do you dress funny?

Me yesterday.

Is it funny? I dunno. People don't snicker about the orange iPatch because they don't know whether it's a disability or an affectation. (Answer: both. In fact I believe the essence of style is one's ability to turn disabilities into affectations.)

One nice reaction I got was to be the model for a New Yorker cartoon (it ran in last week's Japan Special) of a label victim sitting in the back of a cab: 'I'm on Fendi and Prada,' ran the caption, 'and heading towards Louis'. That ain't me at all, I'm more likely to say 'I'm on Salvation and Thrift, and heading towards Oxfam'.

Looks stylish, that patch. But why does Kelax suck?

I'd be a lot more flamboyant if I wasn't such a fat bastard.

What pretty pretty trees Momus. Its all depends on setting.

I wear a polo shirt that says "Celebrating the Wonders of Nature" on it every day, but I get paid for it so it's all good. An eyepatch would do wonders though.

why does Kelax suck?

This is Nakameguro, Tokyo's trendiest district. Relax is Japan's trendiest magazine (one I contributed to last year). I guess it's internecine rivalry or something.

I honestly thought they meant the Frankie song.

Sure wish I was in Japan just about now -- it looks beautiful this time of year!

you dress funny momus. but i wouldn't smile at you. i would sneer. but don't take it personally, i sneer at everyone. except my friends.

Duckling is right - those trees are much too beautiful for people to be looking at mundane things like each others' clothes.

At least people smile at you Di, it could be worse.

oh i wasn't complaining, btw, i just thought it was an innaresting response.

When you're sneering
The whole world smiles at you

Hey, safety orange, my favourite. Is it a reflector too? Because that would be pretty neat - it'd be this big orange eye coming at you in the dark! Spooky!

I want to dress more flamboyantly but i am fat, I do on occasion wear skirts and capes though . And Momus that cartoon was you, i wasnt as as inpiried by the NYer Fashion issue as i used to be but the cartoon was amusing enough to clip.

Everyone should wear a cape at least once a month.

i usually don't go outside of my denim suit. that and cords.

I dress like a boring old bruise, in black and blue.

In fact I believe the essence of style is one's ability to turn disabilities into affectations.

This is very well put. I'm going to use it next time I try to justify being initially attracted to people based more on their clothes than their biological looks (and I mean creative thriftware, not Prada).

I try to get away with buying the cheapest stuff possible, and then putting it together in creative ways. Sometimes it looks funny, sometimes just sort of dorky, and I usually rely on other people to point out the difference, since I can never tell. Last winter I went a little crazy and ended up with a closet full of fuzzy sweaters with reindeer and snowflakes and beavers all over them.

Di, Bewitched-esque style is absolutely classic and wildly attractive, btw. Shame on people who cannot appreciate this.

wait, Momus' picture -- are those cherry blossoms? They're blooming here in DC, and I know that we got them as a gift from the Japanese, originally. But Japan, being in the southern hemisphere, isn't it in the opposite season = Fall?
::head explodes::

Japan = Northern Hemisphere

::reassembles shattered head shards::

God damn, cherry blossom/sakura is already present in Japan. Bummer. And Momus doesn't look funny at all. I doubt he'll stand out between the teens in Japan.

No. I dress badly, which is different. "Badly" in the sense of "wearing boring clothes (and not ironing them)". I don't think it's possible to say whether someone dresses well or badly or funny until you know them, though, because I think clothes and style work best as a function of someone's personality. The badly ironed bit is a good reflection of me, but I don't think I'm actually as boring as the clothes I wear. So I dress badly in that sense too, in the sense that I don't express myself through my clothes.

Some people think I do but that is because they have no idea. Though I admit the black net goth princess ra ra skirt was a bit strange. My bosses are always commenting on my clothes. People are impressed (well I kid myself that they are) at my amazing colour co-ordination, the girl who was waxing my legs was dazzled by my all-turquoise bra, knickers, shirt, toenails and watch.

In my post above I originally mentioned Emma as somebody who dresses well by my definition but I deleted it ha ha.

I'm too scruffy to dress funny. I like to get Haiwaian shirts from cheap shops though and couple them with dinosaur jr t-shirts.

Cheers Tom it's not like I need all the bloody ego boosting I can get or anything :(

I will bear this in mind when shopping for your BIRTHDAY PRESENT.

Perhaps I used to but I think I'm too boring to bother these days. I have a fondness for stripey socks though. I may be a scruffy git but they still don't let you dress very strangely working for the govverment (bleddy stewdents in their outlandish garb twill all end in tears don't you know).

I dress kinda scruffy, but I am trying hard not to. I buy enough clothes for goodness' sake

i dress enough.

I didn't delete it cos I dont think you dress well. Anyway if you want ego-boosting compliments there's always Ethan's fisting thread.

Gareth's new single it is then. Happy Sodding Birthday.

I have decided I dress funny on the basis of comments received from friends: 'Have you been wearing that ALL DAY?' 'Do you always dress like that?' 'What are you wearing NOW?' and family: 'I thought you'd like that' (from my mum talking about weird things).

oh dear, Emma, your Mum thinks that you're 'kooky'.

