I'm Sorry, Did You Need a Belt?

I'm sorry, where exactly
does his butt begin?

Today I'm going to talk about the seemingly never ending trend of the Baggy Pants. OOO. An ever debated topic, it seems that as hard as we might try to talk guys out of it, they will always ignore us and wear their pants around their knees.
Contrary to popular belief guys. we ladies don't find this attractive! The argument might be made that this gives guys a chance to show off one of their assets. Their booty's. HOWEVER!! I play the devils advocate! I don't think this shows off a nice ass! On the contrary. Instead of really LOOKING at a guys butt when I see his pants like this, I instead think. "Hmm, I wonder if he's realized yet that he didn't grab his belt this morning. Gosh. I bet HE feels silly!!" There's no excuse...
FAIL!!!

Come ON Guys! You Can't
REALLY Think This is Sexy!!

But alas, men walk around like this thinking we lasies are getting a good eye full of EXACTLY what we want...NOT!

Call Me a Sucker for a
Country Boy I Guess!

If ever there was a FAILURE in communication it's here! We ladies don't want to see our scrunched up boxers, hanging limpy off your ass and out of the back of your pants! Noo! We want to see a cute tight perky little booty! And the best way, as any good lady knows, to SHOW OFF a perky booty? That's right guys, tight pants!
What happened to the days of guys wearing a solid pairof Wrangler Jeans? Some Levi's? Something tight that conformed around the butt as if to signal, "I'm here! Look at me! Squeeze me!!"
Guys, if your looking to get a girl, shy away from wearing your jeans down to the ground. Grab a belt and strap those suckers on tight! Because as every guy SHOULD know, a gal likes to have a nice booty to look at from time to time!!

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Yes Kesha, Please. Take It Off.

I would like to take the tie today to speak on behalf of poor poor Kesha.
Time and time again Lady GaGa rolls onto the Red Carpet in extreme out fit after extreme outfit. She turns up on magazine covers in bikini's made of meat, and she rocks mirror covered dresses at her concerts. The world is a buzz with GaGa's fashion faux pas, whole poor Kesha is overlooked and underappreciated for her fashion flare....NOOOOT
Honestly? It's bad enough that we have to deal with the crazy antics that Lady GaGa brings us with every appearance she makes. Must we really deal with yea another annoying teen pop star with too much money and bad taste?

CD Cover for Animal

Since Kesha splashed onto the scene with her "hit album" Animal, which dropped in January of 2010 she's been vying for the attention from americans across the country. Song after song I hear this girl with "hits" (I keep putting HITS into quotations why? because I don't think it's the you's and me's of this world would vote and have THAT on the radio 24/7. I have a higher opinion of humanity than that...and god I hope I'm right.

What a Knock Out on the Red Carpet.
Not like it's a formal event or anything...
FAIL.

Kesha's been acting out ever since. Her appearance on the Red Carpet is littler more than a drunk high schooler who forgot her pants. I'm not sure what the statement is that she's making with her no pantsness...but I can't honestly say she knows what statement she;s trying to make with her lack of ants either. I guess we're at a stand still.

Ummmm....FAIL.

Unfortunatly, Lady GaGa has been all up in and over the press lately. Stirring the pot you could say. Walkin around all weird lookin. Makin poor little Kesah jealous. And you know what the best retaliation is when your misuc rival walks around looking ridiculous and embarassing themselves with their lack of fashion sense as well as COMMON SENSE? Weeeeell, it MUST be to do the same!!! At least this was the impression poor Kesha was under, because this is the outfit she adorned at the American Music Awards. Pooor Pooor Kesha. Can you believe that they just let their honored guests walk around out ther in Hollywood getting attacked by mountain lions, or leapards, or whatever? I mean COME ONE PEOPLE. Lets start protecting our own! Poor Kesha's out there trying to do epic fashion battler with Dark Lord GaGa and we're letting her get mauled by big cats!! And they ruined her outfit. GAH! Bastards...Kesha isn't the only one who seemed to loose their marbles at the AMA's either. It seems a lot of stars showed up with with fashion statements that seemed to fall on deaf ears. Check out more FASHION FAILS HERE

Heel-lo? Ummm, No.

Japan's Take on the Claw Heel

Can we please speak for a moment, on the lates shoe craze in Japan? It's crazy!!! Just take a look at these things!

For years, I myself have been an an anit-high heel kick. It might be because I can't move past the fact that they are UNCOMFORTABLE!! I don't care who you are, where your're from (what you did as long as you love me?) nooo. But seriously. They're uncomfortable! The balls of my feet hurt, my calves hurt, my heels hurt in heels!

