The Park Slope Uniform

laura wrote: I don't get why people think to be "comfortable" you have to wear yoga pants or something. I work at home, I'm wearing a cotton dress and a sweater, and I couldn't be more comfortable.

I'm really comfortable in a dress and sweater too, but if I'm doing errands on foot, I'm usually wearing sneakers and walking pretty fast. Yoga pants and sneakers are better than most of my dresses with sneakers.

Plus, I'm prone to dropping and/or spilling things when doing errands, and bending over a lot

But I almost always have lipstick on

Drano wrote:

As for the frustration part, that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but ok.

IIRC, one of The Chipster's first posts was something to the effect that the men (at least the dads) of Park Slope are sexually frustrated because their wives are fat and sloppy and don't wear high heels, so the men (still hard-bodied and studly, apparently) need to be allowed to sleep around. Or something like that.

Rose wrote: [quote=Drano]

As for the frustration part, that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but ok.

IIRC, one of The Chipster's first posts was something to the effect that the men (at least the dads) of Park Slope are sexually frustrated because their wives are fat and sloppy and don't wear high heels, so the men (still hard-bodied and studly, apparently) need to be allowed to sleep around. Or something like that.

the fools!

sorry, i don't know many women who want their man's thighs to be bigger than theirs.

Hello: European soccer players! It's the only reason I watch.

raw wrote: [quote=Drano][quote=Jamzer]The guy's uniform describes me to a tee, but then again, I've worn that uniform since I graduated from college. I still wore it when I lived in New Jersey, DC, Manhattan and now Brooklyn. Maybe I am at the fashon fore front??

I'm with you. Everybody wears that stuff everywhere.

As for the frustration part, that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but ok.
As I read this thread, all I do is scratch my head. What exactly are we talking about...sexless marriages or frumpy fashion slackers?

Does it matter? Chipster totally missed my point (and proved it at the same time) of my post that he took "park slope uniform" from. Sigh. So much pointless nitpicking around here.

That was good!

This thread caused me to over-think. Outside on 5th Avenue today, I noticed a lot of men with $300 cell phones glued on their heads, while the "old granny underwear" line had me wondering about every woman I passed.

Ahhh... to have the elusive "style."

Maybe if I read Details or Vice or Radar or whatever Men's fashion magazines the cool kids are reading today I would be able to emerge from my apartment and people would say " Wow! I like the way that guy wears his pants!" "That's really edgy!"

eggcream wrote: I also hate men in any sandal.

Me too.

eggcream wrote: White guys w/ rasta braids.

Gah. My next door neighbor's hair looks like a month's worth of my cats' hairballs ...

eggcream wrote: Juicy Couture makes a fortune on their version of sweats.

Hate that stuff. I think having JUICY written across your ass is SUCH a bad idea.

It always makes me think, "Damn! You should get some Imodium for that!"

Beat me to it, Carnivore! My browser was hanging up.

I'm relieved I'm not the only one who makes that association, though.

You need Garanimals.

You are absolved, especially since you bought it on eBay.

Oh my gosh,,,, I think I have proof positive..
In the last 15 minutes MY post about Drunken Guest is gone1...
If this be true... as well my reality is a true one.. DRUNKEN might be gone forever..

I don't think people (those who have graduated from high school, at any rate) are trying to change who they are. People feel simpatico with other people who share their tastes and outlook and one of the ways this commonality is naturally expressed is through style, and it's an important social cue.

What I think is sad is when people try to change what someone ELSE is wearing, like on that horrible show "How Do I Look?", where two friends or family members of the victim are embarrassed by how he/she looks ... sometimes the person does really dress horribly, but many times their "friends" just want to change them into someone else. Fr'instance, there was one very pale, black-haired girl with a kind of Goth Minnie Mouse look, and her dipshit sisters - who probably wished they were Paris and Nicky - couldn't bear to be seen with her. The poor woman ended up with a spray-on tan, a blonde-highlighted Hollywood 'do, and some stupid trendy outfits, and her disgusted boyfriend said that if she'd looked like that when he'd met her he never would have spoken to her.

The Chipster wrote: When my WBurg friend saw a woman in a short skirt & heels on she said, "She looks lost."
"I've never seen pantyhose in the slope before!"
"Are those real?" she asked, pointing at her legs.
"I dunno, never seen em before," I said as I snapped her thong.
"Women around here only dress up when they leave?" she asked twirling around in her dress.
"Theoretically... but it can't be proven," I said as I nursed my animal companion.
Then the beautiful woman bent over and gave a b.j. to the dad who was drooling on his wife's head.

Love,
A Native New Yorker,
(Charles, pls. make sure to cut and paste your "New Yorkers don't judge" declaration on the following posts__________, _____, _____________)
Not in a Huff,
Not in makeup,
Observing and being Observed,
Who never says SHOULD, as in "Men should (?!) "cheat" on their wives, but am AMAZED you guys remember it at all, even if wrongly.

This whole bit has made my head explode.

I'm serious, my entire cranium just violently ruptured after attempting to parse that post; the walls of my apt. are covered with fragments of skull and brain, and I am only able to type this out using basic muscle memory.