Oh, I guess she’s waiting to get the bag in the ‘grilled cheese’ version. I hear that’s coming out this Fall. I bet she’s got those shoes in Minestrone and Clam Chowder too. All of this fashion talk is getting me hungry.
This is what happens when the construction Timberlands get stung by a bee and go into anaphylactic shock.
Doesn’t she look like a big ass gerbil from the MTA Pet Shop…? When she first walked into the train with that floppy canvas hat, I almost fell on the floor. Some people just baffle me (At least she’s not wearing uggs, I would have no choice to openly laugh out loud WITH POINTING.) What happened to the rules about fashion, I know it’s not after Labor Day, but there should be a common sense rule that says if you have enough money to buy a full-length fur coat, you should also be riding in a taxi cab. When she first sat down, it was between to people in the middle seat, it looked so awkward and out-of-place. Look at this fool, the whole train car gave her ‘side eye.’
One thing, you make yourself more of a target for the seedier characters that ride the train because you look like Mrs. Howell on the wrong 3-hour tour. Easy money. Secondly, when is it ever ok to sit down on public transportation when wearing all white? I don’t care if it’s fur, cotton, suede or lycra, the dry cleaners will rape your wallet when it comes to the cleaning.
…And then she gets of in the ‘hood–Harlem 125. This lady is a bag full of contradictions, tied with a irony bow. She’s probably heading to the post office now to mail some peaches to her nephew in Georgia and oranges to her niece in Florida.
For some reason, I can’t trust someone who wears shades all the time (especially indoors) and people that never show their heads (do rags, hats, scarves, wigs, bad weaves with the glue marks at the forehead…) I always see them as sketchy, there’s just something just disingenuous about not showing your scalp. Imams, rabbis and clergy, not included (priests sare creepy are for a whole other reason…)
So this is new. People using sheets as coats, is this European? Please don’t catch on in New York. I know there are people out there that see this as fashion or something, but it looks like the bag lady caught an episode of Project Runway. Yeah, the lady on the left does look kind of chic, I think she was actually from Europe, but the guy on the train on the right was the classic FIT student from the city. When I first walked on the train, I thought he was the boogie man or the son of Candyman, minus the bees.
Next from the House Of Bag Lady, shower curtain bathing suits, Summer 2010 show in the Washington Square Park fountain, coming soon.
This dude walked in the store, asked for some Mike-n-Ikes and was humming “Walk This Way”….
I looked around, I thought I was bugging out. This was a real Twilight Zone moment, I thought I time-traveled to the 80s …or he was from the past. (Not to mention, I was high flying and juiced on the goose, so I really was unsure about what was happening.) I had to let the camera lens do the viewing. This guy sure had me cracking up though, that delayed laugh that hits three minutes later once the shock and awe wear off. What kind of looks he must get on the street. All I know is that now I’m thinking about me in the 80s, around four or five, loving the peanut butter and jelly that came in the same jar. (They still make that, by the way.) I used to get a kick out of making pb&j sandwiches, one of my first foyers in my chefery. This guy’s hair looks just like that peanut butter and jelly jar.
I heard about and saw the Retro Kids all over the city. They’re like the James St. James and Michael Alig, but using a better cultural/ musical/ fashion era. And like the original Club Kids, these guys (and girls, oviously) get into award shows, fashion shows and clubs just because. This guy here is not half as committed as some, it’s a damn spectacle (aka: it’s New York.)
I mentioned Aleppo, Syria in the first post of this series because one of my twitter/ blogger friends, Elaine Z., is from there and all the way on the other side of the world guys are doing the same damn thing and looking just as stupid. It’s a fashion and societal act of defiance for rebels without a cause-or belts. This is what Elee writes:
I’m a 23 year old girl living in Syria Aleppo, and yes a good looking well dressed fashionable guy can really attract my eye and make me feel blessed to meet him…
But this I don’t understand, it happens here too and in a weird way… Why do guys have to do this, showing all people around him a huge part of his underwear… Those guys really wear jeans 2 sizes larger than theirs real size to make this happen, the pants goes down and Bam, you get blind when you see white boxer with red hearts on, or blue one with yellow bears on! I saw that lots of times and I went like WTF? The answers came like, “maybe it’s comfy” or “maybe it’s the fashion!” Damn! If it’s comfortable, which I doubt believe, manage to wear a long shirt over it to cover! And/or who the hell told you that it’s fashionable?
