Red Jeans

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by S.A.M., Aug 18, 2007.

  1. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    Bullshit.
    The vast majority of US men care about what is in fashion - to an absurdly sad degree.
    Do you think it's only women who keep D&G, DKNY, Armani and teh rest of the pop culture whores in business?

    It's just a matter of what is in fashion.
    Colored jeans were in fashion in the early eighties where I grew up, and died out after just a few years.
    They reached their height of fashion and popularitiy when Rap music was just starting to hit the mainstream.
    I'm sure they will come back again.
    Everything is "retro"because no one has any new ideas, and with ADD being the fashion, even the eighties are retro.
     
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  3. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    By the way...
    I think colored jeans, striped jeans and all other manner of jeans other than simply indigo, are hideously ugly and stand it direct opposition to the whole fucking point of jeans.

    And it has nothing at all to do with being "masculine".
    They are hideous on women, as well.
     
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  5. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I love colored jeans. :bawl:

    Also jeans with embroidery and applique.
     
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  7. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    Well, I guess we must part company there.
    You and I have a lot in common, and we can take solace in that fact as we walk away from each other - you being bored with my attire and me snickering behind your back at your silly display of your so-called "jeans", which serve to do nothing more than revoke the whole point, purpose and history of jeans by mocking their status as rebellion against fashionistas, big-dollar corporate fashion and status quo.
    Jeans are meant to avoid attention - your pants are meant to grasp at it.
    We simply don't mesh.
    I will get on my motorcycle, with my plain blue jeans and plain white T-Shirt and ride off into the dusty, rugged, sunset, away from your spangled, glittery ass standing outside the red velvet rope, begging the bouncer to let you into the latest hot spot.
    Don't worry, we will have fond memories - memories of the days you wore real jeans, and weren't afraid of real work.
    Don't cry.
    I'm sure you will find a "man".
    A "man" with a colorful, rayon shirt, red jeans and enough gel in his hair to make all of the 1980's jealous.
    A "man" who loves the night life, who's go to boggie, on the disco round, yeah.
    A "man" who wears skimpy underwear and will go get mani-pedi's with you.
    I'll be in my garage.
     
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  8. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Goodbye *sniff*
     
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  11. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    (Insert title here)

    Men care about appearance. Fashion? Crap. Case and point: How expensive are Senator John Edwards' suits? How come, no matter what, he wears a lawyer's suit? I don't need to know who he is to know he's a lawyer. He dresses like one. Exactly. If American men cared about fashion lawyers would long ago have picked different suits. When I went to court over a DUI, my lawyer had the same suit. The prosecuting attorney had the same suit. His boss didn't, but her suit was no better.

    Now, this doesn't mean all lawyers necessarily wear suits. The public defenders, who spent most of the session trying to figure out if their clients were even there, dressed like ... oh, I don't know, tech folks, teachers, whatever. But the one public defender in a suit dressed like he couldn't afford a lawyer's suit. Literally, it looked like this 1979 suit had been picked up from a consignment shop that morning.

    Point being: appearances are everything, but fashion is faggy in the proper stereotype of the American male.

    Or hair: I have long hair, and when I was younger people said it was vain. (Long hair being faggy had fallen out of heterosexual vogue.) But this doesn't make sense. I use $6.00 shampoo, $6.00 conditioner, $2.00 detangler, and tie my hair back the same today as yesterday. I spend less attention and money on my hair than people with short hair. Think about it. Trips to the barber or salon every six weeks. And for some reason in addition to whatever shampoo or conditioner these people use, you can usually find a bottle of gel or hairspray. (I use nothing to set my hair.) The majority of the time spent brushing my hair is getting knots out; the majority of time spent brushing short hair is setting it just so. I know people who have short hair who own blowdryers (although one of them is a stereotypical closet homosexual, so go figure). The question, in the end, seems to be how, for all the effort heterosexual men put into their haircuts--including the prices they pay sometimes, as the aforementioned Senator Edwards reminds--how come none of them can get a haircut that actually looks good?

    Admittedly, there are those with the various buzz cuts, and I defer the final score to those, except that it's become trendy for these guys to dye or bleach their hair. Now, there's a sign of fashion, you might think, but come on ... really. Heterosexual fashion--e.g., "Slim Shady"--is hideous; it's supposed to be. Looking sleazy was part of the point. One of these days, I will spend a serious amount of time on my hair, because I've always wanted cornrows, and I know I'm in for between four and ten hours just setting my hair that day. I mean, there is a heterosexual standard that looked at a friend's slim shady and said, "That's gay, dude!" (And see, this wasn't so much the "gay" in the sense of being homosexually-influenced; this was "gay" in the general and universal denunciation. If it's closing time at the bar, "Bar time is so gay!")

    Gay fashion is intended to do what all fashion does: it aims to increase sex appeal. Heterosexual fashion reflects the heritage of Original Sin; the sleaze appeal dominates. As a result, even things like a lawyer's suit tend to exploit attributes that run contrary to sexuality's positive appeal. The lawyer's suit is intended to suggest strength; it is up to the trial lawyer to convey the nature of this strength. To the other, while perhaps a lawyer's attire should suggest trust, the trust of sexuality should probably be sublimated before a jury. Power is invasive sexually; trust is at the core of why we elevate sexuality and contact. Presenting aggressive or invasive attributes in sexuality is a notion shaped more by Original Sin than our prehistoric past. Heterosexual fashion is almost an anti-identification, is extremely self-conscious. It is constructed to meet standards, else even lawyers would wear better-looking suits. It may cost a thousand dollars, but it's still a crappy-looking suit. (It is at a campaign blog, but click here to see John Edwards looking like a lawyer. And his overpriced hair is as bad as his suit.)

    Saying heterosexual men have fashion is like saying the lawnmower must be hungry today.
     
  12. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    i have a pink shirt. but i have never had a pair of red jeans. i have white jeans, blue jeans, black jeans and plenty of camo combats though.


    i thought this thread was about aftershave/cologne first of all.


    peace.
     
  13. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    what would you make of me, if i was wearing full plate armour down the street?


    peace.
     
  14. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    I've never had a job that could be done in red pants - they show chalk dust, they show grease,they show dirt and dust, they show oil from your hands around the pockets and fly, and they look like hell when they show all this stuff. I'd need six pairs of pants to get through the week.

    You wear pants that get dirty easy, you can't even sit down.

    Olive, grey, darker tan, dull black, camo, something I can wear two or three days in row anyway. Even a dark yellow would be better than red.
     
  15. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    I would make you for an insane person or some sort of Medieval re-enacter - either way, I'd probably avoid your silly ass.
     
  16. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    i would not like to see my man in red jeans.....I think it looks stupid!
    I would not wear them either.
     
  17. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    I like white, blue and tan jeans myself.
     
  18. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I also like Asian embroidered jeans

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