[beantownbiker]

Today I am sporting a sweater vest. i have never worn one before.

Thoughts?

 

[tomk96]

we make fun of the one guy who wears sweater vests.

 

[FTF]

we make fun of the one guy who wears sweater vests.

I think everyone does.

But you look great beantownbiker, someone needs to entertain the troops!

 

[Ridgetop]

Alex P. Keaton!! Wear it like a good republican .

We have two guys who wear them. Ones a geeky little dude who they look silly on. The other guy is a big, buff, ex football player. I'm not going to tell him they look silly.

 

[beantownbiker]

I think everyone does.

But you look great beantownbiker, someone needs to entertain the troops!

I didnt even realize i had a patriotic theme going!

 

[terry b]

I think they're completely appropriate if you are stepping out of the Wayback Machine into a wintry day in 1979.

 

[mohair_chair]

You can rock a sweater vest...if you are nine months old.

 

[Bulldozer]

I approve 100%

 

[beantownbiker]

Is it better or worse than the "Business Mullet"?

 

[seany916]

Justin Timberlake can't even pull it off!!!

Though I really liked the whole formal vest trend that was cool a while back.

 

[terry b]

Is it better or worse than the "Business Mullet"?

A business mullet is pretty bad on anyone over 22 who doesn't work at Google. But a sweater vest, particularly a pin-striped version is much worse, because it's a little bit of the past that has forced itself across the space-time continuum, uninvited, into the present.

If you wait a while though, someone will find a forgotten container of them on a dock in Qingdao, ship them to The Gap and they will come back into style.

You could consider yourself on the tip of a trend?

 

[Art853]

It sounds like one of those clothing items to wear when you are in a bad mood.
You wear it
everyone smiles at you
it cheers you up.

 

[beantownbiker]

A business mullet is pretty bad on anyone over 22 who doesn't work at Google. But a sweater vest, particularly a pin-striped version is much worse, because it's a little bit of the past that has forced itself across the space-time continuum, uninvited, into the present.

If you wait a while though, someone will find a forgotten container of them on a dock in Qingdao, ship them to The Gap and they will come back into style.

You could consider yourself on the tip of a trend?

I'm def over 22 (but under 30!), and I do not work for google (I did get an interview though!)

I am not the tip of the trend, i have never been a trendsetter, I'm just a dork in a cubicle, who apparently everyone is making fun of. Works for me

It seems the votes are almost unanimous, the lounge nays have it.
Im going to issue a signing statement.
I'm going to keep wearing it.

 

[MarkS]

I'm going to keep wearing it.

You might want to consider buttoning the top button on your shirt and wearing a bow tie with that sweater vest. Then you co-workers really will be laughing.

 

[kykr13]

I'm just a dork in a cubicle, who apparently everyone is making fun of.

Join teh club.

No on the sweater vest. It's all about commitment. Are you gonna wear a sweater or ain't ya?

 

[Bocephus Jones II]

take it off dork. :cryin: Do you own a dickey also?


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[Creakyknees]

You might want to consider buttoning the top button on your shirt and wearing a bow tie with that sweater vest. Then you co-workers really will be laughing.

+ eleven.

if you're going to rock the sweater vest, don't stop halfway. Getcha some JoeDaddio frames to go with it, and tassel loafers with argyle socks.

 

[terry b]

You might want to consider buttoning the top button on your shirt and wearing a bow tie with that sweater vest. Then you co-workers really will be laughing.

Yea, yea, sort of a bahstard love child cloned from the spliced DNA of Senator Paul Simon and Mr. Rogers and carried to term by Ugly Betty.

They must have a couple of vials of that stuff frozen somewhere. :idea:

 

[terry b]

Back in the day, when I was growing up on Pangaea and sloshing to school across the mudflats at the edge of a warm and shallow Mesozoic sea, I thought Dickeys were pretty cool.

All the flair of a sophisticated turtleneck look without the bulk.

Perhaps some things should never have gone out of style.

 

[beantownbiker]

You might want to consider buttoning the top button on your shirt and wearing a bow tie with that sweater vest. Then you co-workers really will be laughing.

Good thing there are no coworkers here today...well maybe a few, but they tend to stay away from my corner. I dont have a bow tie, but I do have a tie I got from a coworker this year: