Is it always a bad intention though? (Having said that I am sure you are right that sometimes there is aggro in the comments, especially if there is any flavour of "you have given up") I love commenting when people wear statement clothes and its more amusement not judging. Also semi-relatedly i had this guy friend in college who was really friendly to all the girls and most were all suspicious about his intentions but years into our friendship his mon told me he had a sister 2 yrs younger than him who died when she was a kid and i think all those young women at college misread the emotional vibe he gave off. Like we knew there was some kind of overintensity going on when he was friendly to us, but not what it was.
I'd really like one of these articles about how women are bearing the brunt of the pandemic to interview the men. I'm really curious how they rationalize just carrying on as normal while their wives have their whole lives turned upside down.
Those clogs are awesome! Reminds me of the turquoise blue high tops I had way back (80’s?)in the day. I felt like one of my favorite birds - the Blue Footed Booby.
Hahaha, If clogs fit me, I’d be all over those! I have a very long big toe, and it hurts to have my toe bump the inside tip of a clog. I have opted instead for very witchy shoes with about a half inch of space in the toe box, which make my feet look enormous!
When I worked in a cafe, it was SO easy to make men mad. I mean, all I had to do was button my shirt all the way up and that was enough to piss them off. “You’re all buttoned up!” A guy told me. I stared him down, of course. (I’ll add, I made very bad tips).
I love dressing to piss men off. My brothers are often confounded by my outfits. I remember explaining to them at one point, too, after my husband died and they started visiting me upstate, that the reason I had stopped plucking my eyebrows and shaving my legs, was not that I was “letting myself go” out of grief but because I simply refused to do it any longer, so not to worry about me. And then a guy I briefly went out with would turn himself inside out trying to talk himself into believing something I was wearing was counter-intuitively sexy. It was really hilarious to watch him second guess himself, thinking I must know what I was doing, so it must be cool, so it must be sexy, so he had to approve.
Side note, overheard in a meeting today re a technology process- “..these are older ladies, and they actually picked it up quicker than some of the younger guys”
LOL have owned clogs since the 80's when I was in Uni...not the neon type...brown/black wooden soles and even back then they were not popular with men...wore them anyway. Read your column "The pandemic...Dads are" things haven't changed much have they? Back in the '90s with a colicky three-month-old, I remember my ex-husband coming home, I was exhausted and asked him to take the baby.. and him asking for a time audit on what I had done all-day. (BTW was a freelance proposal writer for a PR/Ad agency back in those days )
Is it always a bad intention though? (Having said that I am sure you are right that sometimes there is aggro in the comments, especially if there is any flavour of "you have given up") I love commenting when people wear statement clothes and its more amusement not judging. Also semi-relatedly i had this guy friend in college who was really friendly to all the girls and most were all suspicious about his intentions but years into our friendship his mon told me he had a sister 2 yrs younger than him who died when she was a kid and i think all those young women at college misread the emotional vibe he gave off. Like we knew there was some kind of overintensity going on when he was friendly to us, but not what it was.
I bought these and made my *partner* mad so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://www.oofos.com/products/copy-of-womens-oocloog-limited-edition-clog-camo-green
I'd really like one of these articles about how women are bearing the brunt of the pandemic to interview the men. I'm really curious how they rationalize just carrying on as normal while their wives have their whole lives turned upside down.
Those clogs are awesome! Reminds me of the turquoise blue high tops I had way back (80’s?)in the day. I felt like one of my favorite birds - the Blue Footed Booby.
Hahaha, If clogs fit me, I’d be all over those! I have a very long big toe, and it hurts to have my toe bump the inside tip of a clog. I have opted instead for very witchy shoes with about a half inch of space in the toe box, which make my feet look enormous!
When I worked in a cafe, it was SO easy to make men mad. I mean, all I had to do was button my shirt all the way up and that was enough to piss them off. “You’re all buttoned up!” A guy told me. I stared him down, of course. (I’ll add, I made very bad tips).
I love dressing to piss men off. My brothers are often confounded by my outfits. I remember explaining to them at one point, too, after my husband died and they started visiting me upstate, that the reason I had stopped plucking my eyebrows and shaving my legs, was not that I was “letting myself go” out of grief but because I simply refused to do it any longer, so not to worry about me. And then a guy I briefly went out with would turn himself inside out trying to talk himself into believing something I was wearing was counter-intuitively sexy. It was really hilarious to watch him second guess himself, thinking I must know what I was doing, so it must be cool, so it must be sexy, so he had to approve.
oh no is this a sign its finally time for me to buy these (sadly the pink is sold out) https://www.swedishhasbeens.com/sandals/slip-ins-and-mules/swedish-husband-neon-green
I LOVE those clogs. LOVE.
Side note, overheard in a meeting today re a technology process- “..these are older ladies, and they actually picked it up quicker than some of the younger guys”
LOL have owned clogs since the 80's when I was in Uni...not the neon type...brown/black wooden soles and even back then they were not popular with men...wore them anyway. Read your column "The pandemic...Dads are" things haven't changed much have they? Back in the '90s with a colicky three-month-old, I remember my ex-husband coming home, I was exhausted and asked him to take the baby.. and him asking for a time audit on what I had done all-day. (BTW was a freelance proposal writer for a PR/Ad agency back in those days )
F@ck I’ve been wanting those neon clogs in hot pink so bad but I have held back. I’m doing it.
My former owner used to get a lot of grief from her sugar daddy when she wore the rainbow Doc Martens I bought her. He would call them clown shoes.