i need to go to uniqlo for these, jeans and shorts. pronto.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I want huger arms. I'm making inroads. Maybe there's a thread to revive about push-ups.
― reared on Shakespeare (kenan), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
no it's not
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure I fully agree w/ short-sleeves
completely sure I fully disagree w/ button-downs
― conrad, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
if you feel the sleeve-ends of these look bad, and do not have "huge arms" to show off, considering rolling them up. maybe even just once. it can improve things, in the right circumstances, and a lot of shirts like this cut the sleeves a little lower and wider than would suit a normal arm in the first place.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
there is the danger of looking even nerdier than usual
the only way around this is to, like, get huge arms.
huger arms, i mean
― SNaKaTTaK (goole), Monday, August 3, 2009 3:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
fyi this will make you look like jeremy piven in his terrible new movie
― max, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm already so dangerously close to looking pivvish as it is!!
― SNaKaTTaK (goole), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
surm, uniqlo stock is v. seasonal and changes fast, at least in the UK, so if you want to stock up on short sleeves you probably need to go soon!
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
that pic upthread is a perfect example of why folx need to size up.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
the only time I feel these are out of bounds is when they are plain white, because of mormon
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i like these and wear them well not often but sometimes in the summer
ha xpost i have a plain white one but its more for wearing under things
― she looked like blanka from sfII but chubbier (Lamp), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
should do a michael douglas in falling down vs dennis franz in nypd blue poll
― velko, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
shasta otm
― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
do me! did i buy a size too small? (sorry, it is dark here, so you'll have to go by the silohuette, but elmo should rest assured that this is not plain white)
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/Photo22.jpg
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
dare to untuck, cowboy
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
that half tucked look is my traditional post-evening-meal thing.
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
(it is not an affectation, it is because i ate too much and had to move stuff around)
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
no it's cute!
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
good fit. ok so i'm going to ask for a gift certificate to uniqlo for my bday gift.
basically all i wear above the waist these days is short and long-sleeved uniqlo linen shirts.
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i prefer snug polos, some of the sleeves on those short sleeves ones can be awkward for a skinnier dude like myself
― omar little, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2NTg3Mjk2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTE2NzY2._V1._SX300_SY400_.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
roll them, seriously
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
wait until u become married fatteyxposts
― velko, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
rolling short sleeve shirt sleeves seems unwieldy, no?
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
that is the look i fear with oversizing short sleeve shirts.
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
the malcolm in the middle dad, i mean
I usually recommend dressing for yr physique but I gotta say, the short-sleeved B Sherman-style tailored shirt in plaid or pattern or (esp) tartan check is one thing that, for me, the shirt itself takes precedence. It doesn't matter if yr arms don't fill out the sleeves. I pref tucked-in, but untucked is okay w me too. Button all the buttons, or leave the top one open. Do your thing. Just wear the shirt.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the only decent short-sleeve shirts i have are western ones from second hand shops. my favorite one is approaching RIP status, it's a thin shirt to start with and the left shoulder is practically transparent (possibly from the strap of my bike bag). ;_;
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
xp
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/MV5BMTQ2NTg3Mjk2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTY.jpg
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
^ sleeves are hueg!
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
That shirt is just plain too big for him. American Dad problem, dressing like toddlers, see many ILX threads over the years.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i just don't understand why sleeves like that are manufcatured
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
a good length seems to be about 3 inches above the elbow, for these types of shirts
― omar little, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Sleeve circumference matters less than sleeve length!! People w skinny arms, do not despair! Paradoxically, the solution is to show more arm, not less.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/stan-the-wizard-and-the-magic-mushrooms-ii-j-w-baker.jpg
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I simply cannot bring myself to wear these.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
(this thread title is maybe a little bit imprecise fwiw b/c "button-down" properly refers to the collar, not the front)
(not to be pedantic but the first image itt is not a "button-down")
(just fyi)
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bestinthecountry.co.uk/product_images/1467417012008222123.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone i've ever talked to in my life uses "button-down" to refer to the buttons that keep a shirt closed
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i always thought button-down was american for button-up (not that we call them "button-up")
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
sleeves are hueg
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone you've ever talked to in your life is wrong
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
We've done this before, I think button-down should only refer to the collar. Using it for the other kind is just laziness.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
do you call a button-down collar an Oxford collar?