Oh dear my double negatives have made me look even ruder. No present for me then. You do dress well Emma but I didn't say you did because most people here don't know how you dress. I am never commenting on ILE people's dress sense ever again because it gets me in trouble, cf. Sarah's thrift store indie look heh heh.

Yes. She doesn't understand me. She gets upset when I tell her how I have been INVESTING my salary in white PVC halter tops and says I am 'wasting' my money.

Luckily my birthday is earlier in the year than all my mates* so I can take revenge in kind for any present stinginess.

*Except Magnus which is why he got a brilliant present.

I'm so with Di on the Bewitched wardrobe aspirations (although the Bewitched reruns on Ch4 have just jumped the shark as we've just had birth of Tabitha). But pencil me in for Serena, not Sam.

It's worth pointing out that for ages I didn't feel dressed at all unless what I had on made authority figures, men in pickup trucks or my mum BLEAT at how outré it was. Of course, I now have the foolproof response for dealing with my mum which is: 'one of us writes for Vogue and guess what? IT AIN'T YOU.' This is, however, not a kosher thing to say to one's peers.

I'm amused that Nick jumped in to answer this so quickly on account of his extended whinge remix about being hassled by white van men who've declared him to be a faggot due to wardrobe, and how NYC was superior to London in this respect. If you're a man, maybe: I got hassle in the Lower East Side for a cool red outfit I was wearing on my way to visit him. The last time a white van man said anything to me re. clothes, I went into the middle of the zebra crossing in front of him and said, very loudly, 'I do so love the bleatings of the proletariat' or similar, so he heard me, and then gave him the finger.

I don't know, I suppose so (although I don't think I've ever worn anything particularly weird in front of IL* people). I'm basing this on comments like Emma has e.g:

"You're very brave, I do like it, but I couldn't wear it." "You are the only person I know who would call fuschia high heels 'useful for work'" "Oh hello, you must be Anna? Suzy said you were the type of person who would wear bright pink fishnets and a rara skirt"

(Amazingly I now count the girl who introduced herself with the last comment as a good friend.)

I will give up all my current fashion sense now Tom has shown us the way to TROO FASHION with his PIMP SHIRT ahem ahem. Today I am wearing a fashionable WINE COLOURED (mmmm wine) long cord skirt with a long sleeved black top that I haf owned for several years and it's rather faded! I still love it. Also I am wearing my DM 5yr old stylee sandals so I can kick people who KEEP AMENDING THE BLOODY STEERING DOCUMENT grrr argh.

Thats a point the pimp shirt expresses my inner self pretty well.

That's the second time xwerxes has corrected me in the past few hours. I need to hire it as my proofreader!

My new battle cry is going to be "I do so love the bleatings of the proletariat". Thanks, Suzy!

My dress sense? It's always been conservatively odd. My favorite outfit in junior high was black shirt, black pants, black belt, turquoise Converse All-Stars. I was also known to wear a sweater vest, turtleneck, designer jeans (ie, Guess? or Girbaud) and combat boots. I'd also wear a tie every now and then, just because. When I got into college, I basically adopted the "grunge" look (concert t-shirt under heavy plaid shirt or over thermal shirt, baggy pants, boots/All-Stars/Doc Martens). Right now, my favorite shirt is a black short-sleeved button-up number with duelling dragons on the front. It is SWANK and DANGEROUS, just like me.

I like to buy my summer things from the women's section in the used stores. The blouses are more colorful and sensous and work well in the warm weather. I just have to get used to the buttons being on the other side. I only get wierd looks when I shop, I'm not sure what people think about the look on the street, because like most big city people I tend to watch the sidewalk in front of me.

i don't dress funny. too lazy, usually, and the fun clothes i do have tend to violate the very strict school dress code. that's just an excuse though, i'm too lazy to shop for funny clothes.

I do wear a lot of black and grey, but I love colour too. I have a favourite funny shirt - it's bright orangey red polyester with a butterfly collar and has this yellow and purple kind of persian pattern all over it that vaguely resembles fire. It's quite possibly the loudest shirt in the entire history of man. I also have this bad translation T-shirt (of unknown origin) in green with primary coloured cirles that says 'Listen Me Easy' across the back. It's nice.

At work I dress pretty snappy. I'm finding myself losing interest in dressing "funny" for going out anymore, though, and I used to be really into it. I guess it depends on where I'm going. Maybe I'm starting to want people to think I look nice or attractive more than I want them to think I look cool, whatever that might be.

Dare, I charge eight shekels a synod, and do not do schwas or umlauts.

i would describe the way i dress as late 70's punk or gothic and when i ride the bus go shopping or out to eat i get mixed reactions most people just give me a horrified look and just stay away from me..then i have a few who just walk right up to me and talk to me like im their best friend and of course the ones i dread are the ones who point and laugh like i am a clown... now when i go out with my mother i dress very proper and pretty(i dress this way out of respect for my mother) and everybody is just so nice and smiley...

I'm wearing a blue flanny and cheap blue stretch jeans and nikes today. I look like a bogan. That's pretty funny!

hey, i didn't know that australians use the word "bogan" too!

I thought it was an Australian word?

probbly one of those things that both countries like to claim they invented, but the real origin is lost to us all.

i don't dress funny much anymore. i mostly only wear pants and skivvies these days. i guess that means it will be more exciting when i go drag at the evidence x gig. can't wait!!