changing up yr style and/or new look 4 u in 2012

I would like to find undershirts that are extra-long, does anybody have a good brand for that

i think your purchase of black socks was a very good one!
tho white socks are good for sporty times
i think the general key with undershirts is just to match them to your dress shirt, right? especially if you've got the top button undone, like don't wear a white undershirt with a dark shirt. i have to say that as a woman i never thought about this re: guys' clothing until a few years ago when i dated someone who dressed well yet always wore white undershirts - and me being who i am, actually told him (nicely!) that it looked wrong. he is still my friend and doesn't always match his undershirt to his shirt but really, whatevs!

I decided to resurrect these super old high waisted jeans I bought right before they stopped making high waisted jeans (and long before anyone started making them again). So I'm wearing these jeans, and just kind of feeling shitty. Why do I feel so nervous? It is a stressful time of the year for me, deadlines and all, maybe it's that.

Then I realized that it was not that. I am not stressed about work so much as I am UNABLE to take a complete deep breath with something cutting off my circulation at the middle.

Damn these pants.

"I would like to find undershirts that are extra-long, does anybody have a good brand for that"

Hanes has a tall range in their undershirts.

i hate black socks fwiw. i find them repulsive but admitteldly i'm kinda weird about it.

Bought a beautiful Katharine Hamnett pullover today. Subsequently found out it was made of baby alpaca yarn, which made me a little sad for the baby alpacas.

They don't have to hurt them to get the wool, I'm pretty sure!

No, but it can get cold in the mountains of Peru if you have no wool, i'm sure.

i'm glad someone is thinking of the baby alpacas' comfort!

i didn't know guys still wore undershirts as undershirts

Me neither! That's what I was thinking as I read this, "Guys still wear undershirts?!".

yeah it means you can go longer without having to wash your dress shirts and they therefore last longer etc

Ahh! I thought it was for warmth or something. lol. The more you know etc.

pro tip: don't wash your dress shirts in the wash even if it says it's okay on the label, take that shit to a dry cleaner.

Let me try this... http://demandware.edgesuite.net/aaer_prd/on/demandware.static/Sites-UK-Site/Sites-hb-master-eu/en_GB/v1326466917296/products/category/hbeu50210776_068_1.jpg

dry cleaning can be as bad for your clothes as a washing machine #protip

I bought one of the above yesterday and wore it to the office today. It helped me overcome my insomniac daze and make like a banking professional!

eh, as someone who has worn dress shirts daily for the past two years I find my dry-clean only dress shirts to be in much better condition than my dress shirts which I have put in the wash. then again, I only get them dry-cleaned like 3-4 times a year. I don't have pit sweat, though, so ymmv

cute dress!!

i am so amazed by people who don't have pit sweat.

do you hang dry or dry them in a dryer

how many times would you wear a shirt before dry cleaning it?

I have everywhere sweat, but lower back sweat is THE WORST. Officially. I've done studies.

Ooof that dress!!! <3

I'm wearing tights that are almost thick enough to be leggings and a really short stretch skirt and tunic cardigan. No, I am not La Lechera, I just play her on TV.

yeah I think that may have been a mistake - I dried them in a dryer. if I ever wash a dress-shirt in the wash again I'll definitely do it on delicate setting, no dryer. I just remember buying dress shirts, being pleased at how nice they were, then washing them in the wash and being all :^( when they came out drab and dead.

xp

once a week

xp - hahahaha

i need to get out of these pants ASAP for real

Thx for the dress love, as work things go, it is pretty hot! I've found trousers have got harder to wear as my tum gets fatter, and dresses are so quick in the morning.

how many times would you wear a shirt before dry cleaning it?

twice

Undershirts on guys also help prevent nipple/chest hair show-through.

i'm with mark on this one

http://28.media.tumblr.com/79foGQC8fnis27b6kfyxYSzso1_500.jpg

I meant show through the fabric of your shirt, not show at your collar, per Rark Muffalo, which is A-OK in my book.

yeah obv it depends on the shirt and the fabric and everything

a li'l bit of chest hair showing, a la mark up there, is a good look imo

ya the great thing about the v-neck is that you can get the chest hair look w/out pit stains

^^^ protip

i don't get pit stains in la because i drive in my climate-controlled car from one air-conditioned place to another.

shawls for warmth indoors: repulsive/matronly or unjustly ignored/viable?

K-LASSIC. Easily converted to a headcovering in the winter weather, and also to an around-the-neck scarf accessory indoors if just warm enough.

OTM

Shawls are totally classic imo.

I'm wearing a really nice dress and nice high-heeled Italian black ankle boots today and combining them with a stoplight-yellow cheapo hoodie. I think I might buy 6 more colors of hoodie and add one to every outfit from now on? Even the classiest, most conservative looks. Should be interesting.

the old hi-lo is always agl!!

shawls for warmth indoors: repulsive/matronly or unjustly ignored/viable?

I'm wearing one right now, in fact.

I watched The Assassin Next Door over the weekend, and it occurred to me that the coolest-looking women in any movie always get out of prison/slavery/hell/parts unknown and the first thing they do is buy/steal/find a leather jacket, or possibly a trench coat, and some kind of shoes they really really love, whether that's insane $1000 spike-heeled boots or combat boots or a pair of black sneakers. The color black does figure heavily.

Goal for 2012 is to be more like them.

Also: a firearm, but that seems like a lot of bother.

dryers are the clothes killer. move to england, where no one has one

http://i2.listal.com/image/1140777/600full-the-assassin-next-door-poster.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AWH-9nLgrTs/SinLqHu2QRI/AAAAAAAAHGw/mb6bCXy9KrQ/s320/pdvd105mk2.jpg

http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/The-Girl-with-the-Dragon-Tattoo.jpg

Bonus hoodie there.

omg that geena davis pic looks like geena davis dressed up as YOU

Flattery will get you everywhere.

I decided to resurrect these super old high waisted jeans I bought right before they stopped making high waisted jeans (and long before anyone started making them again). So I'm wearing these jeans, and just kind of feeling shitty. Why do I feel so nervous? It is a stressful time of the year for me, deadlines and all, maybe it's that.

Then I realized that it was not that. I am not stressed about work so much as I am UNABLE to take a complete deep breath with something cutting off my circulation at the middle.

Damn these pants.

― La Lechera, Monday, January 16, 2012 3:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think you feel shitty because we're not used to the structured fashion of the 80's and 90's anymore. lowrise has freed us up and now youre all caged in again. like wearing high heel after wearing sneakers only for a while.

dryers are the clothes killer. move to england, where no one has one

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

how do clothes get dry in england? isn't it really humid and wet all the time?