I have never considered myself a trend setter, but before I moved to Los Angeles, I at least thought of myself as a few steps above mom jeans. (OK, OK, maybe a few is pushing it. I know I have worn nothing but jeans and t-shirts for the last...lifetime...but hey, those are Lucky jeans and they're at least moderately stylish. Or I thought they were last year anyway.) The thing is, living in Los Angeles, you are constantly reminded of how completely unstylish you are. I have yet to buy myself the right pair of Uggs to wear over my skinny jeans, but already the city has moved on to the next trend: super baggy, ripped up boyfriend jeans. Worn with flats. I knew this was coming of course. Those hours with Star magazine while on the bike in the gym have to pay off somehow. And yet I have yet to run out and buy myself some stylishly unflattering baggy jeans. Toby would point out the environmental unfriendliness of fashion, but mostly it's also just too expensive to keep up with the trends.
So of course I was thrilled when I noticed a new trend that is both carbon neutral and free: the moustache. It's popping up on guys all over Los Angeles. I'm not just talking about older guys who have been sporting one since they came into fashion in the 70s, but young, trend-setting guys. Guys that are just barely old enough to grow one. And I'm assuming that not every young guy in this area is trying out for a role on a Western film.
I think it's going to take a while for this trend to catch on completely. When I posted about my observations on Facebook, the responses ranged from a whole series of "yuck" to one lonely "I think they are HOT!". But still, I'm predicting the moustache is going to be here for a while. The only question is, who's going to be the Tom Selleck of this generation?
7 comments:
well, okay... colin farrell does look hot. but, that's more of goatee, not just a mustache.
The problem is this--unless you are unbelievably handsome and famous you just look like an unemployed drug dealer or a lounge lizard if you have a moustache. I think fashion is great, but some fashion is so hard to carry off. Big, baggy, ripped up jeans? It's pretty hard to find a body that can look good in that....except, I guess, the model-type that can more or less look good in anything. I think I'll skip the boyfriend jeans, unless the "boyfriend" is under 5 foot 5 and 130 lbs. Otherwise, I'd just look like a crazy bag lady.
Frederick being Frederick, you would still be head of the fashion curve back here, Kita. Save those skinny jeans! You'll find use for them hereabouts, like, for sure.
I like the sort of stubble that comes from a guy not shaving on a Saturday. The full beard thing ... in most cases, I say Yuck. And mustaches ... I just remember this guy I once knew talking to me with vanilla milkshake hanging from his upper lip. Again - yuck. Yuck, yuck, yuck! ... : ) meg
I hate the moustache. Gotta go all the way and do a goatee.
BTW, your jeans look great.
Oh, and thank you for NOT posting a picture of Brad Pitt with his hideous moustache. He looked like Hitler.
Moustaches just screams "bad 70's porn" to me. Not that I'm an aficionado of said films, but they are just so icky.
that first picture looks like a catepillar crawling across Eric McCormick's face.
I need to take a shower. blech
oh, and the jeans? Never going to happen. I went through that in the 80's, I'm not going back there. Katie Holmes can wear what she wants, I'm not giving in....
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