I’ll Need This On My Desk By Five: Send Us Your Tips
6 Comments Published by Joel September 25th, 2006 in Clothes. Share ThisAs a fledgling web site with a community of… Well, let’s see, there’s you, Mom. And I think my sysadmin is still reading, although he won’t be once he finds a pejorative reference to “UNIX beards” on the site.
Anyway. We need you. I need you. I’m perfectly content to write about what interests me, but one of things I love most about writing on the internet is the instant interaction I can have with everyday experts and casual, drive-by antagonists.
These are the things we’d love to get from you this week:
• Tips, be they about this week’s theme (fall fashion) or anything else. (See that sidebar labelled “Asides”? That’s for non-theme blips.)
• Pictures of outfits about which you are uncertain. Not sure if that silk sash goes with that pair of coveralls? Snap a picture of the outfit, either on your person or laid out on a bed, and we’ll put it online to tap the collective critical ability of the Dethroner audience.
• Your questions about style or fashion, for our weekly Q&A.
• Suggestions for your least favorite fashion item of the moment—the sort of thing that will be a defining, embarrassing artifact of this year—for our upcoming feature, “I Hate the ’00s.”
• Anything else!
Send tips to “tips DOINK dethroner.com”, or hit me on AIM at “lev2300″. Anonymity is assured, if you let us know that’s what you prefer.
This is also a good time to mention the spankin’ fresh Dethroner Forum, currently with open registration. It’s a great place to start complaining about how awful this website truly is and will be!
Thanks!
I am not happy about the skinny jeans trend stores and magazines are trying to impose on us. They didn’t look good the first time and they don’t look good now.
I agree. The problem is finding the middle ground between the skinny jeans (pleeeease don’t bring back the Jordache look) and the 5x-too-large-falling-off-your-butt look. I constantly have difficulty finding good looking jeans that fall somewhere between the look and comfort of Hilfiger or Lucky and the “I’m wearing these because I need to do yardwork” genre of Carharts.
Am I longing for the days of when I fit into 501s? Not really, But I still want a nice looking pair of jeans for fridays at work when they let let us escape from the “business casual” attire (whatever the heck that means…).
I want a place – preferably online – for buying pants that is like http://www.Zappos.com. Zappos lets you buy shoes, with free shipping, and if they don’t fit, you can send them back! Why do I have to go to a store and search through thousands of overpriced jeans and badly cut triple-pleat dress pants looking for pants that fit MY criteria… cheap, correct measurements, and no pre-worn holes!
I also want dress pants that have a “short rise” as it’s called, so I can wear my dress pants at my hips and not have the crotch riding halfway down my thigh…
And thirdly, I’d like to pay $40 or less for pants. Geez, how much money do these fuckers think I make? (sorry for the rant, btw)
OK, this is REALLY simple. It’s time to tuck your shirts back in. I don’t mean to sound like anyone’s parent here but it looks like you were raised by pigs when you run around with untucked dress shirts, etc. This trend is at it’s worst when you let your shirt hang out below your sweater or jacket. My 8 year old wears most of his shirts untucked because it’s almost impossible to keep an 8 year old’s shirts tucked in neatly. But, and I repeat, HE’S 8 YEARS OLD! What will I remember the 00’s for? The decade of the untucked shirt and ridiculous $80 jeans full of holes from the store. I used to know a guy in the early ’80s that carried this same look. Sadly, the ’60s had been a blur for him and he still lived in his parent’s basement.
D2:
First, get your waist and inseam measurements.
Then shop at Target or Wal-mart.
Easy.
Look for their websites online, buy clothes.
Shoes?
No way would I not do that in person.
I SO don’t have the time to keep sending stuff back.
OK, I’m a girl. But still, why can’t I digg this. Social bookmarking people!