4 February 2008

Fashion Police 1 - Suits and Sandals?

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What is it with Canberra women? However hot or cold the weather you see women in ‘serious’ trouser suits and their toes peeking out of sandals. This seems to be a Canberra thing – I have never seen it elsewhere.

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is she Japanese?

thongs and socks…

my mum says I’m cool.

Im individual – to a point…..

Snahons_scv6_berlina11:16 am 05 Feb 08

I thought the squashed pack went into the rolled up sleeves of your flannie ?

I’m dismayed that The Darkness failed to bring back cock rock fashion…

squashed folks – squashed

Pencil thin black denim for me. and a headband and tartan flanno. Squashes pack of durries in me back pocket.

Corduroy flares v nice : ) ANY flares! Bring em back! Much more flattering…

Guys with tapered pants and baggy bums…. oh dear : (

There are a few things that traumatised me in my primary school years. Tights with long jumpers was one of them. It was one of the most unflattering looks of the times!

I been thinking about this sandal thing with pants and yes, with a formal work suit ie. grace brothers type formal shirt with or without suited jacket it could look odd cause the sandals may be way too casual for the top.

However if you are just wearing ‘valley girl’ black pants with a casual but nice shirt/top the sandals can suit the slightly casual and summery look – as long as the top isn’t too ‘formal’.

Kind of the end of the scale where you’d rather wear jeans instead of the black pants if you were allowed..

As for chicks who wear them in the rain – probably didn’t check the weather forcast…: P

The thongs thing – Hippie chicks breaking freeee!

el ......VNBerlinaV810:16 pm 04 Feb 08

I still [heart] my corduroy flares 🙂

Oh, and, er, I’m very cool too…

On the topic of fashion. Anyone who wears jodpers needs to be euthanased.

Deadmandrinking6:33 pm 04 Feb 08

I’m very cool – but no-one believes me 🙁

now everyone…. I was hoping for a series of Fashion Police busts and now you seem to have covered a lot of ground! but I’m sure there are plenty more topics …. for example ankle length tights under short skirts in summer

Ingeegoodbee5:40 pm 04 Feb 08

Team that with an acrylic ‘cardigan’ that comes down to your knees with a packet of Horizon 100’s the size of a show box stuffed into one of the pockets … now go get your ugg boots on!

Stirrup pants, a skivvy and flannie with thongs.

ooooh yeah. I’m gonna look pretty good tomorrow!

Deadman – don’t wait for it to come into fashion, go for it now. It’s very Kurt Cobain. He was cool.

Anyone remember stirrup pant tracky dacks? Sigh. Thems were the days…

Deadmandrinking5:08 pm 04 Feb 08

I’m waiting for the day trackie-dacks and thongs or old sneakers come back into fashion. I’m not a bogan – I’m a trend-setter.

Very nice. I’m still looking for those argyle patterned eskimo style sock slippers with the leather soles they had a while back….. 🙂

Light blue waffle weave walking socks for me.

Wear what you like I reckon, as long as it looks good on YOU.
No use following a fashion trend if it doesn’t suit your body type. And no point dressing a certain way just cause someone says you should if you feel or look stupid.

There are certain trends that leave me reeling in dismay, but they still suit some people really well so you can’t say the look itself is bad – just the wrong people are trying to do the look.

(I still say pink polo shirts with the collar up are out though… Although they do help us categorise people where required… but I guess they still ‘suit’ whomever wears them : P)

Ingeegoodbee4:38 pm 04 Feb 08

Why would you want to wear a thong around your neck?

Bunnycoat,

No. That’s pendant.

sigh.

If you guys don’t wear thongs in public, then your too friggin’ old. Thongs for the win!!

only when it’s swinging on a chain?

Ok, I can’t resist.

To be pendantic, it’s spelt pedant.

@torbida

so does peddant matey!

A tan coloured dog?

I seem to remember that there once was stuff for the garden that was tan and bark

la mente torbida1:30 pm 04 Feb 08

@S4anta
If memory serves me correct (and it often doesn’t), the term tanbark predates the term yuppie. 🙂

Damnit. And my jackets are longer than my shirts and everything…

ergo – not tan and not bark

buuntcoat,

‘Tanbark’ is an abbreviation of the term ‘standard bark’; Pulpmill jargon, pimped uo for the yuppies to once again, not know what they are buying. but it does sound cool, so off they go. Basically, all the bits that the shredders and band saws knock off before going to work on the logs to create the yobbo bashing 4×2”s that we all love.

