Is anyone else tired of seeing guys with these kinds of shirts?

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http://www.ae.com/web/browse/category_feature_item.jsp?rcid=mens&scid=cat40005&navroot=mens

I could only find examples of these shirts on AE's website but obviously there's lots of manufacturers who make them.

Who do I have to pay to see these shirts disappear? Please tell me who started this trend so I can kill that person.

Meatheads, rappers, indie kids, preps and everyone except goths seems to wear them.

― alma, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

uhh... what is the difference between those shirts and well, shirts in general?

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm way way more tired of things like this:

http://www.ae.com/web/browse/product.jsp?rcid=mens&scid=cat90018&sscid=&navroot=mens&productId=0162_2070&size=

offensive!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

they just look like shirts to me. what's so distinctive about them?

xpost

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The preppy button-down shirts I can live with, but if you're over the age of 14 and wearing a shirt with a "funny" caption on it, please kill yourself now.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

also ones that say stuff like "AL'S SURF SHOP" and then the store name hidden somewhere, stupid

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Tell you what I'm sick of seeing, and this is particularly in provincial UK - blokes (yes, blokes) in pink shirts. Not only because it seems to be making the statement of "I can wear a pink shirt so the girls'll think I'm sensitive, but really it's an excuse to TWAT ANYONE WHO MAKES A COMMENT", but also because if I try shopping anywhere near my home town, that's all I can find! And quite frankly, I'm not hard enough to wear a pink shirt.

At least I know who to avoid when I'm walking home on a Friday night.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link

there's nothing wrong with them per se it's just annoying to see how *everyone* all of the sudden started to wear them. i mean, why?! you cant espace them if you go to a nightclub.

it's boring too.

― alma, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link

How about the CHINESE LAUNDRY SHIRTS with ugly racist caricatures?

Also, shiny shirts worn by greasy townies while clubbin in northeastern american college towns.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link

like high school? (xpost)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm tired of those types of button-down shirts made hipster-friendly by some stupid screen print, like a dragon or something. and these shirts are always worn with faded jeans

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Wearing "comedy" t-shirts with "amusing" slogans really should be punishable by a swift kick in the knackers.'

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Caitlin OTM. Who buys this kind of crap? And places like Topman churn them out at a rate of knots. And they're all not only desperately unfunny in the most juvenile way, but they're 99.999% of the time absolutely disgusting to look at. Like someone ate a bunch of double entendres and then threw up a load of clingfilm covered in smegma all over a piece of rotten cheesecloth.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link

trust no one wearing an urban outfitters t-shirt, i say

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

i thought the pink shirt (when worn by a frat boy or similar) was kind of a homophobic thing, like acknowledging that they know pink is such a gay color but it would be funny if someone SO NOT GAY (just a bro) wore pink

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

They all want to be Cam'ron.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Those shirts at the top are OK, when understated. They're light cotton, which is nice for hot summers (and hot springs, and hot falls). They only start to look really stupid when some bro buys his two sizes too small to show off his man-boobs and cheeky-slogan t-shirt.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost
kirk?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

acknowledging that they know

yes, good job here

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

What exactly is wrong with stripes?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm tired of those types of button-down shirts made hipster-friendly by some stupid screen print, like a dragon or something.

Oh, God, it's either a dragon or a Japanese cartoon character. Vomit.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link

this too.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/images/us/local/products/productsall/p215843b.jpg

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe it's a german band called die hipsterscum

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

self-reflexive clothing

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

guys wear pink for the same reason that they wear light blue

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i wear pink because i like it

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i wear light blue but not pink.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Erm, I'd rather be a hipster than wear something that references hipsters. Also, the striped shirts at the top look fine. They're the kind of thing a lot of us wear as a default thing. As someone who teaches at a university, they're perfect for smart-enough-for-work, even if they're not really interesting.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

you can wear pink! i'm talking about insecure and repressed college boys

xxpost

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I like some of the higher end levi's plaid patterns. Pockets usually have a sort of mild western cut. Awesome colors... which reminds me to go buy one in all the wonderful shades of green....

