Fashion

[Randetica]

the f version of mc hammer's pants

[cosmo105]

what's in there, a colostomy bag?

[Bob]

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/pages/Resources/gorman53ep.jpeg

tom jones?

[russhie]

http://www.americanapparel.net/storefront/images/detail/serve.asp?media=6456W_White.jpg
http://www.americanapparel.net/storefront/images/detail/serve.asp?media=8373_HeatherGrey.jpg
http://www.australianflavour.com.au/files/SamanthaWills/Summer09/serpent_lrg.jpg
http://www.australianflavour.com.au/files/Lilya/Summer09/maria_lrg1.jpg
Not exactly this one, but a really similar version by Shona Joy (this one is by Mother Maria)

[na§tee]

yeesh. some of those clothes could only be pulled off by someone sized 10 or under. or someone that is at least incredibly athletic. eek.

/pulls on baggy trews and hoodie, eats donut.

[Waus]

http://anniescostumes.com/ostrichrider.jpg


There was a guy wearing one of these at the convention I just worked! He was tying balloon animals, but I think the costume kind of backfired because most of the kids were just terrified of him.

[russhie]

http://www.birdmotel.com.au/images/D/ic11455-1_pimg1d.jpg

http://www.birdmotel.com.au/images/D/ot4590-1_pimg1d.jpg

http://www.birdmotel.com.au/images/D/bflp0342-1_pimg1d.jpg

http://www.australianflavour.com.au/files/Bahamonde/Summer09/hapiness_lrg1.jpg

[na§tee]

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/Q/23/158/393651/BlackSkirt/image1xl.jpg

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/Q/23/158/393913/Charcoal/image1xl.jpg

[HEIRESS]

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/Q/23/158/393651/BlackSkirt/image1xl.jpg

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/Q/23/158/393913/Charcoal/image1xl.jpg

if only we lived near each other we could save so much money by sharing each other's wardrobe

[russhie]

http://www.witchery.com.au/www/136/files/514031sm_lg.jpghttp://www.witchery.com.au/www/136/files/606116bl_lg.jpg

[Lyman Zerga]

yes
no
yes
yes
yes (without the hat)

[Lyman Zerga]

yeah the jacket is nice

i would only buy the second outfit for halloween cause it just looks like a costume

[kaiser soze]

http://www.jacobfausset.vpweb.com/0_0_0_0_150_112_csupload_2689914_large.jpg?u=63368 6600414712500

http://www.upcycledjewelry.com/

[na§tee]

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/S/23/158/517788/Teal/image1xl.jpghttp://imagecache.asos.com/inv/S/23/158/517788/image2xl.jpg
(got the size up cos it looks a bit too short for me)

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/S/23/158/470389/Black/image1xl.jpg
i'm gonna wear this with orange/turquoise accessories/bright tights

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/Q/23/158/414629/BlackBeige/image1xl.jpg
for work

[russhie]

http://www.birdmotel.com.au/images/P/pl8237282-1_pimg1.jpg
Bomber/biker jacket, I'd kill for the real leather version though
http://www.birdmotel.com.au/images/D/stc91144-1_pimg3d.jpg
Wolf print slouchy tee
http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/bassike.40.a.jpg
Black slouchy harem pants

[russhie]

Work junk wishlist
http://www.witchery.com.au/www/136/files/605128bl_lg.jpg
http://www.witchery.com.au/www/136/files/606143bl_lg.jpg
http://www.witchery.com.au/www/136/files/608072gr_lg.jpg
(though black and a slightly more casual take - a blazer I guess)
http://www.witchery.com.au/www/136/files/514026bl_lg.jpg

[russhie]

winterrrr
http://www.birdmotel.com.au/images/D/pl8048321b-1_pimg1d.jpg
Black cropped trench
http://westfield.com.au/fashion/images/graphics/products/retail_chain_132/product_17584/Bandage_dress_49ab3fd619571_348.jpg?1238384624
Bandage dress (preferably with a different neckline, something a bit more 50'sbikini top inspired)
http://www.zushoe.com.au//productimages/7504/500/0.aspx
Riding boots
http://www.zushoe.com.au//productimages/7508/500/0.aspx
Cowboy boots - with a slightly higher heel and tabs on either side of the top of the boot, looks great pulled down.

