Fashion fads we love to hate

Macheath · Feb 12, 2009

anon` said:
Bow ties, my friend. Bow ties.

:arated:

Ironic that in modern stereotypes, a man who prefers a bow tie to a necktie is seen as fussy and fastidious, when bows are actually less cumbersome than a long piece of fabric dangling from your neck.

Diamondback · Feb 12, 2009

What's wrong with lab coats if you're goin' for the "geeky Poindexter/Poindextress" look, anyway?

Tomasso · Feb 12, 2009

Young single docs have been known to parade around their hospital's neighborhood in work garb with hopes of meeting women. I've observed it to be quite effective.

Doc · Feb 12, 2009

Dimondback,
Never would have thought Dexter’s Laboratory would be a Mecca of style but maybe it is. hehe

Tomasso,
Yes you're exactly right. Maybe I should forgo the usual crocs, dicky shorts and mesh shirt for the lap coat and see where it gets me. lol

All,
Last week I went looking for shoes and I couldn’t find any rounded toes. What’s the consensus on the “new” square toe men’s shoes? I even saw some very pointy toe “dress” shoes. Reminded me of cowboy boots.

I don’t want to sound ostentatious but where has the class gone?

LaMedicine · Feb 12, 2009

Doc said:
Lastly, and I know no one has said this, the dreaded pant suit! Women please I plead with you please don’t wear one! Hillary can’t pull it off, no women can. Humm I remember a photo of Janet Reno wearing a pant suit with jack boots (heheh maybe not but one could be safe to say she might have).

Well, I hold an admin postion in my hospital so I am always in business casual and lab coat. And I respond to code blue when I have to. I have no intention of running down the corridors in skirts and heels, and I don't want someone accidentally dropping something lethal on my legs exposed below the skirt hemline--so, pant suits are a must for me lol lol lol

Nick D · Feb 12, 2009

Doc said:
All,
Last week I went looking for shoes and I couldn’t find any rounded toes. What’s the consensus on the “new” square toe men’s shoes? I even saw some very pointy toe “dress” shoes. Reminded me of cowboy boots.

'Elf-shoes' are about the only option here, and why I haven't bought a new pair of shoes since I moved here. If they don't come to a needle point they're chopped off to a chisel point (with the same ridiculous length, mind you.) I once saw a man almost not be able to make it to the top deck of a double-decker bus because the toes of his shoes were so long.

just_me · Feb 12, 2009

Doc said:
OH yea Crocs SUCK!

So, don't wear them.

Feraud · Feb 12, 2009

just_me said:
So, don't wear them.

Most don't. That is why they complain about 'em.

John in Covina · Feb 12, 2009

The fashion wise have continued to say that Ugg boots for women is out of date yet here in So Cal the trend still continues with wild abandon.

Edward · Feb 12, 2009

Nick D said:
'Elf-shoes' are about the only option here, and why I haven't bought a new pair of shoes since I moved here. If they don't come to a needle point they're chopped off to a chisel point (with the same ridiculous length, mind you.) I once saw a man almost not be able to make it to the top deck of a double-decker bus because the toes of his shoes were so long.

I've noticed the same pointy and squared trend in the mainstream fashion places here in London, though the old dependables like Clarks still hold to a classic toe-shape in their brogues and Oxfords.

Paisley · Feb 12, 2009

Doc said:
Lastly, and I know no one has said this, the dreaded pant suit! Women please I plead with you please don’t wear one! Hillary can’t pull it off, no women can. Humm I remember a photo of Janet Reno wearing a pant suit with jack boots (heheh maybe not but one could be safe to say she might have).

How about if we wear what we like and you wear what you like.

ortega76 · Feb 12, 2009

Doc said:
Lastly, and I know no one has said this, the dreaded pant suit! Women please I plead with you please don’t wear one! Hillary can’t pull it off, no women can. Humm I remember a photo of Janet Reno wearing a pant suit with jack boots (heheh maybe not but one could be safe to say she might have).

There's a fairly lengthy thread that covers this in the Suit section of the Lounge.

http://thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=3103

And a related topic.

http://thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=5905

ortega76 · Feb 12, 2009

Macheath said:
:arated:

Ironic that in modern stereotypes, a man who prefers a bow tie to a necktie is seen as fussy and fastidious, when bows are actually less cumbersome than a long piece of fabric dangling from your neck.

Several years ago, Esquire published a comedic article by David Sedaris where he writes about his attempt to dress better. He lets his father talk him into a bow tie and feels emasculated. He wrote that it was worn by old men and it was a symbol of lost virility. I've always seen the bow-tie as something worn by the inteligentsia, the philosophers, the artists.

Feraud · Feb 12, 2009

ortega76 said:
There's a fairly lengthy thread that covers this in the Suit section of the Lounge.

http://thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=3103

That is not the place for anyone to start complaining about ladies in pant suits..

Fletch · Feb 12, 2009

ortega76 said:
Several years ago, Esquire published a comedic article by David Sedaris where he writes about his attempt to dress better. He lets his father talk him into a bow tie and feels emasculated. He wrote that it was worn by old men and it was a symbol of lost virility. I've always seen the bow-tie as something worn by the inteligentsia, the philosophers, the artists.

No contradiction with lost virility these days. There's a widely held assmuption that cerebral activity allows the Vital Fluids to atrophy.

Then there's the simple geometry of the situation.
"It's the truth that you should never trust anybody who wears a bow tie. Cravat's supposed to point down to accentuate the genitals. Why'd you wanna trust somebody whose tie points out to accentuate his ears?"
- Doc Wilson, in David Mamet's State and Main (2000)

But where does this leave the short-tied high-waisted man of the 30s and 40s vs the latter-day long-tied, low-waisted man?

Tomasso · Feb 12, 2009

ortega76 said:
David Sedaris... lets his father talk him into a bow tie and feels emasculated.

Emasculated? Sorry Dave, that train left the station a long time ago.

ortega76 · Feb 12, 2009

Feraud said:
That is not the place for anyone to start complaining about ladies in pant suits..

Oh, I am in agreement with you. I was just pointing someone toward a more in depth discussion.

ortega76 · Feb 12, 2009

Fletch said:
No contradiction with lost virility these days. There's a widely held assmuption that cerebral activity allows the Vital Fluids to atrophy.

Then there's the simple geometry of the situation.
"It's the truth that you should never trust anybody who wears a bow tie. Cravat's supposed to point down to accentuate the genitals. Why'd you wanna trust somebody whose tie points out to accentuate his ears?"
- Doc Wilson, in David Mamet's State and Main (2000)

But where does this leave the short-tied high-waisted man of the 30s and 40s vs the latter-day long-tied, low-waisted man?

Out of balance for the latter. Everything in modern times points to the groin as the center of modern thought (or lack thereof) and culture.

Fletch · Feb 12, 2009

Which suggests a catchy title for a neo-classicist cultural thinky-think book: Going Against the Groin.

Naaa, I don't like it.

just_me · Feb 12, 2009

Fletch said:
Which suggests a catchy title for a neo-classicist cultural thinky-think book: Going Against the Groin.

Naaa, I don't like it.

SNORK!!! lol

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