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I bought a couple today in springlike colors. I plan to wear with skirts and my new Jack Purcells. How do we feel about fishnet kneesocks in varied colors on offer at Flying A?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

is thread intended to attract fashion advice or randy male ILXors?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I HEART KNEESOX!!!!!

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

these are sox for the knees?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

woman you drivin me crazy!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha, BOTH, Amateurist!

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i sounded like a hollywood russian in that last post.

"this thread ... it is ... howyousay ... 'arousing'? da."

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

How do we feel about fishnet kneesocks in varied colors

It's a good look.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

thenkyou, now i must, how you say, go to batroom.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha i never saw that adidas thread

ok instead of the soccer socks maybe i will get fishnet kneesocks

have we finally worn down the ilemale fashionpolice?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I have five pairs of striped knee socks. I also have pink Paul Frank knee socks that say "I Love Punk".

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

On women I find that they draw attention to their knobby knees.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

My socks cover my knees.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure those are kneesocks then RG.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

if i was in a computer lab i wouldn't be able to stand up right now!

(this is not an uncommon problem while at evergreen)

< /creepy>

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh. I will wear these socks to Buffython, and you can tell me what they are.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobby knees are hottt!

― buttch (Oops), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bermudashorts.bm/map/images/shorts.gif

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I heart knee socks too!

I have loads of them, but it's really hard for me to find ones that are tall enough on me to look like they're supposed to cuz I'm so very tall. I like wearing them with skirts all year long.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Despite what Jerry just did there, I still think kneesocks are hot. Probably all girls wear these in heaven.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Ho ho. You will all now get pervy emails in a few months time! Trust me, I've been there! I was wearing grey knee socks with an ARGYLE hem hem pattern in white on them on Sunday. They were super cheap from H&M! And great! And incredibly comfy! I am going to buy some more.

(And gained major ROWR points from a variety of viewers! Go me!)

NB the fishnet ones are amusing but somehow I can't see myself in them... pffff.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I will only wear knee high socks if someone buys me a pair of these:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/fonzsocks.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What is Flying A? And can I eat it?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I got some lufferly argyle-patterned brown kneehighs yesterday, to go with my new frock. Hooray for the ridiculously arbitrary five-day Easter Sales.

― petra jane (petra jane), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

jerry that made my life

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have stripy knee socks too. I love them. I have a pair of red fishnet ones, but they don't stay up too well. Knee socks are go.

Some of the school girls I see on the bus are wearing thigh high socks in either plain black or plain white. (Down male ILXers, DOWN). I want some, but have no idea where they get them from.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

heaven

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a ridiculous collection of tights and kneesocks. Wearing the thick grey wool kneesocks today with tall gucci boots & kenneth cole skirt & sweater. (I thought I had a meeting today and wanted to look nice plus I needed psychic reassurance provided by wearing boots so pointy they could KILL.)

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Knee Lenght Socks are the Kladderkatzjes of my wardrobe.
Sometimes when I lie awake at night I can hear them in my closet trying out new colours like there's a whole rainbow hiding in the deep darkness of my sock cupboard.
They come up with new pants/sock combo's: a miss-match like a hilarious momus vaudeville or dark monochrome minimalistic like sad commedia del'arte clowns.
They're the screaming drama queens out of the closet.
As all performancers they hide in the wings of the theatre till curtian call. then when they come up you cannot help but notice they have till just now fought over which colours should come up first.
Who has the lead?
The public then politely grins at this silly Burlington farce. One ridiculous argyle tumbling over another.
"Not in the BATHROOM!" one of the main colours shouts while he steps on a darkblue toe. (this line always has even the most 'difficult' audience in stitches)

― Erik, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Anna, don't you think you could those up at the nice school uniform store that Suzy and Gareth kept threatening to take me to?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, this is Flying A: http://www.flyinga.net/

It's a store on Spring Street that serves the fashion needs of most Ilxers: Rosemary's Paul Frank, Gareth's airport bags, Felicity's Snoopy wear, etc.

Used to be Buffalo Boots before it found its true calling.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

(I have never been to Flying A!)

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

We must rectify this.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't have knobby knees.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Saturday, then?

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Flying A + Buffython is a GO.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes!

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(I believe socks that cover the knees are called leggings.)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Anna, I just realized they were wearing thigh highs, in that case I sincerely hope the school uniform store doesn't stock them.

Another point to consider: the "loose socks" favored by Japanese school girls.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

No, leggings are spandex-enhanced creations, pantlike in their coverage. If socks go up to your thighs, they're thigh-high socks.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~mol/data/loo.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I just realized what Rosemary's socks are called. At the Sock Man on Astor Place, they have stripey "over the knee socks." Voila!

Just checking: has anyone ever looked good in thigh high socks? Besides Anna's girls on the bus, obviously.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they'd look terrible on me cuz my legs are so very very long. They would just look like pants I think.

(I love this thread! My bf thought I'd started it when he saw the title.)

