Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04 - Page 206

sunnybunny · 03-25-2004, 02:00 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If you think a 12 year old could stitch together a suit the way a good suit is stitched, you've clearly never worn anything good. Trust me... that shit you see Pat Riley wearing... that ain't stitched by any kids.

Agreed! Only thing those twelve year olds are good for stitching is soccer balls, and then they're already on the verge of being too old. Being a child soccer ball stitcher is like being a fashion model...it doesn't pay to age.

Dave · 03-25-2004, 02:03 PM

For the cat avatar set:

A kitten born with four ears is desperately seeking a new home because her owners can’t afford to have her neutered

Alex_de_Large · 03-25-2004, 02:04 PM

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Originally posted by dtb Again, I say, "Daaaay-um".

Concur.

Hank Chinaski · 03-25-2004, 02:07 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If you think a 12 year old could stitch together a suit the way a good suit is stitched, you've clearly never worn anything good. Trust me... that shit you see Pat Riley wearing... that ain't stitched by any kids.

you sound like my mother in law (From Philadelphia. where? Northeast). "How can you tell a good fur? Once you see a bad one, you'll know a good one."

Oh, and Sebastian, I know you have your wars with the Guidos, now you can learn how a guido gets to be a Guido.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...ryid=1071&cs=1

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A&E mobs 'Gotti' as skein
Cabler greenlights series on gossip journo

By DENISE MARTIN

A&E is getting Gotti.
Cabler has picked up the pilot "Growing up Gotti" to series, ordering 20 half-hours of the project, which trails New York personality Victoria Gotti as she raises her three teenage sons and works as a gossip journo. A&E documentary programming veep Nancy Dubuc said the skein would be similar to MTV's celeb-centered hit "The Osbournes" but would have broader appeal.

"She is a single mom and very grounded. I think that because of that, more people will connect to her in a more relatable way than they do 'The Osbournes.' Her three teenage sons are really like the guys next door."

purse junkie · 03-25-2004, 02:07 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I don't even want to talk about womens' suits. Get that triacetate shit away from my sugar-smoothed skin.

I had an animal-rights-nut pal who did that--thought it was cruel to shear the sheep. I am convinced that her hideous suits, plus her environmentally-destructive-but-animal-friendly shiny vinyl shoes, cost her good jobs.

I say, shave the sheep.

baltassoc · 03-25-2004, 02:12 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
FWIW, Jos. A Banks always struck me as the Florsheim of suits. They're a decently put together, not very exciting, mid-range product, and are much favored by public servants and suburban dads everywhere. Slightly less "flair" than Brooks Brothers' (BB does have flair, in it's frumpy, pear-shaped way) and the fabrics tend to be less nice, but, based on long-term performance as observed in my Dad's wardrobe, JAB overall also has slightly higher quality of manufacture. A solid, basic suit source.

As a locally headquartered business, Banks gets a bit of a bump up in status here in Baltimore, but I have to say this is dead on. Their stuff tend to be well made for the price, but conservatively cut and without a lot of variation over time.

The plus of Banks is that someone straight out of law school can get set up with a full compliment of suits for work for about $1200-1500 and look respectable; the minus is that then that's it: you've got one of each and they're never coming out with a new one.

Beyond the suits, however, I wuold go elsewhere. Their business casual is UGGG LEEEE, and their ties and shirts are not well made for the price. Tyrwhitt and Lands End are better deals for shirts and ties at the high and low end of the Banks price spectrum respectively.

I have walked into rooms wearing a well chosen (I think, anyway), well pressed Banks suit, with a nice pair of properly shined Allen Edmonds, a Land's End broadcloth shirt and a nice tie and been complemented effusively by people whom I know spend enormous amounts on clothes (I think that there may be nothing worse than having a partner drag you along on a shopping trip to kill time while waiting for a jury at the end of a trial out of town, especially when said partner drops more in a single boutique in an hour than he pays you in a week.).

Alex_de_Large · 03-25-2004, 02:13 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
No, I'm not gay, and I found my wife's Tonight Show appearance on the internet.

http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/leno/index.html

Click on the first item on the main screen "Kevin in Hollywood."

Dude, your wife looks an awful lot like Kevin Smith. She should shave...

sunnybunny · 03-25-2004, 02:14 PM

Her boob is just freakish....

www.awfulplasticsurgery.com

purse junkie · 03-25-2004, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
It's actually a sugar-derivative, which can't be said for aspartame or sacchrine (sp?). One thing splenda has in its favor in terms of replacing sugar in recipes is that it behaves like sugar when cooked (i.e. it melts at the same temperature, etc.).

If a food product has be engineered to "behave" like something real in order to be ingested, it shouldn't be eaten. It's an abomination against good food. Either accept your desires as they are and enjoy the simple sensual pleasure of a chocolate torte with real sugar in it, or live your joyless sugarless lives with a lame piece of fruit for dessert, for God's sake!

sebastian_dangerfield · 03-25-2004, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you sound like my mother in law (From Philadelphia. where? Northeast). "How can you tell a good fur? Once you see a bad one, you'll know a good one."

Oh, and Sebastian, I know you have your wars with the Guidos, now you can learn how a guido gets to be a Guido.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...ryid=1071&cs=1

Northeast Philly is not Philly. I don't know what it is, but it is not the city I live in. I hate the NE.

There you go, Paigs... you got me being all judgmental and snooty.

Alex_de_Large · 03-25-2004, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield There you go, Paigs... you got me being all judgmental and snooty.

Did you just call her Paigs?!? -shudder-

Hank Chinaski · 03-25-2004, 02:25 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Northeast Philly is not Philly. I don't know what it is, but it is not the city I live in. I hate the NE.

that's extreme. I'm going to go out on a limb and bet you are a Jewish kid who's grandparents lived in NE, but you were raised mainline.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 03-25-2004, 02:25 PM

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Originally posted by purse junkie

I say, shave the sheep.

I thought this was Sebby when I first read it.

LessinSF · 03-25-2004, 02:41 PM

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Originally posted by sunnybunny
Her boob is just freakish....

www.awfulplasticsurgery.com

Collecting substitute pics for your honey?

sebastian_dangerfield · 03-25-2004, 02:42 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
that's extreme. I'm going to go out on a limb and bet you are a Jewish kid who's grandparents lived in NE, but you were raised mainline.

Wrong on all counts.

ETA: Hank, how could you figure me MOT? Have I not explained I'm a lapsed Catholic enough times?