Things that seem odd
 

I was noticing while watching some movies from the 1980s and 1990s how strange it seems to see men wearing their shirts tucked into their pants, even when the shirts are polos. Also strange is seeing this done with shorts, and even stranger still, to see the shirt-into-shorts with a belt.

And yet at one time apparently this was quite normal. Now it seems so odd to me.

Sometimes what is or was normal seems quite odd, does it not?

Another example--hats through time. Until around the early 60s, men wore brimmed hats all the time, it seems. Hats came back a bit in the 1990s--it seemed every kid on campus wore a baseball hat. Now both traditions seem odd to me--though I wear a cap if I'm at the beach in the sun, or a straw hat if I'm working in the hot sun in the yard.

What's normal but odd to you, eh?

Movie soundtracks in movies from the 70s and 80s. Not talking about those with pop songs, like Pretty in Pink, but the scores written specifically for the movies. Sometimes now they seem tacked on. I didn't notice it when I watched the movies in their time, but now they often seem tacked on, like they don't quite fit, or they're overdone.

"There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap"

Who said that?

Michael Moore I think.


EDIT: Actually, it was Pete Doherty.

Here's another few fashion ones:

Chinos with pleats. These were especially prevelant in the 80s but they're still made and men still wear them. Pleats are extraneous and make you look fat. WTF.

Sport jackets over tee-shirts. Sorry, I know this is done everywhere from Miami Vice to SY hipsters, but it looks odd to me.

Sport jackets with the sleeves pushed up. Haven't seen this since the 80s, thank god.

Heh. That's in the favourite quotes section of my Facebook page :)

I think its odd to put your pants into your socks...never get used to that

Any overweight person who wears sportswear, particularly tracksuits. There's a surfeit of such types in Mellyville *scratches head*

*HI-5*

ps: do you hear that T&B?

bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha

One should never do that. Do you know anybody who does?!

Shoes without socks. Much loved by 80s coke casualties and Nigerian business students.

Ha, yeah, that is an odd one. I see that, too.

Here's another fashion one: What the fuck is it with these plunging V-neck tee shirts for men!? Not talking about the ones that are close to the neckline. Those are fine. But the gross ones that go way down the chest and have a wide V. I see them especially on big men with lots of chest hair.

Middle-class people dressing and talking like like whiteboy gangster geezers. Actually, that's more of a "things guaranteed to anger me" thing...

how women used to dress like dykes in the early 90s

Ponytails on slightly balding 40something men. A lifetime of Deep Purple worship can be read into their every wrinkle.

Actually, I still do that, but only with shoes that are appropriate--Sperry Topsiders (but only the original brown ones) are great for wearing without socks. I wear them that way with jeans and shorts. Sometimes wear no socks with my Converse lows and jeans.

This still happens in Shoreditch/Hoxton, as I experienced (again) last night :D

Afternoon, C - how's tricks with ya?

Ha ha! Yeah, or Steely Dan.

I have to then conclude that either you're a coke casualty from the 80s or a Nigerian business student.

oh, well, i wasn't doing too good last night or this morning but i'm alright now if a bit edgy.

also i find it peculiar that people didn't figure out until about 1999 that you don't have to wear your pants hiked up to your tits.

I actually think it's odd to see men with really long hair (anything over the ears or approaching or at shoulder length) if those men are over 35, even if they have a healthy non-thinning head of hair. It still somehow looks wrong unless you're a rock star or a hair stylist.

I can neither deny nor confirm...

C - ah, good stuff - I'm sure the edginess thing wil sort itself out :)

I forgot about the high-waisted pants thing :D, but now we have the "men who should wear a fucking belt but don't" syndrome. Ugh, the amount of unwanted arse cleavage I've seen round Soho and Clapham this summer, you wouldnae believe it *heaves*

Ha ha! No shit! That high-waist look is so damned sexy....

mom jeans really accentuate both saggy boobs and FUPAs (fat upper pussy area)

you know like when women get over 40 and they have that weird bulge that makes them look pregnant all the time? that's a fupa.

FUPA? Ahahahahahahaha!
*writes down for future use, noting "comedy gold" potential*

I try to remain blissfully unaware of the fupa.

I think Mister gmku may be referring to a certain boardie here...:o :o

Women with shoulder pads. Why in the world would a women wear shoulder pads? Is it to try and intimidate you? Men's jackets don't (usually) even have shoulder pads, so you end up with girls walking around with broader shoulders than guys. Or you did in the late 80's and early 90's anyways...

You have long hair? Well, you know, I'm generalizing. It probably looks great on you. Just saying, generally...

Badly made jackets, men's or women's, have shoulder pads to make up for the poor design. If a jacket is made correcly, it doesn't need this.

gmku - Ask demonrail about the Melly barnet. Then again, maybe that's not such a good idea from my perspective :D

My bias against long hair could also just be a compensation for my present inability to grow such.

gmku - well, I better your teeth are in far better condition than mine!
*applies more Smoker's toothpaste to gnashers*
*fails*

i can't take any credit for that one. but i see fupas every day.

"I see dead FUPAs"
"Terminate...with extreme FUPAdice"
"Granpaw was the best FUPA there ever wuz..."
"The FUPA is strong in this one"

And so on.

I always have that annoying 'in between' hair, the kind that makes me look like a cast member from the film Dark Star. The beard doesn't help:

I don't take the tobacco but I take the java. Coffee stains are almost as bad.

i got the best of both of them. extra whitening doesn't seem to help. it looks like i brush my teeth with butter.