Why do people wear stuff like this?!

[00slash00]

so i was at kennywood yesterday (an amusement park in the pittsburgh area) and saw a lot of people, mostly guys wearing shirts that had no only the sleeves cut off, but pretty much the entire side cut off. basically the only places the shirt is connected on the sides is a couple inches from the bottom, and around the collar. basically like this
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl2/33/330044/08_2009/31349f3a838a8065_Effy.jpg
im referring mostly to when guys wear it, but doing a google image search didnt bring up any pictures of guys wearing this style.
on guys it just looks incredibly douchey and on girls it looks trashy as hell. i guess they wear it to keep themselves cooler but is 76 degrees really that unbearably hot? i cant imagine they put that on and then looked in the mirror thinking, "i look so awesome like this!"

another thing i hate, and maybe im in the minority here, is when girls wear shorts that are shorter than their pockets. like this
http://www.piperlime.com/products/res/mainimg/logan-cut-off-shorts-epic.jpg
dont get me wrong, i like a girl in short shorts as much as the next guy, but i think shorts in which the pockets hang down past the bottom of the shorts or hemline or whatever its called, it just looks really stupid


anyway, so what fashion trends do you regularly see that just makes you think, why in gods name would someone walk out the door like this?

edit-since people are apparently missing the point of this, i am not stating facts i am stating my OPINION about these styles. i was merely using fashion styles that i PERSONALLY thought looked stupid, as a jumping off point for other people to state their OPINIONS about what fashion trends made no sense to them. i apologize if this was unclear before but i am not telling you what does and does not look good, i was stating what i think doesnt look good. this is not the kind of thing i would have expected people to get so defensive over

 

[Nimcha]

Wow, you're complaining over this? I thought this thread would be a legitimate complaint of people wearing stupid stuff. I'm dissappointed.

 

[Anarchemitis]

I am disdainful of fashion in of itself since pure fashion could be interpreted as the antithesis of practicality, so I would not be a good person to ask.

If given the opportunity, I would go to a cat-walk show wearing a toolbelt, hard hat, ruddy overalls, dirty shirt and sporting the luxurious accessories of 15 different screwdrivers and a volt tester in an attempt to pass off the facility stage hands as part of the show.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

is 76 degrees really that unbearably hot?

Speaking as a Floridian, 76 degrees is one degree removed from being downright cold; it's not hot until it's 90 degrees and humid. I'd be covering up more if I were someplace that was in the mid 70s like that, not less.

OT: I've never seen the first thing. Must be some sort of local fashion. It looks trashy, but there are definitely trashier things that people could wear. As for the short shorts, if they're going to make their own jean shorts, they should have enough sewing skills to bring their pockets up a few inches. I'm a dude who has never sewed anything more complicated than a hacky sack, and I could do that.

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

Eh,let people wear what they want.Its their will and their money.
Though,I still don't get the ripped jeans thing.

 

[Dagnius]

I agree it looks pretty trashy, However I'm too used to it from back on the Football team in Highschool. During off-season 90% of the guys on our team wore it, Armpit galore... Ugh.

 

[SIXVI06-M]

Apparently it was also in fashion to have whole chunks of your jeans missing from the crotch and ass section.

Right up there with the older "pants lower than your knees" fashion

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Apparently it was also in fashion to have whole chunks of your jeans missing from the crotch and ass section.

Right up there with the older "pants lower than your knees" fashion

You mean a reverse thong?

 

[funksobeefy]

so i was at kennywood yesterday (an amusement park in the pittsburgh area) and saw a lot of people, mostly guys wearing shirts that had no only the sleeves cut off, but pretty much the entire side cut off. basically the only places the shirt is connected on the sides is a couple inches from the bottom, and around the collar. basically like this
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl2/33/330044/08_2009/31349f3a838a8065_Effy.jpg
on guys it just looks incredibly douchey and on girls it looks trashy as hell. i guess they wear it to keep themselves cooler but is 76 degrees really that unbearably hot? i cant imagine they put that on and then looked in the mirror thinking, "i look so awesome like this!"

