| Author | Message | ||
     notehead Supporter Username: Notehead Post Number: 1878 Registered: 5-2001  |
Ostentation is WAY out. Natural is in. This applies to clothes, makeup, and jewelry. The giant caucasian hairstyles that women had in the early 80's. I don't see it too often, but there are at least two women who work at Pathmark who are major offenders. And one of them was surely not even born before those hairstyles were passe. Also, any visible rouge or eye makeup is simply nasty. Lipstick can look nice, but is nasty to kiss and many brands smell gross. A woman with a lot of makeup all over her face has all the allure of a mashed squirrel in the road. Ironically, the women who have the giant hair also tend to put on way too much makeup! | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 2071 Registered: 5-2001 |
Tom, you're a sweet husband. I actually don't mind a little chest hair, it's the back hair I dislike. | ||
| algebra2 Supporter Username: Algebra2 Post Number: 2854 Registered: 5-2001  |
in the long run too much make-up gives you wrinkles | ||
| mrmaplewood Citizen Username: Mrmaplewood Post Number: 146 Registered: 5-2001 |
This summer's newest fashion - exposing a very pregnant belly in public. | ||
| Walker Citizen Username: Fester Post Number: 55 Registered: 4-2003  |
Anyone with oversized pants that they cannot keep up. | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 2072 Registered: 5-2001 |
Jeez Notehead. I almost always have visible eye makeup...but I certainly don't have giant hair! I also probably wear too much jewelry. I must be a major offender in your book.  Just call me Rocky. (The squirrel, not the fighter.) | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 5163 Registered: 1-2003  |
I have heavy back hair, too. I'm not going to become a metrosexual and extend my shaving habits. Got anything against hairy hands, too?  | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 2073 Registered: 5-2001 |
 If I loved you, I'm sure I'd love your back hair too. | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 5166 Registered: 1-2003 |
Well, that's my point, which is that preference for body style should be independent of fashion style. I don't think fashion should dictate that I am not to wear a t-shirt just because I'm as hairy as the average bear. | ||
| emmie Supporter Username: Emmie Post Number: 415 Registered: 3-2002 |
Yes, big hair of the 80's is still around, and I swear, I know some women in their late 30's early 40's that haven't changed their hair style since high scool. I agree with virtually all the entries here and will add the following: Nails that are so long that they actually curve under. Really, how do they even pick up a fork or dig in their purse? Lipliner that is way darker than the lipstick, very stripper looking. Shoes with lopsided, worn down heels. Football, band jackets and the like on a 50 year old. Older women, with thick, bare legs, calf high boots, a mini skirt, and fur coat, saw one yesterday at the Short Hills Mall. Dark hair with long gray roots showing. Two day growth of beard, I guess its still in, even after Miami Vice was cancelled years ago, but I hate the look. Men who can only grow a little whispy beard. Don't grow a beard if you can't grow a heathy looking one. Orange spray on saloon sun tans. | ||
| Bobkat Supporter Username: Bobk Post Number: 7267 Registered: 5-2001 |
Big hair and blue eyeshadow is the sign of the true Jersey Girl. Also tight hip huggers, a belly shirt showing a pierced and tattooed navel is part of the uniform.  How else are they going to know you are from Jersey? | ||
| Pippi Supporter Username: Pippi Post Number: 660 Registered: 8-2003  |
uh oh...dark hair with long gray roots? I am feeling like to poster child for the fashion faux pas! | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 2074 Registered: 5-2001 |
Pippi, Ugh...could you imagine me with all my makeup and gawdy jewels (and 80's jacket) and you with your tight pants and roots. Together we're a real piece of work! | ||
| Hank Zona Citizen Username: Hankzona Post Number: 1937 Registered: 3-2002 |
where are you women from originally? | ||
| Lydia Citizen Username: Lydial Post Number: 875 Registered: 5-2001 |
Shh - Re: visible panty lines, if everything else works, I think VPL look sort of saucy on the right gal (that gal is not me, but they're sort of endearing IMO) Emmie - I love (clean) 2-day old beards, a man who hasn't shaved in a few days looks relaxed and happy. Agree w/ you on the nails that curl under - like foot-binding for fingers. I like a lot of over-the-top looks when the person wearing it obviously thinks they look fantastic and is having fun. It's not so much the fashion as the thought behind it. If a woman is showing her belly with a piercing and working it that can be a good look. If she looks pushed into her pants and suffering - not so good. | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 2075 Registered: 5-2001 |
"Football, band jackets and the like on a 50 year old. " This one is funny because in 96 or 98, when the Yankees won, my dad spent a fortune and got a gaudy Yankee championship jacket for my husband. It is so bad, I've probably mentioned it here in the past. It's got gold and silver and of course the stripes. He breaks it out every Christmas Eve and it's become a little family joke (between everyone except my poor dad). My husband was only in his mid 20s at the time, so he doesn't quite fit Emmie's faux pas criteria, but it's not a pretty sight anyway. (It matches my dad's Ranger's championship jacket.) Still not sure about those panty lines. I guess if it's beneath a really gorgeous sheer Versace dress... I also prefer my husband with a little stubble. Otherwise I get blinded by the white (all his skin).  | ||
| Lydia Citizen Username: Lydial Post Number: 876 Registered: 5-2001 |
I have an aunt (great aunt actually),not the prettiest woman in the world but she has style -- She had a pearl necklace with a pendant measured to fall just at the right spot between sedate and R-rated. She's 70-something but she's still alluring -- she works it and it works. She's French so that helps ;) Shh - re: bad jackets - I have a red satin jacket from a movie premiere I went to - where can I wear it? Valet parking? It has my name in cursive embrodiery so I have to find a "Lydia" in my size who likes red 80's satin Member's Only jackets. The sad thing is I keep thinking that one day I'll wear it. No, the sad thing is knowing that one day I'll wear it. | ||
| gozerbrown Citizen Username: Gozerbrown Post Number: 612 Registered: 3-2002 |
Air-brushed nails, especially with little jewels in them. Jackets with the names of Broadway shows on the back of them -- especially if the show closed, like 10 years ago. Bolo ties Also agree with those who mentioned the white socks/black shoes thing as well as the Hillary Clinton sweater-over-shoulders thing. Come to think of it, it always looks kind of silly when guys do that. | ||
| gozerbrown Citizen Username: Gozerbrown Post Number: 613 Registered: 3-2002 |
When women wear rings on every finger, numerous gold chains/bracelets at the same time. Gigantic earrings with the wearer's name on them | ||
| ffof Citizen Username: Ffof Post Number: 3253 Registered: 5-2001  |
Lydia- An 80's Halloween party? |
