Oh no...NYT: "Short-Sleeved Shirts, Nerdy but Nice, Are Back"

[gorgekko]

If I've ever needed a reason for my hatred of the New York Times -- and I have many -- this article is one of them. How many nitwits are going to point to that article and say, "See, I am cool."

No you aren't.

 

[Margaret]

No, I think those guys are cool.

The question is, why would someone imagine that to be a good thing?

 

[Jovan]

Originally Posted by gorgekko

If I've ever needed a reason for my hatred of the New York Times -- and I have many -- this article is one of them. How many nitwits are going to point to that article and say, "See, I am cool." No you aren't.
*another nail on the head picture goes here*

 

[SGladwell]

Originally Posted by gorgekko

If I've ever needed a reason for my hatred of the New York Times -- and I have many -- this article is one of them.

That's not entirely fair. The Times was kind enough to provide us with a list of so-called designers who are really just insipid finger-in-the-wind hacks whose work can be safely ignored: "Marc Jacobs, Thom Browne, Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders, Alexander McQueen, Michael Bastian."

(I already felt that way about Jacobs and Browne, as well as McQueen to some extent. Just add Sternberg and Bastian to the dustbin, which with that dumbass silhouette-logo sweater I already did to some degree with Bastian...)

 

[Mr. Checks]

Originally Posted by chicbicyclist

Since when did fashion have rules?

December 1876.

 

[Mr. Checks]

Originally Posted by gorgekko

If I've ever needed a reason for my hatred of the New York Times -- and I have many -- this article is one of them. How many nitwits are going to point to that article and say, "See, I am cool."

No you aren't.

Can you imagine Gekko closing a deal in a short-sleeve shirt? Hail, no.

 

[GBR]

So?

 

[matadorpoeta]

Originally Posted by whoopee

I don't think they're completly verboten. A fit (not very muscular but toned and thinnish), youngish guy could wear a fitted (hopeuflly bespoke) SS shirt with thin tie, tie clip, and slim trousers or (good) jeans and look cool.

gay.

 

[whoopee]

Whatever you say, mr poet.

 

[Alter]

Originally Posted by Mr. Checks

Can you imagine Gekko closing a deal in a short-sleeve shirt? Hail, no.

He would look like this?

 

[Lucky Strike]

Originally Posted by Alter

He would look like this?
That doesn't look very gay to me.