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mamaKate

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Do your DHs ever chime in on style? Here's the latest commentary from my DH. I hope you get as many laughs as I did!

A couple days ago it was remarkably cold. DH's morning routine includes a 10-minute stop at the coffee shop situated next to a real estate office. Apparently that morning all the agents were meeting together in the office, so the coffee shop was full of them. (Now imagine a group of 15-20 women between the ages of 40 and 60 dressed for business)

DH's main complaint was that he heard the same conversation about a hundred times in ten minutes: 'Can you believe how cold it is?' 'I had to scrape ice off my windshield this morning.' 'My neighbor forgot to turn off the sprinklers so there were puddles of ice on the sidewalk!'

But then he chimed in with the kicker:
"I have never seen so much leopard print in my life!"

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Adorable!

rae

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Hehe... mine is vocal about his opinions, too. Why are so many men allergic to leopard print?

HelenInCanada

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Aww...men sometimes! It MUST have been a spectacle, though, with a crew of close to 20 chatty women huddled together in a coffee shop - leopard printed or not! I think my SO would have been partially blind to the animal print, and any other fashion term - he may have just checked out their legs and moved along. Lol.

Transcona Shannon

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Love it!
My DH told me just yesterday on the drive home that he hates pearls - thinks they are for old ladies. Ha...I told him pearls are classic and always in style - he's not convinced!

Heather

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Haha. My DH thinks leo print is "old lady." ;D And I wear tons of it.

Love this post!

mamaKate

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I think the gist of my own DH's comments was also that leopard print is for "old" ladies (although we are not spring chickens ourselves!) I continue to be surprised at men's perceptions of ladies' fashion and style. There must be some other good ones out there... Bring it on!

modgrl

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Oh no! Maybe I shouldn't be looking for a leopard bag after all!
Ouch!!!

HelenInCanada

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Ah, my ex used to notice fashion, and made some hilarious observations. A few of his comments: He didn't "understand" mules - "Why are women wearing slippers to work?"

About the shrunken blazers trend: "Why are women wearing kids' jackets?"

About crochet sweaters: "Old lady!"

Boots with buckles and anything military related: "Too Gestapo."

Oy.

mamaKate

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Helen LOL!! Slippers!?! Gestapo, indeed!

cheryl

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Too funny!

HelenInCanada

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Twas a shocker, mamaKate! Lol. I'd be thinking, well I look pretty good, quite stylish and chic...then here comes that whopper of a comment! Eeee, talk about fashion crisis. I think the only fashion language he appreciated was short skirt, clingy top, tight jeans. Ha. Or it may just be my non-rose-coloured filter of him.

Shaping up to be another fun thread!

Aziraphale

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lol when it comes to fashion, my husband occasionally verbalizes his opinions too, but they're just as often directed at other men. He's the equal-opportunity fashion police! He's more offended by 'boring' than 'outrageous', however.

Rae -- I agree that leopard print is a bit of a man-repeller. I'm not sure why either.

Amy

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My husband wanted to know why I was wearing a bathrobe to work. I had on my nice new purple wool coat. *sigh*

I can't figure out why leopard print is a man repeller. I associate it with Sophia Loren who was more like a man magnet.

Aziraphale

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Maybe it's that too many women of Sophia Loren's age have tried to wear leopard print in an effort to look like Sophia Loren, but of course those women are now elderly, so men my age have come to associate leopard with old ladies...?

RoseandJoan

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Such a good comment from your hubby, leopard can feel powerful so I can see why so many of these ladies chose to sport the look.

However

Although fashion has deemed leopard print in style for the past ....ooo half a decade, a large portion of the UK population will always think of leopard being very Bet Lynch
http://www.google.co.uk/search.....38;bih=559
I guess between the retro years and the fashion years leopard print was out in style siberia.

Anonymous

My dad seeing my otk boots :" Cool , they look like you just registered for Austrian cavalry". Anything leopard-print "tacky". My brother of my new blue peplum dress. " You look like a crew member from StarTrek".

Mochi

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DH: Why do women have this shoe fetish? (he doesn't get owning more than three pairs)

Oh, I'll have to think of more. He's contributed many, but my mind is blanking out at the moment.

Angie

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Fashion Stylist

Classic.

Mo

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I think there is leopard print and then there's LEOPARD PRINT. Case in point, at the hockey game this weekend. I didn't notice the belt was also leopard until she got up to adjust it.

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mamaKate

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Julie: It's all becoming clear, now...
Mo: OMG, ROTF!!!
Anya, Star Trek and Austrian Cavalry - LOL!
Thank you ladies, keep em rollin!

Victoria

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My DH is very classic simple dresser and I favor bright colors, bold jewelry and more trendy styles. I know most of things I wear are not his favorites unless I am wearing jeans. When my mom sent me zebra print shawl(she knows what I like), he looked it at and out of his mouth came out"oh, man, are you gonna wear this?"LOL. So don't know what it is about animal print that men don't like but clearly its universal.
I love silk scarves which he declaired "old lady", I recently got a gift of a mother of pearl large disc pentant(about 3inch across)which I loved and he said "er..you know its the size of a plate?". I recently bought a dress which after I tried it on, I thought it was kind of doudy(I will post pics soon). Asked DH what he thought, he said"oh, its doudy but looks good on you". Heh-heh..

biscuitsmom

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Mine is always asking 'what is this style called'? Or we'll be walking by someone and say 'cable knit'? or something like that-lol Also loves to tell me about fashion disasters he's seen, or someone wearing a really cool item! But when I ask him about something I bought, it's almost always a generic 'nice or 'fine' ARRGHH!

Victoria

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^biscuitmom, my DH is the same way-its always "how does this look?" Him"fine". Me"do you like it?" Him, either"yes, its nice" or "its ok". I think most men are like this.

rachylou

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Ah, my dear sweet bf:

- "Does it come in brown?"

- "That could be nice in brown."

- "Maybe they have a brown one."

...and last but not least...

- "That nice. It's brown."

Mochi

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I vote rachylou for best SO fashion analysis! Brown is indeed the new beige!

Jewell

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My hubby, too, has a way with words...

On my way to work last summer wearing white capris and a blue top: "You look like a smurf."

On my way to work wearing a white top and a black pencil skirt with a lovely polka dot scarf: "You look like an airline stewardess."

His saving grace is that he makes as many flattering comments as asinine ones.

Amy

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Lol, Rachylou, I guess your guy knows what he likes

Sally

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My striped blouse that I like for its pretty blue colours...its quite silky. Actually I get a lot of compliments from women about it. I wore it one day with jeans and he laughed at me and said "that shirt........you look like you belong to the mafia". .....what????

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biscuitsmom

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@Victoria- thanks, glad Im not the only one! Love this thread!