Men do evil.
It’s sometimes referred to as the evil that men do.
I’m sure you’ve heard of it.
The men who do evil, who are notoriously famous for being the executors of the evil that men do, tend to be the rue of the Earth.
Let’s see. There was Hitler. No explanation needed there. There was Jim Jones, who along with his misgivings as a crazed lunatic who convinced hundreds of people to die in Guyana (not Panama), is responsible for making a ghetto brand a household name. For it is Jim Jones who caused the coinage of the now age-old adage, “You won’t get me to drink that Kool-Aid.”
The downside there is that Kool-Aid, on its own merits isn’t exactly a nutritious morning supplement, but still, it’s Kool-Aid. How can you ruin Kool-Aid for everybody by killing people with it? That’s just evil.
As you can see, the whole Kool-Aid things really bothers me.
You’re probably thinking to yourself right now, “Self, what in the hell is this uber-sexxy fellow speaking of?”
A-ha.
Well, amongst the throngs of evildoers who have passed over this Earth, there are a few men (and women) who do not get enough attention for their evil deeds. And I for one don’t think that’s fair. As any God-fearing, justice driven individual would do, I feel that it is my duty to bring those deeds to the limelight. I’m speaking of the creators of…
…low-rise jeans.
Evil.
Maybe it’s just me, but a cool 97% of women who wear low-rise jeans needn’t wear low-rise jeans.
In America, we have a problem. We tend to be largely out of shape. Low-rise jeans exploit this losing effort in the Battle of The Bulge by causing women who know good and got damn well that they have no business wearing anything that will accentuate their mid-sections to wear them and mushroom around their jeans. I mean extra back fat and shit that forms a muffin-top like effect surrounding the jeans.
Essentially I’ve seen women walking around looking like mushrooms.
And that is just wrong.
Granted it’s mostly younger white women who seem to not get the memo on when it is appropriate to wear certain clothing, but I’ve seen black women do it.
And even worse, I’ve seen MEN wearing low-rise jeans. And I don’t mean ninjas sagging either.
So yes, low-rise jeans and their creators are just evil. They know that women want to expose themselves. So women will continue walking around looking like mushrooms, making fashion faux pas after fashion faux pas.
It’s just not sexxy. And it counters that whole, “I don’t want to look fat” mantra that so many women wear so proudly. Know your body and know your limitations. It’s one thing to not care what people think. I applaud that spirit. It’s something altogether to not care what people think at the detriment of other people. Not wearing deodorant, or not bathing regularly, or not being able to wash clothes comes to mind. I can’t not look at a chick with her midriff exposed — especially if it makes me want to go buy some fungus.
Don’t you see the evil here?
For the legions of women who can wear low-rise jeans, keep bangin’. You are a testament to gyms or good genes everywhere. I appreciate seeing your thongs and the way your jeans hang off your hips. In fact, thank you for having discernible hips. It’s clearly an art, not a right.
But for those who cannot. Just perish. Panama says just perish.
We’re nearing Christmas, do the world some justice and let the world know other fashion faux pas that men and women need to do away with.
Sharing is caring, people.
Share.
-VSB P aka THE ARSONIST aka TANGLE JIG P
Panama I realize you love yourself and your sexxxy but Jim Jones used Kool Aid to kill himslef and a whole lot of folks in Guyana not Panama
@Intellectual Hedonist,
Yuppp… Jonestown was a tragic story. I always watch the documentary when it comes on. That was one twisted man.
@Intellectual Hedonist,
IH didn’t drink PeeJay’s Kool-Aid! Haa-Ha!
@PBG, Initially I thought he was talking bout the other Jim Jones, you know the one we VSBers blame for all that is wrong in this world today
@Intellectual Hedonist,
thats who i thought too!
*pop champagne*
@shatani, lol. when i heard “pop champagne” the first time i actually liked it, and kinda thought it was kanye and somebody. the next time i was in my car and heard it–and heard the d.j. say that was jim jones–i involuntarily shrieked and slammed my radio off, whilst scratching the contact-dirt off myself. yeesssssss……he’s evil.
@charli skipper, I already know you (and the rest of the VSB population) will hate me for what I’m about write…but oh well, get in line
I hate Jim Jones too, but I’ll be damned if his verse on “Pop Champagne” isn’t my sh*t!!!…and since I’m in Harlem damn near urrr weekend, I feel it even more…if anything you have to be entertained by the pure niggery of his delivery and of course, his adlibs.
When I go to the dealer, you know I cop that (what’s that?)
Brand new ‘Rari and the roof dropped back (360)
Came thru Harlem like the rooftop back (a yo!)
Money in the bank man you know I stop that (stop that stop that stop that)
Now we tryin’ to get up in the club (what?)
They tryin’ to tell me “no”
‘Cause I’m rollin’ with the thugs (we got money b*tch!)
So I flash a couple o’ dollars (yup)
Told ‘em “we only want tables”
“And we buyin out the bottles” (o oohhh)
And y’all know the order, I told ‘em
“Ten Roses and a few cold waters” (right!)
Trony ‘Tron and a couple of lemons (go!)
Ten Thousand Dollars stuffed up my denims (what else?)
Standing on couches, couple of womens (aye baby)
We was ballin hard, it was just the 9th inning (it’s early)
Told shorty we could be friends (yup)
And your friends could meet my friends (what else?)
We could do this on a weekend or on a weekday (oh)
We could do this on the freeway (go)
Get it in a freak way
Sh*t you could get all three ways (oooh)
Blackberry two way
Souped up cars on the thru-way (yup)
We superstars, no Lupe
We could do this like a duet (oh)
Y’all be the singers, I’m the mic (unh)
Let me dim the lights (unh)
This was in the car when I was stopping at the light (take that)
@Cornell Westside,
I can’t even hate on Jim.
I hate to admit, I really like this song…lol
@Cornell Westside,
sadly, i too liked this song… then i found out it was Dirt Boys… I will not listen to it strickly on principle.
yeah, it beez like that
@Cornell Westside,
I am not at all familiar w/this song.
@Cornell Westside,
you know, ive never even heard this song, but now i’m tempted to find it online somewhere
@Cornell Westside,
Never heard it either. Hum.
y’all ain’t heard this??! its in HEAVY rotation ’round these parts… *sigh*
i’m amazed at anybody who ain’t heard this yet…especially on the east coast.
its got a video complete with a bunch of men…spraying champagne on eachother.
its the club jumpoff song right now…
@Cornell Westside,
im not nearly as principled as BBMo! lmao…i like it. i cant help myself.
“its got a video complete with a bunch of men…spraying champagne on eachother.”
*raised eyebrow*
hmmmmm that reminds me of the Boondocks episode “The Story of Gangstalicious, Part 2″
“Homies Over Ho*s”
@Cornell Westside, I liked the song too when I heard it on the radio I was like yo that’s hot and would turn it up, then one afternoon the dj said Jim Jones and played the song. I immediately ripped out the radio and threw it out the window.
@shatani, miss t-lee, Cornell Westside, and charlie skipper,
The song is a banger…there’s no other way to look at it. I wrote about it on my blog a couple of weeks ago:
http://my2cents-sense.blogspot.com/2008/11/my-favorite-song-right-now-part-two.html
One can hate Jim Jones all they want, but if you hate on this song, you clearly have hate running through your blood.
@Monk,
Yep…we’ve discussed this…it’s hot. I can’t even front…lol
@miss t-lee,
which is not to say that i dont have hate running through my blood, though. my cup runneth over and shyt.
@Monk,
One can hate Jim Jones all they want, but if you hate on this song, you clearly have hate running through your blood.
LOL!! this is remixed version of what i tell people about beyonce.
@Champ & PBG….what rock have y’all been living under? You are missing out on some good niggotry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jZmntdzFBY&feature=related
things to take note of:
1. The heavily-weaved young woman recklessly pouring ‘pagne in the beginning
2. the bootleg Keyshia Cole video chick
3. Jim Jones’ ski-goggles and skullie, nucca it is NOT the 90′s!
@Cornell Westside,
“3. Jim Jones’ ski-goggles and skullie, nucca it is NOT the 90’s!”
maybe he was just cold.
@Intellectual Hedonist, yeah me too…that was until I remembered the other Jim Jones, who I initially thought they meant when they were talking about the Dirty Angel…these guys need to a learn a little thing called consistency up in here, lol.
@Intellectual Hedonist, you can add him too…somehow that Jim Jones is responsible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
@Intellectual Hedonist, I was going to throw that out too; of course the only reason I’m up on this little tidbit of information, wait for it, a brutha is seriously trapped in Germany and CNN International just showed a back to back to back segment on that very topic.
I have got to get back stateside!! Peace
@Intellectual Hedonist, duly noted (and finna be corrected).
you know, i actually know that. in fact, the reason i was born in panama is b/c my parents were sent to Guyana to aid in the cleanup efforts. at around the time of the massacre, mama panama would have been about 2 months pregnant…which means she probably didn’t know…lol.
anyway, thanks for the correction…
and viva la kool-aid.
I wrote a series of posts about things grown men and women need not wear a bit ago on my Blog
These include:
*Mullets
*Grills
*Crocs
*Loud Logos
*Partner Tattoos
*Side Ponytails
*Finger waves
Talking about these made me tired
@Luvvie,
I wear a side ponytail, Luvvie. Swept low and to the side. It’s rather fly, if I do say so myself.
And…I do say so.
@PBG,
I agree… done properly, the side pony tail can be cute. Low, side swept (and in the summer with a pretty flower) can be quite beguiling..
@blackberry molasses,
BBMo, you e-know me so well. I have a bunch of flowers I use for my side ponytails in summer. I just started last summer when I finally got enough length for the style.
@PBG,
ive rocked the side pony…which just turns out to be a side puff. but more often i will rock the side bun and its hotness!
@PBG, I can tell you’re a respectable black women, you waited for the length to come in first.
@Peyso,
I agree Peyso (hey what happened to the new name??)
I respect you so much more for that PBG.
@Monk,
With both Monk’s and Peyso’s endorsement, along w/IVR’s stamp of “awesome” yesterday…I think I may officially be cool.
*beams*
@Peyso, “I can tell you’re a respectable black women, you waited for the length to come in first.”
This reminds me of those little girls whose moms would pull their hair back so tight that they just looked surprised all the time to fit a little tuft of hair in a barrette* (sp?) . . . ahh . . .the good ole Brooklyn days.
@IVR,
the phrase “little tuft of air” just bout made my morn. I thank thee
@Luvvie, “the phrase “little tuft of air” just bout made my morn. I thank thee”
No problem!
@PBG,
The side ponytails I’m thinkin bouts are the ones that are high on the head. I appreciate a side-swept chignon. But the brush that sits on the side of the crown is NOT whats smoking in the parkway.
@Luvvie,
*oh mickey youre so fine, youre so fine you blow my mind, hey mickey!*
@shatani,
A rapper hasn’t remade this yet?? Just asking…
@Luvvie,
I now feel compelled to send you a pic of me in a side ponytail. I think I shall.
I need to see this as well, thanks.
@overit,
I insist you send me this pic. But IF i roast it, know that I still heart you
@overit,
why dont you just post it on your facebook so we can all partake!
@PBG, lol me too PBG or rather I used to rock my side afro puff.. it was supa dupa fly.. but now I am locking..I miss my puff….
@Shay-d-lady,
You’re locking? Alright now! Welcome to The Family.
@Shay-d-lady,
Yay for locking!! Whoo Hoo!!!
@Shay-d-lady,
I was locked and cut them off bc I missed the afro puff…. but happy locking, it was fun!
@Shay-d-lady,
ooooh, you are, shay-d?!?! im gonna lock soon too! i love my fro, but its too long now for me to want to deal with it.
@Luvvie,
http://www.mulletsgalore.com/
because I wish to offend today… LMAO
@blackberry molasses,
the mullet is awesome
I think I shall invent the negro-mullet
@Deviant,
the negro mullet has been here, on black women stuck in a Salt n Pepa phase. Business in the front party in the back, I hate that hairdo wit a passion.
@Relax, Relate, Alise,
but there is no male version
@Deviant,
And there shouldn’t be. No, not ever.
@PBG,
sad to say, yes there is…
*cough* lionel ritchie *cough*
@Deviant, “but there is no male version”
What about the mohawk p-diddy looking thing people are running around with . . . that’s gotta be close.
@IVR, hell no! i hate that sh1t
@IVR,
thats not a mullet thats jus b.s.
anything that begins with “diddy does..” or ends with “like diddy does” is soemthing that should not be done
when I think mullet I think of the hair guys in the old NWA wore. Those are mullets. Old Ric Flair and Magnum T.A. hairstyles.
@Deviant
i think “diddy does” is gonna be added to my repertoire…
@Deviant,
If you invent the male negro mullet, I shall curse your first born to have the sense of style of Cam’ron. He gon LOVE pink fur.
So umm, don’t do it. I will seek revenge
@Luvvie,
*cough* A.C. Slater *cough*
(saved by the bell, for those who dont know)
@Deviant, the shag is close enough…..
@Deviant,
Two words:
Jermaine Jackson.
“Jermaine Jackson is so greasy, the cops can’t catch him!”
-Chris Rock
@Ocho Pan
Follow the drip follow the drip
@Relax, Relate, Alise, “the negro mullet has been here, on black women stuck in a Salt n Pepa phase. Business in the front party in the back, I hate that hairdo wit a passion.”
My old supervisor had this black woman mullet (my caucasian brother in arms had to explain to me what a mullet was), I always thought it was exciting when it bopped up and down on top. . . waiting for it to fall over but it never did . . . and when she got it tuned up. . . u couldn’t tell her NOTHIN!
@IVR,
im so mad at the usage of the term “tune up” for mullet maintenance! lmao
@Luvvie, hold up, just hold the eff up!!! Side ponytails, made a come back? Oh lawd…
@Luvvie, I see women rocking finger waves in Raleigh/Durham all of the time like it’s the ’90s. I just want to snatch them, and wash out that crunchy ish.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
you live in the triangle? me too, another NC vsber, hooray!
@Relax, Relate, Alise,
Whoo Hoo!!! The Triangle is reppin’ up in this piece!! lol
Do you live in Raleigh?
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
Durham….
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
I usually read and don’t comment. (hence a lurker)
But I just had to…
I’m in the Triangle area and they gotta be out of gel – I’m seeing way too many fingerwaves on a DAILY basis!
@ZDubb,
don’t know where the official welcome committee is but
WELCOME
**sprinkles Diva Dust ™**
@ZDubb, welcome and sh!t *gold stars*
@ZDubb,
Welcome ZDubb…
I’ll add your screen name to the roster in the Prayer Cubicle.
And somewhere right now, some mad scientist is working on yet another batch of horrid brown gel, so no hunnybunny…they will never run out. *sadness*
@ZDubb,
Sorry that the Welcome committee is late. I had to go stand on line for some rice. You know, the important things.
Anyway, welcome to our crooked palace of VerySmartpeople. Here at the land of the smarts, we aim to please (no one), and aim to roast (everyone).
We got 3 corners. The IG Corner, the Prayer Cubicle, and the Sat Down Corner. Some of us have been sent to all 3 at one point in time. Me, I mainly monitor the IG corner, making sure riff raffs (aka people with sense) dont find their way in.
With that being said, enjoy, kick back. Keep ur shoes (we don’t like the smell of feets).
@ZDubb,
welcome and sh*t
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha…., lol, any style that has to be “washed out” had to have expired in the 90′s
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
I promise the RDU/RTP area is like a mecca. My auntie is a hair dresser and I cringe everytime I hear someone ask for fingerwaves or demand that she use the brown gel!
*cringing at the thought right now*
@Luvvie, Awww shat…and just when my girl and I thought we were going the bring the finger waves back Keshia Cole style.
@Teacia, finger waves? are bad.
thank you.
@Panama Jackson,
what about baby hair?
@shatani, don’t start. lol
@SouthernGirl,
*goes to sat down*
@Luvvie,
Low side ponytails are cool if and only if you have enough hair to pull of the look. If not, all you’ve got is a crooked snatchback.
@Luvvie,
***awarding daily “shameless self pluggery” trophy to the luv bug***
@The Champ,
Thank you for this award Champ. Does it come with a widget? I would thank my mama but I think this is one speech she’d like to sit out on.
@Luvvie,
i dont think you can handle one of my widgets
@The Champ,
“i dont think you can handle one of my widgets”
Ur widgets have BEEN handled by me. How soon we forget, Champ, lol
Old Navy has different rises, thank goodness.
But their sizes are janky as h3ll. I can fit a size 8 (loosely), but a size 10 is too tight? What gives, haters?
@PBG,
the fact that you can get the black woman posterior into a pair of Old Navy jeans is commendable. I generally end up with the whole butt cleavage/need a belt thing going on… Only one pair I ever bought from them accomodated the booty.
