On Casualness

This post on Ben Casnocha's blog is enlightened. Boo Pants, after all, are about being comfortable and casual.

Enjoy.

Despite the fact that this blog is potentially about fashion (although really it's about a lot of things - i.e., taking one's time, savoring moments away from work and other stresses of contemporary living, the lost art of relaxation, etc., I don't consider myself a fashion expert at all.

I think I dress well, and I'm often complimented on my dress. I prefer classic looks. I don't follow trends. I also have the luxury of being a man. Menswear does not change as dramatically as women's. In fact, fashion has always been something I felt occupied the time of uninteresting people.

But, apparently, fashion is interesting enough that it warrants coverage on the Huffington Post. So I came upon this brief rant by Alexandra Sinderbrand. I've never heard of her before, but like I said, I don't follow fashion, either.

Despite a lot of what I say in this blog, I agree with most of what she says here. As a man, I appreciate the sight of attractive women not wearing pants. Of course, there's danger in that. If you're in the public eye, you're subject to paparazzi and the dreaded wardrobe malfunction while cameras snap. If you're not in the public eye, there's the impressions of others, no matter what you intend or whether those opinions matter at all.

But there are limits. Comfort is important - in fact, if it's not comfortable, why the hell are you wearing it? - but it's not everything. Like all other trends, the pantsless trend will end, probably sooner than most because really celebrity is the only excuse for it. Then pantslessness can return to where it belongs - the privacy of one's home, the comfort of the living room, or the occasional crazy that Fark finds me.

On leggings

Some entertaining fashion advice from the students of Vanderbilt.

Bacon & Boo Pants

Like peanut butter & chocolate, like coffee & doughnuts, like bread & butter, two great things that go great together in this fabulous chart:



From http://lowereatside.wordpress.com/

Old men in Florida kick ass!

My apologies for not posting recently, but, if you haven't already heard this story, I think it makes up for the long dry spell.

Naked Man, 91, Holds Intruder at Gunpoint

Bravo, sir, bravo! Everyone deserves to be naked in their own home and not to be bothered by anyone, especially by someone intruding with malicious intent. It's a cliche that a man's home is his castle, but it's at the very least his own nudist colony.

LOLcats is often good for a laugh, or at least cuteness. Here, however, are a couple of recent posts that remind us all about the importance of the boo pants movement.

Enjoy.


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Cats are wise.

A shirt fitting many of my moods!

Summer fashion trends

This article indicates that no pants is a fashion trend this year. Of course, the article comes out of Minneapolis, so I doubt the no pants trend will last more than a couple of months there. :)

Leave it to Phil Hellmuth to do the World Series of Poker right.

Rugby, anyone?

The way to play rugby - not safe for work, unless your employer doesn't mind you looking at bare bottoms!

At peace in the wilderness

The true wilderness experience

A new link to my Facebook

James Kelly

Create Your Badge

This post, entitled "Stuff that 2-Year-Olds Can Get Away With," from another blog is brilliant. (Man, I wish I was still 2. You even get the designation "terrible.")

Please note the part about parts: Who wears pants when they're home?

Going out with style (or trying to)

Okay, this woman completely failed. This is not how to go into the Great Beyond without pants encumbering you on your journey.

This guy fared much better. If that was his goal. If not, why else would he be walking pantsless in the street at 3:30 in the morning?

Alas, not all of us are fit enough for the revolution.

This is not me. Besides, I don't need to be nude to make little girls cry. :(

Meanwhile in Idaho

Oregon may disappoint, but across the border, the awesome happens!

Oregon disappoints

And here we thought Portland, home of the wonderful Powell's bookstore, was a cool city.

And then this happens.

Boo!!!!

Fashion news

In for the summer, boo pants!

Of course, if I was a woman, I might never wear pants.

Golf news

Hooray for John Daly! These are awesome!

Hey, you never know

So if you're naked or pantsless in Boulder, Colorado, how you're treated may depend on who catches you.

This is bad.

The ACLU is working on fixing it.

Good for them and the fine people of Boulder, who occasionally need to drop trou.

Boo Pants make the Trek

Those who've seen Shaun of the Dead now that Simon Pegg rocks.

But in case you need further proof, here it is.

"When I smoke crack, I always take off my pants"

So this story tells us that boo pants are indeed a privilege. Rehab or prison will keep his pants on.

Stay away from crack if you want to drop trou now and again. Or else stay home and do it.

In other words, this guy's got it all wrong. He does not understand the philosophy of boo pants.

The joys of academia

From the New Yorker:

http://www.cartoonbank.com/item/128382

My type of vacation

Thanks, CNN, for the cutting-edge news you always provide:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/03/24/naked.travel.recession/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

On ties

I like dressing well. This may seem in contradiction to my boo pants philosophy, but it's not. When I have to go out of the house, I want to look my best. When I don't, I clearly define that it is time for fun and relaxation by wearing casual, comfortable and sometimes, I admit, ugly. Ugly has a place.

So I'm browsing the Internet and come across some Burberry sale items. Burberry has nice stuff. And I am a fan of ties. A tie is one of the ways a man can express himself when he dresses professionally.

But I'm not paying $108 for a tie. It's a nice tie, but I can do a lot for $108.