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
This guy's a handsome motherfucker and even still, he looks like he wears a beeper on his belt-loop.
http://www.omdembroidery.com/pics/SP11.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
not so much, although often it's helpful to roll them before putting them on. this isn't like the big over-and-over roll you put into a long-sleeve shirt -- half the time it just means turning the hem back one time. if you have particularly thin arms and are good with fabric, you must even pull off the sort of loose, rounded roll I'm incapable of and always envy on people's jeans. it's really not too odd -- imagine a 1950s work shirt -- and a lot of shirts now are sort of built for it.
this is a pretty horrible example of what I mean -- I'm not sure I like it here -- but it's hard to find pictures, so here's one example: http://slimages.macys.com/is/image/MCY/products/4/optimized/522954_fpx.tif?bgc=255,255,255&wid=327&qlt=90,0&layer=comp&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.7,1.0,0.5,0&fmt=jpeg
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ I mean, that's sort of a lame shirt with a built-in roll -- I wish I could find a picture of just a 1950s-style button shirt with the sleeves rolled over once
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
how do you suggest i differentiate in casual conversation between a shirt that has buttons on the front and one that does not
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it makes sense that there is a term to distinguish between shirts and t-shirts that emphasizes the buttons, and you don't often need to to talk about the buttons on the collar, and when you do you can call it an Oxford collar, so appropriating "button-down/up" for the main buttons seems sensible to me.
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
you're a shirt
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnjQIQAtXOk/SgJlrYy_QdI/AAAAAAAACGk/7AvVvix9OaI/s400/mjolk-short-sleeve-shirt-bow-tie.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
they call that tie "the hitler"
― omar little, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a nice shirt, though
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you laurel for the taxonomy <3
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean c'mon dudes.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
guayaberas: classic? or only-for-cubanos?
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://kennedyembroidery.com/images/10-13-05/BG-8213S-web.jpg
― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Seriously? Shoulder seams are in exactly the right spot, length is good, if n/a has a gut it isn't showing. Sizing up would give him the look everyone's making fun of here.
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i like wearing them but no one else seems to like me wearing them. wish i had a salsa gig so i had an excuse.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
lol shasta u bitch
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The sleeves are hardly the only problem with all these shirts. Short-sleeve button-downs need to be patterned or safari style or pretty much anything other than NASA Control Room Engineer 1968.
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://kennedyembroidery.com/images/10-13-05/BG-7217S-web.jpg
manager of red lobster #6023
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― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://z.about.com/d/space/1/0/J/8/1/S70-35096.jpg
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the hitler tie shirt is well proportioned.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://kennedyembroidery.com/images/10-13-05/BG-8206S-web.jpg
the one-sleever, for war vets
― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I like guayaberas. But in the spirit of a fashion "exception", it helps if yr style should be pretty straitlaced except for the shirt. And like everything else, IT SHOULD BE TAILORED.
Do not wear guaybera with mandals and shorts unless you ARE actually PR/Cuban/etc and you are THERE RIGHT NOW.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Guayabera w green army shorts and Sambas = A+++ :D style mayhem!
NASA Control Room Engineer 1968.
But this is hot-cha-cha! NASA Control Room Engineer plus good hair or tattoos or something of your own that's modern, this is very "Houston, we have liftoff."
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i love it
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
tattoos otm
yeah the NASA square look is a key component to my style but YMMV
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
definitely key component of mine, although i guess that's not entirely surprising
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Hot-ch-ch-cha!
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Granted, even nerds had clothing cut better than what most adults where today, but you had better be athletic as hell to pull off that white button-up.
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
What are those, NASA guys? They got in a morning exercise, I'm sure.
― reared on Shakespeare (kenan), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought they were a bunch of Mormons listening to Tabernacle records.
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I am going to have to start posting random shirts from chain-store websites to counteract all this image-search goofery.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
oh great, ILX won't let me
http://images.urbanoutfitters.com/is/image/UrbanOutfitters/16009151_01_b
ooo, NASA
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
folx need to size up
pimping for steroids yet again
― velko, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been holding off posting pics of mods and skinheads all day. Don't tempt me.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a hot shirt
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
where is that from?
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Just Urban Outfitters, cause every other chain place I thought to try had an uncopyable Flash layout. (I usually get excited about finding shirts with flat cuts on the bottom, but that might actually be a little too flat, especially the way it's fitted.)
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Too long on that guy, too, which is saying something, as I'm assuming that guy is tall
it does look a tad long
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Lesson: don't tuck it in = good to go.
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Monday, 3 August 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://manolomen.com/images/Marc%20Jacobs%20short-sleeve%20shirt.jpg
― velko, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
would wear
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the shirt, too
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
― nabisco, Monday, August 3, 2009 9:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
this was like the best advice i've ever gotten
― valerie (surm), Thursday, 21 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 21 October 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
fun history of the guayabera at the miami history museum, online exhibit here http://www.historymiami.org/guayabera
circa 1897http://www.historymiami.org/guayabera-assets/images/lg_3-spanish-sergeant.jpg
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link