teenaged boys

[MAC]

...today look like faggots with their little blonde spikey pussy-ass hair cuts and their crisp freshly-douched- cunt-clean-sports-billboard clothing

now in my day......

hmmm......

in my day we all tryed to grow our hair long but our parents didn't like it so we just grew it long in the back.....looked pretty gay...

we wore the t-shirts our mom's bought us (ones with NO sports teams on them an dlots of different color brown horizontal stripes) till we ripped one...then we wore ONLY ripped t-shirts...that was comfortable but also gay

occasionally we would try to wear cool t-shirts with badass bands on them but our teachers thought that was satanic so we had to change.....fucking gay-ass teachers

then we wore flannel...well, kurt cobain wore it so everyone wore (I wore it because there wasn't anything else to buy at walmart and still isn't except shit-kicker clothes)...we where all GAY together (wait, that didn't sound right)

we wore jeans...except for that ultra-faggoty period where we wore parachute pants and flourescent tiger striped bandanas...then hammer pants and our names carved inour haircut.....then acid washed jeans and mesh tanktops....
NYLON IS NOT CLOTHING!!!!
man, I forgot how gay that was
NOTE:
some poor un-cool shmuck's mom always made him wear slacks....he usually didn't get his ass kicked for it because if you knocked him down and where on top of him beating him up it looked like you where trying to breed the fag...not good for the highschool karma

but one thing remains the same for teenaged boys...some thing that has always been

nothing, I mean NOTHING, is cooler than the newest athletic-based shoes

naturally todays shoes look like crap and yesterdays shoes where cool...but thats just me

http://www.taylorcointl.com/shoes/shoeimages/nikebigupsbsktblblkorwhtnavy.jpg

[Escape Artist]

Cheap sneakers, cheap clothes, and long hair for me.

Leaves no doubt in my mind why I'm single. :p

[MAC]

truer than you think, ea

lets face it

the girls in school where never interested in guys who DIDN'T have $$ for nice shoes and didn't wear new clothes

so we dress as we wish instead of "to impress"

[Escape Artist]

I dressed in clothes that were often ink-stained from the print shop and usually torn here and there - just didn't give a fuck. It wasn't the clothes that created the social divide so much as race and social class.

I was the broke white boy in a school of elitist arabs with lots of cash to throw around and an air of superiority.

My tattered clothes were a badge I wore proudly, and still do. :)

Love or hate the guy underneath them, tis who I am.

[Billyman]

Gotta stay in style! You HAVE GOT TO STAY IN STYLE!

Can I have a bs flag please?

When I was in school, I stayed as far from "the style" as possible. I just didn't want to wear what everyone else was wearing and 99% of the time, I didn't like it anywayz. I was me, I was comfortable. Ripped jeans and t-shirts most of the time. Late in Jr. High and early High School, I was in the skateboard scene so I dressed kinda skateboard punk dude like. I did have the long hair. But most of all, I wasn't like everyone else AND I was comfortable.

Fuck your "everyone's doing it" styles. Fuck "it's what's in".

Just be you.

[Asmodeus]

Style? What's that?

I wore durn near what I wanted to in high skool. Got sent home a few times to change shirts too. They just didn't like my Calvin T-shirt that said, "Heaven doesn't want me and Hell's afraid I'll take over."

God I loved that shirt.

That and I always had the problem of finding shit that would fit. So on one hand I am glad I never a flying flip about fashion and style- cause those 2 things are never in my size.

SO pick yer cliche- Don't judge a book by it's cover...et al. I always thought the person in the clothes was more important than the clothes themselves.

May be reason I am so individualistic I don't even rate as a statistic.

[estero]

Thats not true.

You don't need to spend a lot to look put together and presentable.

[MAC]

Estero, while that may be true, these guys spend the money anyway

and it is infact TRUE that the highschool "caste system" demands the name brands

they will talk shit about you and fuck with you non-stop if you don't have the right shirt with the right name on it

...unless you are some one so uncool that they won't be seen talking to you even to pick on you

meanwhile mother's all over america say "my kids don't do that"
and their kids do, infact, do that
hell, th emothers are who teach it. WE do this, and WE do that and WE go to this church and WE shop at this store
parents forget that they have formed their opinions based on their experience and preference (or they are supposed to) and telling your kids "its done this way because all that other stuff is crap" is ahrmful to someone who doesn't know whats crap and whats not and has no clue about different income brackets, religious beliefs, lifestyles and backgrounds.

