New Fashion Board 10-3-2003 - 11-7-2003 - Page 47

NotFromHere · 10-08-2003, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower

I chose Romeo Gigli to be my exclusive designer.

GGG chose Sean Jean, which is P Diddy's line, for those who do not know.

e/o chose either Alberta Ferretti of Narcisco Rodriguez.

brc chose Valentino.

Not From Here likes Valentino but thinks the clerks are bitches.

Not a bad start, but we could use some more responses. C'mon people. Help me out here - just this one last time . . .

For accuracy, and in no attempt to timmyize anything, my choices were Chanel, and if suit, Armani.
But I also like Valentino and as long as we're at it, Versace, before he was murdered, had the most amazing shoes.

evenodds · 10-08-2003, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
It never occurred to me until now that bnb showed up around these parts shortly after Erika got evicted from the Big Brother house?

You're saying "the brazenette" was really just a reality show??????

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-08-2003, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
You make a good point about using a driver's license to get into/out of Canada (I'm assuming -- I think you'd need a little more than that to get into the US from Mexico, but I don't know.) But US citizenship is most definitely NOT a requirement for obtaining a driver's license. My children's babysitter's daughter is not a US citizen (nor a resident), but she got a license by showing her passport as ID with no problem.

Odd that people think of a license to operate a motor vehicle as some sort of official sanction for your existence.

purse junkie · 10-08-2003, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Does anyone here remember the baseball style shirts you used to be able to buy at places like Champion? White torso with colored sleeves. 3/4 sleeves. Are these trying to make a comeback too or is it only with the admin staff at my office? They may be comfy for lounging in the house (although I don't like 3/4 sleeved anything) but not in public.....and not on 40ish chunky women.

They are indeed coming back. And 3/4 sleeves, like spandex, are indeed a difficult style for the chunky.

notcasesensitive · 10-08-2003, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
I would like to go on the record as stating that rugby shirts are not a good look unless you are playing rubgy. I curse Old Navy for making the effort to bring them back from a deserved grave. Okay, maybe on young guys they are okay. But only real rugbys with rubber buttons. A cheap plastic-buttoned rugby, like with all cheap clothing, is just plain wrong.

Does anyone here remember the baseball style shirts you used to be able to buy at places like Champion? White torso with colored sleeves. 3/4 sleeves. Are these trying to make a comeback too or is it only with the admin staff at my office? They may be comfy for lounging in the house (although I don't like 3/4 sleeved anything) but not in public.....and not on 40ish chunky women.

Shit, TF, you are so behind the styles that you are taking fashion trends from the 40ish chunky women in your office? Baseball shirts have come and gone. 2001. Teen punks. Slightly before the trucker ballcap came around.

And to PJ (I think), the rugby shirt Fabio has been on the American version, not the BBC version. Are you saying he's been booted from the US show? Not that I would watch it anyway, but my overwhelming hatred of him forces me to ask...

ThrashersFan · 10-08-2003, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Shit, TF, you are so behind the styles that you are taking fashion trends from the 40ish chunky women in your office? Baseball shirts have come and gone. 2001. Teen punks. Slightly before the trucker ballcap came around.

This is the South, darling, 9/11 hasn't even happened yet.

Anne Elk · 10-08-2003, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie
Yes, and now that they have gotten rid of Fabio-in-rugby-shirts, they actually have the right to criticize other people.

Fabio-in-rugby-shirts was on the TLC version which is not nearly as helpful, informative, or entertaining as the BBC2 original. I don't get any fashion tips from the TLC show, but have learned quite a few things from the gals on BBC America. Namely that pleated, tapered, trousers are bad and plunging necklines are good.

Anne
Someone should have nominated Fabio for a What Not to Wear makeover.

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-08-2003, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
(2) Series 2 of The Office airs on BBC America on Sunday night. Yay!

I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Atticus for posting about when the Office came out on DVD. My DVDs from Amazon arrived last night. A few hours or so of fun await me. Yay!