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/images/us/local/products/productsall/p205309c.jpg

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I wear pink all the time. Some of it really started life as pink clothing, but there was a red t-shirt in the white clothes laundry disaster also. All white underwear and socks become a soft, washed out pink.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://hcgtv.com/media/xfiles/natalee_suspects_sm.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

If you wear a G Unit shirt, I'd say there's a strong case to be made in favor of you getting the middle finger every day for the rest of your life.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/images/us/local/products/productsall/p149598c.jpg

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

this seems a bit over analytical.

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

its ok. preppy doods be wearin pink shirts cuz they see JT and ASHTON rockin em on tv and then they see they are on sale at target for 12.99.

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.wellcoolstuff.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/metoony17.jpg

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

those american eagle shirts are so, well gay. don't mean it as offense to anyone gay - it's just that gay men are about the only people with
the hot bods and the hutspuh (sp?) to wear them well. Or, straight hipster guys between 16 and 24 years old - otherwise, forgedabodit.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

guys wear pink for the same reason that they wear light blue

To bring out the color in one's eyes?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link

My cousins got me this shirt for x-mas/b-day.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

the shirts from the top don't seem THAT bad. what's far far worse are those diagonal-striped right shirts that guido'ish dudes wear on the weekend to hang out at superclubs. like these:

http://images.overstock.com/f/102/3117/8h/www.overstock.com/images/products/T417562a.jpg

the original shirts look fine. kinda like cheaper, less gay version of Paul Smith shirts:
http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/paul-smith-striped.jpg

also, i like pink shirts.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

ive been wearing button down shirts since forvever. less so since hathaway closed up shop a few years back. but what is with the 'broken in ' look with the shirts at the top? im not going to wear something that is wrinkled to the office thanks.

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Incidentally, I love a man who can carry off a pink shirt. It's a rare quality and is to be appreciated at any time one sees it being done, and done with panache. A moment of humble silent appreciation for the man who wears a pink shirt and wears it well. Hubba hubba.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link

is it really that hard to wear pink?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link

A moment of humble silent appreciation for the man who wears a pink skirt and wears it well. Hubba hubba.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link

untucked, striped dress-shirts, usually with the top three buttons undone (perhaps combined with a corny-ass pair of 7 jeans) instantly mark u as a chump, imo. i like to play this game on nights i'm out where i count how many striped shirt douchebags i see. i usually stop at like 50 that i encounter in less than 30 mins. last week i told some dickhead i liked his cheesy shirt and his lips quivered lol

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't like using the expression but this is so fucking OTM.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link

last week i told some dickhead i liked his cheesy shirt and his lips quivered lol

hehehehaeaahhhaa

― DR. O. RLY (eman), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link

"i like your shirt, guy!"

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha, I am so busted, I own that exact Paul Smith shirt.

It hurts when the stereotype is *true*

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i think everything caitlin said on this thread was otm, and i don't think the frat boy homophobic pink shirt wearing was over-analytical...

― tres letraj (tehresa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link

most OTM was phil-two, re: guido shirts

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

is this like a new phase of fashion policing? i reckon i'd be pretty unlikely to notice what manner of striped shirt random folks in the pub are wearing unless it was blindingly awful. maybe i should be more observant.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:23 (eighteen years ago) link

WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE FLIPPING UP THE COLOR ON THEIR PINK SHIRTS WHO HAVE FAUX HAWKS.... AND RUSHED BUT DIDN'T PLEDGE A FRAT?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:47 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah now i get it, the salmon coloured tshirts with the turned up collars are pretty annoying. distressed jeans and haviana thongs are part of that uniform too.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:48 (eighteen years ago) link

PAC SUN D00DS

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:50 (eighteen years ago) link

basically anytime i see someone wearing this i want to gay bash them.

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link

ps. http://njguido.com/

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Ha ha, I am so busted, I own that exact Paul Smith shirt.

i wish i had one :(

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

omg from that njguido.com site, i just found out that LA BOUCHE played on new years eve!!! i wish i had known!

http://njguido.com/Addbanners/2005/January/new_years_eve__flight.htm

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link

is it really that hard to wear pink?