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 25 April 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I can think of plenty of women who look great, or might look great, in thigh-highs. (Sadly I'm told that with the passing of the garter belt, the only effective way to keep them up is with capillary-constricting elastic or even some type of adhesive.) I've never seen a grown up look good in kneesocks.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

clearly you live on mars

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

martian knees are extremely knobby, jess

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

and their dogs wear tennis skirts

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

check this out, hstencil's wonderful late afternoon of women (kneesock-related):

1. I called Aimee at her work and talked to her as I left mine, walkin' and talkin' down to the 47-50 Street stop. Not sure if she was wearing kneesocks, but believe me I was thinkin' 'bout kneesocks.

2. In said stop, I see foxy chick wearing kneesocks, but with thigh-high big stomper boots! I didn't think this could be pulled off, but she had it stone-cold! *rowr*

― hstencil, Friday, 25 April 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

how could you see the socks if they were thigh high boots?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www0.arc.nasa.gov/projects/intelligent-robotics/k9/images/dog.gif

― sport martian style (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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I'm wearing legwarmers right now! They say "LOVE" and "HATE" in Gothick lettering.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 27 April 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I see lots of grownups who look good in kneesocks.

http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/usc/sports/m-basebl/auto_action/a-zito110702.jpg

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 27 April 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not wearing any socks or legwarmers because it's 105F in my apartment right now, so instead I have on underwear that has Fozzy Bear on them, and they say "WOKKA WOKKA" across my butt, it's the best thing I've ever worn and I'm really upset about not being able to wear them in public.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

*Insert the sounds of multiple male ILXor heads exploding*

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 27 April 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

really it's just hstencil's head, Jimmy.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally we found you a place on Ludlow where you can get My Little Pony underwear.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 27 April 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Felicity is the Robert Mitchum of twee.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 27 April 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~nanao/room/dairyphoto/20020103-01.gif

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 27 April 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.reelartgallery.com/pages/c/clueless.jpg

lest we forget

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 27 April 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1995/posters/clueless.jpg

lest we forget

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 27 April 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm.. wtf? did those two pics show for anyone else?

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 27 April 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

First yes, second red X.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 April 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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Robert Mitchum: Real American Badass
liquorhead - 09/08/00

"The only difference between me and other actors is I've spent more time in jail."-Robert Mitchum

When you see actors and musicians who live their lives as if they are real life tough guys, it's funny to remember that half of these guys experiences with the police are from watching COPS on TV.

Take Kid Rock, for instance. He wears the monicker AMERICAN BADASS, but with the "roughest" part of his past consisting of being a member of a breakdancing crew named "The Furious Funkers", you realize that AMERICAN CANDYASS is a more fitting title.

Don't get me wrong. Being in and out of jail alone is no way to deserve a badass title (I'm sure nobody would throw Jim Bakker or Robert Downey, Jr. that nickname). But when you lead an amazing "real life" as well as produce entertainment that truly portrays the BADASS image, you've got what it takes to be called that for real.

Pound for pound, you just don't get more badass than Robert Mitchum.

Let's just look at this guy's childhood for a moment. His father was killed in a train accident when he was just 2, and after 12 years of living with his Aunt, he ran away from home and wandered the roads. He made ends meet by rolling hapless bums he came across, and while strolling through Georgia, he was picked up for vagrancy and forced to be a part of a chain gang.

Obviously not wanting to spend his days splittin' rocks with hammers, Mitchum escaped after 15 days and headed out west, an instant real life fugitive.

Mithcum continued his badass ways by becoming a professional boxer and fought in 27 fights. The abuse from angry fists eventually gave him the sleepy eyes and busted nose that became his trademark in years to come.

His experiences that followed were even more bizarre and varied. He was a ghost writer for a popular astrologer, a poet, and worked for a while at Lockheed in a job that was so intense and stressful that he was blinded for a short time from the pressure.

When he finally got his first break in the film industry, by getting cast in the 1943 film THE DANCING MASTERS, he went on to appear in 13 more movies...ALL IN THAT SAME YEAR.

X-E fans should take note that in 1945 Mitchum starred in the film THE STORY OF GI JOE. Yep, nearly 25 years before the toy, Mitchum was laying down the foundation for what would later evolve into a worldwide phenomenon. It's hard to think that without Mitchum we may not have had Cobra Commander, but it's true! And don't think it was just an act, Mitchum spent time in The Army for real.

A few years later, Mitchum embraced controversy by getting busted for Marijuana use, and actually spent 60 days in prison. After his release, it only jacked up his image as a badass and got him more parts than ever before.

You can certainly check out the gobload of films Mitchum has been in elsewhere, but one of his most amazing was NIGHT OF THE HUNTER directed by Charles Laughton (of Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Captain Bligh fame). Mitchum plays a crazy preacher who marries a young (and surprisingly hot and sexy) Shelly Winters to get at $10,000 she has. After drowning her in her own car, he hunts down her children to get the money they've swiped, in one of the more eerie cat and mouse games ever captured on film.

My grandma told me it was the scariest movie she's ever seen, and the creepy stark black and white photography used really adds a brooding sense of fear unlike anything I've experienced. Mitchum's low key performance is amazing.