@blackberry molasses,
I found one pair that fit and bought the same dayum jeans in every wash they had. My booty…aye! Combined w/my height, it’s always an issue.
@blackberry molasses,
ive never bought jeans at old navy…and the different rises must be new cuz for the longest EVERYthing was low rise and that just wont work for me.
plus im mad at old navy anyway cuz you can only get plus sizes online. eff that! they got maternity in the store but cant have plus size? azzholes.
@shatani,
“plus im mad at old navy anyway cuz you can only get plus sizes online.”
Yeah, they are wrong for that.
I’m not sure how long they’ve had the various rises, but I appreciate that and the various lengths as well. I can’t do the low rise OR the average/tall lengths.
@PBG, No, they have plus sizes and extra small sizes in the store, both of which I cannot wear, I fall in the scmedium, which do not normally fit my buttocks properly, but every now and then i find an irregular gem., i am gonna shut my drunk posting azz up….
@Relax, Relate, Alise,
um…in what store? they stopped carrying plus sizes in the stores a long time ago….they carry the XS and they carry maternity in the stores now. if youre big but not pregnant, you betta get thee to the innanet.
@PBG,
Old Navy’s plus sizes are ill fitting anyway. That ish is like a juniors plus or something…
terrible.
@shatani, Old Navy pants are the worst anyway. Unless its pajamas.
@overit,
I agree.
@overit,
i only ever buy skirts and dresses from them. i got a fabulous halter dress for like $10.
@blackberry molasses, i stopped attempting to buy jeans from old navy years ago. i’m pretty petite but i still get the whole thing in the back too cause me and becky don’t have the same @ss.
had this problem with one style of victoria’s secret sweats. the white chick that was helping me was all, it looks good, that’s the way they’re supposed to be and i’m looking at her crazy so she’s calls over another chick who was black and she confirmed that i was not tripping. she just looked at me like, girl those were not made for us and promptly took me to a pair that would fit.
@PBG,
Old Navy pants are wonkier than… You know what, I’mo leave Forrest alone. I like him
@Luvvie,
ahahahahahahhahaa you wrong for that. poor forrest. it ain’t his fault you gotta tilt your head to properly look at him straight on.
sidenote on the jeans: i appreciate levi’s new hi rise jeans. while i do not have a muffin top, there’s something extra swexy and non-ninth grade about wearing jeans that fit correctly without exposing le crack, and that you can tuck a pretty blouse into.
@puff, baby them levis is the bomb.. you gotta go to the web site but those levis 515 in the dark rinse? shyt you cant tell me nothin in them joints….LOL stallionares….LMAO I have moved on from muthaf!@cka Im ill and have been ending my sentences with that… I love rank dayum foolishness, I swear I do
@Shay-d-lady,
Oh, how I love Levi’s. They do me right every time. I need to get a few more pairs in my life, since jeans are pretty much my daily uniform.
@puff, like I tell my 7 year old (non hip having pants always sliding down) neice
crack kills!
@PBG,
old navy jeans are effed up. i have some size fours that are loose and others that are tight and dig into my sides.
@PBG,
you guys should try miss sixty, best jeans ever. i swear, they look good on everyone and they last long.
@laylah,
What are their policies in relation to those of us under 5’5″?? This information is pertinent to my life situations.
@PBG, i second this emotion
@PBG,
and what of those of us upwards of 5’7?? i dont wish to signal that a flood is a-comin…
@laylah,
“i swear, they look good on everyone and they last long.”
Industrial strength jeans?
@laylah,
Yes, I need to know if Miss Sixty stans for us vertically challenged individuals.
@Luvvie, and everyone else…
i don’t know about the length because they are long on me and im 5’6. well, when you are ever in the market to buy some jeans to rock with heels… miss sixty is the way to go. and yes, industrial strength, they are. i’ve had these jeans since my sophomore year of college and they still don’t look worn out yet.
My sisters with 4 breasts you know who you are, the one trying to fit your H (cup size ) breast in a DDD cup, causing the 4 breast effect. Im sure over the Thanksgiving Holiday one of your relatives exhibited this faux pas.
It scares small children and medium sized animals so please do us a favor take your arse to Nordstrom and get fitted properly for a bra an then actually buy one that fits properly, and WEAR IT! Stop stuffing yourself into one that is one too many cups too small, because unless you are from another planet or a quadraped there is no reason you should have four protruding breasts with disaligned cleavage.
@Intellectual Hedonist,
LOL…That’s called a “quadroboob”!
@PBG, its called unnecessary and ridonkulous! I mean for God’s sake I can look down at my breast and know I have no business in a D cup, can’t she feel the circulation to her mammary glands is geting cut off?
@Intellectual Hedonist,
Her circulation being cut off makes her dumb…brain goes on low power. She doesn’t realize she is looking a hot mess.
At least, that’s my theory.
@PBG,
i call it sandwich boob… looks like they got two diagonal cut sandwiches stuck on their chests… makes not a lick of sense
*grumbles* ain’t gonna offend my eyes trying to create cleavage with an ill fitting undergarment
@PBG, na uh… my granny calls it cow titties…. cause you know they droopy too….
@Shay-d-lady,
I officially love your Granny for that. I’m sending hugs her way!
@Intellectual Hedonist,
i’m mad u said medium sized animals, that made my drunk night, thanks.
“It scares small children and medium sized animals….”
I’m done with you.
@Intellectual Hedonist, I used to work at victoria’s secret. you don’t know what i had to go through to get some chicks in the proper sized bra. the stories i could tell….
@SouthernGirl,
i worked at lane bryant and it was the same damn mess! and i dont get why folks are so resistant to change when ish actually looks better!?!?!
@Intellectual Hedonist, i used to work at victoria’s secret. you don’t know the struggle i went through daily to grt chicks in the right bra. *smh* the stories i could tell…
@SouthernGirl, see, blame this double posting on technology…
@Intellectual Hedonist,
i agree. i have this friend who shares the same cup size as me. this heathen tries to fit her girls into a 34 C. she knows good and well shes a D, but she thinks she has cute cleavage. falling out of your bra isnt cute… you just look messy.
@laylah,
I would say sumthin but VEG may kill me. *whistles out*
I live in NJ, the home of some of the worst fashion offenders in the world…
The Guido Look– greased back hair, extra-shmedium shirts, tight pants and motorcyle boots while driving a t-top trans-am or an Iroc-Z
The Skank-Whore Look- 2 sizes too small tank top, no bra (with saggy boobs) and of course, the muffin top creating 2 sizes too small low rise jeans
Those ‘potato sack’ banded bottom dresses–for being so damn difficult wear in a flattering manner, they sure are ubiquitous.
Jeans tucked into your timbs (females especially, but males too)— WTF?!?!
extra-loud logos/logos plastered all over your stuff… you are a walking advertisement for x-brand and they ain’t even paying you. you clearly don’t respect the gangsta
Obviously fake designer stuff– JUST STOP IT.
Rainbow colored weaves– walking around looking like a bag of skittles and a box of crayola had chex on your head
Toupee looking weaves/wigs– you offend me, madam… sometimes sir
I’ll stop because I’m starting to feel ill, thinking about these
@blackberry molasses,
I absolutely HATE logos. They are just the worst. People tend to put too much stock in a brand name…and not own any real stock. Dumb a$$es.
@PBG, this might be a mild bit haterish, but it annoys me when ugly people brag about brand names. you’re not cute in jordache. so you’re gonna be ugly in prada. save your money, honey.
@charli skipper, smh @ jordache
I used to own a pair in middle school
@Intellectual Hedonist, ain’t nothin wrong wit some Jordache! lol
@charli skipper, I didn’t say there were. all I said was that I wore them in middle school, just like I wore leg warmers in middle school, more than 20 years ago. That is all I’m saying about that
@Intellectual Hedonist,
When my Mother got me leg warmers w/a matching sweater one year for Christmas back in my junior high school days, I thought I was the bee’s knees for sure! LOL! Wooow!
@Intellectual Hedonist, you know leg warmers were the ish, I aint even mad they are making a comeback, but you wont see them on my legs.
This goes in line with knowing your limitations, at a certain age, certain fashions aint for you. you aint looking young and trendy you looking dumb and stoopit!
So while I will buy some legwarmers for the kids I had my legwarmer days. Besides my legs are too hot to be covered up
@charli skipper,
“it annoys me when ugly people brag about brand names. you’re not cute in jordache. so you’re gonna be ugly in prada. save your money, honey.”
LOL!
@The Champ,
i second that emotion.
@blackberry molasses,
African men are GOOD for extra loud logos. Their need to display that they are wearing a name brand is ridiculous. I always have the same reaction.
1. I see you’ve visited Canal Street lately
2. Good for you. Go Sat down! No one cares.
@blackberry molasses,
these chicks in philly sadden me….i mean EVERYthing is at least 2 sizes too small. even the thinnest chick looks fat and dumpy cuz her low rise jeans are FAR too small and she can barely move her legs, meanwhile her top was meant for a child sized doll….it just does not make sense.
and i also have to lodge a complaint against the friggin bubble dress…those things are horrendous! they dont look good on anyone ever…EVER! im tired of shapely women wearing shapeless clothing….it aint for us. its for women shaped like pre-pubescent boys and even they dont look good in it.
@shatani, “cuz her low rise jeans are FAR too small and she can barely move her legs”
I. am. done!
@Nicki Sunshine,
im for real! they be waddling across the street all slow, takin babysteps and junk…then the light change and they wanna roll eyes when folks start beeping horns!
its really ridiculous…if youre a size 10, why try and squeeze into a size 6? so you can say you wear a 6? chile please, you tell somebody youre a 6 and they think, “well, hardly!” *smdh*
@shatani, LMAO. That is disgusting. I love my lil sister but her and her friends are guilty of it. I’m 28 and these heffas look more grown woman than me (and not in a good way!)…. Yesterday, she had on this tight polo style shirt and I just kept poking at her stomach.
@Nicki Sunshine,
oh, cuz THATS not gonna give her a complex!! lmao…theres a better way to discourage that behavior, miss sunshine!
@shatani, LOL! Girl, she is 19! Soft love didn’t work. Trust, she’s not lacking in self esteem at all, her and those chubby little girlfriends of hers.
@shatani,
lmao!! im mad at you describing her crew like they wish to welcome you to munchkin land!
@blackberry molasses, can I co sign on the obviously fake knock offs.. I mean really you can afford a prada bag and you work at the gas station.. and since when did gucci make sweat suits and matching socks? I mean for real? or the god awful trend that was fake burberry plaid….THE HORRORS….
@Shay-d-lady,
no! not matching socks!
@puff,
i would rock some gucci socks! lmao
@Shay-d-lady, hahahaahahahaha
That shite isn’t right or bright!!
@Shay-d-lady,
One of my girlfriends has that gawd awful fake Burberry in a matching hat and belt set. I don’t have the heart to tell her she ain’t foolin nobody because she seems so darn proud of herself when she wears it. SMH
@Luvtheshoes,
if you are truly her friend… TELL HER NOW!!!
please… i beg you.
@Luvtheshoes,
Friends dont let friends look a fool.
Them the friends who I walk 4 feet in front of so folks dont think im wit em.
@Luvtheshoes,
You need to tell her…immediately. I promise you, Jesus and the rest of humanity wants you to do it.
@PBG,
Yeah, I’d tell her but she’s the kind who would cut a bi!ch. I’m not trying to explain to my insurance that I need coverage over fake Burberry.
@blackberry molasses,
“Jeans tucked into your timbs (females especially, but males too)— WTF?!?!”
I agree. That should only be done on long mountain hikes and when diving into the ocean to save someone’s life.
@RedBeanzNRice,
and if youre going on a bike ride…
@blackberry molasses,
“I live in NJ, the home of some of the worst fashion offenders in the world…”
based on your post…you are absolutely right. and i thought baltimore was bad.
ninjas tuck in Tims??!?!?!?!?!? like do you mean make their pants look tapered and tuck them in…or stuff the jeans into the top and don’t tie the joints…?
@Panama Jackson,
Keep thinking Baltimore is bad…because it is. That’s the very first place I ever saw colored metallic spray on finger waves, circa 1991. Jesus, be a fence around that entire city.
But yeah, Jersey sounds like they’re losin’ too.
@PBG, “Jesus, be a fence around that entire city”
LOL!!! girl perhaps we should have a cleansing, let me go get my vela (large round glass encased candle) with the Virgin of Guadalupe on it
@Panama Jackson,
“ninjas tuck in Tims??!?!?!?!?!? like do you mean make their pants look tapered and tuck them in…or stuff the jeans into the top and don’t tie the joints…?”
…..both…..
Makes my eyes twitch every time I see that ish… not coincidentally, all of this spills over into the Illadelph where I work. They stay LOSIN’…
@blackberry molasses,
delaware aint doin much better….the whole tri-state area is cursed….
two more before i hit the sack
women who wear dresses and don’t wear the proper undergarments– just ruining the pretty of the dress
women who don’t believe in proper hair removal. I heard this woman say on the radio that she never had her upper lip groomed because her mom told her men think its sexy…. WHAT. THE.FCUK.
@blackberry molasses,
i hate it when women say they don’t wax their face because it’ll grow back thicker. um…bi**h, you supposed to keep waxing. and i thank you.
@charli skipper,
Applause for this comment!!!
This seriously just made me cackle!!!!
bwhahahahha
@blackberry molasses, “women who wear dresses and don’t wear the proper undergarments– just ruining the pretty of the dress”
Amen Praise the Good Lawd and Mr. Blackwell!
if I see another black bra or slip under a light colored dress I’m a throw Red Paint on someone like the PETA people throw on folks wearing fur. You know you wrong for that.
@blackberry molasses,
“…she never had her upper lip groomed because her mom told her men think its sexy.”
I have never met a man who wants his woman’s stache to be thicker than his – it negates his sexy.
@RedBeanzNRice,
um…i know a woman with a beard. i mean, she aint grizzly adams (grizzly adams had a beard! lol) but its definitely there and she SWEARS men love her shyt! and to be honest….she ALWAYS got a man! lol…now the men be trife (like the one who wet her bed) but she trife too!
im just sayin.
@shatani
Wow!!! Im damn near speechless right now.
Forreal????
“now the men be trife (like the one who wet her bed)…”
*blink*
@8th Wonder,
Yeah…I was wondering that too.
Standards apparently aren’t that high.
@8th Wonder,
yeah, I read that on my crackberry while riding the train and audibly snorted…
He PEED her bed?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
@8th Wonder,
i didnt blink, i just bust out in laughter! and he didnt just pee her bed once neither. several damn times! how the hell you invite a bedwettin mofo BACK to bed?!?! the lovin musta be FIYAH! even still…yo azz is sleepin on a tarp on the floor til you get housebroken. just sayin…
@shatani,
ain’t all the lovin’ in the world that good to have me sharing my bed with a pizzy azz dude…lmao
C’mon now.
No, DAMN that
Aint no loving good enough to get myself or my household goods peed on afterwards.
next.
@shatani,
wait, wait, wait a dayum minute… he did this MORE THAN ONCE??!?! She let him back in her bed??
me thinks your friend may need an intervention.
Jesus be some STANDARDS…
Or a pair of depends.
@blackberry molasses,
or a rubber fitted bedsheet…
@blackberry molasses,
or some detrol la aaaaahahahahaha
@blackberry molasses,
*and i dont have to go right now…*
@shatani, This whole comment made me cackle
@shatani,
“like the one who wet her bed”
***flat-lining***
why God, why????
@puff,
and you know what…its clearly some kind of problem, but how bout he wet the bed and then tried to act like he didnt know how that warm delight got there!?!?!? ninja say what!??! that ish didnt just start tonight. yo azz KNEW you was a bed wetter and couldnt warn a sista???? mattress RUINED!
@shatani, “warm delight”
i severely dislike you right now. *gasping for air*
@shatani,
Wet her bed? A grown ass man that wets the bed? SMH. See what having a beard gets you? Ugh.
@RedBeanzNRice,
yeah, a beard got her two husbands and 3 kids….shes single now though. actually, no she aint! she got a man…i forgot about him. imma have to see what his defect is….
@shatani,
Well, maybe it’s just me but, I’d rather take my chances without facial hair. I’m not tryna grow no beard to get a man that wets the bed, 2 husbands that prolly did something just as bad, if not worse, and 3 kids that will learn to love facial hair on women. I can’t; just can’t.
@shatani,
now the men be trife (like the one who wet her bed) but she trife too!
***debating whether or not i want to ask you to expound***
@blackberry molasses, “women who don’t believe in proper hair removal.”
I must agree with this, I saw a woman last week get on the elevator in some low cut top with her taco meat hanging out, I almost threw up. She was apparently proud of it though because it was damn cold outside to be that exposed.
