Open Post: Fashion Not-Friday: Silver Pants

[zingerella]

For various reasons having to do with the Internet rabbit hole and a discussion of rhythmic arts involving props, thegiantkiller and I have begun a list of entities for whom the wearing of silver trousers are not verboten:

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[sabotabby]

David Bowie, I guess?

[zingerella]

Heh. I just independently added Bowie. Because Bowie Can Wear It. Doesn't matter what it is.

I just tried to picture Sean Bean in silver pants and my have sprained my imagination.

[sabotabby]

Sorry. I should probably go to bed now and stop creating horrible mental images.

[pofflewomp]

No, I agree - Sean Bean can wear anything or nothing and I will always adore him. Sigh.

I keep going Up North to Sheffield, where he be from, and there is a little silver plaque to him in the city centre. And one for Michael Palin, who would look dreadful in silver trousers but is lovely nevertheless.

[torontoteacher]

Competitive figure skaters or gymnasts while performing skating or gymnastics?

And go-go dancers. The mockingly self-referential kind?

Also, people over 90. I believe that if you live that long, you can do whatever the heck you wish.

[zingerella]

People over 90 can indeed do whatever they wish.

Competitive figure skaters may wear silver pants, but I'm not sure they should. Ditto male gymnasts. I'm pretty sure female gymnasts don't wear trousers while competing. Maybe?

[zingerella]

Sorry. I meant "wear anything." But that's not what I typed. Whups.

[loolica]

I will state most emphatically that I had a brief window of time when I totally rocked my rubbery silver pants. I mostly wore them at parties and Burning Man.

But, yeah, warm fuzzies aside, anybody can wear silver pants; it's the select few who can carry it off.

[zingerella]

As I mentioned elsethread, I did in fact own and wear a pair of silver wide-wale cords when I was a pre- and early teenager. I liked them a lot.

I admire anyone who can pull that look off IRL. I'm entirely certain that I cannot, and I agree that I am not alone in lacking that capacity.

[curgoth]

Burning Man is, in and of itself, a fashion loophole.

[loolica]

Ha. Totally.

[pofflewomp]

Sausage dogs! They'd look so cute. And frogs.

[zingerella]

Do sausage dogs have sufficient leg length for trousers?

This may be another very important question.

[sugarmommaless]

I was also going to suggest dogs, but it appears that they prefer to be pantless even when wearing other silver attire.

http://www.puplife.com/blogs/dog-blog/1289702-halloween-photo-contest-entry-echo-the-astronaut

[monster_grrrl]

I would like to posit that the wearing of silver trousers ought not be verboten for me, because, in the immortal words of the pick up line, my ass is outta this world enough for space pants.

Also I seem to share some of whatever it is Bowie has. Not a lot, but just enough.

Procure for me a pair of silver trousers and I shall demonstrate.

[zingerella]

Alas, I had to give up my silver cords when I outgrew them in grade 10.

To this day I am unsure whether those cords were awesomely cool or awesomely dorky, but I loved them for a time.

[monster_grrrl]

Haven't you heard? Dorky is the new cool. ;)

I bet they were awesome. There must be pictures somewhere...