? At what point does it make it right to wear velcro sneakers? If your mother or grandmother wore velcro sneakers, you would think it was an excellent idea instead of straining their muscles tying their shoes. Additionally, who would say anything? Are you going to say "Grandma, those shoes are off the hook for some dope chick looking for a ride."
At what point does a baseball cap being worn backward make you look like a middle aged man trying to look cool? There are so many fashion dos and don'ts I really can't keep track. Maybe someone should a book about it. Of course, if they did, it would be out of date by the time it was released. Also, who are these fashion police? I have seen the "fashion police" t-shirts, but I am unsure as to how they enforce anything. I ask the fashion police (the ones wearing the t-shirts) but they look at me all weird and think I am in need of some drugs.
Did you know...
According to market research firm NPD Fashionworld, fifty percent of all lingerie purchases are returned to the store.
Comments
you never go out of fashion world unless u give it up. Fashion is expression of your feelings, anything under the sun can be called fashion! isn't it? who knows, u regular dresses can become fashion icon soon! ;)
I'm not sure if Dig magazine is near you or if it's just a Boston based free paper, but they had an article months ago which indicated when you needed to let things go. baseball hats backwards were deemed to be given up at the age of 27, having posters on the wall at the age of 23, and wearing a baseball jersey outside of a ballpark stops at 23 as well.
I agree with some of those, as my red sox posters have been replaced by those really old photos of the iron workers laying on the beams while building the empire state building, and I feel a bit foolish wearing my Sox jersey outside Fenway or outside a sports bar. =)