Old people and cool clothes

[Jethro]

So I had a birthday Sunday. My 11 year old son, Christopher, decided I needed some "cool" clothes-- as opposed to the clothes I normally wear.

So he bought me some of those jeans that look like they have been used to scrub the garage floor.

I'm sure this must be some monumental moment in my life, but I can't figure out why.

[ivan]

Do you mean faded ones? I hate those.
Don't listen to your son and just wear whatever you like to. That's the cool way, not buying mass production crap.

[cathwood]

I've just bought some cool clothes for work. Obviously not as cool as yours though.

My daughters however dispair of me because I wear my very waterproof walking jacket with them. I'm sorry but I'm not getting wet in the interests of fashion.

[headstone]

I'm guessing he'll also get you a polo shirt from american eagle.

Remember to pop the collar!!!!

[Jethro]

I've just bought some cool clothes for work. Obviously not as cool as yours though.

My daughters however dispair of me because I wear my very waterproof walking jacket with them. I'm sorry but I'm not getting wet in the interests of fashion.


I am wearing my cool pants today. The rest of my office is looking at me funny. I am sure they are convinced that I am having a mid-life crisis.

I am going to return my son's favor by buying him some Khaki pants and a nice v-neck sweater for Christmas.

[Catboy]

Te last pair of jeans I bought has something like 10 or 15 holes in them. Yes I paid extra for the holes. But they don't call me LL Cool Cat for nothing.

[headstone]

Why not just by a pair of jeans and uni in them for a week or two?

Or just go to Value Village for authentic hobo attire?

[Into the blue]

I only wear the coolest of hats...

[Eddbmxdude]

I bought a pair of normal jeans about a year ago. A year of wiping my oily/muddy/greasy/grass-stained/sticky etc, hands on them, they have developed the "cool" worn look on the thighs. The knees have also torn, so much so now that they are pretty soon gonna come right in two and will be shorts!

All for the price of a normal pair of jeans! I pity the fool that pays the full price for these so called "fashionable" jeans when you can make your own!

Rock on!
Edd

[JJuggle]

I think you should feel blessed to have an 11 year old who thinks of anybody but himself.

[ivan]

I bought a pair of normal jeans about a year ago. A year of wiping my oily/muddy/greasy/grass-stained/sticky etc, hands on them, they have developed the "cool" worn look on the thighs. The knees have also torn, so much so now that they are pretty soon gonna come right in two and will be shorts!

All for the price of a normal pair of jeans! I pity the fool that pays the full price for these so called "fashionable" jeans when you can make your own!

Rock on!
Edd
+1

I just buy good jeans and wear them and wear them and wear them. Good jeans stay cool no matter how old they are. Plus, they get some real character, not the artificial holes and bleached sides.

[podzol]

I can't bring myself to buy new jeans that look old.

I can't even find the Levis that are really NEW. The ones that make an audible crunch when bent at the knees for the first time like corrugated carboard. If I could find them, I'd get them. Nowadays everything is "prewashed" which must take about 3 months of wear out of a pair of pants at the minimum.

I hate going into a department store to begin wth, but to go in one and have it look like every item on the racks needs a good washing boggles me.

I actually buy most of my jeans at the thrift store. Here in America, people often get too fat for their jeans before they wear out, so I can get the used look for only $3.00/pair. I don't do it for fashion, though!!

[Jerrick]

I bought a pair of normal jeans about a year ago. A year of wiping my oily/muddy/greasy/grass-stained/sticky etc, hands on them, they have developed the "cool" worn look on the thighs. The knees have also torn, so much so now that they are pretty soon gonna come right in two and will be shorts!

All for the price of a normal pair of jeans! I pity the fool that pays the full price for these so called "fashionable" jeans when you can make your own!

Rock on!
Edd

Thats exactly what I do.

Then, during the summer. all my pants get cut into shorts.

I find it funny when people, buy jeans, then make them look torn and like you just wrecked your uni going 30mph. They even spend hours trying to find out the right way to make the jeans look torn. The secret is using a cheese grader.

My jeans get their torn looks when I crash horribly trying to do a gap. :D

[Jerrick]

I can't bring myself to buy new jeans that look old.

