So, a bunch of us were at a local discotheque last night. I had to leave to answer the call of the husband (which is cool). So I was out front, waiting for a cab and chatting with the doorman, when this Town Car pulled up.
The driver came around and opened the door. Out came this girl – from the way she looked (and stumbled) I would swear it was Kate Moss. Then this – armadillo – jumped out. He had on a “Billy Jack” hat, a gorgeous custom-made, deep-blue shirt (unbuttoned, but the French cuffs done up with some beautiful links), manpris, and Gucci loafers. He paused for a moment, wiped some white stuff off his snout with the back of his paw, then grabbed That-Can’t-Be-Kate by the hand, went in past the doorman and the bouncer without even a nod, and basically pulled her up the stairs after him towards the VIP room.
Well. The doorman and I just stood there in shock. I mean, nobody wears manpris anymore!
Well, I just learned a new word.
PS. First.
I woulda been able to call second if you hadn’t been such a greedy bastard, Charlie.
I learned a new word too.
Are womanpris okay? I know a girl who wears these and she looks fine. Certainly it’s nothing socially disastrous.
FYI – “womanpris” are known as “capris”. That’s why they look fine.
“Manpris” is a neologism because it has been created to deal with a fashion monstrosity foisted upon an innocent public in the last 4 years or so, and enthusiastically embraced by the former Mr. Britney Spears.
Coulda been worse … coulda been man leggings
ya may have to scrub your eyes out after that pic of the runway emo.
Didn’t you see what happened when that Gallagher guy got there?
“Unconventional yet sophisticated…”
I smell Jeff Wells here.
Man leggings.
This will give us a whole new category of fugly.
(Manggings?)
As the girl said in the manpri post I linked to, “Hell to the N-O”.
We used to call manpris “highwaters”. Weren’t considered particularly fashionable, as I recall.
No, no, no. Highwaters are regular pants that are too short in the inseam. Manpris are either shorts that have been lengthened by the manufacturer/designer, OR pants that have been *cut* off by the wearer. First is either nerdy or, at times, “ironic” hip; second is “trying” to be fashionable.
When I was a kid we called those “cutoffs.” They were good for swimming in a creek or lake, but the folks at the city swimming pool didn’t like ‘em ‘cause the loose threads would clog the filters.
No, no, no. “Cutoffs” are a long-recognized variety of “shorts” that are made by taking a worn-out pair of pants and cutting off both legs above the knee. The whole point with “homemade” manpris is cutting them off between the calf and knee, closer to the calf. Usually using a new or nearly-new pair of pants.
You see? It is an abomination before God and man.
Couple a manpris with a proper codpiece and we might just have something here.
Now, back to listening to Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall and Bad News butchering Queen…
However they got there, thems high-waters.
For the last 3-4 years, I’ve had a hard time finding proper shorts. When I do find them, I buy six pair, in different colors, because they’re so hard to find.
It’s hard to live in California. The women are preditory, and the men are, well…rare. I mean real men. The kind of real men that guys who wouldn’t be caught dead in “high-waters” thought of as a real man. The kind of real man that recognizes Steven Tyler is a little sketchy.The sort that realized they are not a pirate, so there is no reason to pierce an ear. The kind whos shopping list never included “pony-tail holders”. The type that doesn’t gossip like an old woman at a quilting bee. The kind that resists shaping their face into a gaint pussy with the perfectly groomed goatee. The kind that when confronted with a choice between golfing with the guys on a beautiful Sunday, or accompanying the little misses shopping for window dressing, will make the right decision.
OK, I admit it. I’m not a fan of the manpris.
Whatever happened to clamdiggers?
Did that a time or two. My folks didn’t like that any better than the folks at the city swimming pool.
The @#$!!ing FASHION FASCISTS!
Rosie O kind of ruined all that.
McGehee- ha!
I actually really like Manpris. I think they’re hot!!!! and I see them much more often than shorts.
It seems to me only American and German men wear shorts.
I’ve got two or three pairs of long shorts (as I call em.) Short shorts just don’t go with my skinny legs. And pants just aren’t practical year round in Tucson (110 degrees needs extra ventilation, damnit!)
If I look like a geek, so be it. I’m not sweating up a storm, I’m comfy, and who the fuck cares what I wear?
If women want to control what men wear, then the reciprocal deal is not going to go well for them. We’ll wear the huge swimming suits you want us to use to hide the fact that we have genitals, but you have to shop at wickedweasel.com, mkay?
We’ll wear the huge swimming suits you want us to use to hide the fact that we have genitals
Personally, I’ve always enjoyed swimmeets.
My son looks awfully cute in manpris. But then, he’s four years old, and he still looks cute in just about any oversized clothing.
I think if my husband got a pair of these as a gift (cause they’re really not something that he would buy for himself, thankfully), they’d end up in the same place that the flip-flops that Republicans don’t wear went, which is in the closet until the next Salvation Army donation.