FACT: You can fit an entire two-liter soda bottle in each of the front pockets of a Utilikilt.
The guy at the shop said you can also carry something like 18 cans of beer. Not at the same time as the two-liters, though.
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Iâm trying to figure out what â[slimmer]â is supposed to be replacing. Boing Boingâs source links to Inquistr, which links to Complex, which links to AllHipHop, which links to nothing but quotes the print edition of GQ. If the article is on GQâs website I canât find it.
Interesting. Might it be replacing some body language? I could picture him running his hands down both sides of his body at once, touching the surface, and the original author/interviewer interpreting the motion as âslimmerââŚhence the use of square brackets which would indicate an editorial asideâŚâŚmaybe?
@PhasmaFelis in BIGGER newsâŚyou have an avatar?
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Your first image reminded me of something I saw in my twitter stream some time ago
A long time ago I had a chili shape but ate more apples, nowadays Iâm more into hot food with lots of chilis but are apple shaped. Coincidence?
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I call those âmadmanâs pantsâ. Theyâre a dead giveaway not to engage in conversation with someone at, say, the bus stop.
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I have several womenâs shirts, but I will say that 90% of my socks are technically âwomenâs socksâ. Menâs socks are dull and boring.
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For shame BB commenters, several pages of comments an no-one has posted an IT Crowd reference:
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And he was absolutely right: one does want a hint of color.
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Or anyone else in the world, ever. Maybe a Prussian King somewhere years past???
Perhaps. I think the quote may actually be from Eddie Izzard.
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âWe all love Vicki von Vicki blue jeans.â
âYeah. A little tight in the crotch, though.â
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More expensive, less pocket space, and looking at the women in my family and their friends⌠Iâm convinced womenâs clothing is designed to just plain fuck up in a washing machine.
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Iâd like to meet some of these rationally sized menâs clothes. Because I went to some lengths (ha) to replace a beloved but too-worn pair of discontinued jeans with an identical size, model number, production year and color and there was not one place on those jeans that fit the same.
As for menâs shirt sizes, depending on the brand and style I might comfortably wear 2x, 3X, XB, 2XB, 2XLT, XXL, 18, or 18 1/2. Or they might be ridiculously oversized or too small to button. Entire stores (hello Target) often sell nothing but âathletic fitâ clothes which in larger size means âdoesnât fitâ (I think they assume the difference between L and 2XL is bicep size, or something).
And shoes always must be tried on in person and not ordered online, because an 11 in one model may be bigger than a 12W in another, even within the same brand.
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I have a Scottish friend who wears kilts on formal occasions and is also an occasional contractor and arborist. When I told him about the utilikilt he started getting very excited. He loved the idea that he could be doing all his work in his kilt, tools at the ready, or be way up working on a tree in his kilt.
More and more excited, we pulled up the website, and he just went silent in shock.
Finally he blurted out âTHAâS NOT A KILT! ITâS A BLOODY SKIRT! WHY WERE YOU TRYâN TO SELL ME ON A SKIRT?!? IâM NOâ A LADY!!!â
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For me itâs the opposite: womenâs socks shrink to kid-sized the first time they get washed and dried, and they donât last as long (just like everything made for women). For basic everyday socks, I wear the male variety.
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Iâm partial to my Macabi skirt. Big pockets, and itâs convertible!
Jeans suck the most of any womenâs clothes. The only ones that fit me come from Express. Iâm well past their proclaimed âbest beforeâ date. And, yeah, theyâre bloody expensive.
@Donald_Petersen: turtlenecks are evil torture devices.
@japhroaig: FSM help us if pegging is back.
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First- Iâd like to dissagree with menâs clothes being ârationally sized.â Bullshit. A 32" waist can measure anywhere from 31-36" depending on brand. Vanity sizing is alive and well. Though, Iâll admit, even this is better than the lunacy of womenâs clothing.
Second- Menâs trousers (for suits) can, in fact, have a cuff at the bottom. The weight of that cuff helps the pant hang properly, and is a well established tradition. Ditto with pleats on pants- I tend to like pleats on my winter-weight suits, and flat front on my summers.
Three- For slack length, a slight break at the front of the pant on the shoe is the timeless standard. The Tom Ford influence has pushed cuffs higher, but thatâs a passing fad (as, too, was stacked extra long pants). Technically, socks are to match trousers, though this changes from season to season. Now, for example, sockless in the summer and bright/wild colored in the other seasons is the trend.
I donât wear clothing aimed at women, much. My rock climbing shoes are always the ladiesâ model (given the ridiculous arch of my foot). My very long arms would benefit from womenâs sleeve length, though my extra long torso would not. Many/most of my clothes are made or altered for me with these measurements in mind.
And thatâs whatâs missing here. In the push towards cheaper clothes, weâve all been led to believe these should fit us off the rack- and thatâs not the case. Instead of thinking that the clothes are wrong and that they need to be altered, we think our bodies are wrong. A shame.
Iâm wildly fickle about my clothing- both in fit and construction. I canât/wonât tolerate things that donât seem to bother other people. My sweaters are wool. My jeans are selvedge. My Oxfords are thick and heavyweight. Suits are made for me (because off the rack simply wonât fit). I have way fewer clothes than I used to, but I like all of them and the fit and last.
I have no idea why Iâve written all of this.
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