Emergency Fashion is...Something Post

Andre 3000, genius or megagenius? 

His Met Gala appearance came just minutes after the musical polyglot dropped a new 16-minute record called 7 piano sketches.

Fashion is Awesome and the Kids Are Alright

On Christmas Eve, we went out to dinner as a family at a reasonably upscale local spot. There were men wearing blazers and slacks, women in evening dresses. To be sure, there were also those like me in jeans and a sweater - I said 'reasonably' upscale. And then there was my 21 year-old. 

Like, what even is this?

They wore an outfit that's a bit hard to describe, but maybe thrift gothpunk gets close. Black skirt, chunky belt, white t-shirt torn in the style of Sid Vicious, black men's suit coat purchased at, well, a thrift store. Funky eyeshadow and nubby spikes in their hair completed the look.

My little one was marginally more conventional, going with a skater hobo get-up that featured very ripped jeans and a baggy sweater over her Doc Martens. Very on-brand for her.

As it turns out, my kids are just two of many in their generation who've decided that convention is for other people in the realm of fashion. According to a Washington Post story that conveniently published on December 27, Gen Z don't give a damn about your rules. (You gotta read the article, if only for the pictures of the fashion on display. It's a riot of color and style.)

From the piece, describing the scene at St. John's in Queens, "...the student body — sometimes even the individual student — looked like a loud pastiche of late-20th century styles. There were miniskirts. Slip dresses. Bra tops, especially paired with gigantic blazers. Towering, chunky lug-sole boots and loafers. Skirts on men, cargo pockets on women. Thrifted items of every color, shape and era. It’s like a costume for ‘Clueless’ meets a construction worker."

That is my kids to a (ripped) T. 

And in recent weeks, the generation found a visible standard-bearer right here in the DMV. Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma showed up in the following fits at recent games:

I showed those to my kids, and they responded, "swag". Which I think is good. 

Gen Z has been through it like few other cohorts during this period of their lives. And they were raised by Generation X, casual, authority-questioning grungelords. As Ashley Fetters Maloy writes in the Post piece linked above, "Is it any wonder, then, that Gen Z — the born-skeptical children of Gen X — has similarly made “weird” its whole aesthetic?"

Weird is good, I tell my kids. Just don't ask me to dress like them.

Fashion is...uh...wait, where was I?

Fashion Week does indeed continue here at GTB, with what appears to be a revealing new wedding fashion trend...

NUDE WEDDING JUMPSUITS FTW

(h/t zman)

Canadian Fashion, Still Awesome

By now, all of you know of our fondness for all things Canadian. Poutine, hockey, Michael J. Fox - we could go on for a while. Today, more confirmation of our northern neighbors' whimsical excellence in the form of this dress worn by Miss Canada at the Miss Universe pageant. Little concerned about the accuracy of the score, but not so much that we'll keep this from you.

Fashion is...Spectacular

Don Cherry turns 80 in three weeks. Don Cherry (on the left, if you're contextually deficient) this tonight:

The legendary Canadian hockey coach and broadcaster is known for wearing clothes nearly as outrageous as his personality. Put differently, Don Cherry gives no fucks.

On his birthday a year ago, Huffington Post offered a compendium of the former Boston Bruin and Colorado Rockie (Rocky?) coach's Top 25 suits. With all due respect to the Post, it's a half-assed effort, at best. A simple Google search shows us a dozen outfits that dazzle in their sheer I-did-it-my-way ballsiness.

This blog is 11 years old. And we've never mentioned Don Cherry once before now. I assume it's because our editorial leadership is rabidly anti-Canadian.

I'm a 38 short, in case any of you are starting to get ideas.

Fashion is...Rihan-diculous

Second post of the day, for two reasons:

1 - We needed to trump rob's melancholy Charlie Brown filler
2 - I needed to make up for that hirsute Jaws bathing suit pic

Therefore, you get a modified "Fashion is Dumb" installment, in which music superstar Rihanna heads to her home country of Barbados for "Carnival" and dons an outfit like this:

[h/t half the internet]

Fashion is Awesome

Our friend Dave is many things: educator, intellectual, renaissance man, thief, musician, dad, idiot. He's not, however, much of a liquor drinker, as he's recently admitted. Nor is he a terribly fashionable fellow - he's barely able to dress himself, let alone choose styles, patterns and colors that match and flatter him.

Fortunately, the world of fashion has developed a revolutionary new product designed to help men like Dave. From an unexpected source in Logan, Utah comes the Flask Tie. Which is, as the name says, a tie with a flask in it.

Described in the photo below, the Flask Tie seems custom-made for Dave. In one tidy, stylish package, a tool that will help him overcome his aversion to adult drinks while enabling him to step up his fashion game. We're buying him several. Because Free Shipping!

Fashion is...awesome. [Holiday Edition]

rob attended some sort of holiday party last night that saw an attendee donning this gem:

That's right folks, it's a "penis apron"**. And it seems really interested in our tiny dic(k)tator.

**Soon to become one of the greatest labels used in G:TB history.

Boy in the Hood

Mark's made quite a big deal of my recent confession that I own but one hooded sweatshirt. (It's black with a white horseshoe, and says South Columbus Stallions.) I have no defense, other than to point out that I came up preppy in an era when the hoodie wasn't nearly as much a part of the uniform as it is now. I really would like to be hip, though, so I've purchased one of these:

Here's my question: should I accessorize it with one of the hats below, or is it dope enough on its own?