I can't even find the Levis that are really NEW. The ones that make an audible crunch when bent at the knees for the first time like corrugated carboard. If I could find them, I'd get them. Nowadays everything is "prewashed" which must take about 3 months of wear out of a pair of pants at the minimum.

I hate going into a department store to begin wth, but to go in one and have it look like every item on the racks needs a good washing boggles me.

I actually buy most of my jeans at the thrift store. Here in America, people often get too fat for their jeans before they wear out, so I can get the used look for only $3.00/pair. I don't do it for fashion, though!!

I agree with you on everything you typed.

Even shopping at a thrift store. You can get a lot of really good stuff their for really cheap. =p

[DarkTom]

Fashion is pish.


T.

[frogger]

I do not do fashion I wear what I what to.

[Wheel Rider]

I am wearing my cool pants today. Good for you. :cool:

I am going to return my son's favor by buying him some Khaki pants and a nice v-neck sweater for Christmas.Good for you. :rolleyes:

[Jethro]

I think you should feel blessed to have an 11 year old who thinks of anybody but himself.

Ah, there is the missing (and monumental) piece. What an interesting way to look at it.

May you be blessed with a whole herd of unselfish 11 year olds.

[Borges]

So I had a birthday Sunday. My 11 year old son, Christopher, decided I needed some "cool" clothes-- as opposed to the clothes I normally wear.

So he bought me some of those jeans that look like they have been used to scrub the garage floor.

I'm sure this must be some monumental moment in my life, but I can't figure out why.
That's so cute. He's 11 and therefore mature enough to help poor old dad. :D

[tobbogonist]

i read a magazine article on Levi jeans once and how there was a batch of like 200 distributed between in-mates at a prison. they where to wear them for three or four weeks then give them back to gain the old, dirty, used look. then they went and sold them for heaps of money as a special limited edition line. although i cannot now ind anything about it.

just buy your clothes from op-shops. you cant go wrong. sometimes even the ladies clothes work out well. or hippy shops at certain circus/music festivals. mmm fisherman pants.

[harper]

People look at others' clothes and rate them? Why?

[leo]

At the ice-rink is often a man who's 72 years old. He's wearing camoflage and skate(boarding) fashion. Plus he is (figure) skating very well, while listening to his iPod. So cool. If he would have told me he was 56 I probably believed him as well.

Old people
Since when you became old?

People look at others' clothes and rate them? Why?
So what do they rate? The others, the clothes or both?

[Jethro]

People look at others' clothes and rate them? Why?

Unless they have funny hair. They they look at the hair and rate them.





Since when you became old?

About 7 fashion trends ago.

[stuntpogoer]

i hate american eagle, aeropostale, and abercrombie. those companies are for gay preppies who think football is hardcore.

woo hot topic!

[DK]

i hate american eagle, aeropostale, and abercrombie. those companies are for gay preppies who think football is hardcore.

woo hot topic!

HAHAHAHAHA

How is that any different?

[harper]

Unless they have funny hair. They they look at the hair and rate them.


Really? Why? What's funny hair?

[spazdude222]

ugh...i have some of the "fashion" pants...but i find it difficult to find comfortable pants now that don't have the irritating holes. So i buy them and patch them (i probably wounldn't bother with the patching except for the dress code at school though)

[bcwheelriderguyhehehehehe]

Hehe buy your son a sweater vest with rudolph on it but make sure its the ones that have the light up nose. Get him some leg warmers and some of those 70's style basket ball shorts with some loafers. Then say "you bought me clothes you liked, now I'm gona make you were clothes I like" and make him go to school with his stylin outfit.:cool:

[spazdude222]

Hehe buy your son a sweater vest with rudolph on it but make sure its the ones that have the light up nose. Get him some leg warmers and some of those 70's style basket ball shorts with some loafers. Then say "you bought me clothes you liked, now I'm gona make you were clothes I like" and make him go to school with his stylin outfit.:cool:
that would be so funny...but as a teenager in high school, i have to say his life would be "over"

[Wheel Rider]

... some of those 70's style basket ball shorts ...
Back in the 70's we could not wear our shorts short enough. We bought them short then rolled the legs up until the pockets would hang out the bottom. Keep in mind that clothing styles go in cycles. The short shorts will be back and people will think they are very stylish. :eek:

[Jerrick]

i hate american eagle, aeropostale, and abercrombie. those companies are for gay preppies who think football is hardcore.

woo hot topic!


