The Fashion Law
 

Okay, so we've been discussing anti sex laws and anti genital piercing laws, but what I want to know is this -- what fashion law would you propose? Have you ever seen someone and said "There ought to be a law!" Have you ever wanted to have something banished from wardrobes everywhere?

If you could make a law against one clothing item, what would it be?

Here's mine -- pleated pants that taper to the ankle. They don't look good on anyone -- if you have a pooch, the pleats make it look even bigger. If you have a big ol' flat butt, the pants draw attention to it. Pleated, tapered pants should be against the law!

We should agree on a certain cut off size for women (men too if you like) and then just make a one piece slip on shapeless general garment for everyone over that size . . . incentive to stay fit.

Will you be the first one modeling said shapeless garment?

Sure of the size fits :p

Or as an alternative, certain types of clothing could be sold only up to a certain size. If your size is bigger than the limit, then you won't be able to find certain things.

The first thing to go on the list should be spandex bike shorts. Just because it will stretch over your butt does not mean it looks good!

Next, shirts that expose the midriff. What are people thinking! There is no way that any sane person can look in a mirror and think, "Darn if this big roll of fat hanging over the front of my jeans isn't just sexy as heck...I think I'll show everyone!" yuck yuck yuck.

LOL . . or low waisted jeans. . .

Or wife beaters on fat men . ..

Well, I don't like to link "law" with "fashion" because "law" has a boring connotation, but...here goes. Ditto on the spandex thing...but not just spandex shorts, spandex anything. I know of few people who could wear spandex and look good, not only because it's tight and shows every little imperfection, but because it reminds me of those dorky outfits I used to wear to gymnastics in the early 90s...scary. As our house mother once said, "Spandex is a privilege; not a right."

Another thing I have to add is puffed sleeves or big shoulder pads...no no no! They make small boobs disappear, and they make ladies with large chests look like linebackers. Plus, even though they might "even out" your top half and make your derriere look smaller in theory, they really don't. I don't care what anyone says. I'm still P.O.'d about this dress my mom made me wear to a Christmas dance in 8th grade...it had (gasp!) puffed sleeves and a huge bow on the back. Eeeeeeeeeeeeegh...

Miniskirts or shorts that are wider than they are long.

Loooooooong acrylic nails with designs and/or jewels on them.

Guys in jean shorts, sorry that just doesn't fly and it will get your ass laughed at down here at Mercer . . .

mixing black and brown colors. makes me cringe.

ha, my coworker wore a gray and white sweater with brown pants and it made me cringe.

Wearing a fanny pack.

solid white tennis shoes. they make your feet look huge! and Hi Top shoes, I can't believe they still make these things!

Men in tank tops. I don't care how good their bodies are they look awful. Especially hairy men in tank tops.

Wearing navy blue and black together should be illegal.

Guys in cropped pants/capris. EWWW

Speedos should be illegal for fat guys. :eek:

I'm with Valkyrie on the tapered pants. NO ONE looks good in them.

Guys and jean shorts is another no-no. There's a guy in my class that does it - its bad enough that the guy has a pee-wee herman haircut, but the jeanshorts....noooooo!

oh, KR, agree with you too - skirts need to be longer than they are wide.

unless you can present a marriage certificate showing you are married to your first cousin AND proof of employment at walmart, you do not need a mullet.

I'm sorry if some of you wear this look because I KNOW it's popular... but I HATE HATE HATE the Ugh boots.. (ya know those ones with fur around the top like eskimo boots) and mini- mini skirts.. (ya know those previously mentioned ones that are wider than they are short) I mean seriously if it's cold put on some darn clothes JUST the boots aren't going to help you...

They will if she's turning tricks in the meat packing district.

Awwww you mean the guys can't wear the denim daisy dukes? ;)

Oh yes Spandex and Low rise pants are a PRIVLEDGE not a right!

Cargo pants that have any more than eight pockets need to go.

That means you, guy who sits next to me in my 10.

Huge, fluffed up bangs and socks with sandals-I STILL see this!

Ugly T-shirts

Dirty hair

Agree- guys in speedos

And yes, those fuzzy boots are an absolute eyesore.

YES TAPERED PANTS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!

I swear they only make tapered jeans for plus sized women. Seriously! I'm not expecting manufacturers to make ultra-extreme-I have no ass-so I can wear these-low rise jeans, but come on is it too much trouble to ask for a boot cut or flared pant? I think not!

Also people who wear white socks with black pants and black shoulds should be sentenced to life in prison! I hate that so much. I don't understand! Do they think they are Michael Jackson?

I hope no one gets up in arms about this...

No white below the waist before Memorial Day or after Labor Day.

More and more I am agreeing with this rule, much to my dismay.

Also yesterday I had a woman in her early forties shoppjng at job 2 (shoe store) for job interview shoes. She wanted to wear cordovan loafers (flats) with a crepe floral skirt and a pink shirt. NO NO NO.

definitely long arcylics with designs and jewels. YUCK! i go for arcylics but at least i have the good sense in keepng them right past the tip of my finger and keeping color a conservative color or french manicure.

Whoever said Spandex anything....right on! fahion police time!

YUC! YUCK! stretch pants YUCK! YUCK!

