The general fashion/style/please dress me thread

Objectively speaking, nothing. I listed my personal opinion. There is nothing wrong with tribal tats or tramp stamps or belly button rings or nose rings or whatever.

Well no. I try to offer information about what 'society' deems good as a baseline. It's a not particularly interesting baseline, but it's a safe one. If you understand the baseline, then you can branch from there making informed decisions.

I'm actually surprised it took this long for some defensiveness to rear up, so I guess I'll address it now =)

TIME TO GO META

The dirty secret about style is this: the way you present yourself is a short hand for other people to make judgments about you. So when you make a conscious choice about your appearance -- and I'm talking everything from piercings to tats to hair dye to clothes to shoes to makeup to handbags to whatever -- you are telling the world how you expect to be perceived. If you don't make a conscious choice, then the message is basically Fuck you world, I don't care what you think about my appearance. Which is also fine!

There is nothing objectively wrong with being an ultragoth, a hipster, a metal dude, a gamer geek, a marketing guy, a house dad, or a granola hippy. You choose a uniform to identify yourself to others sympathetic and/or antagonistic to your tribe. This is normal and expected, and any negative judgments are part and parcel to the uniform.

Those negative judgments will be a combination of personal experiences on the part of the observer, societal stereotypes, media portrayal, and peer groups. Those judgments are not absolute, they're purely subjective. Clearly my experiences with people who wear thumb rings has been non-positive.

guys, guys, I asked a question about SCARFS. Let's focus attention back on ME AND MY PROBLEMS K?

Scarfs are fine. Just not tramp or thumb scarfs.

Scarves are awesome because they're so versatile and come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and patterns. Men and women can wear them, they're easy to layer and remove, and it's always surprising to me how few people wear them unless they're in a habitually cold climate where it's a survival issue.

That said, for your particular case I think you just have to experiment with different ways of tying until you find a couple variations that work for you.

Tribal scarves are totally cool though. =)

I wear two rings:

The right one belonged to my paternal grandfather, who died when I was little and had worn it every day until he died. My father kept it in a box for a while, then asked if I wanted it. It's stayed on my right hand since.
The left one belonged to my maternal grandfather, who died a year and a half ago and had worn it every day until he died. My grandmother gave it to me shortly after the funeral. It's stayed on my left hand since.

Other than that, I don't wear jewellery(other than a brief period in my late teens when I had a pierced nostril. Yes, radical, I know).

Thoro loots his dead relatives.

If there is one thing about women's clothing I do not understand, it is why women are willing to purchase items of clothing without pockets.

I can understand being willing to purchase things in odd styles, or which have this or that the matter with them (sleeves shorter than you want, skirt too high, skirt too low, neckline too deep, neckline too wide, fabric too thin). But I would seriously make my own goddamn clothes rather than wear pants or a jacket without actual pockets.

Only way to keep them from using the power of their phylacteries to rise again as draugar.

In my case, it's not usually "willing" so much as "didn't realize they were fake GODDAMNIT WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS FUCK THESE FAKE-ASS POCKETS AUGH"

Well, it's an irritant, to be sure, but we do carry purses around so at least part of the time we have a place to stash stuff :)

Sing it, sister

Test everything.

Men's suits have shifted towards fake pockets. I check pockets before I buy a suit now. Full of rage. Full of rage.

The coat I bought a couple weeks ago was like that. My knowledgeable and worldly friend (who helped me select it) said this is done to protect pockets from catching on snags or otherwise ruining the item during shipment. We cut the strings sealing the pockets and they work fine.

They're sewn (or tacked) shut for a variety of reasons. It helps keep the shape better when packed, shipped, and displayed. It also keeps people from sticking their hands in their pockets while trying things on and thus screwing up the lines even more (if they put them back). It's also evidence that the clothing is new and not a return, similar to buying something in shrink wrap (or how hotel maids do the little triangle fold on toilet paper to show that they've cleaned the bathroom).

Any reputable clothing store will take out the stitching at time of purchase (using a seam reaper, not scissors).

Note that jackets/blazers will also have their vents sewn closed as well, make sure you don't walk around with those still intact!

Is it just me or does "seam reaper" sound both intriguing and evil at the same time?

Help! The army base is under attack by the dread seam reapers!

Who puts anything in the pockets of a suit jacket? And what? That is not what those pockets are for.

Oh man. I see this way more than I really should. Especially since many times the vents are sewn shut with copious amounts of dayglo-white twine.

Do none of the ladies keep stuff in their bra? That's a thing over here, I do it all the time. I wear a lot of dresses and they don't have pockets, so I'll just put my keys and my phone (not a smartphone so it fits) in my bra.

Yes. Sometimes. Depends on the bra, really. Also they make bra pockets now.

I do not have one of those, though.

A brief history of the off-the-rack size dilemma in the US. I thought it would make a nice companion to those earlier Cracked posts.

NOOOOOOO bras are the ONLY THING I can absolutely know my size going into and find exactly what fits without having to fuss with numbers and letters! AUGH.

Maybe I can take solace in the fact that my size is so bizarre that I can generally only get it from specialty shops to begin with, so I've got time yet before arbitrary sizing takes hold there.

I must admit I do not understand using your bra as a storage device. How do you get anything back out? For that matter, how do you fit anything besides boobs in there in the first place?

In your cleavage, mainly. I personally don't do it because I don't like calling attention to my boobs as it is, and extra fiddling with my underwear would definitely do that.

Why is that woman over there scratching her armpit?

Ohhhh... that's why it makes no sense to me. I don't have any of that. :)

Pockets exist to put things in. That is their only purpose.

You are clearly in the wrong thread.

I am clearly being just as serious as the person I replied to.

I am so guilty of stashing my cash and ID in my bra when I go out and don't wish to carry a purse. Dresses need more pockets!

I started reading this on your recommendation, and I'm about a third of the way in. It's really interesting how basically the business minded guys took over and turned the industry from millions to billions in a fairly short amount of time.

I put stuff on the sides. I don't know, maybe I have weird boobs or something? Oh wait, I think I do know this: I buy pretty cheap bras that will get looser over time, so more storage space!

Anyway, I want to go into a brarant but it's like 1.30 at night here so it's going to have to wait till morning. Be warned that it's coming I guess.

I don't know, do these look weird to you?

Weird.

Pockets on suit jackets exist to look nice. Nobody puts anything in them, ever.

Yes, the one on the left is bigger. I'm told that happens.

I have known far too many other people who do, in fact, use the pockets on their suit jackets to put any credence in what you say. And some of these people are British, and awesomely stylish. Also, dat accent.

I suppose putting a piece of paper (tickets, etc.) into the suit jacket pocket would not be a problem, although I don't know why one would bother.

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