All I can say that it sucks and none of the girls around me find it attractive! So please guys, stop doing it for the sake of our eyes!! You’re ruining the beauty of your style with this thing! Who cares to know what the design is???
I thought Elee’s part about the boxers with red hearts and yellows bears is funny, living in New York, I’ve seen worst. And yes, I mean worst, let’s just leave it at that. I often thought to myself, as well, is it comfortable to wear you pants so low, I actually asked somebody before and this is what he said verbatim, “ahhhh, naaaahh, like…you know, it’s coool, you know?…” Read more…
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SERIOUSLY. Does it even matter what the history is behind this scurge? This fad has had a strangle-hold on the urban community and the society at-large for a generation or two now. This isn’t fashion, style or swagger, this isn’t even acceptable human attire. it should be against the law (wait let me not get ahead of myself…) I don’t want historians to put this trend in the record books as being representative of my era. That would be a blight on my generation- Levi Strauss is turning grave. What would The Big Book Of History say when the get to dungarees: “towards the latter part of the Twentieth Century urban men explored gravity-defying feats of pantaloonage. Belts became obsolete because the waistline moved to the thighs and the Penguin Walk was created. This is the trend that catapulted the Pussy Push Movement of 2018 when a large portion of society’s females turned to Lesbianism out of pure dissatisfaction for what the modern man had become… That might be the scene, as historians look back on this era in a generation or two. I wonder how people are going to describe this trend once it eventually dies out.
You cant describe something without starting at the beginning. After all, how will you know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. In other words, you have to go back to go forward. Speaking of Back2GoForward, Mateo, friend and guest blogger to the site, gave me some insight on one of the origins of this craze:
When the 70′s heroin epidemic hit, shit got hard, and then 80′s crack wave washed through the hood, it shattered families that were already struggling. Hand-me-downs or HCRP (hood clothing recycling program) became an everyday staple in life. Many children would show up to school not with the latest fashion, but with what their older siblings’ wore for school the year before (sometimes two and three years.) Hence the ill-fitting clothes.
Rap artists in the 90 like Naughty By Nature helped push it into mainstream America, forever changing a once hood struggle into a false movement. Like all things we turned it into a way of being- a universal sign of poverty, glorified by people that can’t even relate to true struggle. Just take a look at the older hip hop artist from back in the day: early LL Cool J, Run DMC who were ,at the time, making hit records, they weren’t wearing sagging pants. Along the way we forgot that you can move forward and beyond old concepts and ideas. So here we are in 2009 going into 2010 wearing two hundred dollar jeans that don’t even cover what they’re supposed to. Even with the wave of tight jeans I can not understand how those can be worn around your knees.
Haa! Skinny jeans at their knees…that’s so New York. They sometimes buy the jeans so tight, it can’t go all the up. Read more…
YO DUDE! Why is it that I can see your entire ass in those jeans. Pull’em up or stay your low-life ass in the house. I don’t understand guys my age (and older) that still do that. What kind of message are you sending out? This is how you want people to view you? You will never leave the ‘hood if people can tell what kind of drawers you wear just by looking at your ass. (By hood, I mean the wool you’re pulling over your eyes if you really thinks that’s acceptable clothing, whether you’re from Harlem, Greenwich, Connecticut or Aleppo, Syria) … And why the five-pound over-jeweled counterweight you call a belt.? It serves no function or purpose- it’s at your calf! The only purpose it could serve is ensuring that your dick head doesn’t pop out through the pee hole in your boxers when you stand up too fast. How must you see yourself to think this is how and man, a boy should look! You’re the epitome of a societal malignancy. I saw a white guy on 34th Street a couple days ago when I was with a friend , walking in the cold with no jacket, no belt with his pants falling slightly and step he took revealed a little more crack. It’s definitely not just a racial issue anymore, that guy had to have felt the breeze rushing down his crack, it was like 36 degrees out…
what people will do in the pursuit of bad fashion never ceases to amaze me.
