fashion update for guys: tight pants!
In this podcast, Cathi Bond talks about the hot trend for guys’ fashion: skinny rocker pants, and, as JC Report says, to go with them, taut behinds.
Meanwhile, Nora Young has a supercool do-dad, via Technology Review. It’s called Qwerk! It’s a do it yourself, all in one robot, that designers from Carnegie Mellon University hope will encourage people to hack their robots, or follow the “recipes” included.
August 6th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Ladies,
I have to humbly disagree with your gleeful pronouncement that the great unwashed masses of straight men are all going for this Ramones effeminate look !
Vancouver has plenty of kids sporting tight pants, designer asymmetrical haircuts and riding around crappy 10 speed bikes … but these trenditarians don’t represent the ‘average’ guy by any stretch.
Personally, I think many of them are bi, which if that were the case would just place them right besides women and all out gay men in the ‘insecurity spectrum’.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Hey Panama,
Well I could say “Vancouver + fashion?” but then you’d get mad.
Time will tell about the silhouette, but if the fashionistas have their say, skinny pants will rule the day.
c
August 14th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Well sticks and stones! If the anorexic look is settling in on the Canadian male population, then I’m all for us West Coasters (I’m no a self identified Vancouverite) giving you Hogtown homeboys all the glory. We’ll
That said, I didn’t say skinney pants weren’t all the rage — far from it —
I just claimed that its metrosexual/bi-curious hipsters wearing them, NOT the average male populace.