What's stopping you from dressing like this???

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darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 90 pts · 147d (1 reply)

Self respect.

SooperGoose@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 146d

Just no respect for others, aye?

infinitevalence@discuss.online · 78 pts · 147d (3 replies)

I'm a middle aged white dude with some serious dad bod. That's what

SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 147d (1 reply)

But this is perfect distraction from that fact! You simply must give it a whirl! Your kids will either love you for it, or get as far away from you as possible in shame - either way, you win!

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 147d

Why would I want to distract from my dad bod?

SooperGoose@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 146d

Never let a perceived obstacle stop you from getting creative and clever

alligalli@feddit.org · 73 pts · 147d (8 replies)

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 147d (4 replies)

Fun fact: these are a limited edition, and every color combination is unique

And there are websites who track them:

https://www.golfharlequinregistry.com/registeredcars

mx_smith@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 147d (3 replies)

So when you register this car what color do you put down that it is?

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 147d

"yes"

CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 146d

Oh, I get to share a bit of my useless knowledge! The rear quarter panel and roof is the original body color and used for registration. In this example, that's a yellow Harlequin.

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 146d

Harlequin

xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu · 10 pts · 147d (1 reply)

I genuinely find the look of this endearing

alligalli@feddit.org · 5 pts · 147d

It was definitely something different in a time when cars were mostly silver-colored :)

FatVegan@leminal.space · 4 pts · 147d

Damn, i was just gonna say: the fact that i don't own a opel harlequin is stopping me

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 147d (2 replies)

hex123456@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 147d (1 reply)

I thought I was looking at this at first…

AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 146d
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Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 147d

Taste?

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 147d

I don’t wanna

JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org · 23 pts · 146d

Budget and skill. In reality a bona fide attempt from me would probably end up more like this:

mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 147d

color vision. I don't want to look like a paint sample collection.

showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 20 pts · 147d

I don’t have the ridiculously oversized sword to complete the ensemble.

EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 147d

The fact that I don't want to

thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 147d

Every Google app

Shanmugha@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 146d (7 replies)

Me being a man. So clothes shops go "you will wear grey, maybe black, some blue and fugly green. Go on, chop-chop"

Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 146d (1 reply)

being a woman, I only like these colors lmao

Shanmugha@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 146d

What can I say, one's hell is someone else's heaven :)

1D10@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 146d (1 reply)

I'm a man, I buy all my clothes online and don't let anyone tell me what I should or should not wear. I'm not here to fit some preconceived stereotypes,or conform to expectations.

Stores sell "mens" nail polish in camo colors, but guess what they will let men buy the pretty colors as well, and they work just as well on male nails as female.

Dress how you want.

NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 146d

Is it sad my brain saw "Nail polish in camo colours" and immediately thought of tartan paint, wondering how they got the colours to not immediately mix.

FlyingCrow@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 146d (2 replies)

It's such a struggle to find a variety of colourful clothes for guys :(

teslasaur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 146d (1 reply)

Not at all. Just don't shop at generic stores.

1D10@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 146d

Right? Even just typing "mens clothes" in a search engine brings up every color you could want.

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 146d

I'm a 50 year old man with functioning retinas...

Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 147d (1 reply)

I'm not a 1996 Volkswagen Golf

Mnem667@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 147d

Harlekin!

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 147d (1 reply)

My ability to see.

diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 147d

Happy cake day! 🎉

StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 147d

Money

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 147d

taste and dignity

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 145d

Free will.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 11 pts · 147d (1 reply)

Not into big jackets. I got hot really easy and get exasperated with my own clothes.

SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 147d

So you like to be naked, you say? That could be hot, indeed...

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 147d

All of it.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 147d

I'm broke and its not my vibe anyway

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 146d (1 reply)

I work from home, so I'd just be sitting in this colorful weird outfit and showing it to my dog and cats.

Jilanico@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 146d

I'm not seeing the problem here 🤔

gmtom@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 146d

I don't desire to look like a child ate a whole pack of crayon and then threw up on me?

Rooskie91@discuss.online · 10 pts · 146d

That outfit somehow looks both expensive as hell and cheap as hell.

llamatron@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 147d

Good taste?

SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 147d

The Ringling Brothers, most likely.

scytale@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 147d (1 reply)

I live in a place with short and mild winters, so I can only realistically wear that many layers in two separate weeks where it gets freezing. I do wear similar colorful stuff but only as a second layer (jacket, hoodie, or sweater).

mossy_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d

thank you

I love layers but live in a place where I put all my jackets away for nine months out of the year. Dressing like this would be a health hazard

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 147d (1 reply)

It hits different on a giant bearded man.

NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 147d (1 reply)

I'm fat and unattractive

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 147d

That matters less than you think

nemith@programming.dev · 8 pts · 147d

Lawsuit from google trademark office.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 147d

Looks like a Ross store exploded in 1988.

And the only thing keeping me from dressing like that is that I do not own any of those articles of clothing.

agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 146d

I think it looks cool, but I don't wear logos.

systemglitch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 146d

I love myself too much to look like a clown.

SooperGoose@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 146d

Money

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 146d

That coat is probably like $600

NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 146d

Well, lets jusr say, my peanits

Widdershins@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 147d

I can't afford to own that many clothes. That fanny pack alone could buy me a thousand pairs of socks at the dollar tree. Probably a few dollar trees. I would be surprised if one store alone had enough socks stocked. I could change my socks 3 times a day for a year or once a day for 3 years and never have to wash any socks.

stan_stanminson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 147d

I dress in a very grayscale way

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 147d

I would totally wear that jacket but not the rest. I’m too thick to pull off skin tight pants (and they’re super uncomfortable for me) but I love the jacket!

macke49@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 146d (1 reply)

In the eighties dear !

BanMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 146d

Yeah unfortunately I had to leave the period between 1986-1994 but let me tell you, it was fucking awesome

PointyFluff@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 147d

I'm not employed by the circus

RBWells@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 146d (1 reply)

What is going on at the crotch here? It looks like she has a designer codpiece. Love the hair color/lipstick combo.

eletes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 146d

Looks like a cross body bag over a zip hoodie

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 146d

Not for everyone but extroverts and avant-garde hyper-creatives in their 20s and 30s, slim at up to 60kg.

Calfpupa@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 147d

You not linking where to get stuff like this

recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 146d

Money

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 146d

I don't want to dress like a Kindergartner.

czer0_@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 146d

Common sense.

Zorque@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 147d

I don't have the right shade of lipstick.

Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 146d (1 reply)

It’s too attention getting and I prefer to not attract attention

jeffep@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 146d

Okay, you got my attention now.

lasta@piefed.world · 5 pts · 147d

I would absolutely rock the Lego jacket by itself (and do own a color-block jacket) and the lipstick, but not in that specific outfit combination.

Edit: if anyone is looking for a blue lipstick, this is the one I would get (although it’s darker than the one in the pic).

BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 146d

Money ?

axx@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 146d (2 replies)

The coat is pretty ugly.

Fourth@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 145d

That's funny, I know that it is but I still quite like it. Funny how human brains work.

Batman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 144d

I'd wear it if the rest of my outfit was more muted. this is as Frasier would put it "eclectic"

rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 147d

I can't afford to get sued by United Colors of Benetton.

tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d

Honestly, the visible branding. I don’t wear visible branding or any sort of language or text on my clothes. No logos, no words, no designs. Just outlandish cuts and interesting style ideas, all without paying to sell someone else’s product.

brown567@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 147d

My firm belief that the comfiest color is sport grey, followed closely by navy blue

Psythik@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d

It's too loud and too baggy.

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d (4 replies)

I am an adult and I understand that that whole "look" now was engineered right under our noses by LVMH. I say this as someone who used to obsessively check KanyeToThe, Superfuture, rawrdenim. I was effay and I battled in those r/streetwear WDYWT? Threads to get enough karma to make my own posts

Jilanico@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 147d (3 replies)

Any fit pics from your previous life?

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 147d (2 replies)

Here's one that I don't think I ever shared anywhere. Only posting this because of how bad dated it is, probably 11 years ago. I was a broke, closetted, landlocked teen trying to impress internet strangers with a pizza-flipper wage.

TBH, I'm worried to post much more out of fear that a reverse image search will lead to an old forum account from the days that I overshared everything and I don't necessarily want that tied back here.

Jilanico@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 147d (1 reply)

Understandable. Both fits look good tho. Don't need big money for a fire fit 👏

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 147d

Good, but chasing the Gosha and Yeezy/FoG (not FOG, that shit came later and I remember when it was a Pacsun collab) looks way too hard.

