Thursday, July 12, 2012

Fashion Forward

No one believed me at lunch the other day when I proclaimed that the world has finally caught up, and that James and I are now, momentarily, on trend. But now that it has appeared in the Sartorlialist, it must be believed:
So, you will be wanting to check out my stitchin' blog to see what you will all be wearing in the future ...
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12 comments:

  1. Vinny Burgoo12/7/12 10:14 pm

    That's sooo '80s! Somewhere I still have a pair of purple paisley Craghoppers that I cut off at the knee when they frayed down below (or perhaps to show that I wasn't a poof - I forget which).

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  2. Steve Bloom13/7/12 12:10 am

    Comparing the photos, yours seem to be insufficiently highwater. Easy fix for that, though!

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  3. James Annan13/7/12 1:37 am

    I have a longstanding allergy to short trousers (not shorts per se, but inadequate longs). Probably the result of childhood trauma :-)

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  4. Steve Bloom13/7/12 11:20 pm

    Er, yes, as another kid who grew rapidly, I felt your pain. OTOH I was able to mitigate it by ripping out the knees at as early a stage as possible. :)

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  5. Hance Huston14/7/12 1:23 am

    And I thought that Japan was aways ahead of the fashion curve...

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  6. Carrick14/7/12 6:10 am

    I dunna about the pants, but I'd wear some of those shirts that James has one. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sOfVZbjgPGA/T0Nxmw-LZ8I/AAAAAAAABUU/kEvTY8q1cNQ/s400/Jbloo.jpg'>This one in particular</a>, even if it has to be hand washed.

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  7. Carrick14/7/12 6:11 am

    pfttt. unflubbed link

    shirt? yes here.

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  8. jules14/7/12 9:39 am

    Carrick:

    Thanks! Keep your eyes open. James likes to leave them in motorway service stations. Which painfully reminds me that stitchin' certainly makes me value clothes much more - they take so long to make. If I was paid the same per hour as I am for climate science they'd cost thousands (of USD, not just yen!). Presently I am stitchin' yet another fluffy hoodie for a friend who foolishly requested one. He lives in Colorado, so I hope he won't sue me when he finds out it isn't fire proof. Mind you, if he house burns down, I guess he'll be glad to have it ftp keep him warm in the winter.

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  9. James Annan14/7/12 10:08 am

    "have it ftp keep him warm"

    Nerd typo alert! :-)

    I think my first trousers of this ilk were from Troll, but they seem to have gone all beige now. How boring.

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  10. James Annan15/7/12 12:38 am

    Hance...hmmm.....we have always though Japan was years ahead in technological fashion but some way behind sartorially (not to mention socially). But that maybe because I count Harajuku kids as weird rather than fashionable.

    Americans are very conservative in their trousers though - I've had a lot of unsolicited comments on mine when travelling there.

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  11. Carrick15/7/12 5:18 am

    James: Americans are very conservative in their trousers though - I've had a lot of unsolicited comments on mine when travelling there.

    Yes definitely. I have a colleague in the Netherlands who wears garish greens and oranges. We Americans are always properly aghast.

    Jules --- thanks for the tip! I thought I'd have to mug him at the next AGU for it. This sounds much easier and less likely for me to end up with "shower buddies." ;-)

    I showed my wife Nita the fluffy hoodie that you had on your blog, she and I both really liked it.

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  12. David B. Benson17/7/12 3:07 am

    I like the umbrella.

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