if you could get away with it....

gtvlusso
gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
edited April 2012 in Commuting chat
On Sundays, I like to drink coffee and read the Sunday Times.....I tend to read the whole thing end to end throughout the day including the magazines.

I have noticed a column in the back of the 'Style' magazine - where some person off the street explains their 'look' and clothing.
I often have to giggle at some of these as most of them appear to be completely pretentious, self absorbed tw*ts. However, it got me thinking; These people, in some cases dressed like clowns, are actually brave enough to dress in that fashion in public.

So, if you could get away with it - what do you secretly want to wear in public, but are too scared to wear?

**lets leave the 'red jeans' gags.....

For the record, I would wear a bowler hat.

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  • spasypaddy
    spasypaddy Posts: 5,180
    i am not afraid to wear anything. i regularly go out in carrot jeans. i used to quite happily wear jeans tucked into my boots.

    im a style icon
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    a global hypercolour T-shirt
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,978
    gtvlusso wrote:

    **lets leave the 'red jeans' gags.....
    .


    Shame. I am wearing red jeans at work today.

    Will take a picture and post if I can.
    _
  • keyser__soze
    keyser__soze Posts: 2,067
    gtvlusso wrote:
    So, if you could get away with it - what do you secretly want to wear in public, but are too scared to wear?

    White Castelli Cervelo Team shorts, because they nicely matched some of my jerseys and I don't have a lot of nice bibshorts. However they were a little too much on the leaving-nothing-to-the-imagination side to be really wearable anywhere outside of Italy/the turbo/under tights, and certainly not suitable for walking through the office in at the end of a commute, so got shot of them through the FS section here.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,391
    clarkey cat wrote:
    a global hypercolour T-shirt
    I had one of those. I can't think of anything that I want to wear but won't. I wouldn't wear a lot of the clothes I had in my youth, but then I don't want to now.
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Well. I'm wearing my wife's knickers.

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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Something very Steampunk, just 'cos.
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:

    **lets leave the 'red jeans' gags.....
    .


    Shame. I am wearing red jeans at work today.

    Will take a picture and post if I can.

    No, please don't, don't put yourself out....

    :-)
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Something very Steampunk, just 'cos.

    They were out in force in Saltaire last weekend - all good fun!

    Actually, there's a thought - a steampunk bike could be good though it would be slow and probably would do you serious damage if you came off!

    So - yes, maybe steam punk. Or a frock :lol:
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,978
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:

    **lets leave the 'red jeans' gags.....
    .


    Shame. I am wearing red jeans at work today.

    Will take a picture and post if I can.

    No, please don't, don't put yourself out....

    :-)

    Blue and white chequered( checkered?) shirt too :).
    _
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:

    **lets leave the 'red jeans' gags.....
    .


    Shame. I am wearing red jeans at work today.

    Will take a picture and post if I can.

    No, please don't, don't put yourself out....

    :-)

    Blue and white chequered( checkered?) shirt too :).

    Pic or it isn't true......
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,978
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:

    **lets leave the 'red jeans' gags.....
    .


    Shame. I am wearing red jeans at work today.

    Will take a picture and post if I can.

    No, please don't, don't put yourself out....

    :-)

    Blue and white chequered( checkered?) shirt too :).

    Pic or it isn't true......

    Some shady self-photo taking was necessary.

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    _
  • London_Falcon
    London_Falcon Posts: 150
    I too had a Global Hypercolour T-shirt, when i was at university.

    I remember my then girlfriend borrowing it for a summer picnic with friends. I simply couldn't resist leaving two perfectly formed hand prints across the front of it, much to her annoyance and my mates amusement.
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    My girlfriend at Uni stole a white Carlsberg T-Shirt from me once. It had 'probably' in the green carlsberg script and then a moth-hole through which her left nipple would sometimes peek :mrgreen:
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  • Yukirin
    Yukirin Posts: 231
    I'm just comfortable in my jeans and tshirt and dont have a desire to dress up, however, if I had to leave my comfort zone and dress ridiculous it would be all-out black metal with corpse paint. Medieval weapons a must, too.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    SimonAH wrote:
    I gave my girlfriend at Uni a white Carlsberg T-Shirt once. It had 'probably' in the green carlsberg script and then a hole which I made through which her left nipple would sometimes peek :mrgreen:

    Corrected that for you...... :D
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    :-D Busted....
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    SimonAH wrote:
    My girlfriend at Uni stole a white Carlsberg T-Shirt from me once. It had 'definitely' in the green carlsberg script and then a moth-hole through which her left nipple would sometimes peek :mrgreen:

    FTFY
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:

    **lets leave the 'red jeans' gags.....
    .


    Shame. I am wearing red jeans at work today.

    Will take a picture and post if I can.

    No, please don't, don't put yourself out....

    :-)

    Blue and white chequered( checkered?) shirt too :).

    Pic or it isn't true......

    Some shady self-photo taking was necessary.

    untitled.png

    That belt reminds me of one I had in the sixties
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gtvlusso wrote:

    **lets leave the 'red jeans' gags.....
    .


    Shame. I am wearing red jeans at work today.

    Will take a picture and post if I can.

    No, please don't, don't put yourself out....

    :-)

    Blue and white chequered( checkered?) shirt too :).

    Pic or it isn't true......

    Some shady self-photo taking was necessary.

    untitled.png

    Love it - that is stealthy!

    Can you do the; 'man with thousand yard stare - raising arm as though signalling for a bus to stop' pose?

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