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Old 08.20.2008, 10:56 AM   #1
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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?
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:05 AM   #2
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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.
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:06 AM   #3
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"There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap"
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:07 AM   #4
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Who said that?
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:07 AM   #5
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Michael Moore I think.


EDIT: Actually, it was Pete Doherty.
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:09 AM   #6
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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.
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:12 AM   #7
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"There are fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap"

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Old 08.20.2008, 11:13 AM   #8
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I think its odd to put your pants into your socks...never get used to that
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:15 AM   #9
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Any overweight person who wears sportswear, particularly tracksuits. There's a surfeit of such types in Mellyville *scratches head*
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:15 AM   #10
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I think its odd to put your pants into your socks...never get used to that

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Old 08.20.2008, 11:15 AM   #11
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One should never do that. Do you know anybody who does?!
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:16 AM   #12
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Shoes without socks. Much loved by 80s coke casualties and Nigerian business students.
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:17 AM   #13
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Any overweight person who wears sportswear, particularly tracksuits. There's a surfeit of such types in Mellyville *scratches head*

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.
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:18 AM   #14
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Middle-class people dressing and talking like like whiteboy gangster geezers. Actually, that's more of a "things guaranteed to anger me" thing...
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:18 AM   #15
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how women used to dress like dykes in the early 90s
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:19 AM   #17
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Shoes without socks. Much loved by 80s coke casualties and Nigerian business students.

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.
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:20 AM   #18
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how women used to dress like dykes in the early 90s

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

Afternoon, C - how's tricks with ya?
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:20 AM   #19
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Ponytails on slightly balding 40something men. A lifetime of Deep Purple worship can be read into their every wrinkle.

Ha ha! Yeah, or Steely Dan.
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Old 08.20.2008, 11:21 AM   #20
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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 w/ by Converse lows and jeans.

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