wearing new/uncharacteristic clothes in front of your friends c/d

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I got these black pointy velvet underground style shoes, some tightish trousers and I want to start wearing them out so as to bolster my chances with the pristine indie girl I am crushing on, yet I know my friends will proper take the piss out of me! what should i do? tell us similar stories!

― Alice B. Toklas, Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

maybe dont' wear all your new clothes all at once so it doesn't like you've just gone for your annual clothes shopping and is showing them all off.

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

also are you in a band yet? it's the one true way of bolstering chances with pristine indie girls. and also gives you the opportunity to wear your new clothes.

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Classic. You guys like my sweater vest. My circle mocked my sweater vest. My circle are habitual M&S fiends. Of course I win either way.

― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I bought love heart thongs.
My friend said 'those aren't you'
I responded by buying a loveheart beanie

― Nellie (nellskies), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

why is this not a picture thread??

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I say dud. I practically wore a pirate outfit to the Crunkevous and nobody said a goddamn thing.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

― youn, Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I know! I realized that French sailor stripes under a black short-sleeved button down shirt = YARRRRRRRRR. When I tested my theory I was quite taken with myself, if I may say so. I even wore it to work, because I wasn't going to have time to go home afterwards. No one at work said anything. Maybe it's like those bits in Flann O'Brien when "The Brother" is growing a moustache or something and everyone chokes on their food rather than laugh because they know he can't take a joke.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

or perhaps, you looking like a piratey scoundrel = very characteristic.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

French sailor stripes - I imagine this suits you.

― youn, Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

I know, now all I need is a red pom-pom on my head.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/ishop/images/877/HAT-BONNET.jpg

"YARRRRRR.. sweeties!!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

now get a parrot to perch on your shoulder and start beating people with a baguette whilst screaming "c'est magnifique!" surely someone will have to say something.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Girls may like poodles better. Or maybe they come with the girls.

― youn, Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.billcrump.com/poodle%20man.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

When I first realised that my calling was as a Suit Dude my friends were all "We're going to the pub tonight. Don't wear a suit again, for fuck's sake." They get used to it after a while.

It may get to the stage where if you wear some normal shoes everyone'll say "your shoes are pretty shit today - can't be bothered to make the effort anymore, huh?". This is a sign that you have Won as people now regard you as the sort of person who ought to be wearing shoes like this. It also means you are trapped with it forever.

― Fergal (Ferg), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

miniskirt + 70's disco-punk waitress shirt + cherry red lipstick = tacky camptastic goodness for men and women

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Well, maybe not.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

ah, I should clarify as thongs= flip flops.

― Nellie (nellskies), Sunday, 1 May 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

I tried going thru all my pics to post one of me in uncharacteristic clothes... and omg - I COULDN'T FIND ANY.

I am a self parody! :(

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

I would just like to say that when Tracer took off his hoodie to show me his outfit on Thursday evening, I was suitably impressed, but it didn't seem extremely uncharacteristic of him to wear such an outfit, I mean it wasn't like he showed up in lime green velvet matador outfit. So I cry foul on the idea that A) no one said anything about his outfit, as at least me and cutty did and B) that this would imply the other companions were slaggards. Because it seemed v. normal, thhis outfit!

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 2 May 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

its hard wearing uncharacteristic clothes in front of your friends. the best way to ease into it is by wearing, say, your shoes as a gag first. if you guys are planning on having a really crazy night or something, put the shoes on. then another time wear the pants. then wear them together. it wont be as shocking.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 2 May 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Everyone I know always notices when I buy even a single piece of new clothing, "uncharacteristic" or not, and I'm never sure what it means (I don't think it's because I don't buy much 'cos none of my friends are shopaholics). I think it's cos I like colour.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 2 May 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Ah, I remember when I first became suit dude, it took balls of steel. Fighting off snarky comments, *becoming* the suit, refining the elements of suit to perfection. Sadly, three years on and I'm thinking there's more to life than suit. I mean, you don't look too good dancing in one. So, my new look is that of a surly soulboy who kinda gets off on this disco craze but is stuck in the stern stilted backbeat and hasn't quite worked out how to *flow* yet. ie. crisp white shirt tucked-in to trousers with a steely crease down the front, with a Man thing going on (top cpl of buttons undone revealing wispy chest hair and the smell of a 70s dad). It took effort to repel the 'is your shirt tucked-in?!' jibes but I think I'm pulling it off. First time, I went in to the Saturday club I go to and announced to a couple of friends 'Check me out, no suit' and an elderly gentleman who was stood nearby looked me up and down and murmured 'Mmm, sharp'. This made my night.

(Actually, my new look is just a suit but without the jacket so maybe this isn't as big a deal as I reckon.)

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Pictures are needed on this thread.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

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