[russhie]

http://www.zushoe.com.au//productimages/7186/500/0.aspx
Good for work or play...my other black peeptoes have had the biscuit
http://www.zushoe.com.au//productimages/7460/500/0.aspx
Have wanted pumps similar to this foreverrr
http://www.witchery.com.au/www/136/files/615128lg_lg.jpg
http://www.tslwebsite.com/images/large/2865.jpg

[mickill]

I swear I was predicting the whole resurgence of the harem pants with cropped jacket look back in the early fall, but nobody I knew believed me. Until they started popping up in the little H&M and Zara stores. Of course, being a guy, this unique foresight really isn't of any use to me, personally.

[russhie]

^ haha, I grabbed my first pair of harem pants just under two years ago, and my friends all laughed and called me Hammer. Now, they're eyeing off girls in clubs who rock them with platform stilettos and tight tank tops. In a job interview about 8 months ago I was asked about upcoming trends and the harem pant was my example...it has since exploded here in the last few months.

I hope the interviewer now thinks I'm really, really cool. ha!

[mickill]

Two years? Nice. You win, I guess. It was still a pretty cutting edge observation on my part, though, I think.

To my credit, I did predict that deck shoes would come back stronger than ever, at least two years ago...and some guys are doing that. Kinda.

[russhie]

Ha, it's no contest, your observation would have been the validation I've been looking for that harem pants were going to get real mainstream soon! I was inspired to hunt out a pair by some hippie chick in a newspaper picture so she had the inside running long before either of us. Bitch.

[nodanaonlyzuul]

http://www.witchery.com.au/www/136/files/606143bl_lg.jpg



all I could think of is how women with hips would look awful in that. Myself included.

Fashion isn't kind to women with a lot of hips :(

[nodanaonlyzuul]

also, to each their own of course, but harem pants make me think of a saggy soiled diaper.

[russhie]

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/sass-bide.296.c.jpghttp://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/sass-bide.296.b.jpg
Sass & Bide dress

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/sass-bide.286.a.jpg
http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/sass-bide.286.b.jpg
Sass & Bide bodysuit

[russhie]

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/camilla-marc.AW.11.b.jpghttp://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/camilla-marc.AW.11.c.jpghttp://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/camilla-marc.AW.11.d.jpg
Camilla & Marc dress

[russhie]

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/camilla-marc-AW.3.a.jpg
Camilla & Marc...if only the fabric was matte black!

[Nuzzolese]

what do you wear with the bodysuit?

[russhie]

^ skinny jeans + heels, or a high waisted skirt. I could never wear that particular one, though...my boobs are too big.

[TurdBerglar]

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/bassike.40.a.jpg
Black slouchy harem pants

what the fuck is this shit

[Randetica]

some brown shit

[Knuckles]

what the fuck is this shit

Yeah, they make you look like you suffered from polio as a child.

[Dorothy Wood]

I really cannot get behind the harem pant trend. I can't fathom how they would even look on a real person.

that said, I do own a harem-esque jumpsuit thing that I bought for a 90's hip hop party. they look pretty much like these:

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl1/0/3987/23_2008/image1xl.jpg

I wore them like this, but you can pull up the waist (on the ones I have) into a tube top. I might try it out for summer...but am expecting naysayers.

the baggy crotch ones though...oof, I just...can't....

[Nuzzolese]

^ skinny jeans + heels, or a high waisted skirt. I could never wear that particular one, though...my boobs are too big.

What if you have to go to the bathroom? Do you have to take the whole thing off or does it have crotch snaps?

[Nuzzolese]

http://disney-clipart.com/Aladdin/jasmine/Disney-Princess-Jasmine-1-sm.jpg

I thought these ^ were harem pants. I used to have a pair for dress-up when I was little and I loved them and wished I could wear them all the time. They're kind of the opposite of the "harem" pants from Russhie's pictures. Both kinds actually do look like they would be very comfortable. Even when they were called "Hammer Pants", did people actually take them seriously?

[Dorothy Wood]

I don't think people took them seriously, but I think some people thought they were cool.

there were some other kind pants that were kinda like hammer pants, but they were more like tapered knit pants that were wide at the top and folded across and buttoned. I can't find a picture. I just know that there was a girl who was a couple of grades above me in elementary school that wore them all the time and I thought she was so cool. I wanted some, but I thought they were too trendy and they showed off your butt too much.

which is weird, because my mom bought me fluorescent tie-dyed hammer pants and a matching crop top that I absolutely loved, but only wore once. with matching layered neon green and pink socks. I thought I looked awesome, my friends did not...they thought I looked presumptuous and rude.

what I wouldn't give to own that outfit now. I'd sell it to a 19 year old art student, I would.