No, it isn't.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Interests: popping collar, your mom, girls, cars, BEING AWESOME

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BEING AWESOME (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i guess RWU isn't that big on spelling and punctuation.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link

is he making a hand motion or holding a drink in every picture

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i hadn't looked at the pics, that's classic. i can't believe people like this really exist, i thought they were a figment of the imagination of whoever is responsible for that american pie/road trip genre of movies.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link

"i can't believe people like this really exist"

rofl for real? r u from england?

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Interests: popping collar, your mom, girls, cars, BEING AWESOME

Surely this is satire

― splates (splates), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Interests: Guster, Dispatch, O.A.R., 311, Bob Marley, Jason Mraz, Jump Little Children, the Roots, John Butler Trio, Jurassic 5, Kanye West, the Killers.

woah man, Bob Marley and 311? you eclectic basard

― splates (splates), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm australian. i'm naive, what can i say. and he likes john butler trio? oh dear oh dear oh dear.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Are the John Butler Trio known outside Aus/NZ? I hope not

― splates (splates), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link

if frat boy knows of them it seems likely the rot has spread

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link

no it's cool, i just figured it had to be a cultural difference or something. you can't not see these dewdz over heah

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

1. I don't believe I own any pink, but it's never occurred to me to avoid it.

2. The shirts in the original post just seem sorta blah, the kinds of shirts that most young American men wear.

3. The Paul Smith shirt, on the other hand, looks nice and fun.

4. Which makes me wonder: I thought I objected to long-sleeved button-down shirts in general, but maybe I just hate the vast majority of them.

5. And yet can I imagine myself actually wearing that Paul Smith shirt? Would I be able to pull it off?

― probably should go on the insomnia thread (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Frats may not exist, but the spirit of frat boys lives on. Im in NZ and those popped collar/stripey shirt/pink shirt fuckknuckles are everywhere, I don't know what Gem's talking about, it's the same in Aus too.

― splates (splates), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

the clothing is everywhere, as you may note from my post above that i see it as never separate from distressed jeans and haviana thongs. i meant people like the myspace character and his caricature-like profile.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link

3. The Paul Smith shirt, on the other hand, looks nice and fun.

they're really expensive though. probably around $250-$300 or so full retail?

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 08:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I figured!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link

well, actually they're prolly closer to $200, but still...

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 08:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm wearing a pink V-neck today. Does this make me homophobic?

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i knew this would be a rumpie thread

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 10:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I *must* buy that Paul Smith shirt up there. It's lurvely. I am the stripy shirt monster these days - it's all I wear (plus underpants, jeans etc obv)

― j0e (j0e), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I just bought a jacket that looks a bit like that paul smith shirt. bit more green, maybe.

― waldo jeffers scenario (haitch), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

And yet can I imagine myself actually wearing that Paul Smith shirt? Would I be able to pull it off?
jaymc, you would look faaaaabulous in that shirt. We will take up a collection.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Those button down shirts (especially the pink) are a blast from the past, circa 1980's. Fond memories of watching preppy boy’s in Lacross button downs, sleeves rolled up(to show how relaxed they are), drenched in Drakar Noir dancing to “Pump up the Jam”.

I feel bad for western males and their limited wardobe options.With colour and texure as it's only varations.

― danielle g. (danielle g.), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Arf, AMERICAN EAGLE. How would one describe their style, exactly? A preppier, less outdoorsy, cheaper-ass Ambercrombie? Target Hilfiger? Who knows. But I bought a shirt there once, because I'd wound up crashing in Brooklyn and didn't want to go to work in the same shirt I'd worn the day before. Buying it in a deliberate wrong size actually got me something not terribly unstylish.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Anyway I am with everyone who didn't know they were allowed to get sick of these, what with their being pretty much just button-down basics -- kinda college-boy untucked button-down basics, but still generally just normal clothes across the board.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, I don't mind American Eagle all that much. They sometimes have decent music in the stores, and the clothes are kinda boring, but not all that offensive. Though I remember seeing a necklace there called "The Williamsburg Choker". It was hideous. I think it was like some hemp thing.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

people who wear the collars of their polo shirts flipped up

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh dear. I have two short-sleeved shirts with dragons, one with tigers and one that's just a wierd fire effect all over. I don't go clubbing in them! I promise!