I would outlaw black socks worn with any type of shoe other than boots (or black loafers, etc..), also white socks with black shoes.. or really any colored socks at all for that matter.

Also, any type of jean that is tight around the ankles.. these look horrible on guys and girls.

Girls wearing tight shirts who should't be is just bad..

Also, wearing any mix of solid black/brown/navy should be a no no

Fake handbags should be outlawed also

Sorry if this offends people but I think that the styles from the 80's should stay in the 80's. Short skirts with scrunchy boots and an off the shoulder mesh top with a bright pink tank under is SERIOUSLY the most hideous thing I've ever seen. I kid you not there are girls who wear that outfit to bars around here! Throwback styles are cute but please limit the current trend to one per outfit!!!

"Just cause the make it in your size doesnt mean you can wear it"-that is a quote from a friend of mine when we see larger women wearing short skin tight stuff that is not flattering in the least.

and the snowboot things-I had a girl come interview wearing those boots(in pink) a SHORT denim skirt, a pink/white open back/spaghetti strap top, pearls(WTF?) with burgandy-tinted hair. She really looked like a hooker. I was so embarressed for her. Come on, this is a family restaurant you are applying for!

mine would be those colorful wife beaters on girls. A girl i work with who has the cutest figure, wears those, and it just doesnt not look good.

Even though the Eighties will always have a place in my heart, I absolutely agree with you, Otter. Those clothes had their time and place, but it's not here and it's not now. (though it's kind of a shame since I really rocked that Flashdance look)

ETA: The Flashdance look is what Otter was describing in her post. So called because the style was popularized in the 1983 movie, "Flashdance" (which was a huge deal when I was in high school, but most twenty-somethings probably have no idea what I was talking about).

Come on KR. Give us some credit. I know what flashdance is, and I have even seen it. Although I was 3 when it came out.

today being dress down day....
 

here are a list of the fashion violations in my office today:

1 spandex pants.....honey, your over 50- burn those pants and no, that t-shirt is not long enough to cover your butt

2. the tweety-bird t-shirt. After about age 10, you should no longer be allowed to wear large colorfull cartoon carechters on your body. (nor should you want too!)

3. brown pants, black shoes. 'nuff said.

4. men in sweat pants....EW!

5. men wearing jean shorts WITH white sneakers that I have been told get polished white once a week! (and crazy enough, this is not the same guy who is wearing the sweat pants)

6. If your button down shirt strethches so that the buttons bearly button and it shows your man nipples, you need not wear it!

7. Yellow sneakers. (and not like funky cool yellow sneakers- mustard colored ones from payless that have blacklaces and black soles)

8. any type of v-neck shirt on a male that exposes their chest hair.

9. dressing your dog to match your outfit. (yes, the ceo brings her dog in everyday and it matches what she is wearing!)

10. If you weigh over 200 lbs. do not ever wear gingham overalls...it makes you look like a giant tablecloth!

11. and finally.....the lady who is 56 yrs old who is wearing a t-shirt and is clearly not wearing a bra.....my eyes! my eyes! they're burning!

You guys with the anti-tapered pants sentiment crack me up. I remember as I was nearing the end of my college days the first flared and boot-leg pants were starting to appear in stores. I remember myself and all my friends being appalled...."EWWW Brady Bunch pants! Yuck, keep them in the 70s!!!!" We all swore that we'd never wear them, nobody else would either, and they'd never catch on again. In fact, I remember that my dad always used to hang onto clothes forever and I used to make fun of him for keeping this pair of cinnamon cord flares in his drawer (no he did not wear them thank God) and finally he let me throw them away. Imagine my amazement a couple of years later to walk into Abercrombie and see the IDENTICAL pants for $60!!!!! Needless to say, once flares were everywhere and all the fashionable young girls were wearing them, they suddenly looked a lot cuter and naturally my friends and I all succumbed.

My point is, 80s styles are coming back everywhere. Tapered pants will be an inescapable part of this. They may not be the same hideous acid-washed pleated things that we wore, but there will be nary a flare anywhere. And as soon as they start catching on with the little girls who are too young to remember them from the first time and the young celebrities, they'll spread like wildfire and everyone will be wearing them because flares will look passe.

PLEASE don't let them bring back acid washing or huge shoulder pads or "big hair!" though....PLEASE

The fashion police should seriously look at people who do not know how to dress appropriately for the occasion or place.

Yes, I am talking to you, teen girl in the ulltra short suede patchwork skirt and too-tight, too low-cut top AT CHURCH!!!

LOL, I don't care if tapered pants become the hottest thing since Ugg boots (which also should be against the law) -- I will never, ever wear them. They're ugly and matronly and I hate anything that has to do with the 80s.

Hey, did any of you used to tight roll your pants? I know a person who was still tight rolling her pants just a few years ago. WTF?

I did that to my jeans. I stopped when George Bush became President, George the First that is. :)

Hee! I used to tight roll my pants back in junior high. :D

How about high heels with jeans!
Those T-shirts with shoulder pads and little people/3 dimensional things all over them.


Ditto to tinydancer and inappropriat dress. THAT's a biggie and you see it everywhere.

While we're at it............................gold crowns. (teeth)

A lot of people around here wear heels with jeans, especially going out and the like. But of course they're not tapered jeans, and they're not crazy white pumps or anything. A lot of times it just looks like boots.