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Quick rant:
Have I mentioned my feelings towards the recent trends in womens' clothing? I believe I covered my feelings towards Uggs (basically, "ugg" is only one letter away from "uggo" and not a single girl that I've seen has looked better with them...and this comes from a guy that has liked knee-high boots on girls before).
The new trend is something that I don't even know the name of. I've taken to calling them "maternity clothes". Why? Because they look like fucking maternity clothing! Has anyone else seen this shit? It's almost always some pastel color, there's usually some sort of flowery stitching or sequins on the top half. I say "top half", because it's a top divided: the top half has straps and all these decorations, and then there's a line of stitching right under the breasts...and then just floating material. It's like a minature dress or something.
Maybe it's just the part of me that likes the double standard because it makes my life easier, I don't know. What I do know is that these shirts make me think that girls are hiding something. Maybe it's a guy, maybe it's a bomb...hell, maybe they are actually pregnant. If you're pregnant, then by all means, wear as much maternity clothing as you can. That's why it's there! If you're not pregnant, though, then you are fucking up my world! I can't stand this shit! (add desk-pounding clenched fists, and arm-waving to suit however you picture me in mid-rant).
It's not just that the shirts make girls look fatter than they are (and they do). That would not be that big of a deal to me. The problem is that the shirts are also ugly themselves. They're crap. They have no redeeming qualities, other than that some idiot designer somewhere thought they were "hot for the summer" and began pushing them. It's funny...most of the time, if you just get one thing right in life as far as judging the tastes of the masses, you're essentially set. Just as 50 Cent can now half-ass everything and become even richer, and just as Jackson Pollack could be considered brilliant for making a mess, so too is someone somewhere getting rich off of these idiot shirts.
The real killer in all this is that girls who have good fashion sense are falling for it. Girls that resisted the Uggs, that knew they were stupid, are going straight for the maternity clothes. Girls that are friends of mine, that I believed were too smart for this sort of thing, are wearing them. Girls that I want to sleep with are wearing them, and it's tearing me apart!!! I only know 2 girls that I can say for sure haven't fallen for this trap, and one of them has just been too busy to go shopping. Don't think that I'm not highly suspicious of her, too.
So please...if you're a girl out there somewhere reading this, do not buy maternity clothes. Save them for when you're pregnant. You are only hurting your appearance. Most guys are very quick to judge your appearance, and from what I've heard and discussed with a wide range of them, they're all unhappy with these damn shirts. Maybe if you have a boyfriend, you should wear them, because you'll ward us off. That, I wouldn't mind too much, because I have a tendency to want girls from that group and this would help. If you help us on this, I'll try to talk guys out of whatever they're wearing that's pissing you all off (I would say the flip flops and popped collars, but this seems to actually be preferred these days).
Have I mentioned my feelings towards the recent trends in womens' clothing? I believe I covered my feelings towards Uggs (basically, "ugg" is only one letter away from "uggo" and not a single girl that I've seen has looked better with them...and this comes from a guy that has liked knee-high boots on girls before).
The new trend is something that I don't even know the name of. I've taken to calling them "maternity clothes". Why? Because they look like fucking maternity clothing! Has anyone else seen this shit? It's almost always some pastel color, there's usually some sort of flowery stitching or sequins on the top half. I say "top half", because it's a top divided: the top half has straps and all these decorations, and then there's a line of stitching right under the breasts...and then just floating material. It's like a minature dress or something.
Maybe it's just the part of me that likes the double standard because it makes my life easier, I don't know. What I do know is that these shirts make me think that girls are hiding something. Maybe it's a guy, maybe it's a bomb...hell, maybe they are actually pregnant. If you're pregnant, then by all means, wear as much maternity clothing as you can. That's why it's there! If you're not pregnant, though, then you are fucking up my world! I can't stand this shit! (add desk-pounding clenched fists, and arm-waving to suit however you picture me in mid-rant).
It's not just that the shirts make girls look fatter than they are (and they do). That would not be that big of a deal to me. The problem is that the shirts are also ugly themselves. They're crap. They have no redeeming qualities, other than that some idiot designer somewhere thought they were "hot for the summer" and began pushing them. It's funny...most of the time, if you just get one thing right in life as far as judging the tastes of the masses, you're essentially set. Just as 50 Cent can now half-ass everything and become even richer, and just as Jackson Pollack could be considered brilliant for making a mess, so too is someone somewhere getting rich off of these idiot shirts.
The real killer in all this is that girls who have good fashion sense are falling for it. Girls that resisted the Uggs, that knew they were stupid, are going straight for the maternity clothes. Girls that are friends of mine, that I believed were too smart for this sort of thing, are wearing them. Girls that I want to sleep with are wearing them, and it's tearing me apart!!! I only know 2 girls that I can say for sure haven't fallen for this trap, and one of them has just been too busy to go shopping. Don't think that I'm not highly suspicious of her, too.
So please...if you're a girl out there somewhere reading this, do not buy maternity clothes. Save them for when you're pregnant. You are only hurting your appearance. Most guys are very quick to judge your appearance, and from what I've heard and discussed with a wide range of them, they're all unhappy with these damn shirts. Maybe if you have a boyfriend, you should wear them, because you'll ward us off. That, I wouldn't mind too much, because I have a tendency to want girls from that group and this would help. If you help us on this, I'll try to talk guys out of whatever they're wearing that's pissing you all off (I would say the flip flops and popped collars, but this seems to actually be preferred these days).