― Vic Fluro (Vic Fluro), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Ew. I think the problem with the shirts shown in that link is the sort of beachy, self-consciously "casual" color scheme and the relatively wide set of the stripes, all of which keeps them from actually being as sharp or formal as, say, a Paul Smith, and not quite...urban enough to dress up. So the default setting is "hemp necklace and jeans" which you know where that leads and it's nowhere good. (Well, the PS shirts also have little angled cuffs and spread collars and lots of fancy details, but at an even more basic level they're just...crisper, in color and stripe.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

some people with lots of time on their hands should parade in front of A&F and AE stores with big placards of the kinds of stuff they used to sell

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Well yeah, these are rumply Abercrombie-style dorm-room-floor shirts. That seems pretty low on the list of things to be put off by, though. That's just normal teenage-boy / college-boy stuff -- that, khakis, baseball cap, cargo shorts, sandals, whatever. All y'all know you'd be way more annoyed if those dudes suddenly got ambitious and tried to wear anything more interesting.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

That Paul Smith shirt doesn't cost that much.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

American Eagle is ok by me because it's the ONLY place in my home town besides the Goodwill where you can possibly find a wearable T-shirt and jeans. (haha gabbneb, I found a vintage Abercrombie coat at the Goodwill - a navy blue wool swing coat that looked like it was made for an army nurse)

ohno, pink shirts
http://www.thomaspink.co.uk/

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

u guys care too much about clothes

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not listed right under "Solve World Hunger", no, but we WERE talking about the shirts in the first place! Er, what else should I be put off by?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

shirts are good, my new years resolution is to wear more.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

All at once, I hope.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i just cant imagine hatin on people over the color of their shirt.

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

bring on the solid color, full-body unisex uniforms, pls.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

i just cant imagine hatin on people over the color of their shirt.

im not hating on anyone over the color of their shirt. im hating on them over the direction of their stripes!!! big difference.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Better to be put off by = when those shirts are paired with those fishing caps, or something? I guess I just think of those shirts as such standard wear that I have a hard time having much reaction to them at all. Like we can associate them with fratboys, or something, and kinda rightly, but the fact is that the guys in the computer lab are probably wearing the same thing. That's just the kind of standard button-down they sell at young-people chain clothing stores.

The annoying thing about those diagonal stripes is the way they seem intended to emphasize musculature, or something. And this may be old-fashioned or sexist or even heteronormative of me, but I find something funny about these guys spending hours on the hair-gelling and then picking out the right shirt to supposedly flatter the broadness of their shoulders. Right -- now that I see that typed out, it really is kinda sexist, so I guess I'll have to make an effort to stop thinking that.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait but no, not sexist, because what's funny isn't just the idea of their primping and trying to look attractive -- it's that the diagonal-stripe trick is just kind of a lame way of doing that, as bad as really lame cleavage-displays on club girls or similar kinda-tacky "but I'm making myself look hot" moves. Whew. I will go on being faintly amused by the diagonal broad-shoulder striping.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

god do i really have to spell this out for u guys >:(

http://njguido.com/Picture%20Pages/2005/December/December%2031,%202005%20Casbah/bigimages/CASBAH%20NYE%20014.jpeg

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

see? see? guido shirts!

i have tons of striped shirts but horizontal stripes. actually, probably half my wardrobe is stripey shirts. but they're not button-down shirts..

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The "guido" kind is down-striped in dark colors and usually rather shiny / silky, whereas the college-kid kind is down-striped in light colors (usually blue/yellow/green) and cottony-thick, even a little post-flannel. See also: relative likelihood of being tucked in.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I have nothin particularly against these shirts, provided they're tucked in and one can wear a decent tie with them but what's with the throngs of people who seem to never be shod in anything but flip flops? I was waiting to get into a theater in the Marina on Monday while a cold rain fell relentlessly and every other guy walking down the streets was in his flip flops.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

nabisco, I don't think it's a difference of WHO is wearing these shirts, but for what occassion. i.e. rumpled oxfords are for hanging with bros, whereas shiny shirts are for picking up sluts.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Elmo, mwahaha, I was just going to say...the green stripey American Eagle/Abercrombie/Banana Republic shirt is for daytime; black w/ silvery stripes from Structure is for scoring after dark.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