Also, there is an attractive older woman in the building who wears skirts and refuses to shave her legs. Thank God Winter is coming.
@IVR, sad to say, i know a chick who did this in college. chick had chest hair and had both the nerve and the audacity to wear v-neck t-shirts.
little pig-tail hairs laying ever so gently against the neckband of the t-shirts. i can’t believe she didnt see that sh*t.
and her line sisters SWORE it never existed. i shoulda took pics.
@Panama Jackson,
“little pig-tail hairs laying ever so gently against the neckband of the t-shirts.”
Ever so gently though?? DAYUM!! Maybe she put some Just For Me kiddie relaxer on it!
Bwahahahaaa!!
@PBG,
nah, she got that good hurr! she dont need no textcha!
@Panama Jackson,
“little pig-tail hairs laying ever so gently against the neckband of the t-shirts.”
I wonder if she deep conditions her chest hair. If its gon b there, you might as well be moisturized. I’m just saying…
@IVR,
I’m a little vexed and perplexed right now. I’m still on this whole “woman with chest hair” thing… was she a natural born woman? cuz… i mean, i’ve never seen a natural born woman with taco meat.
@blackberry molasses, “I’m a little vexed and perplexed right now. I’m still on this whole “woman with chest hair” thing… was she a natural born woman? cuz… i mean, i’ve never seen a natural born woman with taco meat.”
Up until that point in my 26 years on this planet I have not seen that either. . . I’ve seen the little whiskers on the chestal region. . . that is OK . . . Oh, and I witnessed what I thought was a dime shaving their face in my bathroom . . . full lather . . its not her fault, but DAAAAMN that was disturbing.
Now that I think of it, I’ve witnessed plenty of disturbing things in the fairer sex, I still love y’all though . . ( just not those ones)
@IVR,
lmao!! dang…did ole girl get an invite back? did she use your aftershave?
@IVR,
“Also, there is an attractive older woman in the building who wears skirts and refuses to shave her legs. Thank God Winter is coming.”
My downstairs neighbor will NOT shave her dayum legs, no matter how many dirty looks I gave her @ the bus stop all summer long. I think she caught the same bus w/me just to taunt me and turn my stomach early in the morning. I call that chick “Monkey Legs”. She should be swinging through trees to get to her job.
That’s alright though, come Crissmus morn, she shall find a glittery little gift bag on her welcome mat w/two bottles of Nair and a handwritten note inside that reads That shyt ain’t cute!!
I’m tired of her madness.
@PBG, please report back. i wanna know how that goes. lmao
@blackberry molasses,
“women who wear dresses and don’t wear the proper undergarments– just ruining the pretty of the dress”
I hate this too.
@blackberry molasses,
i never understood this. i was christmas shopping the other day and the cashier was a young girl, about the age of 15, with a full mustache. this is my confusion…. this girl obviously took the time the paste down her hair to her head in a tight ass bun (nyc teenagers are notorious for this) and apply pounds of lip gloss. you mean to tell me you don’t see that caterpillar across your upper lip? c’mon now.
foolishness.
@laylah,
no, the bling of her lips is meant to distract and disorient you so you wont notice the Magnum P.I. she got goin on…
“I heard this woman say on the radio that she never had her upper lip groomed because her mom told her men think its sexy….”
while i don’t think it’s sexy by ANY stretch of the imagination, i feel bad for women who have lots of facial (and apparently chest) hair. it’s a hormone imbalance–some women just have higher testosterone levels. they can’t help that. that being said, i think women should just do what they can to remove said excess hair. esp if it’s thick and combable.
Sagging!!!! why are people still sagging? why are grown men sagging? why can i see all your “draws” because you’re sagging? why is lil wayne on tv SAGGING?
ugh. there needs to a be a sagging PSA.
”
“Obama. My anti-sag….the more you knoooooooow
@charli skipper,
i saw this young man the other day on the street….he was probably of age. he was handsome and talking to his elders like he had sense in his head and sounded smart and for a moment i had faith in the younger generation….then he stood up and i could see his rump. *smh* absolutely ridiculous! i hope he dont go on job interviews like that.
@charli skipper, i don’t care how old you are, just stop with the sagging pants. yes, i can appreciate a man with a nice @ss but if i can see it before i even know you’re name, keep it moving.
once i was driving home and i kid you not. these kids were outside fighting but…..they’d go in and go at it, throwing punches and what not, then both have to take a step back to pull their pants up!!! and then start fighting again.
@SouthernGirl,
This —>they’d go in and go at it, throwing punches and what not, then both have to take a step back to pull their pants up!!! and then start fighting again <— made me snort.
It’s like the 21st century version of dueling rules.
Rule #37 : The Challenger and the Challenged have the right to 45 seconds of pants lifting per 3 minutes of duel. Ridiculous!
@mssula, chile please.lol….could you imagine if this was the wild west? if ninjas wearing pistols and ammo can keep their pants up why can’t you? FAIL!
@charli skipper,
i say “pull your f*ckin pants up” at least once a week to various kids. of course, this is after i frisk them to make sure theyre not concealing any automatic weapons
skinny jeans are own my hit list. I don’t know who I hate it on more, men or women? These emo kids with the sagging skinny jeans, or big girls trying to squeeze into them? just evil!
@postmodern pwnage, I hate them more on men.. there is never a reason a man should wear skinny jeans.. I mean since when are thin ankles an attractive asset for a man to possess?
@Shay-d-lady, LOL exactly, and the whole ‘mangina’ effect that men get when rocking skinny jeans is not nice at all. I wish we could be done with the 80′s already.
@postmodern pwnage,
you mean the moose knuckle (1st cousin of the camel toe)?? lmao…
@Shay-d-lady, I concur!
@postmodern pwnage, i hate skinny jeans too. especially on dudes. why on God’s green earf would you wear jeans that purposefully constrict your mandom? just not a good look. figuratively and literally.
@Panama Jackson,
i had a skinny 2520 friend suggest that i get some skinny jeans. my first thought is…what the hell kinda sense does it make to have skinny jeans in plus size? is that not an oxymoron?!?!
@shatani,
Avenue had them.
I ain’t lying, I saw ‘em.
I walked right past them jokers too.
i personally cannot abide ugly shoes. especially on women. how with all of the beautiful platform heels and cute flats in the world does a chick think that those godforsaken black strappy sandals with a stunted heel that leave her foot looking like a pig with a fetish for leather garters are acceptable? no sir, i cannot co-sign it.
@puff that really hurt my feelings. Excuse me while I go drink bleach lol… are they really that bad?
@postmodern pwnage,
i’m sorry girl but they are. i always think of white college age girls rocking them ishes to dances with their sparkly spandex dresses thinking they’re cute… the whole effect offends my highly sensitive eyes.
uggs, btw, are also firmly in the fugly shoe category.
@puff, i will co-sign on the regular plain make your ankles and legs look three sizes too big uggs. especially since they have so many other styles. i have on a pair today that are leather with a slight motorcyle detail at the bottom and they are quite cute.
@SouthernGirl,
on the ugg tip, i furthermore cannot abide it when girls rock those fugly mfs with a knee length denim skirt. the sh*t makes me mad as all hell.
i also lived with this girl freshman who during the summer would rock her uggs with bootay shorts and a t-shirt, like only her ankles, feet and calves were cold in some 80 degree weather. i really should’ve smacked the b*tch, but i didn’t want to waste a good backhand on such hot-azz-mess-ness.
@puff, lol. it’s the same up here. i don’t understand how you have on a sweatshirt, shorts and uggs in 20 degree weather. is there a 2520 ugg accessory memo going around from fox news that i don’t know about. cause i only see becky’s doing that sh1t. just walking around representing all 4 seasons at one time.
@puff,
thats like the time me and my girl was at cherry hill mall and saw this 2520 chick rockin a winter coat with mini skirt and flip flops.
um, what!?!? are your body parts in different time zones right na?
@puff,
There is NOOO excuse for ugly shoes, unless you just plain ol’ don’t have any income (in which case cute shoes should be the least of your concerns).
TJ Maxx always has cute shoes for low prices AND they still have lay-a-way. I love “The Maxx”.
@PBG,
there is an excuse….big stupid feet! even the cutest of shoes in my size look stupid and ugly when i put them on my big stupid feet. im just sayin.
thats why i just rock my sneakers…and occasionally, my “no place like home” ruby slippers!
@shatani,
I have tiny feet (that match my tiny fists) and it’s not easy to find shoes that fit me that wouldn’t look equally as flattering on a 3rd grader. I’m always on the hunt.
Your feet aren’t big and stupid. They are lovely and wonderful just like all the rest of you. Ok?
@PBG,
hahaha…my friend has some tiny little doll feet too!
@PBG,
awww, i just caught that last line….thanks PB!
@shatani, I cannot co-sign this at all. There are some big-footed chicks in my family (sizes 10-11) and their shoe game is regal. H*ll, I wear a 9-9.5 and I never have a problem finding shoes.
Besides, if you keep calling your feet stupid, they might turn on you one day, and who knows where that path leads?
I got a big foot as well, and I rock it.
It takes a lot of time and effort to find cute shoes, mostly online, but it can be done.
Hang in there Shatani!!!
@miss t-lee,
arrrgggh!!! (channeling charlie brown)
i dont want to go the online route…i hate the idea that i will have to trudge down to the post office to send shoes back if they dont fit.
my feet are ginormous and they are wide too…and theyre flat! but i’ll tell you this…they are pretty as hell! soft smoove and bunion/corn free, cuz i dont abuse them in high heels all the time. lol
maybe when i become a real employed grown up type, i might be more inclined to take on that kind of task.
@shatani,
I feel your pain.
Sometimes you gotta grin and bare it.
Plus zappos does free shipping to you and back.
@KindredSmile,
“…if you keep calling your feet stupid, they might turn on you one day, and who knows where that path leads?”
Nowhere good, I can tell you that. Probably in a big azz circle. Or the ER from numerous falls over herself. All bad.
@shatani, I have the opposite problem, I have big feet. You wouldn’t know by seeing them because I wear cute shoes all the time and I know my limits. Some shoes just aint for me
@shatani,
One of my dearest friend is 6’1 with size 11 feet. Her shoe game is meaner than mean.
You just have to be dedicated to the cause. And hunt.
@mssula,
now, that i am not. im neither dedicated nor monetarily equipped for a mean shoe game…
@shatani,
me n’ you goin shoe shoppin. you hear me?! i wear a 10 and my shoe game is TIGHT. you just gotta be a savvy shopper. I have on these CUTE Naughty Monkeys on today… and they are COMFY!
http://www.naughty-monkey.com/
@blackberry molasses
I went to website and like the shoes! Are you not able to order online?? How do I get to them?
@V Renee,
I love them. i generally keep my work outfits conservative but fly, but the shoes add that extra kick of interest. and I could run a marathon in these suckas!
I got my current pair at DSW, but for consistent availability go to Zappos.com and search by brand name. they currently have 180 styles from naughty monkey alone.
@blackberry molasses,
dsw is so depressing for me. they dont EVER have anything my size…i gotta get my shoes at Avenue and Payless…and them payless jawns are NOT good for ya feets.
@blackberry molasses,
I got small feet but i STAN for Naughty Monkey shoes. They are flashy, and I am the Mayor of Flashville. Ask Kindred
are they wearable while standing/walking for extended periods of time?? or are they best worn while seated??
@Gem of the Ocean,
i have stood in these shoes at church, at a lounge, and waiting for the train. my feet don’t complain (and they can be some pansy-a$$ whining feet)
holla!!! i’ma get on the good foot and cop a pair or 3. thanks!
@Gem of the Ocean,
Gem, I can run in my Naughty Monkey knee boots. They r hella comfy, whole being fabulous
@blackberry molasses, I love Naughty Monkey, however they do not make my size, they don’t make anything over a 10, and neither does Carlos Santana or Miss Sixty
@Intellectual Hedonist,
Yeah…I can’t get with ‘em either…lol
@miss t-lee, so I shop at Nordstrom and have my bff’s husband who is a warehouse manager buy all my shoes 33% discount and I can order them from anywhere. Nothing is better than buying some bad a$$ shoes on sale and then further discounted
@miss t-lee,
see?!?! nothing over 10…and thats my problem with DSW as well…
Okay… hard, but not impossible!
SI SE PUEDE!
@shatani,
Ur feet took personal offense to that comment and said to punish you, they will go fit themselves in some UGGs. If I were you, I’d take that back
I hate ill fitting clothes period but especially if you are a girl there is an unwritten fashion rule that states thou shalt not wear to tights.. if your shirt is tight pants should be loose and flowing, if your pants tight shirt should be loose.. 2 tights and it just aint right is my mantra let me also note that there is a difference between tight and to little.. tight a little bit of tug over the bum..to little you had to lie down and your gal had to use wire pliers to pull them up and the button is holding on for dear life and you cant eat anything for fear the button will pop off with such force it will take someones eye out…..
@Shay-d-lady, Very well said on the 2 tights.. we need to put you on loud speaker.
@Shay-d-lady,
My name is BBMo and I approve this message
Ahh yes, I forgot! Another Evil! I dont know how things are in the States, but in Canada, we have an epidemic and its called UGGS! summer, winter, fall, halloween, spring, doesnt matter, they are wearing it. Every female between the ages of 16-30 owns atleast two pairs.
Uggs, and ugg knock offs, which I lovingly refer to as fuggs, make me happy.
Sad, but true.
@8th Wonder, i’m sad it makes you happy too. those shoes make me want to throw ice picks at pudding.
@Panama Jackson,
And pudding should never be defiled…not ever.
@8th Wonder,
If they float your boat, then rock on with your bad self. I will say that I’ve never met a dude who said them shyts were sexy or cute. Not a one.
@Monk, Damn you built me up just to knock me down on this one…
@8th Wonder,
that was masterfully done! lol
@postmodern pwnage,
Hate, hate, hate the UGGs thing. Why you wearing a baby tee, shorts and UGGs? Make up your mind which season you want and go with it.
Besides, all those boots do is make every woman under 6′ tall look like she got stumpy legs.
@Luvtheshoes,
I co-sign every word!!
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha…., i spoke on this upthread. there are cute uggs out there!!! stay away from the average stumpy 2520 chick in the summer kind. they have styles made out of leather with a thinner shearling liner that are crazy cute.
one of my boys was going on about the uggs and how much he hated them and i’m like, these are uggs i’m wearing right now and he was stunned into silence and was like, okay, not those. lol.
@SouthernGirl,
yeah, one of my friends has a nice pair of Uggs that are cute. So, I guess I should say I personally hate the Uggs worn by 12-20 year white girls at the weekend premier of Twilight.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha…., lol
@Luvtheshoes,
That’s true about them making short(er) women look stumpy. They cut us off mid-leg. I learned that on Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. I gave up capri’s for the very same reason. I’m already short and thick. I don’t need any help looking like an extra from Lord of The Rings.
@PBG,
What Not to Wear, TG’s Guide to Style and all their Style/TLC brethern have taught me that what’s in style does not always translate for a 5’4″ chick with booty…know your body and dress accordingly!
@Luvtheshoes,
“know your body and dress accordingly!”
We need to shout this out…Joe Clark bullhorn style!
@miss t-lee,
Amen! i tell folks that all the time! theres lots of stuff i wish i could wear…and they even make it in my size. but that shyt aint for ME! lmao
@Luvtheshoes,
“Know your body and dress accordingly”
A t-shirt waiting to happen…
@mssula, yes. but only in appropriate sizes…
“Besides, all those boots do is make every woman under 6? tall look like she got stumpy legs.”
I’m 5’11! Can I get a pass? What’s one pesky inch gonna change?*
*Coincedentally, this is the same reasoning the Champ uses when “justifying his love” to the ladies.
@8th Wonder,
Snerk!
oh snap!
@8th Wonder, can you send someone to help me get up off the floor? I think I hurt myself when I laughed so hard I fell out the chair
@8th Wonder,
holy ish!!
*sniggle*
@8th Wonder,
zing!
@8th Wonder, oooohhhhh BURN!!!
why didn’t i see this earlier?
I also hate men with big butts that wear ill fitting pleated pants that rise up between their thighs… uhhh
men with to little t shirts/ polos.. I know you work out but gotdayum nipple is inappropriate on women AND MEN!
Men that wear jearseys without a t shirt.. especially a basketball jersey.. double wackness if you are wearing said jersey, no shirt with jean shorts, white tube socks and hi tops…..
men that only own black shoes and belts and wear them with everything…..
people that wear video outfits in real life… the jodeci clear jogging suit? that was you, the jagged edge leather jogging suit? the Kanye west shades that look like blinds? you aint fly, youse a dayum fool.. oh and girls.. I aint forgot the keisha cole hair, and outfits? uh no, you been lead astray, bamboozled….
