BS: Characteristic dress clones

Subject: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: GUEST,LEJ
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:04 AM

Is it just me or does dress clones get on your nerves ?
Take the village bore, tweed jacket with elbow patches, checked shirt and bow tie. Maybe an old hat thrown in.
The biker, fat, goat beard with shaved head black jeans and tee shirt, keys on a chain.
These people seem to have no character of their own so they think adopt someone they admire.

Any other ones come to mind ?

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:09 AM

Beards and Arran jumpers?

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:22 AM

'avn't seen an arran jumper for twenty odd years, although I've got two in the wardrobe.[ I think ]

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:49 AM

Chain mail, hauberk, and a Stetson. Sunny summer frock and logging boots. Birka and a thong.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Alice
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:59 AM

Pants hanging so low they are falling down with baseball cap backwards on the head.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Azizi
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:02 AM

men wearing a black or blue business suit a white dress shirt with a tie

women wearing comparable downtown business attire...

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: number 6
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:12 AM

Doesn't get on my nerves at all ... since a large majority of people are attired in their Sears/JC Penny garb (these are the people who are completely devoid of any expression, can't and dare not think outside the box) I find it refreshing to see these bikers, old throwback hippies refusing to change, generation x hippies, the old tweeds, old sailors, gypsy women, wicca women .. these are the people with something to express, the ones who think outside the box of norm.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Alice
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:22 AM

Well, we all dress for the norm of whatever group we want to fit into.
Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: number 6
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:30 AM

Agree Alice ... I just find the majority drabless norm rather boring and uninspiring ... the groups outside the norm ... I find their 'uniforms'and expressions of thought refreshing.

Humans tend to group into herds of 'likeness', more comfortable secure in thier own herd .... I find the more interesting herds outside of the normal drab majority.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: skipy
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:30 AM

Not me!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:30 AM

Nah, they're just thinking inside a different box!

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:47 AM

Hope your well number 6 and the family too. My dislike is very pretty young men who dress up as women and you only find out when it's too late. Remember coming in that night Israel won the Eurovision song contest in 1998 and my wife allowed me to sit with my mouth open and only told me later it was a man dressed up. Imagine going home with someone like that and "handling a very awkward situation".

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: number 6
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:02 AM

Divis .. we're doing fine and I hope you and yours are too ... your post brought to mind the movie "The Crying Game" ... actually it's a good movie.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:15 AM

None of those bother me as much as the latest "trend" of women of all ages, young to older, wearing too small, too tight tops which do not cover their natural or over-enhanced rolls of padding around their tummies. Even on younger, pretty girls, it just looks unattractive! Esp. when worn with the newly design hip-huggers.

That and the too-skinny look. I read one of the Spice Girls wants to have another child. She already has 3 or 4, I can't remember. Hubby has put her on a strict diet to make her gain weight in order to ovulate, again. Right now she has the waist of a seven year old! Someone that ill, imo, needs to go in hospital and get better, NOT bulk up to put the strain of pregnancy on her body, again.

Anyone who bucks the above trends is okay in my book!

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: bobad
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:20 AM

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

Mark Twain

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:33 AM

Years ago I frequented a bookstore where the funny & wise owner had a large cartoon mounted by his desk...
It showed two 'characters' dressed in tie-dyed shirts with flared, colorful pants, strings of beads, wild sunglasses, etc...etc..
They meet with someone who asks:
"What are you two doing?"
"We're fighting the rising tide of conformity!"
"Well, what's with all the wild clothing?"
"Oh, this is our uniform!"

It never changes, except for the details....there will always be 'costumes' to help those who NEED to fit into a group to aid in identification....from full suits down to t-shirts and baggy pants.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: bobad
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:37 AM

Is nudity a uniform?

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:40 AM

oh...almost forgot. I used to work for a computer software firm. The management was VERY formal (ex-Navy). The two bosses had an appt. in downtown Wash DC. to interview about a new contract they hoped to get.

As they explained it, they arrived in this posh office, and within 30 seconds KNEW they would not get the contract....because the suits of those conducting the interview were at least 2-3 times as expensive as their own pretty nice attire!

Pecking order all the way to the top!

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:52 AM

They're all costumes designed to fit the roles these people are playing.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:01 AM

Camouflage! The answer is to wear only camouflage. If they can't see you they can't make you conform.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:07 AM

"Is nudity a uniform?" Only if everyone is wearing the same thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:10 AM

we are, Ebbie, we are! *grin*....skin.

'Same' is one of those words we philosophers love to hate.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: gnu
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 01:31 PM

"Yeah. Let's all wear something different, but, the same, you know?" Cheech Marin.