I always think if these guys (and some girls) could really see how they look in the street, walking, waddling rather, like March Of The Penguins: The Denim Edition, then they would know how stupid they look. [Big Phat FAIL] Then these guys have the audacity to sit on the bus or train seats nearly bare-assed, that’s scandalous, just as nasty as this girl.
I’m not even going to get into the societal impact and influences, how long can we blame rappers for the things you do. just because Jeezy, Weezy and Kanye wear their pants under their ass doesn’t mean you have to do it too. Are you going to rain on Taylor Swift’s parade too and date birdbrains with buzz cuts then impregnate the entire South- everyone can’t pull that off. I don’t even want to blame rappers for what goes on in the hoods on America (and beyond), that’s so 90′s. It’s time for us to take responsibility for our own actions, appearance and the repercussion of such. It’s just like the family and friends of anorexics blaming the modeling industry, eventually personal responsibility has to come in to play… to be continued..
*post script* In the picture above: not only is the guy’s pants off his ass and he’s sitting on a metal seat in an NYC Public hospitals emergency room, his shoulders and posture illustrate the messages he’s sending out, at-large. The saddest (or funniest) part about the bottom picture is that the guy’s left hand makes it look like he’s really walking around with his cock out on Canal Street, or something. I don’t even know how this is physically possible because book bags make your clothes ride up and down, eventually he’s going to have a malfunction. Shame.
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Genie pants, hammer pants, harem pants, I don’t care what you call them, they’re not right. They say that fashion travels from east to west like the sun, which explains why this stain is just now getting to us even though I saw this in Greece 18 months ago. This look was gross 18 months ago, it was laughable 18 years ago, why are we doing it again. I wonder if hammer pants really hit the streets as everyday fashion back when Hammer was around.
I understand that I don’t know everything about fashion, but I know when something’s so “aesthetically displeasing” it turns my stomach. What in the world can be attractive about an extra flap of material swaying between someone’s legs. It’s couture foreskin, circumcision in reverse. I’ve heard of letting it all air out, but damn, whole trends shouldn’t be a product feminine hygiene needs. Speaking on femi-anything, the first character in the line-up is a man. ‘Lady man’ yes, but man, just the same, I’m not even going to address the fact that this he’s wearing ladies wear, this is New York City, I’m just mad that this fashion exists at all.
I blame the Olsen twins for this vagabond/ hobo-chic style that’s enveloping the city (and the runways.) There’s nothing cool about spending big bucks to look poor. If I see one more uggs and genie combo, I’m goin to lose it. That’s AntiHorny.101. Women are going to start going farther with the fashion, calling it “Marsupial Pants,” soon you’re going to see shops in SoHo selling pants that come with baby pouches in the crouch like kangaroos or walabies. It’ll be in Vogue by Spring ’11, no that’s not a baby bump, it’s a baby dump.
It hurts me to admit, but I have seen some tasteful harem pants out there, but it’s definitely a Goldileocks Scenerio: Tinkerbell’s pantaloons, on the right, are way too loose and Perez Hilton’s jersey/knit hammer pants are choking his calves. Diane von Furstenberg does it just right with her tailored capri/harem pant. Yet still, I gagged a little when I saw it on ItsFariyall.
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Ladies I don’t get it, how do y’all do this: wear short shorts or a skirt and let your [almost] bare skin touch the New York City, Metropolitan Transit Authority’s seats. It that seat’s life time a bum shit and slept there, people had sex on it AND the lady came back to give birth RIGHT there. Gross, yuck and ewwwww. I wonder if you can catch an STD for sitting like that. Shoot, nylon stocking ain’t latex, seat goop will get up in there, especially if the radiator’s on under the seat. Come to think of it, I’ve seen transit workers sweep the floor and such all the time, but I’ve NEVER seen the seats being cleaned- EVER. *Squat At Own Risk*
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