I like to think I do a more natural-to-me look nowadays.

The first two's shirt and pants ensemble came from Salvation Army literally three days ago.

Pic 3 features Brooks Brothers Eliott pants, I love these things and have a few different colors.

#4 is with the Tarvas x BlackbirdSpyplane Moss Wanderers shoes. BBSP and their little "universe" of outlets and writers is pretty much my only source of modern style these days and I proseletyze others to do the same whenever I get the chance

My decade old Goodwill black leather belt appears in all three outfits and is on my personal 7 days a week

mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 146d

hey, look! the 80's 2.0 are here! nice

futurk@feddit.org · 4 pts · 147d

Probably same as whatever's stopping me walking backwards.

Jerb322@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d

I think only the jacket would fit me...

Beebabe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d

I would, but I’m 5 ft so I think the big jacket would be like one of those full body pajamas.

billwashere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d

Ridicule?

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d

I don't look good in that bright or clashing of colors. Also that lipstick is a few shades too bright for me

Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 146d

I don't need enough pockets to subject myself to that.

AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 147d

Too colourful for me.

Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 147d

Only thing stopping me is a link to the jacket. Well maybe the price tag also, but I’d wear it for sure.

titter@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 147d

I didn't own any of those clothing items.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 146d (1 reply)

They only sell those in child size 😮‍💨

czer0_@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 146d
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Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 147d

I can wear some interesting things as long as it conforms to a certain style. I wouldn't mind a bold, bright block color scheme, and I think the people with whom I work would enjoy it.

DoomGuy_d66@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 147d

It's rather strange

fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 146d

Remove the jacket, replace the leggings for some loose trousers and that's a pretty cool look. I dare say cute/badass.

Epzillon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d (2 replies)

I like it, always been very fond of vibrant and saturated, almost neon-esque, colors. But for me it would be the same reason Im not expressing anything else about myself. Too afraid of the social aspect. Just afraid people would critizise, be disrespectful or any other bigoted comments im not sure how i would respond to. 

Man, if I didnt grow up getting screamed at I would be unstoppable 🙃

Fourth@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 145d (1 reply)

Not too late to unravel that thread a little bit and move in a direction that you want to. People change all the time. 💪

Epzillon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d

Thank you, last few years, especially last one, has been very eye opening since I actually started seeing a therapist. We're getting somewhere, atleast 😅

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 147d

Don't like leggings

Zephorah@discuss.online · 3 pts · 147d

Maintaining that lipstick would be a full time job.

jeffep@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 146d

I don't own such clothes

Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 146d

I need to try the clothes before I can buy them, and around here, stores don't offer any coloured clothes in adult sizes. You can dress in any colours you like, of course, as long as they are black, grey and beige.

Well, there still is sportswear, which comes in neon-yellow, neon-orange, neon-pink and bright blues to discourage drivers from crashing into you. Let's see if there is something there that doesn't scream tacky to me.

notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 146d

Money

CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social · 2 pts · 146d

I’m not super into the “learn to dress” doll aesthetic, tbh :p

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d (2 replies)

We're not in Cyberpunk 2077.

Jilanico@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 146d

captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 146d

We already have the dystopia part down. We just don't have the cool tech.

Bazell@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 145d

Prison rules.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 146d

three reasons

No sponsorship from Benneton

and most imprtantly

80% of my clothes are soruced by my parter from the local Op Shop and we live in a religious conservative area (am a left wing aethiest), so no donations to buy there.

also, i tend to dress in some colourful clothes rather then drab grey and black but I'd feel odd cosplaying as a licorice allsort

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 146d

I love pockets. If I had that coat I will wear it.

eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 147d

It's not my style, but I'm approximately that noticable

limonade@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 108d

I love the jacket. I would love it over a black outfit but their must be color on the head. Maybe a colorful hat instead of colorful hair but the lipstick is good.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 147d

I'm a nudist

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 145d

About 200 pounds of excess weight and my desire is more of leather cyberpunk.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 145d

My personality is eccentric enough. I dress plainly because an eccentric outfit would be a hat on a hat.

AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 146d

My basic understanding of fashion

roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 147d

This is AI most likely, but to answer your question, I would look like a rich kid, who tries to blend with other cool kids.

IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 146d
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hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d

vapor95 quality went to shit