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One thing I have noticed through looking at all the pictures you all have posted on here is that most of the longhairs (including myself!) have chosen not to follow the baggy-clothes, hip-hop look that is so popular today. I notice most frequently jeans and pants that actually fit, and are on the waist, shirts tucked in that have the sleeve openings on the sholders instead of the forearms, stylish tapered sport coats, etc. Not once have I ever seen anyone here wearing baggy pants with their boxers hanging out the top, which I think is totally tacky! I have even seen a few kilts around here which I think are totally cool as well
One thing I can definitely say is that us long hairs are definitely good dressers!
I am more of the slim fit blue jean, cowboy boots and button up stylish shirt sleeve rolled up to the elbow kind of guy myself!
Another longhair that likes cowboy boots! I love it!
I wonder if anyone still likes levis 501 like me?
I wear blue Levi's jeans all the time. But they're 560s not 501s. I hike so much my leg muscles have way outgrown 501s. :-) A guy who hikes a lot also doesn't want the legs really tight. 560s are nice, loose, and comfy. I can see why a skinny dude wouldn't want to wear 560s though. He'd get lost in there.
As for boots, they are way too uncomfortable for a guy who walks a lot - I go for New Balance running shoes. My partner is really into boots to the point he's put thousands of pictures of them on the web site, so he certainly wishes I felt differently. :-)
On my web page you'll see me in 560s - to me they're "just right":
Each to his own. But, then, that's what this is all about, isn't it?
PS Notice that I overlooked the subtle implication that I'm a scrawny
spindly legged wus that can't walk more than 10 feet! ;) That's what
happens when a body channels all his energy into growing hair!
Hey, not at all man! I hiked over twenty miles one day last week and tomorrow I'll be doing about fifteen. I know I'm an extreme case. :-) As for 501s, I simply can't get my legs in the suckers.
DAMN, DON'T WE WISH! "Hey, instead of growing a pound of tummy fat, I'll grow a pound of hair today!"
I was just kidding! :)
Man, if only I could convert fat into hair!!!!
Hair is like body fat, but excess hair doesn't contribute to heart disease, diabetes, etc. Now, if we can lose weight as quickly as we can lose hair, or to put it another way, if we can gain hair as easily as we can gain weight, then that would be nice! Maybe one pound of fat to one INCH of hair might be all right.-)
Try this one more time. I was just joking man. I can easily do more
than 10 feet!
Don't think I haven't daydreamed about converting fat into hair!
Where is Aladin's lamp when you need it.
Hey, I figured you were jokin' man, but I really wanted to be sure you knew I wasn't dissin' you, MG. On this thing you can't tell like when you're with someone. By the way, that hike yesterday was awesome. Up and down over three ridges each over a thousand feet high, overlooking the Pacific. Before taking on the last one, I doused my mane in cold icy water, really soaked the sucker. Ahhhhh! Climbed that hill in air-conditioned comfort. :-)
love 501's. and cowboy boots (tho mine are a bit tight since i have let them dry out a bit...)
personally, i'm a loose jeans, polo shirt, ball cap wearing longhair. but then i look diff. every day. sometimes a tail, sometimes not.
i usually wear some old blue jeans with maybe a hole or two in them at the knees and a flannel shirt over a Led Zeppelin shirt. sorry if i put a bad name on you long haired guys because i dress tacky like this but i dont really care what people think, i just care for comfort. Also i dont let my boxers hang out either, i totally think that that is gay. and not to be racist or anything but i ususally only see that stlye on african american people. I would love to try a kilt though for a day, thoses look very comfortable and would probally match my flannel well, anyone know where i can get one here in ohio
Kilts are always in style here in Scotland. I own three myself. They are somewhat expensive, though.
http://www.utilikilts.com
I own four of them!
-Zorba
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Would you mind laying off with the insults? And here's a tip: anytime you're about to say "I'm not racist BUT..." that's an indication to keep your mouth shut.
Can't agree with that. It's not racist to say, "Most guys with dreds are black." What is a sad state of affairs is that some people are so trigger happy with their sense of political correctness that they cower others such as the original poster into feeling they have to reassure others they are not racist every time they mention race. Different races have different cultures, and they have different hair. Here we talk about hair, how longhairs look, and other cultural preferences of longhairs, so differences are going to come up as topics here. In my book, differences are to be celebrated, and proudly so without any cowering qualification. If anything, I'd chastise the original poster for cowering to the PC Patrol in the first place, not for talking about style, which is a cool topic here!
I will disagree with the original poster on one matter - I live in the Castro so I see lots of gay people and know this: Saggy pants with one's underwear showing is a straight thing, not at all a gay one.
And I would agree with that!
I agree wholeheartedly with Bill on both points. Well done, sir.
You're misunderstanding what I meant. Anytime someone uses "but" in a sentence, it's to negate the beginning of the sentence.
"I'm not homophobic but..."
"I'm not sexist but..."
"I love you but..."
"I'm not into beastiality but..."