@Shay-d-lady, …hoodwinked, we didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us…
@Shay-d-lady,
“people that wear video outfits in real life…”
*D-E-A-D*
@PBG,
*in the plot next to PB*
@shatani,
oh wait, i just realized i wore them kanye glasses! but in my defense…i was at the show!
@Shay-d-lady,
run a muck…lol.
@Shay-d-lady, “I know you work out but gotdayum nipple is inappropriate on women ”
Nipple is very appropriate on women, always love to be high beamed. . . I’m just saying.
@IVR, truning towards IVR, winking and high beaming
LOL!!!
@Intellectual Hedonist, “@IVR, truning towards IVR, winking and high beaming”
Thank you for making my scenery more aesthetically pleasing. I appreciate your generosity. LoL
@IVR, anytime!
@Intellectual Hedonist,
lmao! so, now we know when IH is happy to see ya!
@Shay-d-lady,
“I also hate men with big butts that wear ill fitting pleated pants that rise up between their thighs… uhhh”
Ugh…is right.
Get thee to a tailor!!!
@Shay-d-lady, small addendum to your men with small shirts. skinny men shouldnt wear them either, they just look a damn fool.
Negroes shouldnt be wearing jerseys anyway. Them joints went out of style like 3 or 4 years ago. You should only be wearing to play ball or for lounging.
@Peyso,
you know what, you should even wear a jersey to play ball. theres no bigger “tell” on who cant hoop at the park than a store bought jersey.
@The Champ,
can you wear a jersey to a sporting event?
@Shay-d-lady,
I also hate men with big butts that wear ill fitting pleated pants that rise up between their thighs… uhhh
i’ve coined the too tight suit look “the david banner”
@The Champ,
Men shouldn’t wear pleated pants period.
It’s not what’s up.
*on another note, side eye, what did David Banner ever do to you*
@mssula,
lol…whenever i think of men with suits two sizes too tight i think of david banner at congress a couple years ago, with that suit that probably tore a bit every time he took a breath or blinked. looked like he was about to go scuba diving or some sh*t
@The Champ,
“the david banner”
Watch it now…lol
@miss t-lee,
im sayin! lol
@Shay-d-lady,
Men that wear jearseys without a t shirt.. especially a basketball jersey.. double wackness if you are wearing said jersey, no shirt with jean shorts, white tube socks and hi tops…..
i wrote a year or so ago on my old blog about a guy at a house party i attended who wore a full fubu harlem globetrotter outfit…the top and the matching shorts…with sandals…and socks.
he wasnt invited to any more house parties after that
@The Champ,
awww, but why hire a clown when you can get that guy to come for free!??!
Mexicans are the biggest perpetraitors in the muffin top fiascos, but that’s neither here nor there, like my good friend Phonte of Little Brother quoath in “Good Clothes”:
, “And you, the big girl with the low-rise jeans on,
Got the fat hangin over the sides (Better go to lane bryant)
Girl, you got your gut bustin over the side of your jeans
It look like a muffin”
@Relax, Relate, Alise,
Mexicans are the biggest perpetraitors in the muffin top fiascos.
Yep.
@miss t-lee,
co-sign…
How can you be so small on the bottom, but so round on top?
@Relax, Relate, Alise, “Mexicans are the biggest perpetraitors in the muffin top fiascos, but that’s neither here nor there,”
This is true and the worst part is when they have a flat a** on top of that. Fat plus Flat is not a match.
@Monk,
ooooooooh you too right and it just ain’t right!
@Relax, Relate, Alise,
i dont think lane bryant gets shouted out in enough songs.
Overalls.
If a) it’s not 1985, b) you don’t have to get up at 4:00 am to milk the cows or slop the pigs, or c) your name isn’t Jim-Billy-Bob, DO NOT rock them.
Overalls are cute on ages 3 to 8; anything after that is a fashion felony and the offender should be jailed. Of course pregnant women get a pass because those are typically some of the easier garments to wear during maternity, but after the baby has arrived, the overalls should make an exit.
They’re evil because they are some of the laziest forms of clothing known to humankind, second only to pajamas, and they come in a barrage of colors including hot pink, lime green, and seafoam. Ugh.
It’s because of those colors that people assume overalls are meant to be worn as fashion instead of necessity, and I for one, would be happy to see them perish from the face of this earth.
Thank you.
@RedBeanzNRice,
So you mean that the Reggie Nobles ‘that’s you’ n James Todd’s jawn where he is dancing in @ a house party is a bad idea?
I just think that they are funny.
@RedBeanzNRice
I’ve been wanting a pair of overalls for the longest now. Ima look for some this weekend.
I think they’ll be cute on me
@V Renee,
“I’ve been wanting a pair of overalls for the longest now. Ima look for some this weekend. ”
That’s unfortunate.
@RedBeanzNRice, but back in the early 90s…overalls were that hot sh*t. especially with the one strap down…or no straps up type of deal…or the basketball team joints with the hoody t-shirt under them??
def.
i remember folks were getting suspended from school for not wearing their overalls properly.
hell, i didnt understand it then and i still dont get it.
freedom of expression…
@Panama Jackson,
“i remember folks were getting suspended from school for not wearing their overalls properly. ”
We didn’t get suspended, but we got detention if 2 straps weren’t fastened.
@miss t-lee,
last year when i was working at the elementary school and i was tellin the kids how we used to wear our overalls with one strap down. or how we used to wear our clothes backwards (jump! jump!) and whatnot, they were dying with laughter! little punks!
@shatani,
hahahaha
@Panama Jackson, i remember folks were getting suspended from school for not wearing their overalls properly.
We would be put in ISS (in-school suspension) for not wearing them properly. The same people would be in ISS everytime they wore overalls.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha…., how the hell you be suspended in school? what, you can’t eat lunch? please explain this to me…
@SouthernGirl,
We had ISS. I was in that ish twice. (I was bad back in the day…lol)
You were assigned a desk that was covered on 3 sides and you sat there. All day, you did your work. I made the mistake of doing a whole day’s assignments in about 2 hours so I had 6 hours to sit there. You couldn’t sleep or anything. I imagine it would be like what jail is…lol
It was worse than the actual suspension I got the following year…lol
@miss t-lee,
Yep, that’s basically it. Except, we had to go to a different classroom with partitions between desks. we could not talk to our neighbors, and we had supervised bathroom breaks.
@miss t-lee,
I’m glad I never did anything bad enough to go in that room. They called ours the D.A.R.C. room. I don’t even remember what that acronym stood for, but it sounded ominous. I heard it was just like what you described.
I would’ve got sent home, because I would’ve been cutting up once I got bored. Non-stop jokes! LOL!
@PBG,
“They called ours the D.A.R.C. room”
Dayum this sounds like some Inspector Gadget, Dr. CLAW type ish…lmao
@PBG,
I just IM’d my sister (who spent some time in the DARC room back in our high school days) and she says it stood for “Dunbar Academic Reinforcement Center”.
Good Lord, DCPS!
@SouthernGirl,
hmmm. i thought ISS happened all across the country. learn something new everyday
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
I had ISS one time in middle school for burning this boy with a piece of plastic, which was in self defense. It was on a half day and I spent my morning chit chatting with the teacher and taking a nap. The lil boy was super pissed that I basically got a slap on the wrist and he got a burn mark for life.
But I bet you next time he things about trying to look up a girls skirt or stick hot plastic in a girls fresh braids…he’ll think twice.
@Ro,
LMAO!! I never got in trouble for bothering another student (except that one time I had to beat this chicks asset in the 7th grade). I had a smart mouth and would talk back to pretty all adults exceot my parents
@Ro, what in the hot plastic hell? lmao!
@SouthernGirl,
something similar happened to me in 7th grade wood shop. some broad trying to put the cooling glue from a glue gun in my hair. I recently found out this girl is now a lesbian (NTTAWWT). She was just trying to show she liked me *shudder*
@blackberry molasses, *speechless*
@Ro, I threw a chair and a desk at a boy once in 6th grade~literally picked up the chair and threw it followed by the desk.
We were in Catholic school he and I were at the back of class in the Phonics lab listening to the lesson on headphones and he kept rubbing up against my breast on “accident” then he let his hand try to crawl up my skirt. I EFFIN lost it.
I didn’t get in trouble though cause when they sent me to the counselor’s office I started crying when I told him what happened and how the boy had “molested me”.
That scenario right there is why no one ever messed with me the rest of my time in middle school.
@Panama Jackson,
Yep they WERE the sh*t back in the day. Heck, I had a few pair myself. But it’s not back in the day anymore and them sh*ts just ain’t cute.
When a woman wears low rise jeans, I’m gonna need her to invest in low rise undies.
What needs to go:
1. Oversize jeans…. Okay, every man doesn’t like to rock the Pharrell fitted, but when they are to the point of falling off, it’s too much.
2. Gold teeth. I live in the semi south, ’nuff said.
3. Grills….. go to the dentist, get your teeth whitened instead. Crest Whitestrips are even cheaper (and they work, I attest!)
4. Colored weave. [like bright kool aid red, flourescent green, ______ [fill in your offensive color here])
5. Spray painted T shirts when someone dies (do they only do this in my city?)
6. Matchy Matchy… why does your candy painted tennis shoes match your candy painted shirt and jeans EXACTLY?
7. Puffy coat, tight jeans, tucked in boots (come to my city and you’ll see 90% of the girls dressed like this right now!)
@Nicki Sunshine, lol…i’m with you on the rainbrow bright weaves.
I’m also with you on the gold teeth, can’t get with you on the grills, but only if they wear them on “hood” occasions…ie. 4th of July block party, Pookie’s welcome home from prison party…which can also be intertwined with the 4th of July bash….and so forth and such.
Spray painted t-shirts went out with S-curls…but I don’t think the hood got the memo…yes they do it in Duval County as well.
Then again this is the same county who accepted a collect call from JAIL for someone to do a holiday shout out to their folks…IGNANCE!!
@Teacia, “4th of July block party, Pookie’s welcome home from prison party…which can also be intertwined with the 4th of July bash….and so forth and such.”
LMAO!
Spray painted t shirts have gotten more than one chick into a fight around these parts… It’s completely ridic!
@Nicki Sunshine, and umm…what city is this? i’d like to never come there.
@Panama Jackson, Louisville, Kentucky. LOL. Very stylistically challenged indeed.
@Nicki Sunshine, duly noted.
@Nicki Sunshine,
oh snap, i dodged a bullet!! i seriously considered going to Spalding for grad school! lmao
@Panama Jackson,
and umm…what city is this? i’d like to never come there.
lol…i was thinking the same thing
I dont kknow about the mushroom fat, but the thing that bothers me is Uggs. Yes Uggs, I just can’t stand them, they drive me crazy. But along with the rest: crocs, men in thong sandels, gold teeth, and fro hawks all bother me. Just my opinion.
@J. McFly, I don’t own any Uggs but I was looking at a pair that this white chic was wearing in class last night and I think I was bitten by the Ugg bug…what’s wrong with Uggs?
@Teacia,
i saw a chick at the bus stop with some pink ones and i got a tingle as well!
@J. McFly, I agree especially when ppl wear some nuttiness like Uggs and a skirt or Uggs and shorts. DO ya feet really get that cold while your legs are burnin up?
@Peyso,
LOL!! I see this constantly. If it gets a little warm in the winter, chicks revert to the spring/summer on every part of the body except their feet.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
this was the college WARDROBE at my school. It started with those nutty kids from Cali who were residents on my floor. By the end of the semester, errybody was wearing UGGS all the time. Now granted, in Ithaca it was actually necessary. Winter be crunchy and looong.
But once the spring thaw hit, people just REFUSED to put them away. Hence the cargo shorts, sweatshirt/t-shirt and UGGS look was born. I looked on while shaking my head.
“Now granted, in Ithaca it was actually necessary. Winter be crunchy and looong.”
i think this point is key. often times, in the dead of winter, ppl tryna look CUTE instead of WARM and protected from the freezing cold. uggs look comfy and warm and easy to slip on and off. i don’t own a pair but i have several other similar types of boots.
point is, i think in the appropriate weather and appropriate clothing to match, ain’t nothing wrong with uggs.
“point is, i think in the appropriate weather and appropriate clothing to match, ain’t nothing wrong with uggs.”
That’s all I’m saying, lol.
@Peyso, yeah, I said upthread that no dude find them things sexy or cute.
@J. McFly,
I am a firm believer that Uggs were a prank pulled by the Fashion Mafia who said “Bet you we can make people wear ANYTHING, put the prefix of UG in them, AND pay obscene amounts for it”
Well, 4 years later, $300 pair of shaggy big foot feet shoes, here we are. The Fashion Mafia laughs at everyone for buying into it. Shame.
@Luvvie,
see i think crocs were a prank pulled by the fashion mafia…serioulsy, those things are a crime against fashion!
@J. McFly,
I am the fro hawk queen and don’t mind my man in sandals at all.
A fro hawk is everything I aspire to be: quirky, funky and cute.
@mssula, “I am the fro hawk queen and don’t mind my man in sandals at all.
A fro hawk is everything I aspire to be: quirky, funky and cute. ”
I guess there is someone for everyone . . . I saw one of these frohawk sportin skinny jeans with chain in pocket checkerboard hoodie wearing ninjas wit a dime in my building. More power to him.
@mssula,
i will only give caribbean and african men a pass on the mandals. everyone else better put on some sneaks!
@shatani,
Why the discrimination though?
@shatani,
I rock sandals, religiously.
I’ve noticed that black men on the east coast refuse to wear sandals. Is it against the law out here?
Eff that! Over 70 and the sandals come out.
I second the bra comment. I don’t know how many times I see women leaving victoria’s secret with the wrong sized s*- go to a REAL bra store and get fitted!!! VS associates should join the muffin top makers!
untailored suits and button down blouses on women- ugh! $10 alterations go a LONG way toward making you look and feel fabulous!!!
ill fitting shoes on women- not only including the strappy sandals commented on earlier but also pumps with foot fat rising over the shoe. OWWW!!! -and it’s simply unattractive. all shoe sales people responsible for letting these women buy said shoes should join the muffin top promoting skinny jean makers and the VS associates promoting bad breastular behavior in “time-out”.
oh! and gold teeth- whatever hood rich person who did yours is evil!
@ladyb, ooooh so uhh yeah, i think i may buy myself a bottom grill with the fangs for Krihmas.
@ladyb, Oh nooo not the biscuit feet
@ladyb, as a former VS associate/bra specialist–> flag on the play!!!!! you do not understand. some of these women come in and flat out do not want to hear what you have to say!
you come in to get fitted and then you don’t like what i tell you cause though yo sh!t don’t fit and I’m telling you you’re a 34b you have it set in your mind that you’re a 36c. i sized this one woman and she straight told me no, she refused to be anything less than a c cup.
one lady came in and she REALLY needed to go to lane bryant which was our sister store and has some really nice styles but she wanted that VS label. bra holding on for dear life…nuff to pop off and blind her man forever just cause he was trying to get some, but that’s if she had a man, but you get my point…
it was a battle with some chick everyday. i had my own come to jesus moment cause i was wearing the wrong size as most women are (this is before i worked there) and once i did work there i really wanted to help save other women from the hot @ss mess that is in incorrect cleavage and pointy t!tties but its a really personal deep seated thing with some women and i can only do so much.
@SouthernGirl,
people also need to be aware that your bra size CAN change. If you were a 34C in high school but you’ve had kids and your weight has fluctuated since then… stop LYING to yourself (and offending my eyes!) and get re-fitted.
this has been a public service announcement from BBMo to ensure that my sistas always look fly.
@blackberry molasses, i second this annoucement. arguing with a chick about her bra size, tape measure in hand, is not a good look.
ANY type of weight change, be it losing or gaining can impact your bra size ladies! Not just having the kiddies. Get refitted once a year or after any significant weight gain or loss.
Matter of fact, all ya’ll get sized this weekend. At least if you haven’t been sized before Bobby left New Editon. Please and thank ya kindly.
@SouthernGirl,
I get sized every time I see a Maidenform outlet. I always want to be sure and it’s free! Plus, it’s something fun I can do w/my daughter to embarrass her @ the mall.
*snicker*
@SouthernGirl, “if you haven’t been sized before Bobby left New Editon.”
this tickled me so
@SouthernGirl,
I never argue w/the lady doing the sizing! I hate telling people how to do their jobs, unless they are just plain ol’ effin’ up. In that case, we must part ways.
I wear T-shirts all the time and w/that, your bra HAS to be on point, cuz it can be seen by all of Glory if it’s not! Geesh! Why would any woman be unwilling to be in the right bra??
@PBG, “I never argue w/the lady doing the sizing!”–> I thank you for this.
