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ViolentPanda said:
I had a bit of a giggle on Saturday up Tulse Hill. Woman with perma-tan look yomping through the Co-op wearing those slashy jeans, showing her lily-white knees and lower thighs. I'm going to Hell.
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I saw someone on the tube the other day with a proper uplifting sense of style:
The train was full of people wearing this season's identically slashed knee jeans, naked knees poking out all up and down the carriage. She (sort of punky lots of tattoos young woman) was standing up: Black jeans and she's slashed the backs of the knees, fronts totally intact just carefully cut gaping holes at the at the back. I've never seen that before, thought it was great, looked like she was taking the piss out of everyone else. :)
 
bimble said:
I saw someone on the tube the other day with a proper uplifting sense of style:
The train was full of people wearing this season's identically slashed knee jeans, naked knees poking out all up and down the carriage. She (sort of punky lots of tattoos young woman) was standing up: Black jeans and she's slashed the backs of the knees, fronts totally intact just carefully cut gaping holes at the at the back. I've never seen that before, thought it was great, looked like she was taking the piss out of everyone else. :)
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Makes sense too - if you have a fall on your knees wearing front-slashed jeans you'll have no protection - potentially very nasty. But slashed in the back, no problem - and you'll still have the benefit of the ventilation!
 
True. Plus also, the backs of the knees being all vulnerable and nameless, are actually much sexier than the fronts.
 
bimble said:
That's not great Smick . "Mr bimble" (who does something to do with algorithms there) asked me the other day if 'those people on your internet' have tried sending messages to the stylists, he was saying that's a helpful thing to do. Seems you got a bit of an impersonal-feeling response. But then, she did respond with specific suggestions just not with chat, which I guess is just her doing her job.
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To be fair, Alice, my stylist, is off so someone else was filling in. Maybe she is just keeping me warm until Alice gets back.
 
I popped into M&S earlier to look at jeans, found a couple in my size range and tried them on. One of them fitted quite well, then I saw the price, £15.00 .. wtf I have never seen jeans that cheap before!
 
I have a phobia for M&S clothes. I think my mother would buy me nothing but M&S when I was little, and even when I was a "young teenager". Can't even bring myself to look now (possibly in case I think something there is OK), but the day I buy M&S jeans, someone please shoot me.

Pants, though, still come from M&S.
 
weltweit, I'm 54. If I'm their target market, they are missing. I have to confess though that Mrs Mx has bought me M&S clothes within the last 5 years.

I have two sets of (non-work) clothes - stuff Mrs mx has bought for me, that I wear when we go out, and stuff I have bought for me which I wear when I go out. Fat Face (purveyors of clothing to middle class, middle age men trying to look cool) is about the only crossover between the two, being stuff that we are both OKish about me being seen in.
 
When I first wanted jeans some time ago I went to high street retailers but was quickly pissed off because firstly no one would measure me, (they seemed to indicate it was beneath them) and then they didn't have anything in my size (40 inch waist now probably 44 back then). Eventually I went to M&S when they were quite quiet - someone measured me (properly) and then found me a range of clothes in my size to try on.

Basically they treated me well, and because of that I go back.
 
Fair enough. I struggle to find jeans that fit. My waist/leg combination is apparently too much trouble for many jeans makers. How do shops get away with 2 inch sizing steps? I'm a perfect 35 inch waist. Nothing ever fits properly.
 
weltweit said:
When I first wanted jeans some time ago I went to high street retailers but was quickly pissed off because firstly no one would measure me, (they seemed to indicate it was beneath them) and then they didn't have anything in my size (40 inch waist now probably 44 back then). Eventually I went to M&S when they were quite quiet - someone measured me (properly) and then found me a range of clothes in my size to try on.

Basically they treated me well, and because of that I go back.
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Being treated decently is worth a lot in the clothing shopping world. One of the reasons I shop charity shops so much is that I don't have to worry about shop clerks looking down on me. I only recall one instance of a nasty clerk in a charity shop, but can recall dozens in higher end stores. In some stores, the clerk sizes you up on how big a commission they could get and treat you accordingly.

(And then there's the security. I've never had security follow me around a charity shop. I won't go to some shopping areas simply because I get followed around everywhere.)
 
weltweit said:
Wearing pair 2 atm, much faded and worn in and quite the most comfortable shoe .. I have heard them called deck shoes before and or docksides ..
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You ain't stepping on my deck in those horrors, and stay the fuck away from any dock :mad:

It's dadstyle pricks like you that give us sailors a bad name :mad:

Adidas superstars are my deck shoe of choice :thumbs:
 
The only times I have been on a boat, other than a ferry, our footwear was inspected before we were allowed onto the gangplank and then we had to go barefoot. These were boats that cost more than my house though.
 
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mx wcfc said:
Fair enough. I struggle to find jeans that fit. My waist/leg combination is apparently too much trouble for many jeans makers. How do shops get away with 2 inch sizing steps? I'm a perfect 35 inch waist. Nothing ever fits properly.
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I'm a perfect 32" leg. I feel your pain :)
 
Just go to tkmax or zara or John Lewis or few swish charity shops and get some new threads. Take it from there! Maybe a haircut and 3 new pairs of shoes and some new accessories too.. but money!

I dont see the need for the faffing online or complicating this too much.
 
While we're at it, can someone recommend me a pair of
(non-skinny) jeans that aren't my usual Levis? Been wearing
Levis for decades and fancy a change.Proper sick of them.
 
albionism said:
While we're at it, can someone recommend me a pair of
(non-skinny) jeans that aren't my usual Levis? Been wearing
Levis for decades and fancy a change.Proper sick of them.
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I asked this question on another thread a few months ago, for the very same reason, but this thread seems to have taken over as the official men's clothes thread, so let's keep it here.

I ended up buying a pair from Empire, as I was looking for something made in the UK. They are good. Different from 501s, but good. Others will provide other suggestions.

Is it me, or is it nice to talk about clothes? Men don't do it enough.
 
mx wcfc said:
Fair enough. I struggle to find jeans that fit. My waist/leg combination is apparently too much trouble for many jeans makers. How do shops get away with 2 inch sizing steps? I'm a perfect 35 inch waist. Nothing ever fits properly.
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Not sure if you read my earlier post, get Levi's in your waist size with too long a leg, any Levi's shop will tailor them for you. I bought a pair on amazon and got the Levi's shop in Belfast to take them up.
 
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