That is NOT TRUE of the collegiate demographic. At all. It may possibly become true once some of them hit their mid-20s and get it into their heads that the new way to pick up women is by wearing shiny shirts at clubs, but by and large it is simply not true. E.g. your IT guy will go on wearing the rumply mall-chain shirt for daily purposes but will only try picking up a shiny diagonal-stripe dark number once, like a teenager attemping an overnight style-change, and will wear it to a club and feel silly and not pick up anyone and then basically never wear it again.

Dark-stripe switches are a smallish subset of the massive mall-stripe mainstream.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah those diagonal striped shirts (usually with tails and sleeves WAY TOO LONG) are fucking disgusting.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1567/willsmith9vi.gif

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

To be fair to the mild mannered college broz, not all of them dress like those greaseballs. xpost

In my experience, only sleazy townies wear those shirts because college bros like to party low key with just a keg and some tunes.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Tails on shirts are always too long.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Hm, Nabisco, hard to say. One of my IT guys has a chubby dominatrix tattooed on his upper arm and the other three are Jehovah's Witnesses, so it's hardly a representative pool.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Listen, it's fuckin' easy enough to not dress like an asshole if you are able to perform the following tasks:

1. Identify assholes
2. Observe that they typically dress like one another
3. Take note of what they're all wearing
4. Remind self not to spend lots of money for the privilege of looking like a dickweed next time you wander into Express for Men/Banana Republic/aforementioned cracker havens starting with A.

I don't have any respect/sympathy whatsoever for anybody, regardless or occupation, who wears stripeys on a regular basis, and if you wear $$ stripeys with ties to work on a regular basis then just go ahead and staplegun LOG CABIN REPUBLICAN to your head or something, FFS.

I mean, jesus, I know enough about clothes to realize that the pleated khakis I am currently wearing make me look like I'm pushing 45, but pushing 45 is not associated with, well, njguido.com or this dude that I've already posted like 5 times because yes, it's still funny to me.

It's not that hard! You can even wear polo or lacoste if you like to spend lots of money on shirts, you don't have to look like a dickhead! They still make solids!

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't wear pleats, dude... not cool...

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Also can anybody else help me pinpoint when the turtleneck-blazer combo went from being sort of casual-cool to straight doofus show? Is it another realm of decent looking outfits being spoiled by lazy IT guys overdoing it?

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm replacing these fuckin' things as soon as I can. I don't know why I put them on this morning even, except I was running late.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Ugh wtf with the pleats again?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=239 HAHAHAHA this is amazing

yeah I was with you until the pleated pants stuff, they make you look like a giant pear dude.

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

These dudes always end up as like "managers" at Best Buy or Nextel lording over the economically disadvantaged versions of themselves who didn't go to college.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Pleats don't make super skinny dudes look like pears. Just retards.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link

*winks knowingly*

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but they'll still give even the skinniest dude a set of man-hips.

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.geocities.com/hersandhersandhis/fadedrfcollage.jpg

― Bnad (Bnad), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it another realm of decent looking outfits being spoiled by lazy IT guys overdoing it?

Turtleneck-blazer combo is cool if you are French, but otherwise not so much, I think.

I really like Zara women's, but my question is, is Zara mens also cool or an easy way to instantly make yourself look like a jackass? Just wondering.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

don knotts can wear a scarf.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Zara mens = decent but dull.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

that chick w/ the guidos IS kinda hot, tho'. so if it takes wearing a shiny diagonal shirt to bang the likes of her, ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

gah, she looks horrible! though she does look like an enthusiastic cocksucker.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Thank you, Phil. Have I mentioned that I love you on this thread?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Are shiny thongs a guido thing, cuz those guys look like they have a few International Male catalogues stashed in the bathroom?

