Gay Guy on Fall Fashion Fumbles: Specator. Sport.

Straight Guy,

I try not be be a stickler on silly fashion rules. That "No white after Labor Day" stuff. Admittedly, fashion rules seldom apply to men (mostly because fashion seldom applies to men). But I had to draw a line in the sidewalk this morning.

This (overly) dapper gent, replete with bow tie, was sporting spectators. Spectators! In September, I say! It's not summery anymore, let alone summer.

SG, stop pretending you know what spectators are and go here

To beat you to the question, no spectators in my closet. I am not man enough to pull off spectators.

On the topic of being man enough to pull off an out-there outfit, I've been meaning to blog about this Washington Post article on crazy-ass football uniforms. Every season, the look gets more extreme and attention-getting. Like a "Real Housewives" cast party. 

Fashion Fumble: These uniforms look like and 8 year old boy's Halloween costume. Which is maybe the point. 

I like this quote from the article: " . . .  a few years ago. . .  most teams had two uniforms--home and away--and all anyone needed was a pocket schedule to now which would be worn on a given Saturday in the fall, if they cared at all." 

SG, anyone, a little football fashion analysis for me?

--Gay Guy

3 comments:

Molly Louise said...

Makes me very glad soccer's not so into the whole uniform fashion show thing. Home and away. That's all we need.

straight in upstate said...

I don't know, GG, if you're wearing a bowtie (a symbol of...something...not necessarily being gay) why not go whole hog and wear the funny two-tone shoes with little holes?

Football uniforms: Because Nike/ Reebok/ whoever said so. Because they pay these colleges a zillion dollars to wear anything they say, and if the corporate CEO walks into the university president's office and tells him to grab ankles, he most certainly will. Do I sound cynical? If not, let me try again.

Anonymous said...

I think he uniform issue is more of an intimidation ruse. Teams are trying to look more "bad ass" than their opponents hopefully to intimidate them, and if they win, look great on Sports Center at the same time. Just look at the Virginia Tech. uniforms from a year ago vs. Boise State at FedEx Field. All matte black. They wore them once, got spanked, and did not wear them again. I believe if they had won that game, they would have worn them again (and contracted with Nike to do so). It's not fashion, it is competition.