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patentparanyc
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:13 pm__ _Post subject:
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Just when I thought I saw everything this morning, a puffy K-Mart or similar "patchwork" shiny coat with gold piping that looks like it was from the late 80's early 90's complete with bad permed mullet.

At lunch I saw a chick with an 80's colorblock rayon jacket with the big shoulder pads, complete with the geometric black lines, paired with a green leather skirt and purple tights, 80's heels, fuschia lipstick and big hair. I wanted to puke. Bad taste should be outlawed. What is wrong with people? And the sad thing is that getup took a lot of freakin effort, a lot of thought. What chemical imbalance happens inside them that sends a message of approval like "Okay this looks good, let's get on the train"

And why don't people update their look? i see people every day in styles that were in when i was in highschool. hello.

Dear God, why?Back to top
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MangoLassi
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:22 pm__ _Post subject: Seen on the street . . .
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patentparanyc wrote:


At lunch I saw a chick with an 80's colorblock rayon jacket with the big shoulder pads, complete with the geometric black lines, paired with a green leather skirt and purple tights, 80's heels, fuschia lipstick and big hair. I wanted to puke. Bad taste should be outlawed. What is wrong with people? And the sad thing is that getup took a lot of freakin effort, a lot of thought. What chemical imbalance happens inside them that sends a message of approval like "Okay this looks good, let's get on the train"

. . .

Dear God, why?

Why indeed? On the other hand, people who stick with their style long enough get rewarded when it ends up standing the test of time. (I'll go out on a limb and predict that won't be true for Bozo the Clown, described above.)

The other day I saw a lovely woman in her 70s on the train in a brown window-pane check Chanel-style early 1960s vintage overcoat; low brown heels; silky, sleek, non-tortured silver hair parted neatly to one side; a simple, elegant bag and just enough lipstick to add a hint of color. She was perfect.Back to top
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bilmore
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:24 pm__ _Post subject:
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patentparanyc wrote:
Dear God, why?

Possibly:

1. Lack of money to spend on trendy new clothes, because money goes instead for things the kids and/or the sick parents need, necessitating putting together an outfit out of what's already in the closet;
2. Lack of concern with impressing the world through current and fashionable clothing expenditure; or maybe even
3. They like it.Back to top
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MangoLassi
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:25 pm__ _Post subject: Seen on the street . . .
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patentparanyc wrote:


At lunch I saw a chick with an 80's colorblock rayon jacket with the big shoulder pads, complete with the geometric black lines, paired with a green leather skirt and purple tights, 80's heels, fuschia lipstick and big hair. I wanted to puke. Bad taste should be outlawed. What is wrong with people? And the sad thing is that getup took a lot of freakin effort, a lot of thought. What chemical imbalance happens inside them that sends a message of approval like "Okay this looks good, let's get on the train"

. . .

Dear God, why?

Why indeed? On the other hand, people who stick with their style long enough get rewarded when it ends up standing the test of time. (I'll go out on a limb and predict that won't be true for Bozo the Clown, described above.)

The other day I saw a lovely woman in her 70s on the train in a brown window-pane check Chanel-style early 1960s vintage overcoat; low brown heels; silky, sleek, non-tortured silver hair parted neatly to one side; a simple, elegant bag and just enough lipstick to add a hint of color. She was perfect.Back to top
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notcasesensitive
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:27 pm__ _Post subject: facial hair
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I just glanced thru the SAG awards pics on E Online and it reminded me of a rant that I meant to post yesterday...

What small woodland creature died on James Gandolfini's face? Seriously, that is such an incredibly bad look. I hope it was done for a film part, though I'm beginning to wonder if that ends up being just a pat excuse. Other than Castaway, what movie that has come out recently has required facial hair? There is that alleged film that Brad Pitt was making, but will we ever see it? How about having makeup stick a beard to your face when it is needed? What's wrong with that concept?

n(now sexy one-to-two day old scruff I'm down with...)csBack to top
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Mister_Ruysbroeck
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:27 pm__ _Post subject:
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patentparanyc wrote:
People wear clothes I don't like....blah blah blah.....Bad taste should be outlawed....blah blah blah...

Bad taste is being judgmental.Back to top
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Replaced_Texan
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:44 pm__ _Post subject: Re: facial hair
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notcasesensitive wrote:
There is that alleged film that Brad Pitt was making, but will we ever see it?

n(now sexy one-to-two day old scruff I'm down with...)cs

No. He pulled out of Aronofsky's "The Fountain" about eight weeks before shooting was to begin so he could do "Troy" instead. He shaved the next week.Back to top
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greatwhitenorthchick
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:49 pm__ _Post subject:
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Mister_Ruysbroeck wrote:


Bad taste is being judgmental.

