If any of you have a daughter, you know what Rue 21 is. Basically it is a hipster teen/young adult clothing store. I went there today to get a gift certificate for my cousin. I've never realized how out of place one hippie in cords and a tie-dyed shirt could be until I was surrounded by people half my age with emo-hair, tight jeans, and overly large accessories. I either looked super-hipster or like a pedophile, not sure which. With that, what the hell is wrong with the clothes kids are wearing now!? What is wrong with jeans and a t-shirt!? All this expensive ass already worn in shit that took years for me to accomplish with my own clothes can suck it!.....except I have a daughter..... I hate shopping. :bong-2:
I dunno, but some of those people get pretty agitated when you accuse a guy wearing those hooker boots, low-cut, tight fitting jeans, and equally feminine shirts decked out with glitter and fake jewels with that whacky emo hair and face covered in mascara and lip-stick of being a cross-dresser:glasses2: Maybe he'd look a little less feminine without the white belt covered in shiny metal studs that isn't even used to hold up his pants? I've noticed I never see any men with actual masculine bodies wearing shit liek that... just the teensy, scrawny, malnurished pre-pubescent girly looking boys. And then as they grow up they graduate to those fugly psych college professor-style brown jackets with the elbow patches, rock-band t-shirts and jeans with sneakers carrying a flap brief-case, faux glasses and hanging out at starbucks pretending to study while watching you-tube videos of Russian rock-boarding. I guess it's the style now. Whenever I go shopping for clothes now I'm forced to choose between looking like a transvestite, and looking like a pimp or geriatric professor. WTF? What happened to actual style? Class? Clothes that don't make people like like a complete fucking tool?
This is why I shop at salvation army. I'm a chick for crap's sake and I HATE the mall. Funny thing is, I get constantly commented on my clothes, style, etc because it's not the trend that I wear, it's the fact that what I wear looks really good on me. I love pointing out to certain shallower people that complement me that I got my shit for $5 at a donation store. Funny how the look on their faces change. Probably the same look Lion gets when he hits the shops in hippie clothes, ha ha ha!!! GTWT :XXhippylove:
Shit. I've had long hair and dressed like this all my life for all my daughter knows. Other kid's dads are in suits and polio's, and I am rocking my West Virginia Music Festival tie-dye and jeans. I am not saying I don't dress nice sometimes, cause I actually love doing that, but it is funny how people evolve with their fashion or don't. Still...hate going shopping with my daughter....god women, why!?
I'd love to help you out with an answer dude, but I'm a bit of an exception to that rule. I still occasionally rock the grunge flannel from HS, complete with ratty garage band tshirt.... I'm sure there's been a few times out and about looking like a ruffian where I could probably pass for a bulldyke because I'm dressed like a dude like that. Whatever. I'm comfortable. GTWT :XXhippylove:
Don't worry gtwt, my wife's the same, and looks good rocking it! She still fits into her high school clothes. She can't believe what people pay for shit, just like lion said, that we spent time making our clothes look like this. I love the $150 jeans that are pre-ripped in the knees, while I feel like I should really get some new ones because I wore through mine. And I'm lucky, my wife HATES shopping.
:roffl::roffl::roffl::roffl::roffl: I was in the Rue 21 in Hendersonville today with three teen age girls thinking the exact same thing. Left them to their environment went out to take a pinch in the car and wait.