“Why would any woman be unwilling to be in the right bra??”
If i knew, i would not have had to audibly sigh at some woman’s resistance to even try on the bra i recommended or once she tried it on trying to explain and point out to her why it wasn’t working, at least twice a day.
“you come in to get fitted and then you don’t like what i tell you cause though yo sh!t don’t fit and I’m telling you you’re a 34b you have it set in your mind that you’re a 36c. “
this is bewildering to me becuz i actually wear a bigger bra size in VS than i do in brands they sell in dept stores. either way, i know what size to get from VS and what size to get at Macy’s. point is, know your status!
i’m actually expecting a shipment of undergarments from VS sometime this week, yaaaay! *doing the butterfly*
@Gem of the Ocean, yup. lol@ the butterfly. which is why i always tell women to try on their bras. don’t be bewildered. all sizes are not equal. bras are made of different materials and cut different ways so yes, a 36c at VS is not necessarily the same as a 36c at another store.
even at VS, that same 36c in one bra will fit you differently than the same size in a different style. i wept errday at that job. i’m up there telling chicks, this bra runs small/big so try it on and they don’t and wanna bring it back next week.
exactly. as i always say “the more you know…”
oh and ummm *clearing throat* my package came this afternoon!!! panties, bra, and sweater–yessir!! *doing the detroit shuffle*
@SouthernGirl, WOW! i see what happens when i actually WORK for a day! LOL!
i respect and appreciate you and your service for womankind. i **fist bump over my bowl of grits – want some?**
my experience was being told that i was a 36DD (impossible if you’ve seen my rib cage), staring at the woman and saying, “there’s no way this is what size i wear” – then heading to INTIMACY and learning that i was actually a 32FF. if you don’t sale the bras that fit me, fine. but don’t do me a disservice by lying to me so i look a hot mess! that shyte is down right disrespectful. btw, that happened TWICE at VS.
@ladyb, well first, thanks for the lurve. and don’t be tempting me with some grits…
i’m sorry you had a bad experience there. i always tried to be honest with the women who came in there. women get so excited when they actually find a bra that works,i couldn’t even lie to someone about that.
soooo… how bout i went bra shopping one time & the bras in my size in a certain brand were too big. (I owned one bra in that size & brand so i went back for similar buys.) the lady with the tape measure wrapped it around me & told me to try the next size up.
*blank stare*
i found another brand. in my same size.
The worst part of it all is that they don’t really sale fashionable jeans anymore except in low rise…and I’m a realist. I know my midsection is a little too thick these days to go sporting low rise jeans.
If I get them to where there’s no muffin then they’re too baggy everywhere else…*sigh*….insert my Spanx. Low rise jeans are the reason I have to wear a little something extra to hold it all in in order to remain funky fresh to def….BULLSHAT I tell ya!!!
@Teacia, Spanx are one of God’s little gifts to women. Love them!
@Nicki Sunshine, ahhhhh Bless.
i cant stand a bad weave. i really cant. like the kind where i can clearly see your tracks. and im tall, so i see a LOT of tracks! you KNOW your hair is dishwater dirty brown….why you got that 1b weave pretending to blend? you KNOW your hair is nappy at the roots…why you got that yaki silky smoove flowing down your back, rapunzel?!? you KNOW you dont burnt out all your edges leaving the relaxer in too long because you want it to really take…what the hell are you tryin to use to cover the tracks?!!?
i cant live.
@shatani, i think i have a chic crush on you…ridding the world of bad weaves in my self proclaimed mission in life.
There is NO reason for the madness that I see branching from the roohuts(roots) of so many that have been led astray by those who not only allow but encourage the weave tragedies.
*sigh*…but I digress.
@shatani, OH MY GOD!!! You took the words right outta my mouth… I also have some qualms with ladies rockin’ cheap lacefronts that make their hairlines look Samurai inspired…If you are going to go there PLEASE for the love of everything holy, make it look natural. There is nothing natural about an UNnatural hairline that flows down into some Barbie hair that is clearly not in your genes…I blame Beyonce and that giddy a** Tyra Banks for the madness. SMH…I digress.
@Treasure,
I blame Beyonce and that giddy a** Tyra Banks for the madness
LOL!!!!—I agree.
@shatani,
I blame the following people for bad weaves
*Beyonce
*Tyra Banks
*Foxy Brown (‘ol greasy wavy weave face. Her soul indeed GLOS)
*Yaky Inc. LLC
*Chinese and Korean people
*Horses (especially those in Detroit)
*Paris Hilton
*Britney Spears
*Amy Winehouse
Oh and of course, Jim Jones
@Luvvie,
Damn, you spoke about my hometown in a very unflattering way there Luvvie. It’s too bad that I can’t even argue cause you’re on point.
@Luvvie,
Horses stay startin’ some shyt. That’s why I don’t like them.
@PBG, snort
@PBG,
No, you don’t like them cause their heads are half the size of your whole person. Don’t be talkin bad about my horsies just cause you’re a midget.
@RedBeanzNRice,
“Don’t be talkin bad about my horsies just cause you’re a midget.”
RedBeansNRice, I heart you and ur name especially. But I may have to send you to the SAT DOWN Corner for calling my lilliputian fist sis, PBG a midget.
Here at VSB, we take them as fighting words.
@Luvvie,
Aww see?
Midgets are lovable people; I didn’t mean no harm. I mean, The Wizard of Oz is one of my all time favorite movies. *cheezes*
@RedBeanzNRice, for the safey of all concerned just know we don’t play round these parts when it comes to midgets, albinos, clowns, black squirrels and a phethora of mythical creatures.*the more you know–shooting star*
“midgets, albinos, clowns, black squirrels and a phethora of mythical creatures.”
Well, now that I know…is it phobia related or is it that yall just don’t like the aforementioned? Cause frankly, I didn’t see any harm in playfully teasing – it just really wasn’t that deep.
@RedBeanzNRice, let me clarify cause it’s all lurve up in here…only playful fighting and threats. it’s only gotten that deep in here like once or twice and trust…you will know when that happens.
-phobias are related mostly to albinos, midgets and clowns. it’s real.
-plain ‘ol disbelief is for the black squirrles cause some folks are convinced they don’t exist though i (and other vsb’ers) done seent it. me, with my own two eyes (only in chicago though. the gangsta squirrels in new orleans are brown). but those little black bastards are quick and have so far alluded all attempts to photograph them.
-mythical creatures (unicorns, gnomes and the like)are just awesome and usally get tossed around along with gold stars, glitter and diva dust (sorry bbmo i don’t know how to trademark in the comment section. lol) to worthy comments and just to irk the champ and panama
SouthernGirl
I appreciate you clarifying. You should write a glossary of sorts, and force Champ/Panama to post it up in this piece for reference, cause that right there? Priceless info.
PS. Black squirrels DO exist, I’ve beholden them with thine own eyes also. And
PPS. Unicorns are not mythical, they’re even named in the Bible. But that’s a whole nother topic. Lastly
PPPS. Neither are gnomes; my next door neighbor is one.
@Luvvie,
I love my E-Sis, Luvvie. She holds me down while I’m off in the wilds of DC dealing w/my half-crazed cab driver and SE hoodrats.
@PBG,
*whispers to PBG* You’re still a midget.
PS. I read your blog…I was reading it even before I saw you on VSB, and I gotta say..you’re a funny mahfukka fa real. A very special person indeed to deal wit rugrats all day long and still live to blog about it. You go girl.
@Luvvie,
LUVVIE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE (FAKE) HAIR POLICE!!!
I agree wholeheartedly with the low-rise jean on women who can’t really wear them. Besides, if you are over the age of 23, it’s time for you to invest in a nice pair of jeans with a regular high or mid-rise. But my list of fashion no-no’s
Uggs period, but mostly when these girls wear them all times of the year, including the summer
Flip-flops worn out in all 4 seasons, in all types of weather. I noticed this mostly when I lived in Ohio
Finger waves and multi-colored weaves
skinny jeans on notsoskinny women
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
and I hate Crocs.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha…., “I hate Crocs.”
I can’t front, when I was in the desert I wanted some crocs (they were authorized and they werent all in my big toe’s business like the sandals) but they never came. . . Wearing socks and Asics in 130 degree weather is not a good look for the tent . . .
@IVR,
understandable…but if you had received them, would you be rocking those desert crocs out to the mall when you got home?
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha…., “understandable…but if you had received them, would you be rocking those desert crocs out to the mall when you got home?”
LoL. . nah, you right! But I will rock my timbs and shorts though!
maybe it’s the cali in me, but i cannot and will not condone the timbs/shorts combo. it just seems soooo not ok.
@Gem of the Ocean,
i am trying desperately to break the man of this damn habit. oh he needs to stop before he wakes up one morning and sh*t is just GONE
@Gem of the Ocean, I’m from the Bean and I don’t condone this style either. No matter what coast you are on timbs and shorts is a NO! Then again it Might be okay in Baltimore and DC. Quite a few guys I know from the area think it’s cool. *SMH*
@Ivy St.,
The bean? If this is Boston then, as a New Yorker and a Yankees fan, I cannot speak to you for 10 minutes. Everyone else, stop hating! I SLEEP in my timbs . . . well . . . not really .. . but u get the point . . . easy on. . .easy off. . . looks normal when I look down
@IVR,
that’s because you’re a guy. you don’t know how you are offending the female population. your boo just might be too nice to tell you. but TRUST, if she has a sense of style, it OFFENDS.
@IVR,
I’ve already commented on a previous post about how much I despise the tims/shorts thing. to me, it’s like the Uggs/shorts thing mentioned throughout today’s comments.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha…., “I’ve already commented on a previous post about how much I despise the tims/shorts thing. to me, it’s like the Uggs/shorts thing mentioned throughout today’s comments.”
I have heard this, don’t know what uggs are, but my timbs and shorts in the warm weather are what I will be wearing to run errands (as ive said in other posts) . . . I’m a child of Brooklyn . . .what can I say.
Now I wouldnt expect to get let in anywhere important wearing this, but as soon as I get home from anywhere important I throw on the comfy wear AND I will leave my house that way to go to unimportant places . . . sorry folks.
@IVR,
Do you sweetheart, do you…i can overlook the shorts/Tims as long as you leave the crocs on the shelf.
crocs may be a terrible fashion statement and should probably not be seen in public, but they are the best things to happen to medical/scientific professions. they are some comfy shoes when you have to do a lot of standing and walking. i have no shame wearing them around my lab.
@Gem of the Ocean,
you are in a profession where comfy shoes are a must. However, at my old job, on casual fridays, this silly guy would wear his dirty crocs to work, and we sit at desks all day. no excuse!!
ewww dirty?? that means he wears them bad boys all the time OUTSIDE in the public eye. my joints look brand new.
besides, i’m not sure i’d ever pay $30+ for some ugly shoes, ergonomically designed or not. my advisor paid for all our shoeware, since we have to wear shoes we can’t take back outside of lab (since we house animals).
@Gem of the Ocean, I wear them at home as kick around shoes. They are comfy!
yeah girl, i got some with furry inserts on sale. they are perfect “kick around” shoes, esp in the winter.
@Gem of the Ocean,
And beauty professionals backs are praising this discovery as well! So do cooks and cashiers.
When you have to stay on your feet for a good 8 hours a day, crocs are the business.
@mssula,
Ever since my foot injury, I’ve been eyeing some crocs…I can’t bring myself to buy them though…
yes child. all the stylists at my salon and day spa wear crocs. why sacrifice nice feet to be fashionable on a job where you doing lots of standing and walking?? all the pedicures in the world can’t correct such foot damage.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
“Flip-flops worn out in all 4 seasons, in all types of weather.”
I wear mine year round, but I live in a climate that only has 2 seasons. Hot and not quite that hot.
@miss t-lee,
I wear mine year round, but I live in a climate that only has 2 seasons. Hot and not quite that hot.
Those should be the only 2 seasons people wear them. Unfortunately, I have seen them worn in Ohio’s cold autumn and winter, rain or shine.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
LOL!!!!!
Do they wear them with a sweater or a hoodie as well?
@miss t-lee,
YES!! LMAO!! They wear Northface fleece or Ohio state hoodies, jeans and flip-flops.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
I figured!!! LOL Some chicks ’round this way do it on the 18 days out of the year that the temp drops below 50.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
I’m in Chicago, and the other day, I saw some 2520 chick rocking a down jacket, gloves, and all types of layers.
With flip flops.
I resisted the urge to tackle her ass, give her a stern lecture, and send her to the nearest shoe store to repent.
@Luvvie,
It coulda been worse. She coulda been rockin SOCKS wit those flip-flops.
PS. You shoulda tackled her.
@RedBeanzNRice, i agree with the tackle. or at least a serious mean muggin’ side eye
@SouthernGirl, i agree with the tackle. or at least a serious mean muggin’ side eye
I say do both…tackle her, then side-eye that fool!!
@Luvvie, i live in chi, too – and i saw one with all the outerwear and shorts – and flip flops… my southern blood dropped a few degrees…
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha…., ya know, i tend to think DC has some pretty bad fashion (it really does), but you all live in cities where people still rock fingerwaves???
how is that possible? where is this possible?
i remember when i saw somebody with fingerwaves recently, me and everybody around me was taken aback.
that was also the same night i saw a dude rocking hammer pants with the shiny shoes and metal tip on them. apparently it was throwback that-day and nobody else knew.
@Panama Jackson,
2 words…the South. I am originally from South Carolina, and everytime I visit my folks, I see someone(sometimes several women and men) in the grocery store or just out and about rocking fingerwaves or some other hard/crunchy, brown gel style. I thought the Triangle would be a little more progressive and current in this particular area, but alas, it is not.
Another fashion no-no…multiple hairstyles worn all at the same time. The fingerwaves leading to the high horse ponytail, with a basketweave or flattwists in the back. GTFOOH!!
@Panama Jackson and NIA, i’m from the south as you know so i’m not even gonna go there but um……i went to get my hair done this weekend (in chicago)and a woman (woman, not girl) was getting finger waves. i about died in my chair.
@Panama Jackson,
All you have to do is go outside of either Bennett or Dudley’s Beauty Academies midday and you will see all the finger waves you need. Those chicks be up in the lab practicing on each other. I live near both and I see them on the Red Line ALL the time!
I blame the instructors. And of course dirty little Jim Jones.
@Panama Jackson,
so, as evidenced by SouthernGirl and PBG, fingerwaves are a cross-regional hot mess!! And PBG, when I lived in DC briefly, I saw all kinds of hairtrocities on the red and green.
@N.I.A. isonebadmutha….,
I’m surprised you didn’t witness a drug transaction or an assault on the Green Line.
@PBG,
Girl, I would read and listen to the Ipod. and if I didn’t have a good book to read, I would listen to music and stare out of the window to avoid witnessing any foolishness. Granted, that meant I was staring at the wall underground, still a much better alternative.
@PBG, whoa now…ain’t gonna be no bad-talkin’ about the green line.
i may live on the red line now – but i’m a Green Liner 4 Lyfe. The Soul Train is where it’s at…
And lest we forget that the Red Line has the Rhode Island Avenue, Wheaton, and Fort Totten stations…
Nevermind that the Green Line has all of SE. LOL.
@Panama Jackson,
Oh, PeeJay, you’re just gonna shout out my station like that?? RI Ave is the business! Don’t front…I’ve had a gang of blog-able experiences @ that station! LOL!
@PBG,
I been a Green Liner since I lived in DC. It’s reliable GD!
Yes there is some foolywangish mess on the train any hour of the day, but I’ll pay that penance for functioning trains.
I’ve got the perfect solution to all of this fitting madness. Get laked. (for the previous sentence l=n) Then people would get back to the nomadic routes, quit trying to live in desserts, be more mindful of responsibly using resources… I’m just saying people never get tired of the one button suit, the birthday suit, j-bird style.
Even though it was wrong anybody seen ‘Forgiving the Franklins’ it was an indie film.
I’m just saying rows happen all the time. They are just usually covered up by a frumpy sweater.
@WuDaMan,
I’d love to live in a dessert. Some ice cold vanilla pudding. Mmmm…or maybe even butter pecan ice cream. Heavenly.
I know you meant “desert”, but just the thought of having my entire oneness surrounded in such a snack was overwhelming.
@PBG,
TY. BTW I revel in your enjoying the idea of my typo.
It’s the accidental lovely things that people do that keep an endless cycle of giving and gratitude between parties in a couple.
I bet people would work harder to stay in shape too. It would sort of erases the, ‘out of sight out of mind’ principal that people too often adopt.
@WuDaMan,
“accidental lovely things”
What an inspiring phrase…
Me likey.
@PBG,
This one is for you PBG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlMIf8r36YA
@WuDaMan,
Awww…I have the best e-boo on the whole intrawebs. Even though I don’t understand 75% of what he says 100% of the time, I know he cares.