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

ARGH THE GOGGLES etc

― Dan (Milo, My Mind's Eye Hates You) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I guarantee that at least one of them is wearing a Scoop undershirt

http://www.internationalmale.com/HanoverAssets/intmale/product_images/a159zz.jpg

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously now, the REAL problem with these types of shirts are (a) they really only go well with people w/ darker complexions (IMHO, this goes for ANY sort of darker/brighter color -- i've never been a fan of the goth/indie-kid-with-dark-shirts look either); and (b) the ones worn by the likes of the folks in this picture tend to be really cheaply-made and either fade or begin to look more greasy than shiny/silky (though with this bunch, i reckon they'd just chuck the shirts when they start getting funky looking).

as for pink shirts: like, those have been mandatory preppy-wear since like forever.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, there's a big Northeast vs. the rest of the world divide here.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

and never mind the fact that the terms of the thread were set by a collegiate-at-best bizarre-social-categorizer. do we really have members of the A&F generation here?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

your signs are not my signs.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I guarantee that at least one of them is wearing a Scoop undershirt

I was like, 'I can't imagine Scoop selling something that looks like that', and then I was like 'Ohhhh.'

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

the girl in that photo totally could have gone to my high school.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I was waiting to get into a theater in the Marina on Monday while a cold rain fell relentlessly and every other guy walking down the streets was in his flip flops.

You were in the fucking MARINA Michael, people are required to dress that way there. Having money doesn't equal having any taste.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

this deserves a re-post

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1567/willsmith9vi.gif

― HAKKEBOFFER (eman), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link

http://myspace-260.vo.llnwd.net/00361/06/27/361637260_l.jpg

― I GUARONTEE ::cajun voice:: (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't like clothing that look like it's made from plastic, like a lot of the shirts you see at American Eagle. Also, I don't like it when guys where ridiculously baggy jeans half-way down their asses, or any other "ghetto" clothing, on both males and females, it's terrible. Dress like a productive member of society, please

― clouded vision, Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/01/04/PH2006010400854.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Abramoff be stylin'! Looking (quite fittingly) like a cast extra from a gangland noir film set in the 30s. START SNITCHING.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

full disclosure: i have a "bro" shirt similar to the ones those NJ guidos are sporting

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i have worn it twice. it's incredibly uncomfortable and i look like a douchebag and it's too cheesy to be a dress shirt, too dressy to be a casual shirt, and only exists for one purpose: clubbing at suburban bars and trying to maximize the pwnage of post-grad tang.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't worn a shirt on a non formal occasion for so long...

I'm sure somewhere out there is the right shirt for me, but I haven't found it.

Where do you guys even buy shirts? I always think it's weird that I have friends who wear a shirt, like specially, if they're going out, why don't they just buy nice t-shirts. I mean nothing wrong with shirts but I don't like the division between the two. I just can never find casual shirts that I like.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

black trench/raincoats are so low-class.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

he looks fat.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link

he's the bizarro Le Samourai version of Alain Delon

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

i EXCLUSIVELY wear button-down shirts where the shirt is some sort of colorful pattern and the collar is denim. it's just a bit classier, i find. pair that with some pleated jeans and i'm ready to hit the nightlife.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

This technically has nothing to do with the thread.

http://www.njguido.com/Picture%20Pages/2005/December/December%2031,%202005%20Casbah/bigimages/CASBAH%20NYE%20023.jpeg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 January 2006 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

No, but feel free to add more.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 5 January 2006 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Though Hitler Boy is freaking me out just a bit.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 5 January 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I like guys in Western-style shirts (though this model appears a bit poncey).

http://www.builtbywendy.com/onlineshop/images/WE103FI.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 5 January 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link

poncey >>>> guido

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 5 January 2006 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.timbland.com/images/bcsteve.jpg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 06:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Though Hitler Boy is freaking me out just a bit.

disturbingly, there are actually not one but two hitler boys in that pic. wtf?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 5 January 2006 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link

there's never only one.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 06:56 (eighteen years ago) link

http://slimages.macys.com/is/image/MCY/products/0/optimized/156260_fpx.tif?bgc=255,255,255&wid=273&qlt=90,0&layer=comp&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bilin&op_usm=0.7,1.0,0.5,0&fmt=jpeg

