Link of the Hour: Local Fashion & the Eternal Adolescent

Leave it to a guy to invent reversible underwear, I guess. They’re made from recycled T-shirts, too. Couldn’t be anymore Maxim-mag demographic if they were sold in resealed beer cans. But here’s the part that amuses:

“A couple years ago, I went looking for Underoos, but they don't make them for adults. I wanted my own Spiderman underwear. So I got a T-shirt, cut it up and made it into underwear. My friends wanted them. I started selling them in bars from a messenger bag and then stores."

Hint: the reason they don’t make underoos for adults is because adults are not supposed to wear underoos. Imagine Bogart waking up some morning, pawing through the bureau, then whining to Bacall: Baby, where’s my Captain America Underwear? I can’t go out without my Captain American underwear! She'd walk into the room and slap him, just on general principle. We need to set some new rules for modern manhood here: you can have your dolls, and call them Action Figures, and you can watch cartoons all your life, but you cannot have Yoda sheets and you cannot wear underoos.  

Here’s some more local fashion;  my favorite might be the last one, where both the casual and business models look like they staggered out of “Shaun of the Dead.”


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Aw Bummer!

My wife really liked those sheets.


Plaid wool coat? I thought

Plaid wool coat? I thought it looked like my dad's ratty old bathrobe from 1971, which he still has!!!


Hey, I can think of a few

Hey, I can think of a few Presidential candidates for whom a pair of Spidey undies could only add to thier maniness.


The "Shaun of the Dead" models

Someone needs to get those boys something to eat, and quick. I guess it's a good thing they weren't modeling for the plaid-coat guy; they don't look sturdy enough to keep from collapsing under the weight of the garment.


clothing choices for men

WWMK do?
what would Marshal Will Kane do in High Noon? That's how a man should decide what to wear.

and you might just get Grace Kelly to marry you


How are Underoos different

How are Underoos different from the plethora of cartoon-themed boxers? You can get absolutely anything you want on boxers, so why is it out of the question to get it on briefs?

Maybe it's a difference of perception, but both are themed underpants.


reversible underware

So...
Are they reversible front-to-back or inside to outside?


ugh

Peter-pannism personified is the man in the Spiderman underoos.

I think that was a Kate Bush song or something.


Adults are not supposed to wear underoos?

Well, maybe if you're Cameron Diaz...


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