@PBG,
Cole. You stoooopid…. But I would love to wade in a cookie dough milkshake….
@WuDaMan,
“I’m just saying people never get tired of the one button suit, the birthday suit, j-bird style.”
The hell they dont. If your body looks like its melting or getting sour, find the closest muu muu you can, put that ish on and lets never talk bout it again.
Exhibitionists are always the ones who need to have on fur coats and sweaters…. even in 90 degree weather. That’s how bad they be’s round bout the physicals
@Luvvie,
aaaah *sucking teeth sound* I see your point. I also think it would further drive home the social hate n disdain for the fatnasties, compassion for the ill, and less confusion about people’s age.
I’m just saying anti gluttony needs p.r. people
I am gonna have to call out the reverse . . . I guess it’s good that you try not to offend the public with your pizza breasts flailing around or your straight back (running from ur feet to your neck) just looking all kindsa painful, but when I take you home thinking im untying the bow on a benz and end up with a Datsun it is quite unnerving. (Especially when I would have driven the Datsun anyway depending on how many drinks i put away. . .jk)
Pushup bra’s, padded bra’s, I even remember a time in Canada where I thought I was talking to a 2520 wit a fatty . . . my partner in drunken shenanigans took a picture of us. . . the flash revealed what I believe to be an ass pad . . . People gonna get their feelings hurt because I can only be nice for so long . . . running around tricking good people.
@IVR, Pizza breasts? @ss pad?! This comment made my day
@KindredSmile, “Pizza breasts? @ss pad?! This comment made my day”
I am glad that made your day, it normally ruins mine.
@IVR,
lmao!!! poor baby! i do feel for ya’ll men sometimes on this…cuz i know chicks thats a 6 at best, but you wouldnt know it after the home re-construction that they do before they hit the club!
i mean, aint nothin wrong with some spanks to smooth things out and a nice bra to display the girls and whatnot, but i seen some ladies take it just TOO far!
@KindredSmile,
lol…at first i thought you typed “this comment makes me dry”. which, i guess, would still fit
@IVR, this is a crime so heinous i wrote an entire post on it on this site. however, i’m too lazy to find it. so i’ll just agree.
@IVR,
Asspads are ridiculous. Women without a fatty (aka me) must work with the other awesome qualities they got.
Well, maybe I’d consider asspads if my booty was concave. lol. But since it ain’t… I will stay biased
@Luvvie,
I’m just glad I’m not a flatbacker.
@Luvvie, “Asspads are ridiculous. Women without a fatty (aka me) must work with the other awesome qualities they got. Well, maybe I’d consider asspads if my booty was concave. lol. But since it ain’t… I will stay biased”
And you do a good job Ms. Luvvie ; )
@IVR,
Thank you, Kind Sir
@IVR,
“I even remember a time in Canada where I thought I was talking to a 2520 wit a fatty . . . my partner in drunken shenanigans took a picture of us. . . the flash revealed what I believe to be an ass pad . . .”
This literally just brought me to tears because I couldn’t just bust out laughing…it’s naptime around these parts!
I am seriously still laughing, praying to BrownBabyJesus that I don’t wake these Marshmallows up!! Bwahahahahaa!!!
@PBG, “This literally just brought me to tears because I couldn’t just bust out laughing…it’s naptime around these parts!
I am seriously still laughing, praying to BrownBabyJesus that I don’t wake these Marshmallows up!! Bwahahahahaa!!!”
Oh it is funny now . . .I still have the picture but my external hard drive is broken, otherwise it would be on facebook . . (do Canadians use facebook?) . . . It is also a good conversation starter amongst friends . . .”what do you think that is?” *pointing at @ss pad.
@IVR,
Actually I found out Canadians perfer FB to myspace. According to the lil group of em I intreacted w/.
@IVR, I knew this girl who used to wear a butt pad to make her booty look bigger for this guy who could have cared less anyway b/c she was too skinny for him overall. What made her even more comedic to me was that she used to passively hate on me and my sister all the time about how our jeans looked too tight or our shirts were too little b/c of how we filled them out!
@Ro, This girl doesn’t deserve regular human air . . . What could a woman expect to happen when the clothes come off? On second thought, I’d probably do it anyway. . . but that has to be embarrassing!
Many of my team chunk associates commit crimes on the daily…
1. Wide azz belts
2. leggings
3. “skinny” jeans
4. ill fitting clothes (get a good tailor! please!)
5. loud prints
stop this ish please, now.
signed,
miss t-lee
Proud Team Chunk member
@miss t-lee,
I hate, abhor, despise, can’t stand, want to deflate women who wear the Santa belts that is some Ho Ho Ho sh*t I can’t believe in. Bah humbug.
@Relax, Relate, Alise,
I can’t believe in it either…lol
@Relax, Relate, Alise,
Nobody should believe in those dayum Santa belts! They are destroying our communities!
@miss t-lee,
I call those wide belts “abortion belts” b/c they make people look like anything in their stomach area will be expunged. NOT a good look people. THINK ABOUT THE CHILRREN!!
@Luvvie,
That ish just looks uncomfortable. Probably messing off your circulation, and your internal organs.
not to mention the 3 stomachs it gives you as a result.
@8th Wonder,
not. a. good. look.
lol
@Luvvie,
My BFF calls them “tittay belts” because it looks like they’re trying to hold up their breasticles.
Which they wouldn’t have to do if they just got a properly fitting one and wear it, like IH said!
@miss t-lee, This epidemic is so bad that I automatically associate the fashion tragedies you mentioned with Tacky Big Girls. Like, if you held up a picture of a a loud @ss shirt, my soul would know that it belongs to a Big Girl. That’s a d*mned shame.
@KindredSmile,
I know right? I blame Lane Bryant for that ish. I don’t know who told them that big chicks wanna wear loud prints, but they are sadly mistaken.
@KindredSmile,
Why do big chicks always think its okay to wear thick horizontal stripes??? You look like beetlejuice got stretched out. I had to end a friendship b/c this chick was good for that. lmao
Hell…big horizontal stripes are not that flattering on anyone.
@Luvvie,
“You look like beetlejuice got stretched out”
DOA _______________
“You look like beetlejuice got stretched out”
Yeah…I’m done.
*claps out*
@Luvvie, “You look like beetlejuice got stretched out.”
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
@Monk,
That chick is funny as h3ll! OMG! Beetlejuice all out of shape! LMAO!
@Luvvie, You look like beetlejuice got stretched out.
LMAO!! that is a priceless visual
@miss t-lee,
yeah, i think the fly Team Chunk members need to help out the less fortunate/more stoopid sisteren… it is our duty.
@blackberry molasses,
I’m down for the cause.
You down?
@miss t-lee,
you know I’m down
@blackberry molasses,
*gives you daps*
@miss t-lee,
heeeeyyyy… there are exceptions to this rule. skinny jeans are necessary with a knee boot… and leggings look cute with oversized sweaters…
@laylah,
If it works for you, I say work it.
This chunky chick however knows her boundries…lol
I got too much junk to try to stuff it all in some leggings.:)
Bulging seams are not cute.
@miss t-lee, yeah and oversized sweaters with leggings make my arse look, well, astronomical. It really is all about know your limits.
@Intellectual Hedonist,
You know what time it is, sis…lol
hope you all don’t like the muffin picture that much. its got to go. its too damn big and its driving me crazy. i have a 17-inch screen at work….every time it pops up it looks like a damn birthday cake on my computer screen. lol.
hasta la vista, cakey.
also, on a COMPLETELY unrelated note, Common’s Universal Mind Control album just might be the worst album i’ve heard in at least 10 years. its bad in every conceivable way. in fact, upon listening to it, i actually started to think that Electric Circus got a bad wrap b/c at the time, we had no clue how bad an album Common could make, but he showed us…yep, he surely did!
f*ck its bad.
@Panama Jackson,
3 cheers for Panama. I was getting the same thing. 22″ over here. They really don’t want me to quit.
I think Common N his production crew should get the Juke Fred. I haven’t heard it yet though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4b2ol71pLs
@Panama Jackson,
no, please tell me you’re lying…I have been waiting for this album. I’ve only heard “Announcement” and “Universal Mind Control” and I fux w/ both of those songs…
say it ain’t so…
@Panama Jackson,
Please tell me you’re lying about UMC…I’m sad right now.
@miss t-lee, he’s right…it’s bad. The hooks on this album are ATROCIOUS!
the joint w/ Cee-Lo is aight though, but that “s*x for sugar” joint made me want to puke.
@Cornell Westside,
I’m listening to a few cuts right now…I’m thinking PJack is right…sigh!!!
I like Punch Drunk Love, that s*x for sugar is bad though….lol
Dayum Common–I had high hopes for ya son.
@miss t-lee, the whole album sounds contrived as hell. its almost as if Common is trying to hard to be different on beats that just suck in general. and this has to be some of the worst of neptunes production like ever. the only songs i remotely like are “inhale” and “everywhere” and “everywhere” would have been better had common not even rapped on it.
face it y’all. common just ain’t got it no more. Lonnie Lynn needs not attempt to make anymore albums.
@Panama Jackson,
“and this has to be some of the worst of neptunes production like ever”
Even worse than Already Platinum?
::snicker::
Yeah “Be” was probably the last great Common album.
You’re right. Lonnie should quit his day job and come live with me. I’ll keep him busy.
@8th Wonder,
I see ya chick!
@8th Wonder,
We’ll move to Utah then and making our own Big Love rendition. Sharing is caring.
@8th Wonder,
Shoot, I’m volunterring to be wife #3 if its Big Love time with Common
I don’t share.
Skeddadle, the both of ya’s.
@Panama Jackson,
“the only songs i remotely like are “inhale” and “everywhere” and “everywhere” would have been better had common not even rapped on it.”
when i turned the song on i was like “this is aight, chica has a nice voice” then he started rappin’-close browser.
I still like UMC & Announcement though, those bang.
after hearing Common’s album, I had to go listen to Pop Champagne to cleanse my ears Common’s sh*tbag attempt of an album.
Trony ‘Tron and a couple of lemons…
@Panama Jackson,
I’m mad I’m just now getting to this post. Dang office meeting.
Oh no, not Common!! I just saw him in concert with N.E.R.D. in October. I was so looking forward to UMC. I’m going to go listen to it right now.
@Panama Jackson,
I really liked that muffin. That being gone and your scathing semi-review of Common’s new album makes takes my soul to a dark place.
*goes to prayer cubicle to work it out*
@Panama Jackson, Electric circus was weird as hell. I think I made it through one cut.
I am a devout Common fan… I saw him and the Roots in concert once. Best.Concert.Ever BUT I knew this album was going to be wack after that single… the whole robotic funk??? Not exactly his stylo. He’s a great lyricist and he needs to stick with showcasing that.
@Panama Jackson,
on a brighter note. The Q-tip is pretty hot.
@Jeandra, allow me to throw a wet blanket on that brighter note…apparently everybody else’s version of The Renaissance is different from mine…
…because mine sucks.
I listened to it one time and “Gettin’ It” is the only song I even remotely like. Do yourself a favor and just get 88-Keys album “Death of Adam”. it’s much better.
@Panama Jackson, hell, tip got me one good time with that virant thing joint and killed my spirit. ain’t even checked for his new joint.
@Panama Jackson,
“Death of Adam” is AWESOME! It’s almost like watching a movie!
@Panama Jackson, Death of Adam is easily probably the best album, track for track, that i’ve heard in a minute
@Panama Jackson,
i’ll check it out.
Does anyone think Death of Adam sucks, or are the kinderfolk fearful of the wrath of the one they called Panama and hide in shamful disagreeance?
Awww…muffin tops make me sad. And it looks like they hurt. The worst is when chicks who aren’t even fat or out of shape GIVE themselves muffins. So silly…just by jeans that fit.
I’m also writing a letter to Congress to mandate the destruction of those super shiny leggings. *cringes* Yuck…I blame American Apparel.
@Just Stop It,
American Apparel is single handedly responsible for that ish.
@Just Stop It,
“So silly…just by jeans that fit”
But that would mean admitting that they aren’t really a size 2.
Can I add skinny jeans to your mandate?
Why does everyone hate the skinny jean? I’m not skinny, but I think they look exra cute with boots and a sweater.
@Lil’T
I love skinny jeans too…..they look good on me (toot toot)
With that said, they do not look good on everybody.
@V Renee,
Yup they look great on me too.
@V Renee, “With that said, they do not look good on everybody.”
They shole don’t. It’s the violaters who give them a bad name though. There’s nothing wrong with said jeans. I think it’s the thigh to calf ratio that determines who should wear them and who shouldn’t. Women with extreme pear shapes or thunder thighs/skinny calves combo should step away slowly and find another trend.
@Lil’T,
Thank you Lil’ T!
I think skinny jeans are cute when worn appropriately.
Love them and wear them.
@mssula,
The key word is appropriately.
9 times outta 10 –ain’t ish appropriate about the wearer…lol
@miss t-lee,
this is all im sayin….you in skinny jeans and a sweater might be just freakin adorable. me? not so much! i know this, i accept it and i wear what flatters me (when i care…)
@mssula,
I think it’s the fit that counts. PZI makes a cute skinny jean for curvy sistahs. And the boots give my legs a little balance.
@mssula, from people who wear them and shouldn’t. that’s where. i like them too but wear them properly. express has a nice pair with a higher waist that i think most chicks probably need to check out. maybe it’s the combo of low rise and skinny that give them a bad wrap? also, kitkatquisha would probably be cute in those size 6 joints over there but cause pookie wears a size 2 she gon’ try them on instead.
i’m just gonna add to the list chicks that help other chicks look bad. i was in a dressing room trying on a top and i really had to inspect cause i’m petite but the girls are not and i was checking it out (check all views and seems, front, back and side, you know the drill) and i it was cool.
i come out the dressing room and this chick is trying on the same top. but not only are her girls big, but she’s a big girl and it just was not working on her. shirt screaming to get offa her. and her girls is bucking her up like oh, girl that looks good.
women bringing their girls down has got to stop.
@SouthernGirl,
First of all, you’ve got to stop using kitkatquisha. This is like the third time you almost got me busted on the job laughing REAL loud. Bwahahahahahahahaha!
Second – girl, you ain’t NEVA lied about the “frenemy” set-up. I have seen more crimes go down aided and abetted by so-called friends. And it’s not like they’re just on the same bad fashion kool-aid. These are sistahs that have good taste setting up a friend to look like an azz. The worst!
@SouthernGirl,
son, that is straight sabotage!!! cant trust some heffas!
@Just Stop It, lol… i thought i would look cute in those shiny leggings till i was met with a harsh reality when i put them on… i’m still smh at myself…
@Just Stop It,
Don’t blame American Apparel. I saw them in Target too…looking like holiday tin foil. Be gone, 80′s craziness!!
@PBG, “looking like holiday tin foil”
Packing up my boxes on my job due to this right here.
I live in NJ/Philly too so i see the faux paus that shatani and blackberry molasses speak of (especially at Walmart off 38, praise Jesus), however I’d like to bring light to different one that I recenctly (and unfortunately) discovered:
Older, out of shape white men, wearing WHITE dress shirts with NO UNDERSHIRTS!
WHAT
THE
FLUCK
I see armpit stains and mips (man-nipples) on a daily basis, and my retinas have been permanently scarred. How am I supposed to finish my lunch after seeing some sh*t like that?
@Cornell Westside,
Ewwwww.
@Cornell Westside, yeah… a little beyond gross… undershirts are made for everyone (as i tuck mine in a little tighter)
@Cornell Westside,
yeah, I don’t know how I forgot this one… oh wait, yes I do. I’ve tried to scrub the visual from my
brain.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
(I AVOID that Wal-Mart on 38 like the plague. The best one is near my parents on Rte 70 in Marlton. Upscale as all getout. They even have a spa.Where u live in the DelVal btw…just curious.)
@blackberry molasses,
You know where the Cooper River is? I’m in the high rises across the street. When the weather’s decent you’ll catch me runnin’ around the lake like the white folks.
That’s why I go to the walmart on 38, I can damn near walk to it. I’ll be checking out that Walmart because when someone says “upscale” and “Walmart” in the same sentence, I say “you need more people”
Your turn.
@Cornell Westside,
I know exactly where you are talking about. I too like to run in Cooper River park when its nice out. Otherwise I’m at the LA Fitness next to the mall.
I live in Stratford on Rte 30– I take the PATCO in. Where I live is the nice, upwardly mobile crowd. The other complexes and homes nearby…. umm yeah, thats where I’ve seen 95% of the fashion faux-pas I mentioned upthread.