Bunnycoat wonders why the stuff is called ‘tanbark’ when it’s not tan and it’s not bark….

Yeek tanbark! I’ve still got a scar from a giant stick that wanted to come for a walk one day…

Sometimes there are outfits that look absolutely stupid with sandals, or pretty much shoes. Thongs often suit in these cases – depending on the thong.

Kind of like the girls who wear heels with shorts. That looks a bit silly – dress up your shorts with heels? What the? Probably should have gone the thongs.

Ingeegoodbee12:14 pm 04 Feb 08

I have been told that Crocs are not recommended for those hirstute of foot. As a chap whose feet would make Bilbo Baggins look like a foot model I have taken this advice on board and avoided them thus far.

Under protest I have acquired (was forced to buy) the Aussie version of Crocs, in stylish beige, and grudgingly have found them to be quite comfortable. They, like thongs, should never be seen in public, or even the common areas if you live in some sort of complex.

I have – they are now standard travelling to the coast footwear. My recommendation would be to get the genuine product, the other brands are made of inferior materials. I didn’t notice it until I had a few tanbark protrusions, which is quite yeowie.

Has anyone here actually tried on/owned a pair of crocs? I’m struggling to figure out how they are ‘so comfortable’, being quite ‘plastic’ looking. Reminds me of those horrid pink plastic sandal things that were around when I was a kid.

Maybe I’ll have to go try on a black pair…

Black crocs with white socks! *shudders*

I have to admit I haven’t seen the suit and thongs thing yet. Thongs are actaully worse for you healthwise than other types of footwear because of the amount of bacteria that stays and then lives on the rubbery base.

Just a question. Dress shoes, ie. including strappy shoes with a heel that you’d wear on a formal occasion are usually considered ‘business like’ if worn with pants. However what about women who can’t wear heels? I have back troubles after the second day of wearing heels, and I’m a small person….

Sandals are pretty much the same thing – minus the ‘dressy’ heel.

Why oh why must we have to suffer and damage our bodies for the sake of fashion! : P

I thought that’s what black crocs were for?

With white socks.

At least those god-awful Crocs haven’t made into office attire. Yet.

I hope.

Everyone knows that womens shoes are about quantity, not quality! : )

You know what would look good? Boots over skinny leg work pants…

neanderthalsis10:20 am 04 Feb 08

Howdy, if you wear good quality wool socks and proper leather shoes you don’t get hot, smelly feet.

Goody goody yum yum : )

the British look!

Ha ha guys HAVE to wear formal work shoes. Hot smelly feet. ha ha : P

Unless you go socks with sandals, of course! : P

on blokes over 12? especially puled up neatly to the knees

It’s the sandals with suits as office wear I have a problem with……

neanderthalsis9:56 am 04 Feb 08

Sorry for the poor grammar in my previous post, I tend to froth at the mouth and can’t type properly when on a rant.

neanderthalsis9:55 am 04 Feb 08

Thongs belong exclusively to the domain of the beach or the backyard barbeque. They are NOT, I say again NOT, a fashionable even if they have funky flowers on them, or if your in Charnwood, a matching pair. Thongs should not be worn in public under any circumstances. They make the wearer shamble like a neolithic troglodyte and have the awesome power to make someone who might otherwise be attractive look like a tramp.

And to those wearing thongs in the rain or the middle of a Canberra winter – I hope you get Trench Foot or Frostbite…

Quick, call the fashion police!

Wow… I was only thinking this an hour ago as I drove to work. Who wears thongs in the rain, I ask you?

Sydney CBD is crawling with ‘suited’ ladies wearing rubber thongs to walk to work. Granted, they change into formal shoes when they get to work, but they deserve a fashion police ticket for wearing while flip-flops with a formal black dress-suit.

That’s cause we enjoy good feet ventilation and know how to avoid smelly sweaty feet. Unlike the smelly sweaty socks and shoes women in other cities… pongo!

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