It's Friday...

and the aneurysms are plentiful...

visible bra straps and jeans tucked INTO the sandals
a white skirt that's too short and too whiteokay, i realize that this looks like a great picture of a tree but if you lok all the way to the left you'll get a glimpse of more too short shorts and a bad braand this is just too wrong for words. if you don't feel comfortable enough in the backless shirt, DON'T put another shirt underneath it to cover the skin you're uncomfortable with, and cropped wide leg pants only make the legs lok wider...btw, her hair is super cuteokay, it's hard to see the lady in the green shirt and short cutoffs but that 'light spot' you see on the shorts, not a spot at all, it's the POCKETS hanging out... even in a sports bar this is wrong!

it's not exactly friday...

but i'm cleaning pictures off my phone and realized that i have some real jems for you so fashion aneurysm thursday it is!sorry she's turned but i can't get it to rotate and you can see the damage even though she's sidewaysand this is a dual post, first about the too-short shirt and secondly about the wallpaper they are trying to color match with paint. NO MORE FLORAL WALLPAPER PEOPLE!!!again with the rotation problem, but you can see the socks with HOUSESLIPPERS clearly enough, just plain wrong!papa mullet and momma on her way to a mullet...

Fashion Aneurysms Abound!!

hey all! i hope you don't think that i missed faf on purpose or that all of a sudden things in indiana have become so great that we don't need fashion aneurysm friday, it's just that my phone has been wonky the last few weeks and my wonderful husband 'fixed' it yesterday in hopes to make it send emails again. long story short, once it was re-set it couldn't find the mail settings i needed so i couldn't send from any accounts including the one i could before it was 'fixed'. it took some time after work but it's finally working and i can get back to the important job i have in reporting the bad things i see.

So here we are at preschool graduation... i realize that not everyone gets really excited for the little milestones but the kids worked hard to learn some songs and we generally feel like it's important to dress appropriately. in my book this means that the guy in jeans and a ball cap is underdressed but not bad since it's a 20 minutes program and the kid's graduation hats were made from paper plates (super cute!) when your cut offs are so short that people don't realize you're wearing cut offs until you stand up though, we have a problem!and no, giant camo shorts with an oversized wrestling shirt and greasy hair is not appropriate dress either. stacy & clinton would shurely have a fit to see the lack of fit in this person's wardrobe. again, i realize that it's only preschool graduation but these parents had their children dressed up for the event so they had some sort of clue how to dress, they chose not to!this one was taken at the bowling alley and i'm pretty sure this girl is only 16 or so. Her shorts were cute and this top wouldn't have made this post if it weren't for the fact that the tank under the blue puffy/elasticized shirt was bigger and longer which should have been a clue that the blue shirt was a wee bit too small. if you have to wear something under it to keep your belly from hanging out, and it's not a suit jacket or something you're supposed to wear a shirt under, it's the wrong size!here's one i caught walking down the street. she's so petite that the faded black skinny jeans she's wearing (i'm pretty sure they're from the 1st round of skinny jeans circa 1991 - 1994) paired with the long sleeve harley shirt in a different shade of black worn with bright white canvas shoes make her look incredibly outdated. I'm sure stacy and clinton would say something about her needing a boot cut or straight leg pant here.

that's all for now folks, until next week!

it's friday...

...so here's a look at this week's fashion aneurysm. the first pic you see was taken quite some time ago and i stumbled across it while doing some editing. can anyone spot the aneurysm here? not the guys in the button downs or polo, or that cute pink dress denise is wearing. yes, it is the bright yellow nascar shirt paired with the yellow and black CAT hat. why is this a problem? it wouldn't be if were just hanging out 'cause that's just brian and how he dresses himself without supervision. at least it was clean, matching, tucked in, and it fit. this was a problem because the rest of us had just finished a lovely dinner at a local japanese restaurant where we were fairly dressed up and this is how brian chose to dress up. i know it's not criminal since this is indiana but it's all i had.

or at least, all i thought i had to post today and then my sister emailed me a link to this:

how the heck did i miss that? i really need to keep up on my celebrity news. thanks mariah and nick, priceless!

fashion aneurysm fridays

i realize that my opinion isn't really worth a hill of beans and that much of what i post here is either photos and stories of what's going on with the fam or showing you pictures of projects and sometimes i post commentary on what i like or don't like and that those things that i like and don't like are purely my own personal preference but recently, after a few well intentioned photos i placed online as a way to help the citizens of our fair city got some attention i've decided that i must blog occasionally about the state of what is considered acceptable clothing by the residents of mishawaka and it's surrounding areas. i realize that stacey and clinton can only do so much so i've decided to help them out.

i'm going to begin my commentary with a few examples of what have recently be renamed 'fashion aneurysms'. i hope this, if nothing else, at least gives everyone a good laugh, a reference point for dressing yourself (if you look in the mirror and think you may have seen that outfit here, quickly change), or at least some self asteem (hey, at least you look better, right?). please comment and feel free to email me anything you'd like to see posted.

we begin our tour of crazy with a girl i like to call stripperella:
i saw stripperella at a local mexican restaurant one night which, from the party going on, we could tell was her 21st birthday. now, the picture above doesn't fully explain the problem, just picture her with several more tequila shots in her system and that cute skirt she's wearing, continuously riding up higher and higher with every shot. yes, i understand that she's adorable, got a fairly decent body and is 21 so what's the problem? since when is it okay to let people see your cha-cha in public people? (hint: it's not!!!)

meet jungle joe, he was having a drink with some friends at a local bar. i'm sure stacey would say something like: 'if you're going to wear the lumberjack shirt, make sure you don't have the lumberjack hair and beard'this is lumpy linda: ladies, please please please, stop wearing pants that are so light and tight that even in a dark bar your bumps, lumps and lines show up like the lights on a christmas treei don't know how much more i can say about this, it really does speak for itself. cut off black pants, black socks, black shoes, all different shades of black with bright white legs and hair paired with pajamas in public and it's not a drugstore or doctors office (which, i give passes to sick people walking up to because sometimes you can't wear anything more than pjs when you're so very sick)and don't get me started on any of this... what happened to 'dress to impress' people? when did grocery shopping become so menial that we can't get dressed like civilized people...

alrighty, that's all for today, just some food for thought the next time you go to pick up some milk!