Marlton/Mt. Laurel where my parents live is EXTRA-bourgie. The McDonald’s there serves gourmet coffee from Bucks Co. Coffee Company and Godiva Ice Cream. Their “strip mall” has Trader Joe’s, Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma and Victoria’s Secret.
@blackberry molasses,
lol i live round these parts.
anyways i see the most fashion offenders on south street.bunch of teen/college neon signs.
i still do not understand the need to wear 36hundred chains at once.why?
@Cornell Westside,
You know where the Cooper River is? I’m in the high rises across the street. When the weather’s decent you’ll catch me runnin’ around the lake like the white folks.
this sounds like the lyrics to a bruce springsteen song for some reason
@blackberry molasses,
that walmart on 38 be callin to me sometimes when im headed out to cherry hill mall and such…but now i know to steer clear!
i dont know about no walmart spa…i feel like im getting a fungus just thinkin about it!
I AM A FASHION BLUNDER!
There, I said it. *heaving sigh of relief*
Let me just rewind through some of my past “fashions”:
-finger waves in the front, french roll in the back, decoritive bobby pins with little fake coins all over
-high wasted tapered leg acid wash jeans, button down white shirt tucked in eexxtra tight, brocade front vest, matching headband
-”Used” overalls. Worn with LA Gear pink, white and silver sneakers, with 3 laces in each shoe
- No name sneakers. Like, they had no name at all, just a little “n”. I got laughed out of elementary school like the first day I wore them.
- long flower print dress with a cream woven “vest” front sewn on it. Worn with my favorite dress shoe: patent leather 1.5″ heel t-straps circa 1875.
- electric blue leggings worn with oversize t-shirt. t-shirt was tied on the side and covered in puff paint and glitter. unironic side ponytail. peel off Tinkerbell nail polish.
A little muffin top is tame compared to these offenses. Baby steps, man. Baby steps.
I love you more and more each day.
Little fake coins?
Get the fluck outta here, yo…
@8th Wonder,
Yeah, I was sizzlin’ back in the day.
@Lil’T, Little fake coins?
*sigh* i had those too. and let’s not talk about used jeans…..pink and dark blue tattered used jeans, pink t shirt, pink and blue socks (alternating colors on each foot of course) and my blue suede shoes. COULDN’T TELL ME NUTHIN’ going to the ABC, yo-yo, third base and small change concert. Whut!!!!!
@Lil’T, Little fake coins?
*sigh* i had those too. and let’s not talk about used jeans…..pink and dark blue tattered used jeans, pink t shirt, pink and blue socks (alternating colors on each foot of course) and my blue suede shoes. COULDN’T TELL ME NUTHIN’ going to the ABC, yo-yo, third base and small change concert. Whut!!!!!
@Lil’T,
Did you grow up on my block in the 90′s?
Because all of these were far from fashion faux-pas back then, they were the ish!
I do adore you.
@mssula,
Tee-hee! The 90′s were not kind to us…not kind at all. Don’t get me started on the crimes that Salt n Peppa had us committing – my cousin had the asymetrical hair with the piece in front dyed blonde.
@Lil’T,
Your cousin and my crazy azz sister. I think this is when her love of extra hair began. She has a bag o’ hair sitting in her house right now, full to the brim w/snap on ponytails, “weave systems” and all manner of wigs. She does not hesitate to pull one out, brush it and place it w/all authority and confidence upon her addled little head.
*smh*
@PBG,
Girl! You just made me choke at my desk!!!!! Too funny! “weave systems”….oh goodness, you got me in tears over here!
@Lil’T,
I had them LA Gear’s too chick.
@Lil’T, aww… it happens… those were the fashions then tho… i DEFINITELY remember the leggings and oversized t-shirts with the side knot… that was super hot! lol… jk
@Lil’T,
no worries *e-hugs*
been all up in alladat. back in the day it was hotness.
we live. we learn. we grow.
@Lil’T,
I f*cked with Used back in the day…as well as Karl Kani and Major Damage. I had the whole suit on some of them joints.
@Monk,
Please tell me you have a pic of this. Too funny.
@Lil’T, “- No name sneakers. Like, they had no name at all, just a little “n”. I got laughed out of elementary school like the first day I wore them.”
Yeah, youth was not kind to the broke/non ghetto fabulous folks . . . My mother and I were ALL UP IN payless . . . I still remember getting clowned for my Avia/XJ900/Olympians/Fake Hurraches* (sp again) . . . That’s when “Parent’s Dont Understand” came out . . . this was sadly my anthem.
@IVR,
Bwahahaha!! Me too. Will Smith new what he was talkin’ bout with that joint! What used to kill me though was the kids who always had on the freshest gear but never had money on field trips. Wack economics at work…
@Lil’T,
You were not a fashion blunder. That was high style back in the day. I rocked that finger wave in the front-rods/french roll/flip in the back all the way through high school . I was down w/each and every one of those things on your list…and was mad fly! So were you.
It was our youth…we shall leave it in the past.
@PBG,
awww, thanks. You know we were the absolute ish back in the day. Based on some of the walking craziness I’ve seen I would say we still are. I wonder if the young muffin makers will have the same “what was I thinking?” moment in a few years…
@Lil’T, You are so funny…. I love a person who can admit flaws.
I know of a chick who said her mama glues loose change into her hairstyles.. now I haven’t seen it yet, but I won’t be held accountable for my actions when I do .
That makes me sad.
@Lil’T, You are so funny…. I love a person who can admit flaws.
I know of a chick who said her mama glues loose change into her hairstyles.. now I haven’t seen it yet, but I won’t be held accountable for my actions when I do .
The only fashion faux pas that I abhor is wearing shoes with obviously worn out heels so much so that you can hear the clickety click made by the metal on the ground (is it actually a fashion faux pas or just plain common sense?).
It’s atrocious. Along the lines of fingernails scraping a black board.
Unless, it happened in the morning on your way to so and so place, this should never be an option. Ever. Wear some other shoe. If you don’t have any other shoe, make it a point to run to Walmart or Payless to buy a new decent shoe for $20 or under.
There is never any excuse for this. Ever.
@mssula,
I’ve been guilty of this – for a second I thought I was being followed, then I realized it was me and was like, “Why are my heels so loud? ” Then I looked down to find out I was tipping around on a metal nail. All my cool points flew away.
@Lil’T,
You are too funny.
It happened to me in Vegas of all places (my foot got trapped in some metal manhole thingy). I had to cut my night short… It was an overall sad moment.
ohhhh how i love you panama!!! this is like THE best and most appropriate post i’ve seen all day…
nothing rings more true except men in skinny jeans… i mean, jay said it best “i can’t wear skinny jeans cuz my nuts don’t fit”… but i digress…
the muffin-top is ridiculous… i mean, if there is a roll around your ENTIRE mid-section, it’s either time to go up a size or time to get some jeans that are of a mid-rise. i mean, old navy makes this very easy to understand… they even came up with names for them… with my shelf booty, i cannot wear Diva (lowest rise) jeans… i can, however, wear the Sweetheart (mid rise) or Goddess (high rise) jeans to make sure that my crack isn’t the source of killing out here…
excellent post… excellent…
@ladebelle, I thought Jay said “knots” as in “knots of cash” not “nuts”, I may be wrong though.
@Peyso b/c I get money in all currencies,
you’re right.
@Peyso b/c I get money in all currencies,
Why did I just die laughing at the possibility that Jay DID say his nuts don’t fit, though?
@8th Wonder,
i think he said knots but meant nuts….you cant be talkin bout your junk on the radio in the daytime and shyt.
@ladebelle, they even came up with names for them… with my shelf booty, i cannot wear Diva (lowest rise) jeans… i can, however, wear the Sweetheart (mid rise) or Goddess (high rise) jeans to make sure that my crack isn’t the source of killing out here…
co-sign…low-rise jeans barely cover a thing if I can get them over it. lord forbid i walk out of the house in low-rise jeans…I like both sweetheart and goddess, but in the size that fits my thighs and asset, the waist is a little loose.
I don’t know if these have been already said but . . .
I hate Dickies. Negro you don’t look like a hustler or a gangster, you look like a damn janitor that empties trash cans for a living. What’s worse is seeing young black men making the transition to working in an office setting, and they come wearing a pair of Dickie pants and a dress shirt with a tie . . . like they are going to be filing papers during the day and cleaning the toilets at night
I also hate colorful sneakers . . .there I said it. I think it’s just wrong when I see at 6 foot 7 ninja rocking a pair of orange and purple sneakers. I wouldn’t let my 2 year old daughter wear half of these bright @ss sneakers that have been coming out. I think Nike needs to turn down the volume on some of the dunks and air force ones they have been putting out recently, because they are just too loud.
Last and surely not least, I hate FAKE SHYT. There was a time when I would wake up 5 am on Saturday morning and wait in line at the sneaker store for the newest pair of Jordans. Now the game is all fcuked up, with ninja’s buying knock offs. And these knock offs are so good, that a sneaker head like myself can’t even tell the difference unless someone is wearing a color that I know Nike wouldn’t even make. During the late 90′s I would buy me 2 pairs of Jordans – 1 to wear during the present time and I would break out the other pair a year or later when everybody else was wearing something different. Doing that made me feel special because I would be the only person rocking some old school Jordans that most people forgot about. Right now I have about 40 pairs of Jordans just sitting in my basement because I refused to be put in the same box with the ninjas that wear the fake ones. My only question is, when did it become cool to wear Fake Shyt?
@eff yo couch, I can tell you exactly when fake shyt got hot.
It was around ’02 or ’03. The hustlers were always going to cop new gear around Canal St and coming back to the hood to sell it. At first it was just stolen merchandise. Than they switched it to fake stuff and this coincided with when the Joe the Plumber found out about the spots. So ninjas thought they were copping the real, stolen items when they were copping fakes. That’s why I check for the buttons off of clothing when I buy it.
@eff yo couch,
I think it’s when people realized it only takes Nike $.25 to make the shoe.
But you are right. Don’t wear the fake stuff. Especially if it’s not sturdy. I’ve seen many cats loose the bottom of their fake One’s walking around.
@Wood, ninjas are really wearing fake nike’s ?!?!?!?!
@SouthernGirl,
I know they do down this way…lol
@SouthernGirl,
You didn’t know! All over the Souf!!
@Wood, damn! i move up to chicago and ninjas start wearing fake nikes. they should be shamed…
now imma be side eyeing ninjas when i go home for xmas. smh.
@eff yo couch,
this is upsetting…i LOVE those brightass colored sneakers!!! seriously, i completely love them.
*hangs head in shame*
I have a problem with women wearin spandex leggings.
Is this just going on where I live ?(NY)
I mean it is really outta hand. Spandex is TACKY TACKY TACKY!!!
It should only be worn by pregnant women and people who are working out. No other time is okay. I don’t care if you have a purse and a top from Forever 21 to match them; it’s not okay.
@Treasure,
I love leggings. I rock mine under a short(ish) sweater dress with high boots, and they make a good cold weather replacement for hose under most skirts. I’m not sure what’s going on with the purse and top from Forever 21, though. That sounds a little suspect… lol.
@Lil’T,
See, me and you might share a closet.
I like leggings too. They are easy, cute and make for casual yet comfy outerwear in semi-winter weather like we get down here.
Cute short-ish dress +leggings + cute flats = running errands on a Saturday morning after yoga class uniform.
@Lil’T, I asked a friend about this the other day. Odd because I think if your butt is too big, this might not be a good look. He agreed. So is there a size range where this is not appropriate. I am not a size 18 but far from a 0.
@Ivy St.,
Now see, how big it too big? I’m about a 12, and the booty is what gives the leggings the right look. Leggings on a flat booty are not the bizness. I’ve seen it.
@Treasure, women should not wear leggings by themselves.
@Treasure,
In theory you are right, but as a man my want to see a body in all it’s glory has to say I’m okay with the spandex at all times. Unless you are going somewhere with me. You ain’t embarrassing me like that.
“It’s one thing to not care what people think. I applaud that spirit. It’s something altogether to not care what people think at the detriment of other people.”
I agree there wholeheartedly. As a girl who delves in fashion (when my pockets arent crying Bloody Murder), I for one and TIRED of seeing people just abuse the PRIVILEGE we are given that states that adults should be able to dress themselves. I swear a good portion of these privileges need to be revoked.
Another fashion faux pas? What’s with the sequins and glittery prints on the undeserving? Undeserving meaning, just like the low rise jeans, people that can’t pull it off. My advice? When in doubt, just stick to solids. Geez.
@Ms_Slim,
welcome and sh*t (i think)
typo* I for one AM tired…..
Carry on…
Do you know the muffin man. That’s what I think of everytime time i see those damn low rise jeans. What’s even more offensive is the pairing of low rise jeans with wife beaters. Ugh!
We need to reintroduce into society the following mantra:
Just because it’s in your size doesn’t make it your style.
And back to low rise jeans…if you are above a size 12, that’s probably not going to be your most flattering option.
The tribe has spoken.
@Jeandra,
thank you, tribe
@The Champ,
The tribe lit a torch in your honor and has named it Duchamp.
It’s about time someone said it! Can we also talk about women wearing baby tees and their back looks like a flesh accordion?
@CPt Callamity,
LOL! Fiddler on the roof and the whole nine.
a veritible folding fan if you will.
@CPt Callamity,
Flesh accordion? CTFU!
it makes me sad, slightly irritated, and a tad offended to see men wear white (tube) socks with non-sneakers. even my father, who used to commit fashion crimes daily (he’s getting better tho, praise Him), wears appropriate sockage with his good shoes.
white socks + loafers = unacceptable
and you just look crazy!! so don’t do it. it’s not worth it.
@Gem of the Ocean,
I blame Archie Bunker for that. He rocked that look on the daily, and made it ok for men to do the same. Not sessy.
@Gem of the Ocean,
or like Michael Jackson
@Jeandra,
*sighs* Tragically, I used to own a pair of those sparkly socks. And MC Hammer pants too, for that matter. Why must we take our fashion cues from celebrities?
@RedBeanzNRice,
I share your pain. I owned a variety of layered clothings items in the 80′s thanks to Madonna, and Cyndi Lauper and a host of other people. Not to mention the Choose life shirts.
@Gem of the Ocean,
I won’t lie I use to do this a lot. Not because I thought it was okay. I just didn’t feel like going to the store and getting me some socks. I have corrected this error since.
laziness is never an excuse for bad fashion.
@Gem of the Ocean,
You are right. But get off my back. I said I corrected the error…lol
@Gem of the Ocean, you wouldn’t be referring to someone from the Thanksgiving dinner would you?
lmao i’m just talm bout what i’m talm bout.
Excuse me, miss. Can we talk for a moment? It’s about your eyebrows. Why do you draw them on so high? Are you surprised? Were you applying them as you drove here? They’re almost touching in the middle -has the unibrow made a comeback? And why just 2 big arcs? No need to make them look anything like real hair, huh? Please – don’t walk away miss. This is an intervention, and it’s for your own good. Your family is concerned about you….one more step and I’ll have to use the pepper spray…
@Lil’T,
*DEAD*
@Lil’T, I need y’all to sit down cause I don’t think you are ready to hear what I’m about to tell you. My sister in law’s sister in law takes a BLACK SHARPIE and draws them on. SMH
A BLACK SHARPIE!
I’m faint… **passing out**
@Intellectual Hedonist,
thanks to you, there is now brown rice all over my screen. be pleased with yourself when IT hunts me down for f**king up yet ANOTHER monitor.
a black SHARPIE?!!??!?!?!?! *eye twitching*
@blackberry molasses, I thought I warned you, not my fault you decided to continue putting stuff in yo mouth… LOL!
my bad bbmo, my bad
@Intellectual Hedonist,
you told me to sit down… you ain’t say nuthin about not eating my lunch.
its aight though… no worries IH
**extending smelling salts to IH**
Good LAWD! The worst I’ve seen was a girl who glued a track directly to her forehead. Like, 2 inches below her hairline.
@Lil’T,
“…glued a track directly to her forehead. Like, 2 inches below her hairline.”
Why in the name of Madame CJ Walker was this atrocity a fad in DC not too long ago?? I saw it once and was like “Girl, you got set up!” but then I kept seeing it all over the place! WTF?? I was in constant prayer behind that ill conceived notion for a little while.
@PBG & Lil T
I guess I’m confused, but how was the hair styled that they were able to get away with a track glued to the forhead? Were they trying to rock bangs? Was this sh*t pulled back into a ponytail? Help me out, cause the imagery that came to mind is horrifying!
@V Renee,
When I saw it, the actual track itself was glued to the forehead, and the hair was sweeping up and to the side. Atrocious.
@V Renee,
According to my weave-a-licious sister, they glued the track on BACKWARDS and flipped it over, to give the illusion of some other kind of hairline. I was never fooled.
