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Cargo shorts are ...

Cargo shorts are ...

  • Awesome! Do not take mine!

    Votes: 38 60.3%

  • Bleh! Get rid of them NOW!

    Votes: 12 19.0%

  • What are cargo shorts?

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • I could care less.

    Votes: 12 19.0%
  • Total voters
    63
Apple fanboy said:
And just think he went on to become PM!
(insert name of PM your particular views are best summed up by that term).

Tbh I'm not sure that's a word I have ever used in front of my mother.
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Well, to be honest, I think we had forgotten she was present, as she was listening and eating, - it was lunch if I recall rightly - and - at home, - we were always talking about politics. We all shared an absolute fascination with the topic.

It is my passion (as is history) and - probably influenced by me - both brothers ended up becoming absorbed and fascinated equally by sports (yes, that is normal, and I don't really share it) and politics.

Mind you, and this is not just a matter of gender, but it is a word that I would not think to use about the current PM.
 
Clix Pix said:
Yoga pants? Well, I am probably one of the few females who has not worn them or even tried them out. So they're really comfortable, eh? Gee, maybe I've been missing something all this time.....!!!
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Well, if you're not working out, or more specifically, going to a yoga practice, that makes sense. I think people are more irked at them being worn as a "fashion statement". I'll see women walking around with full workout duds: yoga pants, cross trainers, some kind of multi-layer workout top, and they, umm, not working out ...

My wife is pretty hardcore in regard to workout/yoga**, so they're functional, utility type clothing.


** for hot yoga, she wears significantly less 🙂
 
D.T. said:
Well, if you're not working out, or more specifically, going to a yoga practice, that makes sense. I think people are more irked at them being worn as a "fashion statement". I'll see women walking around with full workout duds: yoga pants, cross trainers, some kind of multi-layer workout top, and they, umm, not working out ...

My wife is pretty hardcore in regard to workout/yoga**, so they're functional, utility type clothing.


** for hot yoga, she wears significantly less 🙂
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*** Too much information.
 
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D.T. said:
Well, if you're not working out, or more specifically, going to a yoga practice, that makes sense. I think people are more irked at them being worn as a "fashion statement". I'll see women walking around with full workout duds: yoga pants, cross trainers, some kind of multi-layer workout top, and they, umm, not working out ...

My wife is pretty hardcore in regard to workout/yoga**, so they're functional, utility type clothing.


** for hot yoga, she wears significantly less 🙂
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And what is wrong with 'walking around with full workout duds' and not working out? So, what?

And what is the problem with wearing them as a 'fashion statement'? As wth cargo pants, or shorts, if people (women) find them comfortable, well, that is their business.
 
The way I see it is that some men don't want their wives wearing such clothing in public for obvious reasons. Some men find it insulting that women can wear tight clothing and they can't. Women are often sexualized/lusted after, while a man may be considered weird and or questionable for wearing such clothing. And then there are some people who shouldn't' wear tight clothing but still do and it allows the general public to see a lot they otherwise don't want to see.

I'm thankful 80s shorts didn't carry over and isn't making a resurgence now. For both genders, obviously. I remember few details about 70s clothing culture. Unfortunately some stuff like lurex and cordoroid keeps coming back up.
 
Zenithal said:
The way I see it is that some men don't want their wives wearing such clothing in public for obvious reasons. Some men find it insulting that women can wear tight clothing and they can't. Women are often sexualized/lusted after, while a man may be considered weird and or questionable for wearing such clothing. And then there are some people who shouldn't' wear tight clothing but still do and it allows the general public to see a lot they otherwise don't want to see.

I'm thankful 80s shorts didn't carry over and isn't making a resurgence now. For both genders, obviously. I remember few details about 70s clothing culture. Unfortunately some stuff like lurex and cordoroid keeps coming back up.
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Yes, but if you allow tacky - but comfortable - clothing in deplorable taste for one gender, why not allow it for all others?

And, 'obvious' reasons? Yoga pants? Seriously?

(And - an aside - are we living in the Middle east?)

Anyway, I thought this thread was about comfortable clothing in lamentable taste rather than 'tight clothing'. To the best of my knowledge, cargo pants, and yoga pants don't come under the heading of 'tight' clothing, or I really have no idea what any of you are talking about.
 
I think there's a misunderstanding here. We're talking about the new style of yoga pants. Form hugging wear, not the traditional yoga pants that have fallen out of favor with most American women. New style are essentially what I believe to be called leggings.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
To the best of my knowledge [...] yoga pants don't come under the heading of 'tight' clothing,

or I really have no idea what any of you are talking about.
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Yes. 🙂
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A.Goldberg said:
I disagree. As the saying goes "the more information, the better". 😉 😀
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Taking this to a PM ... I promise this time the photos won't be of me ...



** maybe.
 
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Zenithal said:
The way I see it is that some men don't want their wives wearing such clothing in public for obvious reasons. Some men find it insulting that women can wear tight clothing and they can't. Women are often sexualized/lusted after, while a man may be considered weird and or questionable for wearing such clothing. And then there are some people who shouldn't' wear tight clothing but still do and it allows the general public to see a lot they otherwise don't want to see.

I'm thankful 80s shorts didn't carry over and isn't making a resurgence now. For both genders, obviously. I remember few details about 70s clothing culture. Unfortunately some stuff like lurex and cordoroid keeps coming back up.
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Zenithal said:
I think there's a misunderstanding here. We're talking about the new style of yoga pants. Form hugging wear, not the traditional yoga pants that have fallen out of favor with most American women. New style are essentially what I believe to be called leggings.
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Well, I am not American, I have no idea what American women (or men) wear - I do not keep up to speed with American fashion, and this is the first time I have ever heard of 'the new style of yoga pants' and the accompanying tone of judgmental distaste.

"Form hugging"?

Frankly, your posts are mystifying me more and more.

Why on earth is a discussion that started out about cargo pants -which, while undoubtedly comfortable, might be seen as constituting an offence against good taste - being prodded into the usual ghastly judgemental and sanctimonious cul-de-sac about female clothing and dress?
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Yes, but if you allow tacky - but comfortable - clothing in deplorable taste for one gender, why not allow it for all others?

And, 'obvious' reasons? Yoga pants? Seriously?

(And - an aside - are we living in the Middle east?)

Anyway, I thought this thread was about comfortable clothing in lamentable taste rather than 'tight clothing'. To the best of my knowledge, cargo pants, and yoga pants don't come under the heading of 'tight' clothing, or I really have no idea what any of you are talking about.
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Unless of course your loose clothing has become tight clothing, due to an expansion problem 😉
 
Apple fanboy said:
Unless of course your loose clothing has become tight clothing, due to an expansion problem 😉
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The, you simply readjust the parameters of what is defined as 'tight' and 'loose'.

As in politics, and diplomacy, very often, how you define the problem has a large say on how you manage to address it.
 
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