I dont even know of the brands you just mentioned.

And I HATE Hot Topic. Their clothes seriously suck more than any other brand I have ever seen in my life.

[bcwheelriderguyhehehehehe]

Back in the 70's we could not wear our shorts short enough. We bought them short then rolled the legs up until the pockets would hang out the bottom. Keep in mind that clothing styles go in cycles. The short shorts will be back and people will think they are very stylish. :eek:

Good god!:eek:

[Jerrick]

Good god!:eek:


Sexy, huh? :D

[dan de man]

Unless they have funny hair. They they look at the hair and rate them.






yeah;)

[GILD]

The short shorts will be back and people will think they are very stylish.
Yeah, and no matter what's kewl now, your kids will laugh at you when they see pics of it.

[gkmac]

Back in the 70's we could not wear our shorts short enough. We bought them short then rolled the legs up until the pockets would hang out the bottom. Keep in mind that clothing styles go in cycles. The short shorts will be back and people will think they are very stylish. :eek:Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!

For some reason shorts look even shorter the moment you mount a unicycle. If the aforementioned "short shorts" disaster scenario returned, people who don them and then a mount a unicycle??? There'll be nothing left!!!:eek:

In a thread about so-called "cool" clothes, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the sickening problem of "droopy drawers". You know, where the belt lines of jeans hang low and expose the top of the underwear. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but the point of underwear is that it's under normal clothing?

The worst offenders are the ones that have their belts loose, so the jeans ride lower and lower. I often see these people frantically putting their hand in their pocket and trying to keep them up, all in the name of so-called fashion.

Just thinking about "droopy drawers" makes me wanna vomit...

[cathwood]

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!

In a thread about so-called "cool" clothes, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the sickening problem of "droopy drawers". You know, where the belt lines of jeans hang low and expose the top of the underwear. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but the point of underwear is that it's under normal clothing?

The worst offenders are the ones that have their belts loose, so the jeans ride lower and lower. I often see these people frantically putting their hand in their pocket and trying to keep them up, all in the name of so-called fashion.

Just thinking about "droopy drawers" makes me wanna vomit...

This reminded me of a guy I saw when I was at the other uni on Monday, his pants didn't just expose the top of his underpants, they nearly exposed them all. If I wasn't so hungry at the time, it would have put me off my lunch. Ugh. I don't know who he thought he was impressing.

[forrestunifreak]

Back in the 70's we could not wear our shorts short enough. We bought them short then rolled the legs up until the pockets would hang out the bottom. Keep in mind that clothing styles go in cycles. The short shorts will be back and people will think they are very stylish. :eek:


I don't care what the "style" is or will be, I can't stand to wear shorts that go much above the knee... might as well be walking around in underwear.

[Jethro]

I don't care what the "style" is or will be, I can't stand to wear shorts that go much above the knee... might as well be walking around in underwear.

Tell that to Yoggi (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55074) :D

[wobbling bear]

Keep in mind that clothing styles go in cycles. The short shorts will be back and people will think they are very stylish. :eek:
true! Some time ago as I was operating in Sweden there was a young lady with those "elephant's foot" trousers.
So I asked her: did you borrow those from your mother?(those were fashionable in the early 70, I have a picture of my wedding to prove it!)
she answered me "no, but I had another pair, and you know this new fashion of having those very long -so they gather mud-? Well I went to visit my grand-mother and since she does not sleep very well, she pitied me and cut them to the 'proper' length during the night!":p
sad story!

[Wheel Rider]

...
In a thread about so-called "cool" clothes, I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned the sickening problem of "droopy drawers". You know, where the belt lines of jeans hang low and expose the top of the underwear. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but the point of underwear is that it's under normal clothing?


When I was young, it was the ultimate embarrassment to have any part of your underwear showing.

We don't see too many of these in unicycling since you cannot ride a unicycle with the crotch of your pants down around your knees. What we see is just the opposite, lots of people pulling their pants UP to get the crotch out of the way.

We have had some kids stop by in the park who wanted to try riding. The baggy pants just get in the way.

[Wheel Rider]

...Well I went to visit my grand-mother and since she does not sleep very well, she pitied me and cut them to the 'proper' length during the night!":p
sad story!
That is funny. I bet you did not think it was funny at the time though.