Black & White Stripey Tops - irrational dislike

[ska invita]

I'm not judgemental about clothes at all - I really couldn't give a shit what anyone is wearing, and never judge people by their clothes.
Apart from black and white stripey tops. Which make me sneer a little. I don'y understand why. I don't know what it means. I don't know where it comes from. Theyre all over the place. Its a standard bit of clothing.
Does anyone else have a similar feeling or can say what its about?

Feeling extends to most horizontally striped tops, but especially black/blue and white ones

 

[DotCommunist]

is it an anti-french thing? do you also dislike bicycles, necklaces made of onions and berets?

 

[skyscraper101]

They're a bit too 'sailor-y' for me. Some people can pull it off (Karl Hyde etc) but they look whack on me.

 

[WouldBe]

Do you have a problem with mine artists?

 

[Sue]

They're a bit too 'sailor-y' for me. Some people can pull it off (Karl Hyde etc) but they look whack on me.

Et voila (traditionally blue and white but hey...):

Marinière - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[skyscraper101]

Strangely enough, I bought one similar to that ^ in France (where else), but wore it like 2 or 3 times in the last 3 years. It just doesn't suit me and I pulled it out of the wardrobe yesterday with a view to charity shopping it.

 

[Sprocket.]

Are you Werner Herzog?

 

[kalidarkone]

I'm not judgemental about clothes at all - I really couldn't give a shit what anyone is wearing, and never judge people by their clothes.
Apart from black and white stripey tops. Which make me sneer a little. I don'y understand why. I don't know what it means. I don't know where it comes from. Theyre all over the place. Its a standard bit of clothing.
Does anyone else have a similar feeling or can say what its about?

Feeling extends to most horizontally striped tops, but especially black/blue and white ones

I love stripey tops!

White trainers illicit a similar feeling in me.....I guess I associate it with uber mainstream ess, sterility, nuclear families, fitting in a box......a prescribed presence.....not that there is anything wrong with the above.....its just alien to me.

 

[Sue]

I love stripey tops!

White trainers illicit a similar feeling in me.....I guess I associate it with uber mainstream ess, sterility, nuclear families, fitting in a box......a prescribed presence.....not that there is anything wrong with the above.....its just alien to me.

Nah, white trainers are shit.

 

[ska invita]

Are you Werner Herzog?

Does Werner have something against them too?

 

[Sprocket.]

Does Werner have something against them too?

The French definitely, check out the tweet on wasting bandwidth.

 

[Sue]

The French definitely, check out the tweet on wasting bandwidth.

Or maybe just J-P Gaultier...?

 

[JimW]

Class appropriation. So are jeans but that's gone on longer so we're desensitised.

 

[The39thStep]

Didn't seventh bullet have one of these but Russian?

 

[Spandex]

I had a black and white stripy top when I was 12. I thought it looked really good. The first time I went out in it some girls laughed at me and shouted "oi, exchange student".

I've never worn one since

 

[JimW]

Grimsby phobia. But can that really be called irrational?

 

[Sue]

Oh (((Spandex)))

I like a stripey top. But then I like French stuff, sailors and burglars with swag so...

 

[killer b]

I like a nautical stripe, but it does seem a bit ubiquitous right now. Summer's over now though, so you're safe til April ska.

 

[Teaboy]

See I'd call that top hoopy. Stripey should be vertical. I think that might be a football thing though.

 

[Sprocket.]

Grimsby phobia. But can that really be called irrational?

Only if cornered by the Beach Patrol!

 

[peterkro]

You'd hate me I've been wearing these ( I have two plus two short sleeved versions and a jumper same colours ) for years:

 

[ska invita]

I guess I associate it with uber mainstream ess, sterility, nuclear families, fitting in a box......a prescribed presence.....not that there is anything wrong with the above.....its just alien to me.

i,m trying to think what it is associate with them....all i can think of is sunday supplements....maybe also landfill indie bands

google image "landfill indie bands" and this is #2



also this picture of IDLES comes up

to me i could imagine chatting to any of these, but with reluctance to stripey t man

 

[ska invita]

You'd hate me

no its my problem and nobody elses...though im still waiting for the "Yes!!! Me too!!" post

too many stripes on this thread....*shudder

 

[seventh bullet]

Didn't seventh bullet have one of these but Russian?

Still do. Telnyashka.

 

[Poot]

I had a black and white stripy top when I was 12. I thought it looked really good. The first time I went out in it some girls laughed at me and shouted "oi, exchange student".

I've never worn one since

This is the best, most irrational insult i've heard in ages.

 

[killer b]

 

[killer b]

just as a contrast like - no-one looks cooler than the ramones (it's the ramones the landfill indie / landfil punk bands are hoping to echo too)

 

[ska invita]

This is interesting.

 

[sunnysidedown]

 

[Saul Goodman]

Do you have a problem with mine artists?

Doesn't everyone?
On a similar note, cunts who paint themselves silver/bronze and stand still all day, trying to look like a statue. GTF!