I'm with sIx. And, I have lost jobs I would have liked to have had because I wouldn't wear the monkey suit.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:38 PM

I want my clothes to show that I'm a free, original individual! Just like everybody else!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 02:39 PM

I've always liked the bit in "The Rebel" (Hancock) where he escapes the conformity of the City Gent bowler hat etc look to dress in black polo necks etc with the "Beatniks".
Round 'ere as with most places "Tracky" bottoms, usually with zips, hoody and T-shirt seem to have been "the thing" for years. I haven't noticed many young people in anything much diferent. I, have, however noticed the deplorable trend of young girls to wear somewhat revealing tops and low cut jeans (unfortunately this trend is also attempted by not so young girls.
                                                                      I'll get me pervy raincoat.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 05:19 PM

In my job in the hospital I had to wear a white coat shirt and tie. To me it was a barrier. When someone suffering from mental illness seen us it was the "Men in the white coats" Now retired it's jeans and casual shirt, brand names of course !

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 05:50 PM

When I were nobbut a lad the best Wrangler jeans we could get were the ones made in Ireland. Dunno whereabouts. Not still there are they Divis?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 06:07 PM

Nuns. They all wear the same thing, day in and day out. I knew I couldn't take THAT so I didn't become a nun.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: bobad
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 06:20 PM

That and the impure thoughts, I'm sure, eh Rap?

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:08 PM

Ah Dave we must be the same age ! Yes remember them well Wrangler Bluebell made up in Antrim. Seemed a heavier denim and the first wash saw enough dry come out that would colour ten pair ! Closed and the operation went to the factory in Scotland. Still have a brand new pair of Wrangler Skinners, the very wide leg. Also a brand new unworn Wrangler jacket with the word Wrangler on the buttions done in dots, both from 1972, old shop closing down.
Right time to get my Badfinger singles out !

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Peace
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:20 PM

"Chain mail, hauberk, and a Stetson. Sunny summer frock and logging boots. Birka and a thong."

You just described Clinton Hammond.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:49 PM

"a cummerbund, orange galoshes and a Samurai sword....funny how a handsome man look good in anything he happen to throw on!"

   Albert, the alligator

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: GUEST,Veronica Rutledge
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:53 PM

I'd like to see Amos shirtless, wearing a pair of shorts. Yum!

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Splott Man
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:08 AM

What more diversion can a man desire
Than to dress himself in a rubber tyre
With fishnet stockings way up to the hilt
With a barbed wire garter and a plastic kilt.


Stan Arnold

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Jeanie
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 04:12 AM

Baseball cap, T shirt clinging to beer belly, baggy shorts, trainers: the "summertime dress code", it would seem, of nearly all middle-aged men - and NOT a good look !

I would like to ban the wearing of baseball caps and trainers by anyone over the age of 25. Baseball caps, trainers and shorts are children's clothes and anyone older wearing these things just looks grotesque.

What's wrong with a nice panama hat or a trilby hat in the winter? Far more classy for the gentleman-about-town.

- jeanie ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 05:28 AM

Nuns. They all wear the same thing, day in and day out

You could say it's just become a habit for them....

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 06:26 AM

"Nuns. They all wear the same thing, day in and day out"

That aint necessarily so for quite a number of nuns for quite some time now-at least in the USA. Many nuns I know wear 'regular' clothing.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:11 AM

Of course, "regular clothing" means different things to different people. In my last post, I meant both business attire and leisure attire dictated by the yearly fashion gurus of mainstream America.

Rebellion isn't the only reason why some people don't dress "mainstream". From the late 1960s to the mid 1990s, my public attire was made up of traditional West African dresses and African headwrap. It's true that part of that time I worked as a West African storyteller. However, even when I didn't work as an storyteller, I wore this type of clothing.

Sure rebellion is part of my reason for wearing this clothing. After all astrologically, my moon is in Aquarius. But mostly, my reason for wearing African clothing all the time when I went outside and usually when I was home was to affirm and to demostrate my pride in my African heritage. In doing so, I was aware that I was role modeling for other people of the Black African Diaspora. I also was aware that I was sending a message to non-Black people that Africa has beautiful clothing and that there are African Americans who recognize and celebrate the richness of their African heritage.

Since the 1990s whenever I feel like it I have wore traditional African clothing with or without the gele {African headwrap} or worn the African headwrap with "American clothing". Although I no longer exclusively wear traditional African clothing, I recognize that when I do so I am asserting my pride in my African heritage and I am engaging in positive role modeling for others.

Plus it helps that I look good in this clothing {so I've been told by others and so I've told myself}.

:o}

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 11:55 AM

Yup!

I attended one of the mass marches on Washington during the Vietnam war protests and slowly became aware of a common little prank being played on the overworked cops trying to monitor the crowds of kids.

One of the girls would rush up to a policeman and breathlessly implore, "Please...have you seen my sister? She's about 5'2", with long, stringy blond hair, and she's wearing blue jeans, sandals and a Navy pea-coat!"
Couldn't have been more than a few thousand answering that description.

After awhile some cops caught on and answered with lines like "She was just here looking for you!" or "She want that way, and that way, and that way..."

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 11:57 PM

jayzus veronica don't encourage him .. he used to sport a picture of himself lounging around in his underwear.

Subject: RE: BS: Characteristic dress clones
From: Bert
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 01:04 AM

Azizi is right, a lot of nuns nowadays, wear regular clothing (Mufti for the benefit of the slang thread, or perhaps that is jargon) and only dress up for special occasions.