IT IS OK TO TELL YOUR KID THAT SOMETHING IS YOUR OPINION.
they won't hate you for NOT having everything 100% written in stone...

personally, the older I get the more I like school uniforms

but my original points still stand

when we try to be in male-fashion...and when we try to rebel from male fashion...we look like fags.

:)

[SatansLeftHand]

Originally posted by MAC
...snip
they will talk shit about you and fuck with you non-stop if you don't have the right shirt with the right name on it

...unless you are some one so uncool that they won't be seen talking to you even to pick on you
snip...or you have a reputation for hurting people who make fun of you and are large enough to back it up against 3 or 4 normal sized people.

[jules]

Name brands... grrrr...

:mad:

[ms. bing]

i used to be a fascist, er, um, fashion slave. i dressed in themes, sometimes rich bitch, sometimes grunge, sometimes skater punk. i did my nails to match my lipstick. i shopped designers. and i was kinda hot, i thought.
now i have a child.
if im doing something during the day that demands me to look presentable, i bring it and change after i drop my daughter off at daycare. otherwise it will end up with snot, food, drink, or any number of other far more unmentionable things on it. my nails havent been done in months, and i recently started wearing makeup again (its been a year) that i put on in the car while sitting in traffic.
god i love motherhood. seriously. im much happier and more comfortable now. *smiles in her hanes her way sweats, the blue pair.*

[zim]

sometimes i didnt even bother getting dressed.

[Asmodeus]

Originally posted by SatansLeftHand
or you have a reputation for hurting people who make fun of you and are large enough to back it up against 3 or 4 normal sized people.

So very very freaking true.

I always had an outlet though- 99.999% of the guys in my skool played football. If a guy- or several as was the usual case- was pestering me about whatever, all I had to do was wait till practice and kick the living shit of them. Hey, they had pads on. It's not like they weren't defenseless. :D

That and I had a really kewl coach. All I had to do was tell him I wanted one on one tackling drills with so and so and he would smile and say ok. Rule was- I could hit them as hard as I could as long as I didn't break anything.

Needless to say- for the most part, I didn't get fucked with.

[Koliedrus]

I may be one of the reasons there are dress codes.

I wore pretty much what I was given. Nothing fancy. I didn't beg for the "latest" or the "best". I had an allowance and bought concert tickets and shirts. "Badge of honor" stuff to show off in school. The Black Sabbath shirt didn't seem too draw to much attention from either faculty or students. In fact, they veered away and gave me greater personal space :)

Still, I noticed that a lot of kids were made fun of for what they wore. I didn't feel it would do much good to try to say anything about it until I got a job, could buy my own clothes and was a senior. By that time, I had friends from geek to prep and at least some influence in all of their close-knit little circles.

One particular friend of mine was just as non-conformist as I. One day in particular became something of a turning-point of fashion as well as a statement.

That day was a Friday. Pep Rally. The manditory festivity gave me the margin I needed with the faculty.

I bought two pair of fleurescent shorts (orange an purple), suspenders to match, dug out a snug fitting hardhat liner, flight goggles, scuba mask, snow boots, swim fins, and one of those caps maple farmers use with flaps for the ears.

Before school started, my friend and I mixed the threads so we were as hideous as possible. Day-glo shorts worn over jeans, unmatched suspenders, headgear, footwear...

The morning pep rally roared when he and I carried our innanimate team mascot to center court and did an impromptu dance. Students and faculty were in our clutches.

We wore our "uniforms" for the rest of the day. We paid attention during classes. It wasn't until our Sociology teacher made mention that our outfits were disruptive that my friend pointed to a girl who had been picked on previously and said, "what about her?"

Red faces bloomed around the room. (She thanked us later).

It ended up going to the student council. Faculty and students alike had to think about what was going on.

Apparently the message didn't stick.

I tried.