h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's what I was curious about as well.

Mikey has gone strangely silent. It's odd how our little secrets eventually come out. Anyone hazard any guesses as to what Mikey's leathers are? I say low-cut perforated leather leotards with big buckley suspenders. I would say more, but I'm shy. (blink blink> Ani.

I was wondering whether he had got a bit confused and really meant 'rubber-wear'

D-oh! You tease! Cold shower for Ani.

Ooo you are awful (but I like you)
I was thinking of leather shoes - what wee you thinking of - small tight, shiny, leather shorts, or shiny black leather jmpu suits (with zips), or those tight soft leather vests ????

See you've shook me so much I can't even hit the keys correctly

What you're wearing? Or what I'm wearing? What I'm wearing are red speedo shorts and a t-shirt. But I'm liking the idea of getting a leather vest. Sigh. Ani.

Bit cold for the leather vest (which would cling more to my stomach, than my muscles) - it's -5C outside, and "comfortable" inside. It'lll be the fur lined underpants soon.

Maybe I'll think again late Spring after I've had some more sessions in the gym

Today was the day I broke down and wore my winter jacket. I was warm as toast. Ani.

Here in St. Paul, winter fashion is an oxymoron. It's quite liberating, actually. In winter, I wear a pair of jeans and a sweater and then pile on a long maroon wool coat (my Dad's from his college days), the plad scarf my Mom got me in Scotland, gloves with leather palms, a THICK pair of socks, snow boots, a wool hat from a friend's travels in Norway, and finally, my sense of adventure. I look quite pied when I leave the house. Nevertheless, nobody says "Wow you look like a dork", they say "Ooh, that looks warm". It's the ultimate compliment.
Just plain dangerous clothes??? Pantyhose! There are few things as embarassing as coming back from the ladies room and realizing all too late that your skirt is tucked into the back waistband, your a** hanging out for everyone in the restaurant to see. Um, not that I would know this from experience...really...it happened to a friend of mine...really...you guys aren't buying this are you...
As for dangerous toys, I had: a chemistry set, a sodering iron, a rock tumbler (the powder you had to add to make the stones smooth), model kits (glue and paints and Xacto knife w/ blades), stilts, and plenty of unsupervised time tromping around in the woods near my house climbing trees, swimming in ponds, fording streams, and building forts.

There was an article in the Times Educational Supplement once advising male teachers not to get dressed in the dark in the mornings. Typical perils (in increasing order of severity) include:

odd socks
odd shoes
Yesterday's underpants falling out the bottom of ones trouser leg! ()

I hope that's not one of your personal experiences!
Whooo..

Fortunately no; although I do like to generate the impression of eccentricity, and therefore wear odd socks, or socks with coloured toes with sandals etc etc. (Can't 'not be true' to the stereotype of a mad scientist. We are taught in educational circles to move away ffrom stereotypes, but when I worked in research I came across some genuinely odd characters. These days we're all expected to conform, be uniform etc etc which, in my opinion, is leading to mediocrity.

However, I have spoken to female colleagues who have experienced the dress tucked into knickers, trailing toilet paper etc as described in the post above.

I my line of work, I'm a chef , I'm required to wear a uniform: black pants, kitchen coat, apron, floppy toque, and black clogs. My one freedom of dress are my socks. I have stars and moons, chili peppers, smiling giraffes, camping racoons, woodland animals, crazy stripes and polka dots, Christmas and Halloween themed socks; the list goes on.
The most "dangerous" clothing in the kitchen is the apron. If one ties their apron strings at the back, it is aknowledged as an invitation to tie the ends to cooler doors, bakery racks, all sorts of food and even other employees. I got wise to this tomfoolery early on and now wrap the strings around my waist and tie them in the front.

wondernorthstar, oh, you sound warm! (It is so freezing here, yet it's halfway through spring (yeah, right...))
I had a chemistry set too, weren't they fun?

A bit off topic: I very much recognise the things you say about socks! Very strange, that of all types of clothing we pick (or have to pick) the SOCKS to express our individuality

The last couple of years I wore two different socks at any occasion I had. Dont't really know why, I just felt like it. Recently I started a new study and these days I find myself surrounded by girls in 'uniform'. They more or less dress the same, talk the same, walk the same, eat the same - well, you get the point.
So by now my wearing mismatching socks is a Statement: I will not be another clone. I will be me, no matter what. So there.

On socks - where have Fisherman's socks gone ? - the white long socks that you could roll over the top of your wellies (groundworker style), or over the top of the bike boots (classic look).

There is a male eqivalent of "dress in the knickers" it's shirt in the zip fly - one I have the questionable pleasure of witnessing, but not actually experiencing

Mike, I've not been knitting much lately

Aaah, socks. They keep my feet warm and dry and a smile on my face. It's the simple things that make me happy and socks are one of them.
That and stuffing olives and slices of meatloaf into a hapless server's apron on a dreadfully slow night.
It's OK... I bought him a drink after the restaurant closed.
And, yes, chrmistry sets were really cool. My mom would only let me play with mine on the patio. Well, with all the flammables and fumes and odd things in test tubes...

When my son was about 12, I tried to buy him a chemistry set such as my father had bought me, but the closest resemblance to it cost $200.00! (In the 1980s, and that's a lot, especially back then...)