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

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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.

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

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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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