[russhie]

It'd depend on the bodysuit, some undo at the crotch, others don't.

All sorts of pants are being labeled 'harem' now, the ones I posted were pushed as menswear here originally by local label Material Boy, and were adopted by other labels as the look became marginally more mainstream...not claiming Material Boy as the first but their runway show and S/S collection a couple of years back did feature those sorts of pants pretty heavily. It was the first time I really remember seeing them.

Anyway now it's mostly womenswear that has that sort of cut. I think here harem pants started off as something slightly more 'hammer-esque' but the shape has mutated a bit over previous seasons - anything with tapered bottoms and a puffy/loose top can legitimately be labeled harem-ish, I guess.

[Nuzzolese]

I'm so bored with fashion these days. Nothing seems to inspire me anymore. I feel lost, scattered, and without a home. I don't like anything in the old places I used to shop. I find myself interested only in the completely impractical avant garde that I admire from afar but wouldn't think of trying to incorporate into my real life.

http://www.lostateminor.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/vivienne_westwood.jpg

[Nuzzolese]

The way I want to dress is just in all black, white, and grey, and have everything look simple and of a non-descript era. But who cares about putting up pictures like that?




http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_03/isabellablow0805_468x604.jpg
http://www.poshlush.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mtb-foldedshoe_0.jpg

http://blog.nj.com/fashiontoday/2008/07/large_LACROIX6.jpg
http://frillr.com/files/images/Jean%20Paul%20Gaultier%20FW2007.jpg http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=1488290



This is what I like to see. Of course I couldn't, and wouldn't, wear anything like this. But everything else just seems so boring. Even farther reaching attempts like harem pants bore me. I would rather dress in the utter basics or the most flamboyant, out-there, style.

[nodanaonlyzuul]

although I'm not incredibly fashion forward, nothing in stores interests me anymore either. Nothing at all.

I am starting to take claritin (I have severe dust allergies) and venturing through various thrift stores. I probably would have more in the past, but I lack the patience to sift through things (and that whole dust allergy thing, it really is THAT bad). Now I am forcing myself to have patience and eat medication to be able to do it, because all the new fashion sucks.

[nodanaonlyzuul]

oh, with one exception: Alexander McQueen. I love his collections.

[Dorothy Wood]

I'm obsessed with how my mom dressed in the early 80's. very liz claiborne.

I love love love liz claiborne

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/NM_LIZ_CLAIBORNE_070627_ssv.jpg


http://sooofabulous.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/liz-claiborne-isaac-mizrahi.png?w=510&h=256

isaac mizrahi is designing for liz now. http://www.lizclaiborne.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-LIZ-Site/default/Link-Page?cid=conceptIsaacPicks

I'm kinda into color:

http://b0.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01016/09/66/1016746690_l.jpg

[HEIRESS]

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/S/23/158/517788/Teal/image1xl.jpghttp://imagecache.asos.com/inv/S/23/158/517788/image2xl.jpg
(got the size up cos it looks a bit too short for me)

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/S/23/158/470389/Black/image1xl.jpg
i'm gonna wear this with orange/turquoise accessories/bright tights

http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/Q/23/158/414629/BlackBeige/image1xl.jpg
for work

I want them all.

I do believe we have the exact same "things to highlight/things to camouflage" specs when it comes to fashion.

[HEIRESS]

I'm obsessed with how my mom dressed in the early 80's. very liz claiborne.

I love love love liz claiborne

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/NM_LIZ_CLAIBORNE_070627_ssv.jpg


http://sooofabulous.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/liz-claiborne-isaac-mizrahi.png?w=510&h=256

isaac mizrahi is designing for liz now. http://www.lizclaiborne.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-LIZ-Site/default/Link-Page?cid=conceptIsaacPicks

I'm kinda into color:

http://b0.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01016/09/66/1016746690_l.jpg

sweet dress.

sweet, sweet, sweet-ass view.

and I want the blue/white diagonal stripe dress.

[na§tee]

I want them all.

