Marc Chevalier
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If someday I get, "You look like Freddy Krueger", I'll move to Antarctica or something.
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BigSleep said:Why is it that a co worker or stranger would even make it a topic of conversation? In other words, "Why do you care what I wear?!"
BigSleep said:Could they really be that confused by [the sight of someone wearing a fedora in public]?
Mennonite, brother Michaelson.Michaelson said:I was asked if I were a Minnonite.:eusa_doh:
Feraud said:A woman walks up to us and asks me, "excuse me, are you religious?" ...Crazy New Yorkers...
You should have said, "It depends on how attractive the asker is."Feraud said:A woman walks up to us and asks me, "excuse me, are you religious?"
Powerhouse said:I just love it when my clothing is referred to as a COSTUME!!!! ~!@#~!@#~!@#$:rage: :rage: lol
The Wingnut said:COSTUME:
2: unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place.
HRMPH! Costume implies ... that it's not regular attire for me, ...
Not when my wife is standing right there!Marc Chevalier said:You should have said, "It depends on how attractive the asker is."
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We figured as much. Here is my thinking... I am a Catholic and I know what an Orthodox Jew looks like. For the most part they wear particular clothes, hair, etc. If she were Jewish, how could she not realize this? What I find crazy is to ask a question like that and not say something like, "oh sorry, I thought ______ ." Maybe rude is a better word.Joel Tunnah said:Actually, it sounds like she was a jew, and she was asking you if you are a "religious" (ie. orthodox) jew. What direction the conversation would've taken from there, I have no idea (my wife's reformed) - but there's nothing "crazy" about it.
Joel
Marc Chevalier said:Er, no. According to the definition above, "costume" implies that it's not regular attire for the time -- which happens to be 2006, not the golden era.
So yes, your clothing is costume ... and that's not a good or bad thing, it just is.
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The Wingnut said:..you get my point, though. It's not a damn costume.
havershaw said:I get "father" and "grandfather" constantly. I kind of dig that, actually.
Very true. There are several items in my wardrobe that will most likely never see the light of day, simply because they are too out of the norm, and disrupt my own comfort factor.Marc Chevalier said:Absolutely. Wouldn't you be surprised (if not confused) by the sight of someone wearing a pair of spats in public? Or an inverness cape? Or a monocle?
All of the above are iconographic menswear items (spats = gangster; inverness cape = Sherlock Holmes; Monocle = British twit, or the Planter's peanut man) that are hardly worn today. Though fedoras and homburgs are not quite as rare, they still belong to this group.
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Hemingway Jones said:That is a stupid comment. But, Columbo did wear a hat, a ruffled stingy brim fedora that he carried more than he wore.