I see lots of guys around here wearing stuff like that, including me! Most wear them when they're working out, playing basketball or other sport or just anything out side when its damn hot out side. It makes sense, first lets you recycle old shirts, second if you really sweat it up, it wont soak up into the shirt and it also allows a lot of freedom of movement for the arms.

I dont think any one has ever thought it was a good piece for just general casual wear.

 

[Fwee]

I think the shirts with the entire side missing must be some symptom of Douchebag Downs Syndrome. Instead of the spaced-out eyes and pudgy face, they get abominable clothing. It doesn't actually matter what they put on in the morning, the clothes all of a sudden switch to the same dumb half-shirt right as they open the front door.
Either that or maybe they really want to wear a tunic and go jousting for the honor of Disturbed, or whatever other shit they wear on their ri-donkey-diculous rags.
I think they believe it puts out the image that they're tough guys or something, instead of the real image that they're so brain-dead they're only wearing 65% of a shirt. Now if they removed the sleeves with their bare hands instead of scissors? Right there in public? They can wear whatever they want.
I'll conclude with a line from a very intelligent man:
"Hey Bruno, shut it down willya? It's unpleasant, and not worth sharing. You smell like an anchovy's ****." - George Carlin on T-Shirts with no sleeves.

 

[Woodsey]

Wow, you're complaining over this? I thought this thread would be a legitimate complaint of people wearing stupid stuff. I'm dissappointed.

One of the joys of the forum is people's seemingly random dip into raging conservatism.

OT: I don't see the problem. Short-shorts and a vest are hardly insane crimes during late-Spring/Summer time. And I will personally slap anyone who says they have an issue with girls wearing short-shorts.

 

[Booze Zombie]

You're complaining about potato-sack chic? Come on... I was expecting something more offensive.
Like sandals dyed pink with GREEN socks.

 

[SckizoBoy]

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I think Kaya Scodelario looks pretty good there.

Seriously, though, these days, I don't bother asking myself questions like those. If they look like douches, it's their choice to look like douches and you need not associate yourself with them. For the longest time, I wondered why chavs wore velour/denim around their knees. I no longer care. True, my opinion of them hasn't changed, but I no longer care. I'd question it if one of my friends started dressing like that, but thankfully none of them look or are remotely poncy enough to start.

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

76 degrees is insanely hot! At least here in England. Maybe because we get a lot of bad weather, maybe because we use the metric system for temperature...

 

[demoman_chaos]

I never understood why people wear certain things. I don't understand suits. It looks fine when your arms are stuck at your sides, but raise one arm and the buttons in the middle get pretty tight. Raise both arms and watch as the whole thing climbs up to above your belly button. You look ridiculous.

Why do people pay upwards of $50 for jeans that look like something a hobo would throw away?

As for the things the OP is bickering about, I agree. It looks rather silly, like the bright pink shirts with turned up collars. At least it is a good way of judging intelligence levels. People dressing like that are likely not going to be curing any form of cancer.

 

[Baneat]

It's Derelicte!

 

[The SettingSun]

How dare you insult the short-shorts! Anyway, I don't really care much about fashion, people can wear what they want. I am guilty of following the crowd and buying the type of shirts/t-shirts that seem to be in fashion but I don't really care. I don't try and have my own style or anything.

 

[loc978]

76F isn't terribly hot, but neither is it cool. In direct sunlight it can get a little warm for us northern types (says the guy who withstood a daily grind on a 150F flightline for about eight months out of his year... I still have no idea how I survived that, but I do remember being a lot smaller by the end).
As for the fashion side of it... at least neither of those garments are horrendously impractical. But then, I really don't get fashion. I have normal (work) clothes and I have 3-piece suits. Nothing in between makes a bit of sense to me.