(NY GAs are welcome to borrow. for a small price and of course you will have to provide your ssn)

Bad_Rich_Chic · 10-08-2003, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
There are no circumstances under which cowboy boots are acceptable. None. I don't care if you live in Texas, Oklahoma or Soho. They always look stupid. Girls look so rEdiculous in them that I tend to laugh in their faces when they have them on.

You have seen me in cowboy boots. You did not laugh. You did not notice. Perhaps your comment should be amended to apply to Yankees in cowboy boots?

People look every bit as idiotic wearing English riding boots when riding wetern as they do riding english in western boots. And even more idiotic walking about on the street. And english boots get all mussed up if you wear them while mucking out the barn.

purse junkie · 10-08-2003, 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Shit, TF, you are so behind the styles that you are taking fashion trends from the 40ish chunky women in your office? Baseball shirts have come and gone. 2001. Teen punks. Slightly before the trucker ballcap came around.

And to PJ (I think), the rugby shirt Fabio has been on the American version, not the BBC version. Are you saying he's been booted from the US show? Not that I would watch it anyway, but my overwhelming hatred of him forces me to ask...

Yep, he's gone. Replaced by the only moderate improvement of a weak-chinned gent in pastel paisley. Goddammit, aren't there any male fashion critics who know how to dress?

ThrashersFan · 10-08-2003, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Fabio-in-rugby-shirts was on the TLC version which is not nearly as helpful, informative, or entertaining as the BBC2 original. I don't get any fashion tips from the TLC show, but have learned quite a few things from the gals on BBC America. Namely that pleated, tapered, trousers are bad and plunging necklines are good.

Anne

Yay -- pleats are not a good look. I also learned that telling my "pregnant" husband to tuck in his shirt and wear a belt was doing the opposite of what I wanted -- namely, a man with a belly should not tuck because it eccentuates the belly. See, I thought tucking and belting would show that he has a waist and thus detract from the belly. Not a huge belly, mind you, but a little out of whack with his build in general.

c2ed · 10-08-2003, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower

I chose Romeo Gigli to be my exclusive designer.

C'mon people. Help me out here - just this one last time . . .

Carolina Herrera. I love her suits, love her dresses, love her formal wear.

taxwonk · 10-08-2003, 05:11 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Since apparently you are unable to exert yourself to go over to the board in question, I have cut and will now paste the sole post on the board, which of course is his as he is the moderator:

I'm guessing that no, he has not gotten out and in fact he seems not even to have advanced any in his quest to get out. He's asking the same futile questions. It's even more pathetic than I would have thought, and I expected a lot of patheticness.

Thanks, Fringey. That was uncharacteristically helpful of you. I take back what said about the anorgasmia.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 10-08-2003, 05:11 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Yay -- pleats are not a good look. I also learned that telling my "pregnant" husband to tuck in his shirt and wear a belt was doing the opposite of what I wanted -- namely, a man with a belly should not tuck because it eccentuates the belly. See, I thought tucking and belting would show that he has a waist and thus detract from the belly. Not a huge belly, mind you, but a little out of whack with his build in general.

Sounds like the problem is really that he is wearing his pants too low, which usually goes with wearing them too tight (and therefore dropping the waist below the belly). Wearing your trousers around your upper hips works only if men are approximately model thin. Potbellied men should wear their trousers at their natural waists - meaning within about an inch of thier navels. And tuck in. And not wrench the waist/belt tight (or surrender to braces). Oddly, the waistline going straight across the wide belly doesn't emphasize it, as horizontal stripes would - it masks it.

Pleats are fine on just about any body type, so long as the pants fit. Most men wear their pants too tight (& low) at the waist, and so pleats look like crap.

Nothing makes you look fatter than wearing clothes in the size you think you are, rather than the size you are.

BR(Mr. insists he has a 36 inch waist - um, yeah. I told his tailor to be merciful and not tell him the truth, which is about 40)C

taxwonk · 10-08-2003, 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Your reading comprehension is poor. And failure to achieve orgasm is no reason (for women) not to have sex -- just ask your wife.

Oh, you made the jump to Paxil? How thoughtless of me to have forgotten. I'm still on a good vibe from your earlier post, so I'll let the wife comment slide, and just chalk it up to your bitterness at being over 30 and alone.