My wife is really a natural when it comes to fashion, but I like how she could always manage to find great things for a children to wear without it being expensive. My daughter, 20, was just given a huge raise by her employer because it is her job to greet clients, and they said that she is the first employee they've ever had who didn't look like she belonged ... somewhere else. My wife did some fashion modelling early after our marriage.
I'm not into trends or styles, but I have to admit that I have far more shoes, jackets, and clothes than most men I know. We come from the east coast, but now live in the middle. There is a huge difference in the culture. The typical man my age seems to feel quite okay with sporting a too tight Harley Davison t-shirt on a night out with his wife. My wife would probably ask me to sit at another table.
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I cringe when I go out in public sometimes. I wish I could carry a mini cattle prod to zap people who look like dorks.
I need to talk to the lady and see if she feels the same way ... for a good cattle prodding, I might dress up dorky sometimes
I notice the gaudiness in older men most times. Women aren't exempt, but I just notice it more with the men.
One that gets me is how people go to breakfast in hotels. I am always showered, shaved (the parts I shave, that is), and dressed for the day when I go to breakfast. I walk into the concierge lounge, and there is always someone there in their pajamas (not that there's anything wrong with that, right?). I can just hear my mom's voice telling me about laziness ... Moms really say with you, don't they ... and that's a good thing ...
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You do go all shave-a-rama on those sexy L'eggs of your'n, don't ya, shy?
Funny you should ask that ... I was out walking with my brothers the other day and someone suggested I should. You're the fashion expert. What do you think?
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Oh, and women with enough cellulite on their thighs to smother the life out of Jabba the Hut who squeeze themselves into Spandex or mini-skirts.
You're going to prod me into a big social gaffe here ... but a look that always makes me do a double take is the ones who squeeze a size 14 butt into size 4 jeans and leave 8" of crack showing above the band ...
I'm really not a fan of the butt cleavage look. The worst example of it I can remember was a woman in the airport in Anchorage one time. She was sitting sideways on the chair talking with the man next to her, and she had her legs draped over him ... no problem with the posture, but honestly, the top of her pants came to about the place where her butt met the seat, and I promise I'm not exaggerating that!
From the guy side, on the Caltrain one day there was a guy with his girlfriend. The guy was wearing droopy shorts with his boxers showing. HIs shorts were at least halfway down his butt ... really, IIRC, they were below the point where I would have thought they would stay up. He was very involved with his girl. I turned to my wife and said, "When he gets to the part of pulling his pants down, he's got the job half done already.
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earlier in the spring I jbought myself a cool hat to keep the sun off my face.
It's Indiana jones style but it's an outdoorsman hat so not a true fedora. But it looks good.
I wear it everywear and with anything.
Funny women probably don't think men compliment each other, but I've had a couple guys tell me it was a bad ass hat. Posted via Mobile Device
STBXH has an Indiana Jones-style hat (with a slightly larger brim) and it's really sexy. Especially in the wintertime.
Shy_guy -- the Greek fisherman caps also come in wool. I've seen them in black, and my dad used to wear a navy one with his pea coat (he also had a beard at the time). A close friend of mine saw her husband for the first time, and knew immediately that he was 'the one' (they've been married 30 years now!) when she saw him come over the top of a hill wearing one of those caps and a big chunky sweater & jeans. Totally rocked the look, I guess.
Don't go with the Sinatra-style Trilby hat, though. Too annoyingly hipster. Especially if you get one in a plaid.
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I do like to mix and match unconventional items...like the other day I found this WONDERFUL jacket at Forever21. My husband called it an army jacket because it is that same green and it is loose fitting with cargo pockets and a hood. Anyhoo...I rolled the sleeves up and paired it with this really feminine black dress (high necked, v-backed, sleeveless, layered flowing skirt that cut off at lower thigh…honestly it reminded me of the stuff that Hepburn used to wear), black pantyhose, and black riding boots. I might be the one getting the "cattle prod" looks LLFA!
That sounds adorable, Angel! Amazingly, since my split from STBXH (well, actually, since he gave me the 'speech'), I've become a lot more free and spontaneous with what I wear. It makes me feel good to wear something a little unexpected, or to put colors together that I wouldn't normally. I call it my Apparel Therapy TM. And I've always gotten really good responses from people. I think you're right about attitude -- unless it's really, truly, horribly bad taste!
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LadyFrog, surely you didn't say that! 
Takes a confident man to let his hair down like that.