It's usually a way to get out of responsibility for what you're about to say. Maybe it's because I'm from Ohio, but anytime I hear that phrase, it ends with "black people are lazy, criminals, whiny, etc." Or in the case of this kid, he's calling their clothing choice "gay." And obviously you are not familiar with how young boys speak today, because when a young boy calls a person or concept "gay" it's an all purpose insult, not a label on their sexual preference. Talking about and embracing differences is one thing, but he's insulting differences, which is quite the opposite. Why did he even feel the need to tell us whom he DOESN'T dress like?
Or it can be there to negate what the person THINKS is going to be said in response. Or is AFRAID what is going to be said, even though it would be out of place to say it. That was my point.
Yeah, and when we were talking about African Americans we were talking about Arabs from Egypt and when we were talking about black people we were talking about white guys who just came out of a coal mine. NOT! When such terms, and "gay" is one of them, refer to people or cultural items, they refer to a social group. As a gay man, I am insulted that you would even suggest gay is an insult. Talk about not being with the times, it hasn't been such since about 1970.
T, if I were you I'd look inward and question why you're seeing all this anti-gay AND anti-black venom in this poor guy's post when it just wasn't there. He was just mulling over what he might wear and what various groups around him wear, for crissakes.
Click on my name above and e-mail me if you want to talk about it further; it's drifting off topic and I won't say anything further about it here.
Peace,
Bill
Bill,
Although I do agree that "gay" should no longer be seen as an insult, I also agree that T is right in saying that gay is usely meant as an insult. Although I am "non-preferential" (no concrete ual preference) and 90% of my friends are homosexual, I still find the term offensive if used by the wrong people in the wrong conotation. But, I think that you are absolute right that we need to see that "gay" is less of an insult than an a compliment (most gay men I know, are self-confident, honest, well-dressed, and incredibly sensitive to others)
Actually taht was supposed to be:
"Try going to Utilikilts.
"You can see what they look like there, or on my site below.
"Scott (of the long hair)"
Besides
http://www.jesusphreaks.com/scott/utilikilt.html
http://www.jesusphreaks.com/scott/long-haired.html
there is also
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehippolyte/meninkilts.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehippolyte/LongHair.htm
and
http://members.tripod.com/~histclo/kilt.html
http://members.tripod.com/~histclo/hair.html
and
http://www.thepapalestates.com/kilts.shtml
http://www.thepapalestates.com/mymane.shtml
There was reference to boxers hanging out looks gay. I understand young people today may say that something is gay or looks gay meaning uncool. But if they mean that it looks gay and homosexual, I would disagree, too. 99 percent of all gays dress too neat to be taken as straight. Traditionally they have worn very tight fitting clothes and currently perhaps proper fitting. They definitely don't wear baggy. Skateboarders are the only people I know or see that wear baggy and boxers showing. In fact, heterosexual males over 25 don't usually wear baggy either cuz their girlfriends by this time have exerted traditioanl pressure!
Okay. Lemme get this straight.
The hip hop look is gay.
Kilts are heterosexual.
It's funny that you would call the hip hop look gay but the kilts straight. Most people would get it the other way around.
That said, I don't think that the hip hop look is at all homosexual. From what I see of Grenich Village of NYC...gays are into kind of tight jeans, but not chokingly tight. They usually have the kind of pockets that allow them to walk and shake their asses at the same time. You can usually tell that they are gay cause they are with their partners who dress similarly. I'm not judging the way they dress, but I am just bringing out the point that gays are not usually into "sloppy" attire. I actually find that gays, for the most part, are amongst the best dressed men in New York City.
Now kilts? What would most ignorant teenagers say about that? "That's gay, man." "It's a SKIRT. For women and queers only."
Again, not judging....not judging....
I just dress pretty casual. Jeans & a collar shirt, a band shirt other times. I pretty much wear my flannel shirts all winter long instead of sweaters b/c I love flannel shirts!! if it gets really cold then I throw a jacket over that. I always wear some type of boot (work, cowboy, biker whatever) or sandals when its hot and im at home. That's about it, and NO sagging or going for that "hot topic" look or whatever you wish to call it.
You like cowboy boots? Cool man!
Yep! I always used to stick to work boots but pretty much every guy in my family is obsessed with cowboy boots,lol, so they got me into them and now I love em too.
Im casual, alternative grunge,
T shirts, jeans, shirts, (open as a jacket or closed) sweaters, canvas shoes and a leather jacket!
Steve, as you probably know from my posts over at Tom's Café and Chris' Atrium, I'm a skirted man. A skirted, longhaired, straight, white male who votes republican and drives old Volvos. I don't fit into any stereotype.
-J
-J
I am a wannabe longhair. Right now, my hair is short but I am letting it grow. I stupidly shaved my head 2 months ago. So someday I will be a longhair, but it will take a VERY long time! By the way, I agree with the guy that said that hip-hop style look totally gay, because it is indeed gay! But I wear both baggy pants (yes if I don't have a sweater you see my boxers) and jeans, so it doesnt mean much. Hip-hop sucks!
John L.,
like your style.
I'm a non-skirted, longhaired, straight, white Rep. male (on the libertarian side) who is a conservationist-minded farmer. Off to see Meat Loaf in concert next week. I don't fit any stereotypes either. Keep on Rockin!