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15 Apr 2011, 6:13 pm

This is the whole problem with 'fashion'. I don't understand it and I never will.

People will wear either hideous clothes, or clothes in a ridiculous way, just because some numpty fashion designer tells them, or some 'musician' wears their clothes that way.

I can't understand why people wear clothes that are just plain ugly, and don't suit them at all, just because their friends are.

The 'pants on the ground' phemonenon is just plain daft. I'm female and I can honestly say when I see one of those boys/men wearing their trousers hanging off their arse I feel either pity for their lack of individuality, fear in case they 'pull a piece' on me, or just want to crack up laughing.

Fortunately that sort of behaviour doesn't go down well where I live now, where wellies and mucky jeans are the most popular outfit. Give me a nice farmer wearing a woolly jumper, or a country gent with a pair of green corduroys any day. You don't see many orange people round here either.



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15 Apr 2011, 6:24 pm

Henbane wrote:
This is the whole problem with 'fashion'. I don't understand it and I never will.

People will wear either hideous clothes, or clothes in a ridiculous way, just because some numpty fashion designer tells them, or some 'musician' wears their clothes that way.

I can't understand why people wear clothes that are just plain ugly, and don't suit them at all, just because their friends are.

The 'pants on the ground' phemonenon is just plain daft. I'm female and I can honestly say when I see one of those boys/men wearing their trousers hanging off their arse I feel either pity for their lack of individuality, fear in case they 'pull a piece' on me, or just want to crack up laughing.

Fortunately that sort of behaviour doesn't go down well where I live now, where wellies and mucky jeans are the most popular outfit. Give me a nice farmer wearing a woolly jumper, or a country gent with a pair of green corduroys any day. You don't see many orange people round here either.


I'm close to Suffolk too, but i'm not really in the sticks. Yeah, they don't have any individuality. I really don't care about fashion.


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15 Apr 2011, 6:47 pm

The thing I find funniest about it is that they are not posessed of the objectivity or foresight to be able to realise how stupid they are going to feel in a few decades' time, when their idiocy is no longer in fashion and their grandchilden are going to be looking at their photos.

You thought that 70s haircut or 80s wedding dress or 90s shoulder-padded dress were cringe-worthy?

Wait till the grandkids are squealing and pointing: " Mummy! Look! Grandad's trousers were falling down!"

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15 Apr 2011, 6:52 pm

all_white wrote:
The thing I find funniest about it is that they are not posessed of the objectivity or foresight to be able to realise how stupid they are going to feel in a few decades' time, when their idiocy is no longer in fashion and their grandchilden are going to be looking at their photos.

You thought that 70s haircut or 80s wedding dress or 90s shoulder-padded dress were cringe-worthy?

Wait till the grandkids are squealing and pointing: " Mummy! Look! Grandad's trousers were falling down!"

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I'd hope that would be the case. But I imagine things are only going to get worse. Some of the chavs dressing like this probably already have grandchildren.


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15 Apr 2011, 6:55 pm

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Some of the chavs dressing like this probably already have grandchildren.


You mean with all the teenage pregnancies?

I hadn't thought of that. :oops:

Well, let's just say the great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren, then.



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15 Apr 2011, 7:01 pm

all_white wrote:
benjimanbreeg wrote:
Some of the chavs dressing like this probably already have grandchildren.


You mean with all the teenage pregnancies?

I hadn't thought of that. :oops:

Well, let's just say the great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren, then.


Yeah. Jeremy Kyle seems to be the only person trying to sort them out lol.

Yep, ancestors.


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15 Apr 2011, 7:01 pm

These days I see far more guys wearing skin-tight skinny jeans rather than jeans that hang down to their knees. It may be a different trend, but I find it just as hideous.



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15 Apr 2011, 7:06 pm

How dare those people not conform to social norms. Aren't they aware they should be dressing in very narrowly approved ways?

Nobody else sees the irony of this thread on WrongPlanet?

Ok, fine.



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15 Apr 2011, 7:14 pm

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How dare those people not conform to social norms. Aren't they aware they should be dressing in very narrowly approved ways?

Nobody else sees the irony of this thread on WrongPlanet?

Ok, fine.


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The irony that I see is that this is the only thread that we can all agree on, except you Janissy, as the lone dissenter. :lol:

Pretty good for PPR. :P Edit: Nuts, they went and moved it. Now I am in unfamiliar territory. (runs back to PPR)


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15 Apr 2011, 9:01 pm

Indecent exposure laws should be more prevalent



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15 Apr 2011, 9:15 pm

Janissy wrote:
How dare those people not conform to social norms. Aren't they aware they should be dressing in very narrowly approved ways?

Nobody else sees the irony of this thread on WrongPlanet?

Ok, fine.

Just because we're autistic doesn't mean we have to be accepting of everything people do.



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15 Apr 2011, 9:42 pm

In my son's middle school, guys who wear their pants like that are called Droopy Drawers. The kids have embraced the nickname affectionately. It's not my thing, I won't be romantically involved with anyone who dresses like that, and my kids won't dress like that (they don't want to); but, beyond that... I really don't care. We wear cowboy hats, cowboy boots and flared jeans so we have a different type of fashion that's mocked by other people. Live and let live.



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15 Apr 2011, 9:59 pm

wefunction wrote:
We wear cowboy hats, cowboy boots and flared jeans so we have a different type of fashion that's mocked by other people. Live and let live.


Imho theres nothing wrong with the fashion in your local area, my city's fashion done give it a bad name with fake tan, shell suits, Pajamas as daywear. Theres also the scoccer tops of both half of the city red & blue, personal I dislike the blue half as a I perfare to wear an Liverbird on my chest :D



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15 Apr 2011, 10:52 pm

It's not the clothes we have issue with. It's the indecency. The fact that they are sliding down the wearer's rear end and showing their underwear and, in some cases, their buttocks. They're exposing themselves. That's the issue. The issue is not that we're prejudiced against any particular group that chooses to wear XYZ, but rather, the fact that XYZ is not covering ABC. I would have thought that was obvious. :roll:

The issue is with people who go out exposing themselves in an inappropriate manner. Whether it's a male wannabe gangster or a female chav whose skirt is riding low and whose thong is peeking out: it's verging on indecent.



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15 Apr 2011, 11:03 pm

all_white wrote:
It's not the clothes we have issue with. It's the indecency. The fact that they are sliding down the wearer's rear end and showing their underwear and, in some cases, their buttocks. They're exposing themselves. That's the issue. The issue is not that we're prejudiced against any particular group that chooses to wear XYZ, but rather, the fact that XYZ is not covering ABC. I would have thought that was obvious. :roll:

The issue is with people who go out exposing themselves in an inappropriate manner. Whether it's a male wannabe gangster or a female chav whose skirt is riding low and whose thong is peeking out: it's verging on indecent.


Taluke at da birds on lady's day in Aintree!! About Scallies I talked before about in PPR about there dress style & my mother's comments of comparing them to the Hitler Youth.



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15 Apr 2011, 11:16 pm

I see I'm not the only Brit who can't sleep...

...Or are you just an early bird? ;)

I am still scarred from seeing pics of Aintree. If you MUST wear a hat the colour of fluorescent puke and a dress the colour of fluorescent mauve, fine. But at least make sure said dress is a dress, not a top. And please remember to wear some panties. Any colour would be fine. Even if they're fluorescent lime green velvet. We really don't care. Any are better than none. :roll: