Clothing flaws

[theblackwatch]

Earlier today, something made me start thinking about items of clothing which aren't really that practical in some of the situations they are worn in. Here's one for a start:

The Flat Cap
Seems to be worn by quite a few rail enthusiasts when it's cold, particularly the older generation. Whilst it may keep the top of your head warm, your ears will still end up cold or frozen! A woolly hat is much more sensible in my view.

Anyone got any more?

 

[SS4]

High Heeled Shoes - have no practical use whatsoever

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Why do jackets never have enough pockets these days? I always end up spending more than the jacket cost me having it altered!

 

[Hydro]

Not quite a flaw, but what's with the current penchant for button flies on jeans?

 

[EM2]

Not quite a flaw, but what's with the current penchant for button flies on jeans?

Well, it's much more difficult to...cause yourself damage, shall we say?

 

[Toots]

Not really an item of clothing,but apparently there was a fashion for wearing glasses with plain glass them simply as a fashion accessory...all I can say is,it's a good job whoever came up with that idea didn't decide on an iron lung instead!

 

[Hydro]

Well, it's much more difficult to...cause yourself damage, shall we say?

Great, even jeans are dumbing down now.

 

[theblackwatch]

Why do jackets never have enough pockets these days? I always end up spending more than the jacket cost me having it altered!

I guess the average Joe Public doesn't have so many notebooks compared to enthusiasts!

 

[EM2]

Great, even jeans are dumbing down now.

Not really, jeans were invented before zips, so the designers are just returning them to their roots.

 

[Hydro]

Not really, jeans were invented before zips, so the designers are just returning them to their roots.

You didn't see Concorde engineers retrofitting props, did you?

 

[Greenback]

The Flat Cap
Seems to be worn by quite a few rail enthusiasts when it's cold, particularly the older generation. Whilst it may keep the top of your head warm, your ears will still end up cold or frozen! A woolly hat is much more sensible in my view.

I wear a flat cap sometimes, and I either pull up the collar of my coat over my ears or wear a scarf to keep them warm!

 

[Peter Mugridge]

You didn't see Concorde engineers retrofitting props, did you?

Never seen a picture of the Ram Air Turbine under a Concorde?!
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I guess the average Joe Public doesn't have so many notebooks compared to enthusiasts!

I don't put my notebooks into my pockets!

But like everyone else I do need pockets for things like my wallet, keys, tickets, cards...

 

[Bungle73]

Body warmers, they keep your body warm, but presumably your arms cold? :-?

 

[Bayum]

Take it no-one has any fashion sense at all?


Flat caps look better than woolly hats for a start.

Jeans with buttons look alright, and are nothing to do with the idea of getting genitalia stuck.

Geek chic glasses are all the rage right about now, complete with blazers, shirts and office style shoes.

Body warmers might not keep the arms warm - but they keep the 'core' (abdomen) warm.

Again, high heels have no practical use, but look good.

 

[142094]

People who wear shorts and sandals when it clearly isn't summer (whatever summer is in the UK anymore I don't know). These people deserve frostbite.

I can also state that people who wear their jogging pants half way down their arse and baseball caps tilted to one side are also deserving of whatever goes their way.

 

[Badger]

People who wear shorts and sandals when it clearly isn't summer (whatever summer is in the UK anymore I don't know). These people deserve frostbite.

I can also state that people who wear their jogging pants half way down their arse and baseball caps tilted to one side are also deserving of whatever goes their way.

I don't want them to stop, it makes for a fun game when waiting ages on a cross-city bus; get to watch them walk down the street and take bets on how long it takes them to fall down (they always do).

 

[Nym]

High Heeled Shoes - have no practical use whatsoever

They accentuate the curves of the buttocks and chest of women (and men) and make them seem taller, and therefore closer to the percived ideal, and therefore a better sexual partner, but I've never seen the deal with heals, and the're a pain to work / walk in...

(Yes I am male, yes I have, yes I was paid a lot of money...)

Why do jackets never have enough pockets these days? I always end up spending more than the jacket cost me having it altered!

Well, for the amount of things I have to carry about my person...

I have..
Wallet, Phone #1, Phone #2, (Used to have Phone #3 when I was on agency work), (Used to have fags (&Cigarettes) n lighter), keys, keycard #1, Starbucks card, season ticket, railcard, USB Flash drives x2, gum, 3 pens and a sharpie marker pen...

Hence why I have a pair of Dickes Redhawk trousers I used to wear for work, has enough pockets... All but the keys are in me trousers

Many moons ago I used to have a hell of a lot more about my person, but those days are long gone for when I was carrying...

Bayonet, Multi Tool, Spare Magazines x12, etc etc.

Notebook wise, that lives in my bag

 

[starrymarkb]

High Heeled Shoes - have no practical use whatsoever

Avoiding the Scunge in Slimelight?

 

[sprinterguy]

Not quite a flaw, but what's with the current penchant for button flies on jeans?

Seconded absolutely! Button flies are a right faff on, and I just don't seem to be able to get hold of (for less than an inordinately expensive price that you will never find me shelling out for a sundry item of clothing) a decent pair of zip fly jeans any more!
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Why do jackets never have enough pockets these days? I always end up spending more than the jacket cost me having it altered!

I have a leather bike jacket that I essentially live in whenever I'm out of the house, and I have exactly the opposite problem: Too many pockets. There can be a veritable treasure trove of items to be found in there if I've forgotten which pocket I've put something vital like my keys in!

 

[Nym]

I have a leather bike jacket that I essentially live in whenever I'm out of the house, and I have exactly the opposite problem: Too many pockets. There can be a veritable treasure trove of items to be found in there if I've forgotten which pocket I've put something vital like my keys in!

You ever used a 95 pattern jacket, my last count had over 12 pockets and compartments on it... Trousers have another 7, then the belt kit adds just, lots...

 

[Yew]

We all know that clip on bow ties look rubbish, And that normal bow ties are hard to do for most people

So how about clip on self tie bow ties, You tie it once, then once your happy with how it looks (less 'surgical' than a normal clip on tie, with character of its own). Giving you the best of both worlds. It's not like the cost would be much greater of you did it right.

 

[RPM]

I'd add all ties to the useless category. What good do they do?

 

[Liam]

Jeans.

Every pair of jeans I have ever owned I have found uncomfortable, perhaps it my 'rugby player thighs'. Much prefer a pair of loose trousers or cargo pants for going out and about in, otherwise a pair of jogging bottoms for around the house, nipping down to the shops etc.

 

[LE Greys]

For some reason, the flies on all my trousers have a tendancy to unzip themselves very slowly, which can cause consternation if I don't notice and pull them back up. That's one advantage of buttons (maybe I should stop buying cheap trousers - or am I just getting fatter?).

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Some weatherproof jackets only have a small "zipped" inside pocket which is useless when you carry the more traditional oblong-shaped wallet.

With regard to female fashion, I used to wonder how these girls managed in the middle of bitterly cold winters days when wearing "cropped-tops" which left their skin exposed in the navel reason.

The funniest item of clothing that I have seen is those jeans that seem not to start at the waist, but somewhere three-quarters the way down the buttocks, with the added bonus of the crutch being at kneecap level. Were these designed with orang-utans in mind?

 

[LE Greys]

With regard to female fashion, I used to wonder how these girls managed in the middle of bitterly cold winters days when wearing "cropped-tops" which left their skin exposed in the navel reason.

From what I've observed lately, it's the legs that will be cold. Skirts seem to have reduced to mid-1960s proportions (not that I'm complaining ). Some women wear tights to compensate, but those who don't must find things a bit chilly, especially in somewhere like Aberdeen (where I am).

 

[Hydro]

You ever used a 95 pattern jacket, my last count had over 12 pockets and compartments on it... Trousers have another 7, then the belt kit adds just, lots...

I used to use an older pattern (84?) snipers windproof job that was formerly my fathers when he was a Marine. Rather customised by the unit tailor when he had it, it had about (rough count, give or a take a few) a billion pockets. Knitted cuffs too, well worn material, streets ahead of my issue jackets. Plenty of space for hiding fags and sweets in when on exercise. Comfy too. Nice and baggy for throwing empty mags down the front of it. Like a gypsy's caravan it was.

 

[Nym]

I'd add all ties to the useless category. What good do they do?

Stop you looking like a prat in an open collared dress shirt and suit jacket?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Take it no-one has any fashion sense at all?


Flat caps look better than woolly hats for a start.

Not very practical in my case though; I need to keep my hearing aid ( right ear ) and cochlear implant ( left ear ) dry if it rains, so I wear a flappy hat ( of the Peter Storm Thinsulate type ). It's a darn slight warmer than a flat cap as well!

 

[Nym]

Fashion.... Sense?