Yes, but that's kind of the point of this board, isn't it. If you can't be judgmental (to be fair, there's a big difference between criticizing the way Julianne Moore looks, because she has tons of money and can afford to look however she wants, and criticizing the way some homeless person looks) to some extent, it makes life pretty dull. If I am not permitted to say Celine Dion's music sucks, because that is being judgmental and therefore in bad taste, that's a little rEdiculous.Back to top
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patentparanyc
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:50 pm__ _Post subject:
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While I appreciate Billmore's point about money being an issue, I point out that my husband is frugal, and even he sees merit in a clothing allowance and drycleaning for work clothes. It is part of having a job. You can't show up in the same outfit everyday, nor is it acceptable to stink. If you have the responsibility to earn money for your family, you should take a little time to make sure you are not offensive to others. Looking like an 80's freak is not acceptable to me. I've NEVER seen a female atty dressed like that.

That being said. I haven't purchased clothes in quite some time. However, I've carefully drycleaned and had repaired what I currently own. We're frugal too, and most if not all money goes to our child, and providing for the family. I draw the line at a permed layered mullet.Back to top
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catrin_darcy
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:51 pm__ _Post subject:
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Mister_Ruysbroeck wrote:
Also, I heard another cool, blue-grassy sort of song this morning. It was some chick whining about how her man wouldn't take her back and kept putting her out (NTTAWWT) and that she knew it was over but couldn't let go. Anyone know the artist and title of that song?

Lucinda Williams, "Can't Let Go" (from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road)

Told you baby one more time
Don't make me sit all alone and cry
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
I'm like a fish out of water
A cat in a tree
You don't even want to talk to me
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

He won't take me back when I come around
Says he's sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I'm broken down like a train wreck
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

See I got a candle and it burns so bright
In my window every night
Well it's over I know but I can't let go
You don't like to see me standing around
Feel like I been shot and didn't fall down
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

He won't take me back when I come around
Says he's sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I'm broken down like a train wreck
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

Turn off trouble like you turn off a light
Went off and left me it just ain't right
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

Rounds every corner something I see
Bring me right back how it used to be
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

He won't take me back when I come around
Says he's sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I'm broken down like a train wreck
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go

He won't take me back when I come around
Says he's sorry then he pulls me out
I got a big chain around my neck
And I'm broken down like a train wreck
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go
Well it's over I know it but I can't let go



From Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road"
Mercury Records 1998
Angry Desert Music(BMI)Back to top
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Replaced_Texan
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:56 pm__ _Post subject:
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patentparanyc wrote:
I've NEVER seen a female atty dressed like that.


I think that you'll find that attorneys, male or female, are very capable of dressing in a variety of ways that may actually shock or appall you or offend your decade specific sensibilities.Back to top
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TexLex
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Location: Houston
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:59 pm__ _Post subject: The 80's - they just won't go away.
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patentparanyc wrote:
And why don't people update their look? i see people every day in styles that were in when i was in highschool. hello.

My (crazy) SIL has a perm (which didn't take) and wings (no, not actually wings - the thing where you blow out the sides of your hair and laquer it with hairspray so it looks vaguely reminiscent of dog ears) and that BIG poufy curling-iron-bang-thing - just like in every other picture I've ever seen of her.

I want to forcibly take her to the salon (or dog groomers) and have it fixed every time I see it, which thankfully is seldom.

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bold_n_brazen
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:01 pm__ _Post subject:
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patentparanyc wrote:
While I appreciate Billmore's point about money being an issue, I point out that my husband is frugal, and even he sees merit in a clothing allowance and drycleaning for work clothes. It is part of having a job. You can't show up in the same outfit everyday, nor is it acceptable to stink. If you have the responsibility to earn money for your family, you should take a little time to make sure you are not offensive to others. Looking like an 80's freak is not acceptable to me. I've NEVER seen a female atty dressed like that.

That being said. I haven't purchased clothes in quite some time. However, I've carefully drycleaned and had repaired what I currently own. We're frugal too, and most if not all money goes to our child, and providing for the family. I draw the line at a permed layered mullet.

Well, clearly, you are better than she is. (That's sarcasm, by the way).

Is it possible that the woman you saw was just being ironic? Or maybe she just LIKED the clothes?

I'm so sorry that "looking like an 80's freak is unacceptable" to you. Every once in a while, I get a hankering to wear my acid washed jeans pegged and tucked into EG socks, with my pink high topped Reeboks. I crave the neon green v-necked Venezia sweater that I wore to LiveAid. I yearn to cut my hair really short again and asymetrical with the front bleached blonde and the rest left brunette. When that happens, I try on that last remaining pair of acid washed jeans, get totally stoked out that they still fit, and then sadly put them away and pine for my misspent youth.

I wish I had the guts to just once go out in public dressed like that. It was the best fucking time in my life. I belive now that I idolize the woman you saw today dressed like an "80's freak". She is my new Maude Lebowski.

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greatwhitenorthchick
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:05 pm__ _Post subject: dressing like a decade-specific freak
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Dressing like an 80's freak is acceptable to me, but dressing like a 20's freak is where I have to draw the line. Especially if the freak is a man. Spats just make me want to vomit.

And, totally unrelated, because I am fairly certain she does not wear spats, where is Fugee? She is MIA.Back to top
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