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

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by purse junkie
What the fuck is with clothes this season? Every single goddamned thing in the stores for women is pink. Baby pink, strawberry pink, blinding bimbo Barbie pink. Does any female over the age of six really want to look like a pack of fucking Bubble Yum? Why aren't there any other colors? Why does every perfectly slinky black or cocoa shirt have to have pink polka dots on it? Has June Cleaver's moldering body come back to haunt every single damned designer on the planet? What are those of us who are a soft peach color supposed to do, besides go Lady Godiva or clash heinously with our clothes?

Six stores and two hours after a pointless attempt to buy a couple of simple body-hugging t-shirts that did not make me look like a Barbie girl in a Barbie world and I was ready to attack every window display like a rabid animal with a bucket of Rit. What the hell is wrong with buyers this year?

Pink is sooo winter '03. The new spring colors are orange, aqua, lime and lemon yellow (individually or in combination). But the buyers are probably right that pink will sell better than chartruse. When the weather starts to warm up, I find I do like to celebrate a bit by wearing very silly easter egg colors, and the pinks and sky blues and lavenders come out for a while, until the first dry cleaning bill comes in.

I do dislike this trend spreading to patterns because it is really hard to combine pinks, however.

[The Larry Davis Experience]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I suppose I could post this on the technogeek board, but my question isn't technical. As those who read that board know, I've been thinking about getting a new car for quite some time. I was about ready to pull the trigger on an Audi A4, but then these Consumer Reports reliability stories came out earlier this week, and I hear that the Audi has below-average reliability, while the BMW 3-series is tops in its class in that regard. I really don't want to have to deal with a car breaking down. But while the BMW is a nice car and all, if I bought one I'd be a BMW owner, and I'm not sure I can stomach that.

I had an A4 for a few years. Extremely fun to drive, no reliability problems at all. I loved that car. I miss it.

Now have a civic hybrid. It's fun only when I drive by a gas station and see that the price is over $2. Otherwise it combines the power of a lawn mower engine with the storage space of a mini.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The CLK is a big-time chick car, and I say that as someone who has just posted a picture of a Mazda.

Speaking of sunny California, the past three days in SF have made me feel sorry for the rest of y'all. My cabdriver was complaining about the oppressive heat --- it was 77. She said she notices more nuisance honking when it goes about 75.

Hah, your weather taunts have no effect on me! Temps in the low 70s all week, flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and everyone's in a good mood.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
It's fun only when I drive by a gas station and see that the price is over $2.

It's stunning to me how worked up people get over the price of gas. Even if you drive 15000 miles a year (which is a lot), a reasonably fuel efficient car will get you 20mpg (or more, since you're not likely to put 15k on in solely city driving). That's what 750 gallons of gas? So when the price goes from $1.50 to $2.00, you're looking at less than $400, or about 3 coffees a week at starbucks. or two trips to whole foods. what gives?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
My choices:

Mini cooper
VW beetle
Audi A4
Audi TT
Prius
Porsche Boxter

and if the aliens could wait for another six months

the Escape Hybrid

I like your first 4 picks a lot. I'd likely get another A4, but I've been tempted to branch out and get a convertible Beetle for a fun weekend car. And I'm curious to see the Mini convertibles when they come out here. THose 2 are tops on my list as soon as I justify to myself the need for a second car. So far, I've been losing that battle to the me that enjoys not having debt.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
Now have a civic hybrid. It's fun only when I drive by a gas station and see that the price is over $2. Otherwise it combines the power of a lawn mower engine with the storage space of a mini.

Don't make fun of the Mini. Where else can you buy that teeny brazilian engine shoehorned into a BMW motor mount?

(Oh, yeah, in a Neon.)

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I like your first 4 picks a lot. I'd likely get another A4, but I've been tempted to branch out and get a convertible Beetle for a fun weekend car. And I'm curious to see the Mini convertibles when they come out here. THose 2 are tops on my list as soon as I justify to myself the need for a second car. So far, I've been losing that battle to the me that enjoys not having debt.

I would have put the convertible versions of both on the list, but I don't have a garage and I live in a neighborhood with a very high cat population. I've seen what cats can do to the roofs of convertibles. It's not pretty.

The hybrids are on there because of liberal guilt, though our gas prices are around 1.60 right now. I like having the utility of an SUV, but even my V6 Explorer 2WD Sport just guzzles gas.

And I've driven the Boxster and absolutely love that engine.

[The Larry Davis Experience]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
It's stunning to me how worked up people get over the price of gas. Even if you drive 15000 miles a year (which is a lot), a reasonably fuel efficient car will get you 20mpg (or more, since you're not likely to put 15k on in solely city driving). That's what 750 gallons of gas? So when the price goes from $1.50 to $2.00, you're looking at less than $400, or about 3 coffees a week at starbucks. or two trips to whole foods. what gives?

What I meant to imply was that I am comforted to know that I'm buying less gas with my solar powered car, not that gas prices are too high. It's all I have to keep me from kicking myself for buying such a boring automobile. So I beg you, let me get worked up.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
make your own clothes. It's not that hard. Why let someone else tell you what to wear?

Clearly, you never had the misfortune of being in my seventh grade home ec class. My woeful attempt at couture looked eerily similar to those gymp-edged mats they made you sew in Girl Scouts.

Oddly, however, I iron perfectly.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by bilmore
We were skiing and snowboarding last night.

It was four degrees.

I hate you.

Quit whining. I only got to go sledding once this year due to the lame snow season, which misery was only slightly ameliorated by the satisfaction of nearly taking out a loud, drunken skiier.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I love that you think having a large, powerful client is somehow a flaw. Like, I would be a better lawyer if my client was some small, unknown company. I think you draw such conclusions because you're so smart. And since you're so smart, your clients must be the most unsuccessful companies in the world.

TM

the only conclusion I would draw about our respective practices/clients, is that they both allow plenty of downtime.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
the only conclusion I would draw about our respective practices/clients, is that they both allow plenty of downtime.

Not even that. It could simply imply great multi-tasking skills.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Hah, your weather taunts have no effect on me! Temps in the low 70s all week, flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and everyone's in a good mood.

And yet, both you and Atticus are at work. Just like the rest of us.

(High 20's low 30's seem not so bad now.)

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
What I meant to imply was that I am comforted to know that I'm buying less gas with my solar powered car, not that gas prices are too high. It's all I have to keep me from kicking myself for buying such a boring automobile. So I beg you, let me get worked up.

Is it worse or roughly the same as a regular Civic in terms of your unhappiness?

[NW Native]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
My choices:

car list

I have a 2003 Prius. It has plenty of power on the steep Seattle hills. Trunk is relatively huge. Comfortable, not cramped, on long trips.
I haven't tried it in the snow but not looking forward to it because it drives a little squirrely.