It was usually styled “normally”, despite the abnormality of the entire scenario. Just a ridiculous mess.
@PBG,
Oh no – this look actually made it?!? The girl who I saw do this was in my h.s. – and we started clownin’ her azz as soon as she got off the bus. That was a long time ago – not telling how long, but long…
“Why in the name of Madame CJ Walker was this atrocity a fad in DC not too long ago?? ”
I want you to know I just cracked up in this quiet ass office.
@Lil’T,
SHUT UP!!!!!! You lying!!!!!!
*dying*
@miss t-lee,
my reaction EXACTLY.
@Intellectual Hedonist,
I’ve seen a lot of ghetto Latina chicks draw their eyebrows on like that before. I know they are the shame of their communities and leaders.
@PBG, yeah my people do know how to act a fool in public and remind us we aint that far removed from where we were
my ninety something year old grandmother had her brows tattooed on (permanent makeup) when she was in her 70′s, they look hot to death, I may consider it as I get older and my hair thins out.
But these girls are just out of damn control. I had a student last year that did the Sharpie Brow too, it was Brown though.. just out of damn control
@Intellectual Hedonist,
ctfu
This post here is killin me. Makes me want to go out and give some sleeping someone a sharpie grown unibrow.
@Intellectual Hedonist,
who told these women to draw on their face with a Sharpie? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
@Intellectual Hedonist, oh. my. damn.
i’m one of the few ppl i know who has an abundance of eyebrows. never had to use a pencil to draw or fill in, unlike my mother.
that being said, i make sure my brows are waxed, plucked, and trimmed (much like other parts of my body). i made sure i found some one who’d hook up my arches without making me look like i had a permanent “expression” plastered across my forehead.
just like you need to know your body to know what fashions suit you, you need to know your face to know what eyebrow shape is best.
@Gem of the Ocean, “i’m one of the few ppl i know who has an abundance of eyebrows.” you can thank your mexican genes for that.
BTW it’s one of the first things I noticed in your pics, that the brows were on point. Nice job!
@Intellectual Hedonist,
Oooh, what pics? What’d i miss? lol
@Tx10inch, STAN? is that you?
LOL
on facebook
@Intellectual Hedonist,
*drops head in shame and mumbles* yeah, it’s me. lol
*giving Tx the side eye*
coulda seen a pic had he not e-dissed me and my e-love. *sucks teeth*
@Tx10inch and Gem,
I’m giving both of ya’ll the side eye after yesterday. hmph
that’s the funny thing, IH, none of the women on my mom’s side of the fam have hair! like, my mom doesn’t have hair on her legs and she’s got sparse (tho not thin) eyebrows. meanwhile, her daughter (me) has to shave her legs constantly and hit up the salon for an eyebrow wax every few weeks.
i blame my dad’s genes. prob that “indian” we got in our blood lol.
@Gem of the Ocean, Indian from India? or Native American, cause Indian from India is a hairy mo fo gene, my cousin got it, but shes also got those gorgeous almond shaped mesmerizing dark brown eyes.
Mexican think Frida Calo
i meant native american, hints the “quotes”. got that good cherokee blood. i dunno if they hairy or not. just a guess lol.
but my mama stay jokin me about my eyebrows when they haven’t been done, talm bout “you gon look like Frida if you don’t handle that.” but she got more of that native Mex blood. my fam is quite deluted with Spanish blood, i believe.
@Gem of the Ocean,
Don’t be like that. I apologized in yesterday’s post. Go ahead and shoot ya boy one to my charity..”pics 4 pimps”. Come on..4give a brotha. I’m beggin like Keiff Sweat up in here. “There you go tellin me no, again…..”
@Gemof the Ocean and Southerngirl
Uh Oh, I’m caught up already. Look @ yall, tryin to make an e-pimp choose. Two lovely ladies, what is an e-pimp to do? SG, I ain’t hear from you in yesterday’s thread so I thought you gave a pimp his walkin papers, and i gotta keep the e-hand strong so I had to keep it movin. I gotta Stan for my gurl Gem. I was diggin her post yesterday. You still my gurl though..*Rodney King voice* Can’t we all just…
ahhhhemmm *putting hands on hips* hol’ up hol’ up HOL’ UP…. are you callin me and SG e-ho*s??
a pimp can’t pimp without no hos
*Dead*
IH, sat down.
Gemmie & SG, this is so unfortunate. My heart weeps for you both. Ah well, too bad yall ain’t e-engaged like meeeeee!
*flashes ring, smiles, then leaves*
@Tx10inch, just like a ninja…ain’t gon’ be no e-ho’s round this piece. but i welcome you with open arms to the vsb fam and this is how you do? *sadness*
@ IH, watch yo self…
@ 8th, lmao!
8th, where your e-fiance at?? he’s been in hiding ever since he put that ring on yo finger…
He’s bringing home the bacon and shyt.
In more ways than one, haaaaayyyy!
LMAO
@Gem of the Ocean,
I noticed your brow job as well, Gem. Sharp!
@Gem of the Ocean
Ohhhh No. Wouldn’t neva do that, yall been too cool 2 me. Neva gonna disrespect. Just havin a lil fun babygurl. *smile*
@Southergirl and Gem of the Ocean,
Sending e-flowers (12 long stemmed roses each, not that cheap crap cause dat’s how we do) to all I’ve offended…*sad puppy dog eyes*. 4give me?
@Tx10inch, i lurve roses and all but tulips are my favorite.
you’re on probation. *slight side eye*
@Gem of the Ocean,
imma co-sign all of this praise for your on-point brow game….
I saw your pic on FB… brows be tight. good job!
BBMo, Lil’ T, IH:
yall are too sweet–thanks for the props on my eyebrows!!
but really i can’t take the credit, my hair stylist be hookin a sista up. she works with my natural brow shape and dont be havin me walkin around with thin a*s brows on my big face.
@Lil’T,
sad to say I have family member who are offenders here. Exactly how does one lose their eyebrows (save the side effects of chemo/radiation therapy)? I make sure my brows are never over tweezed/threaded… lest I end up like my cousins
*this is a re-print, since my original post had profanity*
I don’t know if these have been already said but . . .
I hate D ckies. Negro you don’t look like a hustler or a gangster, you look like a damn janitor that empties trash cans for a living. What’s worse is seeing young black men making the transition to working in an office setting, and they come wearing a pair of D ickie pants and a dress shirt with a tie . . . like they are going to be filing papers during the day and cleaning the toilets at night
I also hate colorful sneakers . . .there I said it. I think it’s just wrong when I see at 6 foot 7 ninja rocking a pair of orange and purple sneakers. I wouldn’t let my 2 year old daughter wear half of these bright @ss sneakers that have been coming out. I think Nike needs to turn down the volume on some of the dunks and air force ones they have been putting out recently, because they are just too loud.
Last and surely not least, I hate FAKE SHYT. There was a time when I would wake up 5 am on Saturday morning and wait in line at the sneaker store for the newest pair of Jordans. Now the game is all fcuked up, with ninja’s buying knock offs. And these knock offs are so good, that a sneaker head like myself can’t even tell the difference unless someone is wearing a color that I know Nike wouldn’t even make. During the late 90’s I would buy me 2 pairs of Jordans – 1 to wear during the present time and I would break out the other pair a year or later when everybody else was wearing something different. Doing that made me feel special because I would be the only person rocking some old school Jordans that most people forgot about. Right now I have about 40 pairs of Jordans just sitting in my basement because I refused to be put in the same box with the ninjas that wear the fake ones. My only question is, when did it become cool to wear Fake Shyt?
@eff yo couch,
I think Fake Shyt began its comeback when Bushie part deaux got re-elected.
Although, I must say…dressing for men is waaaay harder than dressing for women. We can get away with mixing some pretty but cheap pieces with a quality item or 2 and still look good. Y’all have to spend a little money to get “the look”.
@eff yo couch,
“What’s worse is seeing young black men making the transition to working in an office setting, and they come wearing a pair of D ickie pants and a dress shirt with a tie . . . like they are going to be filing papers during the day and cleaning the toilets at night”
Ya’ll gone get me fired today…lmao
awww see Dckies are the style in cali, esp SoCal. then again, there are tons of questionable fashions that go down in cali that wouldn’t fly anywhere else (scarves and tank top in 60deg weather, anyone??)…. even my lil 7 & 10yo nephews rock dckies in the tundra (aka MN).
idk. it’s a style i grew up seeing and still see when i go home to visit. i like it.
@Gem of the Ocean,
In Philly ninja been wearing D ickes since the early 90′s. You’d think they would have died off by now
@eff yo couch, i really wanna see you try to part a southern man from his dickies. this would tickle me so.
Champ/Panama
Being pretty new to the thread and all, can someone please update pimp’n on why the rapper Jim Jones is so unliked in here? Other than he’s Diddy’s male jumpoff (so i’ve heard) and he looks like soap and water is not his friend. Never been a fan of his anyway, but just curious. I must’ve missed that convo in my previous lurkin around here. So what’s good?
@Tx10inch,
You covered all the bases…almost…
someone else help fill my friend in…lol
@Tx10inch,
“Other than he’s Diddy’s male jumpoff (so i’ve heard) and he looks like soap and water is not his friend.
Dang…isn’t that enough???
For real though, he stay on some dirty, ignorant hatin’ type shyt. He is definitely hip-hop’s Pig Pen, though.
@PBG,
Yep, i guess that would do it.
@PBG, “hip-hop’s Pig Pen”
LOL
@PBG, though i agree with this in theory, it’s still a slap in the face to pig pen. me and charlie brown and the crew used to get down back in the day so let’s just say he’s mad trife, ignant and allergic to soap, mmmkay?
@Tx10inch,
I do it for convenience. Plus he’s in the top 10 of sh!tty rappers
@Tx10inch,
Check out The Champ’s post titled ‘The Least’ it is from October 15, 2008
@WuDaMan,
Preciate that Wu. Will do.
@WuDaMan, you like the VSB historian and ish… g’head Wu
@Intellectual Hedonist,
& I didn’t even stay @ a Holliday Inn last night. *whispers* (psst when you log in they have the search feature) Thanks Liz n em
@WuDaMan, say word, how do you use it?
btw that is all Liz no n em about it
@Intellectual Hedonist,
WhatchU mean. I bet they asked for it. lol
GUYS…
Stop wearing Manpris (Capris for men). On women they are carpis. On men you are just flooding.
And on that same note. Stop wearing shorts so long they look like bell-bottoms. If you are going to wear them that long you might as well wear pants.
Tall Tee’s – Banned
Gold Teeth – Banned
Fake Jewelery – Banned (You can’t get a diamond and platinum chain for $199. That is cubic zirconia and stainless steel. We can tell the difference Nygga.)
Unkept hair- If you want long hair, braid that shyt up. If it isn’t long enough, comb that shit or get you some twist until it is long enough.
Dreads. I love em, but keep them shyts done. If you got to get them retwisted every week, spend the money.
Women:
I’m tired of the CHUBBY OVER CONFIDENT HO3S. If ya a$$ is fat. Live with it and cover that shyt up. You can’t wear what Videohoequisha is wearing. If you have to ask, “Do I look fat in this”. The answer is yes.
Colored Hair – I don’t have time to see women walking around looking like snow cones. White people have about 4 colors. Let’s restrict ourselves to those. If you don’t anyone whose hair grows purple naturally don’t dye your hair that color.
Unrealistic weave – If you look like you should be running in the Kentucky Durby, you over did it on the weave sista.
Low hair cuts you don’t keep up – if you have a short doo. Keep that shyt up. It’s going to look like a nappy a$$ fro if you don’t.
Make-up: A little goes a long way. Don’t use a spray gun. And if you are some goolish-type creature without it. I would like to know that ahead of time. I don’t want to wake up next to you and think about gnawing my arm off.
I have more, but I think this is getting long winded…
Wood Has Spoken
@Wood,
Low hair cuts you don’t keep up – if you have a short doo. Keep that shyt up
***nodding head in approval***
That low cuts on women comment is the main reason I don’t cut my hair now – upkeep can be a muttha.
@Wood, “f you look like you should be running in the Kentucky Durby, you over did it on the weave sista.”
**dying**
I think this is my second death today
@Wood, Unrealistic weave – If you look like you should be running in the Kentucky Durby, you over did it on the weave sista.
LMAO!!! (imagining a group of bad weave wearing chicks running a race…) LOL!
@Wood,
“chubby over confident hoes”
let’s dissect this one.
a: so, it’s okay to be a skinny over confident hoe?
b: if you are skinny you are not a hoe?
c: so if you are chubby you should be underconfident?
that was such a interesting combo, i needed further derivation.
@Jeandra,
Dissection is this…
It’s not okay to be overconfident in any size.
I’m saying over confident in the idea you can wear certain things that you can’t.
Just like I’ve seen skinny girls wearing stuff they shouldn’t. One being a thong that I can still see the back off when you put your pants on.
Hoes is just a bad generalization I use.
No disrespect to my small or large sisters wearing the proper attire.
@Wood,
Thank you. It was broken down to the brokest.
Mandals (Man-Sandals), send me over the edge. I did a post on this a while ago. Mandals really disturb my spirits and by the end of the day I need a Chakra Healing. A man should always have on a pair of socks and shoes with full coverage. It’s just not in the cards for men to wear sandals.
@Mme. Editor-in-Chief,
Let the church say “Yaymen!”
@Mme. Editor-in-Chief,
Okay then women can’t where the GrekoRoman sandals. I can’t stands them things.
@WuDaMan,
i hate those too! all that business over the top of the foot and then the thing around the ankle…i mean seriously, them shyts is horrendous! and my girls LOVE them! i just smh…
personal fashion faux pas i havent seen mentioned yet:
men:
ugly ass, ill-fitting suits on normal sized people
lets put it this way…if your suit makes you look like someone who just participated in the nba or nfl draft (circa 1994), you need to go swim in a bucket of albino roaches
women:
jeans with no back pockets
the only women who should ever wear jeans with no back pockets are p*rn stars and selena quintanilla-pérez (and she’s dead). basically, if you’re rocking these, its a sign you’re f*cking for cash on cam.
@The Champ,
Really? I always thought that no back pockets on jeans was a sign of brokeness, not pronstar-ness. Interesting…
@The Champ,
“the only women who should ever wear jeans with no back pockets are p*rn stars and selena quintanilla-pérez (and she’s dead). ”
I’m done with ya’ll today…dayum. lol
@The Champ, jeans with no back pockets
I have seen many young mexican women rocking these no-back pocket jeans. and in acid wash….
@The Champ,
And to add to that Champ.
If you weren’t on the scene back in the 1930′s and 1940′s stop wearing Zoot suits!!!
And if I can still see you when the lights are out. You’re suit color is too bright!!!
I think it’s high time the VSB’s began dropping some for real knowledge on the sistahs. Izz u izz, or izz u ain’t gon tell us?
Do y’all really give a rats behind about weave? Not talking about a faux hair tragedy (tracks on forehead), but just some regular, properly blended weave. Does it even matter? If it doesn’t, why y’all got a song out about it?
@Lil’T,
this is one of my topics next week. stay tuned and sh*t
***hoping lil’t doesnt notice that i didnt even attempt to answer her question***
Oh, i noticed. I’ma need a verdict, Champ. Are you pro-Yakki or not???
I think Champ likes hair that comes out of your scalp and can do without the extra’s.
He’s a simple old man, its part of his charm.
@8th Wonder, what else does he like 8th? inquiring minds want to know and ish
He likes big butts, and he cannot lie.
That’s about it.
@Lil’T,
I feel a certain way about it but from my post you can guess how I would weight in. But since The Champ will bring it up next week. I’ll save it.
This next one isn’t really about a certain fashion flaw but more of a PSA, so here goes . .
before you go out of town or travel to another city, please get caught up on the regional fashion trends. I was on Miami Beach this one time and I seen a New York ninja rocking timberland boots with jean shorts on the beach. That’s okay if your in NYC, because that’s what they do (well that’s what they do last time I checked), but not on the beach.
BTW – Don’t get me started on the whole rocking timbs with shorts thing, because that a different subject.
I remember in the late 90′s when wearing the soft toe Reebok classic would get you clowned in New York & Philly, but when I went to New Orleans those where the shty. During the same time period up here we was wearing Guess jeans and down there they was wearing Girbauds
@eff yo couch, lol. please let’s not get started on girbauds
Panama, others, I’m late on this, but there’s a site that might have you dying from laughter. It has lots of photos in each post of folks wearing or doing the craziest stuff.
You Know You Dead Azz Wrong
http://youknowyoudeadazzwrong.blogspot.com/
@Kit (Keep It Trill),
This is the funniest ish Ive seen all year! This dude needs a web-blog award!
So….. where is toilet? Hehe))) Joke, relax
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Thank you
bye bye