I do believe we have the exact same "things to highlight/things to camouflage" specs when it comes to fashion.
i agree, ha! i love your clothes too. I WANT THAT DIAGONAL STRIPE DRESS, D'YAH WANNA FIGHT ME? i will. i will fight you.

i wore that grey/turquoise dress for the first time today. with new orange tights.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/nastee/e5ade965.jpg

oops, my squished right thigh looks a bit, er, squishy.
i friggin love coloured tights. what am i gonna do in the summer? i think i'm just gonna branch out to coloured fishnets.

[yeahwho]

This shirt commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Haunted Mansion @ Disneyland

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OO7WbmARD08/SeSJNWGSYLI/AAAAAAAAQOg/G-yiWY1IKQs/s1600/aloha_shirt(1).jpg

and not this pair, but R. Crumb's + Vans (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2009/05/vans-collaborates-with-cartoonist-r-crumb-.html#more)Keep on Trucking shoe

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01156f77cd45970c-pi

These are the only two things I really want for 2009 and both are not available until Fall. I have insanely horrible taste in clothes but I know what I like. I like this stuff.

[Gareth]

http://image.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/rihanna-050109.jpg

cutting edge!
ridiculous outfit...but she's hot so whatever.

[HEIRESS]

i agree, ha! i love your clothes too. I WANT THAT DIAGONAL STRIPE DRESS, D'YAH WANNA FIGHT ME? i will. i will fight you.

i wore that grey/turquoise dress for the first time today. with new orange tights.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c361/nastee/e5ade965.jpg

oops, my squished right thigh looks a bit, er, squishy.
i friggin love coloured tights. what am i gonna do in the summer? i think i'm just gonna branch out to coloured fishnets.

loverly.

I am in the same boat. I adore skirts/dresses but naked legs sometimes make me uncomfortable.

an average fall/winter/spring uniform for me:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/HEIRESS/poopoo/photo2.jpg

not at my best and it was taken on a disposable camera, apologies!

[beastiegirrl101]

Sarky is that at the Signature Room?

[russhie]

http://www.americanapparel.net/morephotos/rsa8357/RSA8357_03.jpg

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/nylon-flocks.5.b..jpg

http://www.mycatwalk.com.au/products/images/products/mid/nylon-flocks.5.c.jpg

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee36/russhie/mossimo_mini_bomber.jpg
Bought the bomber jacket yesterday

[Dorothy Wood]

Sarky is that at the Signature Room?

yes ma'am

[NoFenders]

Haven't been there in years. I was addicted to their brunch for a long time. My favorite time to be there was when it was cloudy. Something about white tables and silver against soft clouds in the sky that goes so well together. Almost like a reserved table in heaven.

The only thing that steered me away in the end was the price. They rasied it two times while I lived there, and the last time was a bit too much.

The lounge can be a bit pricey too. Dorothy's table of 4 drinks was probably $50 in the end.

Fancy pants in the fashion thread!

:)

[Nuzzolese]

http://i.cnn.net/v5cache/TCM/Images/Dynamic/i70/happygolucky_082620081244.jpg

http://images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2008/06/05/happy_narrowweb__300x437,0.jpg

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/happy-go-lucky-header.jpg

[NoFenders]

Putting a bag over one's head never goes out of style.

[HEIRESS]

I hated that movie.

her one sister was the best part though.

[HEIRESS]

http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5494-1.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5053-1.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/4997-1.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5032-1.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5260CM-1.jpg

[HEIRESS]

http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5113-1.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5028-1.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5712-1.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5126-1.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/021209_06_L.jpg

[HEIRESS]

funny how those "bandage" style dresses just don't look good on the lanky supermodels. they just don't do the dresses justice.

[HEIRESS]

these don''t really belong in the "fashion" thread because they are so ugly, but ah well.
I wants em.
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5093_6.jpg
http://www.modcloth.com/store/images/5093_3.jpg

they are called "the music fest flats"

[nodanaonlyzuul]

http://showcoverage.vogue.com.au/slides-images/imagefolder/slide-4879/00130m.jpg


http://showcoverage.vogue.com.au/slides-images/imagefolder/slide-4879/00320m.jpg






I love these.

[paul jones]

fuckin ell! give those poor cows a cheeseburger ^

[Lyman Zerga]

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p137/randetica/DXLA55_83117_06000_36_4188.jpg

they currently sell that shirt on H&M for guys, so you know