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Miracle cure - men's fashion medical discovery
Friday, July 06, 2007
Well, it seems there is hope for those gentlemen ensconced in bad fashion. In fact, don't despair you people donning Harry High pants and tucking in your jumpers on a daily basis. You CAN become stylish, dapper, well-turned out chap.
There are rumors of a wonderful mauve shirt navy pants combo circulating at a medical clinic once inflicted by chambray shirt cream pants. Yes, a dapper-ly turnaround has occurred.
So it is possible. And if you can't remedy it yourself you really should see a doctor. Wink!

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Bad Men's Fashion - irresponsible politicians
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Words fail me
























(photo from the I am Fashion blog)

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Men's Fashion that should be banned #17
Friday, November 17, 2006
Tight lycra bike shorts are just about okay when you are riding a bike, but they are definitely not okay when you are running, or sitting in a cafe, or visiting your mother, and have teamed them with a baggy t-shirt, and tucked that t-shirt in. ugh.

Men's fashion that should be banned #16

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Men's Fashion that should be banned #16
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

The Coogi jumper has incredible staying power. It wasn't the end of the somewhat over-colorful, over-threaded big woolly ugly man-jumper when the Australian company stopped making them a few years ago ...
Because the middle-aged/older men that wear them never change their wardrobe, so they will be wearing them FOREVER- pulling them down over their ample stomachs until they fall apart.
Wrong, wrong, WRONG

Men's Fashion that should be banned #15

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Men's Fashion that should be banned #15
Friday, June 02, 2006
"Professor" fashion should be banned. Oft seen traversing university campuses across the world -
1. Baggy corduroy trousers
2. Jackets with leather elbow patches
3. A beard
And in the worst case, a bow tie. Ugh.

Men's fashion that should be banned #14

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Men's fashion that should be banned #14
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
You will know a man dressing far too old for his age when you see one or more of the following items:
1. A cravat
2. A pipe
3. A tweed, peaked cap
4. Golf wear worn as everyday wear
5. A badly executed toupee

Men's fashion that should be banned #13

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Men's fashion that should be banned #13
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
High school jumper/sweater

It was kinda cool to wear your high-school-graduation jumper straight after you graduated in 1988; but two decades later, it's looking a bit tatty and people will look at you strangely.
Even if you have just graduated, you should not, under any circumstances wear your graduation jumper on a date, to weddings or to a nightclub. Apart from the fact that it looks bad, you will never NEVER pick up a girl.

Men's fashion that should be banned #12

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Men's fashion that should be banned #12
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Knee-high walking socks are NOT, under any circumstances, the way to dress up a pair of shorts.

(I wish I'd told various 50+ male family members this before my 21st birthday party.)

Men's fashion that should be banned #11

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Men's fashion that should be banned #11
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
I'm sure I don't know what that archaeologist was doing wearing white trousers and a tucked-in white shirt - maybe he thought it was appropriate TV-show wear. But it certainly wasn't appropriate, firstly because it was going to get dirty in one instant in the dusty environs, secondly because it did nothing to hide his coloured underpants, and thirdly just because completely white male-outfits are awful.

And that means: White suits at weddings. Hello! Only the bride is meant to look like a big white meringue.

I don't know what possesses men to wear completely white outfits ... perhaps it's a lingering obsession with Miami Vice, or the fact that they really do want to look like a candle.

Men's fashion that should be banned #10

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posted by Cleo Twyford @ 11:54 AM   1 comments
Men's fashion that should be banned #10
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
This should actually be titled 'Men's shirts that should be banned'

1. Pink ones, and lemon while we're at it (That's a type of yellow for those of you males who can't follow the use of fruit as colours. You know - apricot (a mix of orange and pink), apple (a type of green) peach (see apricot) ... okay now it's getting confusing)
2. Shirts that look like someone has thrown up on them
3. Short-sleeved white business shirts. It's best to roll up the sleeves of your long-sleeved white business shirt than stoop to this bad-shirt level. The worst case scenario is, of course, a thin short-sleeved white business shirt coupled with a vest/singlet undergarment. Ick.

Men's fashion that should be banned #9

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posted by Cleo Twyford @ 11:06 AM   3 comments
Men's fashion that should be banned #9
Friday, February 17, 2006
How many times do I have to tell you that white running shoes look completely crap with anything other than your gym gear? That means, NOT with your jeans, or worse, suit trousers - that's worthy of a public, out-loud eeeeeeeeeeeuw.

Men's fashion that should be banned #8

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Men's fashion that should be banned #8
Friday, February 03, 2006
This one lurks in both professional and casual circles, and hell, it seems to have traversed the decades. That's some staying power to make it from the eighties to the next century.

A chambray blue shirt with cream/beige pants, oft teamed with a yellow tie (the tie is the worst case scenario). Ugh.

Remember, just because you see other people wearing this outfit, IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S GOOD.

Men's fashion that should be banned #7

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Men's fashion that should be banned #7
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Out-of-context fashion

-football jumpers worn when not at the game
-white sports socks worn when not playing sport (and especially not with a business suit)
-alcohol-logo t-shirts worn when um er, just not in a drinking competition
-socks and sandals (These should NEVER ever be worn away from a bad-taste dress-up party.)

Men's fashion that should be banned #6

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Men's fashion that should be banned #6
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Blue-tooth headsets.

I know they aren't fashion at such ... but this is quite possibly because they don't go with ANY outfit and only look like an ugly metal cheekbone replacement.

Men's fashion that should be banned #5

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Men's fashion that should be banned #5
Saturday, November 19, 2005
I know I am exposing myself as being on the slippery slope to Grandma-ville by saying this, but what the hell ...

Boxer shorts of any variety sticking out above low-slung jeans.

It's UNDER-wear. Get a belt young man.

Men's fashion that should be banned #4

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Men's fashion that should be banned #4
Friday, October 28, 2005
Cartoon ties.

I don't care how much of a whacky fun-loving guy you are, cartoon characters are for CHILDREN'S clothing, not grown men's. And that goes for your socks too.

Men's fashion that should be banned #3

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Men's fashion that should be banned #3
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
That white business shirt tucked into a pair of jeans for weekend wear then teamed with very white running shoes (that are quite obviously not used for running).
WORSE - the shirt is short-sleeved.
EVEN WORSE - the jeans are pulled up high in a disastrous attempt to disguise burgeoning middle-age spread.
Just say no.

Men's fashion that should be banned #2

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posted by Cleo Twyford @ 10:45 AM   3 comments
Men's fashion that should be banned #2
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
RUNNING SHORTS of the extra short short variety -

I just don't think it's necessary to have those Elizabeth Hurley style splits up the side. And then they are made of a flimsy material that just flaps around flashing the jogger's bits to unsuspecting passers by. That kind of shock can kill an old person you know.

Men's Fashion that should be banned #1

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posted by Cleo Twyford @ 11:28 AM   0 comments
Bad men's fashion - irresponsible celebrities
Friday, September 23, 2005
Jeff from Pearl Jam - shame on you. You are responsible for old men thinking they can pull their pants right up to their armpits.

Rock 'n Roll Harry high pants

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posted by Cleo Twyford @ 11:22 AM   1 comments
Men's fashion that should be banned #1
Saturday, September 10, 2005


Boat shoes - especially the type with tassles. Eeeeeuw

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