I have a secret theory about heels actually. Now, I don't know who invented high heels. I've looked around a bit but I can't get a straight, solid answer.
What I have gathered, and it makes perfect sense, that sometime in the late 1100's, the English developed heels to keep the heel of the foot from slipping in the stirrups while riding horses. From there Mary Tudor, or as others might know her "Bloody Mary" began wearing heels to compensate for her lack of height. From then through to the 19th century, it was the custom of both women AND men to wear high heels.

Alexander Mcqueen's Claw Heel Collection

These days, as much as it's we women who forward the pressure to wear heels, it's the men who get the most enjoyment. We certainly don't care that our calves look better for our OWN accord. I secretly think men like women to wear heels these days to ensure that we can't run away!!

On The Runway...I'm Sorry but...Do You Hate Your
FEET?

And those are just my feelings about regulare heels! Lets take a moment to focus on these BEAUTIES. They're called Claw Heels, and they're all the rage, now just where they began in Japan, but have spread all throughout the Asian continents, and have now been embraced by the United Kingdom native Alexander Mcqueen and American star Lady GaGa.
GaGa sported a pair of McQueens shoes in her music video for "Bad Romance", and the rend has taken off from there. On runways across the fashion world, McQueen debuted this crazy style up and down runways in front of the most important people in the fashion world. I'm just thanking god that it hasn't taken off too much past GaGa's video. If I see someone walking down the street in these...we have problems.
Variations of the Claw Heel have sprung up everywhere. My only thanks is that the full shape isn't translating into everyday fashion. Copy Cats played it safer that McQueen (and thank GOD) by only adapting the clawed heel into their design. Even Payless has it's own adaptation of the Claw Heel...and if Payless has it's own line, you know it must be getting everyday...

Fashion or Not, Here We Come

I mid August, the new buzz around celebrity Beyonce was her most recent legal battle with an over sea's fashion label over the designs to a pair of leggings. Yes. Leggings. The alternative to tights, and to some, the alternative to pants...

It Hits Hollywood
(http://shopriddle.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/lindsay-lohan-leggings.jpg)

Now, don't get me wrong. I thoroughly frown upon Beyonce' acting in the stealing of the design, or idea, of this garmet of clothing, however I think we have bigger issues to address here. LEGGINGS.
Within the last five years, we as a society have seen an influx of unimaginable proportions in the popularity of leggings. And it is by far one of the more questionable fashion trends that has seemed to take off in recent years.
The idea of leggings are just fine. An alternative to, as I said, tights. But at some point, somewhere, someone decided that they were to become more than that. More than a tight.
The trend is almost inescapable in public, especially with the changing weather from summer to fall. It's almost as if an 80's step class has let out in the hallways of schools, not just k-12 but in universities, colleges, and other public areas.
I for one, am not a fan.
I for one, say FASHION FAIL!!!
It might be because I always get a bit too much to see of a person I'm not interested in seeing, but in all honesty I am left wondering if you've accidentally forgotten to put on your pants this morning over your long underwear.
Yesterday, a friend of mine, we'll call her Sofia, commented on how she very much needed to find a pair of Jeggings. I was perplexed, and confused as to what this new trend was and how I'd missed it. After which I was left utterly upset to find that I had not at all missed this trend, I had just never known what to call it.
Jeggings. The new alternative to not just pants, but jeans.
Jean Leggings. Stretch pants that look like jeans. Some, Sophia pointed out in an attempt to persuade me, even have zippers and pockets.
I am not impressed.
But as silly as that sounds, they come in any style or color imaginable, with any feature short of the Bat Belt available (ok, I'm kidding, but seriously? who needs zipper that doesn't open?)
I can go get intricately deigned ones, bright neon colors, ones that look like they're painted on, the for mentioned jeggings, ad even ones that look like they got caught in barbed wire and are full of rips, run,s and tares.
Leggings, stretch pants, call them what you'd like, but I haven't found them to be acceptable attire since grade school. Yes, I may have rocked a pair of pink or green ones back then, but come now people, we need to move on.
Perhaps my dislike has also stemmed from a place of resentment. I myself am a curvy woman, especially in the hip and butt region. This is why I do not, nor should I, follow this trend. As a girl who is larger on the bottom, leggings just hug all the wrong places, and accentuate all the places I never want people to look. Unfortunately, I can't say that everyone is like myself in having the ability to admit that perhaps leggings are not, and should not, be for them.

If only we could all have legs like this!
(http://imagecache.asos.com/inv/V/7/977/748144/Blue/image1xl.jpg)

And maybe, I might be a little jealous all the same. Jealous of the skinny mini girls who can walk around in leggings and make me shoot daggers at them for having legs that go on for days while I sit in my boot cut jeans...because they're supposed to be more fitting for my figure.

Ok, so there may be a few petty reasons behind my dislike of the legging fad. But that doesn't mean I don't have a few solid points. You just can't trust any fashion craze these days!