Likewise, this fantastic cashmere muffler. Gorgeous, but $300 is just outrageous.

Sure, I'd look great. I'd look great as I walk into bankruptcy court.

The Man oppressing the bus drivers

The Man wants to keep the bus drivers down, making them not only wear pants, but buy them.

The Man is a Bastard.

Pantsless protest at Harvard

Overlooked

Dammit, where am I on this list?

More on kilts

An entertaining piece about kilts and how the ladies like them

Follow up

So Lady Gaga explains her pantsless ways to Rolling Stone. I'm not sure I believe it, or if this is a good reason or not.


Thoughts?

Bruce Campbell in Boo Pants

Bruce Campbell embraces the boo pants movement:

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/newsfeed/2009/02/08/grave-heart-78057-21105708/

Celebrity fashion faux pas - Boo pants as bad idea!

I support comfort. I support people not wearing pants in the privacy of their own homes or in the homes of others who have explicitly allowed for the wearing of boo pants.

Sometimes not wearing pants is a political statement. Or at least entertaining. (Some of these occasions have already been chronicled in this blog.)

But this I just can't support. It's just a desperate cry for attention from a lonely person desperate fame. Put the panties away.

I don't follow that kind of music. So I don't know who the hell this is. All I know is that she should be picked up for indecent exposure and possibly solicitation.

Apparently, though, this is a (disturbing) fashion trend among celebs. Note that it's also all women. When men don't wear at public events, it's called flashing. It gets you registered as a sex offender.

I think the writer of the article gets it right with the last line: "Who needs pants when you have stardom?" Answer: You!

For your amusement

underwearcops2.wmv

Friday and the weekend

Not much to say.

It's been the longest week ever. Tuesday night felt like it should be Friday. Last night felt like Friday.

This morning, getting out of bed was torture.

These are the times that are made for boo pants.

Have a great weekend.

Comments about underwear

Sometimes there is nothing I like better than lounging about in my underwear. During sweltering summer days, when my apartment lacked central air conditioning, I would lay on the bed, every fan I owned swirling about me, wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.

It was something like heaven.

This does not mean I would go outside in just my underwear.

Especially if I was on the run from the cops. In New Jersey. In January.

Damn.

Some news about kilts

Boo Pants as an Economic Force

Copied from the Clovis (NM) News Journal :

We don’t know who wears the pants in Sen. Bill Sharer’s family, but we do know the Farmington Republican wasn’t wearing any when the Senate convened Tuesday.

Sharer wore a tuxedo kilt that he said as a reminder to his fellow legislators to go easy on the spending.

“The Scots are world renown for being frugal,” he said in a news release Tuesday. “In our current economic situation, ‘frugal’ should be the watchword of our session.” He promised to wear the kilt occasionally in the days to come to remind lawmakers of the need for frugality.

Senate Chief Clerk Lenore Naranjo said Sharer’s tuxedo kilt complies with the Senate rule requiring a jacket and tie to enter the Senate Chambers.

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From humble beginnings

“Boo pants!” I announce when I arrive home.

***

I had just come home from a job interview. Of course, it wasn’t a job I wanted. With my unemployment scheduled to expire in another few weeks, I couldn’t be choosy.

I slipped off my suit jacket (the tie had already been torn off during the drive home) and dropped trou right there in the living room.

I had been unemployed for six months. I spent whole days in front of the TV in nothing more than a T-shirt and a pair of lounge pants.

It was my apartment. I lived alone. Sort of. My former law school roommate sat on my couch watching television. He was staying in my apartment for a couple of weeks while he found a place of his own.

He was horrified. I stood there in my gray boxer briefs, triumphant. It had been so long since I wore slacks that they felt confining. And now they were gone. I felt great.

In that moment, a movement was born.

***

“Boo pants” is both a catchphrase and a description. It is an attitude and a product. It is a sentiment, a demand, and a celebration.

This blog celebrates “boo pants” in all their glory.

If this were a dictionary, there would be two definitions:

“Boo pants” /interj/ - an exclamation against the hegemony of pants. It celebrates that moment when your life truly becomes your own again, when you leave the pressures and demands of the world behind. Belts are shackles. Pants are the symbols of repression.

“Boo pants” /n/ - The “pants” or other clothes you wear on your lower extremities when you have “boo pants” moments. Generally marked by an elastic waistband. “Boo pants” include lounge pants, pajama pants, shorts, skirts, kilts, lingerie, underwear, nudity, etc.

There are not so much rules with boo pants as there are preferences and encouragements. Personality and comfort are encouraged. Ugly is encouraged. Soft is encouraged. Silliness is encouraged. Being unfashionable and out of season is encouraged. Being you is strongly encouraged.

DISCLAIMER: Of course, boo pants should only be worn in one's own home or some other very casual atmosphere (say, a friend's house belonging to one who encourages boo pants). Wearing boo pants in the wrong situation may cause you to be fired or arrested.

Besides, boo pants should be for you. Wearing them all the time (which, I admit, I did while unemployed) is not a way to go through life. Wearing them all the time diminishes the comfort level of boo pants and reduces your bold statement to “I'm lazy.”

In other words, wear pants when you must. It will help you savor the moments you don't have to.

This blog is about those moments.