In on of the film's more memorable scenes, Mitchum explains exactly why he has the words "LOVE" and "HATE" tattoeed on his fingers (which was later used in a tribute in Spike Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING with the character Radio Raheem).

Ah, little lad, you're staring at my legwarmers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-legwarmer/left-legwarmer?

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 27 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry to be semi-off-topic here, but am i off-base in thinking that, in the 80s version, the speech is supposed to establish that radio is nuts? and that mookie thinks so, and cares about him, but just sort of leaves him be and hopes that things turn out well for him?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 27 April 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally we found you a place on Ludlow where you can get My Little Pony underwear.

Where!?

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It's called tees.com I think. It's across from Phil's beloved Yu. I think between Rivington and Stanton on the north side of the street. They have a book filled with designs that they will transfer onto either Ts or pants (UK). They also have some nice Bowie for Geeta.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, little lad, you're staring at my legwarmers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-legwarmer/left-legwarmer?

And having just finally gotten The Night of the Hunter on DVD myself...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't take them off. I love them. At brunch my friend R told me I was dressed like a demented cheerleader (tennis skirt, RobertMitchumlegwarmers, clogs).

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 27 April 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooooh transfers. I could resurrect an entire wardrobe of bizarre knickers. This could be the downfall of my already wounded credit cards, once and for all. Thank you!

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I am going to get Degrassi Junior High panties from this store.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 27 April 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

How much do they cost? I was sorey disappointed that Urban Outfitters upped the price on their Muppet Show underwear since I bought Fozzy. Gonzo is like $15 now! What is that about?

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

really it's just hstencil's head, Jimmy.

My apologiez to all the headz.

― jm (jtm), Sunday, 27 April 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It's probably around $20 for a shirt. I guess we have to go back and find out pricing.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 27 April 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm considering getting some stripey ones. I see them for sale all the time. I own almost nothing but white socks, and this so incredibly unfashionable and boring it's unreal...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Sunday, 27 April 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

We can make them, you know. At Kinkos they will make you t-shirts and mugs with virtually any picture you bring in. I reckon this extends to underpants.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 27 April 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahhh yes! I think that's where my friend got her Pulp Disco 2000 panties made.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 28 April 2003 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)

So now I must wear kneesocks to attempt to hide the large unseemly bruise running down my right leg that occurred when a standing street sign toppled upon me in Louisville.

To cover the whole thing I need thigh highs but I can't see that happening.

Either that, or instigate bruised and battered girly style '03.

If anyone asks, I'm going to say I got it in a soccer incident.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I dug my old gray pumas out of the closet. Luckily they are tennis style. Should I wear them with knee high fishnets?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

mary are you trying to tell us something?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, rock the bruised and battered style, I do it all the time.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

To cover the whole thing I need thigh highs but I can't see that happening.
Oh could you please???

― Prude (Prude), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I am wearing the royal blue kneehigh fishnets today. They feel weird.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 10 May 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Tatu's new video, just filmed in London, to thread.

Oh yes.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 11 May 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I can make up my mind whether this thread turns me on more than the cartoon summer panties thread or not.

― dirty perv (James Blount), Sunday, 11 May 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm disturbed by the fact that you contemplate which threads give you a bigger hard on.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 11 May 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

well when they're at the top of the 'new answers' board the query entuhs tha mind

― larry polanski (James Blount), Sunday, 11 May 2003 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

and I never said they gave me a hard-on!

― dirty evader (James Blount), Sunday, 11 May 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

god I guess I need to go to church in the morning now - thanks alot buttch

― marv albert (James Blount), Sunday, 11 May 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm up to my thighs on kneesox.

― erik, Sunday, 11 May 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Anna, my fishnet kneesocks stayed up quite well yesterday, maybe you should try Jonathan Aston fashion hoisery brand. Buy British!

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 11 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

Fall is here. Have you changed from nylon to cotton?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

yes! it is cotton kneesocks with mary janes today, hurrah!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

When I was at a Halloween party, a friend of mine showed up wearing the craziest outfit ever which involved LOTS of color and was very punky brewster-like. Anyway, she had these great purple and black tall socks on, but it turned out they were legwarmers. I complemented her quite a bit on them. Turns out, she has like 5 pairs of legwarmers at home and gave me hers right off her legs! I love them. I didn't know for sure how I felt about legwarmers, but they basically just look a lot like tall socks on. :)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

FUCKSOCKS

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got loads of kneesocks! God I'm so rock & roll!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, are they purple and black stripes? I got pink and grey striped legwarmers -- but am confused as to the scrunch -- if they are scrunched the stripes look a bit off.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Mary, they are striped. I worn them out last night pulled up a little with a skirt to look a bit like tall socks. They do look kind of funny scrunched, but when you're wearing something like that you can't help looking a little off anyway.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Crikey my crown as ILX goff is in contention it seems :)

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

several months on my basic opinion remains unchanged

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I have white fishnet knee highs right now (they were purchased for me by some goths who I think had Ulterior Motives) but they've still not been worn as it appears I HAVE NOT BEEN OUT SINCE... whenever that strange day in Camden was.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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