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 5 January 2006 07:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow njguido.com is the world's worst website. I was thinking it was International Male but no.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yes. NJGuido is horrifying, full of the kind of people who do push-ups in the parking lot so they look EXTRA PUMPED when they get inside.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 5 January 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link

the country shirt thing is pretty common here in nashville. i've got a couple with nice pearly snap buttons.

i have liked pastel shirts in the past. never had a pink one. but i had a yellow one with a collar and i'll never forget ... i sat down next to some smelly gutter dude on a BART train and he got up promptly and muttered, "faggot." it was kind of amusing. i didn't think people like that existed in the bay area.

being a nerd, it seems fairly common to be wearing t-shirts with logos and stupid math puns. etc. the ones touting sexualness always seemed stupid growing up. a lot of surf gear is overloaded with innuendo and stuff. we lived near a spring break haven too, so there was always some asshole with some sort of surfboard schlong zogg's sex wax "i bukake for bikinis" collage effect at most bars. a plain, white hanes pocket-tee was tasteful in that environment. probably still is. i stand by plain shit. nerd jokes and thrift store gear i like too. sucks to see the thrift look co-opted by mall chains and marked up 500% though.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm wearing a western-style pendleton shirt today.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 5 January 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I like the vintage Pendleton plaid shirts with the curved pockets. I've been kind of looking for a good flannel plaid shirt, I think it's time to bring those back - would get one from a thrift but they're always way too big for me.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link

ooops ... ok, try this:

click for funny

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 30 January 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.njguido.com/Picture%20Pages/2005/September/September%2024,%202005%20Lounge%2011/bigimages/DSCF0070.jpeg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 30 January 2006 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

oh gee, honey, look -- DOUCHEBAGS!!

http://static.flickr.com/70/217192390_7cbd2a43fe.jpg?v=0

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

open shirt guy: why?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought this was an andy thread initially.

And after all these years:

The Guidothon is still on

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

doesn't it make you miss the NYC metro area?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

why does every dude in that photo look like one of the gotti kids?

― gear (gear), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh

http://www.hottiegotti.com/

― gear (gear), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

WELCOME TO NORTH JERSEY, GEAR.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

you, too, can look like a genuine NJ guidette!

fashion

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 30 October 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Are you sure about that?

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

An amazing thing I learned from my wife (and witnessed firsthand) is that Israel has its own version of Jersey Guidos - they're referred to pejoratively as Arsim (as in the plural of "arse"), they stereotypically come from Sefardic backgrounds (North African or Middle Eastern Jewish) and they have a lot of the same markers - open shirts, gelled hair, gold chains, trance music blasting out of their cars (trancemobiles), etc.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, Google tells me the name actually comes from the Arabic word for pimp, not from "arse."

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.apple770.com/funny/PlaySheshPesh.gif

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

a recent (5/06) pic of this thread's favorite enthusiastic cocksucker:

http://www.njguido.com/Picture%20Pages/2006/May/May%2028,%202006%20DJais/bigimages/May%2028016_edited.jpeg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

and res ipsa loquitur, i suppose:

http://www.njguido.com/Picture%20Pages/2006/January/January%202006%20AVN%20Awards%20Las%20Vegas/bigimages/AVN%2006%20003.jpeg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i think these shirts are just reaching knoxville

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

call buttgirl crisco, cause she's fat in the can.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i think these shirts are just reaching knoxville

watch out, they'll be in chattanooga in a few years too.

― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link

call buttgirl crisco, cause she's fat in the can.

Huh?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

the washington post article linked to from that njguido page is pretty interesting.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

call buttgirl crisco, cause she's fat in the can.
Huh?

"can" = american slang for "ass/arse"
"crisco" = vegetable oil shortening that looks like lard, and is sold in a can.
"buttgirl" = the girl whose ass is in the picture i posted.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder if Enthusiastic Cocksucker and her friend there are the two girls mentioned in the Post?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Who do I have to pay to see these shirts disappear?

Ummmm...actually that'd be me.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

what the fuck happened to NJGuido? Now everybody in the recent photos looks... sweet and sensitive.

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 30 June 2008 06:21 (fifteen years ago) link

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