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

- Oh no, not codpieces again.

My cod piece is gona be epic when I make it... special compartments for storing cigs and lighter, plus a secret compartment for storing emergency cheese rations.... and with spikes... and studs...

Have you seen Cheech Marin's from the film (From Dusk tovDawn"?

The only cod piece I favour will come with Mushey peas and chips. spect 2legs will have have a different view on that though...

MMM... mushy pe peas and fish n chips

Depends... still not convinced I really wanna go down teh cod-piece steampunk route or not all a bit... sort of ... dunno Mind... talking of toursers.... trousers... just an inch or so more to reduce on teh waist... then I can go for a 30" inch waist pair of leahter ones.... they'll match the leather corset so perfectly and the le leahter hat and boots, of course

Are you one of those people that dress up in strange historical costume and hang around historical moments...

"Are you one of those people that dress up in strange historical costume and hang around historical moment"

Yes. and no.... or, perhaps, no and yes, maybe.

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I think the question needs to be broken up... changed round a tiny* bit

"Are you one of those strange people?" Almost certainly.

"dress up in strange costume?" almost definately.

"dress up in historical costume?" well, perhaps... depends... what you mean by Historical...


"you one of those strange people that hang around historical people". IN a strange way. yes.


I like what I like... and wear what I like... and... loath the idea of fashion, or trends... so, in many respects... just wear the same stuff, mainly I have done, since I was in my very early teens... well, boots, jeans, shirts, sort of stuff... I wear more leather now... but that's only because I have money which I didn't as a 14 year old

Vive La differance

Sounds individual if nothing else

dunno.... 'just me' really I'm quite lazy when it comes to clothes in reality....

black boots... yep, been in them since I was 14 or 15 (differnt pairs over the time mind...)
Black leahter jacket.... yep, since I could afford to buy one, when I was , err about 17 or 18 (cept for a few years I coudln't find any I liked, when I got brown leather instead).
Jeans, black, yeh, since I was.... 15... (I did have a blue pair, circa err 2002 I think).
Shirts, never tee shirts... since I was about... 15 or 16... consistant if nohting else... (I'm about... err 36 I think, I cna't be bothererd to work out the maths again, as to how old I am )

Oh... and occasional (in private ) cross dressing since... oo... probably I think 12 or 13 years old (although not done any in ages and ages actually )

I'm too <blush. though, to wear anything too.... exotic in public though I'm trying to change that I must start wearing the leather corset, as outerwear, more often

Hmm.

ahh. we were talking about trousers... werne't we I'm still not convinced by leather ones... think they'd be too hot and... with leather boots, hat, and jacket, a bit too... much leahter the 1920s or 1930s sort of American kinda err, Great Gatsby kinda thing is always a possibility though... sort of linen suits and the like... keep meaning to buy one, but... never getting roudn to it I'd need a differnt hat though, and I've only just got the new leather trilby

Linen suits tend to be worn by flacks [flax] .

Suits definitely make men more attractive. Light linen suits can be really . Those baggy trousers, often checked or even tartan, which seem to come up over the waist and were worn with braces (e.g. as in Gatsby) are *not* attractive.

ahh... I'm definatinly thinking of the linen s suits thing... not the baggy ones linen suit.... white shirt.... black or red tie... trilby hat and thigh length leather boots... well, and the corset, of course hmmm. or ... of course.. .maybe not... all sounds like too much effort to me I'm lazy

"Those baggy trousers, often checked or even tartan, which seem to come up over the waist and were worn with braces (e.g. as in Gatsby) are *not* attractive" [TC]

But if they were common in Gatsby's time, they must have been considered attractive then, mustn't they? Fashion is a fickle thing, as the song in "Honk" went. I would love to wear that kind of trousers, but can't seem to find much that fits well without tailoring, and have to settle for tan or dark solids.

The waist seems to be a sensitive area. Some teenage boys insist on having their pants ride halfway their butts. Some geezers wear their pants too high. Are extremes the only things that people notice nowadays? I wear suspenders [which some people call braces] because they keep my pants up to the right level, not too high and not too low. So I'm boring, and the fashionable people are guaranteed to not even realize that I'm even here.

Truth be told, there was a beautiful checked suit worn by Christopher Reeve in "Somewhere in Time" that was to die for, and it looked good on him. [Some people are tall and slim, something I will never be, and look good in almost everything they wear.]

here's a tip: Figure out what looks good on you, and stick with it unless you have the cash to try a different look every time you go out the door. And please be kind to those of us who aren't tall and slim. It's not our fault.

Paul, it's a constant source of amusement on this side of the Atlantic to hear that you hold your pants up with suspenders

Oi! nothing amusing about a boke wearing suspenders... IMO

SAdly what I wasn't able to achieve in physical height, I'm now making up for by shrinking some of my other dimensions... namely chest, waist etc Well, its eitehr that... or go for boots with bigger heels.. and... I'd jst be lethal in proper heels

Anoying thing, my really bilrlient cheap bargin long Black leather coat, I bought off EBay oo a year or so ago... its now gettin way too big on me I do keep looking at it... and tryign to work out the minamum number of seems I can unstich, to make reductions in relivent proportions for it to fit better.. but... really I think its beyond my sewing skills all of my jeans are getting loose again on the waist but luckily I've a hole punch for leather, so keep adding extra holes to the 2" wide thick leather belt; which is now carrying about 1/3 'spare'' belt at t the end, which I must actually cut off a bit of, at some point pity... so nearly enough to make another belt out of ooo.... it'd be enough to make a pretty sturdy posture collar out of though... I've no idea where to go though, if I need jeans a size smaller, I don't think any high street shops seem to go that low on mens trouser sizes anymore and given the recent trend for 32" to be bigger than 34", and 36" the same size at 34", and other 34" even bigger than 36" jeans, I don't really trust buying them online... two of my 32" long jeans, are a good two inchs differnt, in their length... <too...

Nothing else was working, Icy. I can't go and get a different body. Some people actually congratulate me on my fashion sense. That's nice -- I'll take all the flattery I can get and store it up against the day when everybody starts finding fault with me -- but there was no fashion sense involved. I used to read "Dress for success," but it went out of print, and no one else has stepped in with a guide to updated advice for men. Women, of course, get fashion advice all the time, much of it contradictory or aimed at less than 1% of the adult female population.

The nicest bit of fashion news is that it is now proper to wear sneakers to formal events. I actually anticipated that, having worn black sneakers for years to everything. Nobody *ever* even noticed that I was doing so.

What Icy meant, Paul, is that here pants means underwear and suspenders means ... also underwear, but meant for holding up stockings.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't braces what you and Icy would use for suspenders? Also, I had no idea that pants would mean underwear on your end. If it would help, I would use "trousers" instead, as the term seems to mean the same thing on both sides of the Atlantic.

Peace.

All these misunderstandings would be redundant if we all agreed to wear kilts and stop talking about quaint pantaloons.

Yep, braces are what we call those over-shoulder-trouser-hanger things